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

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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?

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Itchybush · 11/10/2020 17:35

I had a poster threaten to sue me for saying that Battersea Dogs home put healthy dogs to sleep. It's literally there on their website and has never been a secret.

MrsGrindah · 11/10/2020 17:38

There a lot of posters who get very angry if others mention having excess anything and don’t immediately give it to the nearest food bank.

BoulangerieBabs · 11/10/2020 17:38

Stepdad wants me to move out

This thread started a short while ago looks set to have some seriously batshit comments on it. One comment about living in a squat roasting rats for dinner is brilliant.

cabotstove · 11/10/2020 17:39

A poster mentioned something along the lines of teenagers can't get Saturday jobs/holiday jobs as Covid is affecting industries such as hospitality & retail so we're looking at supermarket jobs etc. Another poster said that was the height of selfishness & jobs should only be for those that are struggling to feed their family.

AllPlayedOut · 11/10/2020 17:44

The one in S&B I'm sure that they had inherited money from their Aunt and that their Aunt had specifically wanted them to have a really nice handbag because designer bags were something they both loved and bonded over. The responses were batshit.

mam0918 · 11/10/2020 17:48

@StanfordPines

Keep a Christmas tree up all year round if you want. It’s your house.
I use to in my late teens much to the annoyance of everyone, DH wont let me anymore but I always manage to keep at least 1 piece of decoration up

theres a song I had on a mix tape that basically said you are white trash if you keep your xmas lights up all year and I would happily be white trash then... twinkly lights just make everything happier lol

TheSeedsOfADream · 11/10/2020 17:50

Style & Beauty very often is batshit. It was the fiefdom of course for many years of a well known and much loved (by others) poster who would start threads full of hate speech about people with dry skin on their heels.
She's still around, but not so prolific. Any thread title all shouty about how minging a certain item of clothing is is her.

Straven123 · 11/10/2020 17:58

I very rarely have guests. My bathroom is tiny and there is literally no where to put a bin.

Image of guest weaving their way through guests in the lounge, dangling a used tampon from their fingers, on their way the the bin in the kitchen Grin Grin

Ccarlyle8 · 11/10/2020 18:02

I'm genuinely loving this thread.
The duck porn.
The poor woman's granny.
The It's A Global Pandemic.
Lying in bed in my shitty flat with a glass of wine having a good chortle at all your beautiful, witty comments.
Rock on ladies.

ivftake1 · 11/10/2020 18:07

@KetoPenguin

I remember one thread with people who hated everyday words like "meals". Can't remember all the words they hated now.
Hahahaha I think this was ME! 'Meal' and 'tasty', amongst others
ivftake1 · 11/10/2020 18:08

Specifically 'tasty meal'.

Awful.

ForeverRose · 11/10/2020 18:12

I had posters get apoplectic with rage because I said I bathed my children every day

ivftake1 · 11/10/2020 18:18

'Foodstuffs' and other words too awful to mention. http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/3884591-foodstuffs-and-other-words-too-awful-to-mention

What is the strangest thing you’ve seen someone get annoyed about on here?
HelloDulling · 11/10/2020 18:23

I haven’t RTFT, but the one about people wearing lanyards to show off about their jobs made me so confused. Similar to the takeaway coffee thing.

whoknows2 · 11/10/2020 18:24

There's a thread on the go the now about designer handbags and someone said they would consider ending a friendship if someone bought a high end flashy designer bag 🤨

AlexCabot · 11/10/2020 18:28

I've hung onto my very old yellow Joules raincoat purely because someone on here spent a whole thread banging on about how much she hates them and people who wear them.

So occasionally I wear it in the hope that the poster lives near me and the very sight of it ruins her day.

