to have a strange reaction to aibu threads?

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For instance, someone might post "aibu to think people with dirty fingernails are a bit mingin'?"
Now, in real life if I see someone with dirty fingernails I'd think it a bit minging too, but I'd likely reply that they were being unreasonable.
Doesn't make sense, but I cant be the only person because aibu threads are very much at odds with rl I think, where we all just tend to rub along.
Maybe its tha act of posting and inviting others to join in on the judgeyness that gets my back up? Like, thinking it is one thing but you cross a line when inviting a bunch of other people to come and point and sneer too...?

YABVVVVVVVVU! Totally agree - they bring out the righteous twunt person in most of us!

Its GOOD though - it makes you really analyse dirty fingernails (or whatever) and think of it in a different way.

Would you say generally you are either less judgey or more "fair" or "considered" in your judginess in real life from having been on this board?

I honestly think it is character building and quite good personal development!

Good point sloanypony - yes definitely think I am more considered in my judgeyness for having been on MN and possibly AIBU in particular.

In RL you tend not to think too much about e.g. dirty fingernails - your reaction is automatic, thoughtless. When you post, you have to think it through to put it into words, and so you can come up different. So I suppose the act of posting can affect how you see something. Plus, sometimes someone else's post can make me see something in a different light.

Well the person with the dirty fingernails may have been gardening, or they might have a genetic predisposition to having dirty fingernails, or they might just want them like that...what is it to you??

Oh.

They don't exist.

MN is brilliant for finding all sorts of angles to situations you'd never think of in a million years, compulsive, sometimes car crash viewing.

you too are inviting strangers to come and opine.so how does that differ from any aibu.on line isnt comparable to rl so doesn't equate that what goes on rl cuts it in mn