to think that mumsnet is full of Hyacinth Buckets all bristling at other people's rudeness

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It seems that some posters are so indignant with rage at other people's rudeness there is the real danger that they might all spontaneously combust.

As long as everybody is happy and healthy then I don't give a flying fig whether you eat what I cook, wear the same dress as me or use the wrong spoon to eat your cereal.

"I don't get why so many people are so easily offended by other people"

Agree with you there! I must be too lazy - I don't have the energy to take offence.

offended is perhaps the wrong word . I get irritated I guess by some things not offended

YANBU.

I'm a fairly easy going person and I was happily operating under the assumption that most other people were too until I got sucked into AIBU (mostly lurking) a few weeks ago.

Now I imagine the silent tirade of abuse being hurled and me whenever there is a pause in conversation. I'd give it up if it weren't so entertaining because I'm sure it's no good for me.

and = at
[imagines someone foaming at the mouth for shoddy and lazy mistakes]

YANBU haha! I have often thought this - sometimes it feels like 90 per cent of MN posts are all about etiquette hang-ups

You don't think it could be a female thing do you....?

Yep. Fun, ain't it

The thing that gets me is that usually the thread ends up 50/50 - so it's all about perception isn't it

Posters never seem to think something is a little bit or slightly rude. No. Everything seems to be the height of rudeness. They either approve of you or think you have zero manners. Mumsnet is very monochrome.

It might be Bibulus.

I notice that most of the gripes are levied at other women who won't just FOLLOW THE BLOODY RULES!

That is probably because of the nature of the site but I sometimes wonder if it's one of the ways women perpetuate their own brand of casual misogyny.

ha ha! You are quite right......but its very funny

YANBU. But listening to the ranting of the chattering classes is fun.

How the hell do they manage to be constantly horrified by normal everyday behaviour, from even their own children .

I bet most of them have an appointment system before having sex with thier DP's.

God, I hope not. That's just what I tell myself when I think it's only a matter of time before someone grasses me up for mn judgement.

YANBU. Fab innit?

I think of her every time people get so fussy about their carpets!

Haha this is funny, in fact its nearing a Friday night funny

I imagine the site to be littered with slippers and hairnets where posters have spontaneously combusted

yabu but i do at the thought of women clutching pearls in angerat the lack of grammar on mumsnet

yes but how bloody rude of them not to tidy up after themselves

We were offline for a bit there.

Another one must have gone up in smoke.

YANBU at all....but it takes quite a lot to offend me

And I think I LIKE my friends and family much more than most on here...like you OP, I dont mind if they eat or not eat the food I make, or tell me they dont like it. They can pop round whenever they like or come and stay unannounced. Whilst they are here then me-casa-es-su-casa, help yourself; they can have different opinions to me, criticise and debate what they like. As long as they arent bigots or mean then anything goes

And I dont care enough about the opinions of people I dont know, to get offended

YANBU, open mindedness versus closed mindedness...but obviously there are limits which nee to be respected to ensure we all live happy ever after. Agree some people take it too far...

Haha hyacinth Bucket:

"I will NOT have my name (bou-quet not Bucket) be used in an internet forum !
I have the vicar coming around for tea and light refreshments and he will be shocked . . . Uh oh is that Onslow and Daisy I see online?"

Busy though I am this morning, I will find time to make it clear to you, OP, that some of us maintain high standards, morales and manners. Some of us take time and effort to just make life a soupcon more comfortable, a soupcon more refined for ourselves and our loved ones.

Should you prefer a more careless and lazy life style that is up to you but I take deep offence that you feel in a position to criticise the more conscientious and restpectable of society, those of us who work to maintain standards in behaviour and morales, an ongoing battle in today's society of money grabbers and 'me firsters' but battle on we do.

By all means follow your sloppy standards but under no circumstances take it upon yourself to naysay those with higher aspirations!

it is true, my aspirations are not high enough