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?

@Kpo58 the walruses have a whip-round and hire a minibus. You should hear the songs they sing during the journey.

This thread has kept me entertained today.

Someone's started one on AIBU about the "evils" of white toast & jam....

Did anyone else read about doors with no handle, and get very puzzled about how that would work. Before remembering their door does not in fact have a handle? Just me then

The utter hatred of the phrase ‘picky bits’ makes me laugh, it was never my favourite but I’ve adopted it in the hope of pissing people off.
Also the hatred of people who ring your doorbell, and the not answering it. I suspect these people are the ones who never receive their parcels and are furious about it

Have loved this thread ! Both the actually batshit stories and the witty retellings of them

No more to add that have not been mentioned but I genuinely Sometimes reas threads and wonder if I have been commiting serious social errors my whole life or more likely that some people love seriously different lives to me

Only ever on Mumsnet tho 🤔

• People drinking water, particularly if from a bottle. Comes up fairly often on a thread, usually with literal use of words like "guzzling" "slurping" etc. Never realised being hydrated was so infantile/ridiculous/millennial/insert insult here

• Anger at people on a UK based parenting site using school terminology that is relevant to a) the poster themselves b) the majority of the UK. Yes I know Scotland & Northern Ireland don't use Yr1, Yr6, etc., but the majority of posters will understand what that means. If you really can't work out that numbers go up sequentially and therefore a child in Yr9 is unlikely to be under 10 then you could always, you know, google it. Or if you didn't want to then you could just pass by the thread without imparting the benefit of your wisdom. But no, there's always one snotty "well I can't say OP because I have absolutely NO IDEA how old a Yr7 is, why not just put their age?"

@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.

I just read that thread and those posts were...wtf. Like 'how dare this random woman I don't know read stuff I don't like'.

There’s one on baby names at the moment. A poster came on and asked people’s thoughts on a couple of names. Someone suggested Ingrid as an alternative, and the op exploded with rage that such a dreadful name had been suggested when she didn’t ask for suggestions and it CLEARLY wasn’t to her taste and then went on a rant about how awful and rude MNetters are, and finished up with a fabulous flounce saying she was leaving and never coming back.

Awesome.

There was a thread on here a few years ago where the OP was raging because every time she watched the family over the road get into their car.. the mum sat in the back and one or other of the teenage DC sat in the front with the DH. She was so angry about it and had clearly spent a lot of time ruminating and speculating on it. I remember feeling really disconcerted by the thought of someone habitually watching the harmless and irrelevant details of their neighbours lives with such pent up fury and then stewing and ranting over it.

There was a brilliant one a few years ago where the OP said something or someone was “mad as a box of frogs” and a poster berated her for being racist, thinking the frogs were derogatory Frenchmen and not, er, imaginary frogs in an imaginary box. She wouldn’t back down!

Another one re doors, a poster’s DP had gone out and taken the house keys, the poster was now locked in.
So many people couldn’t understand how you could be locked inside a house. The idea that there are actually different kinds of locks on doors, not just Yale/ latched, was too unbelievable for some.

@BoulangerieBabs

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.

Unfollowing that one it's utterly mad!

I would have said the books one, “I like James rankin, why can’t she be like me?”

...But I think getting angry about someone not intervening in a duck rape pips that to the post

And obviously vulva/vagina

I am shocked at how invested some posters are in other people's inability to pronounce th- "properly".
Honestly, you'd think being a cockney was both contagious and life-threatening given the degree to which people take offence at th- fronting. Let's not even go there with glottal stops.

Thank you origami, that's hilarious and the most bonkers thing I've encountered in a while. And in this time of madness, thats saying something.

I'm trying to find the S&B handbag thread now. I feel the need to read it again.

I've been accused of name-calling.

For calling certain items "muzzles" and "face nappies".

The ones who get so irate about being invited to a wedding, or even worse an evening only invite, and feel it’s a heinous crime to make your wedding about you.

Culminating in the poster the other day who angrily informed us all that her future sister in law should cancel her wedding, till she, the mother of her nephews could attend when the Covid restrictions were lifted.,😂

@CatteStreet

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 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.

That fucking thread about people not speaking ~properly~ made me angry. Just because I don't sound like a Radio 4 presenter and I say 'haitch' does not make me thick.

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...

I’ll see if I can find the article. I know I watched a video through open fingers. God knows why I did. I suppose a mixture of curiosity and revulsion .

It was an Antarctic fur seal!
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@Bluntness100

And yes the Covid ones got crazy, one woman was told she couldn’t walk her dog or kids in the empty field bordering her garden more than once a day as it broke the rules. No matter how many times she explained it was an empty field she was told by some posters, it was simply reckless and illegal to go in there.

I think that might have been my thread. I rent a field behind my house in my rural village and wanted to take my fit and active dog out to it more than once a day.

It got so nasty and that i asked MN to close it.

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@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

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

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

I remember them! Central Weekend was bloody ace. Me and my Mum would have a Friday night Mars bar and watch whatever ITV drama was on then Central Weekend. Edwina Currie sitting in the middle of some prostitutes going "they do it BECAUSE THEY LIKE IT!!!" was a good one.

@questionablemouse I remember your dog walk one. No matter how many times you explained how isolated the field and your house was you had people insisting you would cough all over the gate, be dodging hundreds of other families all wandering in the direction of that same field, what if your dog got into a fight with the hypothetical dog of these non existent other walkers and then you had to intervene and...gasp...interact with the covid ridden peasants....what if you broke your leg on your 100 metre walk and had to have the ambulance and emergency helicopter called out to you, etc....

Ooh I've just remembered some more that got very irate - poster complaining about people crossing when the road is clear rather than waiting for the green light at a crossing, particularly if they had pressed the crossing button. Divided between some people actually agreeing with her and the 'normals' who couldn't understand what them standing at the side of a completely empty road for two minutes waiting for an arbitrary light would achieve for anyone. Devolved into aggro about greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide poisoning, devils of commuting, punishments for jaywalking in completely different countries, etc....

However possibly the most aggressive and bat shit crazy thread I've ever witnessed on all my years on MN was the 'would you save your pet or someone else's child from a burning fire,' one.... (shudders in recollection).