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AIBU?

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Original poster

To ask posters to read which topic a thread is in before replying...

119 replies

JuliaDream · 02/04/2015 23:20

I was on a thread yesterday which was not in AIBU, hard to imagine I know.

Posters were replying YANBU or YABU.

MN is not just AIBU.

Thank you Easter Smile

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ThatBloodyWoman · 02/04/2015 23:24

LTB.

Smoorikins · 02/04/2015 23:25

I've been told off for saying YABU in a that that wasn't in AIBU before.

The thing is, it was originally posted there and mnhq moved it...

queenbrunhilda · 02/04/2015 23:25

You've made that very tempting OP, but I have resisted. Smile

PurpleDaisies · 02/04/2015 23:26
Biscuit
Sparklingbrook · 02/04/2015 23:26

YANBU

Charley50 · 02/04/2015 23:27

I haven't. YABU.

WorraLiberty · 02/04/2015 23:27

So if someone in Chat is being unreasonable, we have to type the entire phrase, "You are being unreasonable"?

Why?

thornrose · 02/04/2015 23:28

Who made you the thread police? Grin

Original poster
JuliaDream · 02/04/2015 23:28

Why the biscuit? It's a valid point.

If someone posts in DIY/Property they are not asking AIBU.

So don't bloody answer the thread in an AIBU stylee.

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ThatBloodyWoman · 02/04/2015 23:28

Goady fucker.

Original poster
JuliaDream · 02/04/2015 23:29

Because Worra, they are posting in Chat. Not AIBU.

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Sparklingbrook · 02/04/2015 23:30

Are people in Chat generally being unreasonable?

ThatBloodyWoman · 02/04/2015 23:30

Oh bum,I thought this was a lighthearted thread.
Soz...

SuburbanRhonda · 02/04/2015 23:30

I know which thread you're talking about.

So this is a TAAT.

On that basis alone, OP, YABU.

NobbyNobs · 02/04/2015 23:31

YANBU!

To ask posters to read which topic a thread is in before replying...
WorraLiberty · 02/04/2015 23:31

If someone posts in DIY/Property that they're pissed off about something (and it transpires they're being unreasonable), why not? Confused

They're only letters. I can't see the big deal on a forum where most of us are too lazy to type 'son' 'daughter' 'husband' 'partner' etc....

SinisterBunnyMonth · 02/04/2015 23:31

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ResurrectAndEatShitChoc · 02/04/2015 23:31

YABU

No one tells us what to do. Why so serious?!

Grin
Original poster
JuliaDream · 02/04/2015 23:32

It's a TAAT many threads on MN.

Why don't posters look to see which topic the thread is in? Why assume every thread is in AIBU?

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PurpleDaisies · 02/04/2015 23:33

It was a lighthearted biscuit in response to what I thought was supposed to be a lighthearted op.

Obviously not.

WorraLiberty · 02/04/2015 23:33

Because Worra, they are posting in Chat. Not AIBU

Ahh right so, are all other abbreviations and acronyms allowed or is it just 'YABU' and 'YANBU' that you want people to type out in full?

Assuming a situation that calls for someone to tell someone they're being unreasonable (or not as the case may be)

PurpleDaisies · 02/04/2015 23:33

And YABU

SisterMoonshine · 02/04/2015 23:34

If it's a topic within mumsnet, I would assume most people know what YANBU/YABU stand for, so I don't see why not type that.
Probaly not for another forum though.

Sparklingbrook · 02/04/2015 23:36

'You are being unreasonable' is not something I would ever say in RL, only in AIBU on MN. Grin

WorraLiberty · 02/04/2015 23:36

And if on the tiny off chance a mumsnetter in chat doesn't know what 'YABU' or 'YANBU' means, they can always ask.

I'm constantly scratching my head and wondering some abbreviations mean, and no-one's ever minded me asking.