AIBU to get irritated by people trying to derail lighthearted threads

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It just seems unnecessary when they are just upsetting theirselves and spoiling it for other people.
I’m talking
“What’s your favourite treat food from the shops”
“Nothing. I live in a wooden crab infested shack and only eat mouldy dog food and sprouts”
Or
“What funny/silly nonsense did your family do with you as a child”
“Well they string me up and beat me with birches, I don’t know if that counts”
I understand hard lives, and it’s not been a picnic personally but I (and I assume others) read cheerful threads as nice escapism and happy memories and these posters are upsetting their selves and others

Totally agree

Equally annoying are those who say stuff like this (which was actually on a thread recently, possibly the Penis Portions one):

You are lucky you have a MIL, mine died before I met my husband - wtf????.

I agree with you, OP, if you don't like a thread just click away why chip in with your two penn'orth of pity me rhetoric. It's just mealy-mouthed attention seeking.

You're lucky you have a light hearted thread to derail.

In my day, cardboard box i't middle of road. No light hearted threads for us.

Some people. Don't know they're born

Those posters are so dull. ‘What’s your favourite fruit?’, ‘none, fruit is so unhealthy it’s just sugar, may as well eat a bag of haribo’.

Okay

Oh, absolutely. It's attention seeking, look at me behaviour.

Yep, it's right up there with fake outrage over something clearly innocuous.

I like the wedding ones.

'Well I wore a white dress from Primark that I got in the sale and carried a bunch of 99p daffs and we had the reception in a local pub with close family only, I would never ask my guests to pay money to see me get married, the whole day cost £35'

Baumederose You're so lucky. We didn't even have a cardboard box. Just a hedge to crawl into. There wasn't even a hint of smile in those days... in fact, we didn't know the meaning of the word....

Food threads are the best! 'Where's the protein?' 'You eat that? You must weigh 20st!' 'What's your BMI?' 'OMG, you ate TWO bananas? You're obese from all that sugar!'

LeftRightCentre oh yes the competitive food and eating threads, especially those ridiculous 'What are you having for dinner?' ones - it's invariably something 'healthy' or 'fancy' and is always, always accompanied by a HUGE salad. In reality they are probably chomping on Chicken Nuggets and chips.

I do love a competitive primary school lunchbox thread I have to say. No white bread cheese butties, a packet of Wotsits and a Penguin biscuit to be found.

Or there are the ones that tell you your lighthearted thread is insensitive to all the people on mumsnet who can’t eat treat food or are allergic to the air piped into shops, then lay into you for being so thoughtless

Cleanliness threads:
You don’t shower three times a day??? You’re going to get Ebola!!

Haha yes! The 'unpopular opinions' threads which are 99.9% silly harmless things like "Tom Hardy isn't that sexy" only take about 30 responses before someone harps up "what a nasty judgemental thread"

A HEDGE ? An actual fucking hedge.

I grew up on a bare concrete slab. I used to dream about having my very own weed, never mind a hedge. Fucking luxury.

Oh I finally found my people!

I can’t stand the miserable fuckers.

I’m never lighthearted, and you are othering me

RedDogsBeg

Indeed, why are the salads always huuuuuuuge?

Yanbu

I've joost come in from licking t'road clean, and find a thread saying I should be 'appy... Nay, this won't do at all... In my day....

Well MissusGeneHunt my DH earns £400k a year working only 2 hours a week so we are overflowing with lighthearted threads, I’m surprised you can’t afford a few they are not hard to come by.

There wasn't even a hint of smile in those days... in fact, we didn't know the meaning of the word.... wink
Didn’t know the meaning eh? Well that means at least you’d heard the word! I only came across it when I was 15, when I finally got the family leaf to sleep under to keep me dry in out ditch.

*our ditch. Sorry about that, still trying to get used to the letter r. We couldn’t afford it when I was a lass. Still feel frivolous using it.

Totally agree OP - it's beyond tedious.

“What funny/silly nonsense did your family do with you as a child”
“Well they string me up and beat me with birches, I don’t know if that counts” I've seen similar responses to an OP more times than I care to remember and it's boring.

Either join in in the spirit of the thread or leave it the fuck alone.