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?

A thread about not having bedside lamps in spare bedrooms. One poster seemed to take it very personally and felt compelled to argue at great length about why she couldn't have one. If I had to be a guest in her house I suspect the lack of lighting would be the least of my worries.

I had to go off and find the bonkers 'cosy Christmas reads thread', didn't I. Knew I'd get sucked in. Anyway, here it is for anyone else who wants to observe the weirdness first-hand.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan either the link is broken or the thread has been taken down!

It works for me.

'Old Lady' Christmas Book
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/whatweree_reading/4046416-Old-Lady-Christmas-Book

That link doesn’t work for me either, here it is again:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/what_were_reading/4046416-Old-Lady-Christmas-Book?pg=2

@Notverybright I now realise (having tried to find that thread) that you're right

I also realise the irony of me getting annoyed about people saying 'Rona' on a thread about people getting annoyed about trivial things

Years ago I asked for name suggestions for our house. Apparently I was utterly unreasonable for not giving it a number, and no amount of explaining that none of the houses had numbers could detract from their anger! What a pretentious bastard I am!

A thread about an injured dog (cause unknown, vet thought hit by car) where an oft-banned batshit regular poster decided that somebody had definitely attacked the dog and if anybody had witnessed the attack and not thrown themselves between the assailant and dog or attacked them until they were bloody, they deserved capital punishment. It was rather extraordinary but conversations carried on and another poster suggested that if you did see a dog being forcefully and brutally attacked, it would be understandable if you didn't intervene and called the police. Batshit poster hit the roof, announced that the eminently reasonable poster deserved to die etc. I suggested Batshit Barbara calm down slightly and she PMed me (CAT actually, it was that long ago) and asked for my address so she could come and teach me a lesson.

I also realise the irony of me getting annoyed about people saying 'Rona' on a thread about people getting annoyed about trivial things

Any chance that poster is an Aussie? I live in Australia, although I'm not from here, and I've heard a lot of people calling it 'rona - e.g. "he's got the 'rona" - and it is not necessarily flippant. It can be used sincerely in serious situations. The people here just like to shorten words wherever possible.

I remember at the start of lockdown a discussion on using flour for homemade playdough. Clearly me using some out of date flour is the reason people are starving in Africa and, even worse, couldn't make banana bread. Because the socially responsible thing to do is to buy your playdough ready made.

That book thread, I can’t believe someone actually posted and said “why can’t she be like me” and someone else then got all arsey and accused an 84 year old of withdrawing from the world due to enjoying reading books like Catherine Cookson. 😂😂😂

omg that reading thing is amazing. The OP's 84 year old mother is at imminent risk of committing crimes against humanity if she doesn't fancy Ian Rankin's detective series. Who knew Ian Rankin was our civilisational bulwark against the next Holocaust. Does he know? It's a big job!

@Winterfellismyhome

A poster on a Christmas tree thread annoyed that someone would put their Christmas tree up before advent

Why do you even care?! Let people do what makes them happy

I came on to say the same!

@NeonGenesis I'm pretty sure she was UK, or at least she didn't say otherwise when people were eye-rolling about Rona (in my defence, I wasn't one of them!)

@Bluntness100

That book thread, I can’t believe someone actually posted and said “why can’t she be like me” and someone else then got all arsey and accused an 84 year old of withdrawing from the world due to enjoying reading books like Catherine Cookson. 😂😂😂

Hang on, a while ago you were gagging to tell me how I should have intervened in a duck rape 10 years ago. Another poster then asked you for instructions. Let’s here it then.

*hear

@AllPlayedOut

Years ago, a toddler chasing pigeons.

I will admit to hating it when parents allow their kids to do that.

As do I, it’s a horrible basic lack of compassion for living creatures. Not trivial or funny.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan, you are, of course, the only on Mumsnet do people put the entire contents of the spare room into a lasagne poster and your comment about Pearl Harbour has now made me genuinely l-o-l.

(and I bought all the James Herriots on Kindle 99p deals last week)

Not so much vitriol per se, but I'm always baffled by responses in which posters reassure the OP that the cause of their ire is 'jealous'.

Always find myself getting all Inigo Montoya and thinking "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

That ‘old lady Christmas book’ thread is something else.

I see the point in getting annoyed if someone is doing something that is massively irresponsible, like ‘I couldn’t be bothered to find a bin so I chucked all my rubbish in a hedge’ or ‘ what’s wrong with flushing baby wipes? I’m not going to stop’. But not getting upset about how I put my bra on.

But not getting upset about how I put my bra on.

You need to read the Bad WFH habits thread. Some women there have stopped wearing them

One that sticks in my mind is someone getting very exercised about another poster saying that the turn-inside-out-and-flip-over method of changing a duvet cover didn't really work on the covers they owned. They couldn't conceive of a duvet/cover combo that wasn't compatible with this trick, and basically accused the poster of either lying or being unusually incompetent at duvet-changing.

They couldn't conceive of a duvet/cover combo that wasn't compatible with this trick, and basically accused the poster of either lying or being unusually incompetent at duvet-changing.

Did they accuse them of being hard of thinking? Or not too bright?