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?

Ahhh, we don't row. We just disagree with vim.

I remember white van man!

I thought of suggesting "bleached covered wagon adult male", but ended up backing out of the thread while making no eye contact.

That I didnt understand the cultural implications associated with Americans using tumble dryers

I did, I just thought it and she was nuts

That's right because I just randomly popped up on a thread and started talking about dishwashers out of the blue.

Bizarre..still think it though

Dishwashers aren't lazy. I'm doing other stuff while it's on. They are a great way of getting more done in a limited amount of time.

like the twilight zone man.

Yeah fuck talking about dishwashers. What have I become? :o

Poor vim. Ganged up on by vipers.

I posted on a thread about a child who may have licked a cup with bleach in. I posted that I would call nhs direct or the doctor since the OP had no idea if he swallowed any and he had no immediate signs that he had.

There followed a couple of pages of people calling me an idiot and saying they hoped I didnt have children and that she should call 999 straight away.

Turned out it was the right advice - it was what she was told by medical staff but why let that get in the way of a good old fashioned group overreaction!

I've never had any weird responses but I have seen a few conversations which made me go .

There was a thread a while back where the OP was worried that the dog's name their toddler had chosen was racist. Someone posted that where they were from that the name is used as a racial slur and that a few eyebrows would be raised where she lived if you named your dog that. However that poster made it clear that she knew the toddler wasn't been racist and that she couldn't have known.

Cue posters replying that that poster was being "ridiculous" and "wtf so you're saying the toddler intentionally named the dog a racial slur because she is racist?" and "so you're saying the toddler is racist?". Even though that that person had clearly said that the toddler wouldn't have done it knowing it was racist. And when they pointed this out and also directed to them to the post where she'd specifically said the toddler wasn't racist, people still replied accusing her of saying she was racist.

There was also another thead a while back where the OP was a lesbian in a long term relationship with a woman and she didn't want to take contraception to take some acne medication however IIRC she did mention in her OP that she would take it if necessary. Anyway the thread went on for ages only most of the posts weren't really about what the OP had posted but there were long winded posts dedicated to rape and calling the OP a liar because she wouldn't really be taking contraception (based on a few hypothetical scenerios the OP posted, not what she was actually going to do) .

Even when the OP said that she was getting an implant fitted people just kept replying "liar!" and "you're lying!" and then continued to post more posts about rape statistics and how lesbians are more likely to get raped, etc. Followed by more "liar!" posts. That thread did make me think WTF.

Also one more (last one I promise) but in this instance the OP was upset that a shop assistant had told her to try on coats in the changing room but she didn't tell other people to do the same thing. The OP naturally challenged the shop assistant. Cue countless posts about how the OP was a "nightmare", "customers like you are a pain in the arse" and "just do what they told you to do FGS!", etc. Even though I think the OP had every right to ask why she had been singled out, everyone else clearly thought she was being petty.

Sometimes I really do wonder if I'm reading the same thread as everyone else...

I got told I shouldn't have had children and must be shit at my job (I'm a teacher) because I posted a thread saying I wasn't looking forward to having DS on my own for the whole of half term.

Cue how tragic it was for my son that I didn't want to spend time with him, why was I a teacher if I hated kids, I was a sorry excuse for a mother.... On and on.

One particular poster said her and her dcs could spend THREE HOURS jumping in puddles in the park. Well whoop de do for you but frankly I want to kill myself after 20 minutes

Takes all sorts, so they say!

When I was first here - under a previous username - I posted what I thought was a reasoned response to an AIBU. Bearing in mind that I've never been a particularly prolific poster, let alone a goady one, I was a bit surprised to get a random tirade from someone I'd never crossed swords with, that told me I was a "minging old geriatric".

A poster once told me Baby P's mum was not evil just very inadequate.

An OP was just having a little moan about driving her son to the airport.

Basically it was for his school trip and the flight was in the middle of the night which meant she couldnt get any sleep and she was working next day.

A poster told her it was her fault because she had choosen to not buy a house near the airport !!!!

Oooh, I think that that was me Laquitar! Yes, I should have had the sense to live near an airport for just such an eventuality.

Oh were you the OP of that thread? It was very funny response.

Imagine having that in your list when looking to buy a house!!

on a thread, poss about men being at the birth, i posted that while dh hated seeing me inso much pain, he wouldn't have missed seeing his children being born.

Got told be a well known poster that I must have a very strange / twisted relationship with dh.

I was livid, as op wasn't being odd with anyone else on the thread, and a few times I posted asking her to elaborate in her comments and she completely blanked me then. Weird.

Op then slightly amended her name but it was still v obvious it was her.

I was once told (by a Moldie) that I was "unspeakably vulgar" (cannot for the life of me remember why, now. Something to do with babies being in their own cots instead of cosleeping).

I wear that as a badge of pride :o

When I first joined mn (8 yrs ago ) I responded to a post about combination feeding, which incidentally was something I knew quite a bit about having had to do it with dd for the first year.

Anyho was promptly jumped on and told I obviously had no faith in women and had no idea what I was walking about. Infact really I must have been lying as it is near on impossible to combine bf and ff for a year that took me a bit by surprise tbh.

Not mn at its finest.

talking about

however you should of joined in the white van man debate! It got ridiculous

anxious wasn't that the same user who had actually been raped as a teen? I think she was the one who was autistic too, I think she'd posted about those things previously. Unless I'm thinking of someone else.

Sorry that was in reply to your second example.

I'm constantly accused of being a troll, even under my normal username. When I feel the need to name change, I very often get told that I'm not even a realistic troll and that no woman, never mind a mother, would talk like I do...

It's an odd feeling, being accused of not being very realistic at being myself...

I lurked on the white van man thread it was quite amusing.

I posted a question under a previous name about DSIL's hen do. I was told that i hate DSIL and she hates me. Amazing conclusion considering the poster had never met us and i have never stated that either of us hate each other (we don't).