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.

Where it says at the beginning:
'I've name changed for this'

This. Can someone please explain this one as I really don't get why people write it!

I just did a name change thread because I didn't want it linked to my everyday user name. It was a very sensitive topic

But then I fucked up hallway into the thread with a name change fail anyway

I think posters say they have nc, especially on sensitive issues, because otherwise you inevitably get all the 'interesting first post' PA troll hunting bullshit.

Not that stating you have nc works because this happpens anyway

I'm tempted to start a thread "I haven't name changed for this, pom bears, elderly Korean lady, gluezilla. Anyway, the stuff I'm posting is too inane to bother."

Or when women with children assume that women without children are leading these hedonistic lifestyles and are really immature and know nothing about family life.

I think this ties in with one of the things I find irritating (well strange more than irritating) I would take a guess that a lot of the women with children who think those without haven't a clue are the ones that had very opinionated views about children and child rearing before they had children. They don't seem to grasp that there are people out there that didn't have them!!

They are threads I don't get: "What things did you think about having children that you realise were crazy now you have them?" Type threads. Well none, because why would I? I may not have had children but there were enough families around for me to spot there was no one way.

Ones where 99.9% of answers are YANBU but one poster persists with their own agenda, usually by being wilfully obtuse and ignoring all reasonable attempts to rtft etc. They're definitely a form of troll imo.

Or the ones where someone posts something about a teenager, for example maybe that they have a messy bedroom or aren't doing their homework and someone will come along and say that their 4 year old helps with the cleaning, or their 7 year old does his homework as soon as he gets in from school or helpfully say, "just make them do it".

I'm sure the posters teenager also did those things at 4 and 7, but now they are 16 and are a little trickier to be made to do things that they don't feel are important....and they are bigger than you.

I'm not saying parents of younger children don't have useful advice, just that stating that your small child does things isn't helpful.

Agreed, WankersHacksandThieves. I too have been told what's what when it comes to teens by a mum of a newborn. A perfectly well mannered newborn, of course.

On the flip side posters having difficulty with toddlers and pre teens are often patronised by parents of older dc with lots of "wait till they're teens op you won't know what's hit you". That's just as unhelpful and misleading imo.

Very true, Magzmarsh. I often have to stop myself typing "just give him any old food" when someone frets about what size paste shape for baby let weaning .

For me the early years are a blur I'm always fascinated by people who can remember the exact stage their dc met various milestones. When people with babies ask my advice I just tell them to trust their instincts and ask midwives and other health professionals because I haven't a clue

Agree with that too Magz I have teenagers now but tend to stay away from the teens board. It seems to be a mixture of people with genuine horrific experiences (of which I have no experience) and people who are making a mountain out of a molehill and causing their own conflict situations i.e. Banning all electronic devices for a week because their teen didn't load the dishwasher when they were asked- now its a full battle and everyone is shouting and door slamming and threatening to run away.....and it just makes me roll my eyes. Mine aren't perfect by any means but I tend to find treating them as human beings and talking to them gets better results than full scale warfare.

I agree with everything you just wrote Wanks

The whole

OP: AIBU?
MN: yes
OP: no I'm not

Yes yes yes to Zeezee - there's one running on AIBU now!

OP: My dh falls asleep when he looks after the kids.
Response: oh dear, mine doesn't. In fact he has taken them out for the day to let me relax.

And that helps the OP how exactly??

Wankers, ah yes the perfect primary school children we all had ....
Who of course will not turn into untidy/rude/Moody teens because ' the ground rules have been set and my (four-year-old) knows the consequences'.

I haven't read the whole thread (maybe that's a AIBU in itself) but what I hate is posts in AIBU that start with
"Posting here for traffic " then go on about something soooooo not AIBU related. Pfft. So U!

I don't agree with the aibu yes you are. No I'm.not type threads. I think op posts for opinions it does not mean the op has to agree. It could also be a mix of opinions

Oops. Reported my own post.

Was that on the wrong thread?

People say they've NC at the beginning along with naice ham, pom bears, cube of poo etc to establish that they're not a new poster or a troll.

This. I hate the troll hunting and general suspicion on MN, just because posters are scared of being 'tricked.'

If you think it's a troll then report the thread and piss off, not post to show how clever you are for not being fooled.

The threads where any tenant or LL asks about anything at all. They invariably turn into LL bashing threads with the usual suspects diving in to add goady posts about rich LLs raking it in at the expense of downtrodden tenants.

"LTB" being the stock response to anything.