What’s most OTT response you’ve ever seen on a thread?

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(LIGHT HEARTED)

Just that really.

I think my favourite was fairly recently - CV related and one of the first responses to was “You dh is literally trying to kill you” (along the lines of not wearing a mask in the shops).

@CatRamsey

I read a thread earlier where the OP said they felt like a lonely old lady because they lived alone and the first response was something like 'stop being misogynistic and ageist.'

I was at that response.

One of the things I love about mumsnet is that you can get accused of being rich on the basis of nothing.
I was told that I must live in Knightsbridge and have money to burn.............because I pay 16 to have my windows cleaned.

I remember seeing an OP ask if she was the only parent who gave their toddler the finger behind their back when they were particularly trying. The responses were unbelievable!

Also, when 95% of the “nominated for Classics” posts. There’s definitely some funny shit on MN, but more in a “chuckle under your breath” way as opposed to the rolling on the floor, waking your husband/children/dog, spitting out tea way that some people claim.

Any thread that descends into the morality olympics cracks me up.

eg. Thread asking about tipping typically descends into:

"Well I tip double the cost of the meal. I also routinely offer to donate a kidney to the waiter/ress because theyre on minimum wage and I'm not an arse"

Thread asking about holiday destinations:

"My family and I smothered ourselves in Flora margarine and SWAM the channel to France for our holiday because some of us actually CARE about the state of the planet"

Thread about property:

"We decided not to be total dicks so we sold our house worth 500k to a first time buyer for ten quid and a curly wurly because we realise how difficult it is to get on the property ladder these days"

Thread about cleaners:

"We've moved into a caravan during lockdown so our cleaner can live in our house. We are also paying her a weekly amount of £17,000 because she's a good cleaner and good cleaners are hard to find!"

Thread about weddings:

"I dont know why you'd even need a ceremony? we printed a marriage certificate off the internet and DH got me a ring made of scrap metal that he found in a skip. Sure, it made my finger bleed for the first 6 months but if you LOVE someone it doesnt matter how many tetanus injections you have to have"

Thread about birthdays:

"Why on earth would you want your husband to acknowledge your 40th birthday?? Are you 14? For my 40th, my husband ignored me for the entire day and went out on the lash with his mates. I was totally fine about it because I'm not a controlling twat"

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This one is crazy but it looks like she is finally getting some sympathy towards the end of the thread

People are really having a go because she put her tv on at 6pm to drown out a crying baby who has been crying a lot since it was born. 8 weeks ago.

Apparently the op should go round with coffee and cake and offer support.

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I am also amused by the vulva pedants.

Clearly stressed op explains how she has a painful lump on her vagina, she's worried what it might be, can't get a go appointment for 2 weeks etc. Obviously in need of some reassurance and kind words.

First post "you mean your vulva, not you vagina"

I think the post about tipping at 02.14 this morning qualifies as one of the most ott I've seen on Mumsnet.

Well, yes, I thought this was a light-hearted thread, so it would be pretty clear that I was exaggerating...

Nevertheless, any thread about tipping does involve competitive tipping and telling others (ie poorer people) that they should be ashamed of themselves for not being so generous.

Any thread that advises that 18 is a ‘fully grown man/woman’ and that the OP should kick their kid out for fairly minor infractions mostly related to still behaving like a teenager.
That fucks me off - like any of those posters would do the same.

Oh the vulva pedants. Tedious lot.

The air travel threads are good for this, especially the ones about reclining seats.

And yes, the height/weight/clothes size threads. “If you’re a size 18 you must be morbidly obese.” It would take all of two minutes to work out that someone who is 6’ tall and a 34H could easily be a size 18 with a BMI of under 25, but where’s the fun in that?

@pictish

Oh the vulva pedants. Tedious lot.

Same here

Dd calls hers a minnie
Ds calls his his willy

People say that if my dd went up to someone saying my Minnie hurts, they fret because no one would know what a minnie is

Actually they do. Especially if dd pointed to it too

I started a thread a few years ago asking if I was unreasonable to refuse an overnight guest - a good friend - a bucket for peeing in in the bedroom. Most people thought I was extremely unreasonable, I was advised to go out and buy a special potty with a cover for her, and one response was something like "This is really cruel, my niece has anxiety and bladder issues and would not manage at all if she had to go downstairs in the night." H'm, actually my friend is not your niece . .

@Soubriquet. oh yes. Apparently it’s fine to ask OP to turn her music down at 6pm on a Saturday because that’s what time babies go to sleep. Totally missing the point that this baby is obviously not doing much sleeping at any time!

