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AIBU?

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To think people on AIBU can be very pedantic.

30 replies

tarashill · 31/01/2015 15:11

Perhaps not so much pedantic but will often misconstrue things you've said or imply you said something you clearly hadn't. It's often worse on a long thread and someone will refer to something you'd said a long way up thread, and just as in a conversation in real life you might have forgotten what you'd said. Time is then taken up trawling back through your comments to something you'd said but has been taken out of context. It's fair enough when they have a valid point but it can get tedious when you have to keep going on the defensive about something you hadn't said. Sometimes you feel like you're being grilled by the gestapo.

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Tobyjugg · 02/02/2015 00:17

Lord yes. There's more "close textual analysis" as a pp said on AIBU than in any English class I ever attended.

Trickydecision · 02/02/2015 00:43

I was told that my 41 year old DS was 'revolting' and a 'near paedophile' because his GF is 23. It was said on what I thought was an innocuous question on 'Chat' not even AIBU, about who should pay for an extra holiday room. The thread certainly veered wildly away from what I was asking, with some very odd posts.

ChippingInLatteLover · 02/02/2015 00:52

Tricky. Some friends were having a strop about ski chalet booking the other day and it made me think of you! What happened in the end?

Op. YANBU.

Trickydecision · 02/02/2015 01:09

Chipping, it all sorted itself out in the end. GS1 started a new job just after New Year, and as she and DS1 had just spent two weeks in her home country over Christmas, she felt she could not have another week off almost immediately. So we all fitted nicely into three double rooms, with DS1 sharing with DGS. GF2 enjoyed her lessons, and DS2 took her out a couple of times when he got back in the afternoon. Normally I book several months in advance, but this time I said we would wait until prices dropped which they did. Our friend who insisted on a room to himself had to pay for two people, with no reduction to reflect only one seat on the plane was needed. That was the fate I was trying to avoid over our possible extra room.

Sorry to derail, OP, have some Flowers and YANBU

ChippingInLatteLover · 02/02/2015 01:50

Tricky. That sounds great. Sometimes fate has a way of stepping in, just in time! Also being sensible and waiting!

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