To ask for things that happen on MN that you’ve never seen happen IRL

I don't remeber anyone in real life sucking every bit of drama out of situations and putting themselves at the centre of things as much as I see on here

if overthinking was an Olympic sport

I've never seen any dog leap up at random strangers in a park and slobber over them. From the dog-hating threads you'd think this was an everyday occurrence. I've regularly run and walked in parks up and down the UK, I love dogs so I notice every time I see one, and 95% of them are way too fixated on their own business and all the exciting smells around to pay humans who aren't their owner any heed. Sometimes you get an extra friendly one, which is lovely, but they're the minority.

I have lived with 18 different men in my life across family, houseshares and my partner, and none of them ever left piss around the toilet. (Apart from one in the student houseshare as a one-off drunken accident - the piss was the least of it - and he was mortified.)

I don't remeber anyone in real life sucking every bit of drama out of situations and putting themselves at the centre of things as much as I see on here

if overthinking was an Olympic sport

I’m not referring to what’s shared in an OP. Its the way the OP’s drip feed/ responses to those who don’t agree gets more and more extreme in order to try and persuade the posters of the OPs own view on AIBU

I think that’s a bit of a standing joke on here - I didn’t just make it up lol! X

Well that's to be expected when you have 1,000s of people posting their unique experiences from all over the world. If someone has a unique or extreme experience it makes sense that they'd share on a forum that literally solicits them to do so. What does this seem to surprise you?

With responses like this it's no surprise to me that people are less forthcoming to share their experiences IRL.

Extreme responses like this are also very common on MN ….

Extreme responses like this are also very common on MN ….

@x2boys

Welll my 18 year is at college ,but once he,s e working yes ,I would l.expect him to pay board ,what blows my minds is that posters can't see past their own personal circumstances,and not realise that not all.families can afford ,to.have an adult child living at home rent free

As well as teaching them responsibility, fairness and that it's not a massive shock when they are on their own paying their way

They do, all the time.

I read somewhere that something like 80% of deaths announced on the internet aren’t real.

I imagine there are people on MN whose death people have mourned after being told by a relative posting here that it’s happened weren’t real, I know someone who invented several personas online, befriended people on WhatsApp/messenger and then killed off the persona just as they were getting close.

There have been people on here who have made up premature births, miscarriages, child illnesses. They do it because it gives them attention and gives them a sense of validation.

It’s much easier to lie on the internet because it’s anonymous. Nobody knows who you are or is ever likely to find out, so why not.

And there will also be people living out their life which they would like to have, a big house, loads of kids, rich husband, while meanwhile they’re living in a two bed flat with an army of cats and are still a virgin.

Basically you can be whoever or whatever you want online.

I only had one because the birth and early days were so fucking horrific I ended up with the kind of PND where suicide looks like the easy option and then couldn’t risk going through it again. Not everyone has to have a second child you know, it’s not the law.

These are my favourites on the benefit bashing threads 😁 “my friend/cousin/neighbour/randomer gets high rate DLA for her children and a free Mercedes SUV. Her child isn’t actually disabled, they just get too much screen time but she went on a Facebook group that coached her and was able to hoodwink the paediatrician into diagnosing him. She then exaggerated on the DLA forms. She spends all the money on manicures and tat from home bargains and nothing for her child. She’s planning to have another baby and repeat the process so she can double her earnings.”

like how do you know all this??? Who goes round telling people ‘oh I lied on my benefit forms’ in such great detail 😭😭

Not me. I am very open that I hate them

Indeed, yet they always insist they don't hate dogs. Their colourful language suggests otherwise!

Oh god yes the rabid dog haters on here are so funny in their frothy deranged extremism.

In real life, more than half the people I know have a dog, and the rest love to pet them and say hi on walks.

what did you do with the second baby when the first needed your attention ? X

Dog ownership being classed as a cult and the ensuing drama llama comments casting dogs as the devil. Very bizarre behaviour.

Totally agree with this. I felt more invisible in my 20s than I do now, because I had cripplingly low self confidence and didn’t put myself out there, so to speak. Now I can comfortably walk into any room and converse with anyone - that’s what determines ‘visibility’, not how many forehead lines you have or whatever.

It’s nothing to do with age though, just some people blend in the background and some stand out. People who are quiet and wear dull colours might be able to walk around not noticed much. If you want to be more visible then wear bright colours, or just look different in some way.. cool haircut.. be more chatty and sociable, more vibrant etc.

I've never met anybody who's had sepsis (and I have a fairly broad and varied social circle), yet if half of the A&E threads on Mumsnet are to be believed, most people have had it at least four times.

Michelle Pfeiffer....famous actress, good looking, primped and styled, and me, 52 year old nobody ......yeah thats the same.

I am sure if I was a famous actress with the stylists etc at my command that she has, I wouldnt be invisible either. But I am not, so I am.

How old are you?