I always wince inwardly if there's some poor soul on a thread saying they're having problems with their kids and someone responds something like 'well I don't know why you had kids then'. It's mean, sanctimonious, unfeeling, shows lack of empathy and it is just the sort of thing my mother would have said which of course makes it even more of a crime.

btw I didn't read all the thread (another mn crime) so I guess someone has already said something like I said.

@pictish or “my daughter is 17 and decided to become a sex worker. Aibu to be worried and try to talk her out of it”?. How dare you, her life her choice - keep your nose out she’s an adult.

Someone mentioned this earlier in the thread but it’s so aggravating to me I’m going to bring it up again.
It’s when a poster writes, “And you chose to have children with this man, why?”

How fucking smug, unhelpful, superior and spiteful can you be?
That much apparently. You cunts.

A pregnant lady expressed she didn’t want to have sex with her husband, nothing she wrote suggested he was forcing her or abusing her, she wasn’t keen and he accepted, maybe with some sarcastic comment that upset her.

It was repeatedly suggested her husband was a rapist and that she should flee🤷🏼‍♀️

There used to be a hardcore group of self proclaimed baby care 'experts' who would jump on any parent who confessed they'd left their baby in the cot to cry for a few minutes because they were exhausted and needed a break.

Apparently it was abusive and would emotionally scar the child for life (it's not and won't - but really got to me when I had a baby that cried a lot)

A more obscure one but it stuck in my mind.
“Yr 5 DS has to learn about a mathematician and make a PowerPoint/poster about their lives. He has an idea, but do you have any other good suggestions for who he could do?”

I cannot imagine a more innocuous OP, but it kicked off large-style. The highlight was when all the mathematicians (because it’s MN and there are a lot of us) who’d come on to put the case for their fave were accused of being showoffs who didn’t really know who Benoit Mandelbrot was and had just Googled him.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/primary/a1070128-Y5-h-w-Research-a-famous-mathematician-poster-powerpoint-article-2-hrs-work-Who?msgid=21939707#21939707

Also on a mathematical bent, I love a BODMAS thread, and the sheer rage that a “another think/thing coming” thread can descend into.

The one where someone had sent the OP chocolate as a surprise and there was a post about it going to kill the OP - either with CV19 or she'd be so obese after eating it she would die.

🤣 oh my God what!? That hysterical!

The cleaning/laundry ones get me; if you dont want all your towels at 90 degrees with dettol and douse everything in zofolora daily you're disgusting apparently.

Oh loads.

A favourite was the day after the Brexit result and wherever the poster lived, it was raining and they said 'even the sky is crying'

Early lockdown days were the most histrionic and abusive i've ever seen on MN. Especially all the ill informed MNetters who didn't understand the guidelines and thought it said somewhere that you could only buy essentials. So people picking up hot cross buns or mascara with their weekly shop were selfish cunts, fucking morons and literally killing people. I saw someone called a murderer because they left some home cooked food on a neighbours doorstep. A woman asking if she could collect much-needed baby things from her parents if they left it on the drive for her was told it wasn't an essential journey and she could fashion a newborn bed from a drawer.

The predictions for mass graves, riots and martial law. After Cummings, someone posted that due to his actions, there would be widespread civil unrest which the Police would be unable to manage so the army would need to be called in.

Anything to do with dogs usually goes a bit batshit. A few years ago there was an arson attack on a dogs home and someone posted that it was truly awful but the reaction of her friends on FB was far more distressed than recently in her area when there was an arson attack on a house and children died. The thread had to be deleted because the poster was called a cunt, a psychopath, accused of probably being an animal abuser and people were posting saying they hoped someone set fire to her house so she'd die in terror like the dogs.

Another poster who had recently lost her Mum got torn to shreds because she was upset that a colleague at work had said they knew what she was going through as their dog had died. Fair enough, people grieve differently but the OP was called allsorts and people were claiming she lacked empathy, was self-absorbed and was a shitty person because she hadn't asked the colleague to tell her all about the dog. Days after her Mum had died!

*wash

If an ops husband is behaving suspiciously and op wants to investigate she either gets told she’s a controlling bitch by posters who’s husbands have literally hundreds of female friends and text them everyday or posters who have sadly been hurt and are somewhat bitter telling op to plant bugs in his car and sniff his underwear.

Also ‘have you seeked help for your anxiety’ over a perfectly valid worry.