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What automatically makes you think people are idiots?

965 replies

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 05/02/2026 16:00

For me it’s:

people who think that Michael Jackson isn’t a pedophile.

people who say things like “Londanistan” “Bradfordistan”

People who say “If the Holocaust is real, why do the tattoo numbers only go up to 5 digits”

OP posts:
CrazyGoatLady · 16/02/2026 07:10

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 12/02/2026 22:10

Posting ‘I like Hamas’ I think has topped the thread title.

I think it does 😬

Yerdug · 16/02/2026 07:24

Tentboxers and baby on board stickers

FrangipaniBlue · 16/02/2026 07:45

People who don’t understand (or choose to be wilfully ignorant about?) internet/social media algorithms and think “it’s everywhere!” means that it actually is everywhere and really is a big problem……

NavyTurtle · 18/02/2026 16:42

People who voted Labour
People who cant use a computer or mobile phone. I am old and its not a problem to me!
People who think because people are old they cannot use technology
People who who have total disregard for people around them
People who don't use their indicators
People who have no concept of how to use proper grammar
People who write in text speak
People who ask me at work, is so and so in their office - I don't know, I can't see through walls
People who smoke
People who vape - do you know how silly you actually look?
Anti vaxers

People who make excuses for their bratty children
Parents of children who don't use headphones in restaurants
People who cannot string a sentence together with using the word 'wasitcalled'.
PEOPLE WHO CHEW GUM .......URRRGGGGGH. Utterly discusting.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/02/2026 16:55

Oh dear, @NavyTurtle - discusting?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/02/2026 16:56

godmum56 · 15/02/2026 15:27

Haven't RTFT so it might have been said before but certain posts on MN.

I don’t think this is unique to MN, though, @godmum56 - the whole of the internet seems to be a massive open goal for people to demonstrate their idiocy, from Trump downwards.

AmazingGraced · 18/02/2026 17:23

Definitely parents who let their kids play loud video games or watch cartoons on public transport or in restaurants. It totally enrages me. Why can’t children sit and talk or draw pictures or something??? It develops social skills to be able to learn to sit quietly, talk and listen or deal with a bit of boredom. If not, GIVE THEM HEADPHONES!

mollypuss1 · 18/02/2026 17:32

NavyTurtle · 18/02/2026 16:42

People who voted Labour
People who cant use a computer or mobile phone. I am old and its not a problem to me!
People who think because people are old they cannot use technology
People who who have total disregard for people around them
People who don't use their indicators
People who have no concept of how to use proper grammar
People who write in text speak
People who ask me at work, is so and so in their office - I don't know, I can't see through walls
People who smoke
People who vape - do you know how silly you actually look?
Anti vaxers

People who make excuses for their bratty children
Parents of children who don't use headphones in restaurants
People who cannot string a sentence together with using the word 'wasitcalled'.
PEOPLE WHO CHEW GUM .......URRRGGGGGH. Utterly discusting.

What about people who can’t spell disgusting?

OneWittyGuide · 18/02/2026 18:56

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Wabbajack · 18/02/2026 23:36

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I can't believe you're still allowed to post here after posting explicit support for a proscribed terrorist group...

PyongyangKipperbang · 18/02/2026 23:55

Wabbajack · 18/02/2026 23:36

I can't believe you're still allowed to post here after posting explicit support for a proscribed terrorist group...

Except that it isnt proscribed anymore.

Wabbajack · 19/02/2026 00:23

PyongyangKipperbang · 18/02/2026 23:55

Except that it isnt proscribed anymore.

Hamas are very much still proscribed.

The13thFairy · 19/02/2026 12:09

HelpMeGetThrough · 05/02/2026 16:28

People breathing does it for me.

Every sodding time.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 19/02/2026 12:12

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Staggering anti-semitism.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 19/02/2026 12:13

The13thFairy · 19/02/2026 12:09

Every sodding time.

Dh breathing AT me at night.

The13thFairy · 19/02/2026 12:16

Fodencat · 05/02/2026 16:57

Oh this is a shocker isn’t it. Boasting about your own ignorance.

My mum used to call such people 'ignorant, and proud of it.' There are loads of them.

