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”

Wait…something that can be googled.

Does anyone know how to XYZ…yeah love, Google does

Poor spag when it’s clear the poster is just being lazy.

Is it ok if they’re just being dyslexic? How can you possibly tell the difference?

Oh, I like Ddog! I always imagine it pronounced by a stuttering Scooby Doo.

When people use GIFs 😩

“I need a name got my 4th (imaginary) child, to join Jocasta, Jacinta and Jasper”

I agree it's not always possible to tell if the person just has dyslexia, but when it's clearly verging on text-speak it's irritating. Doesn't dyslexia only affect spelling anyway?

Any thread moaning about warm or sunny weather. I hide those.

”Is it ok if I’m 8st 2 at X height?”
or any weight-related opener. Cue 1334256646 differing posts about various methods of competitive undereating and 55789766 posters who feel “huge” at 8st2 and who are still full from the one fish finger they ate in 2008

No, it’s much more complex than that. It affects every aspect of language processing.

AIBUs when

• The thread title is just "AIBU?"
• It is something so completely bland nobody gives a fuck either way ("AIBU to wear brown socks instead of black ones?"
• The question is something nobody would ever find unreasonable ("AIBU to take my umbrella when it is pouring rain outside?")
• It is ridiculously off-topic and they are lamely pretending it's an AIBU rather than owning the fact they posted for traffic ("AIBU to see a line?")

They all just feel so spineless and weak, and like the OP is sat there wringing their hands in complete indecision about whether she could possibly, maybe, only if nobody would mind, its ok if you do mind, that she kept herself dry in a downpour.

Seems your own thread has made you not want to engage op. 🤣

I’m not sure that is worse, to be honest. If we’re sticking ‘D’ in front of everything then why not?

I think DP, DS, DD etc make sense because those letters could all look weird on their own.

’My p doesn’t like peas’ vs ‘My DP doesn’t like peas’. The latter is a convention that makes sense.

But the D in Ddog is completely redundant.

This. There was an AIBU about whether or not to wear a brooch recently! The OP all but admitted she’d posted it in AIBU for the traffic.

The unnecessary addition of the word ‘like’ into a sentence.

”I was just, like, going to the beach.”

I’ve noticed that on a number of occasions recently.

Is it really asking too much of people to just type out the word, though? How much time is it saving in reality? Don’t get me wrong, I know this is the convention and I’m completely outvoted on this one, it’s just something that winds me up. It’s a bit jarring to read about a bloke who’s been out all night taking cocaine and using prostitutes and see him referred to as someone’s dear husband. Plus a person’s dog is ‘dear’ to them.

EDIT: I do see what you mean about the redundancy, though! It would be like saying DSon or DPartner.

🤣

I see your point. It gets confusing when people use ‘DS’ to mean their sister and DSIL to mean their son in law.

Equally if an OP kept saying ‘my husband’ she would be told why does she keep repeating husband!

Yes, it’s not a perfect system by any means!

Judging by this thread, she could call him "Sid"?

Heh I think the D thing irritated me for about 4 years on here.

All the hyperbole!! The ‘screaming in my face’ ‘devastated’ over something that is disappointing at best, ‘super excited’ about very little…

Fair enough. My DH only has mild dyslexia, so it affects his spelling. However, the amount of poor SPAG on here is way more than the 10% of British adults that are estimated to be dyslexic.

A lot of it is people not being bothered (plenty of people are scornful of accuracy these days), and I think if you can’t be bothered to write your post then I can’t be bothered to read it.

Posters should consider that people with dyslexia also benefit from posts that are as clear and logical as possible.

I’m quite convinced that more than a few posters have a couple of glasses of wine of an evening and come onto MN looking for a fight with posts as squiffy as they are.

Nobody is going to demand perfection on MN, and they’re silly if they do, but a post does have to be legible at the very least.

Posters who take random details from the OP and ask irrelevant questions

'can I ask why you decided to not have children?'
'why didn't you go to/finish uni/'
'you can't drive, OP? why not?'
'why do you keep having children with him?'
'don't you know how bad that is for the environment?'

I don't mind those kinds of threads at all. I mean, they don't interest me personally in the least, but it's very clear what they're about from the outset - so that interested folk can join in and those who aren't can keep scrolling.

No different from the threads about anything else that you don't like, and so you give them a swerve and look for something of interest to you instead... apart from the ones titled 'Hilda Gribblethwaite has died - RIP 💔' - and people scroll and see this thread about somebody they've never heard of, and they feel that it will be greatly beneficial to everybody involved for them to join and participate in the thread to tell all of those on there that they've never heard of her.