AIBU to get irritated by people trying to derail lighthearted threads

[MVLipwig]

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

Mvlipwig and greebo may I just say outstanding usernames (I to be fair have been on this thread and only just noticed them

I saw the snacks after school thread and frankly half way through got very confused as to whether I was a bad mother if I gave snacks or if I didn't....it was a terrible esoteric conundrum...neatly solved when ds1 didn't eat half his lunch today so ate the rest as a snack on the way home

I nearly posted that but figured that loophole would confuse the whole same thing

Plus frankly I was on best behaviour as it was his first day at a new school so there was veg galore

And he's just finished fish fingers and chips and an unhealthy amount of cheap e number riddled sweet popcorn which is far more par for the course (and I consider a drive thru McDonald's has a solid place in the food pyramid

Yep, a fun sucker emoji would be good idea. Or a thread killer one like the grim reaper.
There’s always the “your lucky to have a toxic hell hole for a mother because my parents are dead”...

Oh fuck @Getting
You didn’t admit to SNACKS
No mn child has snacks “there’s no need”. I imagine these stern types guarding the kitchen all day dishing out a shit dry rice cake for Christmas.

I'm getting message ads that Four (4) people have unfriended me. Clearly a spam ad in MNHQ - has anyone else had this?

Sorry to derail but it's spoiling my enjoyment!

Bespoke photo books and Bohea tea ads for me.

No unfriending. Unfriended in Facebook I'm assuming?

Liz Earle and Monsoon here.

No - these messages appear on this thread!!! If it happens again I'll trot off to site stuff.

Anyway, don't you just hate it when someone rocks up and derails the thread

Yeah? Well @TaliZorahVasNormandy had her home taken from her people by sentient machines, and then nearly got exiled by her family until I saved the day. So there.

Ha ha I'll me rail then. I get adverts for becoming a teacher - make a difference etc. I am a fucking teacher. I also get adverts to go on holiday to the Isle of Wight - I live here ffs. Maybe Mumsnet cookies aren't the sharpest biscuit in the barrel.

@gardai ahh no that's the beauty....technically it was still his lunch

Who am I kidding ...im expecting an organic quinoa posse at my door any minute now

As a child of the 70’s I was fed findus and Birdseye orange deep fried food, crispy pancakes in their original format which I still lust after (they’re shit now).
Not to mention tinned meat and veg, no sell by dates on anything. We ate a lot of crisps, drank squash that ripped your throat apart (Kiora & quosh anyone) white bread, took antibiotics possibly too much and deep breath...mars bar sandwiches on a Friday in malt bread...I’m here to tell the tale so I tend not to worry too much about our snowflakes

I used to love Kiora.
I used to love Findus crispy pancakes..of course I wouldn't dream of eating them now (coughs)

I did try the re-released version @Ladybirdbookworm but they had very little inside them - whereas the old ones were full of cheesy wonderfulness.

Can we add threads that claim to be lighthearted but in reality are just passive-aggresive digs to the list?

I never had crispy pancakes as a child (it made me feel deprived). Though my Friday night dinner was a pot noodle. I am more an 80s child so maybe there was a culinary shift.

Mind you I'm never too sure which decade I'm a child of, born '75. I think I'm an 80s child, despite having been a child in the 70s. Quite a quandary really.

I've just recalled the special treat that we had in our house: Brain's faggots.

Gis us an example LeighaJ. I'm intrigued!!

Love this thread. I have nothing to add so have a mumsnet cookie.

I was born in 1978 and I remember crispy pancakes. I've never had a pot noodle though.

And I've got a lemon drizzle tray bake in the oven but I've just realised it's 2oz of flour short - recipe called for 10 but I had a brain fart and only added 8. Is it going to be ok or an irredeemable disaster, do you think?

I would love a Fun Sponge emoji.

@LeighaJ I know the ones you mean. Everyone smiling sweetly as they turn the knife!

I love the ones that descend into pointless competition myself. The smugness! The humble brags!

@StripySocksAndDocs

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3358141-AIBU-to-hate-these-things-about-England-vs-Italy

Hardly the first of that kind I've seen though on MN. Saying something is lighthearted that clearly isn't, is like saying "No offence." after you've said something offensive.

@DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops

Oh yeah the weird competitive stuff.

"We have sex 10 times a day, have 5, 1 minute showers each but with cold water so it's more environmentally friendly. We only use the light from our cell phones to light up our house (this is the only time we use our cell phones) that we only heat up on Christmas, which is why I'm constantly putting dozens of jumpers on the line to dry, but only during the day...because of the spider willies."

Oh right; there were bigets in bathrooms for a while wasn’t there 80or90s. Considered to be a bit tryhard or something weren’t they.? Not sure people used them just had them

I'm looking for the bathroom bigot - aye they were dead posh to have in ones bathroom for a while in an attempt to be all continental bit mainly used as footbaths.
Anyway your only meant to take one shower, collect the water in a washbasin, boil the lentils in it for dinner and use it to wash in again at night. Think of the planet kids.

I quite like a bidet!

@LeighaJ - stuff being darked on by spiders willies is quite possibly my favourite "only on MN". Plus you just know that the more precious sterile the mn-er on line, the more likely they indulge in frenzied bumsex at Centre Parcs.

My MIL puts clothes on the line at night, but she likes spiders sooooo...

I think the more sterile someone claims to be online the more likely it is that they have one of those bathrooms in a house you're visiting where you turn on the light and immediately wished you'd stored some gloves, toilet seat covers, antibacterial cleaning wipes, soap, travel paper towels, and maybe even your own bath tissue roll in your handbag.