AIBU: The threads that annoy you most

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Like those where the OP writes hardly anything and expects others to entertain them.

Now you go.

Scales falling from your eyes is a very well known expression outside of mumset though? I thought it was from the Bible?

Is it treacle? I've really honestly only ever seen it on here!

Even so, it's still annoying and overused!

Oh yeah, you're right. The scales fell from Saul's eyes.

Still... I'm right, it's annoying

Do we have anything left to talk about?

Oh I totally understand that ubiquitous, I really was just referring to people insisting that it's a massive red flag if the house is generally clean and tidy.

Oh, and threads where the OP and most of the posters are 'devastated' and 'terrified' about some issue - cars revving when you're on the zebra crossing, dog that barks behind a hedge and makes you jump.

'Youth in car shouted 'Oy, oy, saveloy' at me as he revved off. I was terrified. AIBU to report to the police?'
Posters: Ooh, you must have been petrified, that's harassment, get it logged.

Oy oy saveloy

Report them obviously. I trust you took down the reg?

Any thread where some bore says,"Get a grip."

Or uses a stupid biscuit emoticon thing.

anything that is quite obviously a bit outlandish or iffy but everyone piles in then are surprised when it is pulled.
huns.- want to cuddle you warmly by the throat
obvious bitching,
op starts thread then never comes back to answer questions, there was one which spiralled out of control recently and only about 15 words were used but it had god knows how many responses from worried posters but noone knows how it ended, even mnhq got involved, not deleted though.

tibbawyrots that made me laugh! Yes to any mysterious 'hobby' posts.

Any thread that remotely hints at vaccines. Cue 685 pages of the argument that could be copy-pasted from the last thread just like it.

Makes me feel like the only person on earth who isn't bothered if your kids have their jabs or not.

Any where the posters feel tied to same old repeated MN terminology as if it's mandatory. Particularly, 'large of nork', 'curvy of hip', 'slim of foot' or whatever. Something that would sound wildly odd in real life.

All of the threads where an OP excuses her husband from being able to do even the most basic of tasks as they have an unspecified 'very important job'.

We work in a service economy people, very few jobs are that important!

'I want to know if AIBU'.

Just read that sentence out in full for me now...

I can't stand any thread about meals where 'picky bits' are mentioned.

Well, if we're getting down to that level of detail, I'm irked by DCs. It stands for Dear Children. There is no s in children. There is therefore no need to put an s at the end of it.

Hmm now I find DCs disambiguates between child and children. I say "dee see" in my head so "dee see" is singular and "dee seez" is (are) plural.

Where the op starts with the word "so".

So today mil...

The ones that say 'name changed for this' and then give you such a broken story to decipher because they can't go into too much detail.

'Something happened a few years ago with someone I know and I now know some more of the story and I can't go into detail as it would be too outing but aibu?'

Oh god yes yes to the "very important job" DHs. I have that sort of job and work with lots of men with SAHM wives and can report confidently that it's not impossible for them to be home for bedtime. They're just arsing about/ going to the gym in the afternoon/ in the pub because they'd rather do that than go home.

Oh yes about the HV tidy house = red flag ones! I shit my pants reading this as a FTM of a 4 day old, with an imminent MW and HV appointment, DH is uber-tidy (far more so than me) and seeing as all I was doing was BFing while he was off work he cleaned and cooked and all that jazz. I actually threw a few things round the room to look like we were slobs! It's of course total bullshit and in reality it's far more of a red flag if you've got mushrooms growing in the corner!

Cherry Yep, the HV did tell me that though when she went into the kitchen to wash her hands and I apologised for not having done the breakfast washing up. She said, "oh don't worry about it. I'd be more concerned if you had a perfectly clean house. You should be spending time with the baby, not worrying about housework."

So yes, a clean and tidy house is not a red flag really, but people only have that belief because HVs say things like the above to mum's of newborns who are worried about being judged harshly for an untidy kitchen.

The long-winded rambling re-tellings of complex, sometimes interconnected and sometimes completely unrelated, scenarios, with casts of thousands, generally identified either by traditional Mumsnet abbreviations (think DBIL etc.), exotic first-names or mere personal pronouns, replete with carefully-remembered direct speech renditions of years- or even decades-old conversations or arguments.