What is the strangest thing you’ve seen someone get annoyed about on here?

[StanfordPines]

I was reminded yesterday of a poster who was furious about people including the county in postal addresses.
I’ve also had a thread where posters are angry with me for not having a bin in my bathroom.
Then there was the poster who said that women who put their bras on in a certain fashion will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Something are worth getting cross about but what is the most inconsequential thing you’ve seen posters getting angry about?

I remember your dog walking one too. One particular poster was all over every Covid thread for months telling everyone how irresponsible they were, and she was most insistent that the empty field was a Huge Risk.

Central weekend live was like finding a really good mumsnet thread when you're a bit drunk on a Friday night. There nothing so entertaining as randomers arguing over something utterly irrelevant to your life.

Anyway, I'm glad someone has already pointed out the fun police guarding the flour at the beginning of lockdown in case you attempted to entertain your children with it at all.

There was a thread yesterday about unfortunate names and someone said that I bet a lot of people called Karen would feel that their name was unfortunate right now. A poster who must be called Karen wrote a number of posts going on about how Offended she was that her name was on the thread which I thought was hilariously ironic 😂

I think that might have been my thread. I rent a field behind my house in my rural village and wanted to take my fit and active dog out to it more than once a day.It got so nasty and that i asked MN to close it

I know I shouldn’t laugh but it’s just so bad really 😂

@Bluntness100

I think that might have been my thread. I rent a field behind my house in my rural village and wanted to take my fit and active dog out to it more than once a day.It got so nasty and that i asked MN to close it

I know I shouldn’t laugh but it’s just so bad really 😂

The pre lockdown hysteria was just horrible. Folk were so angry and so hysterical about the craziest things. Its a shame they weren't as concerned about their own blood pressure as they were about covid. And the clapping for the NHS! Good Lord, folk got het up about that.

I think that might have been my thread. I rent a field behind my house in my rural village and wanted to take my fit and active dog out to it more than once a day

I also have a couple of fields by my house and took my dogs out twice a day and also went to ride and look after ny horses twice a day. I barely saw another human being. I'd have been lynched!!

@Bluntness100

I think that might have been my thread. I rent a field behind my house in my rural village and wanted to take my fit and active dog out to it more than once a day.It got so nasty and that i asked MN to close it

I know I shouldn’t laugh but it’s just so bad really 😂

It was so bad honestly. Had people telling me I was killing Grannies by going out in an empty field.

Thing was,y dog was super fit at the time because we were going to start flyball that he was literally doing laps of the house. I used my common sense in the end and did go out more than once. Think I saw a person once, and that was the farmer in his tractor in the next field 🤷🏻‍♀️😂😂😂

I don't know if i dare mention this because I don't want this funny thread to get hijacked or have to end up doing another name change... But I am willing to take the risk...

There is a certain area of mn where you should not go if you don't agree with the recurring theme of all the threads there. Well i was once naive and piped up with a differing opinion.

It ended up with people hoping my unborn daughter would grow up to be raped in a women's prison. Which was ironic because that is exactly the opposite of what they were originally complaining about.

Then i had to name change because whenever i commented on any thread, completely unrelated to the original thread, this one poster would track me down and argue with whatever i had written. I eventually changed after being called evil for mentioning i found it a bit cheeky that my mil had ordered a load of room service to my hotel room and didn't pay the bill. Apparently I was trying to starve my mil to death.

There are some scary people on mn and are turning mn into an unsafe space for women while campaigning against the exact same thing. Absolutely Nuts 🤪!

CatbearAmo I know what you mean.

I remember the initial Covid hysteria. MN absolutely loves to follow rules, despite the implications.

I lived on a busy road at the beginning of lockdown, so when I wanted to go for a walk used to get into my car and drive 5 mins down the road to a local woodland where I would bump into absolutely no one. People were apoplectic with rage that I wasn't walking down the road I lived on which was in the town centre and I would have been bumping into people every metre or so. There's no point in blindly following a poor misinterpretation of the rules.

The one in Reading where a lovely OP asked for gentle, comforting book recommendations for her equally lovely sounding 84 year old mother who likes gentle, comforting books and two posters came on to slag off said elderly mother for wanting to read gentle comforting books - one saying “why can’t she be more like meeeeeee” and another terribly facetious poster came on the thread repeatedly to say OPs mother needed to read a wider variety of books from more diverse backgrounds as she must have such little empathy for people unlike her, that she’d wasted her reading life and that if more people read more widely wars and atrocities would be avoided. Then when posters criticised her for being so pompous and mean spirited she kept banging on about how she’d merely been sharing her thoughts about the purpose of literature and where else could she do it except upon a thread about reading etc etc totally missing the point that the poor OP just wanted a nice gentle book recommendation for a present for her mum, not a character assassination of her mother nor the random musings of a rude person upon the role and function of literature within society.

The OP eventually responded, defending her lovely Mum and listing some of her good qualities to which the poster who had upset her in the first place responded by quoting the OP’s praise of her mother and adding the pointless sentence, “she sounds like my mum but mine is older”, adding even more insult to injury by sounding like a spoilt 6 year old saying “well MY mummy is just as special as YOUR mummy”.

I read it open mouthed about how some people just completely fail to read the room (or answer the bloody question) and wondered how anyone could be so irked by an elderly lady wanting to read a nice little story.

The post earlier today about a little girl raising a lot of money for Marie Curie by doing a sponsored swim resulted in one really horrible response from someone too (along the lines of her swim taking too long ). I think some posters must just have a very jealous or warped personality and take it out on really very harmless, totally inoffensive posters and threads.

The house giveaway.

