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

[MalcomTuckerisMyIdol]

(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).

I’ve been called a boomer for thinking life was better ‘in the old days’ I’m 33
People who always have it worse and mention it in a thread, how is that helpful and why have you wasted time typing it out!?
‘There must be something wrong with you’
‘Is this a reverse’
‘Give x to someone who will love them’

There are so many highly strung members on here it’s shocking but always gives me a laugh

@PablosHoney

And you have a tendency to be extremely supercilious, no ones perfect.

If you start both reading and thinking, you will be able to save your bile for the things people actually said, and you'll embarrass yourself much less often.

I've been called a boomer for thinking life was better ‘in the old days’ I’m 33

I've had that. Try telling them you're actually a millennial and the abuse just goes weapon level!

Yes to the hygiene ones. How often people shower and people who wash their towels after every use. And people who get so worked up about other people's showering and laundry habits.

@SuperMumTum

Yes to the hygiene ones. How often people shower and people who wash their towels after every use. And people who get so worked up about other people's showering and laundry habits.

Something that gets me about these ones is how so many people claim to change towels every day and sheets every other day, yet never use a tumble dryer. They must live on a private Caribbean island with a whirly washing line the size of the Millennium Wheel.

• I wasn’t surprised. This place is packed with nosey, self important reporters. It’s quite life affirming in a sense because it makes me feel glad not to be one.*

I'M GOING TO REPORT YOU FOR THAT COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!

This thread really shouldn’t be turned into a personal battle.

I started an innocuous thread, or so I thought, in Chat, not even in AIBU. I was asking about a fair way to split cost and arrange rooms for a family ski trip to which a girlfriend was added at the last minute.

It went in for several pages. DS was called a “Near Paedophile’.
He was 42, girlfriend was 25.

What seemed to incense some posters was that we paid to take the whole family away twice a year. DS with his small kids couldn’t afford to take them abroad. He was told to take them camping in the north of England, they would apparently love that.

Funnily enough they all preferred two weeks in the Caribbean.

Don’t know if it’s been said but the current thread saying that the human race should die out. I couldn’t bring myself to comment but it gave me a good laugh on a very boring Thursday

My eyes rolled into the back of my head at that one! Um, isnt it a tad late now? lol
Maybe we should all lash ourselves with birch leaves as punishment instead because telling everyone in the entire world to just stop having children is clearly a great plan and would totes work!

@StillCoughingandLaughing

This thread really shouldn’t be turned into a personal battle.

Think it's too late - it has and evidently one poster reported the other as their posts have been deleted.

Just in the middle of next trying to figure out what the spat was about!! Read everything twice, couldn't figure it out now there gone and I'll never know. Tragic.

Someone mentioned using daily knicker liners. Someone replied something along the lines of 'I can't imagine how much you must hate your vagina to think those are necessary'.

Honestly, you didn't miss anything. Though I'd like to point out that I don't have exclusive powers to report people.

I shouldn't have mentioned it in here, though, that was very ill-judged. It was just the first thing I thought of when I became the infamous "only on Mumsnet" person.

Anyway, it wasn't anything worth catching up on, I can promise you. I'm boring.

😇

Anyhoo all else aside, I’ve always wondered about the frequent ‘do you wash your legs in the shower’ threads but never enough to click, those alongside the people who shower 19 time’s a day.

Ah well.

I just tried to read the human race should die out thread, had to give up (fewer than 10 posts in I'm afraid). The threads where you read the OP and think "hmm, okay this person is not in a good place" (meaning either mentally or personality wise) and the loads of poster cone along agreeing with them are most baffling of all.

By th way, i made a pigeon fly away today when I walked past it. I have flogged myself for this evil act.

It is bizarre at the least. To be fair pigeons have got even cockier during lockdown 😂

I haven't seen one of these for a while, but the ones about "AIBU to cancel my child's birthday party?", when the OP said they'd cancel it in a moment of anger, and then asked if they could retract this. There are always the replies of
"You said it, you have to follow through."
"She needs to learn that actions have consequences."
And then there would be the more sensible replies of "if you cancel it, she will remember it for ever, and resent you for it".

The "children believing in Santa" threads always bring out extreme replies; the recent tooth fairy one was quite sensible!

The "children believing in Santa" threads always bring out extreme replies; the recent tooth fairy one was quite sensible!
I am always amused by the ones who think their 11 year old believes in Santa. It's strange though that their child's lack of critical thinking abilities does not worry them.

I'm also bemused by those who think that knowing where babies come from ruins childhood. Do you know what ruins childhood? Being laughed at because you're the only 11 year old who believes in Santa and thinks that babies are dropped by a stork...

My favourites are when the OP posts that she cant drive well despite having a licence. Those who cant copenwith roundabouts or know which way to turn the wheel to reverse.

The absolute batshit responses of just needing to practice more and defending the driver with tales of how terrified they are to drive too! Geez! If you dont know which way to turn the wheel you shouldn't bloody be driving!! Clearly more lessons are required. How do posters think these OPs are even safe to be on the road if they have to get their OH to come rescue them because they cant reverse out of a parking space due to the audacity of someone parking next to them.

I was (more than) once told that I was thick, a handmaid, chattel and nothing more than assorted white goods because I'm married.

Obviously, I then let it be known that I also took my husband's name, because sometimes it's fun to start trouble. I did regret it a bit, though, because it did genuinely depress me a bit to hear so many people insist that I couldn't possibly be in love with my husband.

@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!”

Just had to tell you this is one of the funniest things I have read in ages @OhhhPeee

Glad to be of service, @AnastasiaBeverleyHills!

Haha, that made me laugh too.
A small chuckle, no spitting of drinks.