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

457 replies

StanfordPines · 11/10/2020 08:15

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?

OP posts:
PoorMansPaulaRadcliffe · 11/10/2020 10:03

One of the contributors to that loo brush one isn't well, to my mind.

EspressoX10 · 11/10/2020 10:04

A recent thread where the OP mused how she was surprised to find out that the love she felt for her dog changed when she had babies, as she realised just how much more have loved her children.

She continued to look after her dog, loving it, taking it out for long walks etc. She just loves her children more!

She was ripped apart by dozens of people, it was actually startling!
Got branded as "vile" and told she didn't deserve to live.

Man, that was wild!

PoorMansPaulaRadcliffe · 11/10/2020 10:06

I don't like people who let their kids scare animals, either. I'd be annoyed with the pigeon one.
Helium balloons are terrrible, though. I certainly wouldn't lambast anyone and probably wouldn't even be moved to say anything had I come across that thread, but they're pretty environmentally awful on every front, let's face it.

Bluntness100 · 11/10/2020 10:07

People get called a cunt for the most innocuous of reasons too.

I loaned my friend some baby clothes six years ago, I don’t recall if I said they were a loan specifically but now I want them back and she doesn’t have them any more.

What a right cunt she is. Get her to buy you new clothes then block her.. Find some new friends, but not before you get a whole new baby wardrobe out of her.

😂

Notverybright · 11/10/2020 10:07

@justanotherneighinparadise

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’ 🤷‍♀️
Oops should’ve RTFT
NeonGenesis · 11/10/2020 10:09

MN makes me feel so anxious at times. I walk around the world doing my own thing and generally assuming that no one is bothered by the things that I do as long as I'm considerate and polite... and then I go and read threads where people have decided that I'm wearing awful clothes that reveal how tacky I am, I'm rude if I invite someone over for a cuppa on Sunday afternoon and don't make them a full roast dinner, I'm destroying the planet because I have 2 children, I'm showing off because I sometimes buy take away coffee, I'm disgusting because I have eaten cheese sandwiches on a train at lunchtime, I'm cruel because I have a cat which is kept indoors, I'm filthy because I sometimes only shower every 36-48 hours and I don't change my bedsheets every day. The list goes on and on...

I'm also a SAHM and, my God, do you need a tin hat on when you mention that...

I'm amazed that I have any friends at all. They probably all secretly hate me because there's a Yankee Candle in my toilet. Imagine if they knew that I sometimes poo in that toilet!? I'd be run out of town, I'm sure.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 11/10/2020 10:09

@Pickypolly

A nurse being called pathetic & ripped limb from limb for saying that for her, on her day off from the COVID ward, that lockdown was perfect for her to stay indoors, eat, sleep, watch films on her sofa and not have to go anywhere. The furious and abusive answers that poor bugger got were jaw dropping.
If it's the one I'm thinking of (may be a different one) people got annoyed because she referred to it as 'Rona' (a weird and slightly cutesy nickname I've never heard anyone else use - and I'm a bit dubious nurses would call it that) and in her OP she seemed completely oblivious to the difficulties others were facing. The tone was more, 'Why is everyone complaining?' It was only after the pile-on that she drip-fed she was a nurse, and I'm not honestly sure she was.
bananamonkey · 11/10/2020 10:10

About someone daring to buy a chocolate bar alongside their “essential items” in their shopping during lockdown. We’re all stuck inside all day for weeks but you’d prefer to deny someone the teeny bit of pleasure in a world of crap just to ensure everyone else is as miserable as you.

CatteStreet · 11/10/2020 10:11

Use of language divergent from standard Southern English English. This really seems to offend and infuriate some people - it's not just jokey pedantry. The vitriol on a recent-ish thread against people who say 'haitch' was quite something to behold Shock particularly with regard to the posters' children using non-approved-of linguistic forms - that really took me aback tbh. It must be snobbery/class insecurity driving it, but it's quite startling.

Bluntness100 · 11/10/2020 10:11

@justanotherneighinparadise

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’ 🤷‍♀️
And yet you just stood and watched.. ? Moving ducks on is one of the easiest things in the world.
Peridot1 · 11/10/2020 10:11

I was going to say the book one from yesterday too. Utterly bizarre!

justanotherneighinparadise · 11/10/2020 10:14

Lots of animals operate the same way. They don’t think about ‘the feelz’ of the animal they’re penetrating. How about the walruses who have learnt how to rape Emperor penguins?

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 11/10/2020 10:16

@Soubriquet

Where someone was furious that people were going out to buy milk when they could “use butter in their coffee”

Apparently going out to get milk wasn’t essential and they were literally killing people!

