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?

Special bonus points if the £400 dress looks like a sack

Then again, you get the opposite extreme, where OP says they have set aside £1k and want some pointers for where they could get 4-5 lovely investment pieces for their new job in a corporate role. Replies: try Mango or Zara hun, I got lots of nice bits in the sale last week.

Yes, they were. That’s every bit as weird and horrifying.

This is one going on at the moment. Apparently no man can be trusted to raise his children on his own without the floors being permanently sticky, bills left unpaid, and the children being fed badly and then sent to school without the necessary uniform or equipment.

I will always remember one sahm v wohm argument thread where one poster claimed that, amongst her other many many household duties, she "project managed her husband's career"

Someone who had a tier system for leftovers. From memory, lower tiers that no one wanted had to be eaten by her DH for lunch the next day. Higher tiers she could eat.

One that will stay with me forever is a woman who thought her DH was having an affair. A solution offered was to spread rumours about the OW, take her DH's phone and send her nasty messages, then orchestrate a meeting between them and go there instead to tell the OW that the DH was tired of her.

Was that BIWI?
She's insane about carbs, though her target is usually bananas.

Also, all the LTB threads. Someone complains about their husband of 25 years who they have multiple kids and mortgage with for not doing the washing up one night and it’s LTB or “this is actually a form of abuse”

As a general thing, the sheer number of people who, when challenged on nonsensical or very questionable medical/legal/education advice they’ve just given, follow up with, “I’m a doctor, lawyer, teacher..” OF COURSE YOU ARE DARLING

Many many years ago, I saw a poster claim that it was illegal for families with children to live in flats. I think they meant it in the context that councils and HAs should only offer them houses, but still so disconnected from reality.

Also the poster that called cereal “shit in a box” on a thread about what children eat for breakfast 😂

Everytine somone starts a thread about struggling with their disabled child
The amount of posters who suggest putting the child in care or residential school, and have absolutely no idea how the system works and seem to think there is an abundance of residential schools just ready and waiting.

A Victorian pauper sack!

On a discussion about using savings if in a tight financial spot I said that if necessary (ie we'd lost our jobs or similar and were on the bones of our arse) then I would use our children's savings (which came from me in the first place) in order to feed the family and pay bills.

I was told I was nothing but a criminal and a thief who should never have had children if I can't guarantee I will never be in a position where I'd need to do that.

Can only assume that poster had zero experience of actually being skint because as a kid who was frequently hungry or spent nights at my granny's because we had no electricity, I'd have thought my mum was fucking bonkers if she'd turned around and handed me a 'nest egg' at 18 which had been sitting there during those years and could have been used to keep us warm with full bellies.....

One thing that used to drive me mad was that some posters twist and turn the OP to make whatever that person wants to do selfish and self-centred. To the point they make up imaginary scenarios and people who would be inconvenienced by whatever the OP wanted to do. However, I had a realisation recently that these women have been conditioned to make themselves as small as possible and to put everyone, every single person or potential person, and their wants in front of their own, and that a woman might take space of any sort is unthinkable for them. Which makes it just rather sad, really.

There was a poster who asked for cosy book recommendations for her elderly Mother. One, incredibly odd, poster took umbrage to this and asked why the poster’s Mother couldn’t share her reading tastes and suggested that the OP’s Mum couldn’t possibly have any empathy just because she liked to read gentle books.

It was completely batshit and I remember one poster saying something like “She isn’t going to invade Poland just because she’s read Maeve Binchy!

I think I remember that one most odd!

Love these! I must have somehow missed the most interesting threads 😀

It was completely bonkers. I’m glad that someone else remembers it. I’ll have to try to find the thread now.

Disingenuous to someone who's helped literally 000s of mners

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Or respite! Just phone social care and ask for some respite. Just like that, because there’s tons available.

The posters who see giving a child a ham sandwich or cake as a gateway to crack - ‘that’s abuse’

Haha

I work there and we get a free meal on shift but I simply don't like the food

I'd rather stave than eat it (I'm a fussy bitch when it comes to food)

I think her head would have exploded....

Not very lighthearted, but I recall someone vehemently blaming a recent case of child abuse and murder on people who choose not to have children. Completely illogical as the case had nothing to do with childfree people, but it has stayed with me as some who has chosen not to have kids. I’m well aware of the idea that many people judge me as selfish and immature, but it was a shock to find that some would also consider me a prime candidate for hurting children.

So, yeah. I’ve read a lot of stupid nonsense on here, but this was stupid nonsense that was really offensive and nasty too.

One comment I read years ago in which the OP was told she obviously didn’t like her own child very much as she referred to her throughout the post as “my daughter” instead of “DD”

People saying that a cat has raped another cat.....

People that say ‘OP obviously isn’t coming back’ because it’s been a couple of hours and their intrusive irrelevant questions haven’t been answered yet.

’School isn’t childcare’ like they’re saying something incredibly insightful and all parents should have a full-time nanny on staff on the case they need them unexpectedly during term time.0