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 have often laughed out loud at threads here, some hold particular fondness like pouffe of poo, there was also a post by someone who was apparently stroking the coat of a lady in the next booth in a food court but turned out to be her hair. That one is actually making me lol right now, love it. Also tiny wanker, I often call my kids whiny tinker and lol to myself.

Lots have made me sob too, expat losing her dd etc.

There was a mad killing pets by accident one that I think must have been in chat too, was so wrong but so so funny.

Occasionally. Laughing, anyway. I don't think I have ever cried at someone else's thread, although spiteful replies on one of mine have had me close now and again.

Squee isn't literally saying squee, though, it's sort of squealing in an excited way. More of a high pitched "Eeeee!" than a squee.

That old Korean lady thread had me enthralled, it was like some kind of enchantment.

Even reading the words "I'm sorry Alan" has me in stitches, and I didn't even read the thread...

Oh yes, the pouffe of poo.

I have cried on some bereavement threads, and I think the wooly hugs are amazing.

Has anyone mentioned the Auntie Tantrums thread yet? Where TantrumsAndBalloons looks after her friend's three-year-old for the weekend - she posted updates all weekend, and I honestly laughed until tears came, at the story of her weekend!

Frogme - no, I don't think you are miserable, or lacking in empathy or emotion - I think we all react differently to different things. I don't think those of us who do laugh out loud, or get tears in our eyes are 'louder' than those who don't, either.

Wouldn't the world be boring if we were all the same?

Oh, SDTG, I'd forgotten about that but it was WONDERFUL. Tantrums is such a good writer and the little girl was an absolute joy – as indeed is Auntie Tantrums, I'm sure.

I really laughed the other day at a thread where the Mum was offering to buy her toddler a toy and instead he decided he wanted a bath sheet and threw a huge tantrum, so Mum got him the towel! I can sympathise having a completely irrational toddler myself and it really made me (and DH) chuckle.

Oh yes, I loved that thread about Tantrums minding the little girl, and the Korean lady one. Both posters have brilliant writing styles, that made me come back for more.

Was Tantrums thread the one where the little girl climbed in bed with the dog and fell asleep? That was a very funny thread.

The bobble plate down the back of the loo was HILARIOUS and one of the very first MN threads I read. I laughed so much I struggled for oxygen.

Yes, that was it. Tantrums was agonising over the girl going home and telling her mum she'd been sleeping in the dog's bed and the mum being horrified and appalled by Tantrums' allowing such a thing.

As I remember, the mum in fact laughed like a drain at the end of the weekend when she heard all the things that had gone on, and gave Tantrums a hug/wine/chocolates. Quite right: it sounded as though the little girl had a high old time with Auntie Tantrums.

And that was years ago wasn't it? She must be about five by now

Was it that long ago? How scary.

I just read the mouse story. I cried.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/a1717943-A-plea-for-help-in-finding-this-Maileg-Mouse#39011240

And I still laugh whenever I remember the Angela Hernandez story.

Omg. The mouse story. The tears. Now!

I have on occasion (usually when it's most inappropriate - in the office) laughed out loud, though it's more of a snigger

After I saw this thread I looked on classics (didn't know it was there), read a bit of one thread about a clay model looking like a penis and immediately laughed out loud. I'm going back to classics later for another look, beats AIBU.

I have giggled or sniggered several times and have genuinely been moved to tears by some threads.

I have cried a number of times some posts are very very sad

I have laughed out loud on a number of occasions too and a few posts (your minge your minge) and one about one about lapse health and safety in the 70's particularly the science experiment of seeing how electricity conducts through children and an electric fence had me giggling for days after

I honestly think you would have to be extremely unemotional not to be moved to tears or laughter by some threads.

I've cried, not sobbing but had tears in my eyes, when a poster describes how a child of theirs has died and been reduced to giggles by some of the Classic threads like "my least professional moment".

Other threads that affect others leave me cold though.

I howled at the Auntie Tantrums thread, The Bobble Plate, Pouffle of Shit, and the Lemon Drizzle one.

There was also a thread about Rhubarb's Australian visitors who were coming for tea and what hers and their interpretation of tea would be. She started quaffing wine and was hilarious.

Yes. The most recent one was the baby naming thread about Ballonz.

laughed out loud at 'coco pox' on the thread about children's versions of familiar words.