to want there to be a recognised term for when people answer questions you did not ask in your OP

[ellifino]

OP: How long do I need to cook a soft boiled egg for?

Answer: Soft boiled eggs are very high in cholesterol you know. Why not have some steamed fish?

Answer: Why are you cooking at this time of day?

Answer: Are you pregnant OP? Because you shouldn't eat them soft boiled if you are.

Answer: Have you thought about going on a cookery course OP? Sure Start are running them these days.

Answer: Leave the bastard!!

This often happens on my threads and it would be useful to be able to say without snark "thanks everyone, but can you all stop [insert phrase here] because I really just need to know how long to boil an egg!"

and LOL at reindeer (with her name ) worried about swearing

Ooh , irrelevanting was mine! How exciting

I just used ADVICEWANG on a thread.

I liked irrelevanting but then I was hit by advicewang... love it!

I am loving this thread :)

I think you could advicewang or irrelevant (hmm not a good verb word) as long as you answer the question as well?

Advicewang is excellent.

so its ok to post " leave the bastard" as long as you also leave a few tips about polishing sinks?

there already is an advice wang

Surely it depends how big the egg is....? You didn't specify which species in your OP, OP.

Of course you do realise that any term created on MN that makes it into the OED will naturally be the property of Mumsnet.....

Tosses Smugvice into the ring....

Love all these

Advicewang is great, and helpy

Smugvice is a related phenomenon, much beloved of MN

At what point will you take definitive vote, OP

Still like irrelevanting best although I accept the argument about the responses not always being utterly irrelevant.

Topicshifting
Tangentchasing

Although these are verbs and i think we are looking for a noun?

It's more clustervising really, that deluge of helpy hints and IMHOing..

Voting for advicewang here!

You can't get high cholesterol by eating cholesterol. It's one of the great big fat lies the government tells us. Eggs are fine.

My 16 yr old niece calls it 'randoming'

e.g. 'I asked her how to boil an egg and she started randoming on about cholesterol levels'

'randoming on', rather

There was so much irrelevanting on your pushchair thread swiperstopswiping it made me (sorry but I found it v. funny).

Did you find a suitable pushchair in the end?

Yeah I bought the Maclaren in the end hormonesnomore.

It was shit. Should have bought the Nipper 360 and got rid of the dog