Phrases that make you realise you shouldn’t stay on a thread…

[CurlewKate]

Are there phrases that people post on threads that, if loads of others agree, you know you should get out before it makes you angry/unhappy? And then you don’t, and you get angry and unhappy and you’ve got no one but yourself to blame?

Currently mine is “politics of envy”

I once screen shot a FB comment from someone who had written pannershockorlar (maybe not quite that spelling but the pannershock bit was right). Pain au chocolat.🙈

I’ve just looked to see if I still have the picture but I must have deleted it!

Agreed. My worst.

'We gentle parent ...'

1. Grammatically offensive.
2. Usually a sign that there's going to be ageism and oneupmanship.

Well it's very different bring anti Israel (as in the state and the government) to being antisemitic as that's hating Jews for their existence. You can be anti a government and their horrible actions without hating the people of that state (and if you do it should be about hating them supporting the state rather than the whole identity if being Jewish or Irish or Black etc). They are not the same thing and whilst I wouldn't say the Nazis and what's happening now are the same, there are parallels (as there always are in war which always uses propaganda to justify it and especially in how other countries react to it and how much they police it) between how they justify it and how the Nazis did. I say this as someone who has studied the Israel Palesitne conflict from 1895 and writing plenty of essays/my own research on it.

Meghan and harry hate.

People who shoehorn trans people negatively into everything. I'm not sure where I stand, and have conflicting feelings about the whole thing, but it's so tiresome that it's mentioned on threads with no relevance.

Anyone who replies with whatever.
Make's me immediately think of a petulant teen.

People use 'think' when their post is perfectly easy to understand

'The children have names that rhyme, think Jerry & Kerry'

And hand holding. I hats the requests for hand holding. Then you get 10 pages of 'holding your hand' It just sounds daft.

I couldn’t live like that
raise your bar
I’d have to confront them
we need a diagram (only because I’m shit at reading diagrams)

There was someone on here years and years ago who referred to the then US president as Barocco Barmer.

For me it’s comments like:

”I’m not reading all that”
”I couldn’t get past the first paragraph”
”I only read the beginning but…”

Then they proceed to comment based on a few sentences.

Sometimes people do write a great big block of text that’s repetitive, most of the time it’s a few well written paragraphs that contain enough information to avoid being accused of “drip feeding” or the OP returning and giving additional information that get missed.

If I post I try to anticipate questions that might follow and include as much information as possible without waffling and I try to keep it brief. I get sick of people just responding to the OP and not keeping up with any developments.

I’ve had these comments a few times and I’m confused how people struggle to read just a couple of paragraphs when it’s taken me just a few minutes to actually write it all out. I have noticed that plenty of people are equally as confused at the reading ability or short attention span of some posters. I’m also becoming more and more convinced some people just comment based on the title in AIBU.

I guess I’ve just proved my point when I could have just commented “people who can’t be bothered to read the OP” 😂.

The other is: “log it with 101… NOW”
No one is “logging” anything, you make a report or not! There isn’t some kind of school report naughty behaviour system where criminals get bad behaviour logged until they commit a crime. It’s either worth reporting or not!

It's going to be a long one ...

I have 3 friends, let's call them Ann, Beth and Cath.

£100k salary isn't a lot in London ...

Marilyn Monroe was a size 16

AIBU to ask ...

AIBU to wonder ...

saying 'did ye aye'

hate this

Eh

also hate this

I've only lost a stone this month. It's just so hard and slow to lose weight.

Any post in which boomer, boarding school or middle class is mentioned is always dripping with jealousy, malevolent intent and nastiness, to which I instantly click away from, because the poster's view is so entrenched it's pointless having any discussion.

I also find victim blaming is far too liberally sprinkled in a thread where someone wants to give an opinion. People seem blinded to the possibility that there is another perspective to every situation and just leap to screeching victim blaming. I was going to point out on a thread that the morning after pill is not an appropriate contraceptive, but I didn't bother, I'm far more likely to think Not My Problem, it's a lot easier!

I have a friend (let's call her Jenny) she has a partner (let's call him Alan)

I stop reading as I usually think it's made up nonsense!

Or the ones with friend A, B, C D
Confusing as fuck

‘Cite your sources.’

This is Mumsnet, not a peer reviewed article. Do I look like fucking Google?

‘Why on earth did you marry him?’

‘Why did you have a baby with him?’

Well, let me know when you invent time travel, Sheila, so I can go back and not do that, and then I wouldn’t need to post here looking for some support.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Anything using ‘peri’ as an excuse. Since when did peri become such a big thing?

'Buckle up. This is going to be a long one'.

ect.

Hobby.

My little family.
My little one.

I always assume the poster isn't as educated as one would hope.

Abuse of the terms autistic and ADHD.

Especially when someone says "I'm autistic [or ADHD] so I..." and then completes the sentence with something incredibly common that I and a million other readers experience without relating it to a special status.

Hubby 🤮

Stressing about Christmas arrangements in March.