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 all the sad miseryguts who come on to any religious, spiritual or spooky thread and tell everyone how stupid they are for believing 'all this shite' as gods/ghosts/spirits don't exist and then refuse to fuck off.

This is so funny and you are all my people but sadly, I'm not witty enough to join in because I didn't have a proper education. I was too busy in the coup foraging for our single egg.

So I shouldn’t admit that I can (and often have) eat a whole packet of Jaffa cakes in one go?

@TooManyPaws, yup always have a few happy to rock up to any spooky thread shouting “I have a PhD in positron reverse molecular biology and I know everything there is to know in the world! Anyone on this thread is stupid, unhinged, uneducated, unwashed and likely wearing scented sanpro!”

I’m too busy boiling my skin in molten soflora to join in!

@1CantPickAName
Thank you for proving my point
Hope you’re pleased with being the only person to try to outmisery everyone else on the thread.
I can’t be the only one who genuinely feels a pang or guilt when people do this shit though?

Gundpowder Yeah, the thing with the handbag makes me think of when teachers and parents used to serve kids some revolting crap and tell us to eat it all up because "there are kids starving in Ethiopia" Like us eating it would solve the famine problem?

I think the worst threads are the ones that start AIBU to F LIVID because .....*

And then you might read it (I usually choose not to) and fine out its something like the postman came 10 minutes late, or the new Teaching Assistant forgot their DD's name. Apart from the vile language and the bad-tempered stupidity, the lack of any sense of proportion is gob-smacking!

sorry to derail your thread.

@lowtide you nearly got me 😜

Me-rail? Fantastic word thanks

wearing scented sanpro!

Is, Are you wearing scented sanpro? the new, Are you on glue?

My DM is driving me crazy!

• :( one day she’ll be gone and you’ll be wishing she was still there to criticise your lino

Time for a glass of wine!

• :( alcohol is a real problem, you should address your dependency issues

I have a big arse and can’t be arsed dieting!

• :( you’re at risk of an early death if you lick more than one almond a day, think of your poor children

Aaargh! Sanctimonious joy suckers spoil everyone’s fun!

This thread is marvellous. Sparklingbrook you have described my kids packed lunch for every day, I look at it with guilt and think what would Mumsnet think. Enjoy your KitKat little one.

Every time I see a reply like those it makes me think of this gem.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1by0-nkKOTs

My favourite one recently was started by a woman who was camping and hated it. Gruesome stories about the toilets and the shower block, she was sharing hr horror but it was lighthearted. Cue the zealous campers who claimed those of us that like warm showers and flushing toilets were prissy/soft/spoiled. There was one ghastly woman that got very personal and offensive, accusing individuals of having psychological problems .

I started a thread on tampax, just wondering about if anyone preferred the cardboard applicators like I do which are getting harder to find, I didn't expect the outrage ' you still use applicators?! I thought they were like training wheels' was the best. How can people be outraged about whether someone chooses to use an applicator ffs. That and people recoiling in horror at menstrual blood being washed in a sink.

Oh thank you for this thread! I was starting to think I live in a parallel universe!
I’m absolutely fucking amazed that you haven’t had a shitty comment left on this thread yet!

If you listen really hard, out there in the distance, the joyless fuckers are marching this way. I predict they will arrive around 11am when of course all the housework is done.

The Dementors are circling.

That is literally my contribution to this thread.

'Is, Are you wearing scented sanpro? the new, Are you on glue?'

My pet peeve is the threads about periods.
Apparently everyone uses one mini tampon a month and nobody could possibly go through san pro at a rate of knots nor need serious painkillers. Its all 'shite' cos it never happened to "moi".

Just fuck off.

So true, Willow. "there's no such thing as period poverty because I only spend 9p a month on budget sanpro /use a mooncup".

Well of course

And you will be shot at dawn if you admit to EVER having flushed one down the loo.

You should consider yourself lucky to be able to get irritated. I have not been able to feel anything other than a mild grievance since having my irritability glands removed.

I agree, Willow. They need fuck off with their perfect periods.