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I am starting to enjoy fantasist threads and posters

59 replies

lljkk · 21/05/2023 09:43

You know... "I have 6 children by 7 different fathers but we never eat UPF or carbs because of course anyone can easily avoid those foods. I go to the gym 2 hours a day and I do housework for 4 hours a day because anything less is being a slattern. I'm a size 8 at 5'2" and I weigh 90 kg which just goes to show that BMI is rubbish." (etc)

Just me? Anyone else finding the troll determination to see what outrageous things they can say and get away with, increasingly entertaining? It's like their own art form.

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Paperlate · 21/05/2023 10:25

I love the bonkers food ones. 'You let your children eat a kit Kat?' 'My 18 year old twins have never even seen a Kit Kat'

BanjoKnickers · 21/05/2023 10:21

I felt rather sorry for people posting lengthy heartfelt advice on the increasingly ludicrous "my husband is gay" thread last night.

TastesLikeStrawberriesOnASummerEvening · 21/05/2023 10:18

I love bonkers food threads that are so clearly nonsense, they make me laugh though.

Kanaloa · 21/05/2023 10:14

I sort of love (although I think they’re so dangerous) any weight loss or weight related threads. I feel like everyone on them is insane. Sharing diets that sound like a poster for an ED, insisting they are a slim size 10 at 16 stone, saying they’d look ‘skeletal’ at the weight their BMI says they should be. Fainting in disgust at the idea that anyone can eat a whole tin of soup to themselves. Like it just seems to drive people nutty.

Tessisme · 21/05/2023 10:13

EmmaEmerald · 21/05/2023 10:09

I hate all of these types listed

but I do love sea serpents etc type ones.

Sorry, SEA SERPENTS? I'm definitely reading the wrong threads🤣

EmmaEmerald · 21/05/2023 10:09

I hate all of these types listed

but I do love sea serpents etc type ones.

Florissant · 21/05/2023 10:07

I enjoy the posters who make a post all about themselves.

For example:

OP: "A week ago, I tripped and twisted my ankle. It's still purple and swollen. Should I go to A & E?"

Other posters: "Yes. A & E is a good idea if your ankle is still like that after a week."

But then.

Another poster: "My mother died last year after waiting in A & E for 16 hours and the staff at the hospital didn't care that she was lying on a trolley in a hallway all that time. I am still distraught and can't look at a photograph or her without bursting into tears. I miss her so much."

And it all derails...

The posters after that: "Oh, poor you. The NHS is on its knees and it's so cruel the way your mother was treated. Have you considered suing? Your mother deserved better than that. My mother died two years ago and I still miss her. Mother's Days are so hard because she's not here and she was everything to me"

JenniferBarkley · 21/05/2023 10:03

If you're referring to an actual thread, I definitely need the link Grin

I work on the assumption that nothing here is real and just enjoy the crazy.

Mermaidparades · 21/05/2023 09:54

🤣 I’m glad you mentioned this, I was beginning to feel like I was being too cynical!!

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