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!

On a 'light hearted' thread, I can't remember why but I referenced the Newman and Baddiel history professors comedy sketches. They would start off talking seriously about a subject then would degenerate into increasingly childish insults.

I quoted 'Your Mum does it for money' 'Well your Mum does it for free' as an example.

Well apparently that makes me a misogynist, shaming of sex workers and I am upholding the idea that women cannot enjoy sex in their own right. Or something like that.

Oh I forgot about the op that called me a liar

During covid,our loony neighbour ,(who thinks the world spins around her arse and only her rules matter) called the police on us for going out

What she didnt know was wed just got the call to say my darling fil was dying and we either got there to say goodbye or miss our chance

We where running around,flinging knickers into a suitcase before belting out of the door to get there-from the front door to the car,from the car to pil's front door and back again a few days later

She has one of those ring doorbells and sits on it all day-she doesn't work and has fuck all else to do all day,plus she considered herself the covid police

About 2 weeks later,the police knocked on our door,demanding to know where wed gone and why

They where fine once wed explained what had happened and nothing else was said

I was a liar because 'the police wouldn't come out for something so minor'

Normally id agree but this was covid-the world had gone to pot and my neighbour is a very forceful woman (who would have nagged and nagged,before going higher and higher up the ranks until someone came out,just to shut her up,plus the police had fuck all else to do).

Maybe I should have gone to the press complete with sad face and headline 'police hounded us for seeing dying family member' for people to believe me

This poster just refused to let it go and repeatedly called me a liar-I think I posted once more then ignored her

I said that Id had to sign mt passport.

One poster was adament I was lying, no one had to sign passports issued in that partucular year... several posts about it.

I dont what she wanted. Id had to sign my passport. DH had had to sign his (issued a similar time). Why would i be lying?

What ! Why ?

I remember that!!!! How is your mum? I read that whole thread, agog!

On a thread, I once mentioned that I live rurally and could drive to a Korean restaurant 20 minutes away. A poster got very upset because there are no Korean restaurants within 20 minutes of any rural area anywhere in any country.

Mine was quite recent - I am a professor and have a senior leadership in a university. As part of that, I sit on our admissions committee. There was a question from a poster about her son's GCSE results and how they would be taken into account for a specific, quite competitive degree. I answered with general reassurance but with some detail about how the results might be used in a decision.

I had loads of people implying I was a liar, asking to post links to where I worked... it was so odd! I've been doing this job at 2 different universities since 2020, I do know what I am talking about!

I said once we had a zoo in the village. Apparently nonsense, why would a village have a zoo?

Except... many zoos are in the the countryside, as they need acres of land. Technically it borders several villages. (We just have the main entrance)

I recently said assisted dying was expensive due to extra staff, legalities etc. One poster got very angry & assumed it meant I preferred old people to starve in a hospital bed 🤷🏻‍♀️

There was a long running series of threads from a woman who had bought a house where it wasn't mentioned that a neighbour was storing things in a garage and another neighbour had use of an allotment associated with the property. I don't know if it was real or turned out to be fiction because it was certainly an extraordinary tale.

I said early on that it sounded like the seller had 'forgotten' to mention these agreements and the OP needed to talk to the solicitor to get it all sorted out but several posters told me I was wrong for reasons I can't remember. However the OP later came back and said that it had been exactly as I had said.

I have no idea. Apparently I was cruel for having them.
I've had Border Collies for my entire life and I'm almost 50 and all of our Border Collies have always been rescues and people who know us always comment on how happy and relaxed all of our dogs have been.
Currently got two - both of whom are lying infront of a huge fan and perfectly content,

Someone once blew her lid because I told her fish, blood and bone would do the garden more good than her menstrual blood.

Another one went postal because a lot of people preferred cutting pizza with a round cutter than with scissors.

I made the mistake of typing 'Lol' about 14 years ago.

This sent the regular MN royalty into absolute meltdown as apparently this is not Facebook so no-one should ever add 'LOL' to their replies.

I wouldn't mind but I hardly ever did, so I made a point of using it whenever I replied to them 😁

I saw that. It was bonkers !

Was it maybe because they saw them as "working dogs" or something so they should be outside herding. That is weird though. We have had a BC rescue he was hard work tbf but a perfectly nice dog and pet to have in the house.

😂 Not even in Korea?

I remember your thread also and the reaction.

What a lovely plan to do up the same model one day.

I made what I thought was a reasonably light hearted thread, moaning about the fact that my husband was sulking and refused to eat because we had run out of white bread and only had brown.

Apparently I was abusive and should have dropped everything and gone out and bought the poor lamb a loaf of white. I got a lot of grief from people I can only assume work for Hovis's white bread division.

I got told I was an awful person once for telling a poster the dress she was thinking of buying was hideous. The post was titled something along the lines of ‘what do you think of this dress?’

OP on Style and Beauty thread: Please tell me what you think of my style. Here’s a photo.

S&B Posters: Maybe you could do this, this, and that differently? Don’t much like the dress.

OP: How very dare you? No wonder my mental health is so terrible. You are all bullies and this board needs shutting down!

This is a bit different but I once posted, as someone who has lived with and supported someone with a significant MH issue for 30 years that (during a particularly difficult period for them) I was struggling too to keep supporting them and managing our young family. I was told I making THEM and anyone else with a MH condition feel even worse about themselves for having a MH condition. I wasn’t, I was just getting to breaking point myself and needed someone to hear me. It made me feel ten times worse.

I’ve been smiling at some of the batshit examples on here though this morning, thanks OP for this thread. 😊

Someone lost their shit with me because we were moving out of a city to a neighbouring village which was child abuse in their mind.

The part of the city we were then in had open drug dealing and gangs and the school my dc would go to was in special measures.

The village had dc playing out together, lovely dog walks and access to a fantastic school. Child abuse apparently.

There we go- another thing I'd be told off for! I often sit in the pririty seat. I have the dreaded 'invisible conditions' (fibromyalgia and arthritis of varying types) and frequently struggle just to stand, never mind walk. I usually collapse in the priority seat as stepping onto the bus and walking a metre or so takes it out of me.

OMG, exact same!!! Crikey. I have also stopped posting on HE board.

There is a thread running in Genealogy at the moment where anyone that tries to point out the risks of giving out their DNA to these companies is called a weirdo, arsehole or told to 'sort their bloodline out'.