Which are the weirdest Mumsnet topics?

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I mean the ones that bear no resemblance to how people function in real life.

The doghouse - dogs must never be left for even reasonably short periods. In real life people just do this without thinking to go shopping or work.

The weddings threads - the absolute 'your wedding your rules' mantra. You have a brother who has helped and supported you your whole life, who has looked after your dc and generally been a kind and supportive family member. No invite for him! We want no more than five guests!

Relationships LTB - for even small issues as though it's an easy and logical thing to do. (I know there are excellent posters supporting people to leave genuinely abusive relationships).

My Dd is an "Autumn girlie" honestly it makes me want to poke her in the eye😂

Edited to say i shouldn't have quoted myself!

Yes! Do people really make life changing decisions based on feedback from strangers on a forum?

@plinkityplink You can hide topics. I did it yesterday and instantly forgot how. But I know I learned how by typing it into the search bar and I had to go into settings

yes, but on the other hand someone posts they are 50, size 14 and have a budget of £100 max for a nice dress for an occasion, and someone will immediately jump on posting a picture of a stick thin teenage model wearing a sack costing £650 and says "this sort of thing is ideal".

And yes, I have hidden several topics including Christmas which appears to be full of people who get giddy over tinsel in April.

The sacks who is wearing those? I always think it is designers or stockists who post those. I am not at all fashionable but surely nobody likes those.

Oh god yes - the weight loss boards, and particularly any thread that mentions Mounjaro or other weight loss drugs.

I made the mistake once of posting on one of these threads that losing weight was (on the whole) easier for people taking weight loss drugs than for people not taking them, as they suppress hunger.

The pages of angry responses were something to behold. But that is literally the purpose of the drugs - to make losing weight easier?!

Some of the education threads are absolutely ridiculous. A grade 7 at GCSE talked about as if it's failure. Snide comments about "less able" pupils "only" sitting 9 GCSEs/3 Alevels. Nonsensical claims about what is needed to get into particular courses/institutions - I recently read a thread where someone was insisting that the majority of Oxbridge students have 5 or more A levels for instance. And the idea that failure to achieve at least 4 A stars at A level and then a first on one of about half a dozen courses at a similar number of Mumsnet Approved Universities is a recipe for lifelong poverty and misery. Most of this stuff is in fact very easily debunked by someone with primary school level numeracy and the ability to access publicly available data on the Internet, yet people continue to churn it out year after year.
Oh, and the nonsense about school admissions that comes up every year. No, only putting one school on the form will not magically guarantee you a place, whatever your hairdresser's next door neighbour's dog walker claims.

I have also hidden Christmas. And Baby Names.

Oooh I can be guilty of this! Autumn is definitely my favourite season and I do massively romanticise it in my head. I don't post about it on mn but I do start getting giddy when the trees start changing colour.....

People who don't speak up for themselves. "My neighbours park their cars on my front lawn, blocking access to my front door. Would I be unreasonable to ask them to stop doing this?"

People who let their children rule the roost. I'm a fairly liberal parent, and I believe in allowing children (especially teens) privacy and respecting boundaries, but as long as DH and I are working long hours to pay the mortgage and keep a roof over their heads, we have the final say.

Baby names thread.
It’s mental and ridiculously pretentious at times.

Quite amusing though.

And relentless! It’d be easier, surely, to google mumsnet and the name in your head and see the other hundreds of threads discussing that name?

Definitely comments from people responding to OPs asking if they can stop using contraception at the age of 55 with no periods for yonks. Cue 100 people coming on with their grandmother’s mother had her last baby at 60. No she didn’t, she passed off her unmarried daughter’s child as her own which wasn’t unusual back in the day. If you went to your GP at 55 and asked what are your chances of having your own baby with your new boyfriend you’d be told no chance. Not on MN though, oh no, best not to risk it.

The ones that make me laugh are:

”I really like the names Peter, Andrew, Tarquin, Austin, Bob, Dick, Charles, Aubrey, Lewis, Geoffrey and Sebastian, so what girls name will I like?”

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I mean, if she doesn’t know what girl’s names she likes why does she think random strangers will 🤣

And then people pile on with loads of completely random girls names that have no connection to the original list of boys names that are completely random anyway!!

It’s absolutely mental!

And oh god some of the names that get suggested….. just insane!

Utterly bizarre!

It's relatively sane here now compared to Lockdown.

But you know it's still lurking, just below the surface.

That isn't answering the question I asked.

Best i can give you.

The people asking for recommendations for pants/knickers 🤷‍♀️ how dense do you have to be to not find pants you like 😂

The ones where all the posters say ‘police, now’ and ‘get other children to safety’ when a teenager has thrown a pillow across a room or something.
The dog house is crazy, and anything with a step mum or MIL in isn’t going to get any rational responses.

I do understand the ltb one’s a bit because everytime I’ve commented a more rational response assuming the man is just a normal person, the op has drip fed a clearly insanely abusive situation.

Well to be fair she`s not wrong really.
We all want better rights and to have 50/50 now we have it we dont like it.
Public loos are just that they a for the public either you use them or hold it till you get home i could not get worked up about it tbh.
If i have to wee when im out i will use a public loo wash my hands and get on with my life.

Most of the ones to do with money.

“How do my neighbours afford two new cars and six holidays a year?”

”Is this a ok mortgage payment?”

”How much is your food spend / electricity bill?”

As if there’s no difference in an answer for a single person earning 35k in a flat in Derby versus a family of four in London.

I confess to scepticism on some of the ones which escalate alarmingly in real time.
Starts off the bloke jostles her in a doorway and by the end of the day, he's coming up the stairs with an axe.

Or more likely - her husband leaves the milk out of the fridge or forgets her birthday and by lunchtime she has "got her ducks in a row", has instructed a solicitor, packed, organised removals, signed a contract on a rented flat and moved in. While constantly updating MN.