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?

Pray those germs away 😂

should have added to my OP, the poster also suggested people in London were more susceptible to measles because of poor food and dirty living conditions. Think they must have been speaking to us from Victorian times!

A currently running thread where OP asks for advice about whether to cover obvious scratches from a blackberry bush at a work event with new colleagues.

Lots of people say it doesn't matter, some say create the best impression rather then everyone always remembering you for falling in a bush - one says they look like self harm and OP could be judged as being mentally unstable, which might affect her career!

One I’ve just remembered thanks to the “Favourite unreasonable AIBU” thread.

The OP had seen two colleagues together at a hotel and had (probably correctly) concluded they were having an affair. Several posters were advising OP to contact the man’s wife and/or to confront them at work. When some of us had the sense to point out that this could cause problems for the OP in her job, one poster was apoplectic at the very idea.

Apparently you would “have to be totally stupid” to think this could cause any problems for OP, as she’d only be sharing the facts and “the hotel CCTV will back her up!!”. Leaving aside that a) there were no real facts, b) there was no reason to share them with a virtual stranger and c) that the two people having the affair would probably just deny everything… who the hell thinks hotels just hand their CCTV footage over to any random gossip who asks?!

@Mimbl

I stopped reading after a couple of posts, but there was an early appearance by "nobody will/should be looking at your legs".

Ah yes, these "magic" MN eyes that have absolutely no peripheral vision whatsoever and see nothing apart from faces.

Nobody should ever register what people are (or aren't) wearing. If anyone dares to express distaste at e.g. someone wearing a thong bikini at a kids swimming party, all of the faux "but why were you even looking at her arse?"

Not sure how you obtain these "special" eyes. Hope they are never required to give a description of anyone!

Same thing happens if you can distinguish males from females.
Apparently you have to stare or you'd never know.

So many of these

And so many times the OP has been seriously unwell

And those that say ‘If you are typing here then you aren't ill enough for A&E’

Very dangerous

I was thinking of the exact same thread! Terrifying!

I was reading an article on the Stylist magazine website the other day and it was about what women earn, how much they have in the bank and a similar article about the money they still get from their parents. I was shocked at how high some of the salaries were especially for quite young women eg about 23.

Someone on £9k of benefits (their sole income) being told they had more spare money than someone on £101k.

Although I would prefer it if people are in in Scotland/(Northern Ireland) that they say so from the outset so that people don't start talking about English school terms or English law. It saves a lot of aggro!

Who was that French lady who had really misogynistic and warped views about sex outside of marriage and that if you indulged you didn’t respect yourself and it actually meant you were mentally unwell. Which she then tried to back up by saying she was some type of counsellor. You couldn’t see the belfry for the bats with that one… she was also a vicious little madam (or madame!) to boot.

A woman should terminate her late, wanted pregnancy and divorce her husband because he farted too much and the sofa cushion smelled.

That you shouldn’t let your child get their ears pierced until they are 16.

currently runnning thread where poster claims she never let her DC do anything without her until they were 18.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/parenting/5386897-how-much-independence-do-your-kids-have?page=1

I once added a comment to a thread about my spoilt brat of a sd

She'd moved in with us when her psychopathic mother had thrown her out (I don't say that about another woman lightly,but the abuse I've had from this woman was unreal)

Anyway sd moved in with us and was in the last year of school (she was 17,almost 18) and I said she should get a job as she couldn't expect us to pay her way much longer (she was the only one in her year not to have a part time job)

She went nuclear on me-didnt i know i was only there to pay her way until she met and married her rich man and then she wouldnt want to know us?

i was to double my hours at work (or get a second job) and give her all my wages to spend

She expected lifts to her boyfriends when she decided but would 'slum it in an uber' if she had to (we where to pay for this at upwards of £25 a time)

She would demand expensive brand named foods/drinks on my tab (I pay for the food in our house,my bill doubled) and not eat/drink them,leaving them to go mouldy and laugh when I said I wasn't buying anymore and then go whinging to her mother saying I was staving her

She attacked my son dog for daring to sniff the oven while she was cooking chicken nuggets (she refused to eat with us and would cook her own foods doubling our electric bill)

