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AIBU: The threads that annoy you most

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user1471517900 · 28/12/2016 09:55

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

Now you go.

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RichardBucket · 28/12/2016 22:55

I am literally crying with laughter HTKB. I can barely type through the tears!

treaclesoda · 28/12/2016 23:06

And on the world issues subject, threads where posters say things like 'why isn't anyone talking about Syria? It's disgusting that the UK media ignore such an important issue' as if they're the only person caring enough and educated and non racist enough to care about anything that happens outside of the UK. Hmm

Which reminds me, does anyone remember the poster a few years back who tried to educate us all about the Palestinian conflict using metaphors about a step-dad killing a kitten? Thank goodness she was here to educate me on world events because I'd never even heard of Israel Wink

WorraLiberty · 28/12/2016 23:20

Yes that too Cherry!

redexpat · 28/12/2016 23:20

treacle I am sorry I missed that one - sounds like a corker

treaclesoda · 28/12/2016 23:27

red it was spectacular. It should have gone in classics. In fact it should have had a section all of its own called 'Smugness'. But instead, the poster had it withdrawn Sad

sparemum · 28/12/2016 23:28

Anything where OPs think they are 'Entitled' then get pissed off when they find out they're not.

MerylPeril · 28/12/2016 23:35

I'm going to get DDs ears pierced - she's 28 minutes old. Do you think that's too young?
It doesn't matter what people ask I'm going to do it regardless.

And people who don't believe you have a fully integrated local transport system - that it really is easier and much much quicker to drive when the alternative is 3 buses.

redshoeblueshoe · 28/12/2016 23:40

28 minutes - why did you wait so long Shock

paxillin · 28/12/2016 23:50

Hygiene threads. "I wash the bedding weekly, AIBU?" Fuck, you know what your sheets soak up and can make that decision all by yourself! But no, the answers will split into "I get up halfway through the night to change sheets, anything else is gross" and "I change the sheets for Christmas, it is bad for the planet and your health to do it more often".

TheClaws · 29/12/2016 00:02

Any thread with 'cunt' in it. Just seems so teenage girl-ish.

Threads that are obvious soap operas with the OP coming back with constant breathless updates, on an escalating scale until they are so ridiculous not even a three year old would be taken in by them. (But a lot of MNers are).

ghostspirit · 29/12/2016 00:13

I don't understand the biscuit thing. I quite like jammie dodgers. Biscuit

CaraAspen · 29/12/2016 00:14

"ArmySal

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

Why on earth would you be? confused"

I was being facetious.

WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat · 29/12/2016 00:33

I think it's already been said (my memory is shocking), but the 'who is your favourite mner?' threads where posters who appear to spend most of their lives on Mumsnet and who post on Every. Single. Thread. get all self effacing in a "gosh, I'm totally AMAZED anyone even recognises my username far less likes me!" way, and all their little sycophants chime in with the "no way, you're a bloody superstar" replies. Urgh.

BastardGoDarkly · 29/12/2016 00:51

Breakfast you're welcome to come to the sweary thread and have a rant if you like? Get it off your chest? You seem very angry about people chatting.

HerChristmasFattyness · 29/12/2016 01:13

Grin I was just about to post pretty much the same thing as bastard

MagicChicken · 29/12/2016 02:48

Breakfast you are my new favourite. Totally agree about the inane drivel on the clique threads. I tried to join in on one or two in years gone by but I was bored witless within minutes.

MagicChicken · 29/12/2016 02:54

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

Or the other one that gets up my chuff is 'How did you know he was Egyptian?'

This happens most with gypsies. Someone will post some anecdote about gypsies or Irish Travellers doing something heinous and someone will say 'How do you know they were Travellers? They don't wear a sign around their necks you know.'

I can only assume that the people who say that have never actually been within 30 feet of any gypsies or Travellers.

jennifermae · 29/12/2016 03:01

I hate the threads where posters try and imply that there is a huge epidemic of people self-diagnose or seek MH diagnoses for shits and giggles. Really gets my goat. I have seen posters imply that it is "fashionable" for yound people to claim depression etc or that Asperger's is just a trendy bandwagon. If people seek diagnosis or self-diagnose they usually do it because they have symptoms of these issues. It maybe that they are wrong and their issues aren't autism etc but another issue. That doesn't mean the symptoms aren't real. And of course there are people with Munchausens/factitious disorders and Health Anxiety but those are legit problems in themselves with complex causes- they aren't just some fad!

