Mumsnet as a forum is mostly words isn't it?

[InvisibleHotPinkWeasel]

Therefore it's necessary to have a rudimentary grasp of the written word?

So AIBU to think if you can't even be arsed read the op properly, not the thread, not even just the ops posts, but just the actual opening post, than you can go forth and do one?

You might as well put a comment that's not even vaguely involved.

Op. Hello, I'd like your opinion on whether strawberry or raspberry jam would be better on a sponge cake.

Numpty: people who eat cheese are cunts.

Everyone else: eh? READ THE OP!!

Numpty: shan't it's a free forum stop being mean.

I am now grumpy. Will the perpetrators of this nonsense please desist forthwith. AIBU to be tetchy about this influx of non readiningness?

Yes, I think your OP was bound to elicit less than sensible replies. (Apart from my replies, of course.)

Does that count as goading?

No, not goading - or goating. Maybe weaseling?

What's the difference between a weasel and a stoat?

Weasels are weasily recognised, but stoats are stoatally different

YANBU, if you have a child you can park there.

I know it's words on a screen but I don't think it's too much to ask people to read them as well as write them.

Women who don't Make An Effort for their husbands are lazy cows and deserve to be cheated on.

Neither, I prefer pineapple.

IMO beige is always draining. You should go for the dusk pink or blue. HTH.

I struggle to read and write. Especially both at the same time. Mainly because your name is wrong. You should be evoking a completely different image in my mind from this one. It's like when a mate gets her hair dyed a different colour and you keep failing to recognize her.

I like stuff

QuiteLikesBeingRandomTiggaxx

Are you in Scotland?

This is such a first world problem!

S'not my fault LRD, I was brought dahn by the MAN! Except that the man, was in fact a couple of women, and tech.

Ah, you see, women are just as bad as men, innit. You're oppressed by the matriarchy of MN.

Tech is a bloke though, isn't he?

I am oppressed

Is tech actually a man? He might be some sort of gollum? He always sounds faintly oppressed by MNHQ too.

This is true. I suspect they keep him in a shed and never feed him gin.

We must campaign for the liberation of the techs, then we can storm MN towers and reclaim your dragonicity.

Given the number of posts - many of them deathless masterpieces - I've lost due to unexpected site outages, I think tech deserves a good oppressin', frankly.

I haven't read the thread, but I agree with everything that HotPinkWeasel says because I'm afraid of her.

---

YANBU. It's not hard to highlight the OPs posts so they stand out in a thread either so if you don't want to read loads of posts you can at least read the relevant ones before piping up. So many times I've read answers that make suggestions or comment on things the OP just hasn't said

Back to the original subject though... YANBU. The results of not reading the OP, skimming the thread or even reading the one just before yours, can be a bit shocking, especially in Relationships where I mainly hang out. You get stuff like this:

OP: husband has become distant, snappish, attached to his phone. Could he be having an affair?
Couple of pages of sympathy, bracing remarks, suggestions on how to stalk/break into his phone/hire a PI etc.
3rd page: OP comes home to find husband in flagrante delicto with the Olympic female swimming squad, the Dagenham Girl Pipers and a friend.
Next 10 pages: more sympathy, kick the bastard out etc.
Over the course of the next week, husband can no longer stand how wife seems to have stopped trusting him (!) and flounces out to live with OW, or two, or three, breaking back into the marital home occasionally to steal whatever isn't nailed down and leave poison pen messages. Becomes physically threatening and is removed by police.
A poster: "Could he be depressed?"
Entire rest of Mumsnet: "WTF?"
A poster: "Oh, I only read the OP and I thought it sounded like he might be depressed. Was there more to the story?" (Yes, only about 650 posts' worth.)

See Annie I can sometimes forgive that as a kind of egotistical thickness.

But when the op posts

Oh my god I've just caught dh in the marital bed with the entire rugby team when he's meant to be taking the dc to the zoo while I'm at work. Where do I go from here?

And some fool posts, "why not try a new lipstick and cooking him a nice dinner it's hard work caring for children"

They should be shot.

I dunno, that advice sounds pretty reasonable to me.