to think that if you post about something deemed to be trivial it doesn't necessarily mean

[babybelle11]

That you need to get a grip if you only have this to worry about.
No one knows what the op's life is about. She may be posting about something trivial but could still have other problems.

And there has been an upsurge in those awful thread titles 'threatening' some violent act. I usually hide those immediately. The last outbreak was short-lived, so hoping this fad will be as well.

Posters alwaysneed to get a grip.

YANBU. If someone doesn't like it, then don't bother with the thread. Yes people have big stuff to deal with but its the small petty stuff that I like to rant about on here, so people in RL don't think what a twat I can be.

No surprise you don't like It johnny I see your latest pisstake thread has been removed for quoting me. I did reply I hope you saw it

I was told that i obviously had too much time on my hands and needed to get a life after i started a thread on something that i had been pondering on for about 10 minutes. I was a bit at the reaction i got. Surely this forum is the perfect place for idle musing.

I find it hard not to bite back when people are engaged in an informative and reasonable exchange of views about something that isn't necessarily a major problem but is interesting, and the thread is interrupted by some smug twunt patronisingly describing the opinions as "all this angst".

SarahAndFuckTheResolutions

Hear hear.

ManifestMT

Hear hear.

We have to fight back though! There is a hard core of really nasty buggers on here; get in and defend the op.

I find most people who have lots of tragedy in their lives actually keep afloat through focusing on smaller things and above all else, humour.

Everything gets trivialised if you can laugh at it, we should never take ourselves too seriously.

After all we are just little lumps of flesh sitting on a rock floating through space and will be dead and gone very very soon.

That is very true. Very often people with serious stuff going on in their lives like a bit of an escape with some trivial rubbish I would imagine.

Agreed. I have come across a nice little bit of spite from several posters on my own (inconsequential) thread. It made me ponder why folks are like that but I agree with the poster who said that it says more about their own lives than mine.

Here here - having recently been pummelled in my own AIBU thread, I'm still licking my wounds a bit. I was told to get a grip, and was then called a cunt. I can't say it didn't piss me off a little...

Very often people with serious stuff going on in their lives like a bit of an escape with some trivial rubbish I would imagine Absolutely true. When I posted my aforementioned thread, I was literally in the middle of a very upsetting argument with someone. I started the thread as a distraction, hoping some light hearted discussion would take my mind off it.

The nice supportive responses I got though did make me vow to step in and defend OPs more often if I see them getting unfairly picked on. It's so nice to have a supportive post amongst the shite.

I too hate the "I'm a regular but have NCed (PomBears, Yoni, Gluezilla etc)" like it's a bloody badge of honour. Anyone could read those threads in classics - it doesn't give you a bloody free pass to be an arsehole.

The nice supportive responses I got though did make me vow to step in and defend OPs more often if I see them getting unfairly picked on.

Me too. I vowed to do the same thanks to the posters who were so lovely. It has really been an eye opener. I felt battered and it took all my might to ignore the rudeness (actually some of it was beyond rude). I didn't know I would react like that and I am reading aibu with more awareness and self-awareness.

Anyway, someone's trivial could be someone else's mahoosive.

Totally agree about focussing on the trivial can be away of escaping the big issues in your life. I'm having counselling for a pretty major issue in my life but I don't want to think about it all the time, I want to distract myself with some inconsequential crap.

i too have been slated for worrying about small stuff. of course they don't know my marriage is a mess and I lost both my parents etc etc.