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!

When I said the success many people have losing weight with mounjaro etc proves that the basic ‘calories in, calories out’ logic works. Take a drug that reduces your appetite = weight loss.

But apparently I don’t understand and got told repeatedly that obesity is much more complicated that this. Yes, the reasons people overeat are complicated and multifaceted, but the basic logic of eating too many calories and putting on weight still holds true.

Omg what arseholes! Ridiculous as well.

I broke my shoulder and it was absolutely horrific. They couldn't put any plaster so it was just in this crappy ill fitting sling. I broke my hip at the same time and needed extensive surgery but the shoulder was worse! It felt like my elbow and wrist were also broken and it was my dominant too.

Took about 12 weeks to fully heal. Still can't lift my arm up properly 4 years later!

Anyone who thinks you are not extremely vulnerable and only semi mobile with a broken shoulder has never fucking had one!

@ClashCityRocker I think I remember your thread. So bizarre.

I've had a few. I made some comment on a long thread about something good DH does off the back of someone whose Dh was a plonkler. And I got attacked by someone who told me that first I say my husband is a wanker and now I'm singing his praises, which is it? I couldn't work out what was going on. It turne dout, she was referring to an old thread (like a year or more old) that I'd started about something DH had done (and he'd subsequently apologised). I started name changing after that as I still don't know if she was stalking me, or if she was obsessively back searching every poster.

My funniest one was the abuse I took from one poster - I think over 3 or 4 posts - because I mentioned I sometimes give DS salami in his sandwiches for his packed lunch. Apparently he's now doomed and will die of cancer young. I could practically see her frothing at the mouth through her keyboard!

Hmm, I wonder if that US poster also angrily corrects anybody using 'America' when they're only referring to a single one out of nearly three dozen countries in America?

I said a drank about 3 glasses of wine a week and had a comment telling me I was ruining my physical and mental health.

I was told I was incredibly lazy for a SAHM because I expected my husband to do 50/50 housework and parenting when he wasn't at work and that during the day I wasn't doing loads of housework except basic cleaning and tidying as I went. I had 3 children under 6 who weren't in childcare and I was also heavily pregnant 😂

I'm Scottish and I've been called worse 😂 Wtf were you meant to call him?

From what I remember the shock was a little more than a slight buzz. I laughed at the stupidity of the teacher, as was mentioned in the post. But that was apparently not something that was amusing 😁

I moaned about my neighbour putting rubbish on top of my bin on bin day so it might have stopped the bin men collecting it. (Her house must have been like Steptoe’s yard the amount of stuff she was always chucking away). I said both had vehicles and their sons who do manual jobs (joiner and carpet fitter) were always visiting so surely someone could have gone to the tip 5 minutes away as they all seemed able bodied enough…well that lit a fire under one user who kept saying what did I know, invisible disabilities etc etc. I said they drive, work and go to the gym regularly and both sons (who visit at least 3 days a week) do manual jobs but she wouldn’t stop ffs it was relentless. I eventually had to ignore her…all that over a petty gripe post. Yes I accept invisible disabilities exist but at the same time they were able enough to take their shit to the tip! I watched her fly tip stuff into a builders skip across the road!

People like me who are child free typically get told that "my child will end up wiping your bum" when we dare to complain that we get none of the financial subs and handouts that parents get. Yet its our tax money which finances them. I pointed out that this is a dumb thing to say because no one can predict what any one child will amount to when they reach adulthood. Even less that any particular child will perform services for any particular adult. Several posters got their knickers in a right twist because I had remarked how predictable and inane such remarks were.

One (male) poster got very, very irate with me because I met my partner at work and slept with him while we were still working together. No amount of explaining to him that my DP and I have now been together for 23 years, so it all worked out well, could convince him that we hadn't done something incredibly stupid or that my DP wasn't going to be accused of sexually harassing and assaulting me.

The same poster still pops up from time to time on here with increasingly weird, rigid and incel-adjacent views about women, sex and relationships.

Another poster got really angry with me because I mostly wear black clothes, including during summer. She said it was unfair of me, because if other people wear black it made her feel miserable. She also suggested that I must be mentally ill or disturbed in some way if I prefer black to bright colours.

I don't think I was the disturbed one in the conversation, tbh.

I got many angry comments for saying Queen Elizabeth the first was never queen of Scotland. Nit picking apparently.

I was once attacked by some mad poster after I made a really innocuous, unimportant comment on a topic that isn't traditionally a controversial one. It was something like the equivalent of me saying that I really don't like custard creams, but not in the least criticising those who do like them.

She took huge offence and advance-searched me since I first joined MN, to look for any 'dirt' on me. The worst she could find was me talking about (e.g. the equivalent of) particularly liking certain Easter eggs and looking forward to them appearing in the shops each year, and apparently that was proof positive of me exposing myself as being a big fat liar - because I'd already said that I didn't like custard creams, but now I was contradicting myself by claiming that I did like some kinds of chocolate!!

I regularly name-change now, because of people like her - and others who cannot accept that different people have different views on some topics and seek to 'shame' and bully them away from 'their' forum, where they only want people who agree with them.

Honestly, I don't know if it's just pure, unbridled nastiness or if a lot of them are actually seriously mentally unwell.

I got called racist at work by referring to a gentleman from Africa as African. There was a guy who if you mentioned any nationality of ethnicity he would say you were racist. All you had to say was ‘oh X yes he’s from India!’ And he be like ‘that’s so fucking racist!’ Erm no it’s factual.

I once posted that I felt the Beatles were over rated and got called thick and uneducated, as well as other names, the poster followed me onto other threads to berate me as well.

I think it was probably Paul McCartney.

Posted what my husbands salary was as a police officer and was told I was a liar despite the salaries of every rank of police officer being clearly stated in the public domain.

Not to me but the weirdest one i’ve seen was someone commenting on a thread about stingy friends. Someone commented their own example: A friend who adds up what they’ve had on a restaurant bill, and will suggest going halves when it means she gets to pay for less than she’s had, but then when it’s the other way around will insist she’s only paying for her own rather than foot a couple of quid extra. Commenter clarified that friend has a well paid job and no children so financial issues were not a factor.

Someone replied saying that the commenter is the stingy one and should pay for her friends entire lunch once in a while as a thank you to the friend for her tax contributions because she hasn’t ever used a publicly funded maternity leave or school place due to having no kids.

Ah yeah I've witnessed similar to this! It's so odd.

I posted on here that I was planning a homebirth - I got completely piled on and labelled a baby killer. It was MENTAL.

I got told off for going to Tesco mid week during lockdown as bread and milk (which is what I went to get) are not 'staple items'.

I had one woman who had a go at me on a 'do you wear underwear underneath your pyjamas' thread because I said I didn't. She started ranting saying 'what about discharge!' at me.

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I once said I hated "This womans work" or whatever it is called by Kate Bush was berated and was told i was probably a man !

I've had that happen to me. I posted on a baby name thread and pointed out that the name they suggested has a nickname / shorter version which might be used to bully the kid. She name changed and then started following me on other threads I had commented on calling me stupid etc.

There are two hilarious ones.

I said I think the beetles are overrated..

I said I could see both sides of the argument. (I cant even remember what the argument was now). Not being firmly one side or the other made the poster very cross. It was so funny.

Ha! I bet it was the same thread/poster..

You are not being unreasonable - it’s vile stuff 😀