Comments to threads that make you go FFS

[Doctorwhew]

Op: I’m starting a new role where the dress code is business smart. I’ve only ever worn jeans and T-shirts in previous jobs. Help please
Comment: I’ve always wfh so only wear loungewear

Op: John Doe has died, that’s so sad.
Comment: I’ve never heard of John Doe

Op: Lunch ideas please. I’m unable to eat bread or legumes.
Many many comments: I have beans on toast. Lentil soup is my go to. I love pita & hummus. Just make a sandwich.

On and on and on 😩

Do you even like each other? 🙄

Op: I have 2 dc, a two month and a four year old. I'm really struggling with sleep deprivation and we live far away from grandparents.

Reply: sleep when the baby sleeps or get the grandparents to take the baby and let you sleep.

Why do you say that? The point is they are none of them obscure.

I keep seeing threads asking for obscure/underrated entertainment and then people reply with things that are well-known and popular - that is my annoyance.

It has nothing to do with the bands/artists I listed, I like Wham and The Beatles 😃

If the obvious and usual ones annoy you, you must have a few corkers to share?

Why? Maybe people go to those threads looking for inspiration rather than to share.

Is there button anywhere for a whooshing sound anywhere? For our friend above

(not you @DaDaDoDaiDa)

You are completely missing my point. Go back and read my post. Then read it again.

OP is asking for OBSCURE bands/artists that no-one has heard of.

[I.e. they want to discover something new]

Posters reply by suggesting REALLY WELL KNOWN bands/artists, such as Wham, Madonna and the Beatles - global superstars that everyone has heard of.

That is annoying because you open the thread hoping for a treasure trove of new music, and instead find artists that everybody already knows about.

People who don’t/won’t understand simple posts and instead pick over them in order to make some kind of point known only unto themselves.

OP, posting to the tattoo board: "Im thinking of getting this tattoo here, does anyone have any experience"

Idiot: "Eww tattoos are horrible OP"

People who minimise someone's issues by comparing to a totally different scenario. OP finds their relationship with their Dad stressful, poster tells them their Dad is dead and OP is lucky to have one. OP is making a life changing decision but doesnt have money issues, poster tells them they are spoilt or tone deaf because poster is on min wage. And so on. I see this a lot.

I also absolutely hate the sexism where everything a man does is wrong. Sometimes when it's not even relevant. OP is struggling to get toddler to sleep or to get child to do homework and posters ask why DH isn't doing it and why should OP be the one, all without context and of no assistance to OP.

I'll preface this by saying that freedom is a great thing, especially for us women, to make our own choices, but I'm sometimes a bit baffled by posters who think this trumps all common sense/reasonable human behaviour/safeguarding etc.

Examples:

OP: My sister is getting married and has invited our entire extended family except for my husband, even though she gets on fine with him.

Replies: It's her wedding, she can invite who she wants.

OP: My 13 year old got dressed to meet with her friends this evening. She was wearing a bodycon dress with a padded push-up bra and 5 inch heels.

Replies: She can wear what she wants, stop body-shaming her.

If it wasn't for the Username, this could be a MN poster 😆

See also in S&B

OP: I'd like a new luxury handbag, budget is £500,000 (clearly stated in thread title)

Reply: £500,000 on a handbag that's madness. You can't spend that much on yourself it's so selfish

Just to clarify - I will probably never earn £500k in my life so the OP is nothing I'd ever post. But why do people post on these when it's obvious what the content is going to be. I don't agree with spending loads on bags but I just avoid these threads.

That's another thing I hate on here. When men post. When they post looking for advice from women. They are seeking advice from women. There is the very odd one who is an absolute wanker, but largely they are just the opposite sex.

Yet somehow, despite posting identical problems to those a woman might have, they get their arse handed to them on a plate. It becomes very clear, very quickly, that if a woman had posted the response would have been entirely different. If I were a man posting here, I'd do it from the perspective of both genders just to see how different the advice would be.

I agree @TheFormidableMrsC

Male poster: my wife doesn’t want sex with me

MN: leave her alone you sex pest. What have you done that she doesn’t want sex with you? You’re being abusive to keep raising it.

Femail poster: my husband doesn’t want sex with me

MN: he’s being abusive. Keep badgering him until he gives in.

'Dan' is a one-man Mumsnet bingo-card.😆

OP: I'm expecting a DS and would like some ideas for a more unusual name. Any ideas?

MN: Alfie, Noah, Arlo.

OP: what are your favourite timeless and classic baby names?

MN: Nevaeh, Jaxxon, Cooper

I like the ones where people draft imaginary emails that basically say ‘FUCK YOU’ and claim they would legitimately send it to resolve a minor dispute with a friend or family member.

Or the feigned inability to understand a post because of poor grammar or spelling. Really you can’t grasp what this entire post might be about because someone wrote ‘would of’ instead of ‘would have’? Come on.

But why not just copy and paste the bit that you want to emphasise and embolden the text &/or add some quotation marks to show that it's a quote and put your reply underneath?
Surely that is the logical thing to do?
Especially when faced with masses of text!

OP in Style and Beauty: I’m going to London for a work conference and as I usually wear jeans to WFH, I’m wondering what to wear for a posh dinner one night and the conference?

MN: No-one in London dresses up. You’ll immediate show yourself up to be an uncool tourist if you wear anything other than grungy street wear. The only exception is advertising or media - in which case you must then wear a cardboard box.

Cue 8m Londoners saying that’s rubbish and you should wear workwear and look smart for work, and a nice dress for dinner. But no, actual Londoners’ opinions mean mean nothing.

OP: My Husband has 3 hobbies and I don’t have time to do anything.

Leave the bastard.

OP: My Husband didn’t put the bin out this morning.

Leave the bastard.

OP: My Husband is breathing.

Leave the bastard.

The ‘leave the bastard’ answer is bandied about far too frequently on here, and in many scenarios for things that a marriage really shouldn’t be ended for. It in no way matches the advice I have ever received from
anyone in real life. And I can imagine how well it would land amongst most on here if there was a site in which ‘leave the bitch’ was a common answer to the OP’s minor comments such as ‘dinner wasn’t ready when I arrived home from work?’ Leave the bitch.

It’s a lazy answer in most cases, and really unhelpful I should imagine for the frustrated OP - I know it has been frustrating for me when I’ve received this answer for trivial matters when I’ve desired coping strategies, not to seek a divorce.

and the other responses to this question:

how dare you boast about affording holiday, have you not heard of col crisis, no?

yabu to go on holiday, global warming is a thing you must stay home!

OP: my 2 year old threw some toys at me and shouted. Any advice on how to deal with tantrums?

Comment: sounds like he might be autistic

I have seen the diagnosis of autism after literally one comment so many times on this website, it’s absolutely ridiculous.

These ones make me laugh. “Why would anyone spend that much money on a bag. They had a nice one in Primark the other day”

People get so upset about other women having a lot of disposable cash. Odd