What’s the strangest reason someone has got cross with you on MN?

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When I was new to MN I used a way of phrasing something that is very common in my local dialect. To the point that I still can’t figure out what was wrong with how I phrased it. However rather than answering my thread there was just a pile on about my typing.

Another time someone became very angry that I said I worked at a school with a farm. I did at the time. But they were so angry that I might have “outed” my self. I’ve never put anything on here that I would be embarrassed people in my life finding out so I don’t know why they were so worried for me!

I once asked in a thread if I was the arsehole, apparently that is for Reddit only and can absolutely not be used on any other forum other than Reddit 😶

I said having a baby boy was lovely and got my head bitten off by one poster for not saying baby girls were lovely too!

I had a load of hassle from a poster saying the job I had was not a job she'd ever heard of and unless I could prove I did it I was clearly A LIAR. It was my actual job, I did it for 15 years, but some twat on the internet knew better. Not seen her on MN in ages, but whenever I did I always felt very cross at the sight of her username.

I ill advisedly uses the phrase pram nazi and it did not go well.

I can't remember the context. I learned not to use naxi on the Internet.. not used it again until now!

Haha just try suggesting that someone's behaviour might be due to undiagnosed ND. Especially if it pertains to an adult male, the MN autism police will literally implode with rage. Just because they were formally diagnosed, they feel the need to gatekeep the label away from other people even though they cannot possibly know for sure. It's the weirdest hypocrisy I've ever come across.

At the same time, all bad behaviour from little boys must be due to ND. Just like the one thread from today where some child got in trouble 12 times for violence at nursery and the mum thinks he "might be bored". Little boys always get a free pass for bad behaviour because they could be neurodivergent, but when they grow up to become horrible abusive men, they are not longer "allowed" to have ASD/ADHD.

I got told off on a weight loss thread, when I said I’d like to find a vegan version of whatever diet was being recommended. I was told in no uncertain terms by one poster that there was NO WAY a vegan could be remotely overweight, as they are all thin and probably undernourished. Ummmm… I was that fat vegan!

Someone once got very irate with me for not encouraging my mentally fragile physically disabled mother to allow the homeless man who'd taken up residence in her shed to move in with her.....

Many years ago, I was on a thread about toddlers and their annoyingly knotty hair and mentioned that I had been spraying conditioner on my DD’s hair so I could comb I through after a bath. One woman was so incensed that I would spray chemicals on my own daughter’s hair she started a separate thread about me to slag me off.

I didn’t put a riding helmet on my daughter when she rode 20 metres on a donkey up the church path, AS THE VIRGIN FREAKING MARY on Christmas Eve many, many years ago.

I'm the fat vegan too.

I was once on a dinnner thread and said I was making a particular ethnic dish which was a family staple when I was growing up. One poster got really upset with me about 'cultural appropriation' and attacked me over the entire thread, to the point I had private messages from other posters saying WTF??!!.

She didn't ask me if I were from that culture (Im not, not that it matters, I'm allowed to enjoy the food) - just attacked me for having the utter nerve to enjoy and make a particular dish.

I was told I earned too much because I said I threw away leftovers from the family’s plates rather than eating them!

People went ape shit crazy at me when I started a thread about the fence belonging to the next door neighbours and separating our gardens being pulled down finally and just left in both their garden and mine. Apparently I was a typical Londoner who hated my neighbours and in any other part of the country the loss of a fence would have been seen as a positive thing.

I don’t know whether the poster was cross with the particular OP, but the strangest deletion I’ve seen for a while was the deleted first post on a thread with a title and opening post that basically said “I don’t like avocados”.

What can possess someone to be immediately furious and insulting about a dislike of avocados?

I mentioned that there was an alternative pronunciation to the name a poster wanted to use for her baby and got a right telling off

For taking my toddler with multiple allergies to McDonalds because at least the food there wouldn't bring him out in hives. Obviously fish fingers, fries and apple/ grape bags is much unhealthier there than the usual fish fingers chips and peas found on any other childrens menu coz McDonalds.

(Toddler now a tall, spindly teenager with 5k running times that make me want to weep with envy )

Had exactly the same yesterday! Mumsnet removed their post. Eejits

it was funny because they asked if I had any experience ever of ‘xyz’ meant to be a sarky gotcha and I could happily say I’d done it as a job for 30 years

I wrote about my step daughters behaviour against me ( this was just before covid)

It included revenge porn,theft,bad mouthing me to my narcissistic family/work colleagues/friends,interfering in personal matters,being rude,trashing my belongings and refusing to get a job as 'its your fucking job to support me until I marry a rich man'

I admit I asked her to leave my home as I wouldn't put up with this behaviour from my own adult dc,let alone her

I wrote it,wandered away from my phone and came back to two woman going insane at me,saying what am awful person I am and one was saying I (me personally) was the reason her dc would never have a stepmother

One got deleted and the other is still there

I guess I should have put up with her and her behaviour in my own home

(I remember reading their drivel and thinking 'they wouldn't put up with her behaviour either,its just an excuse to attack a stranger/step mother over their keyboards')

Absolute peak Mumsnet 😁

I said I bought McCain frozen baked potatoes, it sent a good few posters into a tailspin because I should have been baking them myself and freezing them.

During Covid I said I didn’t wash my shopping and was told I was putting my family at risk of killing them,

I’ve been told off by another poster and then reported and deleted for using AI ….when I didn’t! Apparently it was my use of bullet points that gave me away.
I used to like bullet points:
• used them a lot in my job for years
• But apparently they signify AI use now!!!

You win 👏 that’s batshit

That's a new one; it's usually complaints about em rules (long dashes).

Most big publishing houses I've worked for have had em/en rule use in their style guide. Can't help it if AI trains on their output.

Someone was feeling a bit upset about something and asked if we would be upset by this. The rage from some posters on the OPs behalf was absolutely ridiculous. I posted that honestly the incident wouldn't bother me. My lack of rage further enraged two posters who posted multiple posts telling me how unreasonable i was for not being angry.

In a thread about Christmas decorations, I said ours were up for the whole of December and we take them down the day after Boxing Day.

One woman got weirdly angry about this and kept posting that my children were suffering and must have "miserable lives" because of it. It was so bizarre it was actually quite amusing seeing her working herself into a rage because of bloody Christmas decs.

When I inherited my beloved nan's bungalow after she died I got angrily told I shouldnt have rented it out to a single mum on benefits which is what I did. Apparently, I should have done something far more "kind" like give the house away to someone.

Give my house away.

😂🤭🤣

Only on Mumsnet would people be frothing that you didn’t give a house away for free… absolute batshittery!