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?

That adults have every right to watch porn on a train and if people don't like it they can look away. Your kids don't like it? Tough.

This was from a regular poster and not a troll.

There are loads of others though - MN is full of absolute corkers.

see also thread with OP saying she'd put a 100 note in with the wedding card and posters falling over themselves to ignore the actual AIBU to tell her £100 notes don't exist, despite the fact that a) they do in scotland b) she didn't actually specify the currency.

Basically any thread where the armchair detectives reveal they are less Sherlock Holmes, more Inspector Clouseau

It was very recent actually. A woman who called herself a Health Care Professional because she has a personal trainer's certificate said she was better qualified than her consultant obstetrician and all the staff in the neo-natal ICU to understand what care and treatment her premature twins needed.

She said categorically that the NHS only ever makes things worse, and no baby needs medicine or medical intervention/treatment or antibiotics after it's born because breast milk was all any baby ever needed to be healthy and well.

And she wondered why her babies' healthcare team had referred her to social services.

Cheese is a substitute for milk, buying milk will directly kill thousands of people.

During covid I lived in a flat, a poster said I should train our dog to go to the toilet inside as taking the dog outside more than once again made me a very dangerous criminal.

There was one thread many years ago where a mum was in the supermarket with a newborn who was fussing.

The op went up and said she would carry the baby around the supermarket for her, Mum declined and then her mum appeared and off they went.

Op was so concerned about this mum refusing to let her carry the baby when the mum was struggling she followed her around the supermarket and alerted staff when the baby cried.

By the end of the thread posters had convinced op to go to the supermarket, ask for the CCTV of the carpark to get their reg number and report this Mum to SS in case she had PND because she refused to allow a random stranger to carry her fussy newborn around a supermarket when she had her Mum with her anyway.

Posters were on about gut instinct and spidey senses and "missing piece of a puzzle" and winding each other up no end.

It was maybe 15 years ago now and I still can't get my head around it.

When people tell anxious flyers that they are more likely to die crossing the road or in a car. That doesn't make anxious flyers less scared of flying, just more scared of cars.

The ones where the armchair detectives totally derail the thread with wanting to know something really irrelevant that the OP isn't posting because it would completely out her. Then when they don't get what they want they post "OP why won't you come back and tell us your mother's maiden name, house number, postcode, first car make and name of first pet???"

That the answer is 225%, and if you think it’s 125% you’re stupid and should consider going to night school

What!?!??

Please telL
me you have the link to this?

Took a while

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/3070140-Been-so-stupid?page=1

That apparently one pizza can feed two adults and three teenagers if you bulk it out with coleslaw. How miserable.

Haha yes, and a portion of fish and chips is so big it feeds two adults and two kids.

I love those threads.

Someone advising a poster who was on a diet not to eat a raw carrot as a snack as they were far too high in sugar.

This. And it’s funny people mentioned food ones after your post. The food snobs to me are unbearable. I suffered something awful one day, and just to give context I did a time line of the days events, including that in the hour before we’d cooked and ate a spag bol for tea. Someone called me a liar and my thread was fake as you couldn’t possibly even cook a spag bol in under 3 hours. I did one yesterday in 20 mins and it was bloody lovely actually 👍🏻

The most recent one that made me laugh...OP posting link to New Look dress, should she wear this to such and such, so ballpark figure dress must cost £30-50...first reply says it looks terrible, try this and sends link to dress costing over £450.00!!

The woman who thought no children under 6 should EVER be left unsupervised and thus she took her two children in to the bathroom with her, at 6 and 4, when she needed a shit.

Oh god the food ones. I’m sure I’ve seen posters try to say that giving a child a banana is basically the same as pouring a bag of sugar directly into their mouths.

All Aldi and Lidl food is vile and disgusting and they don’t know how people can eat it
can’t say I notice much difference between Aldi milk, carrots, onions and Tesco

Most ridiculous post I've ever seen on here was in response to my posting about my own bad experience in A&E. The poster accused me of lying, reported my thread and it was removed!

(Outcome BTW was that the hospital investigated my complaint and issued a long, detailed apology AND changed some procedures as a result.)

The thread was about a woman who had applied for a job knowing that you had to work one Saturday in four - and then stormed out of the interview in high dudgeon after airily saying “Oh no, I couldn’t do that - I have a child”, and being unceremoniously told that, in that case, she couldn’t have the job.

The vast majority of people agreed that it was ridiculous to apply for a job you couldn’t possibly do and then complain you didn’t get it. But one poster kept insisting that the rest of the staff should be covering for this woman as nothing, NOTHING could possibly be as important as looking after a child and enabling mothers to work. The childless apparently only existed to fill the gap.

She was incredibly bullish throughout - but suddenly went noticeably quiet when another poster asked her what would happen if the childless staff had children. Or whether, if they left, they could only be replaced by other childless people - potentially putting other mothers out of work 😄

I'm still cross about a poster who told me I was lying about my job because apparently the job did not exist. I did the job for 15 years, alongside a team doing the exact same thing, but she was adamant I was chatting shit. I need to get over it but I'm still really pissed off!!

Any of the threads where op asks if their child's dinner is ok and posters fall over themselves to prove how dreadful spag bol and a yoghurt is and swap the carbs, dairy, protein and pudding to for 9 types of vegetable.

I beep these people, bloody dangerous and puts the people behind you in danger too

That’s probably right.

But, assuming it’s the same infamous thread I’m thinking of, what was so alarming was the number of posters who claimed they’d save their dog over a child.

I cling to the hope that MN is unrepresentative of the population. Otherwise it’s just too depressing to imagine that there are so many misguided half-wits walking among us.

When I was called sick for using nursery for DS who was a baby at the time.

When it was suggested that I shouldn't have more children because I didn't like the baby stage and found it to be boring.

The posters who refuse to poo anywhere except their own home. Sure if you’ve got to go you’ve got to go regardless of wherever you are.