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?

Oh, I think I can help with the stairs in the kitchen thing. A friend of my late DGM once had a massive rant to me and my brother about someone who thought she was better than everyone else because she had stairs in her kitchen .

Turns out kitchen stairs are supposedly for grand houses, ie front stairs for Upstairs folk, kitchen stairs for staff. Despite the fact that this is a very outdated concept in all but the biggest stately homes in the land, DGM's friend chose to interpret it as an acquaintance lording it over her. With stairs.

Incidentally, DBro and I were 6 and 9 at the time.

Presumably the person on LaQueens thread had similar issues? Even though I think LaQ had actually said that they were the only stairs in her house now as the other ones had been removed ages ago!

VintageJazz - did the poster explain exactly how this amazing course for nervous drivers was going to give you the ability to see around - or maybe through - SUVs that are blocking your view? Because that would be an amazing course to go on!

Unfortunately no she didn't SDT. Now that would have been useful information .

Just seen a daft response on another thread. But I assume there's a difference between citing historic responses and current ones.

Ha! Yeah on one thread I said I find jordan grotesque (sorry jmo) and was called a misogynist because ..wait for this, calling a beautiful woman is misogyny apparently, a) beauty is subjective b) pretty sure thats not what it means ...

*calling a beautiful woman grotesque

Do you have downstairs staff laqueen do they bob and call you M' am

I've seen posters (myself included) being accused of being 'passive aggressive' by people who obviously don't have a clue what the expression means. It can come across as really odd sometimes.

Well, I just had one on the 'benefits card' thread.

I posted that I could see how it might be a good idea but I'd need more info... and got told that I obviously wanted disabled children to be exposed on a mountainside at birth!

No idea how not wanting to condemn change before knowing all the details got me to be a child murderer, but hey ho!

I once posted about something that my DSIL of 20 years was doing at Christmas that I found a bit odd. There was the usual mixture of YANBU/YABU (all fair enough) but then one poster (and what I can only assume was a gaggle of her mates) appeared to tell me that not only was I completely unreasonable, but that my DSIL was obviously trying to tell me that she didn't want us for Christmas, had never wanted us, and felt completely put upon. I tried to explain that no, my DSIL and I had a good relationsip and that she was a very assertive woman who would have no problem in conveying her true feelings, but nope, I was wrong - she hated me. I hid the thread after a while.

On the bootcamp threads one year - we were discussing recipes (it's what we do!) And a poster popped up to complain that we were using 'delish' too much and couldn't we use the full word 'delicious' once in a while? Never seen her before or since.

I'm a bit nervous about mentioning DP in a negative way on here -

Me - DP farts all night
MN - 'LTB', 'definite OW going on', 'how DARE he!!!', you're a rubbish mother', 'does he watch porn?'

Well, that's what I expect

I posted (and later headlined the mail out) about a domestic disaster where an entire litre of bubble mix had been poured on to my cream carpet by a very naughty toddler. Had loads of helpful responses then one random one from a very angry person saying she had been recently bereaved and did we know how superficial we all sounded discussing carpets. I felt really sorry for her :-(

It's the absolute certainty behind some of the odder responses that always amazes me. They absolutely know that you dislike your children, need to leave your DH/DP and that your family despise you. Despite the lack of evidence for said claims.

Under a previous name, many years ago. Then-DPs OW was saying she had been raped (not by DP) after their affair had ended, at a time when we were trying to move on and put the affair behind us. I had sympathy but didn't feel it was the place of then-DP to help her though the aftermath of the rape and that they should remain NC and she should seek help elsewhere.

I got an absolute roasting. Apparently I was misogynistic, I should've put her in touch with a crisis team, co-ordinated her support network because she was vulnerable, assisted her in getting her the right help...

I'd never met her. I lived nowhere near her. I had nothing to do with her. And she'd been sleeping with my blood DP!

I guess I am baffled at people's ability to get do worked up about stuff...I reckons I is just a bit too lazy to stamp my feet and insist something about someone I don't actually know, and will never even meet.

Well yes. Same here. Far too much investment in stuff that simply doesn't warrant such inflamed negativity.

On one of my first ever posts I got massively flamed, fine, but the weird bit was when I was accused to making up the occupations of some friends of mine... Now that was weird!

I recognise a lot of these- what are some people on?!

LQ there was one having a go at you the other day, wasn't there? Saying that because you were thinking of moving house it "obviously meant" that all sorts of other things were going on. (Won't repeat them here.) It was seriously WTF. And then they went all fake-pitying and said you were in denial. I didn't know whether to be or - I have never seen such an attack on another poster before. Was that the "stairs in your kitchen" poster or another one?