Most ridiculous things you’ve been criticised for on mumsnet

Haha, some of these are brilliant.

I can't quite decide on just one so...

1. Asking for advice on how my ND 5 year son might make friends with the boys in his class. Apparently his desire to be friends with other boys was heinous and I should tell him that beggars can't be choosers (people actually used those words). He just wanted to try and make friends with another boy as he has some girl friends.
2. Asking for advice on quick dinners. We can get very time poor and struggle to keep up with meals. I got the most insane answers back like - 'why did you have kids if you don't even have time to make dinner' - erm, sometimes we are very busy at work. Sometimes not. I just wanted recipe suggestions.
3. Asking if anyone understood the building regs around downstairs toilets, as we wanted to remove ours. I got crucified about the totally imaginary, non-existent old person who might need that downstairs loo one day.
4. I dared to say that my family keep our finances mostly separate, in response to a lady asking how others manage their finances. I think you can all imagine what others has to about about that! 😂

Honestly, MN is bonkers sometimes!

Some of the COVID posts were epic.

Posters being told that milk wasn’t a necessary item and they should put butter in their tea. Accusing posters who went out to buy a loaf of bread of murder.

I hid the COVID topic a couple of weeks in because it was mental, but some of it leaked through to AIBU before being moved.

A lot of MRA types hang around the feminist forum (and abuse/rape threads) as feminists make them angry. I doubt women were accusing you of doing your makeup.

That having fibromyalgia was an excuse for being lazy and it’s a made up thing for people who just want to to nothing.

I posted on the feminist board, looking for a bit of solidarity after a rather frightening incident where a man was needlessly aggressive towards me at a petrol station. I was shaken but also enraged because I was certain he wouldn't have done the same to a man. About half the responses essentially said I must have provoked his anger by faffing about doing my hair/make-up/looking at my phone etc. I was doing none of these things but the assumption that as a woman I must have been doing something stereotypically 'girlie' to deserve an angry man threatening me was eye opening. (The other half of the posters were nice to me, but 50% of posters bending over backwards to find a reason why the woman was to blame for the shitty male behaviour was depressing)

Btinging my kids up bilingual (due to having a foreign husband). Apparently wanting them to be able to communicate with both sets of grandparents is showy offy 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

For taking my husband's surname when we got married. Apparently I am a disgrace to womankind and a terrible example to my daughters, who will be thoroughly ashamed of me (I have no daughters, just two sons who don't give a shit).

Not breastfeeding! Ha!

For saying developmentally normal children shouldn't be starting school in nappies.

I stand by it.

Because we usually don’t have two hot meals a day.

I am the worst.

That is pretty awful, to be fair

On an innocuous thread about my Chinese Takeaway order, that DP and I are disgusting gluttons and order too much.

I was then defended by a bunch of people saying it's ok as we'd have "leftovers for days"

Um. No. We eat it all. Because we're normal.

Freezing sandwiches with ham and/or cheese is perfectly fine and in hot weather actually keeps the filling cooler. It’s a great time saving tip and even saves on waste food as you are less likely to end up with stale ends of loaves. Just don’t add any salad filling.

Got vilified for prioritising kids sports day over the funeral of a distant family member on DH's side that they had no link to or memory of. They had no need to be at the service.

I went to sports day, DH did his duty, took an hour off work and went to the service. The children sported. Everyone was fine with it. The world went on turning.

On the basis of my user name and comments I have been accused of not understanding the real world. The comments have mostly been to support women experiencing discrimination

I am presumed to call women ‘hun’, have some kind of clerical job, fail to grasp statistics and to have poor analytical skills. Generally to be woo.

In fact I am an academic with a maths intensive STEM PhD. Oddly, no one describing me as above ever replies when I point this out.

And when I mentioned walking the dog at lunchtime in June and got PILED on by the MN equivalent of the RSPCA of my neglectful dog rearing because it was 29 degrees where they were and that is FAR too hot to walk a dog in. I don't deserve the dog, I should give her to someone who will care for her, people like me disgust them, I should be ashamed, that poor dog, about 429 angry emojis.

I don't live in the uk, but by the time I pointed that out everyones heads had exploded so no one could read apparently.

My username.. the poster didn’t have a valid argument so attacked the username instead 😂

That thread is fucking bananas...largely made bananas by 2 utterly ridiculous posters

MN is nuts. Covid MN was fucking insane, the likes of which will hopefully never be seen again 😂

That there was no way I had a plug socket in my bathroom, no way, I was either making up bullshit for attention or I needed to contact the police about my landlord.

Did not occur for a second that I was one of the dozens of people that do not live in the UK.

I'm sure fan girl can be a really irritating attempt to shut someone up but that's not what I was trying to do.

They said that being called a girl meant that they were being treated like a child and infantalising women is exactly what the Taliban do and I was just like the Taliban.

Admitting on mn during covid that I took a pack of sausage rolls out on a walk with my children, and we sat in an empty field and ate them.
How dare you put other people at risk! You don’t care if people die do you!? It’s not like you even went out, got hungry and bought some, you brought them with you so you PLANNED to stop and eat the sausage rolls! It was PREMEDITATED! Are your family so fat and greedy that you can’t even go for a walk without having to stop and stuff your gobs??!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

That’s crazy, you can be married at 17 - in fact I left for uni at 17!

Being pleased that MM made (or caused to be made) that infamous pasta one pan dish on her show because it’s something I’ve been making for ages, people are always amazed when they see it for the first time and it’s sooo quick and easy and good. Turns out I’m a member of the Sussex Squad. Who knew!🤣.

I don't think these are very lighthearted!