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).

They literally went for dinner in the resort restaurant, leaving their kids sleeping. In what way is it any different?

I could maybe understand doing that in a pub with a couple of rooms upstairs where you're no further away than downstairs in your own home. If you were in a hotel, apart from the issue of other people being able to potentially open the door that people have already mentioned, if there was a fire alarm you would have to try and run back to the room up the stairs and corridors against a tide of people all coming the other way and possibly pushing and jostling if they'd started to panic. I wouldn't want to risk that.

I don’t know anyone who does this and it is neglect and horiffic to do. I understand there is a baby monitor but what happens if a fire breaks out? Someone breaks into the room? You wouldn’t be able to get to the room in time.

Style and beauty - I’m looking for a dress for a summer wedding in a few weeks, budget £80. Likes pale colours and is a size 16

<links to £700 dress that’s ‘probably too casual’, only available in bright orange, and only up to a size 8>

similarly any ‘what are you eating today?’ Thread or even worse, what’s in your kids lunchbox thread? School dinner halls must be awash with 5 year olds eating full hot meals from dinky little thermos flasks, “dunking” and “dolloping” and “splodges” of dips and crudités and homemade cakes. 🙄

I dont like to share toilets with anyone even strange women but its just a public loo nothing we can do about it.
This is what 50/50 gets us.

This is the first thread I thought of when I read the OP.
Someone on that thread also told the SM to kick the 12yr old out of the house and tell her to go stay somewhere else 🙄

What I find weird is the sheer number of posts from people who have given their teenagers no responsibilities around the house, not expected them to get a part time job, have driven them around everywhere and not encouraged them to slowly take on responsibility for their own lives and then are puzzled why their young adult children are lazy, ungrateful cuckoos in their nest acting like children. Of course I realise that there are exceptions for SEN children and this can complicate it massively.

The obsession with toilets.

Us women we all fought for our 50/50 rights.

I hear you about that.

The way people talk about food is weird. On the 'what are you having for dinner/tea?' threads, they're all having homemade this and homemade that .

If they decided to have a takeaway or 'something from the freezer' they have to justify it by saying they had only had 2 peas the day before or they just don't have the time that day to cook from scratch.

If you fancy pizza and chips, just say you fancied pizza and chips. You don't need to justify it.

Unfragranced Laundry products, obviously. It’s not rocket science!

´´I’m always surprised by the horror and accusations made when someone suggests leaving their child sleeping in a hotel room while they have dinner downstairs with a baby monitor.

The words ‘abuse’ and ‘neglect’ always get thrown around a lot.

Meanwhile everyone I know does this without any particular concern in real life.'´

INSANE !!! Who does this??? Is this how Madeleine McCann disappeared ??

If you leave your child in the car for a few minutes while you nip into the garage to pay for fuel. It's all there might be a FIRE or they might get KIDNAPPED. And usually a few Madeleine McCann references.

You don't really see it anymore, but when I first joined MN around 10 years ago, there was a very vocal contingent of posters who were "shaking with outrage" about the fact that women's knickers (mostly) came with a tiny bow on the front. They had special little "stations" set up inside their front doors with tiny scissors to remove the bows before the knickers infected the house with their offensiveness.

See also specific hot chocolate/coffee/tea "stations" in the kitchen.

Any thread about dogs or where dogs are mentioned. They bring out two types of poster:

1. People who have a weird, visceral hatred of dogs and appear to be offended by their very existence.
2. People who are weird to the opposite extreme and take personal offence at the very idea that somewhere out there there might be someone who doesn't think dogs are perfect in every way.

I have never encountered anyone in either group irl, only on MN.

If you seriously think this is ok you are mad. A lot can happen in 5 minutes!

The apartment has no surveillance in any way. The kids could have just left and walked along a road entirely unnoticed.

Oh god! The weight loss threads. I once suggested that people find it difficult to lose weight because we all underestimate how much we eat.

I said that you really need to be eating 1500 calories max and exercising to lose weight, but the reality is people think the odd biscuit doesn’t count so they eat a lot more calories than they think.

there was a massive pile on and I was accused of ‘competitive under eating ’ which is a cardinal sin on mumsnet.

😂😂😂 at ‘police, now’ comment.

i agree the ‘abuse’ label gets thrown around whenever anyone has an argument, or loses their temper.

but have also been in exactly same situation as you on LTB… I’m now the first to say it! And actually wish I’d been reading MN before I married my ex

There is no such thing. 😂

Anything to do with mothers working or not working. Always decends into an ugly derail.

The extreme attitudes towards alcohol. Anyone who opens the floor to a discussion about drinking will almost certainly be called an alcoholic at some stage throughout the thread. The term is thrown around Willy nilly by people who have no idea about the true nature of addiction.

Similarly anyone who talks about bowel issues will inevitably be accused of being a poo troll. That one really bugs me because I’ve suffered from IBS issues in the past, tried to talk about it on here (because it’s anon and it’s embarrassing to talk about in real life) and had the thread totally derailed by childish idiots accusing me of being some sort of poo pervert. Utterly ridiculous and juvenile.