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).

@Bluebird3456

Oh the vegan vs meat eater ones always end up crazy. There was one that started off pretty normal (albeit goady) but then ended with someone calling all the meat eaters 'bloodmouths'.

I remember that one. But there was a very intelligent, level headed and reasonable vegan who took the wheel after the flounce and made some great points that got people thinking.

I love the 'old school' vegans who go on about how it's so ridiculously easy to be a vegan these days with all the plant based and dairy-free options. But they were vegans back in the day when it was HARD and required PLANNING and EFFORT because they only had lentils and vegetables.

@myrtleWilson - I remember that funeral thread. The overseas poster JUST WOULD NOT HAVE IT that traffic lights weren't switched to red over here for funeral cortèges no matter how many people pointed it out, posted Highway Code extracts etc. Practically called everyone evil, selfish, callous liars.

I think it was the first time I was brave enough to post on here - I asked for advice with my almost 4 year old. She was about to start school, young for the year. She was (still is fortunately) very affectionate with friends, and she would do things like give big hugs without asking consent. Knowing that not everyone is a lover of lots of physical contact I wanted tips on helping her ask consent/read another person's body language etc. A number of replies were along the lines of my daughter being a highly aggressive child who would need some serious interventions to be able to manage in polite society. I was quite shocked.

@ShebaShimmyShake Oh I think I stopped reading after the flounce, maybe I should have carried on!

Ooh I don’t know where, that to me is an interesting enough conversation ... maybe merailing a bit

I made a casual comment about not being able to undo a very tight nut on a wheel I was trying to remove to put on the spare after a puncture.

Someone told me I shouldn’t be on the road if I couldn’t undo wheel nuts. I’m actually quite fit and don’t usually have problems—this one had just been over-enthusiastically tightened.

I asked ages ago about wether I should be teaching my children to read English before they went to school (we are not in the UK) using ORT etc, and I jokingly said that I hoped that watching constant CBEEBIES would just do it for me... One poster said that this was "literally, the saddest and most selfish thing" that she'd ever read on Mumsnet!

I’ve just thought of another one that was bizarrely OTT. The thread was a fairly innocuous bill splitting one - ‘I had a piece of dry toast and a glass of water while my friends had six-course banquets and Dom Perignon; was I wrong to say I’d just pay for what I had?’ (exaggerating slightly). The replies were mainly fairly standard ‘Of course you shouldn’t have to split the bill’ on one side and ‘I’d have just split it; I couldn’t be arsed to argue’ on the other. But one woman who responses acted like this was the worst possible thing the OP could have done. ‘OMG, you don’t split the bill?! You actually argue over who had what, in public?! How could you do that?! I would be utterly mortified if I was out for dinner and someone did this; I literally can’t think of anything more embarrassing!’

I honestly wondered if she’d somehow misread and thought the OP had pissed herself during the starter or her left tit had fallen into the soup. It was splitting a sodding bill, for heaven’s sake!

I was accused of being a bored housewife with a millionaire husband and staff this week

I told a poster not to use her friends feelings for her because she was bored. Another poster jumped on to berate all those telling the op not to use the poor guy and said we we all had perfect lives and staff. Not really sure what the thought process was there

I was told I was racist and encapsulated the anti Irish sentiment which runs through Mumsnet like a disease. Someone ... told the commenter that I was infact, Irish, to which she responded that that made it even worse (?!?!)

AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT!!!!

I honestly wondered if she’d somehow misread and thought the OP had pissed herself during the starter or her left tit had fallen into the soup.

I literally die when that happens ....

Back in early lockdown I was having a pro mask debate. I'm pro mask wearing in confined spaces but a poster who had asthma argued that it troubled her breathing. Fair enough but she went on to say that by being pro mask I wanted her to STARVE TO DEATH because she wouldn't be able to do her shopping

I once posted asking for advice after dad asked us for a car. Despite mentioning that we get on great, I get on with her mum, I was never the OW as they’d already divorced when we met, etc, someone popped up with the inevitable ‘all step parents are evil and you’re trying to destroy her relationship with her father!!!!!!’ post. I mean it was a lot of money!!

She still has the car btw

Dad?! I meant dsd! As in stepdaughter. When can we have an edit button?!

Any thread where someone is having a vent about noisy newborns or children next door (generally with good reason) and they are told to wear headphones all the time, move somewhere remote (forgetting that their lives/work/schools are all in that neighbourhood), but the parents ridiculous presents and offer to babysit.

In the real world we all yell shut the fuck up at the wall and turn the music up a bit higher and grit our teeth.

I've been nearly wetting myself laughing at some of these responses. How OTT is that?

I love a lunchbox thread where everyone competes about what healthy packed lunches their kids have.

Even better the competitive undereating by people who like to make out they have the proportions of a Barbie doll and exist on a lettuce leaf a week and god forbid that any alcohol dares pass their lips.

I like reading them sat on my fat ass with a bar of chocolate and a bottle of prosecco

A poster who usually talks a lot of sense tore strips off me a few months ago for daring to admit that I’d had an amazing experience volunteering in a developing country over 20 years ago. It then transpired that they too had volunteered in a developing country around the same time but their trip had been far more virtuous and worthy than mine was. I’d be fascinated to know how they had reached this conclusion when they had no idea where I’d been or what I’d been doing.

Someone called a poster a c**t on a thread about how offensive it is to call another woman 'Karen'. No one seemed bothered by the C word but everyone was up in arms over 'Karen'.

There was a thread on here recently about how you know if your child is top of the class. Cue the parade of smug mothers and, even worse, the falsely modest ones of the "l just want my children to be happy, oh, by the way, all the Oxbridge colleges were competing for them to apply" or "DS/DD had learning difficulties as a small child but got twelve 9s in their GCSEs when they were thirteen."

To be honest I think the Karen thing is a bit shitty.

Working class woman? Must be a racist fool then.

And the one where I posted mid-anxiety attack because the GP had refused me Valium for a long flight and done it in a rather rude way. I was already anxious and I’ll admit I probably came across as querulous and needy. But! Lots of nice replies which helped to calm me down, and were much more comforting than all the ‘well what do you expect if you go in there DEMANDING controlled drugs?!’ (I didn’t demand them, and I’d had them before); the ‘what would happen if the plane was going to crash and you were zonked out?!’ (frankly that’d be the ideal situation to be in during a plane crash, imo) and of course the ‘you shouldn’t be flying anywhere anyway, it’s selfish and you’re killing the planet!!’ (I’d explained in my OP that we were travelling to FIL’s funeral).

I had a post about some banal nonsense, and the final reply was - apropos of nothing! - that I should “jump in a lake, you sanctimonious upstart”. It’s become a go-to phrase in our household!

@OhhhPeee

Sometimes on AIBU I like to play “guess the extenuating circumstances”. You read the OP, which seems pretty reasonable, eg “AIBU to think everyone should pick up their dog’s shit?” Then you have to guess what mad reasons people will give in their very defensive and accusatory posts.

There’s usually one within the first page or two, e.g. “I can’t pick up my dog’s shit because I have no arms. I lost my arms rescuing grannies and kittens on 9/11. Do you hate disabled people, OP? Do you want all disabled people to be rounded up and gassed? Are you HITLER, OP? People like you make me sick!”

So true!!