... to think MNers are a strange bunch?

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Aibu to think that Mumsnet can't be representative of real life, can it?!

A lot of people on here just seem so, I don't know, just... odd. Bizarre. Strange. A lot of people on here just seem to have really outlandish odd opinions that I'm just not sure if I'd ever hear someone have in real life. Posters just seem to pick up on the most unusual things from posts i.e. A poster posts about how they didn't get a house they bid on, and then another poster chimes in saying how they're even lucky to have 5p in savings etc etc (I'm rubbish at examples).

So yes, aibu to think that some (not all) mumsnetters are crazy aliens who I have no idea how they function in the real world?

Ps I like mumsnet and it provides me with a lot of entertainment. The strangeness does not make me want to leave.

A poster posts about how they didn't get a house they bid on, and then another poster chimes in saying how they're even lucky to have 5p in savings etc etc

Oh yes, the First World Problems Thread Police.

YANBU, some people on here seem to have very different life views to any I've heard in real life.

I don't necessarily agree with you, but as this is an anonymous forum people can say what they truly think, which they might not do in real life.
So perhaps it's more real than real life.
Noo nee noo noo!

Some people like to shit-stir. Because it's anonymous. Apart from if you mention your hobby, then it's obvious to the world and his wife who you are.

A local forum where you go by your own name is much nicer, polite requests, people helping each other out.

You are not alone, OP, in hoping it can't be representative of real life but I see some of the behaviour on MN mirrored on social media and in other areas of society in general.

Er, have you ever been on an interner forum before.

It's sort of well known they're like that. Most people discovered this sort of thing well over a decade ago.

If you've only just discovered this you need to get out less and spend more time on the internet.

The one-upmanship you speak of is so true. Someone will say they lost an arm in an accident and someone will come on to say they just have a chest and a head so they should think themselves lucky.

They would never call an ambulance either. They would hop to A and E with their severed leg in a wheel barrow.

MN is representative otherwise what would you call it?

Yabu for your lack of intelligence in regards to your own post and need to research the meaning of representative

I think it's the quasi anonymity that encourages people to provide unfiltered, direct or slightly controversial opinions. They may or may not be represtative of their actual views. In most situations when conversing face to face there is an implicit need to be polite or gain acceptance / approval, this is some what suspended in a chat room environment.

High - A&E for a severed leg? You time waster! It's people like you who are the reason the NHS is in crisis. Shove the leg in the fridge in a poly bag, and wait two weeks for a routine visit to the GP like the rest of us.

Mumsnet is a pretty tame forum.

YANBU I'm amazed at what some people get offended by and twist what others say if it disagrees with their opinion.

And some are just plain bloody weird!

Quite,
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Oh dear I haven't got the hang of this yet..!

Oh definitely! Despite being happily together for 36 years and married for 30 with two teenage boys, if I took any notice of MN I would have LTB long ago, got slated for being SHAM while my children are at school, been told me or my dh were abusive when we have had a huge screaming row (and there have been a few over the years AND they included swearing at each other ) and we would have been abusive or co-ercing for initiating make up sex when we were asleep.

I would be slated for not having an escape plan, or any savings, or any long term ambition other than my family. And OMG I moan all the time about irritating little things that are nothing in comparison to others but sometimes a vent is good for the soul right?

I would be THAT parent for protecting my children from bullies or for asking why we hadn't been invited to parties. I'm sure I've called 999 in a panic instead of taking myself off to hospital and, no matter how hard I try I cannot make a chicken last more than one day 😄

I love MN precisely because of all those things and because sometimes other people need to see their own normal more clearly and outsiders - even keyboard warriors - can help them do that.

But actually I'm a reasonably nice person who plods along happily with the odd skirmish or mistake along the way which is, I suspect, pretty much the same as everyone else here

People on here aren't backwards at coming forwards. I've been taken aback by what has been said to me on here plenty of times!

I find it amazing that people don't drink in the evenings "just in case" they need to take their children (who are presumably asleep), to the emergency room.

Never in all my days has anyone ever not had a drink in the evening solely for that reason.

I've deduced that it's only on mumsnet that this happens because even the normal people I know back in the UK don't think like this

There are some dicks on here. The thread where OP was rightly pissed off because her boss text her on holiday to remind her she's back at work the next day. One of responses was OP is obviously pissed off because her boss is younger that her! I mean WTAF?

I just never get the 'my child has never drank anything except water or milk, he's 15' type posts. Also I love a good "what's for dinner' thread but really some people eat dead fancy meals on a weekday night or I'm just a shite mother for thinking sausage, peas and mash will do.

Eh, I think it's a fairly mixed bunch. For every poster who says "you're lucky to have 5p in savings" there'll be another one or two who'll tell them they're being OTT.

Christ, I'm positively restrained on here because I don't want to offend anyone. I'm much more abrasive in real life when I can see the whites of your eyes, so to speak.
It's much like anywhere, there are mentalists and peacemakers and all shades in between. I think a lot of people lurk because they are afraid of being ripped to shreds but if they delurked more we might get a more balanced view?
MN has been responsible for more Lols over the last year than I could have imagined. (And I bloody LOVE laughing.) People have been generous in time and spirit when I've had questions. Some have been a bunch of cuntsockets, but that's life. I don't think MNers are more or less batshit than anyone else.

Omg I hate it when someone posts a problem and guaranteed someone will feel the need to completely ignore the actual question that's being asked/situation being discussed and challenge the op on a minor and irrelevant part of their post, like they feel the need to completely pointlessly try and trip them up

Ph god yes the very outing hobbies that some husbands have!

I don't take any of it very seriously. It is a site of anonymous posters.

I say it's odd just because it seems to be the conclusion they jump to.