To wonder what the oddest response you've ever received on Mumsnet has been?

[Vintagejazz]

Have you ever received a really strange response to a post on here?

I remember about a year ago posting about someone at work who talked constantly about her child, on and on and was I being unreasonable to find it a bit very annoying. I got the usual mix of YABU, YANBU, all perfectly logical responses. Then someone posted 'YABU. Maybe she's nervous', disappeared and never posted again on the thread .

Just wondering what odd or illogical responses you've had to posts on here?

Why is that odd?

It doesn't sound that odd to me. You mean because they didn't post again?

Maybe that poster was nervous.

I was most put out that someone I didn't even know told me I had bad breath (I had a nasty bout of tonsillitis at the time) and was told I was the one lacking manners for breathing over people with stinky breath!

I think it sounds like an odd response .

I can't think of any offhand but I sometimes read posts and wonder if I'm reading the same thread as some of the posters.

that my son deserved a beating for tapping a boy on the shoulder
and same thread he obviousley had some form of autisim:?

most strangest iv had.

chumrun

I think I remember that thread! That really was weird.

That's awful, Lady. Goes against everything this site is meant to stand for.

Wondering, that's awful.

The ones I find odd are posters who pop up 100s of posts into a discussion on something like abortion, a proper sensible discussion (there was one last week about extending the limit for late abortions) to say "oooh, no, I could never have an abortion, me" and then pop off again, never to be heard off

I remember, after moving to a rural and not at all diverse part of the country after always living in really diverse places i posted about wanting a good book for very small DS about different cultures so we didn't seem quite so cut off. Somebody told me it was a stupid idea and basically said i must be worried about my own racist ideas rubbing off on him.

It was very odd. Others on the thread agreed it was odd and the strangest thing is it was from a frequent poster who usually seems so rational.

I think sometimes posters genuinely misread something or at times they project a bit. Like in my case - we all know someone who stinks and seems cheerfully oblivious!

I remember a weird, weird thread by someone who'd gone shopping and noticed a child kept looking at her and eventually asked him if she could help him with something and she got FLAMED!

I remember a whole thread where I was shouted at for being offended when a builder cat-called me in the street despite the construction site having a sign saying they were considerate of their environment.

Because I said I was going to call his employer I was told I was costing his job in a terrible economic climate and I should be flattered not angry.

I had someone tell me that I was a bad hostess because I sometimes have the telly on when people are staying for a few days.

I was once accused of being 'classist' because I called a man in I white van who became aggressive at the petrol station, touching my bumper with his van a white van man which he was

As for odd appearances in threads I remember someone randomly popping into my ante-natal thread (someone who wasn't pregnant let alone due the same time as me) to give me a lecture on being nicer to my MIL and then defending themselves by saying they just happened to notice my posts pop up in active posts and thought they would comment.

Mind you, it kind of clicked in to place when I discovered someone had been sending links to my posts to family members after recognising me online.

4 years later and it still pisses me off (Still don't know who it was!).

To think that this is hilarious? If a man approached me wearing this I would scream the house down.

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2782257/Would-wear-condom-PANTS-New-scrotal-shield-covers-entire-genital-area-developed-safer-sex.html

I've mentioned this one a few times. I posted ages ago about the fact that I don't wash DH's clothes. It ended up being a very long thread, with a few YANBUs interspersed with these very weird but heartfelt sentiments:

Because I don't wash my DH's clothes:

-I must be neglecting my children
-DH will leave me and I should prepare for divorce forthwith
-I must be wasting water (in spite of the fact that I explained I don't waste anything)

• I'm a nasty horrible person
• I'm giving my children a terrible example

The general tone of the responses (which may have been influenced by the slightly goady tone of the OP, to be fair ) was that I was a terrible wife and mother who was singlehandedly destroying the environment. All because I don't wash a grown man's clothes!

Yep, that was an odd response.

I posted years ago about having had TFMR and then DP turning into a dickhead overnight. He was really cruel and left me while I was in hospital with life threatening complications from the TFMR. I was distraught obviously.

One poster said something along the lines of, thank god you lost your baby you were so irresponsible to let him get you pregnant, don't ever be so stupid ever again.

Other posters jumped on her obviously, but she kept coming back and saying she was right! Her comments got deleted. But I still remember their name think they name changed after that though!

Yes I was young and dumb and I missed some massive red flags, but really, there is a time and a place!!!

Admittedly the thread got zapped in the end, but someone told me DH must be terrible at his job and she was going to report him to the ruling body for his profession, because I didn't see anything wrong with a boy helping his dad moving garden rubbish into a skip
It was very

I called someone "dude" once, and she was horribly offended and carried on at me as though I'd called her another 4-letter word with the second letter being U.

????

When I was a newbie I was crossly told to take my clothes down to the river to bash them on stones because I said dishwashers were lazy.

Was bizarre and tickled me to death

I got told that they had never heard such a woman hating comment.

I had called Fiona Phillips a fanny.

I remember a poster on a SUV thread going absolutely ballistic because I said I couldn't see how they were necessary for people who lived in the suburbs etc. Another poster was of similar views and this person accused us of sockpuppetting and then when I insisted we were different posters told me I was 'deranged', then when I said she owed both of us an apology (some of her posts had been pretty nasty) she started ranting that she would never ever ever apologise, never, ever, ever.
I've seen her on other threads and she sounds quite rational.