To not have realised until MN how weird people are?

[abacucat]

So much weirdness on here. I had no idea until MN.

Agree. It bears no resemblance to what I perceive to be reality.

"All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer"

Agreed. Just read one that would be really funny if it were a lighthearted rant and the OP knew she was being irrationally annoyed. But turns out she was deadly serious.
People baffle me on here.

Nessssie

Which one?!

We're all weird. Everyone thinks everyone else is weirder than them.

They're all wrong.

Must be the poo thread 💩

Ah but maybe it’s you that’s weird?

I know it’s definitely not me.

I always knew everyone was different and each family had their quirks (including mine!) but some of the things people ask/admit to/-are shocked by on here are downright bizarre.

I also didn't know that zoflora was such a decisive product. The marmite of the cleaning cupboard!

The delivery driver taking a shit one.. She doesn't have a toilet brush but is disgusted he didn't clean the toilet?!

There’s nowt so queer as folk

She doesn't have a toilet brush but is disgusted he didn't clean the toilet?!

LOL! That is bonkers

"All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer"

I see so much oddness on MN but also so much I recognise. Sometimes I recognise myself in other poster's thoughts, sometimes I recognise my bullshit randomness in what they post about. We're all just random knobheads. Love the random knobheadness of it all. xx

Yeah maybe it is me that is weird

Its not just the delivery driver one, although that is bonkers. It is the things that people get really worked up about. I just think they must spend their lives in a permanent froth.

It's partly that we can be honest about our quirks on here (I'm definitely weird!). In RL I'm aware that I need to observe some level of social norms if I'm to make/keep friends (not to mention my job). Ask for an opinion on here, and many of us will be more direct than we would face to face.

It's just because it's a place people can let the odd thoughts that are in their heads come out. They wouldn't do it in real life. The internet is the issue not Mumsnet. I wish I didn't know so much about what other people think - ignorance is bliss!

Oh I have met plenty of weird people in real life! So nothing on here surprises me But yes people seem to get really worked up about things. Every time I see "fuming" in someones title I do a little eye roll as 9/10 times they are fuming about something very minor! I tend to feel sorry for people like that as they must spend most of their lives being pissed off about one thing or another. That's not a fun way to live!

It's partly that we can be honest about our quirks on here (I'm definitely weird!). In RL I'm aware that I need to observe some level of social norms if I'm to make/keep friends (not to mention my job). Ask for an opinion on here, and many of us will be more direct than we would face to face

I suppose that's why I come on here, really -- but the OP's point still stands, I think. If the stuff that is posted on here is representative the way people actually think but don't say as often in RL, then I am even more fascinated by the obsessively houseproud posters who 'can't relax' in an untidy room, and the ones who won't 'allow' their husbands female friends (or to have dinner with them if they are allowed female friends), or who feel that having books 'on display' is 'show-offy' (as you should keep them invisibly on a Kindle or send them to a charity shop as soon as you've read them).

I also never knew people minded so much about the other parents at the school gates.

I tend to feel sorry for people like that as they must spend most of their lives being pissed off about one thing or another. That's not a fun way to live!

Funny for the rest of us though apparently. Victor Meldrew was a much-loved character after all.

I didn't realise people loved to clean until I read it on here. Some people see it has a hobby I find that weird.

Or the people who have issues with colleagues they want to report for the slightest grievances. If you have a problem sort it out with the person concerned.

Also, the middle class thing where people have to prove how MC they are and no feeding your children hummus doesn't count.

@IrisDolmato Isn't it just that people's focus changes depending on the bit of their own lives which have become important?

I have realised people are VERY ODD for quite a long time really (where I work helped )

MN helps you find other equally weird and wonderful people to share your interesting and strange habits, opinions and situations with tis all.

Its also the ones that say they would react in a certain way in a situation (thus making them out to be saints) when you really know that they wouldn't...

Random person comes over and slap my ice cream out of my hand

Real life/normal person: Automatically react angrily 'why the hell did you do that?' etc
MN: Calmly 'why did you feel the need to do that/ are you having bad day/ would you like to talk to me about it/stay here, I'll go and buy us both an icecream'

I’ve rolled my eyes or facepalmed at a lot of threads this week. OPs and posters on them. Nuts.

Or the people who feel you are only allowed to have a poo at home -- that's it's a disgusting and rude thing to do in someone else's house, and a source of great self-consciousness at work.

And the permanent class-consciousness. Every name on the Baby Names forum is essentially being evaluated as to where it falls on the spectrum that has 'chavy' (sic) at one end and 'try-hard/pretentious' on the other. Often by the same people who come straight from screaming about Lily-Mae and Jayden-Ray onto threads explicitly about social class and say 'Why is this even relevant? I don't know anyone who thinks about this stuff'.

Nesssie yes!

And the OP actually gets sidetracked by people trying to find the underlying cause. Do you often react like that? May you have post natal depression? Have you spoken to your HV? Why didn’t your DH defend you?