Do people really cry/laugh out loud, over threads?

[Frogme]

I find some threads shocking, very sad, amusing and even really funny, but I don't do any of the above.

AIBU for not reacting as extremely as some people appear to do?
AIBU in thinking people exagerate when saying these things?

Yes, it's linked upthread, because so many of us mentioned that particular thread by EMIN, a truly great lady.

I just somehow remembered a hysterical thread by an op who was in Costa and was absolutely curious that her dc was given a baby chino that was sprinkled with chocolate. Oh how I laughed! I think it was eventually zapped and I'm sure the op never showed her face again, but it was very very funny!

And, I too, was very moved by the drug dependant baby. I think her daughter posted when she died, and that's how I started reading the thread.

Furious, not curious, ffs!

Have properly wept several times.

Laughed too, more regularly but not for as long each time.

I've never cried at a sad thread, but then I cry very very rarely. Stiff upper lip and all that. I have laughed til I've cried though, and also the old cliche of spitting out tea. Most recently at the one-person-pointless-boycott thread.

Yes I've laughed out loud at funny posts and cried at the very sad moving ones.

I haven't spluttered tea though.

I have both laughed out loud and cried my eyes out.

That horrible troll one with the regular poster (I don't even want to post what it was about) had me crying I was then even more upset that someone could make that up.

(DishwasherDogs I am one of those 14 year old boys that loves the fart threads )

Don't very often laugh/cry at threads but:

I was literally crying with laughter at Balonz, the start of the lemon drizzle saga and one about farting (I think it started as 'if you fart in the bath....' Or something like that?)

I cried at the one about Michael Payne the other night, and also one where someone had put 'AIBU to think that if your child is ill in hospital you shouldn't take pictures of them' and several amazing posters came on to put the OP straight on the unromantiscised grim reality of having a seriously child. It really got to me and I couldn't stop thinking about it for days.

The one mentioned above with the troll posing as a regular also really got to me in a way that no other thread ever has. When I found out it was a troll I felt a mixture of huge relief and also disgust that someone would do that.

Sorry that should say seriously ill child

Just laughed out loud at the pineapple-grappling thread where the OP was so desperate to get home and try out her new Betterware gadget.

But Balonz was a troll who didn't do (could never really have done) any harm, and who entered into the spirit of things very quickly. Anyone who could come up with the Frensham Ponds line is a Mumsnetter at heart; they just don't realise it yet.

That depends on your definition of a troll.

I had a good snigger at the erroneous text message thread last night. DP rolled his eyes.

Yes Balonz was technically a 'troll' but it was still hilarious!

I don't think anyone was upset that they had put their heart and soul into the thread, only to find out it wasn't real.....

Anyway, mumsnet let it stand.

Ate the hamster thread was a troll too, technically, but still good value.

Shame threads like that get deleted nowadays. There was a thread a while ago which was fascinating and sucked loads of people in, about a grandparents surprise party? I think. Anyway that was a troll and got deleted, which was a shame as I doubt it did any harm to anyone.

I suppose that's why coco! Zero tolerance.

Wikipedia describes a troll as a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion which is the definition I agree with. I do not think that someone who starts a jokey thread that is clearly a joke is a troll regardless of whether they have joined to make joke posts.

To me, trolls are the people who post fake heart rending stories and suck people in or who join to post deliberately insulting, rude and offensive posts.

I'm pretty emotionally incontinent so both laugh and cry at threads. i don't tend to laugh at whole threads, more one post or turn of phrase tickles me. The one i remember laughing so hard i was crying and gasping at was when an old poster called fabbychic posted her usual unpleasantness first on a thread and the op came on next and said something like 'thanks for that bitchplopper'. i had never heard the term before and it really really tickled me. i kept laughing spontaneously days after at the thought.

I also gasp audibly in shock at some behaviours described, usually on the wedding or baby shower threads. They are the best. I like my indignation by proxy.

I laugh quite often, sometimes until My eyes are leaking everywhere and once did have to spit a mouthful of tea back into my mug as I was laughing so hard I nearly choked. Just last night I was shaking with laughter and DP sighed and said 'what colour have they all dyed their arseholes this time?'

I don't actually cry but I do feel choked up at some very sad situations.

I DO laugh out loud regularly.

I laughed until I cried - on a packed train, no less - at the poster who wanted to know whether it would be alright to submit the university course work her husband had ejaculated over during an argument.

Good times.

Yes oh yes.

I have even pissed myself on several occasions