Nikhedonia · 11/10/2020 18:30

@whoknows2

There's a thread on the go the now about designer handbags and someone said they would consider ending a friendship if someone bought a high end flashy designer bag 🤨
Grin brilliant!
mam0918 · 11/10/2020 18:43

@Motnight

Years ago, a toddler chasing pigeons.
I hate it when people let kids do this and make excuses for their kids rather than explaining and teaching them why they shouldnt

maybe I'm scarred though because I chased a pigeon as a little kid and it flew into a truck and died, I was about 4 or 5 and still feel guilty now because I LOVE animals and geuinly just wanted to pet it so I understand some kids might not have malicious intent but parents should know better than to allow it because really its as simple as 'living things arent toys'

MadamBatty · 11/10/2020 18:51

Nobody has mentioned airline seats,

I’m travelling with my husband & 3 children & don’t want to pay extra to sit together. Airlines are bastards they shouldn’t charge. Besides they must make other people move - people who have paid for their seats.

Also nobody should ring your doorbell unless they have given you 28 days written notice.

BashfulClam · 11/10/2020 18:58

I don’t have a bathroom bin, only people who visit are mil and mum and they don’t need sanitary protection. It has never really been an issue for us but I am the lowest of the low.

I got it from one poster for complaining about mil buying us absolute tat that we didn’t need or want that we the have to donate and I’d rather she kept the money. I was a monster, how dare I, when she dies I’ll miss the myriad shite she bestows on us...this one poster went on and on. I offered to send her the stuff since I was an ungrateful cow.

I have never read anything like it. My old neighbour refused to go to the tip, she would just cram everything into her bin and once she had put shit on top of my bin lid whilst out for collection as hers was overflowing. I was annoyed as it might mean
Mine wasn’t uplifted if the old was obstructed. She and her husband both had cars as did her various family who visited several times a week, the tip is a 5 minute drive away. I said they don’t seem to have any disability that would prevent them actually going to the tip. I had to ask One poster just to bloody stop, how did I know, disabilities can be invisible, they might have serious health issues....I bloody know disabilities can be invisible, my father had ms ffs. I said bon were evident that would affect them going to the tip, the both worked, walked loads as they had digs, both had cars, could carry loads of shopping in and out bins out. Her sons both had manual jobs etc. The poster replying honestly wouldn’t stop commenting over and over and over!

Spiderbaby8 · 11/10/2020 19:00

The people that get overly annoyed about being invited to things, take Grange Hills advice and just say no if you don't want to go somewhere.

PodgeBod · 11/10/2020 19:11

This was years back, but a poster made a thread saying she hated the Lazy Song by Bruno Mars because it was encouraging teenagers to be lazy. And probably become obese or something. It gave me a great giggle and I think about it if I ever hear that song.

ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN · 11/10/2020 19:12

The it’s not fair NHS workers get free coffee

Collecting pebbles from the beach

The endless list of what is considered rude

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 11/10/2020 19:21

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.

When you say 'in my toilet', I can't help thinking of that episode of One Foot In The Grave, where somebody actually plants a small tree in the bowl of the Meldrews' toilet Grin

There was that absolute belter from a while ago where the OP was furious at the filthy, disgusting men being naked in a male changing room at the local pool. The reason she knew that they were naked at some point in there was because she insisted on going and sitting in there, staring at them, every time whilst her DS had his swimming lesson and the general lounge/reception area was too busy and noisy for her!!!

Before the days of MN, there was a Friday night TV debate programme on in the Midlands called Central Weekend Live. It was a bit like Jeremy Kyle in format, but discussing current affairs and news items instead of inter-family arguments.

They often used to have one silly, lighthearted item in the programme and I'll never forget the time they featured this eccentric old couple at the end who liked to dress as gnomes all the time. They even got them toadstools to sit on in the studio and tried to get them to hold fishing rods as well.

The same studio guests that evening who'd reacted with measured responses as to what lack of privileged circumstances and mitigating factors might have driven a young man to serious crime and led another man to cheat on his wife on a one-night stand were apoplectic with fury at these harmless folk with a silly hobby, who apparently should have been utterly ashamed of themselves for having such a lack of dignity and self-respect. I think somebody might even have suggested that they should be locked up for it, to protect society Grin

Kpo58 · 11/10/2020 19:25

@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?
I'd be impressed if it was the walruses who did this as they live in the artic and well penguins don't tend to...