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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:
cestlesautres · 27/03/2013 19:44

People could at least find a slightly different way to phrase things, if they really must re-hash tired old sayings. Like: "Where did I put my tinfoil hat?" instead of "" Still tedious and unoriginal, but very slightly less so.

cestlesautres · 27/03/2013 19:45

Actually, no, it's still bloody awful.

YouTheCat · 27/03/2013 19:46

'quiche'

cestlesautres · 27/03/2013 19:51

Blush I use that one, Cat. Cos I'm in one.

SirChenjin · 27/03/2013 19:52

Jamie - I know, but honestly, does it matter if someone has posted about this matter before?? Perhaps they are looking for a different perspective, or perhaps things have changed slightly for them?

Or - if there was another thread by another person a few months ago that dealt with a similar issue - should that stop another poster asking the same question? Or are we all supposed to check the archives before posting on AIBU?

YouTheCat · 27/03/2013 19:53

You're in a quiche? Don't you smell all eggy and cheesy? Grin

blackeyedsusan · 27/03/2013 19:55

fuck off op
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.^ Grin now that^ should be banned!

ithaka · 27/03/2013 19:56

I picture them being the sort of Margot-tinkly-laugh type of person who in real life

StuffezLaBouche · 27/03/2013 19:59

This again?!

idiuntno57 · 27/03/2013 20:00

If all this stuff were banned by MN putting a black block over 'illegal' terms (a la wartime censorship of telegrams from the front) I am thinking that we'd just get a big black screen when clicking on 99% of AIBU's

..then the addiction to AIBU could be cured through lack of exposure and we could all get on with living our lives as I did before bloody MN and AIBU took over my life

Good idea innit?

cestlesautres · 27/03/2013 20:03

I am over-egged, but I am not at all cheesy. And I am not a tart.

YouTheCat · 27/03/2013 20:03

Well that's okay then. Grin

usualsuspect · 27/03/2013 20:06

Maybe MN should outlaw pointless and annoying AIBUs

cumfy · 27/03/2013 20:09

RTFT

This is the most inane post I've ever seen on MN or anywhere else.

Machli · 27/03/2013 20:11

Well why did you get pregnant/have another baby/have so many kids when poster is obviously in bits because her situation one way or another is Rat Shit. Honestly when I read those words my blood pressure goes through the ROOF! Angry

ATouchOfStuffing · 27/03/2013 20:12

Anyone that reads the whole thread and then chips in with
"Agree with X"
Too bored to put it into your own words?

YouTheCat · 27/03/2013 20:18

I can understand RTFT being annoying if the thread is 15 pages long but sometimes people don't even seem to read the whole of the OP.

Even if a thread is very long it's still possible to highlight the OP posts instead of wading in with stupid advice because you couldn't be bothered to read an update.

SayCoolNowSayWhip · 27/03/2013 20:19

Blimey, usual's back!

usualsuspect · 27/03/2013 20:22
Wink
DeepRedBetty · 27/03/2013 20:31
ParadiseChick · 27/03/2013 20:32

I prefer reading good honest fuck off than pages of passive aggressive bullshit

DeepRedBetty · 27/03/2013 20:33

I plead guilty to linking to old threads. Because sometimes the OP's problem has been covered very well in the past, but the way the forum and Search is organised it can be very difficult to find stuff.

MyDarlingClementine · 27/03/2013 20:34

1st world problem

and

you sound entitled

Angry
usualsuspect · 27/03/2013 20:35

A PA HTH is a wonderful thing.

CombineBananaFister · 27/03/2013 20:39

I'll probably be unpopular for saying this but i get a tad bored with the mention of goats/horses and flat screen t.vs, which usually arise in any thread that happens to mention benefits/welfare etc. If the ops being an arse disagree, but at least come up with an opinion rather than some tired old in-jokey shite

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