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

If you're not married but have a partner and kids, you might as well have the plague or at least be called a shit parent for not being protected blah blah

This thread is hilarious!

I fancy stirring the pot....I have an AIBU that might well break MN....keep an eye out

(Trigger Alert)

Okay, maybe not a MN meltdown, but a bit of a giggle. I thought the mention of McD’s would cause uproar. Had some quite nice responses so far. Should I have added ‘Trigger’ at the end of my post?

I’ve posted! Hoping to stir a little more....

😉

Want a clue

I didn’t name change

Feel a bit guilty now

Why how much McDonald’s did you eat?

The threads that I try to avoid are any that mention diet and weight. The people who come on to them tend to say things like “OMG a UK size 10 is huge - you must feel really uncomfortable”. I mean, yeah it’s not good to be very overweight but there seem to be a few people around who don’t realise that an adult woman is a person who must have some mass to her body ... unless we must all be flower fairies.

Weirdly, I love the ones where someone’s daughter has hair long enough to cause Problems. There were a few where people were suggesting the sort of hairstyles Marie Antoinette would have found a bit complicated.

I feel guilty too....some people are being so lovely!

Yy crucru “just divide it into 18 sections, braid each one with a different colour ribbon then combine them to make a cute copy of the Mona Lisa in hair! Should take about 5 mins, there are loads of tutorials on YouTube”

Cru cru

I hate those threads

'What you mean you are only 5'6" and weigh over 9 stone'

Ere we go

1CantPickAName: I didn’t name change
Nah, I'm going to need a better clue.

Hate the weight ones. All that "vanity sizing". Seems to be almost exclusive quote of those that are under size 8.

In Scotland, visiting Nan with her first great grandchild. She has the nerve to invite her lot of old cronies to slaver over MY child! Bitches tossed actual METAL coins at my PFB. I was frothing, I threw all the coins back at them and every cent I had in my purse. That will learn them!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3075587-Ever-wish-you-could-uninvent-something-lighthearted

Shot down in the first response.

Scented sanitary towels second response. Impressed!!

How much do you think things are acting/pretend personalities or made up?

I mean I read stuff like "About 2/3 times a day on average unless one of us is sore" - in response to how often do you have sex. All I can wonder is how could any one fit that many sessions in to their day. You'd have to work together or short hours or not have children hanging around.

I have never seen the comments on scented sanitary towels before and see it today (the one mentioned above) it made me laugh more than it should have done

(And slightly paranoid now about passerbys bloodhound tendencies )

That sex thread got a bit competitive immediately
Stealth shaggers

560 to 840 times a year (if period week is a full 7 days) has gold medal so far.

It's not even in the thousands. I'm disappointed.

Aren't there an awful lot of people using their dead parents as a stick to beat other posters with these days? I've seen at least four on one thread just today.

And another two popped up on the time it took me to post on here!

It’s grim when there’s a thread that gets into a really nice groove, posters are exchanging light hearted comments and building on each others quips...then someone is moved to remind us all how infantile we all are. There have been some really lovely threads in the past where there’s a real collective sense of fun and then some numpty comes along and bursts the balloon, leaving everyone feeling a little bit crap. We should have a ‘no atmosphere hoover’ Emoji (I picture it as a smiling Henry vacuuming up a passive aggressive eye roll)

Ooh a fun sucking emoji that's an a excellent idea

Also....never a phrase I thought I would type