AIBU to think some posts on here are over exaggerated?

[northernmonkey1010]

Some posts in this section seem to be stories that wouldn't look out of place in a soap like Eastenders. Some posts I read I ask myself can this be true? Or am I just been cynical?

I'd say a good proportion is straight up bullshit.

I am 'shaking' here with 'tears literally running down my face' that you could say such a thing.

I am 'shaking' here with 'tears literally running down my face' that you could say such a thing.

A lack of emotional investment in your part you should be sobbing not crying, not weeping but sobbing as you type.

Oh and how can tears run figuratively down your face?

Yup - it's all a bit sensationalized sometimes but I know that's how my family talks . Why tell the complete truth that you know when you can add a detail or 5 that makes it way more exciting/ gasp worthy.
Although I had a shocker of a year a few years ago - death, funeral fallings out, very private feelings emotions played out in local shops/bars, graveyard rows, estranged family members tearfully reuniting, rows over wills, and then a diagnosis of serious illness - Eastenders would be lucky to have my family as a story board. I almost posted on MN a few times because I had to 'get it out' but common sense prevailed

I take pretty much everything on here with a pinch of salt. It's not so much lying outright, more just a completely one sided perspective - and a whole load of hyperbole thrown in. All the screaming in faces and stuff that seems to happen on here, I just don't see it in RL. And I'm a Glaswegian!

A woman I knew from school was on here last year starting a thread about her dd who was being 'bullied' at school. It was a fairly run of the mill disagreement between two Y5 girls, which ended up with fallings out, other girls taking sides, a bit of meanness on both sides - everyday stuff really. This mum was on here putting her dd in the role of innocent party, describing her as so polite and well behaved, and even shoehorning in that she was 'top of the class'. None of which was strictly true. She did manage to get the other MN-ers on the thread whipped up into a frenzy of encouraging her to report to the governors / Ofsted / the LA, suggesting homeschooling, and saying they were 'crying' thinking of her dd. It was ridiculous. The more affirmation she got though, the more she was rolling with the story.

It's all bullshit. The "class" "income" and "accent" ones tickle me... You're all middle class, earning 6 figures and speak RP.

Skittles absolutely. I'm amazed the number of people in 100k plus jobs who can spend a good portion of everyday dicking about on mumsnet.

The phrase "over exaggerated" in itself has always been an exaggeration, I've always thought...

If something is exaggerated, then surely that's exaggerated enough- can it be over exaggerated?

Loads of it is exaggerated obviously but the ones that are irritating are the fictitious perfect retorts.

Most people faced with a rude or aggressive situation in real life tend to be shocked into incoherence and think of the right thing to say 20 minutes later. On here they all response immediately with the most perfect put down, flick their hair, swivel on the heels and clip clop off into the sunset.

The posts where people say 'oh I would have said...'well clearly sir you misunderstood the nature of our relationship and I'll thank you to desist from bothering me. Henceforth your own limitations should inhibit you from commenting upon the failings of others' are fucking annoying.
What they actually would have done is mutter 'oh fuck off' but trip up as they said it and possibly dribbled a bit.

I take things with a pinch of salt because it's the Internet, but sometimes stuff really does happen and then it can feel a bit hurtful when people disbelieve it.

We were once refused entry to a (moderately upmarket) cafe because of my cousin's assistance dog and he complained via Twitter. Mostly he got lots of sympathy and almost immediately an apology from the company, but also a number of people saying he had made it up. Including a charming chap who said he was in the cafe at the time and "No way was the guy blind" .

So if I'm doubtful about whether a thread is true, I'd rather not comment at all than post that I don't believe them, or think they're a troll or whatever.

Arfarf

Too true.

There was a thread here the other day where a male poster announced he was quitting the board and made a joke about pulling the pin on a grenade and take half of mumsnet with him. Within minutes some po faced idiot jumps in with a serious retort of 'that's an act of terrorism and not funny'

Posts exaggerated? Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Recently it's been the troll hunters that have been annoying the crap out of me. And the "first world problem"ers. You start talking about a TESCO order issue or something and they appear. "Don't you know there are ill baby animal orphans without a home?!" as if talking about anything other than the worst thing in the world is wrong. Off you fuck dears!

Yep. I think I'm too deadpan. In response to a question at wor about what I'd done that weekend I listed all of the boring things I'd done and then finished up with 'Sunday night I watched the antiques roadshow then went out badger baiting'.

The bloody dimwit believe me and starting going on that it was illegal and cruel. Pearls before swine.

A lot of stuff on here does seem to be the 'extreme' end of the scale and I do tend to take most rings with a pinch of salt.

BUT I have had the most shocking 5/6yrs, you seriously couldn't make half of the shit up. If I was to post about some of the situations I doubt anyone would believe a word of it. We quite often joke that even EastEnders would say it's to far fetched (like a PP)

"Don't you know there are ill baby animal orphans without a home?!"

I need to be careful how I phrase this as I got flamed on another thread. To be fair I was quite insensitive the way I expressed it and I upset some people which hasn't been my intention.

So here goes..

Someone will complain about their parent's behaviour and regardless (be that phoning at inappropriate times, smoking around children or whatever) and you can bet your bottom dollar someone will pipe up with "count yourself lucky my mother/father died three yeats ago and I'd give anything for them to do [

If I believed a lot of threads here (and every other forum out there) I wouldn't believe that they removed the word "gullible" from the dictionary.

It's true, honestly! 😆

Before I knew about MN I went through a spell of life events that honestly sounded straight off the plot of Corrie/EastEnders. If if have seen a post listing all the twists, turns and hideous surprises and the consequences, the thread would probably.have been deleted. So after my rather colourful time, I am now more willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Nearly always the threads do get.pulled but.i can testify that some really OTT shit does happen and sometimes there's an OTT sounding shitstorm that runs and runs

I haven't got time to mess around on here as I have 10, 000,000,000 people coming to dinner.

I'm hoping the medium organic free range chicken will stretch to feed them all- but I do have 2000 kg of spinach to go with it, so it should be fine.

I'll just bung it all in the slow cooker and it'll all be ready when I'm back from my day trip to Rio.

I bet most threads would be terribly boring if there wasn't an element of exaggeration!

yy to this from Worra:

"He waltzed in from the pub". I just assume they're married to Len Goodman

People really are prone to exaggerating if that doesn't interfere too much with the outright lying...

A few times I have wanted to post about my in-laws and their behaviour. However, nobody would believe me. Nobody would believe what these people are capable of. My sibling and parents are agog by their antics and say I'm living in a sitcom (except it's not funny when you're in the thick of it).

For this reason I probably believe a lot more posts than I would have before I married DH.

I wouldn't believe that they removed the word "gullible" from the dictionary

Ashamed to say I once fell for that one

YANBU the internet is full of hoaxes and BS

I also have witnesses for the restaurant toilet where I took my powder compact out just as a lady switched the hand drier on... and the puff went sailing over my head into a loo cubicle where another woman had just hit "flush"...so it went sailing over her head too and down the loo.

This really is how the universe likes to time things.