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What type of threads do you hide?

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DianaT1969 · 18/10/2020 13:16

I hide Christmas threads (the consumerism over gifts is particularly irritating).
I hid everything trans related ages ago when it was overwhelming the site.
I have also hidden baby names because it isn't relevant to my life stage.
Sometimes I hide sad threads about serious illness.
You?

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FrolickingLemon · 18/10/2020 17:09

The 'Anti Dementor' threads. Ugly language and terminology. No need.

Letsallscreamatthesistene · 18/10/2020 17:12

Ive never really understood what 'anti-dementor' is. What is it?

I also skip passed anything that looks like it'll boil down into a gender vs sex debate. Along those lines, I also skip passed the threads about 'guess the sex' feat. scan pictures. Those always boil down into gender vs sex.

Letsallscreamatthesistene · 18/10/2020 17:15

Oh and I also give the AIBU board a total miss altogether these days. I find most of it needlessly argumentative.

jennie0412 · 18/10/2020 17:15

I don't hide them, but i always skip past any threads from the feminist board. Hmm

TheSeedsOfADream · 18/10/2020 17:23

@Letsallscreamatthesistene

Ive never really understood what 'anti-dementor' is. What is it?

I also skip passed anything that looks like it'll boil down into a gender vs sex debate. Along those lines, I also skip passed the threads about 'guess the sex' feat. scan pictures. Those always boil down into gender vs sex.

It started off as a self-styled antidote to what they perceived as scaremongering on the Covid threads They are now full of people talking about "face nappies" and other such charming terms. They then bleat on about how unfair further restrictions are, and they're not going to cope. Missing the irony that if they followed the original restrictions and put a "face nappy" on, they might be able to go to the Christmas do. They quite like to get the boot into the elderly when they can, as obviously, it's Edna next door's fault that they can't go and get pissed. Anyone who posts on there and doesn't toe the line is called a troll and one of them will say "alert alert don't feed the troll". They have it in for one MNer in particular. If you've not read their threads, you've missed nothing pleasant or intelligent.
Happylittlethoughts · 18/10/2020 17:32

Those ones with which are on version 42 and and have stupid titles ... if you click on them the consist entirely of strange one sentence posts like.
"Hey-ho Bunty I'm here! Budge up the sofa and pass the gin"
"Glad you're here Cross Stitch Christ! I've got buns! "

Pages of this....

FurTeacup · 18/10/2020 17:39

I think the trans threads on FWR are important and valuable. but as they frequently make me want to scream in frustration because of the erosion of women's rights being allowed under the misleadingly warm and fuzzy slogan of 'Be Kind', I sometimes scroll past.

I don't know what the AD ones are, find the 'Is this a line?' ones (and the 'guess the sex' follow-ups) maddening, and avoid anything about parking, noisy neighbours, 'CFs', or the faux-naive ones where people claim to have never heard of social class outside of Mn and want people to 'diagnose' their class by virtue of their parents' jobs, what they call their evening meal, and whether they say 'What?' or 'Pardon?'

I admit to a horrified fascination with the 'Will he ever propose? I've had his three children, gave them all his surname, trot around after his elderly parents, work FT AND do all the housework, but I'm still not on the house deeds!' ones. And the ones where people swear blind that they know a plethora of titled people who are humble, kind and covered in doghair, while inhabiting two leaky rooms of the ancestral pile, while the acocuntants, teachers and shopowners of their acquaintance are Gucci-clad social climbers who'd run you over with the trolleys in the frozen food aisle of Waitrose.

Maskedcrusader · 18/10/2020 17:41

I also skip over the feminist chat, the board has become a 1 issue party and its not up for discussion at all. You either agree totally & completely or you are not welcome.

Artforartssake · 18/10/2020 17:46

Don't hide any but I have been here a long time under various nns so I no longer open:

  • how often do you wash?
  • how often do you change your bedsheets?
  • do you insist that people take off your shoes in your home?
  • how often do you clean?

Or anything deliberately goady like:

  • do you think SAHMs are lazy?
  • AIBU to think all teachers are lazy?

Or any deliberately goady threads started by Brexiteers.

Hobnobswantshernameback · 18/10/2020 17:55

Covid
Cheeky Fuckers
Any of the ....zilla Type threads
Most of the "I subsist on half a lettuce leaf a year well are not you a greedy fucker I haven't eaten in a decade" type threads
Erm
Not much really left after that at the moment

Hobnobswantshernameback · 18/10/2020 17:56

Oh yes
The "could I be pregnant" "is this a line threads"
Anything about breast v bottle
Anything SAHM v WOHM
Brexit

Hobnobswantshernameback · 18/10/2020 17:59

Oh and the
How old do I look?
Threads
Just fuck off

Chicchicchicchiclana · 18/10/2020 18:11

The Christmas ones and the conception ones. I'm not interested in either but both always seem to feature schoolboy humour in the thread title as well.

Any thread shoved into AIBU that's about a really serious subject (current one about abortion has just been hidden for example).

LadyWithLapdog · 18/10/2020 18:21

@Artforartssake I was just about to post that one third of British people only wash their bedsheets once a year. Do the MN threads claim better? 😂www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/one-three-brits-admit-washing-22857718.amp

LadyWithLapdog · 18/10/2020 18:25

I hid a thread last week. This was the first time ever. Someone said they’d lost their sense of smell with coronavirus and a few piling in to ridicule her because of think of the economy, as if there’s only one way to feel about this. I worked out how to hide the thread. I still received a few notifications afterwards when my name was mentioned but I couldn’t read them. This made me mildly curious but also, what a relief. I’ll be doing more of this from now on.

WellThankyouAJPTaylor · 18/10/2020 18:29

Anything from the "sporner" section. Just the word makes me feel ill. Yuck.

Threads on CIO/CC. It's a long time since my kids were babies, but I still find the thought of a baby left to cry upsetting.

Pointless word association games and the like.

Skyliner001 · 18/10/2020 18:31

Transphobic ones 😊

goldenharvest · 18/10/2020 18:31

I don't hide any threads, unless I've got into an argument and am getting hammered.

Otherwise i just don't click on them

Artforartssake · 18/10/2020 18:36

Crikey LadyWithLapdog well at least that's a more interesting take on it ...albeit rather revolting!

GnomeOrMistAndIceGuy · 18/10/2020 18:39

Ones where people's cats are missing or their dogs need to be put down. Just too too sad.

Polyxena · 18/10/2020 18:49

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FrolickingLemon · 18/10/2020 19:40

Oh and those mad Thigh threads. Smacks of sad people trying to be in a cool and weird clique. Funny enough, haven't seen them for ages!

Artforartssake · 18/10/2020 19:45

Oh yes agree about the sporner threads, totally revolting, and imho, a new low for Mumsnet tbh.

AfterSchoolWorry · 18/10/2020 19:51

Christmas
Bereavement (too sad)
Ones that disgust me

FrolickingLemon · 18/10/2020 19:53

Sporner stuff is wrong. disgusting alert I knew a girl at school who used to love picking and eating peoples scabs. She tried to nick my boyfriend off me by eating a scab off his arm and enticing him to walk her home with an offer of a peanut butter and jam sandwich. Sick Fuck.

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