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?

Not one comment in particular but I always love to see comments by the terribly delicate ladies who come over all consumptive at any faint whiff of anything remotely perfumed.

And the other tiny, delicate ladies who subsist on tiny portions of salad and couldn't possibly eat more than a single square of dark chocolate for dessert each night.

Twats.

There's a thread at the moment about some CCTV that was posted on FB and people are (quite rightly) condemning the people that have commented on FB without properly reading the posts which clarify the situation - but...god forbid you suggest to anyone on MN that they actually read the thread (or at least the OPs updates) before jumping in with their ridiculous responses e.g. "A&E NOW!" when the OP has indeed been to A&E several days before, been sorted and discharged home.

Yep. And they both brought all the bloody wannabe poets out of the woodwork too 🙄.

Slander and libel are both types of defamation. Slander and libel are two different things. Neither are criminal offences (in England and Wales) anymore - there used to be some types of criminal defamation but not anymore.

Oh God the poems, posters egg them on too. With the how hilarious comments.

One thread,
a woman had the audacity to want a party to celebrate her birthday (MN seem to think it's outrageous for anyone over 10 to celebrate their birthday 🙄)
She booked a venue , arranged food and invited a decent amount of people (can't remember how many, might have been around 50) but only about 10 showed up. She was, not unreasonably, upset and disappointed. The amount of people making excuses for why people didn't turn up when they had replied to say they were coming or breezily saying "we'll you know who your real friends are" ...which might be true but still pretty annoying and upsetting, to spend money and set up a party for 50 when only 10 people come.

So many people effectively shrugging saying it didn't really matter!

There was one a year or two ago where a woman's cat got trapped inside a neighbour's house, and the neighbours were away while it was being renovated. Rather than a) leaving the cat to it for a couple of days till the builders came back or b) smashing a window and paying for it to be fixed, she posted ice cubes, crabsticks and wafer thin ham through a slightly open window and the bathroom fan.

I think of that thread every time I see wafer thin ham in the supermarket

Me too, served with refried beans and spicy rice.

This sort of thing happened to my DB. He'd come back to our hometown and arranged some drinks with some old friends to celebrate a milestone birthday. All but one of them cried off at the last minute (none with good excuses, they just cba on the day). It was absolutely shit of them and I can't believe the number of people that think this sort of thing is ok

Bloody hell. Thanks for the summary it sounds epic.

I always remember the woman in her sixties who was adamant she looked no older than 25

There's currently a thread by a mum who's giving her 14 year old daughter and her friends wine, because DD wants to drink, and it's a choice between a glass of wine in the garden and a bottle of vodka in the park. Saying no and explaining the dangers of drinking so young not an option, and posters who suggested it were ignored.

Lots of supporters who say that's she's a very responsible mother, I think one congradulted her on holding out till 14, as the poster herself had started drinking at 12.

Oh there's loads of them and you always get posters insisting they are constantly being mistaken for being ,10,20,30.years younger than they are it's the fake annoyance about it that makes me laugh.

OTOH someone will post a pic and they could be anywhere between 25 and 40, and people will say they look 78 or older than their nan who's 92! 🙄

Yes you get them too.
But I think it's just sarcasm becsuse you are only really going to post a picture of yourself to get compliments.

I've seen too many of those on MN.

I remember an OP once seeing two kids in their garden when it was drizzling and then heard the Mum call them in and OP thought they 'looked sad' and was worried about it as maybe they were sad because their home life was shit or something.

Numerous posters told her to trust her gut, report to social services and came out with the 'missing piece of the puzzle' crap.

Another was an OP who was having a summer barbecue with lots of kids in a paddling pool. DP was tipsy and when changing the toddler, drew a sunflower round her belly button because her thought it looked cute. OP was pissed off at him being tipsy more than anything.

Cue lots of posters telling her he should no longer be allowed to change his DC, that he was humiliating the toddler, it was child abuse, LTB And one particularly strange poster who claimed to be a child social worker who said this was evidence that he was part of a child sex abuse ring, was using the toddler in CSAM and the OP should throw him out immediately and report him to the Police for being part of a CSA ring.

Many others too where a neighbour or member of the public has done something 'weird' to the OP like being in a theme park without DC, or asking a Mum about her DC or touching a baby while talking to the Mum and MN tells OP to trust her gut, no harm in reporting to 111, might be important information blah blah blah

I find it somewhere between funny and downright weird how posters behave on those type of threads, how defensive they become at any perceived slight or angry at others they deem not gushing or joining in with the madness enough.

There have been so many clearly iffy threads that posters have become so enmeshed in, Oliver's Army was another one.

While proclaiming how “lucky” they are to have had the opportunity to lead themselves into the situation they find themselves in. At least they didn’t dump their children on someone else to bring up.

I always remember the (male) poster who’d gone into the supermarket toilets and sobbed in front of the mirror because he hadn’t been asked to verify his age when buying alcohol at the checkout. It was fabulously unhinged.

I remember that one ,it makes me question any hand hold thread now ,i wouldn't say anything on the actual thread but inwardly I question it.

Yes it's the other posters rilling the Op up and blowing it out of all proportion, they do more harm than good.

A lot of the ‘I’m worried about these children’ threads and Relationship threads are just displays of competitive caring or - particularly with relationships - just plain and unpleasant nosiness.

I stay away from the Relationships board. People taking pleasure in involving themselves bossily in others’ private lives and misery is gruesome. Plus a lot of the threads are bogus (as many are all over MN).

There was a thread years ago about people wearing pyjamas in public, like going to the supermarket, doing the school run etc.

Most of the comments were along the lines of it looking lazy etc. One poster said that it was a very bad idea because the pyjamas would get contaminated by being outside and would then cause a rash if slept in overnight. Still makes me snigger now.

There one at the moment I'm dubious about it's accelerated quite a bit over the past 24 hours and lots of calls for updates.

Indeed.

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.

I remember how batshit MN went when the BBC Korea correspondent had been interrupted live on TV by his DC.

Before the news made it clear, they were his DC and his wife frantically trying to get the DC out of the room, a lot of MN had been quite unconciously racist and assumed the wife was a nanny as she wasn't white and had created this idea of a poor nanny being sacked or worse, abused by this awful man. And so were the DC obviously being abused.

Lots of people saying she 'looked TERRIFIED', and not that she just looked like 'OMFG, the kids have just interrupted a live interview on the BBC!'

Somehow, that little girl who looked to me, very confident walking up to her Dad with a little dance in her step as he laughed and tried to move her away was interpreted as a traumatised little girl desperate for attention from a horrible Dad who probably never sees his kids as outsources childcare to a nanny paid a pittance as he callously batted her away with a look of fury on his face (according to some posters). And the nanny was abusing the kids too (through fear of him) based on the 'rough' way she pulled them out of the room.

It was frightening the lengthy, complicated narratives MN came up with based on a few seconds of seeing people they knew nothing about.

Though once it calmed down, it did give me a rare MN laugh as a poster referred to the little one in the walker as 'baby davros skidding into the room'.