Janey50 · 29/12/2016 03:25

Ones where the OP uses no punctuation,or paragraphs and the whole thing is just one,long diatribe from start to finish. I find them exhausting and confusing to read and make sense of.

Lweji · 29/12/2016 03:33

"I've name changed as this is very outing..." Really?! Mumsnet has a zillion users and you're anonymous anyway?!

Yes, but I have identified two people I know from the problems they posted.

It's possible that the mad SIL you're complaining about is also on MN. :)
And complaining about her mad SIL on another thread.
Not that either of you would recognise themselves, as you're clearly completely sane. Wink

daisychain01 · 29/12/2016 03:35

I can't stand those wheres my missing partner threads.

Good God, the amount of " DH/DP/OH hasn't come home yet, it's 4am and I've called every hospital in the area, his phone's dead " threads makes me think my DH is the only man alive who actually comes home at a reasonable hour, sober and doesn't throw up all over the cat.

GilMartin · 29/12/2016 03:43

In jokes. Like that Chalet school one that ran and ran and ran.

Or when someone starts a thread about something, someone pipes up with 'This is boring, can't you think of anything original to post? I think you'll find we discussed baby on board stickers on the 13th March 2007'

Well I want to talk about it again now. I wasn't there then, no one is forcing you to contribute. In fact do us all a favour and bore off.

The 'how dare the daily mail use quotations from mumsnet threads.' People who fail to grasp that this is a public domain and anyone can read it. It isn't a safe private space or a cost chat with friends and yes that means the daily mail can and will quote you. You put all the information out there, you only have yourself to blame.

MagicChicken · 29/12/2016 04:20

"I've name changed as this is very outing..." Really?! Mumsnet has a zillion users and you're anonymous anyway?!

Well the fact that it has a zillion users now is the whole point. Back in the day when there were about 12 of us I could say something that identified me very easily but be safe in the knowledge that there was only a the tiniest chance that it was being read by someone who knew me in RL.

These days I can't be so sure. There's actually a pretty good chance that dozens of the women I know in RL are on here. I have never actually met a woman who volunteers the information that she is an MN poster, but clearly zillions of us are, so it's easy to get lulled into a false sense of security about one's own anonymity.

Not to mention that threads get lifted verbatim to the Daily Mail or linked to Facebook on a virtually daily basis and user names are printed.

If someone recognises my rant in AIBU or my funny anecdote from when I told them it in person last week they could do an AV on my user name and read all sorts that I'd really rather they didn't.

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 29/12/2016 05:05

Walls of text. PLEASE use paragraphs.

'I love this tattoo design - should I get it done?' If you want it, get it. You don't need the collective 'Ah that's gorgeous/Love it/I've got that tattoo too!/Ugh that's so COMMON' judgement of MN first.

The 'favourite MNer' threads, where people name a member of MN royalty, purely because they want to be noticed by them.

Also, on the subject of MN royalty: when people respond to a thread, then a well known poster comes along and states a different opinion, and suddenly everyone else changes their tune because, y'know, royalty have spoken. It's not always for the best.

I don't have an issue with name changing, as a rule. I'm massively identifiable under this name (if certain stalky types advanced searched me), and there have been times where I've wanted advice about a situation that might out me for sure. MN isn't all that anonymous, not really.

When posters use 'DDog' and 'DCat', and maybe even 'DFieldMouse' - it's dog, cat and field mouse. The whole point of the 'D' Grin is that it's an abbreviation.

The hatred of new posters who open posts with 'Hello ladies' - they may be coming over from a certain other parenting forum, looking for more constructive advice than 'Ur bubz ur rulez hun', and don't realise there's a protocol (ffs) for being taken seriously on here. MN often preaches kindness, but there doesn't seem to be any for these posters.

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 29/12/2016 05:16

Oh, and one more: the absolute lambasting of stepmums who don't immediately love and adore their OH's kids. 'You knew what you were getting into' - no, not always. Sometimes, kids can be utter poisonous shits, even if the OP has the very best intentions - that's why they've posted. They're conflicted and upset about how they feel. They don't need a mass of MNers telling them 'I feel so sorry for your stepchild, they didn't choose this, bla bla bla.'