Things people do on mumsnet that make you smile

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For me it's the people who come onto a thread to say"OMG is that ALL you have to worry about? Seriously???? Some people are sooo easily annoyed. You really need to calm down . "

People who just read the OP of a multi page thread so repeat the advice given on the first page despite the OP revealing why that advice hasn't worked.

People trying to state their credentials by referring to a previous famous thread.

I thought this was going to be a nice thread
Funny stories or posts about random acts of kindness and pet stories.

Post on wrong threads! Especially when it's a particularly heated debate and a random picture of a cat shows up.

People who patronisingly say they couldn't read the whole of the first post on a thread because it wasn't subdivided into paragraphs. Seriously, they can't manage to read a block of text because there are no gaps between every three or four sentences.

Or people that complain that a post is too long and full of too much detail 😲 I want the detail!

People who open a thread clearly titled 'parent and child spaces' or 'SVUs' in order to post 'Yawn' or 'not this again'.

OP asks for things people do on Mumsnet that make you smile and starts with a thing that makes them

For genuine good natured fun, I love the FB tat and wish threads. They're ace

I also love any food thread on MN. It descends into 'i had one lettuce leaf for lunch and I'm full. I'm so naughty and as I also had a grain of rice with dinner' to 'i had McDonald's for breakfast, dominoes for lunch, Gregg's for an afternoon snack, an all you can eat Chinese for dinner followed by an entire cake and 5 bottles of wine, and I'm stl hungry so I might eat a packet of biscuits before bed'

People who focus on an aspect that's not related to the thread

Eg AIBU to let my dcs go downstairs whilst I have a lie in?
Poster: why can't your DJ get up, is he always so selfish, LTB

People in long term relationships who have no idea what the dating world is like detailing all the pretty normal stuff that goes on

That virtually no woman on MN watches porn and neither to their partners ..... yeah ok

No @WeakAndWeary the was within the quotation marks in my example.

Take everything really seriously and believe everything that’s posted.

The 'what are you having for dinner' threads make me smile.
Rarely does anyone say "we're having oven chips with some sausages that need to be used by tomorrow"

A huge amount of mumsnetters are actually knowledgable and kind. For every arsey reply there's two that try to help and give reassurance.

I started a thread which inadvertently became a massive pile on a few years ago and was genuinely touched by the amount of people who pm 'd me to check that I was ok and to offer kind words.

I love the kindness of people who offer a "handhold" to people who are struggling and some posters are so witty,their threads end of making me properly belly laugh.

I am going to go with fun things. I like

• the word - play, where witty posters joke around with language and meanings

• I like long threads where the OP keeps coming back to update and then eventually gets a happy ending. I'm looking at you somerville (I think that was her name)
• ick threads where we cheerfully slag off men (all jokey of course)
• ridiculous situation threads
• play mobile threads
• There's a really good bargain right now threads

The fact that someone always votes YABU (or YANBU) no matter how obviously the OP is not (or is) BU. Like “AIBU to be upset because DP said I was fat”. 99% YANBU 1% YABU.

People writing ‘DDog’. It’s lovely. I remember a thread where a woman was describing a neighbour’s really vicious dog that had attacked her and she still described it as ‘DDog’

Sometimes when I'm low I trawl the classics for a really laugh out loud funny thread. I think the one about leaving clothes on the washing line overnight has got to be my favourite.

Posters who think that Ddog is an abbreviation.

When a goady little fucker gets a pile on for being a twat. That's karma you cunt

Misuse/ misunderstanding of the cliche/in vogue terms often seen here

So many posters call troll on other posters that simply dont agree with them etc

People who say "I didn't want to read and run"

It's not like the OP knows that they ahve read the post and have nothing useful to say. Where are they "running" to?

I guess it's just their way of shamelessly place marking.
Use the "watch this thread" button or just bookmark it.

Also, posters who can actually be bothered to make a list of the contents of their imaginary food cupboards or every single thing that their child has eaten in a day.

YY to people who can't possibly read more than two sentences if there are no paragraphs.

Flouncers who keep coming back

I always chuckle at posters who pretend not to understand an OP as a way of passively-aggressively displaying their huge judgement of their behaviour.

People who say “what happened to be kind”.

Examples of a nosy cunt

"We don't have enough info".

"Don't drip feed"

"Are you OK OP?''

"You can DM me OP"

The virus is very much a big part of our lives now

"Get a life"

"Get a grip"

The random snobbery (Bayliss and Harding, chips with chinese takeaway, drink more than a thimbleful of wine at xmas and you're an alcoholic)