CheeryMintSquid · 19/02/2026 12:44

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To all the Jewish people who have been offended by my support of Palestine, you are a Zionist and you do not have the right to kick Palestinians out of their own land just because you believe it. To all the non Zionist Jews, God bless you. I hope that someday soon Jews, Christians and Muslims will all live together peacefully in Palestine and I will celebrate with you when the time comes.

How can you say this and yet deny being an antisemite?

If you have made other comments, I can’t be bothered reading them but I am going to save this thread and come back to it when the 💩 finally hits the fan.

What do you mean when the shit hits the fan? What do you think is going to happen?

CheeryMintSquid · 19/02/2026 12:45

PyongyangKipperbang · 18/02/2026 23:55

Except that it isnt proscribed anymore.

If you're talking about Palestine Action they are still proscribed at this moment.

OneWittyGuide · 19/02/2026 13:19

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 19/02/2026 12:12

Staggering anti-semitism.

Am I not allowed to criticise Israel now? We’re certainly allowed to criticise any other country, why is Israel different?

Wabbajack · 19/02/2026 13:25

OneWittyGuide · 19/02/2026 13:19

Am I not allowed to criticise Israel now? We’re certainly allowed to criticise any other country, why is Israel different?

You are clearly allowed to criticise Israel. There are hundreds of threads on Mumsnet dedicated to criticising Israel.

TwilightAb · 19/02/2026 13:28

People who refer to someone as being a Karen and Reform voters.

OneWittyGuide · 19/02/2026 13:40

CheeryMintSquid · 19/02/2026 12:44

To all the Jewish people who have been offended by my support of Palestine, you are a Zionist and you do not have the right to kick Palestinians out of their own land just because you believe it. To all the non Zionist Jews, God bless you. I hope that someday soon Jews, Christians and Muslims will all live together peacefully in Palestine and I will celebrate with you when the time comes.

How can you say this and yet deny being an antisemite?

If you have made other comments, I can’t be bothered reading them but I am going to save this thread and come back to it when the 💩 finally hits the fan.

What do you mean when the shit hits the fan? What do you think is going to happen?

I said I don’t support Israel and I don’t Zionism. Zionism isn’t Judaism! Zionism is a political, nationalist movement to try to establish a Jewish state, it is not religious belief.

I have no problem with Jewish people establishing their own state, but I don’t support the Zionists who think they can murder and dispossess the Palestinians who already live there, in order to do so.

Now, please read the above 2 paragraphs and point out EXACTLY where I have said anything remotely antisemitic?

OneWittyGuide · 19/02/2026 13:41

Wabbajack · 19/02/2026 13:25

You are clearly allowed to criticise Israel. There are hundreds of threads on Mumsnet dedicated to criticising Israel.

Then why are you accusing me of antisemitism for criticising Israel?

Wabbajack · 19/02/2026 13:45

OneWittyGuide · 19/02/2026 13:41

Then why are you accusing me of antisemitism for criticising Israel?

I didn't.

OneWittyGuide · 19/02/2026 13:52

CheeryMintSquid · 19/02/2026 12:44

To all the Jewish people who have been offended by my support of Palestine, you are a Zionist and you do not have the right to kick Palestinians out of their own land just because you believe it. To all the non Zionist Jews, God bless you. I hope that someday soon Jews, Christians and Muslims will all live together peacefully in Palestine and I will celebrate with you when the time comes.

How can you say this and yet deny being an antisemite?

If you have made other comments, I can’t be bothered reading them but I am going to save this thread and come back to it when the 💩 finally hits the fan.

What do you mean when the shit hits the fan? What do you think is going to happen?

What I mean by the shit hitting the fan is what I think will happen when Israel finally loses the support of the west.

Once that happens I think that Netanyahu will go to prison for the war crimes and genocide he has committed and I think Israel is in danger of either a civil or regional war.

Everyone keeps talking about Israel’s right to exist, I seriously think, if it keeps going on the way it has been, then it is in danger. But, they they could do something similar to what they did in South Africa, so stop operating an apartheid regime, give equal rights to all religions, live peacefully with the Palestinians then we could hopefully see peace in the Middle East in our lifetime.