To wonder what other posters do that really annoy you?

[atthewelles]

For me it would probably be:

Not reading the OP properly and going off on a tangent
Pulling a thread totally OT in order to have a two way jokey conversation with someone else that goes on for pages and pages
Looking up someone's posting history and saying 'well on 5th April 2006 you said this and now you're saying that.

And just about everything that Greeny said up there^

Especially the !!!!'s. Sometimes if I'm 'on the fence' I go with the side that are using fewer !!!!'s on account of them not being unstable arseholes.

People thinking its hilarious to go about their goat.

Spelling mistakes, bad grammar, bad punctuation, fine. Can't be helped.

But text speak is awful. After reading the MN thing about the users who have software to read posts to them if they have visual impairment it bothers me even more. It's just lazy and feels rude to be honest. Like you cannot be bothered to communicate, on a forum designed for communication.

(No doubt this will already have been mentioned)

But if we weren't all irritating the fuck out of each other it wouldn't actually be Mumsnet. I fucking love this place and the all the fuckers within.

Oh, and I don't think snails can be feral. Possibly free range but not feral.

What does "go about their goat" mean?

go on about their goat, I expect, on benefits threads.

The bad spelling or punctuation grates a bit, but when the poster defends it by saying "I can spell properly, I just cba because this is only fun" then they lose my sympathy and attention.

Also posters who turn up at the very end of a bunfight and post some smirky little bitchplop that they would have been ripped apart for had they had the bollocks to post it while the protagonists were still there

people who whine about swearing. Fuck off to Club Penguin then.

...and OPs who try to hand out scripts at the start of a thread; "Please don't post XXX, I am only looking for YYY and ZZZ. And surely RRR?"

Nope. Like it or lump it.

I hate how there has to be a fucking reason for everyones cuntish behaviour.

"OOH thats really horrible did you ever think that maybe she is sick/having family problems/a bad hair day?"

yes, thanks I considered that. And decided that, no, she is just a cunt.

Sometimes its that simple.

"Also posters who turn up at the very end of a bunfight and post some smirky little bitchplop that they would have been ripped apart for had they had the bollocks to post it while the protagonists were still there

people who whine about swearing. Fuck off to Club Penguin then."

Smirky little bitchplop.

tres bien, tres bien.

Sanctimonious posters who you know are smiling sanctimoniously and congratulating themselves on being so sanctimonious as they sanctimoniously point out that the children in question probably have SNs and the mum was probably exhausted and suffering from PND and the baby was probably bawling because he was starving and the mum might have only had one arm for all you know and not been able to root for his bottle and.....and.....and

Posters who say 'walk a mile in her shoes'. Fuck off, I have my own shoes.

Certain topics with "resident experts" (for the want of a better term), who when you either have a different opinion or simply question something they've said for clarification, decide to list their credentials, then finish off with "I mean I've only got 1,000,000,000 years worth of experience in this why wouldn't you want to listen to me?"

Or multiple resident experts who fall into two opposing camps so the thread ultimately ends up high-jacked as they fall into gang warfare.

Yes, I was missing the word "on" there. I wouldn't really mind people who went about their goat as their chosen method of transport.

I think I quite take to them actually.

walk a mile in her shoes.

good idea. I will be a mile away from the miserable person and I will have her shoes. Result.

So what your sayin is that each and every time you post anything at all, you're pissing someone off, lol

How many of you did I get there, then?

and people who TRY to do the "complete the sentence" thing in AIBU titles but just can't manage the grammar

"Am I Being Unreasonable? that SIL has shat in my handbag again"

Makes no sense. YABU.

People who reply with something totally unrelated or unhelpful to the OP (usually on Baby Names)
OP: I really like the names Alice or Alicia. Which do you prefer?
Reply: Have you considered Georgina?
What's wrong with saying 'Haha' when you find something funny - I've always hated lol, pmsl, rofpmsasmyl (rolling,peeing and shitting because it's all so bloody hilarious).
Troll-Hunting - just report and walk away.
Grammar/Spelling police - if it's legible and makes sense then it really doesn't matter.
People who are hard on/abusive to people who are being a bit precious/ a little unreasonable about being pregnant or their children because they themselves were happy to go skiing when pregnant and let all their smoking relatives hold their newborn.
Strip-Club/Porn threads where you get two opposing sides with completely different ideas of what is socially or morally acceptable, much repetition of ''LTB'' or ''Buy yourself a new Hand Bag" and just a handful of posters who actually remember to offer genuine advice to the poor OP.
People who say "Yawn" or "this has been discussed before" So? If you're not interested why post at all? Disclaimer: I think it's ok, and often helpful, to politely point out a similar current thread.

• Isn't that what the watch button is for? Despite this I am shamelessly addicted to MN

People on baby names who respond to a request for an opinion with:

Yes, Alice is a nice name. You might also like:

Flora
Julia
Henrietta
Susannah
Meredith
Sarah
Ellen-Jane
Miranda
Catherine
Eliza
Edith
Helen
Amy

Why? Why might they also like that list of random names? I don't understand repllies like that.

People who say fanjo. I find it a million times more offensive than cunt.

am liking 'bitchplop' too and wondering if in fact they are allowed to swear on Club Penguin. I will ask DS1

atthe I find list threads baffling. Why one earth would you have a list of random names in your head at anyone time. Same goes for 'what's for tea' type thread, weaning threads or dieting threads where folk list what they or their DC have eaten or are about to eat. Is your life really that boring?

Incidentally why do weaning thread lists always include cubes of toast, plaind yoghurt sweetened with apple juice and a slice of pear?

- Finding offence over FUCK ALL. I'm not talking about finding offence in racist/disablist/sexist/benefitist (oh yes that is a term) posts but you know the ones? Like the middle class poverty thread yesterday where the OP got slaughtered for using the word "poverty" rather than "hard-up"

Agree with this!

Greeny I have never seen you so angry

It's making me HOT

AND EXCUSE ME

I said that about giving mad random reasons for someone's bad behaviour HOURS AGO

and everyone ignored it LIKE I WAS A NEWB AND NOT ROYALTY

It's all gorn to shit

did somebody say something?

If you'd attached it to the end of a post about dead neighbours, we'd have been all over it like flies around shit, HullyHunny xxx