Petty things that annoy you on Mumsnet.

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What little things on MN annoy you more than they should?

People responding to others on a thread but not quoting them so I have to scroll back pages and hunt for the comment that they were responding to.

People referring to 3 and 4 year olds as toddlers.

If someone's posts annoy me and their name involves something that I love, then that bothers me even more.

The one poster who always responds to a "What's your favourite episode of a show? or What's your favourite dish from the Chinese takeaway?or similar threads by informing us how much they hate takeaways or wouldn't watch said show if they had a gun held to their head.

The phrase "Give your head a wobble." It's utterly infuriating.

Prompted by a post upthread, ‘what a relief, I thought it was just me…’ followed by something indisputably unpleasant. As if they are being wild and crazy, maverick Mumsnetters.

Also these two year olds are ALWAYS without exception ‘awaiting a diagnosis’.

From who? Who diagnoses 2yo’s with ADHD?

I think they mean ‘we are waiting til they are old enough to explore a diagnosis’

Your grandpa maybe used to say draws all the time instead of drawers but it’s not grammatically correct. So it is one of those petty things that annoys me.

along with someone always coming along to be a little bit more right than you on a thread.

"drawers" is pronounced exactly the same as "draws" in many English regional accents and it is perfectly correct to do so. Nothing to do with grammar either.

THANK YOU. I say it draws but spell it drawers, as that’s my accent.

Ties into one of my biggest gripes on MN is when someone with a particular regional accent like mine will use an R to explain their pronunciation, eg Siân pronounced Sharn; and the faux-stupid crowd come along to go “where has the R come from?” and “is she a pirate? There’s no R “ – but they’re clearly posters who’ve been here since it was fields and haunt particular topics and know full fucking well what the R means in that poster’s accent.

And…. Breathe!

I hate it when it is written draws. It’s still drawers though. Regardless of how it said.

This doesn’t need to turn into an argument btw. Someone asked for petty things that annoy you on mumsnet and that one is mine.

And I’ve actually never came back to correct someone’s grammar or how it is said or how things are spelt on mumsnet because that’s for the pedants corner.

Jog on / gives me the ick / give your head a wobble...

Posters who immediately post abuse rather than solutions.
Example. My husband ate the last banana last night that I was going to have on my porridge today....
Posters immediate response is...he's a prick / wanker / twat ( take your pick of names ) send him to the shop to buy some more.

Also any posts that mentions food @PogoThePunk (especially if children are involved) will get several recommendations of what they should be making/eating when it's completely nothing to do with the point that the OP was making!

When threads are several pages long and someone quotes the OP

To be fair, I don’t think journalists really need to make up stuff.

The best material is going to be the real posts on AIBU. You could find a story in here on a daily basis.

but your post reminds me…

the most annoying thing on threads is the inevitable ‘ are you a journalist, OP?’ To every poor bugger that asks a question in a post 🤦‍♀️

Situations that are put don't make me suspicious it is the way they are written it does

They say truth is stranger than fiction so weird stuff does happen

With a 'baby daddy'?

Drip feeding... hate it!

Me too! Never thought anything of it before 🤷‍♀️

The writing of 'your' when 'you're ' is meant. They mean totally different things.

The use of 'boob' instead of 'breast', especially phrases such as boob-fed or 'wanting some boob'.

When posters give you advice on how to fix things you don't consider a problem or in need of fixing, and the advice would be extremely arduous to do, just because they can't wrap their tiny pea-brains around someone having a different lifestyle to them.

Eg: This always happens in slagging off London threads or "how much is your rent/mortgage" threads. I always say "yes my rent is higher in London than it would be elsewhere but I love living here because of these various different reasons." Inevitably multiple posters pop up to go "oh but if you just quit your successful career that you've been building for 20 years, said goodbye to all your friends and family, abandoned all your hobbies and basically your entire way of life, moved to some random village in the middle of nowhere where you don't know a soul and have no support network or social network, got a job in the local Asda, and spent half your life waiting for the once a day bus, you could save money on rent!" Um.... why on earth would I want to do that??

(Then when you point that out, they get all huffy and start saying stuff like "oh I'd love to know what all these magical super important Big City jobs posters do that can't possibly be done from Bumfuck Half-a-Horse Village, North Yorkshire.")

I've seen at least three separate threads starting by someone ranted about how much they hate seeing women walking around with coffee cups, claiming that women who drink from cups in public are just doing it to show off and there's no reason they can't just go home after the school run and make a cup of coffee at home. When it's pointed out that some women actually work, they always come up with convoluted plans how women can avoid having to drink coffee while on the go, rather than acknowledge that they're simply jealous of working women.

Once I mentioned that I often eat dinner in cafes or restaurants because I don't get home till 11pm most nights (and I wasn't complaining, I was saying how lucky I am to get to test out so many different food places) and someone got very insistent in saying I should pack dinner in a lunchbox in the morning. Hmm, carting a lunchbox on and off tubes and buses all day, then eating something that's been sitting in a warm lunchbox for 14 hours, delicious. When I said I lived in a studio flat with a tiny, practically non-existent kitchen and it wasn't practical to cook a meal and carry it around all day and that anyway I need hot food in the evening, someone else offered: "Just buy a slow cooker and pop it in your dining room!" Yes lots of studio flats have dining rooms.

What little things on MN annoy you more than they should?

People responding to others on a thread but not quoting them so I have to scroll back pages and hunt for the comment that they were responding to.

People referring to 3 and 4 year olds as toddlers.

If someone's posts annoy me and their name involves something that I love, then that bothers me even more.

The one poster who always responds to a "What's your favourite episode of a show? or What's your favourite dish from the Chinese takeaway?or similar threads by informing us how much they hate takeaways or wouldn't watch said show if they had a gun held to their head.

The phrase "Give your head a wobble." It's utterly infuriating.

Shite like this

The whole D thing. DH, DD etc. It's just stupid. Grow up.

I don’t mind this but DDog drives me crazy.

@TeaIsRisen your post made me laugh!

I also don’t get the ire about the coffee cups…maybe they just like buying coffee rather than faffing about with a coffee maker for one cup! I walk about with one, even if I’ve got the day off!

100% - it is so stupid.

Even when your husband IS lovely it is daft but even more so when a poster writes something like -
"DH has been having an affair, had stopped the credit card and now the kids have no food"

• not really a ruddy darling/dear husband then is he 🤔