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

Think bidets are ok now. Just in the 80s it was posh. Or an attempt to be posh due to them being French.

Even posher when spelt with a g. 😀

Just saw a 'Don't you shower' derailer and fondly thought of this thread

I'm always tempted to answer that no I do not shower I roll around in dirt and wipe off with leaves like nature intended ...is that wrong? When I see those.

I’m tempted to tell the the truth on those. I shower twice weekly because of difficult skin, but I do wash daily between showers! It’s like they don’t understand that they aren’t the only way of washing. It’s inevitably the same people as the ‘why would you lie in your own steaming filth to relax (not envy)’ posters

I daren't even say I can't stand showers unless I'm in a real rush so prefer a bath 😂 are baths acceptable on mumsnet? I haven't come across a fellow bather (?) Yet

I prefer a bath, but I don’t think anyone on this thread is a typical mumsnetter

I love a bath. I do shower as well but defuzzing the legs is so much easier in the bath and I think feet get much better attention in the bath as opposed to the shower.

There’s a prime example of my original post on the ‘Does anyone miss being a student’ thread. Very first post

Some of the most ridiculous threads I’ve ever seen on here are the farting ones. Soooo many MNers have never ever farted in their LIVES, or go to the toilet to do so and their DHs have NEVER heard them fart, and they wouldn’t ever dream of doing so.

I also hate the pronunciation threads, so many posters seem unable to grasp the concept of regional accents. The foreign word ones are the most ridiculous, people getting uppity about pronouncing “latte” or “chorizo” wrong. As long as it sounds somewhat like the word and people understand what you mean, that’s all that matters??

I’ve also seen some threads where an OP has stated an opinion, pages of posters agree, and then one or two people slip in saying they disagree and suddenly EVERYONE is disagreeing and slagging off the OP. Can’t remember which one/s, it was a while ago.

Bloody hell , I just saw the student one

If you have to use an actual serial killer to tip someone else off balance.....well that is a little odd to say the least

Oh no! I hate baths (too much sitting still in water that is always the wrong temperature and I'm a fidget). Does that mean I'm a proper mumsnetter and have no place on this thread?

Some of the most ridiculous threads I’ve ever seen on here are the farting ones. Soooo many MNers have never ever farted in their LIVES, or go to the toilet to do so and their DHs have NEVER heard them fart, and they wouldn’t ever dream of doing so

But They're probably the same ones having a pop at the pregnant lady who was embarrassed at accidentally weeing on her husband during sex. 'Why are you embarrassed he's your husband?' 'Don't you shower?' 'He's your husband it's fine'

That student thread! My goodness.

Toddler snack ideas are always my favourites. Does no one eat cheddar biscuits these days???

And the bed sheets/ cat on the bed/ showering ones, where everyone showers twice daily, changes their sheets every 2 days, and have somehow managed to teach that cats that they aren’t the bosses of the household.

The current one running about how you clean your loo is a prime example- one poster uses a loo brush, then rinses the loo brush in the bath, before she finishes. No one, literally no one of sound mind , does this

LOO BRUSH?? BUT THEY’RE THE WORK OF THE DEVIL thenew!!
No good Mumsnetter would even DREAM of using a bog brush. They never ever make any kind of skid mark EVER. Their poos come out wrapped in cellophane and and smelling of Zoflora. Duh!!

Oh my word I MISSED a LEMON DRIZZLE EMERGENCY!

Greebo bet it was fine, was it?

I like being part of an atypical MN group. Makes me feel subversive.

Just to make myself feel better I’m going to tell you guys what MY 3 year old eats in a day. I couldn’t ever post on one of those threads because I would get RIPPED apart, I asked for lunchbox bakes one time (in retrospect, like jumping into a field and waving a red towel at a bull) and got told my kids didn’t eat enough protein and why was I baking for them?

Actually I’m not because I started typing it and it is boring

I know toffee it was like she needed to say the toilet was clean, but couldn’t work out how to explain the loo brush. ‘Aha! I’ll say i rinsed it in the bath!’

The recent student thread about ‘does my Ds need an airer’ at uni was hilarious too. A mixture of perfect functioning neatly-adults who would neatly fold their washing and behave impeccably at all times, countered by the alternative teenagers who had not washed in 4 years and eat pot noodle dry because they can’t work the kettle. A combination of performance parenting and its antithesis of Shit parenting.

Toddler snack ideas are always my favourites. Does no one eat cheddar biscuits these days???

They get so competitive! Especially the what does your toddler eat in a day ones. 'That's too much sugar, look at all the fruit!' 'That's not enough, my toddler eats 5x that before lunch' In mumsnet world, kids couldn't possibly have different sized stomachs. They're the ones who secretly want to give their kid a bag of wotsits for an easy life.

The student thread is an excellent example. Ooh anyone miss it...gives fun examples? No, Peter Sutcliffe spoiled my University years. No it was the worst time of my life and all my tutors spat at me and laughed at my work..

Thanks for that, great way to enter into a conversation.

A thread asking if you miss university was always going to get some negative responses, really, but I do agree that the first response was a bit of a downer. And no one said that the tutors spat at them and laughed at their work... (unless you’re exaggerating... I do have a tendency to take things literally sometimes )

Exaggeration. As most of the posts on this thread.

It's a shitty thing to do. You can read the tone of a thread from the OP and if someone is sharing happy memories they don't want someone banging on about their unhappiness onto their threads. The OP ends up having to sympathise with posters and send flowers when wanting to reminisce about happy times.

I wonder if they do it in RL?

Oh I totally get that.

I remember reading some thread in Relationships, about finding singledom “soul-destroying”, the OP had been single for ten years and mostly fared fine but sometimes found it difficult.
First reply? “Oh no being single has allowed me to blossom”
That’s really twatty IMO. The OP clearly wanted some sympathy and the very first reply was that. It was devoid of empathy.

With the student one I can get people who say they don’t miss it, maybe they enjoyed themselves but don’t particularly miss it IYSWIM, but the Debbie Downer posts are a bit much. “I did a degree I was bullied into” “ugh the forced drinking” etc...

There are definately some of them at least who do it in real life

I've met their ilk...the ones where everyone is having a light hearted moment in the five minutes the work phones stop ringing and they sanctimoniously jump in and make a sad faced comment with an attached sigh and everyone looks askance and backs away slowly making a mental note not to get stuck beside Janet in the office kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil

So bloody annoying because it's about being centre of attention and kills the conversation

I've read some bloody awful marriage related ones as well where if your DH or dp does not crawl over broken glass with a rose between his teeth to deposit your morning coffee lovingly by your bed whilst taking care of 54977 DC and hoovering the downstairs conservatory then you should LTB

I've read some bloody awful marriage related ones as well where if your DH or dp does not crawl over broken glass with a rose between his teeth to deposit your morning coffee lovingly by your bed whilst taking care of 54977 DC and hoovering the downstairs conservatory then you should LTB

Yeah and if your mother doesn't want to stay at your house looking after your DC for a week while your husband waits on you she's pure evil