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!

Anything on the subject of invisible disabilities always prompts a pile on. As does politics and the behaviour of people's darling children. I can't remember anything specific but I've been slapped down on all subjects.

I used the word “podgy” in a recent post (not to refer to anybody but as in if this state were to occur it would be an indicator of the answer to her question) and this upset a number of people.
Suggesting anyone might want to consider eating less on health grounds really sends them off!

On a thread about jewellery, just in passing I said I didn't wear a wedding ring.

A poster got really weirdly angry with me about it and said I was "beaming out signals" (her actual words) that I'm single, available, and constantly up for it.

I disagreed with her and just moved on.

Then she PMed me about it.

Then she appeared on a gardening thread I was on, and managed to crowbar in the fact I didn't wear a wedding ring. It was so odd - the thread was about geraniums, nothing whatsoever to do with wedding rings or DHs or marriage.

Oh & I stumbled onto a Royal board when I didn’t know the rules. It was about Royal style, I dared to say I didn’t like Kate’s outfit & was piled on by the gatekeepers!

I wonder if it was the same woman who went mental at me for suggesting fish, blood and bone instead of her own menstrual blood.

Gardening is scary.

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Blimey.

I don't know what they were thinking.
My Border Collies have been hard work too - but one of my best achievements was taking in a girl who was petrified of women to the point that she would soil herself and cower yet she turned into an extremely confident girl who adored me (and vice versa) and she lost her fear of women totally after a few years.
Another of my rescues became (temporarily) paralysed as a puppy after he'd caught a virus due to never having his injections and I worked with him 24/7 and against the odds got him from dragging himself across the floor to being a full on walking/leaping ball of nuttiness - he's now an old man but still leaps and jumps and runs as though he's a puppy.

They make wonderful pets when they have their needs met properly x

A poster was despairing about trouble she was experiencing with her son. I merely sympathised with her and wished her well. I then got another poster, "Bluntness" something or other, having a right go at me. This poster was actually verbally abusive towards me, they called me some really offensive names, all because I'd wished this poor woman well in dealing with her son. I was new to mumsnet and it really shocked me. I've since found out this person was notorious for verbally attacking people on here. On the other hand, I once had to go to hospital for a very traumatic procedure and the support I got from people on here was amazing. I was totally on my own in the world at the time and, even as I sat in the car park waiting to go in, I received messages of support from people on mumsnet and it meant the absolute world to me.

Some people know nothing about the thing being discussed or have formed an opinion from the media or one friend or neighbour

I see it on adhd threads where people come on just to say it doesn’t exist and it’s bad parenting. I wish!

I once posted about my dad and the impact his incredibly toxic family had on him (and us) and was scolded that I must be wrong about it. By a complete stranger on MN.

And I told an OP very gently that they were BU but it was understandable as I had had similar feelings in the same position and wished them well. I certainly wasn't the only poster to say it as 99% of the thread was made up of similar sentiments and it was actually a gently and supportive thread. Some delightful nutter sent me a PM to tell me that if the OP committed suicide off the back of that thread it would be my fault and I should leave MN permanently and never post again.

Lol I remember the giving the house away post 🤣

@Pilgrimlady that poster was an utter saddo. I don’t think they had anything better to do than insult posters. So weird.

defending teachers is another one. Even the worst behaviour is excused away. Has to be the parent or the child’s fault. There seems to be no acceptance that, as with other professions, there are a proportion who have gone into it for the wrong reasons or just aren’t suited to it

So do I .
And even then they all tried to out do each other in true MN four Yorkshire men style. "Well I'd give them my house and one of my kidneys, just in case they ever need a spare one" type carry on 🙄.

@BeardySchnauzer I stay away from any threads about teachers. They are crazy, you cannot remotely criticise a teacher & as you say posters will bend over backwards to excuse bad behaviour. I come from a teacher family & have worked in schools, there is so much bullshit written but you can’t correct it.

When I agree with PP about a point and add an extra point to make it less repetitive and more original but the OP singles out my post as if I was the only one disagreeing with them 🤷🏿‍♀️

That at time day at beach wasn't a free or cheap option for us.

At time lived in midlands and didn't drive - and train fares alone made it a very expensive option. Apparently I should have excluded tranport costs from the cost of the day - despite fact I'd still have to come up with the money for it.

They wouldn't let it go. We've since moved much closer to the coast but don't go that often - it's often a hassel and tends to work out more expensive than planned for us - though enjoy beach when we do beach hoildays.

I remember that it was complicated

That some divorced people have remarried in a Catholic Church. Can’t have happened ever apparently. Despite it having happened.

I remember that it was complicated

Right. I will be giving them my house, my car, my life savings, my firstborn child, AND I am going to be giving them THREE kidneys. I will refuse anaesthetic during the operation so I can spend the entire procedure reassuring them that they're not inconveniencing me in any way.

I've also signed over my skeleton to them so they can use it as a coat stand in their brand new free house.

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Baby ones are where I've been jumped on. It took a while to realise that if one had an easy pregnancy, birth and a baby who knew how to behave from Day 1, ie fed and slept well, then it isn't to be mentioned, horror stories only are allowed!

There was a post asking if anyone could remember what a particular picture book was. Someone then added about 5 posts of suggestions of adult fantasy novels.
I got my head bitten off for pointing out that the OP mentioned picture books so the suggestions were unlikely to be the ones.

And don’t even mention not exclusively breastfeeding

I dared to type that Megan Duchess of Sussex,had a white father, apparently that's irreverent, because she is a black woman, and they insisted my post was removed.