to not understand why it's funny to slag off peoples home on rightmove?

[DjangoTheDisSilent]

I don't get it.

Everyone has different tastes. Some would love my house, some would loathe it.

I would be quite upset to know that a large group of women in an internet forum were openly slagging off my house and getting vast enjoyment from it.

Aibu and have no sense of humour?

Is your house the sex bear house?

They must have very boring lives if their daiy highlight is slagging off the homes of strangers.

The ones on MN do seem to be a bit unusual to say the least Django. And the pics are out there on the internet. MNetters didn't break in and take them.

There is such a thing as preparing your house to sell-that's what I don't get, that people don't.

No. "Hilarious" as that thread was.

Im surprised that someone hasn't critised mine yet. Agree though.

What's the sex bear houses?

Plus the Estate Agents are half to blame, terrible photos and not advising their client.

There is such a thing as preparing your house to sell

True, but a lot of the ones I see posted aren't messy or dirty. They are purely linked to so others can have a laugh at someones taste.

I do prefer the property porn threads with the fantastic houses when everyone gets all .

There was a thread in the last week about a very cluttered and individual house in E17 for £££££s. The house may have been lovely but it was so individual taste that buyers would be put off just from the pics.

And other threads asking:

Are feature walls naff? (Cos I'd like one, but not if you all told me they were naff)
Could I get away with wearing these boots with this dress?
I heard a mother say his to her 3yo!
Why would anyone want to move to Australia/New Zealand?

Etc, etc. They're all asking for opinions from 'lots of women on a forum'.

You can come round my house and slag it off if you like, I wouldn't giver a tinker's todger

For the record, if you follow Right Move on Facebook? They highlight some of the same houses we make fun of and are not exactly complementary.

If you put your house on the 'net? People are going to express their opinion.

Exactly Tee. When people are buying houses they need to judge them, and have an opinion.

If you have a big stuffed figure of an Animal in your lounge people will laugh.

Yes. And if you aren't smart enough to make you house a "show home"? Then don't be surprised it doesn't sell and that people poke fun at you.

Would you really be upset?

YANBU to not find it funny/not join in if you don't want to, but really there's so much to be potentially offended by when reading other people's opinions on the internet, you're making a rod for your own back if you mind about stuff like this.

Also I regularly slag off decor and clothes on the internet that I actually have or have had myself and don't like any more/don't know what I was thinking. Fickle, y'see

Would you really be upset?

With 200+ posts saying -

Wtf is that?
The owner needs a slap.
Most hideous house ever.

Yep I probably would find that quite upsetting. That someone had actively posted the photos from a different website to encourage others to mock.

Then you should probably leave the internet immediately.

Or, you know, not put pictures up on the 'net with weird things in them.

Well, I stand by the rod-for-your-own-back thing then. Seriously, it's a zoo out there. MNers giggling about twiggy shit and footballers' sex bears does not even register on my scale of evil in the world as depicted on the internet.

I wouldn't. I would make sure the pictures didn't include anything bizarre, or someone in bed.

But half the people with the cluttered individual houses are happy with their taste and don't give a monkey's what anyone thinks.

Please someone link to sex bear house.

I'd have thought it would be quite helpful to find out why it wasn't selling / what people really thought of it rather than polite / filtered comments from the Estate Agent.
Bit like baby names threads really - the fact that people don't know the person, means they are more likely to give more honest opinions.

Cuz it is funny.

YABU

I think.itd be pretty upset but when house hunting I dont recall ever commenting out loud about anyones interior choices obviously I thought in my head oh i dont like that but why bother commenting on it when youre buying the structure and not the personal things inside?youre only going to change it all anyway.