To think some Mumsnetters get upset over some weird stuff

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I can understand crying at the Ebola outbreak, or homeless kittens, or tsunami footage.

Don't understand 'i am sat here crying' because a kid missed breakfast, a toddler was told off or a family moved house.

I can understand 'aw that's a shame' but crying ... Do people really sit and cry?

I am. Honest. I have tears in my eyes. Proper wet tears I tell yer.

What I can't get my head around is the amount of "sobbing" that goes on when tears are allegedly shed so very readily.

"Sobbing" being the sort of word that nobody uses in real life. Like "romping" which appears to only occur on the pages of tabloid newspapers.

And "revelling". There are always revellers in pubs according to the papers but I've never seen any. Mind you it's been a while since I've been in a pub

Jihad Lewis. Never knowingly unexploded.

Stop with all the sobbing, I can't swim.

I like " your story has touched me so much, I think I have something in my eye"

Fine, if its a real sob story, but usually isn't.

I was badly PMSing once when I cried at a Domestos ad. ALL THE DEAD GERMS!

But normally I am a tough bitch, so I find it quite amusing when I cry at stupid shit. [deadinside]

Pa hahaha at Jihad Lewis, that has proper hilaired me

Naw to sobbing, and spitting tea onto the keyboard

To be fair there are quite a few pregnant people on here... I'm bad enough generally but when pregnant I cried (genuine tears) about everything. Poor DH spent ages comforting me one night when I realised if our, not yet born, daughter is left handed I might not be able to teach her how to hold a pen properly. Very pathetic.

But when my mum died I was able to control my emotions better than my sister, who mocks me relentlessly for crying at adverts (not the John Lewis one though) and films.

Do we still have quote of the week on the mn weekly update? if so can we nominate jihad lewis please or would that go down badly.

I am always a bit at some of the posts where someone says they're crying. Even when they're serious, genuinely tear jerker type posts, because if an op is posting with genuine upset surely the last thing they want to read is that other people want the world to know they are bloody crying (which they probably aren't anyway.

I'm never shopping at Waitrose again otherwise the terrorists win!

I rarely cry properly, but things do often touch me. If I see a child looking sad or an old person looking lost...I do feel a bit undone by it. The tv news can very easily bring a tear to my eye.

Jihadi Lewis - blimey, don't speak too soon. Let's just hope we all make it to see another Christmas ad

Oh please Jihad Lewis. I'm stifling a wee at that. But I do have a very weak bladder.

Yanbu I hate when people say 'Aibu to feel sad...' And then go on to say something judgemental about others parenting. As if saying the word 'sad' makes you less judgmental.

YANBU, sat here in floods of tears makes me want to punch the screen. Really? Get a fucking grip.

I read a post in classics recently about a lady who fostered a baby and it ended up eventually with her during in cancer - only time I've ever cried at mn.

Irl I'm quite frankly ashamed about how easily I'll cry at trivial things (never serious things), such as dh using the wrong time of voice. Poor man. I won't be able to use pregnancy as an excuse much longer...

I am always dumbfounded at the ridiculous things people on here seem to get upset, angry or (the favourite) "livid" about.

I do not have kids yet and wondered if it's something to do with being a parent (less patience?) I don't know....but it's something I've noticed.

I just always assume they're either lying for dramatic effect or sympathy, or something else is bothering that triggers ott emotional reactions.

I also don't think that people actually are as angry about totally trivial things that strangers are doing that have zero impact on them as they claim to be but they like to have a row on the internet.

I'm with fanjo on this one. There's some proper hard nosed twunts on here sometimes.

I don't cry very much but when I do, I'm pretty uncontrollable - snot bubbles and everything.

But not generally about threads on mn.

I tend not to believe the posters who claim to be crying because another poster let their child miss breakfast or whatever (do believe the OPS who say they are crying because everyone is being nice to them when they are having a hard time).

My pet hate is people who claim they "would be mortified" in some mundane everyday, perhaps very, very mildly embarrasing or slightly awkward situation another poster has mentioned being fine with. Surely "mortified" is a very extreme word forexextreme situations (discovering on a packed train that you'd left the house without trousers/ skirt maybe :o ) rather than because your child forgot to say thank you to a shop assistant or a miserable type complained that they were playing too loudly in the middle of the day in your own garden etc.

Mortified and exhausted and other superlatives are over, and unconvincingly used on MN I think, as is fake concern for the well loved and looked after children who are allowed to do/ not do very mundane, unremarkable, things that shock or mortify certain types of MN user :)

I didn't even cry at Titanic. I'm officially dead inside.

I think 'I feel sad for' is often short hand for I am going to be sanctimonious and judgemental but will disguise it as pity. The 'to feel sad for a child playing with a tablet' wasnt in my opinion empathy with a child byt judgement of the parent.

I wonder about the people who are 'shaking with rage'. Usually over something like there being no spoons in the cafe & the one waitress trying to serve everyone else hasn't immediately dropped everything & prostrated themselves at the poster's feet while self-flagellating with a chamomile Tea Pig by way of apology.

Or 'sobbing as i type this', the word 'sobbing' to me implies whole body shaking utterly uncontrolled wailing in the very pits of grief and despair.

I have only done that twice once when my granddad died and the other time in the midst of a breakdown. On neither occasion could I have sat down and composed a thread about it on an internet forum, even if I'd wanted to.

YABU to be surprised that everyone is different. We all have our own triggers. OBEM for me, ebola for the next person.

And we all have a different level for crying/laughing.

I imagine the cryers are also the laughers. (generally more emotional??) Well I hope so, I'm quite upset to thing the cryers only cry and the LOLers are doomed to a life of spitting out their tea and changing their underwear.

A poster on MN once described these sort of disproportionate reactions as 'emotional incontinence'.