What threads do you read that have no relevance to your life?

[afaloren]

Car seat threads. I don’t have children and when I drive friends’ kids around they bring their own car seats. But I find I read the threads which might as well be in Ancient Greek. Isofix! 360! Rear facing! Fascinating, mysterious stuff. I don’t know why I like them so much 😂

https://allpoetry.com/No-man-is-an-island

Pretty much all of them tbh. But I do find it socially interesting to see what other people think and do.

Threads about London. I love reading about London.
I lurk sometimes on the elderly parents forum. My parents both died suddenly in their early 50s. I think I do it because I wonder what life would have been like for them if they were still here.
Threads about dating dramas. I've never really dated, I met my future DH at uni and we've been together ever since.
Threads about large families. I can't have one for medical reasons but I love reading about other people's.

I love threads like "weirdest thing which happened to you on a date". I've never dated, met dh at sixth form and never looked back.

All of them. I am culturally different, all my set ups have to be very moral, traditional and solid. I taught my daughters to live this way also. But it is nice to practice some English and have some fun and give once in a while your opinion. We are all unique and the UK is very international place

Any thread with elderly parents, extended families, brothers sisters, cousins, dhs. Every single one of my family bar my kids and an estranged brother are dead.

<shrug> it’s the same in real life. I just can’t relate to people when they bang on about their happy or not so happy families. I don’t begrudge them, am slightly envious in fact.

I do, however enjoy the weird and wonderful threads, the spooky threads, art and crafts threads and loads of other things I can’t think of off the top of my head.

Threads about nannies or au pairs. Never had one, I'm just intrigued by the whole thing! Private schooling for the same reason.

Baby names.

I like the ones about horses (The Tack Room I think it's called?). I don't have a horse, have only ever ridden twice (with minimal success) at age 9 and 20, and have no interest in horses. But for some reason I always click on them.

Step parenting threads, really interesting to read but not something I would ever choose to be, personally. No man would ever be worth the stress of a blended family, for me.

Style and beauty. I’m a slob 😁

I was just about to say that too, Style and Beauty - I am not interested in make up, or fashion.

I was about to say this! I click on the links and enjoy looking at the kinds of clothes and shoes other people like, but I spend my days in jeans, Tshirts, trainers or my work uniform. I only buy new clothes when mine are looking too old or my shoes are falling apart.

Step parenting for me too.

also a sucker for an ‘is this a line?’ Thread

Competitive London schools. A baffling world!

I read the Investment threads too. Even though I have £0 to invest.

Threads about religion. I’m a complete atheist. and have been since I was 15, but I was brought up as a catholic and had to do the whole confession / communion / confirmation / catholic schools thing.

I still find religion oddly fascinating, though. In the same way an anthropologist might find the culture & behaviour of tribal people in remote jungles. I’m still trying to understand why intelligent people believe ridiculous superstitious nonsense, I suppose.

Online dating. For someone who got married years before OLD was a thing and has never been on an online date, I have some VERY developed opinions on how to do it 😭

I only ever wear my 'mam clothes' same 2 outfits 😂

So many… have been here over 21 years so I roam the hills of opinion like an old chap in a flat cap pointing at distant cloud formations with a stick. ‘Storm brewing over thar’

Love reading school choice threads, step parenting dramas, vegan dinners (I suppose those could theoretically be useful) style and beauty, holidays with a budget over £10k etc etc

Thought it was just me that only wore two @Wynter25 😆

Yes! I’m another lurker on The Tack Room, and I don’t think I’ve been on a horse since the early 1990s. As a cradle Catholic atheist, I’m also fascinated by threads about C of E ordination.

AI holidays, hen and destination wedding threads, most of style and beauty, horses, choice of prep schools and the 11+...

Yes! The horsey ones! I love The Tack Room.

The dating threads, they fascinate and horrify me in equal measure.

Boarding schools, an insight into an alien world.

Step-parenting. If you take this on, you're a braver woman than me.

Chicken Keepers - yes, really. One day I'd love to have a few chickens.

Baby Names - my guilty pleasure as I love names and I have to enjoy it on here, as R**t banned me from a names board 😅

So many, really. I love an insight into other people's worlds.

Have actually just posted on this board, for the first time in 25 years, I think.

Begrudgingly. But I did 🤣