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People asking why people care about trivial stuff on mumsnet

111 replies

BrendaandEddie · 02/01/2016 20:00

WHY? Surely its the nature of the whole site that people care about trivia?
If no one did we wouldnt have anything to talk about!

OP posts:
Seeyounearertime · 02/01/2016 20:01

Why do you care?

Grin
BrendaandEddie · 02/01/2016 20:02

HAHAHAH

brilliant

OP posts:
SaucyJack · 02/01/2016 20:24

I take it this thread is aimed at me?

I just thought that other thread was unbelievably petty and sneery- even by MN standards.

Why do people care about that sort of shite? Bloody curtain twitchers. Go and read The Day Of The Jackal if you're that bored.

ArkATerre · 02/01/2016 20:28

Can I watch it instead? The young Edward Fox is pretty dishy.

rosewithoutthorns · 02/01/2016 20:28

I personally love a bit of trivia.

rosewithoutthorns · 02/01/2016 20:29

when it starts getting pc heavy I fuck off Grin

VertigoNun · 02/01/2016 20:29

Is this about the throat biter?Confused

ArkATerre · 02/01/2016 20:30

That was just odd.

BadgersNadgers · 02/01/2016 20:34

Eh?

wickedlazy · 02/01/2016 20:35

Isn't that what makes threads like the boring thread so brilliant? The random trivia. Grin Haven't seen it for a while actually.

Anniegetyourgun · 02/01/2016 20:45

YANBU. Life can't be all serious and important. It would be too depressing. It's full of big stuff and small stuff, and we can talk about the small stuff if we jolly well want to. It doesn't mean we've forgotten or don't care about the big stuff. However many people got blown up/washed away/kidnapped by aliens, life goes on in all its petty and sometimes hilarious detail. Otherwise we might as well give up and climb into our coffins to save time.

Seeyounearertime · 02/01/2016 20:47

I reckon I'll post a thread about other peoples belly button fluff and how it mysteriously angers me for no reason. Grin

Coldlightofday · 02/01/2016 20:49

Pesto.

It was the pesto thread, OP, right?

MuchasSmoochas · 02/01/2016 20:52

I love the trivial shit. Heavy stuff is too heavy. Keep it light ..

TriIls · 02/01/2016 20:54

People who say "why do you care SO MUCH?"

Do they find typing difficult?

Or is it stringing a sentence together that they consider time-consuming?

I personally only need to care only a very little in order to start a thread.

ShatnersBassoon · 02/01/2016 20:54

I wonder why that person cares about dull shit. I wonder so much I'll demand they fully explain their interest. That will make great reading for everyone.

YANBU.

knobblyknee · 02/01/2016 20:54

Is this about the throat biter?

Wat? You cant do that. You cant dump and run without posting a link.

knobblyknee · 02/01/2016 20:55

wat? Where? Stop teasing.

Sparklingbrook · 02/01/2016 20:56

There's trivial, then there's WTF trivial.

Novembercocoa · 02/01/2016 20:59

I never understand those idiots. Do they go up to people at parties discussing the Kardashians or Downton Abbey and ask if they've 'nothing better to worry about?'

YANBU

ShatnersBassoon · 02/01/2016 21:01

Oh yeah, but grumpily trying to make someone explain why they can't decide between a butter knife and a cheese knife for putting Boursin on their crackers is definitely more WTF than the original quandary. That's not even slightly, head-scratchingly funny.

wickedlazy · 02/01/2016 21:02

I can't imagine the type of trivial some of you mean. Like asking op what colour the other womans knickers were? Or asking op what her dp had for dinner before he slapped her face?

wickedlazy · 02/01/2016 21:03

Or maybe I can Grin

AuntieStella · 02/01/2016 21:03

It's because it's just not possible for MNetters and their pretty little heads to care about more than one thing at a time, and need to be told what's worthy

That said, I did see a WTF trivial and vapid thread the other day (I didn't post my opinion on it, as a I though it would be unkind, so won't specify which one).

wickedlazy · 02/01/2016 21:04

What's Boursin?