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

*couldn't.

FFS.

girlfriendinakorma love the username - a double blow to Morrissey. Ooh, now there’s somebody who could derail a cheery thread!

Adults celebrating their birthdays seems to really annoy the anti-fun brigade. How dare you expect a card and a present from your nearest and dearest, you childish, self-obsessed narcissist??!

And if you dare do anything more elaborate than get married in secret in a hole in the ground at 3am dressed in sackcloth and ashes then you're a me-me-me Bridezilla and you'll be divorced within a year.

I turn 40 this month and I'm having five nights out in a row to celebrate. And I'm having presents. And CAKE. And DH and I just celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary despite having spent the best part of 20k on our wedding.

I once mentioned, early in the year, that I was planning on doing something at Christmas (visiting a particular city, I think) and some idiot said..."Sigh. It's MARCH. Can we NOT talk about Christmas, please!"

When I at her she went, "It's poor form on MN to talk about Christmas too early as it upsets people who suffered terrible events at Christmastime".

I really doubt that, you fecking idiot - it's far more that you haven't had your daily dose of interrnet validation yet & are snatching at any excuse to display your "terribly, terribly caring" personality.

And mentioning Christmas as a time of year is not the same as talking about what you're planning to buy hubby wubby in 9 months.

Greebols yes! I wanted to post just to share my exciting news just because but didn't dare because i'm a grown up & birthdays should not be celebrated!!!

Just read the thread about someone having a light hearted exchange with a new beau (Sorry) regarding dic pics. He replied that he had sent one, once......

Commence barrage of ‘he has no respect for women’..’DUMP HIM NOW!’..blah blah blah.

I do like a good 'sounds like he's married, sorry'

Update For anyone still using applicator tampons, apparently we don't need to if we own a nailbrush now.

Pamdoo oh lord. I love the instruction to "use a finger" - that hadn't occurred to anyone

Applicator tampons? Pfft. You period gluttons. I don't even have knickers to bleed into. I donated them all to my local homeless shelter. Why should I have applicator tannins when other people don't even have pants?

You surely must also donate your trousers too?! I have one pair of trousers that have been stitched together with twine stolen from warehouses. How dare you brag about having trousers to bleed in

Not sure how anyone who is able to detect a sanitary towel by scent copes with other smells

^^This! That thread was absolutely batshit

'Not sure how anyone who is able to detect a sanitary towel by scent copes with other smells'

The MN bloodhounds were out in force on that thread

Twine? TWINE!! Pah! I should be so lucky. Any sewing in my house is done using weeds from next door's garden (I don't have one, I donated it to local cat shelter and it's full of their shit now) instead of thread, and my clipped toenails glued together instead of a needle. Honestly, some people

Menopause is a blessing.

Being able to smell a scented sanitary towel through clothes is such horseshit - it's their cheap perfume!

It's the
L'eau Zoflora edt

I’ve a serious question: is Zorafloa addictive? On a level with crack cocaine addictive. It’s the only explanation I can think of to explain the obsession.

I used it in a collection of Bongs whilst doing my cleaning

I spent a fiver on Zoflora after the MN hypeD couldn't smell it anywhere, and DH thought I'd gone mad covering the radiators in it

You’re supposed to put it on radiators? What the feck? Missed that memo - why exactly?

I did get it once (did not get addicted) because on of my boys had the norovirus and was quite a disaster. Thought I’d try cordon off the infection. Bought it from Dealz mind so it cost €1.50 (Dealz is the name of Poundland in Ireland, fact fans) for bedsheets and towels as I’d seen suggested on here (though I think the idea on here was for its gorgeous smell rather that murdering viruses) It was supposed to be linen (or laundry, I forget) scented; got to admit my laundry didn’t smell like laundry after. Not sure what it was, it was just odd. Maybe it was eau de sanitary towel. Who knows I am not a human bloodhound sadly. Or happily.

After reading the whole thread I must say many of you HAVE NO IDEA HOW LUCKY YOU WERE!

Luxurious accommodations like cardboard boxes and voids to live in AND with other people no less.

I grew up alone, existing only in someone's memory and they were the forgetful sort.

I find this whole thread really triggering so have reported all of you individually. Hmmpf!!! Now I shall ineffectively flounce off.

Does anyone remember the thread about the woman at Christmas whose husband got her 3 jars of jam for her present or something equally as shite...and it was met with too many people saying it was only Christmas, they were basically too poor to expect more and some one even suggested things to do with the jam in a jolly hockey sticks ‘oh it’s great on (salt free) organic crackers’ or such twattery. I was agog.
Her husband sounded like a right cunt and I’d have lamped him.

Just to let you know that I've reported this thread as a grotesque waste of the internet by over-privileged cosseted western pansies in a world where many people don't even have access to an old Gameboy from 1989 to help them while away the tedium of their miserable lives living in the cold, dank sewers that they're forced to call home. It really is no laughing matter.

And, also, can we PLEASE, PLEASE ensure that we NEVER again make specific reference to those little metal finger-pulls on rifles? It might sound absurd to you selfish, callous brutes, but I actually find that.... quite upsetting.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll Did you say rifles? You did didn't you? You gun loving bastard. Reported.

Sometimes I think there’s people how spend (way too much) time trawling MN to find ways to critises and belittle in anyway possible. Just read a thread a thread where someone asked if anyone else promotes their favourite books by putting them on display in gaps of bestsellers in bookshops. She then admitted to hiding books she disliked.

Evidently a harmless, but slightly bonkers op. Few post in and there’s one poster saying (paraphrased):

“why don’t tell us what books you like then so we can (tear it apart) tell you our opinion. How fucking dare you think your opinion is worth anything, quite obviously it’s not. However (I’m chomping at the bit to give you) my opinion which is quite obviously far superior to yours; and indeed fact, unlike yours (which will be wrong regardless of what it is) .”