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

Leigha i was superbly lucky & found the shed abandoned on the side of the road. It was lonely.

might have to book myself a spa day to recover you should have put a trigger warning in this comment, i nearly drowned in a spa don't you know

Oh definately making a rod for my own back there (but it's a naturally sourced organic willow rod obviously )

To be fair I am in awe of the more eminently sensible who are not dashing around the shops but I am definately not one of them this year....change of school and mum guilt not helped by realising at the last moment they are only allowed grey socks not black socks (what kind of sodding sadist thought that one up!!)

Ooh yes to the Halloween threads ...may I also add those who state it's legalized begging ? (I'm side eyeing my DP on that subject as well)

I totally get some people hate it as well but come on when was the last time you saw someone begging dressed like a Spiderman transformer hybrid (don't ask !!)

Gettingbackonmyfeet being totally organised at the start of the summer is brilliant...until your child has a stupendous growth spurt like DD did & sod all bloody fits when you try it on two days before term starts cue me running round asda desperately trying to source everything all over again. It doesn't always pay to be the smug one in the shop 😂

I hate the competitive misery derailing.

I also hate the 'me having a fab fucking life isn't relevant to this thread and what you're going through but...here you go anyway' me-railing.

AIBU because I haven't received anything for Mothers day and I'm upset?

A response: was woken by my children crying quiet tears of awe at how amazing I am. They all gave me presents and millions of kisses and my husband nominated me for Mother of the year in a Take a Break and I won. Later, Tom Hardy is popping round to give me a footrub as a present from my own Mother who said 'this is YOUR day now'.

for you.

that helps actually , I did at least notice a certain level of camaraderie amongst those of us desperately trying to find a matching pair of plimsolls in the bare aisle in asda ...people were holding one up and saying "I've found a five anyone need a five left foot"

I wish that was the case here...our supermarkets represented walmart on black friday 😱

Don't forget about the nitpicker derailers, those who have the exceptional ability to read a massive long post and pick out a detail most would have not noticed. Usually starting their post with 'bit off topic op but why are you...'

You guys are so FUNNY!! Sporadically I have a tantrum and decide to leave MN, but this is what makes it worthwhile!

The only thing wrong is that I feel STRONGLY about the correct way to make lemon drizzle cake and CANNOT HELP correcting people who are doing it wrong. It’s for their own good.

In fact, I’ve just had to go and trawl the baking threads to find any rogue lemon drizzle bakers and correct them.

@Gettingbackonmyfeet

"Ooh yes to the Halloween threads ...may I also add those who state it's legalized begging ? (I'm side eyeing my DP on that subject as well)"

Legalised begging?! 🤣

Ironically on the topic of begging and spouses at the exact moment I was reading that my husband asked from the kitchen "Do you want sour cream?"

Me: Yes, please.
Husband: Beg me for it.

Guess it's "ducks in a row time for me". 😏

You have to ltb immediately

What do you do if there isn't a BTL? Do you just LTC leave the cat or leave the children? Also why is it LTB not KTBO? Just musings from a dining room.

The only thing wrong is that I feel STRONGLY about the correct way to make lemon drizzle cake and CANNOT HELP correcting people who are doing it wrong.
There is?
What have I missed.

maisy the commandments of lemon drizzle:

1. It shall be a traybake as the essential point is the crispy drizzle top and this must be maximised

1. The Mary Berry recipe is the best

1. Any recipe, even MB, is improved by doubling the lemon and halving the sugar

1. The drizzle should be made of just lemon juice and GRANULATED sugar. Double quantities as per commandment 3

1. There shall be no contamination by icing, this is an unnatural behaviour and is distasteful in the eyes of the Lemon Lord

1. It must be consumed upon the day of cooking.

This is the word of the Lemon Lord. Let us give thanks.

Ooh, I love the Mary Berry lemon drizzle tray bake. Made it for a picnic recently and my fellow picnickers descended upon it like a plague of cake-eating locusts.

A lemon drizzle activist, I suppose there are worse things to be.

i nearly drowned in a spa don't you know

You think that YOU have it bad? I'm only 7 inches tall (point-blank refused to eat any crusts as a child), and the mere sight of a foot spa in the bathroom when visiting friends brings me out in a cold sweat and gives me the serious fear.

Don't forget about the nitpicker derailers, those who have the exceptional ability to read a massive long post and pick out a detail most would have not noticed. Usually starting their post with 'bit off topic op but why are you...'

www.luvze.com/if-men-wrote-advice-columns/

I can’t believe all you people still have time to waste on this thread.
I have 200 school shirts to iron before dawn and I have to put breakfast in the slow cooker and do my final hoover through

PersisFord
I am officially a heathen then. I've never done lemon drizzle as a traybake.
Is it bad that I now want to try?

You think that YOU have it bad? I'm only 7 inches tall (point-blank refused to eat any crusts as a child), and the mere sight of a foot spa in the bathroom when visiting friends brings me out in a cold sweat and gives me the serious fear
How selfish of your friends to leave a foot spa out when you visit. It's clearly showing off their wealth and being discriminatory to friends with disabilities. How do they know their friends even have feet? Some people are so insensitive making assumptions that everyone would be fine with that. I had a tragic accident with a Staple gun and had to have my toenail removed. It was touch and go whether I was going to lose my whole foot but it's too traumatic to talk about and any mention of feet gives me PTSD.
I'd be going low contact with them if any of my friends has such horrible approaches to disability and poverty.

*Ironically on the topic of begging and spouses at the exact moment I was reading that my husband asked from the kitchen "Do you want sour cream?"

Me: Yes, please.
Husband: Beg me for it.*

Sorry OP I don't believe he said this. You sound a bit sanctimonious. Also bit off topic but why on earth are you still using sour cream? I thought everyone used creme fraiche nowadays because we do, and I can't possibly imagine anyone doing anything I don't. I think you're lying.

I can’t believe all you people still have time to waste on this thread.
I have 200 school shirts to iron before dawn and I have to put breakfast in the slow cooker and do my final hoover through

You still haven't done that? I've done all that plus showered twice more in zoflora, and done the next 2 weeks breakfasts, and just about to konmarie my garage.

MaisyPops
Just do it now. Bin work, bung the kids in front of the TV, nothing else is important

Perhaps we need a trigger warning to this thread re foot baths and the footless ?