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).

I think there’s a real generation gap now.

It’s people who grew up with TikTok and instagram and mistake PR for etiquette. The demands placed on wedding guests ( colours to wear, multi events etc, not having any of their own life events in anyone else’s‘wedding year’ is batshit! )

in the past, a traditional wedding was all about the parents ( they paid, their guests) and it was a family event.

I think that it’s better that the weddings now are focused on the couple, but I still think it should be about their family and loved ones.

what amazes me about that thread you mention about the grandmother is that I expected to see lots of people coming on to say YABU and a bridezilla, but it’s all people coming on to say ‘YANBU grandma doesn’t fit the aesthetic’ ( I joke, but you know what I mean!)

Tbh no body gives a sod about a public toilets only on mumsnet its a big thing.

The faux ‘concern’ for anyone on WLJ’s

Husband caught watching a bit of porn during a a dry patch is apparently akin to a sex trafficker and proxy rapist

Barmy LTB threads where nobody in the real world ever would break up over the issue being described

’Emotional abuse/ narcissism and gas lightingl’ found under every stone

Deranged MIL’s who have tantrums and ‘howl on the dloor’

fucking ‘mental load’ …

All the 'ick' shite.

They really aren't lol…

The ‘in-laws/MiL’ who never do anything right no matter what. Too much contact, not enough contact…any difference in family life a negative.

Advice is always “Go no contact with IL’s, leave DH” - it is never that easy and not without significant consequences.

How about talking and listening, behaving as adults do. Understanding each other, working together.

Having been made ‘no contact’ by my DB and his wife 30 years ago…it is just a waste of our lives. Horrendous navigating family life, putting others in the middle, creating awful atmospheres at events etc etc

It is so bad, being invisible, I’m needing counselling.

This 100% !!

"My DH stepped on my toe as I was unloading the dishwasher" ....
"LTB, why were you the one emptying the dishwasher? Does he do nothing? And I bet it wasn't an accident it's clearly an assault. LTB now while you can. Plus he is probably having an affair and thats why he was distracted and didnt look where he was going"

And the determination that any child/teen/adult who misbehaves must be neuro diverse.

We can’t all be neuro diverse as there would be no neuro typical.

Or maybe we are all just unique individuals with our own personalities, traits and emotions.

You're not making any sense at all. The Supreme Court has just clarified that sex means biological sex under the Equality Act. So equality doesn't mean anyone can go anywhere. It means people can be excluded if it is proportionate. In the case of women's toilets it undoubtably is proportionate to exclude males.

The wedding angst. Especially the posters who are mortally offended by work colleagues who only invite you to the evening bit. They seem aghast that they’re not on the top table and the whole event wasn’t planned with them (and their children) in mind. And the absolute hand wringing if the invitation suggests that they’d prefer cash rather than Susan’s ‘thoughtful’ gift (that is 100% not to their tastes) or homeware to ‘set up’ (when the couple are 38 years old and have lived together since university). I’m amazed these people actually get invited to weddings at all!

I cant stand the "what age child drew/wrote this?" ... in an attempt to reinforce the belief in their head that their child is a prodigy and that their 3 year olds colouring could pass as a 10 year olds..

I hate those! I always want to say ‘a CHILD drew that! I thought it was a Chimp!’

I always imagine the poster has sketched it herself.

The lack of thought for everyone around them and what comes next

I only ever answer my front door when it’s the butler’s day off and the footman is busy elsewhere.