What the frig is going on....

[Beccagain]

I ask because there seems to be an absolute plethora of completely outrageous opening posts on AIBU at the moment.

I'm aware that that's partly the remit of AIBU but there have been a few that have been so preposterous they just HAVE to be made up. Two of them have gone pffft in quite short order and I would love to highlight some others but when I called one this morning before it was pfffted I was chastised by a very nice MNer who rightly said that I should just report it, and not shit stir (my words not his/hers) but there have been at least two more since those went yoni up.

They do make for extremely entertaining reading...and in fact are extremely well written on the whole with precious few of the spell check howlers and bold/italics/strikethrough fails that so lovably characterise your average genuine mner, so I am wondering if in fact this isn't some kind of water testing by MNHQ to make sure we're behaving as we ought.

Am I the only one to be sad enough to have noticed this?

Which ones went pffft?

a) Someone complaining that her colleague was having too much post op time off (outrageous AND breaching confidentiality!)

b) First wife aggrieved because ex wanted her to drop their children off at his rather than picking them up himself as his wife had just given birth (doesn't sound all that U when you put it like that, but it was the tone....)

Situation normal then.

I was unhappy B) got poofed, I wanted it to continue

Half term.

Why was the M and S moaning thread pulled?You know the threadbare jeans one.

OP got flamed on the jeans thread.

Thanks La guardia.Did you know that there's a detective La Guardia in Cagney and Lacey? It's being re run on BBC2 in the afternoons.

The jeans one got pulled because OP was being deliberately goady

I thought she was a tad goady.Thanks Strumpetron.

Did anyone read the one saying that pushchairs on buses should be given the same priority as wheelchairs?

That's had so many replies now I stopped reading.

Another one bubalou ??

That debate was going on when I first joined 3 years ago

Yeah. She thinks that people in wheel chairs should basically wait for the next bus rather then her move her pushchair.

MN is a bloody joke atm.

Why was the M and S moaning thread pulled?You know the threadbare jeans one.

It was reading that one that prompted me to write the OP here. I had a bet with myself that it would be the next to go. Yippeee, I won!

I was unhappy B) got poofed, I wanted it to continue

It was entertaining wasn't it Strump: but judging by the reason given by MNHQ (hmmmmmm), I guess they thought it wasn't 100% genuine.

And the 'IANBU blah blah blah' that you're not allowed to disagree with?

Also the Wet Breaks one and the one about the sensitive DS having to stand with his back to the class.

it's very strange at the minute isn't it!

Gosh, there's even more than I thought. I may be gone a while

This is how strange MN is at the moment.

I started a similar thread to this last week and basically got my arse handed to me on a plate for 'thinking I was MN royalty' and 'naval gazing'.

Where were you lot then?

I was on the M&S one.

I mean really, that was made up, just why? WHY?

I am
So
Irritated
By
Them!

I wrote lovely calm sensible replies a d refused to get riled but when I pressed send the threads have been deleted so all that trouble for nowt

Grrrr

I dont post so much at holiday times because of it. Cant be doing with it.

I was on the M&S one. I mean really, that was made up, just why? WHY?

I have no idea but it spawned a hilarious Waitrose mickey-take!