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 thought the towel comment was sarcastic/ being silly when i read it.

Can i hijack with facebook posts "that will blow my mind", exactly how brittle do you think my mind is

nocturn I'm weeping for your poor children

I know , god only knows what lasting damage I've already inflicted upon dd .

Thank you for your tears of concern , they seem heart felt .

Grey - don't be so ridiculous. You know nothing about me, how alone I've felt or the numerous times I have sat crying. It's precisely because I have experienced real heartbreak and loss I have very little patience for because of toddlers on tablets.

The towel image is making me larf though, and I feel a namechange coming on,

DD was in the changing room after swimming with DH yesterday. She shouted at the top of her voice "why has that man got hairs on his bum" about someone bending over naked drying his hair. All I could think of saying afterwards was "maybe he can't afford a towel"

its the way so many posters here love to admit they cried at the Xmas john lewis advert, jesus friggin wept

its like a status symbol on here, "I'm middle class enough to cry at john lewis adverts and my names ssd"

bag o' shite

My FB was full of people of all classes crying at it. And the sainsburys one.not me I must add.

It's not a class thing.

wow, I thought it was, all these posh burdz crying over some daft penguin thing, am surprised anyone with any sense would bother..

Given that our own beloved Government and others are trying to protect our freedom by recording all the communications anyone makes on the internet ever, a simple autocorrect like the one upthread (which I am too cowardly to repeat) could lead to the CIA and/or the SAS appearing on your doorstep within the hour. "But it was my phone, Your Honour, I swear, I typed John!" "Yeah right. 20 years in Guantanamo for you, sunshine."

Genuinely sat here at my desk trembling now. (Or possibly not.)

Why is jihad a Bad Word?

It's a name. A name typically associated with those from an Asian/Pakistani background but it's just a name!

You mean like a person's name? Err no it isn't.

Then where's the offence coming from? !

It's one of the trigger words they look out for, innit. And now you've typed it again.

I can feel "sad" over threads, and I did get a lump in my throat and tears when Expat lost her DD, but I've never "cried" over a thread. I don't think I'd be able to type if I was actually crying. Maybe people mean their eyes tear up rather than actual sobbing tears.

I laughed out loud at a thread yesterday, so much so that DH was looking squint at me. It was a rant on the 'things not working, bad designers' thread.

I have cried proper tears at some threads - usually pet death related. Not wracking sobs though.

And cried with laughter.

Well certain papers like the Daily Mail like to use it at the drop of a hat to mean a holy war against Westerners.

They do read the word in context though. Not like just because it appears in a thread doesn't mean a hit squad is coming a-visiting.

They do? You've spoiled my fun now. I'll have to go and find something else to get excited about.

OMG. Don't go over to Chat... theres loads of them on there right now sat crying.

Anyone that cries at a bloody advert is a bit tapped, IMHO.

I quite fancy a job at Rent A Mourner. Wonder what the job description's like - "You will be required to attend funerals of people you don't know and pretend to be sad". Sounds a doddle.

Jihad is also a name. I had a tour guide in Turkey called jihad. He said it meant living a good life or something.

Some random stranger at the schoolgate might not like me or maybe she does or maybe another slightly more lukewarm random stranger has turned her against me
no evidence

4000 screaming

she's a wendy

I know. I've even twitching the curtains all day & getting excited when I hear the police helicopter overhead. I won't get far at the mo, but if I pull the duvet right over my head they probably won't check, right?

My phone autocorrects Italian to Taliban. It really makes you wonder what is going on.