I was to clean her shithole of a bedroom, pick up after her at all times and her clothes had to have a separate cycle-they where not to be washed with 'that bitches tat' (my clothes)

She expected us to buy her designer clothes-her prom dress alone was £340 and when she got home,she ripped it up and snapped the heel on her shoe (that dp and I had paid for)

She kept stealing small bits from me and would gaslight me when I found them missing

She would sit at the top of the stairs,on the phone to her mother,laughing at the rows I was having with dp (who.was waaayyy too soft on her)

She'd ring her mother and I'd hear them plotting the best way to break my relationship with dp and 'make that bitch homeless'

All this was backed up by her mother and it almost broke my relationship with her father (I get on fine with the other dd)

When the penny dropped I wasn't bending to her will,get a job,pay a tiny amount in rent (that we would have saved for her) pay for her own lifts and pull her weight around the house she went apeshit

She found some pictures that where for dps eyes only and sent them to my whole family (who are evil narcs as loved it) my friends (who told me) and everyone she knew-including some of my work colleagues before putting them on the internet before she moved out to go to uni

The amount of crap I got for not fawning all over sd and refusing to bend to her will

It was my fault for taking the pictures in the first place,I was an evil stepmother and how dare I say that about little innocent her? (I would have sworn that poster was her mother but I know it definitely wasnt)

People where really slagging me off,saying I didn't deserve to have kids and one op said I was the reason HER kids would never have a stepmother (she wouldn't have much choice if her husband ran off with other woman)

I was sat reading this bit upset and mostly amused

They hadn't lived with sd and would have either done the same as me or laid down and allowed her to walk all over them

I have no words (that are safe to post)

England isn’t the default position for the world I hate to break it to you

That is what I call the 'mumsnet phonomonon'.

No other forum have I ever encountered where the default to a person saying their pregnant is for a dozen people to crawl out and aggressively tell them to terminate. Some times I wonder if the awful 'brat free' movement have a secret mumsnet cell.

Mumsnet should make a rule that unless someone ASKS about abortion replies shouldn't be allowed to tell them to get one. If the person didn't ask about termination then its a deeply offensive thing to randomly suggest.

@housethatbuiltme

phonomonon

Gah! I've just got rid of the annoying "camp Granada" earworm from the camping thread, and now I have the bloody theme tune from the Muppets in my head.

Camp Granada was a question in the audio round at our pub quiz, and I've been singing it all week!

My mum told me I couldn't have my ears pierced until I was 16.

By the time I got to 16 I didn't want them doing, and have never had them done!

Gosh really? You mean the country I studied in (Wales), and the others I have visited on many many occasions (Scotland and Ireland) weren't in ENGLAND? Cor blimey governor, that IS a big surprise and one that I am amazed to learn today.

More seriously, my point is that given that this is a UK forum and England has the biggest population it is not unreasonable for people to assume that a poster is in England unless they say so (and eg educational systems in Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands tend to be more aligned with England eg they all do GCSEs). So if you're not in England and you don't want a long stream of posts making irrelevant comments, then say where you are. The same applies if you are not in the UK - if you eg talking about BBQs in November, people will get a bit confused unless you say eg you are in Australia.

Anyway, if you want sensible responses it helps to provide salient information full stop.

There are 69.5 million people in the UK but 56.5 million of them are in England (so over 80%, with the remaining less than 20% split between not only the 3 other countries but the isles/islands as well).

Its not wild to assume that the rules that apply to the mass majority apply when not specified.

Thread about saying ‘hope you’re well’ in work emails. I get that some people find it insincere, but the fury it seems to provoke in a minority seems out of all proportion to the offence. There were posters enraged that the sender was wasting their valuable time. One person said they’d ensure anyone who did it was never promoted.

I still do it in the basis that I like receiving pleasantries myself and not being treated like a machine at work, but I do now wonder I’m inducing apoplectic rage in some...

The high number of posters who say, "What's even it got to with you?" or similar on perfectly reasonable posts, like everyone should ignore everything that happens around them. Odd people.

Ok off topic by never had an desire to get my ears pierced till living as a student in Paris I saw some (cheap) peacock tail earrings and had ‘em pierced to wear ‘ em 😀😀