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 mentioned the book why I'm not longer talking to white people about race and was told that I shouldn't make sweeping statements 😁

Tailgating at train ticket barriers because my valid ticket didn't work and I didn't want to waste ages trying to find a disinterested member of staff who would tell me I'd kept it too close to my mobile phone and whinge at me. This poster was really cross with me when I mentioned it.

Also when I said I wouldn't get out of the way of people who were walking along staring at their mobile phones someone said I must be a really nasty person (I was also walking by the way, I wasn't planning to mow anyone down with an SUV).

Pre-covid it was the same if you take your child out with chicken pox, even if you only outside and have a cover over the buggy. Who knew the virus could find its way around the cover and cross the road to find someone who's immune suppressed?

I was going to say I think half my mum's garden is from cuttings she's taken from various places!

For example, yesterday there was a thread about someone who was talking about cancelling a playdate because she didn't agree with the child's mum's views on VAT on private education. I mean, really? I did post to that effect on the thread.

Why are people even talking about politics to people they barely know? Keep off politics and religion!

Over a strawberry farm and not taking my MIL car off her.

Good fences make good neighbours.

DH has a very good friend who is a kind and lovely man in so many ways. But there are constant small level things he does and says that I find make it really hard to properly warm to him. An excellent example is that I am not English, although English is my first language. He corrected my pronunciation of the word Aubergine. Repeatedly. While acting really surprised that I would ever say it differently to him.

I wanted to punch him in the eye.

You can pronounce it “egg plant.”

How do you pronounce it?

Rhymes with pie.

Not Mumsnet but on Twitter (before it went all weird) I once made a joke about a TV show where ‘artists’ were given a bit of shite furniture and they usually made it more shite by putting hairpin legs on it and painting it orange before selling it for something mad like a grand or something.

Anyway, this complete stranger who didn’t follow me and I didn’t follow had a MASSIVE go at me, kept telling me I had no imagination, and then blocked me! No clue why - it’s not like I had any desire to interact with them in the first place.

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure now becuase now I don't know if the way I'm saying it is MY way or some other way? But I know that one of us was saying
"OH-ber-gine" and one was saying "awwww-her-gine".

I think I say the first now. But I couldn't tell you if I've always said it that way anymore?

Well, I've never heard it pronounced any way other than OH-ber-gine (soft g).

You've only got to look at him to know he's a wrong un 😂

I said my abusive ex husband was driving me insane, and got berated by one poster on and on about how disrespectful it was to people struggling with psychosis and I should use different language. That said, I am more mindful of using these kinds of words now and do think I should be more careful using language that uses terms like crazy/mad etc. maybe that poster did me a favour!

I didn't like a Womans bedside lamps. She asked for opinions, I was the only one to say I thought they were plain.

I was very new to Mumsnet and stumbled across the feminist board who were discussing trans women in changing rooms. Everyone was against it so I thought I’d raise some points for the other side. Igot absolutely torn to shreds. I quickly learnt that they don’t want to debate .

Another time I saw a discussion about autism whether it should be categorised. Being autistic myself and having a autistic child i have some opinions on this so i shared them and basically got told to go away as my views didn’t align with the ops

I once was victim to a physical allocation where my phone was taken and i was victim blamed and accused of lying flor thirty odd pages. Very weird. Fortunately the police did track them down and they got some kind of community thing from memory, so at least police believed the camera footage 🤦🏼‍♀️

Not really. No one likes the speech or grammar police. Don't capitulate to the mob.

Surely rhymes with pit ?

'I was very new to Mumsnet and stumbled across the feminist board, who were discussing trans women in changing rooms. Everyone was against it, so I thought I’d raise some points for the other side. I got absolutely torn to shreds. I quickly learned that they don’t want to debate.'

To be fair, it shouldn't really be up for debate because it's wrong.

Did they call you a man?

You just proved her point!

I really wish I could just enjoy these threads without people derailing, by having little arguments about what people have posted, in response to what the thread asked.

Please make your own thread or just think it privately, it's not in spirit of the thread posting.