OP had inherited a house with a sitting tennant who had paid about 3p a week for 25 years. OP wanted to sell the house. First poster started shouting about how selfish she was for not giving the tenant the house.

Or something similar

@cheesecrack

The house giveaway.

OP had inherited a house with a sitting tennant who had paid about 3p a week for 25 years. OP wanted to sell the house. First poster started shouting about how selfish she was for not giving the tenant the house.

Or something similar

There was also one about someone who kept finding their outside tap turned on and along with sensible suggestions for turning it off at the mains was the suggestion you shouldn't do that incase the homeless were drinking from it and presumably not bothering to turn it off again.

Also the lockdown insistence that you couldn't go to your allotment for your exercise. At one point I remember something along the lines of 'leave the cabbages and SAVE YOURSELF!'

Someone was really annoyed about grammar in the post of a girl who later had mentioned that English isn't her first language. Come on, nobody has a perfect grammar on forums!

Also there were people annoyed about the user who said she doesn't want to keep old stuff and old photographs that belong to no one in her house. I can understand people wanting to preserve memories and they digitize photos or do some Photoglory restoring magic on them when these photos have their value, but it wasn't a case like that.

I remember one where the op had asked if anyone had heard something or other on radio two, someone popped up accusing the op of having a stealth boast about listening to radio two.

There was another, absolutely amazing, thread where a lady and her kids had went to get a taxi and there were 'fashionistas' at the front of the queue and they didn't immediately let the op in the taxi before them. SHE HAD CHILDREN don't you know. I'll try and find it, it was honestly hilarious.

Fashionistas In A Taxi Queue

Oh god I remember that lady and the taxi thread

She was adamant that parents with children should go first because you know...kids.

Wouldn’t accept that everyone needs to queue

@cheesecrack

The house giveaway.

OP had inherited a house with a sitting tennant who had paid about 3p a week for 25 years. OP wanted to sell the house. First poster started shouting about how selfish she was for not giving the tenant the house.

Or something similar

Oooh renting ones are divil spawn. And I speak as a renter.

Yes, I expect my landlord to give me the service I pay him for.
Yes, I acknowledge it's his house and one day he might decide to sell it, which means, sadly, I'd have so many months to find another.
Yes, I'm vaguely jealous of him having a house to rent out.
No, I don't intend to foulmouth him to all of the western world and beyond for that.

But on MN the chip on that shoulder is mighty heavy. The dodgy advice about not moving out, refusing to pay rent and not letting the landlord in will ultimately ensure the tenant gets themselves a s21 and a court case.

Years ago there was a poster who used to get irate about women who took a parking ticket from the machine at the barrier and put it in their mouths til they parked.

@RainingBatsAndFrogs

Years ago there was a poster who used to get irate about women who took a parking ticket from the machine at the barrier and put it in their mouths til they parked.

That wasn’t me but for some reason I get annoyed about it and I don’t even know why.

I once posted that I was concerned as DP had a colleague that clearly fancied him, it turned into a thread where essentially I was mad, and that DP was not some sort of sex god that had women falling at his feet - I was a liar, a fantasist or had crippling self esteem - honestly it was bonkers!

Also the lockdown insistence that you couldn't go to your allotment for your exercise. At one point I remember something along the lines of 'leave the cabbages and SAVE YOURSELF!'

It was "LET THE CABBAGES DIE!!!!"

Was so fabulous I name changed to Let the cabbages die for a while, but then when I disagreed with another poster, they said "oh I suppose you'd be happy for me to die like those cabbages" which was so batshit I NC'd back to this

- Anger at people on a UK based parenting site using school terminology that is relevant to a) the poster themselves b) the majority of the UK. Yes I know Scotland & Northern Ireland don't use Yr1, Yr6, etc., but the majority of posters will understand what that means. If you really can't work out that numbers go up sequentially and therefore a child in Yr9 is unlikely to be under 10 then you could always, you know, google it. Or if you didn't want to then you could just pass by the thread without imparting the benefit of your wisdom. But no, there's always one snotty "well I can't say OP because I have absolutely NO IDEA how old a Yr7 is, why not just put their age?
I know this is purely down to me, and I could Google it, but I've NO IDEA at what age children start school; I started at 4, but I know it's older now. If I really wanted to know I could find out, but it's not worth it for the sake of reading a random comment.

Another thread that sticks in my mind from years ago.

18 year old girl and her boyfriend have a baby while they are both in 6th form doing their A levels. The girl’s mother gives up her own job to care for the baby full time so they can both continue with their education.

Girl is going to study medicine which she could do at at a local university, while her mother continues to care for baby FT ( yup still giving up her job ).

However, girl decides that she wants to study at a more prestigious uni several hours drive away, and that her mother should look after baby all week, drive baby to her halls of residence on a Friday and then come back to collect baby on a Sunday.

( Because it’s not enough that she cares for baby 40 hours a week, she needs to do it 120 hours a week plus 12 hours of driving.)

And a hall of residence is such a great place to raise a baby/ toddler every weekend , she can have fun partying!

The best bit was the HOARDS of posters saying it was a great plan and attacking anyone who pointed out how shit it was for her mother and her child.

They claimed women were “ entitled to an education“ and self determination, clearly missing the fact that the mother was a woman too and also had rights. And that’s before we even start on the welfare of the child.

Posters were incandescent with rage about the selfishness of the grandmother when she didn’t want to go along with all this new proposal.

No one seemed to think that perhaps the baby’s father might have any role at all , even though he and the girl were still together. Because he needed an education dontcha know.

Anyone who suggested that they both might grow the fuck up and care for the baby they chose to make was told they were anti feminist and anti education.

Bizarre.