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

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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).

Oh also peoples reactions to people who come over without prior appointment. So like family call round and they hide before the sofa and contemplate going NC.

I love dogs but the Dog People on here take it to another dimension.
Oddballs.

I mightily enjoy a "how often do you change your bedding thread".
Apparently "when it smells is the wrong answer"

Mumsnet is a hot bed of this. Sometimes it’s a really normal place, other times it’s hysterical to the point of parody.

The ‘how often do you wash bath towels?’ thread I once read into war with the ‘every time I use one’ camp starting the hostilities outright.

I like the threads where someone posts an over the top response to the OP, then OP ignores them, and so they up the over-the-topness in each subsequent post, desperately trying to get attention.

*descended into war

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I love dogs but the Dog People on here take it to another dimension.

It's not just the dog people, I haven't dared step back into the small furries area after saying that I don't have pet insurance for my guinea pigs. Boom! And that was I after I replied to an OP asking if everyone had pet insurance and was it really necessary.

See also any thread with dogs on it. Often the sensible answer is pts or rehome but apparently once you have a dog you are expected under all circumstances at the detriment to all aspects of your life, physical and mental health carry on.
I remember a thread several years ago where the op had been given notice on the house she and her kids had lived in for years. She was heartbroken at giving up the dog but could not find any landlord that would accept the dog. Apparently she should have thought of that before. She should just keep the dog (and jepardise a new tenancy) or refuse to move.
What she was actually asking was is it fairer to the dog, getting on in years and on tablets to try for a rehome or pts.

@Soubriquet the comment on that baby noise/TV shambles about taking them a care package with a white noise machine made me need to stop reading. Completely bonkers thread. I wonder what the responses would be if the parents of the screamer posted in AIBU asking if they could ask their neighbour to turn off the TV at 6pm on a Saturday.

Agree with the wedding thing. I posted a (probably too flippantly written) question in the wedding forum and got pulled apart. Apparently I'm arrogant, hate my mum, and don't care about the guests I've invited because I asked if it was reasonable to have snacky stand up desserts. Jokes on them because the wedding has been cancelled due to Covid

Charleyhorses I remember a similar thread where an OP with 3 children, a couple of dogs, couple of cats and some small pets was posting for money saving tips (circumstances had changed since getting the animals). She said the worst case scenario would be rehoming the animals but she really wanted to avoid that if at all possible. The Dog People just piled on her for being the worst person in the world, not fit to own animals, they’re your family and EXACTLY the same status as your own children, threats of reporting to the RSPCA etc. It was utterly bonkers.

I also enjoyed the response on a thread about whether sausage, mash and beans was an acceptable meal for children from a poster who claimed that it was junk food and she only let her kids have it once every 3-4 months . She was later revealed to be a troll, but the general tone of her other posts was pretty similar.

I was told that I should kill myself in a discussion about family size and CO2 emissions . I think the poster thought they were offering a clever reductio ad absurdum but it was really quite disturbing at the time.

Wedding threads are always insane and another example of MN moralising over things with absolutely no moral value. If you had a small, modest wedding and that was what you wanted, congratulations and I wish you a long and happy life together. But it isn't morally superior to someone who had a bigger do. It simply isn't. You get posters saying everyone with a huge wedding divorces within a year (they don't!) and everyone who has a registry affair in jeans (always in jeans) stays joyfully happy and monogamous forever (they don't!).

It gets to a point where I swear you could forget that a wedding is supposed to be a happy occasion where people have fun. "Well, I got married in a train tunnel. I wore a hessian sack and we served canal water and bracken and I hired someone to kneecap everybody as they came in because THEREFORE I WIN!"

It's so weird because elsewhere, Mumsnetters are absolutely terrified at the thought of appearing "common" (does anyone still use this word for this meaning in real life? Even my mother's generation doesn't seem to say it), yet when it comes to weddings, it does a complete about-turn. Weird.

I know it’s already been mentioned briefly, but I do LOVE the driving/speed limit threads.

“OP I have been driving for 40 years and I have never once gone 1mph over the speed limit. It’s a limit not a target, and you shouldn’t be driving if you think it’s acceptable to do 72mph on an empty motorway at 2am. I have also never, ever overtaken anyone! It’s an incredibly dangerous manoeuvre. If I have to trundle along behind a tractor on a B road for 3 hours, then that’s what I’ll do. I’d rather be safe than dead.”

Ones where posters diagnose other people's children. Particularly with autism.

OP: My 3 month old baby isn't talking yet, should I be worried?

Poster: Classic speech delay. Not saying he is autistic but you should probably get him tested.

OP: My 3 yr old put his shoes on the wrong feet.

Poster: Classic sensory seeking. Probably get tested for ASD.

OP: My teenager leaves the lights on when he leaves a room.

Poster: Sounds like he might have autism. Have you had him tested?

OP: Husband doesn't like big parties.

Poster: Your DH probably has high functioning undiagnosed ASD.

Also ones reacting to MILs and their grandchildren...

OP: It's our wedding anniversary and MIL has offered to babysit so we can go out for the evening.

Poster: DON'T DO IT OP! You should pay for childcare, your MIL just wants to "accidentally" call herself "mummy" when you aren't there and whisper in your sleeping baby's ears what a shit mum you are.

My favourite was that boiling a frog was racist.

I’m perpetually baffled by the posters who come on any bidet thread to say how disgusting and dirty bidets are. Surely they are no more dirty than having a bath or shower, unless I’m doing it wrong

I hate bidets, so uncomfortable, but I can't deny it's excellent personal hygiene. Most of the world uses water instead of paper, I think? And you'll be laughing when the virus mutates and we have Toilet Paper Shortage Round 2.

There was one a few months ago where somebody lived in a flat next to a baby that screamed and cried constantly and kept her up all night and she didn't know what to do.
Someone suggested she go and offer to babysit to give the mum a break

Sorry not to have read the whole thread yet (going out for a hospital appt in a sec), but does anyone remember the thread about a stressful argument with in a stranger in a carpark/maybe at the school gates, and one poster suggested the OP should give the person a creme egg?

Just randomly. I think of this whenever I see peace talks referenced on the news: "GIVE THEM A CREME EGG!"

[quote Coffeecak3]@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![/quote]
Even if it was asleep, she should still be able to watch tv when she wanted

I was stunned, major over reaction there. A new mum didnt let a stranger hold her baby in a supermarket and ends up with SS on her doorstep

WTF is wrong with some people?

There’s a thread at the moment about washing a dress and returning it as OP found shed got her makeup on it and it doesn’t fit...

Someone has replied at least she doesn’t have to organise a social distanced funeral and just to accept the £40 loss and stop wasting her life!

Someone else has suggested a plastic bag over tour head when trying on clothes to avoid makeup staining

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Sorry not to have read the whole thread yet (going out for a hospital appt in a sec), but does anyone remember the thread about a stressful argument with in a stranger in a carpark/maybe at the school gates, and one poster suggested the OP should give the person a creme egg?

Just randomly. I think of this whenever I see peace talks referenced on the news: "GIVE THEM A CREME EGG!"

I THINK I remember that one but if I'm right, wasn't it a joke because of an ongoing running gag at the time about whether Creme Eggs were nice or not? (They're horrible.)

Maybe I'm conflating two different things though. It certainly wouldn't be the most batshit thing we've had on here!