to think it's really quite offensive to call someone "unhinged" or "deranged"?

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I keep seeing it on Mumsnet, if someone's behaviour is a bit odd then they are "unhinged" or if they've gotten something wrong then they're "deranged".
For a site that got its knickers in such a twist about Asda's mental patient halloween costume (which I agreed was wrong) it seems very out of sorts.
AIBU?

Is this like a competition to see who can say the largest number of offensive words?

so are we playing mn abusive terms top trumps

unhinged has connotations (to me anyway) that i, like the op, always find strange that mn tends to find it acceptable to use it to be abusive to other posters

SNOOKER LOOPY?

hopeful face

Mn is ridiculous on this and you are al crackers. loopy, nuts and unhinged

It's not very kind to call posters unhinged.

I'm being kind tonight.

I do like bonkers though.

MN is fucking bonkers.

It is loopy looperson

Not really no, because if someone's acting unhinged then that's the only way to describe them isn't it.

Now if you use terms than are actual diagnosis like 'she's bipolar her always having mood swings' or 'she has a terrible temper that schizophrenic bitch' I find that offensive.

Although I'm always learning. Some kind posters recently pointed out a word I used, and is very commonly used in my area, is offensive. So that's been cut from my vocab.

Yesterday I also read 'paddy' is offensive. Now I'm not sure why this is, and that's another that I hear up north all the time. If someone could explain that one to me it'd be appreciated!

Mad as a box of frogs.

Fruit and nutcase?

Squirrel shit?

loopy is acceptable, unhinged isn't though is it as it refers to a door being unhinged making the poster feel like a door which isn't acceptable is it

lol at door.

crazy might make someone feel like patsy cline.

Would rather be compared to Patsy Cline than Katie Melu-eurgh.

a stamp could also be unhinged for any stanley gibbons fans out there

Or Seal.

What I find really irritating is the sarcastic 'you sound delightful' response that I see if a MNer dares to respond angrily or aggressively to anything that happens to them in life.

Maybe we should ban 'delightful' as it's only ever used as an insult on here.

I always find it amusing that "you sound horrible" is always said by certain hatchet faced horrible types in AIBU

Or lovely? you sound lovely, OP.

MN translation:

'You sound lovely/delightful'

=

You responded to a situation in a way that I would really love to but would never have the balls to so I am going to make out that you are the aggressive one and I am actually really composed and measured in all my responses.

Or charming?

spray @ Stanley gibbons

oh i get the you sound delightful ALL THE TIME

Largely as I am a cow bag