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 do remember a lot of these threads. They can be absolutely unbelievable!

Personally, I found many of the early lockdown threads completely batshit. It was hard to believe that they really might be serious, but a quick glance at FB and Twitter or other social media/news outlets confirmed that they were.

People furious that some of us were having barbecues in the garden, sitting on park benches or, shock horror, buying chocolate in the supermarkets. Remember the big Easter egg debates that went on day after day? People who bought this sort of thing, or drank wine and cooked on barbecues were killing grannies. Batshit!

I actually sat on some of our local park benches to get out of the house and to read my book. I certainly wasn't alone doing that. I did half wonder if the police would be called and was almost disappointed when nobody paid any of us the blindest bit of attention. 😃😎

@overshare

I remember someone being incensed of people booking online shopping slots in advance and changing their order as it approached, not just doing the while booking and ordering the day before. Selfish bastards!

That one made me laugh.

Can’t believe no ones mentioned the juggling mangoes thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/377622-what-do-you-do-with-mangoes

Too many threads where posters are incensed when their own version of the various Covid rules are j no it being followed. No matter how many other people try to tell them what the actual rules are, they remain angry and adamant their own version of the rules should be followed.

People furious that some of us were having barbecues in the garden, sitting on park benches...

My mum called me in high dudgeon early in lockdown because my SIL had shared some lovely photos taken by her mum and step dad during a walk and in one of them her mum was sitting on a bench. Full on "how can anyone be so selfish this is why people are dying" hysteria and rage. Got very angry with me when I didn't agree.

Have just read through that handbag thread. It was priceless. I will never understand the mentality of people who go onto a thread where someone is asking for advice about something expensive to tell them how awful they are and they should give it all to charity.

There are virtual signallers......and there are MN virtue signallers.

I'm mildly interested in what the OP did choose though....I need a new bag and have used Modalu for years but fancy a change....

[quote Aposterhasnoname]Can’t believe no ones mentioned the juggling mangoes thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/377622-what-do-you-do-with-mangoes[/quote]
I didn't know about this thread.

Thank you for sharing - valuable lesson learnt - never joke about mangoes.

[quote Aposterhasnoname]Can’t believe no ones mentioned the juggling mangoes thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/377622-what-do-you-do-with-mangoes[/quote]
I love the last post on that thread:

28/07/2020 09:32AnonReddit

fedda

So sad, no ideas for watermelons then? What about tomatoes?

Juggle em

Glory days of MN

The mangoes one is funny. It turns to cucumbers which in turn made me think of an early lockdown thread where someone mentioned buying a cucumber for a salad and was accused of mass murder!

Actually NOT glory days, it was from this year!!

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[quote Aposterhasnoname]Can’t believe no ones mentioned the juggling mangoes thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/377622-what-do-you-do-with-mangoes[/quote]
Oh this has made my day. How did I ever miss that one?!

@Nikhedonia I saw, and avoided because of the utter lunacy about the devil cats and why people don't train them!
🙈 👿 🐱

@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”.

I knew you existed! Mum was wrong! My friends were not all lying about their meals at home! Seriously though, I'm 45 and still get a bit pouty when I remember the almost daily conversations of
"I don't think Emma's mum does let her have cereal for tea, actually." "But she really does. And Sarah just has crisps for lunch and Louise has Coco pops EVERY DAY. Please?" "If Louise jumped off a cliff, would you follow her."

Invariably, it would end like that. After 45 years, I am vindicated.

@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”.

exactly

I had medical problems as a child an rarely ate because my medication made me sick, if my mam could get me to eat it she would and I mostly existed on sugary drinks (most my calories came from drinks)

dispite litrally living on litres of Pepsi, Coke and Creme Soda per day and eating mcdonalds for the few meals I would eat I had perfect teeth and was slim and very energetic

I eat far more healthy now and since eating healthy I put on a tonne weight, have joint issues as a result of weight gane and have needed 3 root canals... I swear this healthy living isnt all its cracked up to be lol

There have been a couple of "Is it rude to ask your guests to take their shoes off? " threads and the same poster turned up on each absolutely adamant that taking your shoes off and applying your bare (or stockinged, even) feet to carpets or indoor flooring of any kind was DISGUSTING and shoes should be worn at all times.

I visualised her wearing her shoes in bed and in the shower.

I don't think I consumed any form of fluid except Ribena and Capri Sun until I was about 12.

According to some MNers I am either mythical, or possibly died and am actually a ghost? I mean, I might be a ghost. I've seen The Sixth Sense. It could happen.

I once commented about the chore of shaving my legs and was near enough abused for shaving above the knee.

Firstly I wasn’t believed that I did such a thing as “nobody has hair above the knee” then I was told I was giving in to some anti feminist movement

Has anyone mentioned the thread about putting your bra on before knickers?
I daren’t comment on it as I sometimes have put my bra on first.
The op was incensed that anyone would do this.

People get very cross about bra sizes in general

The one that stands out to me is a particular poster who comes on to every thread where nursing is mentioned to complain that a nurse once gave her some slightly incorrect info (nothing diagnostic or especially relevant) and then rants about how this means all nurses are ignorant, bad people.

I mean, I can understand being irritated, but no idea how such a small thing could become such a big thing in someone's life.

Re the covid cucumber thread, I think it was the fact that the presumably oblivious (to all the upset she generated) shopper in question had bought not one but two cucumbers during a pandemic which tipped the poster over the edge.

Anyway, we're just about coming up to the annual multiple threads about "people are letting off fireworks and my dog/cat/piranha is Crying And Shaking". So that's something to look forward to.

@CarlottaValdez

People get very cross about bra sizes in general

Oh they do, they do. Woe betide you if you say that the boob or bust method doesn't really work for you or that you find it intolerably uncomfortable to wear a bra with a band size equal to your underbust measurement. It's as if you just shat on their floor.

The other thing that tickles me about bra sizing is that if you say you’re a size 10 you’ll be informed that that is a size 22 in 90s sizing as it’s a vanity size. For some reason being a 26GGG is not vanity sizing even thought that’s probably a 36C in 90s sizing.

Oh they do, they do. Woe betide you if you say that the boob or bust method doesn't really work for you or that you find it intolerably uncomfortable to wear a bra with a band size equal to your underbust measurement. It's as if you just shat on their floor.

Or if you think Brvssimo are rubbish, their fittings never work for you and they never have anything nice in your size anyway. People on here are obssessed with them to the point of it being creepy. Saying you don't like them is akin to blasphemy on here. I still think they're not all that.