To get incredibly irritated by lazy journalists stealing MN threads

[ReaganSomerset]

There's been at least one more today, this time stolen by the Plymouth Herald (shame on you). It happens all the time to all manner of threads, from baby names through to relationships, pillaged by lazy journalists without a thought for the lives they could damage and people they could hurt because they can't be bothered to find their own stories. It really gets my goat.

OK, OK, WTF is penis beaker

Really, really unfunny thread (possibly not even real) which caused much hilarity for some reason and went viral. It's in Classics somewhere, a few years ago now but people are still saying it was the funniest thing ever.

A really long post of mine on here last week was copied word for word on MailOnline. They didn’t even state my username-rude!

@Flyingfish2019 most recently, some woman's partner soaked her pet cat in dettol.

She had the thread deleted after the newspaper published it.

I hope the Plymouth Herald removed it because they realised it could potentially be dangerous for the op involved if her 'd'p found out about it.

I think it's lazy because it would take approximately five minutes to type up with lots of copy and paste. Also, doesn't journalism require people to fact-check? Lots of the posts in here are made up from wholecloth.

They probably removed it because the thread it linked to was no longer there on MN for their readers to see.