to be a bit sick of reading "don't you know there's a --war-- recession on?!" on here?

[AKMD]

An AIBU about AIBU, I know...

It's starting to grate that whenever a thread comes up about some minor, but nonetheless perplexing parenting question, a large proportion of the responses include something like, "Is that all you have to worry about? Seriously, don't you know we're in the biggest financial crisis of all time/the icecaps are melting/children are starving in Africa?" I've had a few of those responses myself and roll my eyes because even though I was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, am having counselling to save my marriage and am perilously close to being made redundant, I still care about DS and the little things that affect his life.

Are we not allowed to post about minor annoyances anymore?

[manicbmc]

There are plenty of threads that make me roll my eyes. I usually avoid them.

[AKMD]

Susanne, you made me win my own game of Bingo on the other thread. Just sayin' :) But I cheated to get the charity bit in so it's ok.

[SusanneLinder]

Generally YANBU, but one or two threads do make me roll my eyes and wonder why the OP is getting in such a tizzy. :)

[AKMD]

The meerkats are bourgois fat cats as far as I'm concerned. They have dressing gowns while the rabbits are locked in freezing hutches hounded by foxes.

[KaraStarbuckThrace]

YABU

WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE MEERKATS???

[hwink]

[manicbmc]

I blame Bob Geldof.

[soandsosmummy]

Indeed Manicbmc - I've just dropped off all my designer clothes at Oxfam. I know i could have sold them on ebay and paid the electric bill but there are children starving in the third world you know and of course there's a recession so lots of people will be delighted to get my cast offs at such a reasonable price.

[TheBrideofFrankenstein]

YANBU except if the petty irritation being cited by the OP is workmen shitting in their loo. Then the OP is being irredeemably unreasonable and deserves to receive a 3 hr lecture on the current economic shit pit we're all in.

[manicbmc]

You should all be knitting ice cubes to send to the Arctic or something.

As well as competitive martyrdom, there's the occasional competitive charity giving.

[AKMD]

Why is there no stick-out-tongue emoticon?!

[MrsHuxtable]

I always roll my eyes at the phrase in the current economic climate. I don't know why it annoys me so so much, because I do know times aren't rosy, but it just seems to be very overused.

[HeadlessLamAAARRRGHHHH]

ScaredBear beat me to it.

[Ormirian]

I think that responses along the lines of 'Oh FFS! Don't you know there's a war on' are a bit justifiable if the OP is starting to froth at the mouth with rage at some hapless individual or organisation who hasn't reached the OP's high expectations!.

It's always worth getting some perspective if you are about to launch a tirade of outrage at someone. Even if it just means you employ less extreme language. There aren't many thing in our daily lives that actually warrant the sort of fury that AIBU contains from time to time. And if AIBU helps to dissipate that then it's doing a useful job.

[LisasCat]

Or on the flip side people try to make the trivial thing you're bitching about into a massive deal, even though it isn't, and you genuinely are just posting quite flippantly. I recently moaned about DP having a lie in, and some people blew things out of all proportion, pretty much telling me he was a selfish git, and I should leave the bastard.

Can't we just come on and say "AIBU to dislike the colour green", without either being told we're emotional abusers, or accused of belittling the Middle Eastern situation.

[AKMD]

You don't want to know, believe me.

[BeyondLimitsOfTheLivingDead]

cannibal thread????

[LaWeasel]

I like a bit of a totally minor grumble when their is major drama going on. It's distracting.

YANBU, unless the economy/polar bears(?!) etc are genuinely relevant to the thread

[LydiaWickham]

YANBU - I remember a couple of years ago, being in a bit of a grump about something or other and a friend who's mother had just died asked me what was wrong, I said something along the lines of "nothing compared to what you've been going through, not going to grumble" and she said that just because she was going through massive shitiness, didn't make my shitiness any less shitty, so what was the problem and she'd see if she could help.

She's lovely. And right.

Other people having big problems don't make your smaller problems any less of a problem.

[AKMD]

Manic, go and post on the Greenpeace forum then

YY to the deleted threads. I want to know what got so bad. Apart from the cannibal one. That had to be one of the sickest things I've ever seen in my life.

[proudfoot]

YANBU

[blackeyedsusan]

akmd, given the load you are carrying already, the little things can be the straw that broke the camels back. you never really know what else is going on for people. yadnbu

btlotld.... no that would be a good idea... nothing more annoying than getting to the juicy bit and pfft gone.

[manicbmc]

I don't know how you have the time and energy to make a thread about this. All of my time and energy is spent worrying about poverty and Polar bears.

[Shakey1500]

BLOTLD thanks :)