To ask MN to suspend AIBU temporarily...

[noroominthefridge]

...so that posters have to look for the vaguely correct section to post in?

Yes, I get the "posting for traffic" mentality and it is occasionally relevant when someone has a bona fide emergency, but fucking hell.

Yes, yes you are being massively unreasonable to ask if your shoes go with your dress when there is a perfectly adequate style and beauty section which I have hidden as it doesn't interest me

Yes, yes you are being totally unreasonable to ask for travel tips to (insert destination here) when there is a very straightforward travel section, which may even have the answer to your question if you could be bothered to look Lots of MNers have been to California/New York/Berlin/Centre Parcs/Efteling and have posted extremely useful advice about them.

I could probably go on, but it has definitely been getting worse lately.

While I'm at it, maybe there could also be a new "sticky" section with the answer to questions which come up with depressing regularity re sheet/towel washing, what present to buy for some random relative that nobody knows or how much to give in a wedding card?

Genuinely interested to hear opinions on this, and if anyone is horrid I will just add the disclaimer that I was tired when I posted.

@IncrediblySadToo
I commented my opinion.
You then asked if I was being touchy.
No. I stated my opinion about them kind of posts. You like them and think people can guess others are pregnant... great! I see them as pointless.

*What's the point in the posts that just state.... I had sex could I be pregnant?

Please tell me!?*
No one knows. So what's the point of the post. I'm not talking about can you see a line posts or working dates out posts or the fact a pregnant woman being excited.
I'm talking about the posts that WANT TO KNOW are they pregnant or not!
Pointless.

The point is they need/ want someone to talk to, to work through dates etc. Reassurance, excitement ,distress - lots of different reasons.

I’m my HEAD I always think ‘have you had sex?’ If you have, you could be, yes. Highly unlikely if not!

But I never post that because someone is either worried or excited and they’re looking for someone to talk to.

But if it annoys you, just scroll past them, it’s easy enough 🤷🏻‍♀️ It’s not like they’re wasting the Internet!

@IncrediblySadToo
Again... I'm talking about ones not wanting to work out dates.
Theyre just stating... I had unprotective sex could I be pregnant but he pulled out etc.

We're all adults... of course they could be pregnant!? What else is anyone going to say??? Oh no don't worry love I can see into the future and you're not.
No. Go take a test or see a gp.

I'm not talking about women than need reassurance or need a hand to hold or some advice they're literally asking.. can I be pregnant after my boyfriend pulled out.
Ridic. Pointless.

I like the wedding posts. They're very entertaining.

As to the 'am I pregnant?' threads: I know without clicking on on the link that my answer to that question is going to be: 'I don't know. I'm a stranger on the internet'.

That's why I don't open those threads. The same option is open to all of us.

Who made you the Boris Johnson of Mumsnet?

Well I did say that I was genuinely interested to hear other opinions so that's not very Boris-like.

often found the answers to similar circumstances but not the exact same so creating a post is the only way to get tailored answers/opinions

I get that, but for so many of the posts this isn't the case.

MN is a parenting forum! Is it?

I'm not talking about women than need reassurance or need a hand to hold or some advice they're literally asking.. can I be pregnant after my boyfriend pulled out.
Ridic. Pointless

Except it’s clearly not pointless for them? Maybe they’re getting support, maybe they’re trying to make sense of it, maybe they’re a burly trucker called Arnold and trolling the fuck out of the board.

Either way, just don’t open what you’re not interested in.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks
Its not even about opening them... it's about how stupid a grown women is coming into the internet and asking a bunch of strangers is she pregnant.
I don't understand it. It actually baffels me.

When I wasn't sure, I went to the doctors not bloody MN to ask sue in Bedford who's never met me.

I agree I like the wedding ones too.... tbh I like 99% the 1% are the am I pregnant posts 😂 even reading the title makes me🙄

YABU

@JacquesHammer
Again... I don't have to open it to scroll past and read OMG AM I PREGNANT!?
My point was.... it's pointless even posting it. For anyone that thinks asking strangers on the internet are they pregnant is normal I don't know what to tell ya.each to their own.
That's my opinion.

Again... I don't have to open it to scroll past and read OMG AM I PREGNANT!?

Gosh that must be difficult

My point was.... it's pointless even posting it. For anyone that thinks asking strangers on the internet are they pregnant is normal I don't know what to tell ya.each to their own

It isn’t pointless if they get something out of it

If you think MN should be tailored to your personal preferences, maybe it’s not for you.

It’s a massive forum. Who cares what people post and where. I can’t imagine being bothered enough to get uppity about it

Also some I've read aren't looking for support they're literally asking AM I PREGNANT!? why does No one understand that this is pointless!?

Completely agree.
Aibu has become meaningless.

@JacquesHammer

I couldn't give two shits where any one posts any thing!? My point was and still is asking randoms on the internet if you're pregnant is pointless.

"Gosh that must be difficult" no.. It was in.reply to you saying not to open it. So keep your sarcasm to yourself lol.

Also.... uppity 😂

Also.... uppity

I can post a definition if you’re struggling

"It isn’t pointless if they get something out of it"

Any I've read is them being told to take a test!!
Surprisingly I'm not the only one that thinks it's weird and pointless to ask strangers if they're pregnant lol.

@JacquesHammer
Does acting like this make you feel better about yourself? Or like you're above others?
Pathetic.

This is about the 75th thread about AIBU this week.

I'm in agreement on things being in the wrong board though. A box when starting a thread in AIBU to consider posting in relevant topics if you're actually after advice would be good.

I do love the entertaining bun fights over showing, hair washing and laundry though. Sometimes I wonder what the water bills of some people must be if they shower 5 times a day with new bedding every other day and a new towel each shower.

should I ask for an Am I Being Ridiculous topic?

Definitely!

I don't know how to hide stuff here but I've certainly unfollowed our local Facebook Crimewatch page in which every posting invariably starts with "Not a crime but..."

Insert shit joke/picture of a cat I don't care about/a robbery on the other side of the world

I tend to agree OP.

Get fed up with trending threads in AIBU only to see posters are asking the most trivial questions that are nothing to do with being reasonable to not.

"It’s a massive forum. Who cares what people post and where. I can’t imagine being bothered enough to get uppity about it" @JacquesHammer

But you did...... about my comment on a post?

I thoroughly dislike the virtuous AIBU ones more than any other types of AIBU.

For example: "I spotted a kitten struggling with a broken leg in the gutter. I picked it up, drove it straight to a vet, paid for major surgery, adopted it, took four months off work so I could be with it day and night and now it has its own bedroom in my house with its name on the door. AIBU for thinking I definitely did the right thing?"

Then they sit back and wait for the back-pats to roll in, which they do. (even more maddening. Clearly OP has no intention of thinking they were in any way being unreasonable). "YANBU! You were so amazing to do all of that!" etc.

I'd rather read a thousand AIBU about which dress to go with which shoes than that utterly obvious virtue signalling barely dressed up as an AIBU.

it has its own bedroom in my house with its name on the door
😂😂😂

YANBU
I wish people realised that Family History isn't for problems about your family but genealogy. It gets such little footfall that they must wait for ages for any response too.

The irony @noroominthefridge 👏😂