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?

That should be empathise not emphasise 🙄.

There was a thread yesterday where a poster was asking for recommendations for cozy, gentle Christmas themed books for her 85 year old mother who only liked to read cozy and gentle books.

Not one but two posters got incensed by this. One was angry that the OP’s mother wasn’t like her and didn’t enjoy gritty and serious books, the other was angry because, according to her, it was impossible to emphasise with people unless you’d read a book about them and therefore the OPs mother should extend her reading range. Bonkers.

I saw that. Some of the comments were vile. No idea what prompted that.

The one about dolphins being raping bastards.

@AllPlayedOut

I remember one where someone had mentioned their front door and there where a number of posters who simply couldn’t understand that some front doors don’t have door handles.

I've only ever encountered one like that and I couldn't get the bloody thing open as I have nerve damage to both arms and hands. My host had to open it for me. It was utterly infuriating. Exactly how do you get the buggers open? What's the secret?

We used to have a door like this. We broke several keys in the lock so I have an irrational hatred for them. I’m sure it was just our shitty door but I will hate all doors like this forever more!

@Bluntness100 and good is why I spent lockdown making essential trips for bread and accidentally picked up a bottle of gin at the same time

I once had a poster get really furious with me for mentioning that I live in an area that isn't very diverse. It's rural, there aren't very many immigrants here because there aren't very many jobs, so it holds no attraction to people who wish to better their circumstances.

One poster in particular got really really angry with me and said it was clear that I was a racist, and that it's evident that everyone who lives in non diverse areas are racists. Because if we weren't racists, we would make an effort to move to London or Birmingham so that we could mix with people from varied backgrounds.

I've no doubt there are indeed some racist people where I live, but I'm pretty sure that happens in big cities too.

I'm not sure who is meant to grow the food if all the rural dwellers are meant to move to big cities just to prove that they aren't racist. Or how the housing issues in big cities would be impacted by millions of rural dwellers feeling obliged to move there just to prove we aren't racist.

This not good. Autocorrect gives me rage!

@AllPlayedOut

I remember one where someone had mentioned their front door and there where a number of posters who simply couldn’t understand that some front doors don’t have door handles.

I've only ever encountered one like that and I couldn't get the bloody thing open as I have nerve damage to both arms and hands. My host had to open it for me. It was utterly infuriating. Exactly how do you get the buggers open? What's the secret?

I turn the key and push. When it's wet, which is most of the time, I add a swift kick to the bottom corner.

Ah, character properties.

I remember years ago, when I was in my mid 20s, my boyfriend was coming to live with my in a flat I owned, and I posted to ask what everyone thought the fair split of rent / bills etc should be.

It was vicious. I had comments saying he was clearly a locklodger, then others saying I was clearly only after him for his money. Others saying I should add him to the mortgage right away and if I didn’t I wasn’t taking the relationship seriously.

People seemed genuinely angry. It was most bizarre.

Why do you think things escalate or get extreme?

One of my theories is there is no like button or way of acknowledging replies on here so people have to get more extreme to get a response.

I kind of have some sympathy with the dolphin sentiment. I find it bloody weird how many people want to swim with them. I once inadvertently swam near a dolphin in the sea and I found it disconcerting

I remember the one about kids chasing pigeons, it did make me laugh! I can't get worked up at all about a two year old running after a couple of pigeons in the park before being distracted by the zip wire. It's hardly animal abuse! dons hard hat

None of you here live in the real world. You're all too busy chasing pigeons with a coffee in one hand and a helium balloon in the other.

Then, after queueing for cake for three hours, you go home to kick your front doors

in the middle of a global pandemic

@BalloonSlayer

Someone once posted asking about the best place to get helium balloons for her DC's birthday.

The first response was someone lambasting her for even considering it because helium is in short supply apparently.

Poor poster who just wanted to make her DC smile.

God I remember that!!! That’s the first time I ever heard that helium was not a renewable gas. I’ve felt guilty even since for the birthday balloons I’ve had inflated in card shops over the years 😬

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/24/humanity-is-thoughtlessly-wasting-an-essential-non-renewable-resource-helium/amp/

It was, admittedly, right before lockdown. A poster was apoplectic because someone, who was at that point in lockdown in Italy, had ordered some paper from Amazon so their DC could draw. The woman was FURIOUS. I had to step away from MN for a bit around then.

A thread about colleagues not selecting print area before printing from excel. I think that was the most specific aibu Ive read!

I remember watching a female duck being raped by various males on a duck pond, so much so that she nearly drowned. It was extremely disturbing. Yet families still go ‘feed the ducks’ 🤷‍♀️

TwentyViginti

I once posted a thread asking what trainers were fashionable for young teen boys 12/13. My son has asd and although very intelligent and high functioning has no idea about fashion and would happily wear Thomas trainers. Well someone came on and said this was the saddest thread they had ever come across. That I was ashamed of my son and should source him Thomas the tank engine trainers in his size. My son had not asked for Thomas trainers I was giving an example of him not caring what he wore, what he does care about is people being mean and they definitely would be if he went to his mainstream comp in bloody thomas trainers at 13!

A few posters lost their rag with me once when I was complaining about returning a jumper. My crimes included:
Using the terms labels when I actually meant tags
Returning an item that only cost 15 quid
Starting a thread about an item that only cost 15 quid.

I think about that thread every time I wear the replacement jumper

Oh I remember the batshit drawing paper one!
And the one quoted above in What We're Reading is foul. Utterly foul. Such gratuitous smug nastiness from one poster and what appears to be their sock. On a lovely warm thread.

Two of my all time favourites were the mother who forgot to pick her prodigy up from morning Russian calligraphy class (or something) and wanted to sue the teacher for locking the building and standing in the yard with the kid till the mother showed up.

And the father who wanted to sue an airline when HE trapped his kid's hand in the toilet door and the crew wouldn't call for an ambulance to be on the tarmac waiting.

But basically, anything, isn't it? I just think there must be some people who lead such small rigid lives that they can't contemplate anyone thinking differently to them about anything. It's all very Stepford really.

I mean, when I read about people putting sweetcorn and (to semi-quote a very funny poster on another thread) any roadkill you come by into your lasagne I want to scream and judge. But if sweetcorn and dead vole lasagne is your thing, crack on.

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!

I remember the helium balloon one.

@missmouse101

The one about dolphins being raping bastards.

Missing the point a bit but aren’t ducks raping bastards too? I still like ducks.

I got that info from a comedian though (possibly Russell Howard?) so I’m not sure it’s true and I don’t fancy googling raping ducks.

@TwentyViginti sounds like a great day out