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.

The ones where a thread gets totally derailed because of someone picking up on one inconsequential line, which they have usually misinterpreted as well, from either the op or anyone else and start dissecting it. Then the poster has to come back and tell the poster to either rtft or explain in simple terms what they meant. But like a dog with a bone this one person won't let it go. Just fuck off with your nit picking and let us get on with it.

"Liz I'd be ashamed if I hadn't ."

Absofuckinglutely.

The ones where someone says they are struggling with small children on very little money, in an area with almost no work and expensive, unreliable transport.The replies about moving, getting an au pair, doing a longer commute and shopping at Lidl really don't help the op!

I don't mind the threads asking questions where they could google the answer but it pisses me off when I give an answer and the OP doesn't acknowledge - and when all the others come on and don't read the replies and you get all the 'cancel the cheque' replies

Oh yes, the very long and waffling ones, often with little punctuation and no paragraphs

I cannot be arsed to decipher many of them.

Cherry there is an element of fraught zeal in some school threads isn't there?

The struggiling poster is also advised to take in a bit of ironing or a spot of babysitting to bring in extra cash

Posters who ask if they are being unreasonable, then spend the rest of the thread explaining why they are not/drip feeding/flouncing.

People who agree with the op and answer threads with:

'I can't believe how mean everyone is to the poor op (because someone dared to say 'get a grip'). Don't listen to them Hun only listen to what I'm writing, because I'm agreeing with you'.

Oh and

'If you don't like this thread/the royal family/Brexit etc, just leave'. It's so aggressive, and a sign the poster can't come up with an intelligent argument to a person disagreeing with their views.

OP: AIBU [about any given situation]

All posters: Yes, YABU.

OP: [dripfeeds more info]

All posters: YABU.

OP: MN is full of bitches and vipers! [gets thread deleted]

The ones that seem rather trollish, so you think you'll steer clear... but if they ARE genuine, then the poster is in urgent need of good advice so you feel guilty if you don't reply.

Major cross-post with Holiday, who made the point much more vividly!

any thread that has a poster saying "why don't you just learn to drive? I really judge women who don't drive because it puts us back in the 50's where we had to rely on men"

Sure I'll learn to drive. Just give me the thousands I need for lessons, theory, practical, car, insurance, MOT, tax and petrol won't you.

Derailers like "we users are not all the same person! I had two perfectly good MN names that stopped working" (which is true but irrelevant to this conversation).

I hate threads headed "sat in tears" and "sat crying" where OP has eaten the last Quality Street or something equally non-life threatening.

Conversely I also get annoyed when the "it'll be fine"ers start chipping in on threads where it might, actually, not be fine.

I steer clear of both.

• I'm probably unreasonable for this, but I get very annoyed with threads that start, "AIBU to not understand __?" Yes, you are being unreasonable! Since when do you have to understand everything that every other person likes/does/eats etc.?! Just accept people do things differently and let it go.
• The written by babies/animals/television character threads.

Soubriquet yes! This!

I posted once about an unrelated issue, mentioned my DH doesn't drive, and suddenly he was a manchild/cocklodger/waster etc etc.

The "Mumsnet ain't what it used to be" threads (good - shows the place isn't stagnating), the zombie threads (get sucked in by them too often), and the threads where people complain that people on AIBU sometimes express opinions which are not what the OP wants to hear (that's the whole point!).

Cao, oh I forgot the 'gets thread deleted' part! Privacy reasons my arse .

The ones that are written to look like the OP is discussing a genuine issue but really, they are being disablist and just want a dig at lucky people like me who has a designated space on the bus.

Oh yes the faux shock ones.

I once confessed to not knowing something about the human body and I got taken apart! Apparently they didn't understand how I didn't know and they got rather aerated about it

Soubriquet yes. I couldn't learn for several years because of medical issues. I could now, but it's expensive and I feel I'm too old to get much benefit from it.

Threads started three seconds after another thread purely in order to bitch and moan about the first thread. I'm going to start one titled AIBU to hate threads that gripe about what subjects pp post about on MN. Then somebody else will begin a thread asking if they're AIBU to really dislike threads that… etc. etc. etc.

I have three friends, let's call them A, B and C. Now C used to go to university with A and B was...

Zzzzzzz...

The ones where the OP uses "lol", "hubby", and/or "bubba". Makes me see red.

Ladies and Discuss.

Another thing I have noticed is quite often some poor sod will post a question and the first person who answers really goes for them. Then a dozen more pitch in, and it's only on about the fourth page that they start getting reasonable, well thought out replies.