The AIBUs that never were....

[PiperChapstick]

So good people of MN, tell me in one simple title ... What AIBUs have you wanted to post but, for whatever reason, you chose not to?

Can't tell you. I knew I was being totally unreasonable and I really just wanted a mindless rant about it, but I'd have been flamed for it. Probably tarred, feathered and flamed tbh.

MN needs a topic "IKIBU" (I know I'm being unreasonable)

and another one = "Anxious Annies" where all the threads that open with "I suffer from X anxiety" can cluster & garner support and my grumpy self can completely ignore them

AIBU to kick my ex and his bitch girlfriend repeatedly in the face for putting her children before ours constantly.

Some of the instances of them doing this I am reasonable on, others I sound like a crazy person about. I don't want to find out how unreasonable I am.

AIBU for getting sick to the back teeth of any AIBU linked to breastfeeding?

Feels better posting that

I genuinely feel I am turning into a permanently pissed off and angry 40 something whose capacity for patience and empathy is being eroded away.

Mine would be aibu to suggest there's no such thing as a Wendy, you can't control or own a friendship dynamic. If your mates have ditched you for the new shiny friend, you need better pals.

What was the one about the autistic son? It's been deleted but it's still showing in active....

Ooh Superman, this would be a good one for you -

AIBU to think people who specify breastfeeding their baby when it has no relevance are doing it to announce their superiority?

"AIBU to think that if Jeffrey wanted to cause Mumsnet real trouble, he should have posted a list of name changes, not passwords"?

Following on from Laffy's post, AIBU to think that if all your friends have ditched you, you might want to take a look at yourself?

Milk yes...... There was something similar a couple of days ago where a few posters were banging on about it even though it was completely unrelated to the OP.

Milk

I went to group physio after giving birth Nasty tear from pushing giant DD out and there was a girl there who said things like "I've left my DH in the car park with or DD and he's going to call me if she needs feeding as were breastfeeding", "I've lost all my baby weight. Probably because I'm breastfeeding" and my favourite (when asked if anyone is weeing or trumping without meaning to) "well I'm ok but then I do spend a lot of time sitting down as Im breastfeeding so it makes it harder to do those things" . She looked quite put out that I told her I was BFing too - I nearly said "I didn't know for it to work we had to constantly mention it"

If your mates have ditched you for the new shiny friend, you need better pals.

THIS! Whenever I read those threads about how awful someone is for stealing^ a person's friends and turning them against the OP, I always wonder how that actually happens. If I was hanging out with people who would shun me in favour of a new buddy who was telling them that I was a terrible person, I would be glad to know that they were callous and two-faced, not sad that someone had lured them away from me!

I wrote one out this morning. About my neighbour being a twat.

It got too long and complicated. So I deleted it before posting. But I promise I was entirely reasonable and she is a twat!

Totally agree re Wendy. Surely the best way to make new friends is by meeting new people - and one usually meets new people through people they already know?!

It's the "sorry for typos I'm bfing baby at the moment" type posts that annoy me. "... I'm feeding baby..." will do just fine!

AIBU to point out that a journo pmed me because he really wanted to have a story run in the DM help me with a situation? Shitty preying on someone's misery.

AIBU that last week my MIL took my 11 year old DD out for the day for shopping, lunch etc...all lovely. Then took her shopping for her very first bra without my knowledge

I think my second and last one would be....
AIBU for utterly despising the terms screen time and playdate?

I have no idea why these make me so fucking angry.
As soon as I see them in a post I want to let rip.

See...I really am losing all sense of what is reasonable.

Help me.

There's no excuse for typos if you're BFing as you have a free hand!

I'm actually still BFing my 2.5 yo. I'm not arrogant enough to think anyone gives a flying fuck though. I think BF gets a hard time and I hear some awful myths and misconceptions as well as judgement, but the one thing that truly harms the reputation of BF is the smugness and superiority some (not all) people Exude because they've been fortunate enough to be able to crack it!

Anxious Annies

AIBU to think that everyone on MN has 'issues'

AIBU to get the rage over the very many threads about should I let my son wear a pink tutu cos I dont agree with all this gender stereotyping blah blah..gonnae just check out the other 100,000, 0000 threads on THE EXACT SAME THING!!!!!!!

OY ragged!! What's with the slight against Annies?

The pink tutu is really old hat now. Funny how it's ALWAYS a tutu...and pink.

In my entire 50 years on this planet, working with children for many of them, I have never once encountered this scenario. Not once. Seems like it happens every other week on MN.

Now laffy that's not fair.

On a thread the other day the OPs DS tutu was purple. Are you purpleist laffy?

AIBU for utterly despising the terms screen time and playdate?

I'll see your 'screen time' and 'playdate' and raise you a SANPRO

I don't know why it bugs me so much.