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.

I hate it when someone mentions they are not working for whatever reason and then they have to put up with the next 20 pages of
'Why don't you get a job?'
'You are a grown adult you should be supporting yourself'
'Sponging off your DH'
etc etc

Just pack it in with judging someone else's life choices.

Minor issues that should be shrugged off...

Parking
Someone looked at me funny
Christmas presents

Get.A.Life

To be fair, it's often the minor issues that will spark the most debate. I like minor issue threads.

Parking issues are the best!

Parking threads are getting a bit tedious now.

I love the ones where it's all going well and then a 'popular' poster brings a difference of opinion. The backtracking and racing to agree with said poster is hilarious.

AIBU to start the 35th thread that nobody responds to ?

Or anything similar. Cliquey, inane drivel and bollocks. Waste of space on the forum. Should all be deleted. PM each other if you want to discuss minutiae of your boring day.

" Oh great we have a shiny new thread ". Really ? What was the point of the last one for anyone except the five contributors ? I hate " shiny new thread " as a phrase.

Sweary threads. If you want to swear, just swear. It loses its meaning when done on every post of a thread.

By the way, THIS thread I love.

Who are the popular ones? Are they also the scariest on AIBU and do they swear a lot?

I still love a good parking thread, especially if it has a diagram to ensure I get an accurate picture of the issue.

There was one where a load of fawning women made innuendo with some fake Dr.

Bleurgh

Not that I am in the least bit scared of them.

Bungle there's nothing better than a diagram!

The ones where someone is 'livid' or 'fuming' because someone looked at them a bit funny in Tesco.

Not that I am in the least bit scared of them.

Why on earth would you be?

I really enjoy a parking thread. I work in PR and have done work for highways agencies and hospitals, it never ceases to amaze me that the number 1 gripe amongst the public is never road deaths/casualties or healthcare, it's parking! people become incandescent with rage if they have to pay/search for a space/get ticketed for double parking, I've been sworn at and had our staff threatened with violence over parking issues and covered court cases where parking wardens have been assaulted. I don't know if it's a British thing as I've lived in the US and everyone just gets on with it

The only thing that irritates me about the parking threads is when the OP doesn't set the physical scene well at all and won't post a diagram or drawing (which really should be mandatory with parking threads, as no your crappy diagram will not 'out' you 🙄). "My neighbour diagnol to me has a black Ford Focus and double parks it 24cm over our shared drive, which is shared with 3 other houses, including Ford Focus house, but half my house is 'on' the drive so we can fit a car and a balance bike in but the people next door park their Range Rover at 67 degrees due north, which means we can get in but only if there's a note attached to the window and as long the couple at number 42 don't have their Golf on the grass verge. AIBU to ask them to us their other drive?" WHAT??!

The ones where someone is 'livid' or 'fuming' because someone looked at them a bit funny in Tesco

YY, and if it's a man who did this they must call the police immediately

I love the threads where a poster will pick up on one tiny little detail, that has nothing to do with anything

"I was sitting in Starbucks enjoying a coffee, when all of a sudden I looked out of the window and saw my sister's boyfriend, walking arm in arm with a pretty blonde woman. They were laughing and gazing into each others eyes. Do you think he's having an affair?"

"YABU to go to Starbucks".

When someone starts their posts with 'I'm going to go against the grain', like they're some kind of crazy rebel.

Anyone who puts 'no?' at the end of a sentence.

YY, and if it's a man who did this they must call the police immediately

Yes Cherry, they need to call and get it logged ...

Yes Worra! Or the ones that go "I was just mugged by my car, this 6ft tall Egyptian looking man just ran up, punched me in the face breaking my nose, kicked my baby and then ran off with my handbag which had £500 cash in I was about to pop into the DC's account. I'm utterly shaken and in agony, the police aren't being very helpful"

"What has the fact that he's Egyptian looking for to do with it? Are you always this overtly racist?"

In reality, this is what we would say to our friends and it's not ridiculous that people type it out this way.

Cherry you are so right...which is why I love a diagram. Often, I can't picture the set up at all because it sounds insane.

Name threads.
I am expecting boy/girl twins . I want to call the boy Willow and the girl Willoughby. What do people think?

Or I want my child to have a different name to everyone in their class. I am not sure whether to go with River Bear or Bear River
Call them Gary or Lee is my answer always.

Get totally bored by the "which name do you prefer" threads

FFS they're only going to have the one they want anyway!

Posters, and there are repeat offenders, who construct overly long and completely deranged replies for OPs to send to whoever they're posting about.....

OP: my friend has just texted me that it's really inconvenient that I can't have her children on Tuesday. She wants to get her knees lasered but I'm busy being a befriender at the local home for elderly feminists.
Reply: cheeky bitch! Send her this "no I cannot have your children you rude horrible cow. HOW DARE you ask me when you KNOW my Tuesdays are sacred! GERMAINE NEEDS ME and also your elder child stinks and your DS is a horrible shit and is NOT good at mine craft!!!! Oh and by the way I charge my services out at £10 an hour and will be invoicing you for the three times I've had your shitty kids this year AND your knees are like leather HAHAHA!!!" Send that OP!

Fucking biscuits.

Have a fucking biscuit is not witty and it needs to end.

Starting a thread the following day informing us that George Michael has died, or a big world event happened last night, because no one else would possibly have started a thread about it already.