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 said i watch gbnews live.
I said fillers make you look older.
I dont have kid's.
Also said some women are as bad as men.
And I have about 1 and half loads of washing a week.
And many more.

Ive been called awful things on here also had two stalkers at one point.

Someone fairly recently took exception to posters on the Premium Bond winners thread for having a spare £50K (£100K for couples) to invest.

No idea why they were looking as it's obvious that the people on that thread will either be affluent or privileged enough to have received a large inheritance.

I've noticed this a lot recently - people clicking on threads that make them angry. Why?

I've seen quite a few people coming on to threads and posting that others shouldnt be posting on that thread and that everyone posting on that thread is "disgusting" or whatever. Yet they posted on it themselves! 🤣

If you know a topic riles you up that much then dont look at it!

It's been found that the emotion most likely to make people interact with online content is anger. Hence ragebait.

It's why I finally quit Facebook and deleted my account. It was full of content mill shite and then it started ragebaiting me, and THAT was what made me angry enough to quit completely.

I was told I made up my job. If I was going to pretend to be something it would be a damn sight more interesting than a boring old solicitor! Slightly depressing that a poster couldn’t get her head round a woman having a run of the mill job like that.

Also they my DDs name sounded like a boat. Which is actually a fair comment and there are worse things to sound like.

Interesting. I dont tend to click on stuff that annoys me because I dont like being annoyed. There are so many nicer/more pleasant things to do in life.

To me, its the equivalent of continually eating a food you really hate and then moaning about how awful it is!

I got piled on and laughed at for suggesting an agree button would be helpful and stop 100s of posts saying "this" "agree"
Apparently mumsnet is above that sort of nonsense and I should go back to chavvy Facebook where I belong.
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It's designed to hook onto something that starts strong feelings in you. Think of a controversial topic or offensive position (sexism or misogyny or something) and I can see why people feel an urge to interact with it. It's what trolls thrive on.

I once described someone as Scottish.

Reader: he was Scottish.

I think there are a couple of no-no topics on here which is sad because this should be an open forum for everyone but unfortunately there is a horrible sense of 'know it all ism' on here with some people.

Topics which can't be calmly discussed

• Relaxing when trying to conceive
• Delaying/spreading out children's vaccines - or dare I say it, not vaccinating at all
• Homebirth
• Home Educating
• Suggesting bad behaviour is down to excessive screen use and poor parenting - not some sort of ND/ism
• Voting for Reform or Restore

As a new poster many year’s ago (under a different name) I said people in abusive relationships would leave easier if they had the money to do so, if they suddenly found themselves multi millionaires for instance, they would be less likely to stay (my ex was an alcoholic so was trying to convey how much easier and quicker it would have been to leave the moment I wanted to, had I had lots of money). So many posters were furious with me for saying it (I still don’t understand why it caused so much fury), that I fled MN in a huge state of stress and I didn’t go back for years. I was too fragile at the time to voice opinions on the MN forum, especially as my only previous experience of it had been seeing a mum get piled on for giving her kid fish fingers for tea.

Someone asked if there were any side effects of WLI that were only just becoming apparent. This was when WLI were becoming popular. I commented that I had heard that gastroparesis was a side effect and that it sounds frightening. I was then subjected to a rant by someone else saying all meds can have side effects (of course, I'm not saying otherwise) who ended up asking if I thought she should stop taking her antidepressants as they have side effects! I should have ignored it, but I replied that I was just answering a question posed by someone else and that her medication is nothing to do with me. Someone else chipped in telling her to ignore me as people like me have no sympathy and don't care about others' feelings. It was completely ridiculous.

Absolute pile on when I said I was a teacher but I had been at home with my children for five years. Apparently that meant that I was no longer a teacher and they would be horrified to find out their children had been taught by me. I have been back at work for a year and can confirm I am still a teacher and none of the parents are horrified 😂

I saw a canadian you tuber with parents from two different island locations neither near India who have very different curry dishes and going through 200 years of evolving dishes round the world where it's been adopted and adapated by many cultures. That was triggered by US citizens being very unaware of curry being anything but Indian and shouting about cultural appropriation.

I got told off by one that was later clearly US based poster about using geographical designation term British Isles - to clearer refer to the archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwestern coast of continental Europe which consists of over 6,000 islands, including Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, and the Orkney, Shetland, and Fair Isle. Apparently it was an offensive term and I was denying the existance of the country of Republic Ireland - I apologized and tried to explain but wasn't enough.

Since found terms The Atlantic Archipelago, The Anglo-Celtic Isles and these Islands can be used instead but I had to go and look that up myself.

By suggesting that someone that had a voucher for a shop they didn’t really like could donate it. Apparently nobody is ever allowed to keep anything for themselves as a poster always pops up to suggest donating 🤷‍♀️

People hate me because I'm direct. I can't help it, I'm autistic and not inclined to mask. "Autism is not an excuse".

Also had someone threaten to sue me recently, can't remember why. I think it was for disagreeing with them. They were deadly serious about it!

I made the mistake of saying I loved having an only child and wasn’t built for more than one child (which is lucky as we took years to have our DS and prob couldn’t have any more). I was completely piled on with such vitriol that I was so upset. Someone said I deserved to be alone and sad in my old age due to my attitude. Posters came from nowhere to pile on! I still think about it now from time to time.

For saying Gordon Brown was a decent man. A poster then started having a go at me saying I couldn’t possibly know that and went on a tirade about everything he was doing wrong as PM.
When I said I knew him personally and my family member had went through school with him she still said I was wrong.
Was totally bizarre to the point other posters stepped in and told her she was being ridiculous.

I had something similar- a family member's wife is from Barbados and she is a fabulous cook and a vegan and I said I love being invited over for her lovely food. This started a pile on where I was called racist for mentioning I have a relative who isn't white.

I was aggressively attacked and insulted by a pp on a thread about autism. I know, I know - it's a minefield.

I was responding to a pp with a situation like mine (adult daughter who had herself assessed in her 20s and was diagnosed with...I daren't say what, in case someone else goes up in a blue flame!!) what would once upon a time have been called mild Aspergers.

She did not exhibit particularly obvious traits as a child/teenager - maybe a strong dislike of some foods and a tendency to speak loudly and at lenghth, but nothing obvious.

Because this happened about 10 years ago, when she was already an adult, we listened to her and didn't bother to read up exhaustively or to research the condition as you would with more profoundly affected or a younger child. She's very 'normal' in most areas.

Well - my terminology was out of date, and while I would have been happy and humble to be corrected politely, I don't think I deserved the vicious attack I got from this pp. It was vile - and I was called a terrible parent and blamed for my daughter's awful situation.

But we have, and always have had, a lovely relationship and she isn't and hasn't been in a terrible situation.

Totally willing to admit I was not up to speed with terminology but this pp was horrible and did upset me for some time.

I once said my two (close in age) children were expected to share toys when they were young. (They are 13&14 now, and share stuff still... they gave up working out whose school shirts were whose, they share books, board games, sports gear... anything they only really need occasionally)

Pretty much child abuse apparently.

What kind of superpower? Telekinesis, Pyrokinetic, Shapeshifting?
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Sometimes my sense of humour gets me into trouble. I once had someone go and read all my other comments on threads and conclude that I was a nasty bigot, including quoting from the other threads! I was impressed that they went to so much trouble just because they didn't like one of my tongue-in-cheek remarks.

Well, obviously, you'd not capitalised Nazi, and the grammar Nazi got peeved
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Terry Wogan always used to speak about the many people who would purposefully sit in front of their TVs and next to their radios, just waiting to be offended!