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AIBU?

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to compile a list of pointless/annoying AIBU responses for MNHQ to outlaw?

415 replies

ICBINEG · 27/03/2013 15:52

Other than troll hunting and personal abuse etc.

eg: "don't you have anything better to worry about?"

Yes of course I fucking do. Just because I posted something doesn't mean it is the only cunting thing I care about!

OP posts:
TantrumsAndBalloons · 28/03/2013 06:29

I'm wondering if there are any words/phrases we are allowed to use then?
As everything seems to piss someone off?

Oh well, I shall continue as normal. As you were. :)

SayCoolNowSayWhip · 28/03/2013 06:36

Ah but Tantrums is that a PA Smile or a genuine Smile?

After this thread I just can't tell any more.... Confused

TantrumsAndBalloons · 28/03/2013 07:00

Oh very PA. Very very PA Grin

I actually should know better than to read these threads, they make me very.....I don't know, cuntish, if that's even a word.

SayCoolNowSayWhip · 28/03/2013 07:01

Cuntesque?

Act with an air of cuntilescence?

TantrumsAndBalloons · 28/03/2013 07:10

I like those. I may borrow those words if that's ok?

They may be useful Grin

limitedperiodonly · 28/03/2013 08:01

'I'm really upset that DH went to a lapdancing club' followed by about 20 pages of:

'Women grinding their cunts in your DH's drooling face isn't cheating'

'My DH just goes for a drink and a chat about football'

'You see more than that on the beach'

'I do it and I'm studying for a PhD'

'How would you like it if your DH tried to say where you could and couldn't spend a relaxing evening?'

'It's every woman's right to grind her cunt in a drooling stranger's face for money'

'I've got a pole in my living room and it's great for fitness.

kim147 · 28/03/2013 08:03

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TheRealFellatio · 28/03/2013 08:19

hahahaha limited SOOOO true!

But you forgot to add those who wear their boot on the other foot:

'He is an abusive, misogynist sociopath who hates women. He's probably capable of rape.'

and

'You should leave him immediately. He is clearly an abusive misogynist sociopath who hates you. He'll probably want to come home and rape you.'

and

'Those women don't lap dance through choice you know - they've been trafficked age 12 from Moldova and they are kept in a cellar and force fed heroin.'

There is nothing quite like a good lap-dancing thread to polarise opinion.

limitedperiodonly · 28/03/2013 08:22

True fell, none of which helps the OP who thinks her world is falling apart.

Hullygully · 28/03/2013 09:41

I think one should differentiate between nasty and unhelpful responses eg "Entitled much" etc etc etc

and so-called injokes which help to make the site cohesive and create a sense of friendship and belonging such as goats, acronyms etc.

I wonder if the people that don't like the injokes are simply those that weren't part of them at the outset and feel excluded?

MrsHuxtable · 28/03/2013 10:02

I really hate "Happy mum = happy baby" when someone questions/judges someone else's parenting choices.

It's ridiculous. There are plenty of irresponsible, selfish women out there having children and just because their lifestyle/parenting choices suits them, doesn't mean it's in the best interest of their children, making them happy.

"AIBU to judge SIL for leaving her baby with a different sitter each say so she can go our clubbing?!

Reply: "Whatever works for her. Happy mum, happy baby!"

Really? I mean REALLY?????

Mumsnet needs to be a bit more judgemental at times. All this pc bullshit really gets on my nerves.

TantrumsAndBalloons · 28/03/2013 10:23

But it's not actually hard to catch up with the "in jokes" is it?

I mean, they aren't posted in Mumsnet Swahili are they?

Just join in FFS.

There, that was probably both unhelpful and nasty. So I get a prize?

YouTheCat · 28/03/2013 10:30

I want a prize... and a huge red flag to go waving in people's faces in RL. Grin

And a goat.

TheRealFellatio · 28/03/2013 11:21

Have we had 'your house your rules' yet? I hate that.

TomArchersSausage · 28/03/2013 11:24

I always chortle at responses to people who dare to metion a present on either their or dc's birthdays.

The inevitable collective wail of outrage that anyone should have the nerve to hope for a small pressie on a b/day is incredible.

Many times threads descend into people trying to out-worthy each other

Reminds me of the four Yorkshireman:
A cup o' cold tea.
Without milk or sugar.
Or tea.
In a cracked cup, an' all.
Oh, we never had a cup

YouTheCat · 28/03/2013 11:26

Aye You were lucky Grin

TomArchersSausage · 28/03/2013 11:28
Grin
vladthedisorganised · 28/03/2013 11:46

How about:
OP posts something really innocuous, like "I really don't like eating kebabs in the street. AIBU?"

Responses include:
"You sound like a deeply unpleasant person, TBH."
"I would never dream of judging someone who eats kebabs in the street. You are clearly an overprivileged twat who is going to strangle themselves with their judgypants and I HOPE YOU CHOKE ON A KEBAB!!!"
"hee hee hee nice one"
OP - "but I'm vegetarian and all I was saying was..."
"Oh, now we've got the lentil-weavers in.. "

I've seen a couple of threads go this way and it annoys the hell out of me.

PickledInAPearTree · 28/03/2013 11:46

Tantrums have my very first Biscuit

And my last ill be eating the rest.

cestlesautres · 28/03/2013 11:48

"You sound like a deeply unpleasant person" is a classic cliche which should be banned. Heavily overused. And a bit unreasonable.

TomArchersSausage · 28/03/2013 11:50

Oh yes 'judging'. What's that all about?Confused

Everyone that has a waking thought about anything has made a judgement of some sort.

MyDarlingClementine · 28/03/2013 11:59

Grin @ limited

MiniEggsJumpedInMyBasket · 28/03/2013 12:02

'Why post on AIBU if you're not going to do exactly as we all say?'

Trills · 28/03/2013 12:08

Outlaw?! Shock

Who is da fred polis now?

YouTheCat · 28/03/2013 12:12

I hate 'the thread police' - twats.