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?

Just remembered this reading another thread I had a thread about me waking up during the night any lots of good advice and sympathy a poster popped In and said well 10.30 is a strange time for a grown up to go to bed

Am I the only person who wonders what happened to Sharon and the wine?

I remember the first time I had the "cool wife" thing thrown at me. It was on a thread where someone asked if they were being unreasonable beacsue their husband was going for either coffee or lunch with a female colleague outside of work.

I said - quite reasonably I thought - that unless he had form for being untrustworthy or she had actual reasons to think there was something odd about it, then it wasn't in itself anything to get worried about - particularly as he wasn't being secretive about it.

"OH HERE WE GO, HERE COME THE COOL WIVES!"

Er no, I've just slightly more respect for my husband than to believe social interaction with someone of the opposite gender is too much for him to handle.

I would have been in trouble on that thread half of dhs university friends are women - he often meets them for lunch. One of the many things that impressed me when I first met him was that half his circle of friends were the women I would have been friends with had I been at his university so more than fine with it. And I am far from cool wife have read that book shudder

What's a cool wife?

Referred to in the novel gone girl. Women who ostensibly make a big show of being fine with crap male behaviour that lots of other women dislike eg seeing strippers porn etc to curry favour with men. That's my understanding anyway

I was told that Irish people need never suffer racism because all they have to do is change their accent!

I had to point out that not all Irish people are white and why the hell should anyone have to go around speaking in a different accent all the time?

I once got called a fucking c**t because I gave my daughter beans for tea. That was nice.

Er..I've just seen one about a woman who's OH has been seeing sex workers. One response told her she was being ridiculous and they'd be laughing at her in Asia and China as its the 'norm'. Alrighty then...

The weirdest one I ever was one involved a special needs child. A rather nasty poster used the term "toe rag" to describe the child or children like him. She was immediately told off. She continued on that thread and several more to defend "toe rag" as a childhood term of endearment.

I remember that thread Officer Funny I don't remember the other version but I remember the one you describe

I've intermittently wondered why I never saw that thread: didn't realise it got deleted!

Certainly the towering arrogance of people who just know is very odd indeed, though.

But were they Fava beans served with with a nice Chianti Lucas?
I usually call them broad beans and they are discusting.

Pffft, I always miss all the juicy threads, now I wanna see a horse in a tower block lift.

Officer could you take it elsewhere and stop derailing this thread to have a go at Laqueen?

LaQueenOnHerHolibobs

*A wee while back a very, very irate poster saw fit to tell me she knew we couldn't have any equity in our house, so she knew what financial decisions we could/couldn't make in the near future...and then went on to call my DH (who presumably she has never met) all sorts of unpleasant names. Really angry ranty stuff.

She was banned, I think...but it does go to show there are some pretty unbalanced people out there*

Um, I think you're referring to me here as I did query something you put about your interest only mortgage/soon being mortgage free. The rest of what you claim simply didn't happen. And I obviously wasn't banned.

All hyperbole, all the time.

I put my foot in it big-style the other day by mentioning someone by username, without realising that the OP was that user who had NC'd and changed/omitted a few parts of her story. (I wouldn't have replied at all if I'd known who she was, as her situation is so toxic and difficult it's almost impossible to be of any constructive help.) I sent off apologies as necessary and I think the thread has either been removed or dropped off, but I hid it anyway for my own sanity. Wish people wouldn't do that; I appreciate they have their reasons but it don't half make life confusing.