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?

Yes, "What about this miserable looking dress that costs over ten times the one you're looking at?"

That's reminded me of a public toilet one. I don't remember the exact details but it was something about a woman being bizarrely rude and aggressive to an OP in public toilets.

And one poster who couldn't understand why posters were bring unkind about the aggressive person and claimed they would have gone into their bag to get a bar of chocolate to offer to the aggressive person.

Then wouldn't back down and extended it in later posts to they would offer to take the aggressive person for a coffee to talk as they were obviously having a hard time.

Sure you would Angela, sure you would.

I didn't see the thread but can well imagine !

And I wish people realised that 'gut instinct' really isn't reliable when it's based on something as nebulous as a 'look' or a 'feeling' and how everyone projects a lot of stuff that usually doesn't apply.

people also need to remember 'profiling' is and always has been a huge thing and people often (even if they don't like to admit it to themselves) have prejudices against different classes, cultures, ages etc... that 'inform' the snap decision thoughts they make when meeting people.

Its far more likely someone will decided someone who looks teens/early 20s with a baby especially if they think they 'look' poorer will assume them to be a more neglectful mother (along with other random assumption like they will be a 'single mother' etc...) than say a middle class approx. 40 year old mother so they then look and invent reasons to think theres issues there aren't.

I'm always stunned at the posters who don't wrap their children's Xmas presents, everyone is different obviously but I remember the best part of Xmas morning was seeing all the presents wrapped up and wondering what they were and the excitement of unwrapping. Yes, I KNOW environment,blah blah blah..

Was it this one @RepoTheGeriatricOpera ? I joined a few years afterwards and it was still being mentioned but I only read it fairly recently because a poster brought it up as a legend of MN folklore and curiosity finally got the better of me.

Said this one before but bringing my kids up bilingual is showing off. Never mind that one set of grandparents speaks no English.

I contributed to a perfectly jolly "What does your Christmas look like and what does it cost" thread.

I said that DP and I go insane at Christmas - the house is like a grotto; Christmas clothes; tonnes of presents; cupboards bursting with food and drink; probably about £2-3K spent each year. I said we're child-free and we don't have visitors, that's just for us two.

I thought it was a perfectly reasonable post, truthful and light-hearted. It elicited some completely bonkers responses including that I should check all DP's devices because he might be trying to groom children with our Christmas-ness. I mean, just completely unhinged 😅

Wtf ?! 😱😱😱🙄🤣

Christ, some right nasty bitches on that thread.

God iI can just imagine how out of control that thread got ,would you mind posting a link to the whole thread if you can ?

"It's OK to take your children to work, if you can't find childcare."

In the real world, this is not acceptable, but in the parallel world of Mumsnet, just let them tag along whilst you do your job. 🙄

🤣🤣🤣 Only if your a lowly cleaner though and the client needs to also provide snacks and entertainment for said child too as the poor child gets no treats.

Hoping this works. It was from 2012 and certainly quite batshit eye opening in places although not as many "log it with 101 posts as you might expect now.

There was a very sad case recently where a young woman died, her Mother, a prominent anti vaxxer denied her daughter had cancer and maintained she didn't need the medical treatment proposed. The Mother has been a nurse but it was reported she'd been struck off.

Your teens have never read/watched Salem's Lot, have they?

Oh my that thread😮😮

I commented on a school lunch/breakfast club post once about a child I taught from a very disorganised background - lots of police and social care involvement, lots of siblings, dad in prison - to say that every morning she was fed by school, a warm bagel and hot chocolate. Apparently this was disgustingly upf, we should be ashamed of ourselves and why wasn’t she in care ?
The ignorance was off the scale

I got called “shitty” for saying l spell out to someone what my expectations are before having sex with them.

Yes I think I remember thst thread it was lots of hand ringing about healthy eating etc whilst ignoring the fact that without the breakfast club some children wouldn't eat at all

In other circumstances, on other sites, I’d be tempted to think it was a lone troll saying these things.

But this is Mumsnet, so I expect there were quite a few mentalists banging on about the evils of bagels and hot chocolate.

It’s quite incredible really.

School also provided her with toiletries and clean uniform, but yes how evil to make sure she was fed every morning 🙄

can you imagine the dc face if given fruit with Greek yoghurt and chia seeds! I’m technically middle class but still love a bowl of coco pops! (As do my skinny dc - call social services immediately)

A poster very recently who said she ‘really enjoys’ catering for vegans, vegetarians and nut allergy sufferers. I did wonder if the vegans, vegetarians and nut allergy sufferers were all attending the same meal.

Funnily enough my sister is friends with a married couple ,the wife is vegan, and the husband isn't but is allergic to red meat, nuts and all dairy products it does make me wonder what meals they have together.