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?

I cried at a thread the other day, it was a lovely OP who restored my faith in humanity and I had a wee cry, mainly because she was lovely but also because I was having a wee "sorry for myself" moment.

I have also laughed out loud so much that I can hardly relay what i'm laughing at to DP. It's not an everyday occurrence but it does happen and I'm not exaggerating. Honest.

I have proper LOLed at some threads, usually old ones now in Classics.

"The least illustrious moments of my career" had me howling. I didn't find Pom Bear thread or the Penis Beaker remotely funny though.

ShatnersKaBOOM Please tell your mum that she's a legend, I'm still laughing about it now!

I have both laughed and cried.

The only one that has had me gasping for air tears in my eyes laughing though was the one where the OP took her knickers off to go in the swimming pool. I think it's in classics I'll go look.

Yes, YABVU. I have laughed out loud, and cried over threads on here - why would I lie/exaggerate?

We don't all have to have the same reactions/emotions as you do, you know, frogme.

I've laughed at some one liners. I've had a lump in my throat at a few threads too.

But I don't find threads about farting funny. They make me cringe.As did Penis beaker.

It's there but the OP has had all her posts deleted, it was just the ridiculousness of the situation and the way it was written that had me in stitches.

EMIN's and expats threads were desperately sad and I was moved to tears.

Penis breaker and the yoni threads were a pile of utter shite but I genuinely belly laughed at the "No, I'M Angela Hernandez!" thread

I've laughed out loud (more a startled and I'm sure attractive guffaw) on occasion. And I have been moved to tears once or twice, but I am heavily pregnant and a lot of things move me to tears at the moment.

Yes - I do both (but not hysterically in either case). There's some funny fuckers on here, so it's not the subject matter, but the posters for me.

I have laughed out loud alot on some of the threads....

Oh God, just started reading the drug dependent baby thread, and I'm already welling up.

I've laughed out loud at quite a few but most make me smile.

This made me cry happy tears, especially the OP's update on 11th May.

I do cry easily.

There are some very witty posters on here so I have laughed out loud from time-to-time. Not whole threads, just individual posts or comments.

And yes, I've cried too. There have been some very sad posts (child or baby related) that have made me cry.

There are no rules as to how people should react. You react as you find.

But I don't think it's all exaggeration either.

Have laughed aloud at some threads and occasionally to the point of tears. I can't immediately recall which ones but it's sometimes a turn of phrase, sometimes a whole column.

Loads of you seem to express yourselves loudly. I thought there would be more like me. I've read some of the linked threads. Yes they are good reads and I can see why they have affected some of you, but no they didn't move me to laugh outloud or have a tear in my eye.

I need more non criers and non lolers to say IANBU.

I do laugh at loud at threads often (or at least I used to, back when MN was funny) but I've never been moved to tears by a thread, with the exception of one, which was a child bereavement of someone I felt I 'knew'.

Oh gosh now I am all teary at EMIN's thread

My crying reflex is a bizarre one, usually it's stubborn, only two non-RL events (ie, something I've seen on TV) have ever made me cry actual literal sobs. One of them was Fringe and the other was a crappy dramatised retelling of JK Rowling's life. The part where she escaped a DV relationship and turned up at her friends' door and they let her in, that got me. I was recovering from an EA relationship at the time, though, so I have an excuse for that one

Some have made me laugh till I cry. In fact, if I'm feeling down I often trawl through Mumsnet Classics.

The last one that made me cry was one about bad interviews and the Mumsnetter interviewed by Waterstones. When asked her "favourite author", she blanked and said "enid blyton" and "favourite book charecter" "Moonface"

[I'm laughing now]

I really did guffaw at a poster on the 'ghost at the holiday let thread' ,she was basically calling it out as a figment of an over active imagination but her turn of phrase and the way she wrote her post was brilliant, well it had me cackling like a drain anyway.

I am easily amused, I have to admit!

The thread where someone had lost their bobble plate down the back of the toilet had me absolutely crying with laughter. I was shaking the bed
But generally.... not so much.

The classic thread about a lady who accidentally copped a feel of her new boss had be shaking with mirth. It was in the MN Admin all time favourite classics list when MN was down recently.

The one where a poster thought putting a clove of garlic up her fanjo would cure thrush!!

It wasn't thrush, it was worms! That one was more horrifying than funny, though.