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 was told it was really sad that I couldn't wait to leave my babies - because I said that when I had them, I didn't know any SAHMs and my friends didn't want to rely on a man, they preferred to be independent.

Ah, yes how could I forget chip butties?! I totally agree - people eat 'vegan' all the time but don't realise 🙄
It doesn't necessarily have to be a diet that revolves around spinach, lentils and sprouted mung beans lol

Out of curiosity, are you talking about divorced people whose first marriage was not in a Catholic ceremony? Or about divorced people whose first marriage was in a Catholic church? Because there is a huge difference For Catholics whose first marriage was in a Catholic ceremony, it can only have happened if they have had the earlier marriage(s) annulled, so that’s not actually divorce in the eyes of the Catholic Church, as the original marriage(s), once annulled, is/are deemed never to have happened. The Pope sanctions the annulment(s) and then it’s as if the first marriage(s) didn’t exist, which means there can’t be a divorce. Annulment is a long, difficult process, not to be undergone lightly, though it is being made easier these days. Once it’s done, the couple are then allowed to be married in the Catholic Church as it is deemed to be the first marriage.
https://www.churchannulment.com/catholicism-and-divorce

On the other hand, if the first marriage and divorce took place outside the framework of the Catholic Church, then they don’t count for the Church, so the couple are allowed to get married in the Catholic Church, as it counts as their first marriage, even though they may be legally divorced according to civil law.

Thanks for that laugh.

I made the mistake of saying on a thread about very very elderly people that I believed quality of life was more important than quantity, and sometimes treating infections and investigating general decline was not in their best interests.

You’d have thought I’d suggested that I was planning to go round nursing and care homes and bump off anyone aged 75 or over myself, for no good reason.

It was bizarre.

I remember the description of grapes: “little bombs of pure sugar” 🤣

I’ve also seen people claim you might as well give your child a mars bar as fruit “because of all the sugar”. Nope! 🤣

I once got an absolutely monumental bollocking from a variety of posters because I had rashly agreed in a very minor way with a poster who'd said that some low-achieving children might not have any kind of learning disability or SN, they might just not be very bright. I may have said something along the lines of 'you could have a point there, but of course all kids are individuals'.

Cue a total pile-on, not at the OP who'd actually made the remarks in the first place, but at me for calling disabled children thick when I hadn't done that at all.

There was a thread about drinking in pregnancy and I mentioned years ago some women did drink and doctors would tell pregnant women to drink Guinness.
Someone took umbrage, was having none of it she was like something possessed, she just wouldn’t stop hounding me I had to block her at the finish 😳

my MIL in the 50s was told to drink a half pint of Guiness daily for her pregnancies and was served it during some lengthy hospital stays. FIL was very pleased as she would just give it to him.

My mother in the late 60s was told to drink a small glass of red wine 3 times a week during her high risk pregnancy with me and my sister.

You can block people on here?

My GP told me to have the occasional drink over Christmas if I fancied it in my last trimester (in the late 90s).

He also told me that babies were like parasites sucking the goodness out of you - and then hurriedly added ‘but in a good way’.

Best ever GP.

Some people just look for conflict. I just ignore any nasty comments.

Yep. Well then you could anyway 😁

Just had a look it seems you can’t now unless you can do it on the site I’m using the app at the min.

At one time you could do a search on the person and block them, the search is only available now to premium members.

I remember my nan saying the exact same thing about babies. Gave me the heebies it sounds awful 🥴

I once used the word "paddy" to describe a tantrum my toddler was having, I was having a really shitty time and was crying out for help with parenting, I was totally at the end of my tether that day. I got piled on for being racist. I genuinely had no idea the word had any meaning other than tantrum, and despite me taking it on board and apologising the thread continued to pile on me, go on at me for my "disgusting language" and "potty mouth", and I never got the support. I deleted the thread in the end as it was just causing me more stress and upset than I already was. I didn't come on for ages after that.

I think I remember that thread. If it's the one I'm thinking of, people got completely ridiculous about that.

FWIW I agree - they were overrated!

This must be about 10 years ago because my boys were in high school at the time…

I posted about having sons friends over for an entire weekend sleepover. They arrived straight from school on Friday, and left Sunday evening.

About five o’clock one off the other parents arrived to drop off her son’s clothes and sleeping bag. She also thanked me and handed me a bottle bag. I put the bag on the side without opening it, and we had a fairly busy weekend.

Finally it’s Sunday evening, the boys have gone home, the house is cleaned up, and I remembered the bottle bag. Asked my husband if he fancied a drink, and when we opened it we found a bottle of orange juice. I thought it was funny.

Another poster tore into me. Clearly I was a raging alcoholic, the other parent knew this, I should be ashamed of myself.

As if that was not bad enough they followed my posts for weeks being nasty. If I said, for example, I liked green olives but not black, they’d call me a liar and point out I had previously said I hated olives. But I’d been on the site years at that point.

it got so bad I actually stopped posting for months.

I never knew mumsnet used to allow you to block posters. Why have they stopped it now?

For being concerned about my next door neighbour’s cat possibly being trapped or dead. Apparently I made the whole thing up because I was bored

You can't. Don't think you ever could. It occasionally comes up in Site Stuff and it's always clear it's not an option available or being considered.

God forbid if you ever mildly criticise the ever growing number of people who claim to be suffering from anxiety, and there's a special place in Hell if you mention children with it. Apparently that makes you worse than Fred and Rose West,

My mum was told to drink ‘sweetheart stout’ to help her iron levels.

To be fair they had a point for piling on about SAHMums. I didn't want to kids being raised by strangers when they were pre-schoolers!. I wanted to be their mum. We were lucky we could just about afford it (10 plus years ago before COL rise). Also I struggled with chronic fatigue so I literally couldn't have gone to work even if I had wanted to.
Also, my DH was 47 when we had DD. He's more fit and has more energy than our friend who is 20 years younger than him, so you just can't make sweeping statements about older dads......