There was a lot of that on here at the peak of lockdown. I remember someone saying, 'Bread is not an essential.'
justanotherneighinparadise · 11/10/2020 10:16

And yet you just stood and watched.. ? Moving ducks on is one of the easiest things in the world

Ah so it’s my fault now? I think you need to go and find a thread with lots of crazy people on it so you can stop trying to guilt someone about an event that happened a decade ago when my mental health was particularly bad and I was standing at the edge of the reservoir contemplating how to kill myself.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 11/10/2020 10:19

@Bluntness100 how? Only thing I can think of it they're out in the water is lobbing stones or sticks at them, and I'd be scared to do that if other people were around in case it was misinterpreted. Also the whole thing about not intervening would be playing on my mind, although I've always been in two minds about that.

Janevaljane · 11/10/2020 10:21

@OrigamiPenguinArmy

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.

Was going to post this. Absolutely mad.
JesusInTheCabbageVan · 11/10/2020 10:23

@EspressoX10

A recent thread where the OP mused how she was surprised to find out that the love she felt for her dog changed when she had babies, as she realised just how much more have loved her children.

She continued to look after her dog, loving it, taking it out for long walks etc. She just loves her children more!

She was ripped apart by dozens of people, it was actually startling!
Got branded as "vile" and told she didn't deserve to live.

Man, that was wild!

I remember that one! Was that also the thread where someone said that if there was a dog and a baby in a burning building, she would save the dog?
TwentyViginti · 11/10/2020 10:23

@justanotherneighinparadise

Lots of animals operate the same way. They don’t think about ‘the feelz’ of the animal they’re penetrating. How about the walruses who have learnt how to rape Emperor penguins?
Were the emperor penguins waddling about in short skirts?
Notverybright · 11/10/2020 10:25

If it's the one I'm thinking of (may be a different one) people got annoyed because she referred to it as 'Rona' (a weird and slightly cutesy nickname I've never heard anyone else use - and I'm a bit dubious nurses would call it that) and in her OP she seemed completely oblivious to the difficulties others were facing. The tone was more, 'Why is everyone complaining?' It was only after the pile-on that she drip-fed she was a nurse, and I'm not honestly sure she was.

I know nhs workers who call it ‘rona. Many people who work on wards develop a black sense of humour as a coping mechanism. I’ve also heard HIV referred to as ‘the hiv’ 🤷‍♀️.

TheGhostofGlumy · 11/10/2020 10:26

I remember the kids more than dogs one, that was barmy.

I've seen a couple of instances where people become completely incensed if a child has a bigger/better room than the parents. Surely people can arrange their own houses however they like, but apparently no, it is morally wrong for the adults not to have the biggest room.
Can you tell my DC have the best rooms Grin

TartanSlippers · 11/10/2020 10:28

A two-minute trawl round AIBU will harvest quite a selection of people being unpleasant for no reason.

It really has gone way beyond anything that could be considered reasonable now.

justanotherneighinparadise · 11/10/2020 10:29

Were the emperor penguins waddling about in short skirts?

I suspect they were asking for it by just hanging about in the walruses proximity. And no doubt it was my fault for knowing about it but not getting on a plane out there are shooing them away.

In the middle of a global pandemic FFS!

ShirleyPhallus · 11/10/2020 10:29

Wow, I’ve just read the book one. It’s just 🤯

My favourite line is the pompous poster who said that the worlds atrocities are to be blamed on people who don’t read enough

TwentyViginti · 11/10/2020 10:34

And no doubt it was my fault for knowing about it but not getting on a plane out there are shooing them away.

Glad to see at least one poster here acknowledging their utter selfishness

in the middle of a global pandemic

Notverybright · 11/10/2020 10:35

@NeonGenesis

MN makes me feel so anxious at times. I walk around the world doing my own thing and generally assuming that no one is bothered by the things that I do as long as I'm considerate and polite... and then I go and read threads where people have decided that I'm wearing awful clothes that reveal how tacky I am, I'm rude if I invite someone over for a cuppa on Sunday afternoon and don't make them a full roast dinner, I'm destroying the planet because I have 2 children, I'm showing off because I sometimes buy take away coffee, I'm disgusting because I have eaten cheese sandwiches on a train at lunchtime, I'm cruel because I have a cat which is kept indoors, I'm filthy because I sometimes only shower every 36-48 hours and I don't change my bedsheets every day. The list goes on and on...

I'm also a SAHM and, my God, do you need a tin hat on when you mention that...

I'm amazed that I have any friends at all. They probably all secretly hate me because there's a Yankee Candle in my toilet. Imagine if they knew that I sometimes poo in that toilet!? I'd be run out of town, I'm sure.

I think it just goes to show that some people will find a reason to dislike you No matter what you do. It’s more about them and their mental state than it does about you.

If you look at those ‘clothes that annoy you’ threads and tried to wear something inoffensive to every poster, you would have no choice but to walk around nude.