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?

@TimeForACheeseSandwich

Oh, great. Looks like time to hide the thread if the socks are coming along to justify the behaviour of posters on the FWR boards. Sympathy CatbearAmo.

No one is attempting to justify threats to a previous poster's daughter.

But that poster made an unfounded accusation to someone who has been a longstanding poster.

It's worth noting as well that the FWR board is awash with trolls whose sole motive is to discredit have that part of the site and ideally have it closed down. They post threats and aggressive comments then screenshot them for Twitter claiming they represent all of Mumsnet. They have even been known to impersonate the names of regular posters to make it look as if this is the view of long established users.

Well I’ve been accused of being a troll and a man on the FWR boards for daring to disagree with part of what someone said. Someone also changed their username to mock me in a really biizarre exchange. You might think that the board is awash with trolls, I think it’s a cult that jumps on any poster that disagrees with them.

I’m sorry for helping to bring down a lovely thread.

I'm really sorry if this causes a bun fight or derails what should have been a light hearted thread.

I think everyone can agree there are some crazy people out there on Mumsnet and who knows who they really are, or their true intentions.

I just wanted to share a story that happened to me and how it has left me a bit baffled. Should have known better than raising this again.

Sorry for accusing a well known poster of indecent behavior.

A thread about colleagues not selecting print area before printing from excel

Whoever does that is totally and utterly unreasonable, especially when it leads to hundreds of pages being printed with random columns of data on them. Sacking is too good for people like that 😂

I don't know how we've got this far and not mentioned all the bat shit threads about people not locking their front doors, loo brushes or making people take their shoes off when they enter your home.

I've always assumed that houses are either shoes on or shoes off (most of my friends are shoes off) but some posters act as if being asked to take their shoes off is akin to them being asked to take all of their clothes off and just lounge about naked. Really strange.

At the start of lockdown there was someone on a thread insisting that a poster was being a danger to society and spreading covid to all and sundry for leaving the house to feed her horse.

Animal welfare was apparently a non-essential.

Towels and the frequency or not of their washing.

@MaxNormal

At the start of lockdown there was someone on a thread insisting that a poster was being a danger to society and spreading covid to all and sundry for leaving the house to feed her horse.

Animal welfare was apparently a non-essential.

Towels and the frequency or not of their washing.

I think that was the thread where a poster came on and said she was worried about her allotment and a poster replied "LET THE CABBAGES DIE!!!!" Amazing. Let the cabbages die is still one of my favourite (ridiculous) replies. Pure MN hysteria at its finest.

@MiaowMix there a thread running at the minute about cats, 300+ posts of anti-cat sentiment!

FFS. I have a cat and I’m not going to get rid of him just because people on here think we cat owners are scumbags.

@PhilSwagielka

FFS. I have a cat and I’m not going to get rid of him just because people on here think we cat owners are scumbags.

Cats are arseholes, that's the joy of them! Mines a grumpy sod but I love him!

I've never owned a cat but as a dog owner see the same kind of vitriol directed our way. Usually about 💩 actually.

Whatever the animal there will be strong opinions.

I remember another one about eating at theme parks. Really odd. To do with spending money on a day out and not taking a picnic. Such strong opinions. Bizarre!

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.

I do this! I had no idea it makes some people angry! Amazing.

Why is Mumsnet so weird about food in general?

Actually food is another one. I once got angrily told that peas are not a vegetable they are a carb on a thread about cooking for toddlers.

@PhilSwagielka

Why is Mumsnet so weird about food in general?

Yep

Did you know that fruit is just haribo and we shouldn’t be giving it to children

Did you know that fruit is just haribo and we shouldn’t be giving it to children

Yes and any child who has ever drunk anything except water in their entire life will inevitably become obese with rotten teeth and end up with a myriad of health problems. Squash is liquid acid. Even when given just for a treat at a party. Fizzy drinks should only be used as drain cleaner. If your under 18 ever drinks weak tea at their Granny’s or a coffee from Costa they might drop instantly drop dead and you should definitely go NC with MIL if she ever gives an under 12 a cup of tea.

And I don’t dare mention McDonalds. Even as a treat for a birthday or in an emergency like a power cut or parent in hospital it seems to lead to some posters insinuating that there should be some sort of social services intervention.

