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 started a sentence with “You know” as in “You know, I’m a bit left of centre but…” I forgot to put a comma after “You know” and a woman got irate and said “How am I supposed to know that? I don’t even know your user name?” I slunk off.

On the Style and Beauty thread I said that people don't always need to follow fashion slavelessy but could decide themselves whether to abandon their skinny jeans in favour of barrel jeans if they felt better about them. It didn't go down at all well and when I said I had actually worked in the fashion industry for 4 years after Uni I was greeted with torrents of abuse and one poster kept asking me to prove I had worked in fashion and when I declined to give the name of the company (small, niche, very upmarket very successful) this poster took it as red that I was a bare faced liar. It was very strange.

I think I remember laughing a lot at your DH expectations of gratitude.🤣

Oh no I bullet point everything and have done for years. And will continue to do so because it makes it easier for my brain to separate topics.

My late Dad was very proud of the plants in his garden that came from cuttings taken at various stately homes!

A few things I can remember

I said that I gave my secondary school age children a lift to school and picked them up every day as they didn’t like using the bus. A poster told me I was spoiling them, that I was the reason the planet is on fire, that my children won’t achieve anything in life and my husband must be miserable because I clearly have no life. 😬

For using an ‘Americanism’. Not acceptable on a UK site apparently.

I gave advice on how to eat well on a vegan diet, which the poster asked for, and another poster quoted me to say that all vegans are unhealthy, with rubbish hair and looked 20 years older than they are.

For saying that I wouldn’t let a neighbour I hardly knew use our shower if hers was broken. One poster really laid into me saying I was selfish, asking where my community spirit was and said she hopes I don’t have children to show such an unkind example to. They even PM’d me to tell me how unkind I was. 🤪

A couple of days ago I did an AIBU because I give cold drinks to delivery drivers and a friend thinks I'm insane.

Apparently I "sit by the door, waiting for victims, so she can give them something out of her self-image-fridge".

I don't even know what a self-image-fridge is.

Not me but I remember a poster getting roasted for using the phrase ‘mad as a box of frogs’ Think MNHQ had to get involved in the discussion of whether the phrase was acceptable or not

Under a previous alias, I was responding to a thread from an OP who asked if it was unreasonable of her to ask her aunt (I think?) not to kiss her newborn baby, when she suffers from frequent cold sores.

I was supportive of OP's decision but was met with a tirade from a couple of posters who accused me of being a terrible mother for a variety of reasons, mostly based on a complete misunderstanding of how immunity works. One of them also presumed my stance to mean that I shielded my own child from their entire family in general and wished me "luck in getting free childcare" when my child was older.

None of which made sense because my family was, and still is, very active in my child's life. Bizarre.

I think there is a lot of projection on here...

I started a thread because my landlord popped over for something and opened my bedroom curtains that were still closed and I thought it was weird.

A woman absolutely went off on me because "if I keep the curtains closed all the time I will get damp and mildew" me explaining that they were only still closed as I'd been getting dressed and that all the other curtains in the flat were open fell on deaf ears. By the end she had decided I never open the curtains OR windows and the landlord was going to have me evicted because of the mould. I was a nightmare Tennant and never cleaned my flat.

All because I left the curtains closed so.the residents of tbe flat nect door were spared the sight of my minge.

I started a thread a couple of weeks ago complaining about people who tell you how rubbish they 'know' Eurovision is, even though they clearly haven't watched it for decades/ever, yet they assume they are the experts who know more than the actual fans.

I fully accept that brevity isn't my strong point; but I was laying out several of the tired, cliched proclamations that are always trotted out and my responses to them.

The thread got completely sidetracked by people declaring with confidence that I'd obviously used AI for my OP, and even arguing with me when I said that I personally hate AI - it would no more occur to me to start an OP using AI than it would to write it in Japanese (which I assuredly do not speak). They picked up on my use of speech marks and italics as 'proof' that it must be a robot, as apparently actual people just wouldn't be able to do this!!

I can only assume that, if you can put together a couple of coherent paragraphs that aren't liberally littered with SPAG errors and slang, some people cannot fathom that plenty of us did go to school and are confident in using our native language all on our own.

I did consider starting another thread in Site Stuff calling for AI-hunting to be banned the same as troll-hunting is. It's so tedious and really does detract from the point being discussed.

Maybe it's a new online 'sport' for bored people with far too much time on their hands - the same as the people who search for a thread that doesn't interest them and then eagerly choose to engage and participate in that thread purely to tell the people on it that it doesn't interest them! I suppose it could also be some kind of Main Character Syndrome, whereby they just cannot understand that the internet is for the entire world - billions of people - and thus that a great deal of it won't be all about them or relevant/interesting to them.

@IAmKerplunk is it acceptable? 😆

I got told off for describing my engagement ring, go figure! 🤔

I once joined in a thread about "how much do you spend on groceries" and was told I was making it up and "they would never really know the truth about my actual spending" because I said I buy milk and the odd tin etc as top ups in the big shop through the week.
And was asked "But where's the bread!??" a lot despite listing all the ingredients to make bread and saying that I do, in fact, make my own bread.

I said my sons actually name on a baby name thread. OP said he liked the name & was considering using it and I commented "my 19yr old is called Kai & it really suits him" About 6 got their Cath Kitson pinny in a tangle over it.

I think this is my favourite thread ever.

Being a feminist makes some people very cross with you!

To misquote Samantha from SATC, "If I worried about what every bitch on MN was saying about me, I'd never leave the house."

I once wrote a typo

Along the lines of 'their' instead of 'there' or 'where' instead of 'were' (i cant remember)

Thing is,im dyslexic and make extra effort because of it with everything i write,anywhere-i always check but the odd one will slip through

I was told 'you made a mistake,is it because your thick?'

I was so upset (because im not thick) I added a disclaimer to the next few posts about being dyslexic because I was so paranoid about coming across as dim,until another poster told me not to worry about it as spelling trolling isnt allowed (to that poster,thank you)

I still triple check all my posts and have got dp (who isnt dyslexic) to check occasionally before I press 'post'

I remember sobbing on his shoulder because I felt so fucking stupid over one letter and he read it back-i hadn't even made the mistake they said I had!

I saw this 😂

Fashion holds a huge interest for many, many people who like to know, explore and take a cue from the latest looks and trends - nothing whatsoever wrong with that; but you do get a minority of people who like to use it as a means to bully people who aren't interested/bothered/knowledgeable about what 'everybody is/isn't wearing now' - and they treat it like some kind of law that everybody must abide by and be soundly rebuked and shamed if they dare to ignore it and make their own personal choices instead.

I honestly can’t remember what the final decision was 🤣 but it was all bat shit 😂

I always dropped off & picked my 3 boys from secondary school. The one they went to finished at 15:30 if they waited around for the bus they'd be home for 17:30 as the bus went all over the world before it dropped near our home. If i went and got them they were home for 15:50. Husband didn't care and did it when i couldn't. All can now drive one is a carpenter, one is a painter and decorator and a football coach on a weekend & one is well into his plumbing apprenticeship with our local council. Made absolutely no fkin difference to the adults they became. People are mental on MN.

I got accused of bullying once because I tried to make someone see why the school holidays don't make teaching 'a part-time job'.

And someone once got very irked with me for pointing out that not everyone thinks Christmas ends on Boxing Day.