To think some Mumsnetters get upset over some weird stuff

[squirrelonabike]

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?

There's a lot of sadness on Christmas threads:

cos an 18 year old DC doesn't believe in father christmas
that a 2 year old is getting an iPad
that someone is buying their kid a fuckload of stuff
that someone isn't buying their kid everything they've asked for

Tbh, I think the people who claim to be sobbing at encountering a child who went to school without breakfast or who is sitting at a restaurant table on an iPad are essentially saying 'I am judging these parents so hard my eyes are crossing, but I don't want to be accused of being judgemental, so I'll claim to be tearful rather than disapproving - that will fool everyone into thinking I'm a soft, kitten-loving type.'

The perpetual sobbers and sad facers may be able to put their talent for public grief to lucrative use:

www.rentamourner.co.uk/services.html

I think lots of those threads are just self-indulgent ‘look at me’ fishing expeditions for the OP to get lots of nice warm fuzzy messages of support over their perceived superior levels of empathy over whatever minor incident has just led to said angst and tears.

I cry at all sorts in real life, nothing ever made me cry here though. Never ever. I do chortle at some things on MND, never had the "laughed so hard I spat out my tea at my screen" (or whatever drivel is usually spouted)

I'm crying at Jihad Lewis

I don't cry at threads.
I don't laugh uproariously either. The most you'll get from me is a weird 'nyeh' sound I make when I find something particularly amusing. I did it just now with the jihad Lewis post

Love Jihad Lewis. The store will now be forever renamed in my mind.

As for those who post about sitting there sobbing an crying over drivel, it usually comes across to me as attention seeking. Saddened over a child playing on an iPad in a restaurant implies "look what what negligent parents those were compared to how perfectly I would interact with my kids".

I have posted when 'sat crying'. Everyone (guess you missed it thank god) was very kind. It was a mundane issue I guess but at that moment at that time I was so overwhelmed crying was all I had left.

Tbh I think your post is callous, cruel, and glib.

May you never feel that alone, that tired or that unsure.

sometimes i get upset/cry at the time it feels so real and matters so much and its the end of the world. day or so later im thinking wtf was that all about.

sometimes its not one thing either it depends on whats been going on for the person it could be a build up of things.

and what upsets one person may not upset another

Its not about people who are upset, its about people who come onto mundane threads and claim to be crying over something stupid that was said on a thread. Happens more often than you think

oh i guess it depends on what it is.

I can be quite an emotional person, prone to leak a tear at soppy adverts, and other silly things. But I just accept that's how I am sometimes (usually hormones). I wouldn't think to start a thread about it on here though!

The only threads on this that have made me cry was the one in classics about the toy mouse, and when someone linked to the John Lewis christmas advert (which I hadn't seen yet).

People admit to crying over silly things said in threads?

grey I think the op has noticed repeat offenders or means people who are quite clearly just over emotional sensitive types (like me) and who like the drama of being "sat crying" so post about it (unlike me).

It was a mundane issue I guess but at that moment at that time I was so overwhelmed crying was all I had left.

A different situation and completely understandable. I take it you had a "straw that broke the camels back" moment, which happens to us all sometimes.

Marking their place but too sneaky to just put "." in
case someone picks them up on it, most of them.

A sort of Arms Race of Caringness. A poster upthread does a and they can't let them seem to be more concerned or touched, so they say they are crying/sobbing/blubbing uncontrollably at the water fountain on their break.

Mind you the Hard As Nails What The Fuck You Worrying About That For? lot get on my tits just as much.

I cry easily. Oddly enough, it isn't always an indication that I give an actual shit. Which is weird, really. Maybe I DO care, and just don't realise?

Am wondering what a John Lewis jihadists might be like? Lots of mums insisting everyone just be bloody nice to each other? Oh, and make sure you have your gum boots and mittens with you.

My phone corrected jihad to jihadist. Weird.

Are there programmers updating autocorrect programmes of are they self-correcting algorithms that update based on word popularity?

And no, I'm not crying at naked gym people without a towel.

Would be like crying for flashers because they can't afford working zips.

I have nothing to add apart from the fact that I'm roaring at Jihad Lewis. That has to be one of the finest autocorrects I've seen in quite some time.

I'm literally smiling at Jihad Lewis. Literally. I can feel my mouth stretching and EVERYTHING.

I choke a bit at Frozen. I deal with lots of big stuff. Then I burn the toast. Disaster.

Penguins; Penguins & Parking; weeping now...

I let dd play with my tablet or phone whenever we're out and I need her not to destroy things.

I expect real tears from all of you

And no, I'm not crying at naked gym people without a towel.

That was one of the real wtf responses on mumsnet - 'perhaps they can't afford a towel'

I could imagine a family sitting down and deciding that they needed to cut down expenses and deciding that they'd sell all the towels (who'd buy second hand towels any way?) and keep a £30 quid a month gym membership and air dry themselves by running up and down the changing room in the nip.