Mumsnet things that make me not to want to help. Or even engage…

[CurlewKate]

“His hobby” “Person A and person B” Or even worse “Person A-let’s call them Sid”

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Never read those posts…just get to the point.

There used to be a MN trend of patronising people by making a statement and making it into a rhetorical question by adding "no?" at the end.

You could do workouts while your newborn naps, no?

I'm glad that's stopped, it was extremely irritating, not least because the statement was generally not a self evident truth but a bloody stupid suggestion or completely incorrect assumption.

No paragraphs.

Recently there are a lot of poor little rich girl threads where people on over 100k claim they're worse off than their cleaner because they don't get subsidised nursery fees unless they put extra money into their pension, but don't appreciate being asked how the cleaner's cleaner is doing financially, and how much their employer's contribution to their cleaner's pension sets them back...

‘My sibling’ as if it’s going to be very outing to know if it’s a brother or sister they have

My favourites are when posters make up an elaborate and dramatic rouse to catch out a cheating partner that involves travelling many miles, booking hotel rooms, posing as secretaries, calling hotels with made up stories about lost luggage, calling around every restaurant in a city to see where a booking might have been made etc and telling them you have forgotten where you booked in case they ask.
Or telling the OP to say something and ‘watch his reaction’… 🙄

Exception that proves the rule then!

Yes! Why the fuck are they on a discussion board if they can no longer use their brain and have to outsource thinking to a program?

Yeah would normally agree but she came across as such a lovely gentle poster, as one would imagine an 18th century lover of playing wind instruments would be, who had this absolutely horrid man in their group.

Not sure why I remember it so well, I think it was because all the other posters were amused when she revealed her hobby and were like “yeah ok that is pretty unique”.

Can’t remember how it ended. Hope it was good as the other hobby thread where some rotters were ganging up on a mother and daughter to give an awful women a lift there and back.

Kudos for the use of the marvellous word 'rotters' .

As it happens I used to play in a Baroque music group as a teenager but it was mostly Bach, Telemann and Handel, so German rather than French. We were a bit niche though!

The ones telling you to do something.

AIBU to remind you to drive less?
To use less water?
To wear a face mask?
To not let your cat outside?
To think about climate change?

any post in the wrong topic

@scalt yes! It makes me (and pretty much everyone else on MN) descend into petulant teenagers even if I quite agree with them.

What people say 'am I the only one who' then it's something really mundane. Yeah, you are the only one in the entire world who doesn't like peas, you are that special 🙄

@Changeisstillpossiblei hate “discuss@. In my head I am saying to them “No. Who the fuck do you think you are?” It’s not even polite, and it’s incredibly patronising.

The longest OP

There's a whole board under feminism and almost always some active threads. It's omnipresent

Even worse is Ddog.

Thoughts?

Random long posts with a massive story at the start that has no relevance to the point. The poster will start with family life as a child up to including marriage and children, then add in numerous other points. To quickly add in at the end that they don't like there work or something like why? Just why?

I saw DSIL the other day, and couldn't work out whether it was son-in-law or sister-in-law.

I think it’s fine to quote the OP to bring the thread back on track. Sometimes it gets derailed and I deliberately quote the OP to avoid getting caught up in a bunfight.

Or a reverse