I spent my childhood being fed Coco Pops and a cup of tea, Processed Cheese Sarnie with a carton of 5p juice (sometimes the blue bubblegum one) with a packet of crisps and a Mars Bar, ribena or more tea and digestives or wagon wheels as snacks after school and fish fingers/chicken nuggets/crispy pancakes/corned beef or campbells meatballs in a tin with spaghetti hoops or baked beans and alphabets and Diet Pepsi almost every day of my life. Saturdays were the day I’d have a milky coffee and a wagon wheel in the market caf with my mam from being about 6. Sometimes we’d have a bacon butty then have fish and chips for dinner.

I’m alive, relatively healthy and I’ve never been obese or bigger than a size 12 (an 8 or 10 until mid 30s). I’m a medical bloody marvel I tell you.

I know my childhood diet was atrocious and I don’t eat like that now but some posters need to seriously unclench when it comes to Ava being given a carton of apple juice at Nannas or Felix and Max being taken to McDonald’s while Mum was giving birth or Molly being treated to a mochafrappa whatnot by her best friend’s “cool mum”.

@CarlottaValdez

Actually food is another one. I once got angrily told that peas are not a vegetable they are a carb on a thread about cooking for toddlers.

Apparently are just little balls of sugar and sweetcorn isn't even a vegetable. There go the only two vegetables my children eat.

Didn't someone recently say that if they knew a child was being raised as a vegan they would report the family to social services?

Years ago there was a poster who started a thread outraged at the fact that children were being given cake and sweets at a school fete. She literally said that she was going to kick up a fuss about how they were deliberately poisoning her children. . Batshit.

@ProudAuntie76

Did you know that fruit is just haribo and we shouldn’t be giving it to children

Yes and any child who has ever drunk anything except water in their entire life will inevitably become obese with rotten teeth and end up with a myriad of health problems. Squash is liquid acid. Even when given just for a treat at a party. Fizzy drinks should only be used as drain cleaner. If your under 18 ever drinks weak tea at their Granny’s or a coffee from Costa they might drop instantly drop dead and you should definitely go NC with MIL if she ever gives an under 12 a cup of tea.

And I don’t dare mention McDonalds. Even as a treat for a birthday or in an emergency like a power cut or parent in hospital it seems to lead to some posters insinuating that there should be some sort of social services intervention.

I spent my childhood being fed Coco Pops and a cup of tea, Processed Cheese Sarnie with a carton of 5p juice (sometimes the blue bubblegum one) with a packet of crisps and a Mars Bar, ribena or more tea and digestives or wagon wheels as snacks after school and fish fingers/chicken nuggets/crispy pancakes/corned beef or campbells meatballs in a tin with spaghetti hoops or baked beans and alphabets and Diet Pepsi almost every day of my life. Saturdays were the day I’d have a milky coffee and a wagon wheel in the market caf with my mam from being about 6. Sometimes we’d have a bacon butty then have fish and chips for dinner.

I’m alive, relatively healthy and I’ve never been obese or bigger than a size 12 (an 8 or 10 until mid 30s). I’m a medical bloody marvel I tell you.

I know my childhood diet was atrocious and I don’t eat like that now but some posters need to seriously unclench when it comes to Ava being given a carton of apple juice at Nannas or Felix and Max being taken to McDonald’s while Mum was giving birth or Molly being treated to a mochafrappa whatnot by her best friend’s “cool mum”.

This made me smile. I also had a similar childhood food wise but I honestly really hate that shit and my kids have never eaten cereal, fizzy pop is banned as are certain sweets. I’m pretty lax about chocolate though.

LET THE CABBAGES DIE thread.

I finally found the handbag/bench thread. https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/styleandd_beauty/1657682-If-you-had-about-800-900-to-spend-on-a-handbag-what-would-you-get?messages=100&pg=1

Quote was: Leave your bloody cabbages to die unless you potentially want one of your relatives to end up stored at your local ice rink.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

Quote was: Leave your bloody cabbages to die unless you potentially want one of your relatives to end up stored at your local ice rink.

Just incredible!

Both the cabbage and the handbag threads are fantastic 👏🏼