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AIBU?

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What threads just piss you off the minute you see the title?

416 replies

LingyLangy · 05/11/2019 23:12

Thoughts

Just for fun

OP posts:
seven201 · 06/11/2019 06:48

Is this a line?

  • I'm just jealous though!
NightOwl27 · 06/11/2019 06:49

Nub theory!

Squirrelblanket · 06/11/2019 06:56

'Why are none parents on Mumsnet?'

And on the Christmas forum: 'What are you buying for your 4 year old daughters?' and similar. Really, you don't know what your kid would like?!

Pinkyyy · 06/11/2019 06:56

"who is BU, A or B?"

It's always a story told very obviously one sidedly and I don't understand why they have to go through all that nonsense and then do a big reveal saying "I'm A".

Sohololopopo · 06/11/2019 06:56

Current one is the nightmare who posted about not caring for animals n bonfire night... And all the posters who agree... Massive fuck off... I hope a fox shits on your doorstep huns xxx

Brill thread OP!

ElusiveOrangeTwirl · 06/11/2019 06:59

"Any lawyers / doctors / hairdressers here?" If you want advice from a professional, don't be so cheap to try and get it for free on the internet. People are off duty on Mumsnet, and could just lie anyway.

"Posting for traffic" - I would move these if I were a moderator.

"LINES EYES PLEASE" - why are these ones invariably in caps?

"Negative test at 8DPO, could I still get a positive?" - of course you could. You've tested really early.

TulipsTulipsTulips · 06/11/2019 07:00

Am I posh, or what class am I

FredaFrogspawn · 06/11/2019 07:04

‘My wife...sex’

Almost always pervy

GaaaaarlicBread · 06/11/2019 07:07

Money ones where you just feel shite after reading is when I realise I don’t have £6000 disposable income and haven’t got a DC who goes to a private school

Beveren · 06/11/2019 07:13

Competitive hygiene threads - I wash my floor every day/my towels after every use/have three baths a day/change my clothes every hour, anyone who does anything less is a minging slut. I've never understood why, on MN, it's a crime to hint that bad grammar isn't great, but perfectly fine to demonise people who have different cleaning and washing practices.

Ginfordinner · 06/11/2019 07:13

Stealth boasts on the education threads from parents of DC with 15 GCSEs complaining that there isn't enough room in school timetables for their DC to take 7 A levels.

qazxc · 06/11/2019 07:15

Aibu to ask you not to buy .... I'll buy what I fucking well want.

Sadiesnakes · 06/11/2019 07:15

@Aridane
@saraclara
@Soon2BeMumof3
@JasonPollack

I disagree.

Perhaps if any of you cared to read one of those posts you mightn't be so ignorant as to what they are actually about.

KenAdams · 06/11/2019 07:16

Should I pay to sit together on a plane. How many times can we have that thread?

Dommina · 06/11/2019 07:17

AIBU to think...
AIBU to ask...
Anything on AIBU which turns out not to be an AIBU at all, just using it for traffic.

Anything on the feminism section. Every now and then I see a good point, then it's overshadowed by the nastiness and vitoral towards trans people. Vile place.
Anyone who objects is met with a sickeningly coy 'but I don't see any transphobia, please report it' Hmm

TheRobinIsBobbingAlong · 06/11/2019 07:18

Can you see a line?
Rate my baby names
AIBU (with no further title)
Anything with Brexit in the title

royalton · 06/11/2019 07:19

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

slashlover · 06/11/2019 07:30

Double standards

OP - My DH has a secret bank account.
Everyone - That's abuse! LTB!

OP - I have a secret bank account.
Everyone - That's sensible, every woman should have one.

People who post trigger warnings without saying what the warning is for.

People who reply without all the completely outlandish things they would do if they were in that situation.
OP - My DH made a cup of tea without asking if I wanted one, I always ask him.
Replies - If it was me, I would put laxative in it next time you make it.

Would you really though?

Chocolatecake12 · 06/11/2019 07:32

MIL ones! I think people forget that they might be a MIL one day..........

fartingrainbows · 06/11/2019 07:32

Poster who post mundane questions on AIBU because they are "posting for traffic"

And yes to the ENDLESS trans threads.... every other thread I seem to click on at the moment. Coupled with the wide eyed assertion that nobody on Mumsnet is anti-trans leaves me baffled.

Oh and the ones where posters detail things that their (usually toddler) can do to see if they're gifted.

PeninsulaPanic · 06/11/2019 07:36

Can anybody do me a reading?

slashlover · 06/11/2019 07:37

"My DH has a new assistant at work, they went for lunch together once, AIBU to put a stop to it? or "MY DH has a best friend who is female, they have known each other for 20 years and meet up once a month, AIBU to be suspicious?

Cue lots of posters saying he wants to shag her and how it happened to them with anyone disagreeing being called a 'cool wife'.

RedRec · 06/11/2019 07:43

Lists of pretentious girls names, always including Ottilie.

HandsOffMyRights · 06/11/2019 07:44

Reverse threads where the poster is not who they say they are.

A child pretended to be a mother on here the other day and a longstanding poster now has a permanent ban for expressing empathy.

saraclara · 06/11/2019 07:52

@Sadiesnakes I've read about 93 of those threads and I know exactly what they're about.
But let's not derail this one.