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 thread about Christmas budgets and amounts where someone who was looking down on others for buying 'too many Christmas presents for their kids' because she 'saves that money' for 'more important things' like her kids private school, her horse and ridding lessons and several annual holidays to immerse in far off cultures.

Yeah love, because if I save the 400 quid I spend on my 3 kids at Christmas I could clearly could have send them to fucking Eton instead 🙄.

Hilarious 🤣

Tbh I'd use one chicken breast if I were making fajitas for just me and DH. But I also use lots of onion and peppers, and make a huge side salad. Happy to be a weird outlier though

Healthy eating threads are comical on here. There really are people who believe McDonalds or Domino’s are toxic and evil.

I put it down to insecurity and fear of irrelevance. These crazies manically police their family’s diets because it gives them some sense of control and importance.

Fair enough 🤣🤣

So many but I'll go with. Show this thread to the husband who is abusing, controlling, hurting, cheating, being a terrible father etc etc etc.

Oh yeah.

I've been called all sorts of names for formula feeding from birth.

There's always this weird thing on those threads too where usually someone who hasn't formula fed before talks about constant sterilising, washing and ''faffing'' that also makes me laugh, especially when they talk about trudging downstairs to sterilise bottles in the middle of the night. I had twins and I still didn't constantly wash bottles and certainly never sterilised them in the middle of the night! 😂

Yes and God help.them when their. Kids can decide where to eat for themselves !

Agree with this. I think a lot of the criticizing/demonization of others' choices on MN (generally, not just about food/diet) is linked to validation of one's own choices.

I had a microwave steam steriliser so it took two minutes in a microwave plus I made all my bottles up for 24 hours and put them in the fridge 🙈

I don't think it was mumsnet, it was like 2 decades ago but there was a thread on a parenting site with hundreds of women who where all in agreement that in a fire you MUST save your husband not your children because hes irreplaceable and you could not possibly be a good parent alone if your grief stricken BUT if you save your husband you could always just 'replace' your children by having more.

It was one of my early experiences of parenting chat groups when I started TTC and utterly fucking horrified me.

Any thread where OP is in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland and you get poster after poster after poster that can’t believe something might be different from England (schools, NHS etc).

Extra bonus points if they then also comment “Oh! Well, I’m in the UK and here …”

(In case it’s not clear - UK does not mean England. There are 4 countries in the U.K.)

How has no one mentioned the lady who thought dinosaurs were a hoax yet?

Oh god that's horrific 😲

Outside of parenting sites I think most people would prioritise their child/children in that scenario it's something i have actually talked about with my husband if it was a choice between saving me or the kids it's always the kids and vice versa I don't think either of is could live with fact we were alive when the kids could have been saved

Where has the laughter emoji gone??
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where is the laugning emoji???

Haven't RTFT yet, looking forward to reading the rest, but @Thorilicious I can do you one better. I didn't post about it, but I used to read to my bump before I went to sleep to try and get DS into a sleep routine 😁

I had a perfect prep in my bedroom (and 1 in the kitchen) and didn't even have to get out of bed. That seemed to annoy a few people on a thread insisting that you had to get up, go downstairs, sterilise a bottle, make it and all of this ''faffing''. 😂

I lived in a flat when mine were babies so no stairs were involved 🤣🤣🤣 it was only a few steps from the bedroom to the fridge 😅

There's a thread at the moment where the OP thinks that people send their kids to private school to boost their egos. Obviously has a massive chip on their shoulder and won't accept anyone's perfectly valid reasons as to why the school their kids privately.

That's brilliant! 😂

At my in laws at the moment.

I am being completely serious that for lunch the other day, my MIL served two supermarket pizzas and one garlic baguette with one huge salad for 5 adults and 3 children (well one is a toddler). People like that do actually exist.

the many where posters say that giving your child a cheese and ham sarnie, an apple and a kitkat is on par with giving them crack cocaine and they've never heard of feeding children so poorly in all their lives

They do and get responses from people who think that a normal to feed a family of seven and others who think it won't feed one fully grown adult..