Annoying things other posters do

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Just wondering what things other posters do that really annoy you?

For me it's the deliberate misconstruing of an opening post and then flaming the OP for something they never actually said or implied.

Also the posters who conjure up wild scenarios to try and prove the OP is BU - "How do you know the woman who pushed you out of the way at the bus stop wasn't rushing home to her seriously ill child and has only 2p in her purse so couldn't afford a taxi. Try to be kinder and less self absorbed in future".

People who try to defend eating and exploiting animals even when they know it's wrong and gross.

Anyone who responds to the OP as "Lovely", as in "Oh, Lovely, what a terrible thing to happen"... But if someone I didn't know called me it IRL I'd probably flinch too. It's on a par with 'Sweetheart' - just a bit too cosily intimate for strangers to use.

People who want to put you right and pompously start their response with "Umm..." or similar. Preface it with all the ums and ahs you like. You're still WRONG.

People who try to defend eating and exploiting animals even when they know it's wrong and gross.

that's just having a different opinion, I eat meat and see nothing wrong or gross in it. You must feel a lot of annoyance if you get irritated when anyone else has a different view than yours

This one is my pet peeve - women who, in advance of the birth of their first child, declare that they intend to be 'incredibly vulnerable' for the first month so nobody may see the new baby until day 7 and only thereafter 'close' (ie their own) family for the next fortnight. Why 'vulnerable'? What do they think visitors are going to do to them? In-laws are not ever considered as close family and the child's paternal grandparents may not come within a 20 mile radius of the new baby until she says so. I do wonder at these women - do they really expect to lie listlessly pale and wan, being 'vulnerable' on satin cushions like a Victorian consumptive while their partner loyally guards the front door?

Then start a thread moaning that the ils are not interested in said child.You cant have it both ways

so nobody may see the new baby until day 7 and only thereafter 'close' (ie their own) family for the next fortnight.

that was one of the very strong advice from my NCT class. Looking at the amount of threads describing inlaws popping up with no respect for the mother, expecting cups of teas and not understanding that a new mum needs rest (and you can't guess the time a newborn will sleep!), privacy for breastfeeding and post-birth visits to the loos, it's not a bad advice at all.

People believing that they have some kind of right to see a newborn and can ignore the mother are the worst kind.

I don't think anyone thinks they have a right to see a newborn but it's often ILs that are excluded whereas the Mother obviously wants her own Mum to visit or be around.

I was bizarrely influenced by MN (should have known better) around not wanting to impose on new Mums and was seen as not being interested. Because lots of new Mums want people to come and see their new baby.

And I do eat meat and understand it's exploiting animals. I understand other people find that unreasonable and that's okay. But when those people happily pop prescribed/non prescribed medication every day (every single one tested on animals) I get a bit annoyed about their judgement and lack of knowledge.

It is extremely difficult to not have been involved in animal exploitation. And yes, there are degrees of involvement but if you genuinely never do it and object to the use of life saving insulin in others for example (discovered by removing the pancreas of dogs) and you think that exploitation is 'wrong and gross' despite keeping people alive then..good for you by standing by your views.

You'll be in a very small minority.

Oh god-the characterisation of post partum women as automatically vulnerable, unable to function and, worst of all, constantly "leaking" from all orifices. It must be bloody terrifying for first time pregnant women to read. Yes, some women have a hard time. But most of us don't.

And "your own little family" Hate that.

The sockpuppets ones who, after an OP is getting their U arse handed to them pop up to say "OP is getting a hard time here"

Yep. And if 99.999% of MN are giving it her, she probably deserves it.

Abbreviations.... I'm getting so peeved off with these.

I don't even know what AIBU.is... ( all I bitch ubout?)
What is DC and D this and c that ?

Am I really out of touch ?
Joined mumsnet a few weeks ago and I'm already only understanding what half of these sub text shortenings even mean.

I'm only 40, a mum of 4 and I actually feel like I need to learn text speak to even be allowed on here.

To think years ago ..my mother got all flustered about programming a VHS.
And nowadays ... here I am .. age 40 .. perpetually squinting at the microscopic lettering on jam jar ingredients and trying my sweet bebuggery to work out mumsnet abbreviation speak.

I hate this type of post. My DC attacked my neighbours brand new car with a claw hammer. And neighbour yelled and caused a scene in the street. My DC was really upset at being shouted at by an adult who should really know better. Should I report to the police.

AIBU is Am I Being Unreasonable. Took me a while to work that one out too.

Who doesn't love to be flamed it always reminds me that some people are just horrible on the inside and their keyboard is just a hiding place. They walk among us

AIBU is Am I Being Unreasonable.

AIBU is also, possibly, the name of the next dog I get. If I ever get a dog.

I did wonder if AIBU... stood for ..am I buying underpants

I remembered one - acting like a typo makes a post unintelligible.

“I’m sorry, OP, but this post makes no sense unless you come back and explain what a cheese sondwich is. Is it a northern thing???”

99% of the time it’s perfeftly bloody clear what they meant.

The obsession with proclaiming oneself working-class usually completely irrelevant to the topic at hand .

"I had a cheese sondwich because it's what my working class family used to do in our working class lives in our working class town. "

Nobody ever makes a point of declaring mid thread they are middle class or upper class, but working class seems to be like a massive badge of pride. Why must this one be announced? It just is. Nobody cares.

The armchair medics.

OP: My dh fell off his bike 3 months ago and is still getting back pain. Should he go back to the GP?

Poster: He needs to have bloods taken asap, he's clearly got a thyroid problem.

And most of the people claiming they are working class aren't.
Remember someone in halls at uni shouting about being working class from the very moment she arrived. She wasn't. She was as middle class as they come.

I can't get my head around some of the wild scenarios conjured up by posters, as the OP mentioned.

'I came home from work and found my husband in bed with another woman'

'Are you sure she didn't just trip and fall onto his penis, OP?'

@rebbyboop

Try this: www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms

It probably needs updating - I notice it has "CF" = cystic fibrosis, which is not its common use on MN these days.

HTH (happy to help )

Anyone who posts, "we come as a family unit".

A few of my least favourite things:

PP who don't RTFT - they often post something completely irrelevant because the thread has moved on and it's obvious they haven't read it.

OPs who flounce when a thread doesn't go their way and ask MNHQ to close the thread. They put something absurd like too much RL info given when in fact they gave none.

Posters who support the OPs no matter how wrong or ridiculous they may be.

Posters who try to excuse any behaviour, no matter how awful, by suggesting MH issues, autism, or any other excuse they can think of.

OPs who drip feed important info 3/4 of the way through the thread

OPs with lazy DH/Ps who have never nor will ever do housework or childcare and the OPs want to know how to get him to change. He won't. After listing their many faults they invariably describe the DHs as 'good fathers'. No they aren't.

OPs who post something like 'my eyeball is hanging out of its socket on a thread - should I go to A& E or wait until I can get a doctor's appointment the week after next?' Use your bloody common sense!

Dredging up zombie threads.

Endlessly repeated threads about P&C parking, how often you wash your hair/sheets/towels/PJs/loo brush etc.