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

Oh shame. With my not adulting correctly either, I'm disappointed at the rise in plastic applicators.

I bought some superdrug own brand tampons once (in a hurry and stock low), they had card applicators and were really good - as tampons go, that is

Goat I hate it when people do that, but then again everyone has to be victim or triggered by something these days and they absolutely must let everyone else know about it.

How about when everyone on a thread is joking about, someone responds and you assume they're mucking about too so you put a jokey response. And they get the hump with you because you misread their tone and they were OBVIOUSLY serious and it's all awkward and everyone stands around shuffling their feet and whistling (metaphorically like) and then the thread dies.

Fuckers.

“Triggered” Yuo there’s a lot of that on MN. It’s like a race to the bottom sometimes.

This thread has been the best, most amusing one for ages!

What have I missed about tampon applicators? Are they considered a bad thing in the mumsnet universe?

GoatWithACoat i posted wondering if anyone had noticed it was harder to buy the cardboard applicator tampons, as I preferred them comfort wise. Some people were shocked that people still used applicators, and someone told me they thought people only used them when learning to insert them like using training wheels.

@Goat www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3353334-Tampax?msgid=80725019#80725019

Proud training wheels user here😀😀
I had enough trouble with periods (flooding, bleeding for 2 weeks, horrendous pain etc)* without complicating matters faffing with tampons without applicators ( they never went in straight!)

*Oh i forgot i didnt really as nobody has bad periods according to many people on mn😉

Some people were shocked that people still used applicators, and someone told me they thought people only used them when learning to insert them like using training wheels

This is gold. I can’t believe people are that crazy. I love a cardboard applicator! Just ran out though so had to use a towel today so I’m sure everyone could smell it on me.

This thread has cheered me up after a shit, shit day. Thank you.

YANBU. I think they’re all allergic to fun?

@wijjy “Tesco own brand avocado.” I’m laughing like a drain.

Thus thread has had me cracking up in the car park of McDonald's (yes I fucking eat mcdonalds so sue me !!)

It's hilarious and I entirely agree ,I know I can be a giant twunt sometimes but it is so irritating

I particularly eyeroll at the almost constant "if this was a man posting you would all be destroying / executing / sending to mine ice blocks in the outlands of siberia"

Well ok yes if a man was posting about heavy period flows I admit I would probably change my response a tad starting with "scuse me what now?" (Disclaimer ...this was a light hearted comment please don't pick on me for being trans phobic /unphobic / or donkey loving or any of the above!! I was joking!!)

Any one where someone makes a light hearted comment about their dh doing something stupid and it turns into people suggesting the collect their paperwork up and ltb because any man who can’t cook/ leaves shit in toilet bowl or something like that is a controlling abuser who needs to be taken down.

I don't think many people doubt that many women have bad periods but like the competitive misery (or competitive anything) on MN; some of the period threads do seem to get a bit competitive.

Clots of increasingly dramatic size and MNetters using 2/3 super xx tampons at the same time and 4 sanitary towels wrapped different ways and bleeding through that to ruin furniture after 15 mins.

There was a really good thread about prams in a cafe that had me highly entertained until two MNers decided to have a slanging match and they deleted the whole thread

Very annoying as I was having such fun at the outrage of each side of the argument

A race to the bottom Goat??

Maybe just think before you post, yeah. I don't have any buttocks and that is seriously triggering.

Yeah, I know you didn't mean that kind of bottom. It doesn't matter

Oh, and an interdimensional void is like bloody Kensington compared to the single plane of reality I grew up in. I mean, we didn't even exist, we were just theoretical concepts.

I'm hiding this thread now

Yeah? Well I grew up on netmums. Beat that.

I've had a really shit day and this has cheered me right up! Thank you all!

Love this! Especially the applicator free tampons equating to losing your training wheels 😂 i need to learn to adult properly...at nearly 30 i f**king hate tampons & can just about manage applicators when desperate. Otherwise i waddle like a fat duck with a hand up its arse

Yeah? Well I grew up on netmums. Beat that

Ok you win

goes off to insert training wheels into fanjo

StarWars that is so triggering. I have clots like frisbees pinging out of me from day 1 to 45 of my monthly cycle and the emergency services once called Moses to halt the Red Sea that constitutes my menstrual flow, as it was hindering shipping in the Altlantic and damaging sea life.

Some, on the other hand, have periods that last an afternoon, need one tampon and no painkillers.

@ethelfleda

"Yeah? Well I grew up on netmums. Beat that."

Then you'll feel right at home after someone shows up on this thread and banishes everyone to Netmums.

@kalinkafoxtrot45 You were lucky!

When I was younger, we could afford to have periods. Luxury!