To not have realised until MN how weird people are?

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

I love competitive hygiene, eating and money threads.

All three are populated by extreme posters. Eat 8000 kcal a day or 800 max. Wash sheets hourly or annually. Spend £24,000 on holidays per year or nothing at all in 10 years.

Well on the poo thread I am amazed by the number of people who would apparently have no problem with a complete stranger knocking on their door asking to use their loo

No one said this.

The weirdest thread for me was the one where countless people said they never, ever opened their front door unless they were expecting visitors or post. They just... refuse to answer the door if someone knocks.

I saw this on an in laws thread, I also thought it was extremely bizarre. I imagined curtains closed and people hiding out of the door goes- strange!

*if

The weirdest thread for me was the one where countless people said they never, ever opened their front door unless they were expecting visitors or post. They just... refuse to answer the door if someone knocks.

I do this. Nobody I know would visit without telling me. The only people who knock when I'm not expecting them are religious nutters, people who want the same door number on the next road, salesmen, 'charity' collectors, people who've just noticed an imaginary missing slate on my roof, or the many other types of people I don't want to deal with. Fuck 'em Let them knock away.

I find some of the advice on MN so weird.

Suffering from infertility? ‘Just adopt!’

Don’t like where you live? ‘Just move!’

Found out your husband is cheating? ‘Get your ducks in a row’ (what does that mean?!)

It has been a bit of a bonkers week on here. I have read more about poo than ideally is good I know that.

But I guess only the extremes get posted.

I love a school lunchbox competitive thread and a good TV in the bedroom thread. Bonus points awarded for the mention of 'sleep hygiene' and 'bedrooms are only for sleeping'.

My favlurite post was the one OP had a digestive problem, I think IBS and properly farted in bed, even added a diagram.
The number of people going on about "I would have to change sheets immediately! There are poo particles everywhere now!" was amusing. I still wonder whether they change their underware every time they fart.

I still wonder whether they change their underware every time they fart

Since it started 10 years ago, I've been a member of and moderator on another women's forum. It's a closed forum because most of the members want to ontrol who goes on it. There is no swearing, no weird people, nobody mentions toilets (apart from a long time ago when someone posted that if she used a public loo, she stood on the seat to avoid her btm coming into contact with other people's germs ... I'd forgotten that until now!), no politics, - it's deadly boring. The range of posts on MN is great - long live weirdness!

*control

It was a delivery man, not just someone choosing her house at random to have his shit.
I wouldn't be thrilled by it but I wouldn't refuse someone in need of using my loo.

Oh, no, there have been plenty of threads where you're supposed to let in any random who knocks on your door and asks to use your loo because they might have IBS or Crohn's or it's just 'the kind thing'.

The problem is that MN makes you think about such inconsequential stuff that it wouldn't even register in RL.

A lot of the time it's not the event that happened that was in the least bit surprising, it was the OP starting a thread about it.

Agree.

I know nobody in real life who won't eat home baking, doesn't answer their door unless they're expecting someone, uses Zoflora, doesn't drive because they're too nervous too or uses multiple bottles of bleach daily.

The cleaning and hygiene standards of some posters stand out to me the most. I often wonder if it’s the same people who complain their families don’t do enough to help, no wonder if you have such insane standards! How do people find the time to wash towels daily? And why do they care so much? What happens if you don’t wash them daily? So many questions.

There was a bleach thread a few months ago that was actually rather upsetting to read. So little regard for the environment. One poster used two bottles of bleach PER DAY.

it's the not answering the door lot that have me amazed....they never answer the door unless they know who it is AND the person has made arrangements to be seen

Or the people who don't lock their doors, but then are outraged when mil walks in or the postman opens the door to leave a parcel in the hall. But when everyone has told them to lock the door, there are always eleventy billion reasons why they can't do that.

I think a lot of problems on MN wouldn't arise if people remembered

1. It's not always about you, and
2. Other people are separate individuals who don't always have to do, say or think exactly what you think they should.

I know nobody in real life who won't eat home baking, doesn't answer their door unless they're expecting someone, uses Zoflora, doesn't drive because they're too nervous too or uses multiple bottles of bleach daily

I do. I know people who don't feel obliged to answer the door, including myself. I also know people who won't drive because they are too anxious, including me and I know people who use gallons of bleach, including my dip, but not me!

Dil not dip.

People on Mumsnet are batshit. That's why I come here

My absolute favourites are:

People who get offended by video games
People who get offended by the word mongrel when describing a dog with "poo" in the name
People who hate teachers
People who think having a child trumps disability

These people are all very easy to wind up and they bite every time. I've never come across people like it in real life, so I assume they just come here and let their weirdness flow.

MN provides a huge service to humanity by gathering all the really bonkers people on here, thus leaving people in real life bonkers free.

MN provides a huge service to humanity by gathering all the really bonkers people on here, thus leaving people in real life bonkers free.

MN provides a huge service to humanity by gathering all the really bonkers people on here, thus leaving people in real life bonkers free.

MN provides a huge service to humanity by gathering all the really bonkers people on here, thus leaving people in real life bonkers free.

There was a thread yesterday maybe where the DH wasn’t rubbing and talking to the baby bump and people advised the OP to LTB.