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 probably will... I think my Ninja skills might need some work though!

I will never understand why people get so angry about zombie threads

It's mostly when the OP was asking for advice and it's obviously no longer needed, but people think it's useful and take time to post.

It's different if it's a sort of "heard on the bus" - you can add to it anytime.

People using AIBU to plug their pet cause/ charity etc. I guess it's still on the theme of AIBUs that aren't AIBUs though as they haven't come with a query, just to preach and feel self righteous.

I'm finding this thread hilarious!
I hate goady threads about benefits. I remember one on here saying a posters friend was on job seekers and sent her kids to private schools, just looking for a row!

Aibu, that aren't in least unreasonable, simply seeking praise,plaudits. Example, Aibu to dress my children in weather appropriate clothing when other folk just cannot be bothered. Then describing how Tilly and Max are slathered in factor 750, with hats,sun repelling non uv wet suit when on beach. Meanwhile, adjacent children were arse naked ,covered in blisters, color of lobster

Cue the turn up of
Dermatologist who'll warn about sun damage
Aussie who'll sagely quote state law on spf
And congratulate op on their wise interventions

The race to the bottom threads:

OP: all the walls fell off my living room last night and not only is it pissing in with rain it has been taken over by the malevolent undead

AT LEAST YOU'VE GOT A HOUSE YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARD, WE HAVE TO RENT.

OP: I caught my mum using my baby in a satanic ritual.

BE GRATEFUL YOU HAVE A MUM, MY ENTIRE FAMILY WAS WIPED OUT BY A RABID OTTER WHEN I WAS 5.

Bummingnugget im howling

Haha,yes, no matter what catastrophe has befallen op they dare not speak of it as someone else will competitively recall their plague of locusts/homeless through earthquake/near death experience

Waves to lumela ! Barely on there myself these days. Been travelling so only join in when I can. Always welcome to pop in :)

Spot on nugget.

I nominate the threads about towel-washing or bed linen-changing.

"I replace the towels daily".

"Slattern! I change ours hourly!" Etc.

There was once a raft of threads about strip washing vs daily showering. It got most heated.

lol I stuck an avocado up me chuff and bleached my nipples while the window cleaner was watching. Mega lolz, I'm a bit mad me!

Wonderful!

Oh yes, the washing ones. Apparently about 90% of people smell terrible because they don't wash shower three times a day in Zoflora, followed by bleach. And even though people protest, quite reasonably, that they do actually keep themselves clean, by washing regularly with soap and water and changing their clothes daily, they are all informed that they actually really stink, because daily washing and clothes changing isn't enough, and everyone is just too polite to tell them.

My family have always teased me about having a very sensitive sense of smell yet it's really quite rare that I can smell someone else.

The ones that go on about nc in case you know me..why the announcement?

(That's for nugget especially but I'm loving this thread.)

Another recurrent theme that irks me goes like this:

AIBU to find it disgusting that anybody sleeps in the buff? I wear bra, pants (clean, of course!) and PJs (clean every day!) in bed and I think everybody else should too.

You can guarantee that if it isn't in the OP within ten posts of that somebody will have started on about poo crumbs. Get a grip!

There is an unhealthy obsession with poo crumbs/poo particles on mumsnet.

The posters who ask AIBU, the answers are 50 / 50 then they come back to say thanks to those that have been helpful (I.e. agrees with them) and then has a go at anyone who dares to say they are BU.

It is the AIBU board, not the Please everyone agree with me board.

Oh I forgot the replies that say 'placemarking' or just a dot. FFS use the Watch button!

Whataboutery, and anti feminist threads.
Someone asks about feminism and 3 determined posters will post about how shit feminists are. Ordinary women not so much, for some reason.

The news blackout, queen has died threads...

This thread (which I have read in full) has been the funniest I've seen in a long time. The wit of MN never fails.

Competitive hygiene/laundry
Breast v bottle
SAHM v WOHM
Let's all diagnose people we know as having autism/aspergers
Please everyone tell me I'm not fat
Any thread that is "I think/do X, surely everyone else thinks/does X as well?"

Threads that excuse all shit behaviour because it could be a disability.
Threads that treat people with disabilities like they should just try harder.
Threads where experts start a massive snippy war.

Oh I love the ones where people start quoting academic papers at each other and saying things like 'I presume of course that you've read what Professor x and Dr Y said on that subject in their 2012 book on the subject? ' and immediately the other poster comes back and says 'yes, well, if you really worked in the field as you say you do, then of course you'd know that their theory was completely disproved by Professor A and Dr B in 2013' complete with one of these faces .

I can never work out if I'm actually reading a debate between two world renowned academics or two people who have the power of Google in front of them. I tend to assume it's the latter TBH...

I know poo crumbs.

I didn't know they existed. I have lead a sheltered life.MN has educated me.

Speculation threads. If the Queen has died will I get a day off next week?

I can never work out if I'm actually reading a debate between two world renowned academics
They'd never say "I AM prof. A."

Thankfully my main field is too narrow and obscure to be discussed even here.