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

And so it should be @Pamdoo
Apart from overpriced accessories from niche stores

On The Bodyguard thread in TV addicts someone has throw their toys out of the pram because another person said it was boring (or possibly another poster said the husband said it was boring).

I've just read an openly grammar neurotic started - about the rise would of and should of. (Bonus entertainment factor was the OP made me snigger. Read like a secondary school essay, after the discovery of a thesaurus; endless sentences peppered with clever words.)

Will we take bets on how long it takes before someone points out the grammar or spelling mistakes in the OP? (No idea if there actually were any though!)

Will we take bets on how long it takes before someone points out the grammar or spelling mistakes in the OP? (No idea if there actually were any though!)

Just reading that one myself someone has indeed pointed one out already which I thought was amusing

Darn it. Too late to open a book then.

One thing that is really grinding me at the moment though...

OP: massive barely understandable rant about consultant/ doctor/ midwife/ nurse

Posters: well you are being a bit unreasonable

OP spends rest of entire thread throwing a tantrum and claiming they're in tears because people have asked her further questions or disagreed.

I can't understand for the life of me why you ask people if you don't want to hear the answer?!

Thread about a popular band. Someone dares to say they're not actually that good. Poster who spends each entire day arguing and swearing at everyone about everything on multiple threads chucks a tantrum about there 'always being one' who is vile and spoils everything.

Er, yes It's usually you! Staggering level of non-self awareness - quite something to behold.

I’m on a nice one on S&B at the moment where people are disagreeing with each other about some items of clothes, but are doing so nicely and with a degree of humour. It’s excellent

Ahh yes the old

Am I twat?

The whole of aibu... yes you are a twat

But but buuuttt you all don't understand you are so mean

Well don't be a twat then or like the rest of us admit you can be on occasion and hold your hands up

Not really rocket science .... I would like to officially admit I can be a twat and I can be wrong and unreasonable and shockingly I am ok with that. I'm not infallible and have no intention of wearing sack cloth and ashes ,

I also cracked a smile at stripy’s teacher colleague locked in the dungeon. I was drinking coffee when I read it, and carefully swallowed first so as not to snort it over my keyboard.

PersisFord The mum bob one was good too (I've contemplated a job but DH said that the mum bob will add 5 years to me &
they are never easy to maintain ) , but we've just had it suggested that calling mum bobs/mum jeans is offensive and a sign that women don't like each other and obviously people think they should ignore the opinion of anyone who wears mum boots.

'but we've just had it suggested that calling mum bobs/mum jeans is offensive and a sign that women don't like each other and obviously people think they should ignore the opinion of anyone who wears mum boots. '

Really

I'll check that one out

im still puzzled about issues with jaffa cakes. i thought they could be counted as part of your 5 a day! and more is better. right??

but we've just had it suggested that calling mum bobs/mum jeans is offensive and a sign that women don't like each other and obviously people think they should ignore the opinion of anyone who wears mum boots

Has anyone piped up yet 'misogyny is well and truly alive amongst women'

Jaffa cakes are part of your 5 a day in the same way carrot cake is... right? Got to be healthy.

'im still puzzled about issues with jaffa cakes. i thought they could be counted as part of your 5 a day! and more is better. right??'

Depends if you go for a
'Half moon'

Or

'Total eclipse'

Ffs knew it was too good to be true before they found us

Nah, I love a lightheaded thread, but I do take objection to being harassed

Blimey

I'll take it that's a 'half moon' then

I think more total eclipse. Goodbye safe place thread, I'll miss you all and your normal ways

It was fun while it lasted.

ProfessorMoody, as I keep explaining to you, bumping into each other on mostly educational threads is pretty inevitable, since we are both teachers. Responding to someone on said threads is not 'stalking', and you are not entitled to repeatedly say this because you don't like the response. YOU followed ME into this thread, fgs!

Your deeply unpleasant reference to my mental health shows everyone exactly the kind of person you are.

Professormoody you wouldn't consider buggering off and dealing with this in another way could You? I realise this is a public forum and whatnot but I'm sure there are other places you could throw your toys out of the pram?

Can't see feenie has done anything wrong on this thread anymore than the rest of us smartasses so would be rather pleasant if you left her alone here.

I do ask this politely on the grounds I don't know the back story but I quite like this thread and frankly without it I might have to talk to my DP for extended periods of time and I can't see that being terribly healthy for me today because he has got a cold and is a grumpy sod.

Erm uh, please gather around and come up with an explanation of what the feck is going on.

I'll be back shortly; need to feed the teacher in the dungeon his daily slice of bread.

martha
I feel you are responsible for me craving have a cakes all afternoon but I've been too lazy to leave the house because I'm somehow snowed under marking.

@PersisFord

"celery"

I'm weirdly disappointed that's not a thread about celery in general.