Most ridiculous comment you’ve read on MN?

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Along the lines of that “overheard in Waitrose” trend a few years ago, “No, no Tarquín can’t have the regular avocados he’s allergic, he can only eat the organic ones”….Overheard on Mumsnet…what’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever read?

A child had a toy stuck inside their nostril and someone suggested using a vacuum cleaner to suck it out.

The woman who claimed that not only did she have no curtains, but no one she knew did and it was weird and old fashioned to have curtains 😂

The anorexic alcoholic thread. Her daily diet was something like 12 beers and a potato. Sad but bizarre.

That if you use WLIs you end up with track marks.

That my vet is wrong and I should listen to a random anonymous person on mn with no veterinary qualifications because they’ve googled and formed an opposing opinion to my much trusted vet.

That I “ruined dd3’s virgin gut” buy giving her formula at 3 days old (through a tube into her stomach because she was premature and in special care and I couldn’t pump enough milk for my twins so mixed breast with formula so she didn’t die).

I wish we had the laugh emoji back!

My teens would agree. All three sleep with their curtains open. I find it bizarre.

One where a poster asked about taking the MAP because she had a v small chance of being pregnant and she wasn't quite ready to TTC. She 'd booked an expensive holiday IIRC.

She was told that she shouldn't have kids because she's likely abort if they had the wrong eye colour. Then loads of posters accused her of being addicted to seafood.

It was bizarre.

A thread asking how to join a motorway from a slip road and someone told them to do ‘a speed they felt safe at, about 30mph’ and slot in from there. I still sometimes think about it and shudder at how horribly dangerous that is. A really good example of not giving advice on something that you know nothing about!

People suggesting to call the police on the most absolutely ridiculous things.

I think this person must have been in front of me recently! Everyone behind them obvs had to slow right down, as well, it was horrendous!

@TeenLifeMum it was more the insane level of aggression she was directing at anyone who suggested most people did in fact have curtains - it was very funny to watch

Did she mean curtains are old fashioned and everyone has blinds instead, or she literally had bare windows?!

The ‘report to Ofsted’ ones over the most minor of things. There is no crack team of inspectors waiting to swoop in SAS style because another child took your kids jumper home

I once saw a poster argue til she was blue in the face that slander was a criminal offence. She had a law degree apparently

That because I didn't mind parents bringing additional siblings to my son's softplay party that they were paying for my son would end up as a sex offender.

Someone once told me that my daughter was probably used to me not being there for her and resigned to always being let down by me because I missed once school thing when she was about 7.
She's 24 and I told her recently and she laughed at weird crazy MN woman.

The woman who said (and then doubled down on) that she didn’t know who she’d save in a fire, her child or her dog.

I remember that, she was weird.

I also remember her! I suspect there was neither dog nor child in reality.

There have been a few where an OP was told to just give a property they owned to the tenant. They needed/deserved it more than she did apparently.

All the ones who KNOW about PIP and benefits and how they KNOW that 95% of people are cheating the system and make up their illness for free cars...

What the hell?!😂 However did they arrive at that insane conclusion??

I think her argument was that by not telling these parents to fuck off (even though it was my party and I didn’t mind in the least) I was contributing to outrageous levels of entitlement in society in general and as I was part of the problem my son clearly would become so. The logical outcome being that he would start upskirting because nobody has ever told him no to anything.

It was deleted after someone else reported it which was understandable but the absolutely insane nature of it was something to behold and it was a bit of a shame it was deleted

blinds from what I remember, but yes it was batshit.

Too many to count tbh. The most recent one was on the 'DH wants to go on a stag in Ibiza when OP is 38weeks pregnant" one where someone said if worst came to the worst he could get home in 2.5 hours if she did go into labour.

Yes the flight itself might be that long but the extra time required to get the message, going back to the hotel to pack your stuff, finding a spare seat in the middle of the summer holidays on a flight going in the next few hours, buying a ticket, checking in, getting to the airport, going through security, boarding the plane, hoping there's no delays or cancellations, going back through security, possibly waiting for luggage and then finding a way to get back from whatever airport had the next flight (statistically unlikely to be the same one they flew out from!) to where they live seemed to have just passed that poster by.

One that sticks in my mind is where a poster was complaining about nursery or someone not putting wellies on her young child before going out in the rain and a poster replied 'But it hasn't rained today?' only because it was a perfect representation of the level of obliviousness and egocentricity so common on here where some people are completely unable to imagine anyone living a life the tiniest bit different to their own.