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).

This is the best thread in a long, long time. FACT.

Anything wedding related I’d generally hilarious with competitive race to the bottom comments about how austere the event should be for the bride and groom but at the same time how guests’ every bonkers whim and foible should be catered for, usually including food on the hour.

Recent wedding ring cleaning one continued the madness with a poster horrified that someone didn’t remove their wedding ring FOR EVERYTHING ‘you hug people with that hand you’ve wiped your arse with?!’ type stuff. Absolute gold.

I’m always amazed on threads where the OP is asking about if it’s possible their DC stay with their husband in the event of her death rather than go to their dad (which I completely understand in lots of circumstances as it can stop the child losing their mum, home, school, friends, being separate from their siblings etc) and a posted will respond

‘why don’t the children all move to the eldest’s dads house?’

Which means that all the children would be facing a huge upheaval and younger siblings may even be moving into a household with someone they’ve never even met before . I’ve never understood the logic of it

@whattimeisitrightnow there was one a while back where OP was actually the teenage daughter but started out posting as if she was her mother. She was clearly eating too little (although possibly too many biscuits) but there were people actually coming on to say that she was eating plenty/too much. It was mind boggling.

As it turned out, OP was the teenager who had been battling an eating disorder.

@BlingLoving Oh, I think I remember reading the first couple pages of that - was that the one with the Oreos where there was some debate as to whether or not they were vegan? I didn't finish it so had no idea that turned out to be the teenage daughter how awful.

People are often really irresponsible with what they post on food threads. Those suffering from a disorder or even just unhealthy eating habits can be very susceptible to that sort of nonsense (myself included, at times).

Agree with the PPs about food threads. 99% of the time they just make me laugh. Always the same one poster who pops up on anything remotely food related with 'concerns about obesity'. Post after post after post of height and weight and eating 1000 calories a day. Utter tedium!

Most OTT thread I started was when I was new here, so it would have been in 2006. I started a thread innocently asking if people thought it was safe that a woman parked on our street and left her small baby (under 6 months) and toddler in the car, whilst she took the older 2 into school. The responses were excellent. Of course it was fine, what did I think was going to happen? If I was that concerned then I could always stop her in the morning and tell her to leave the two small children with me, whilst she went into school. Gold

there was one a while back where OP was actually the teenage daughter but started out posting as if she was her mother. She was clearly eating too little (although possibly too many biscuits) but there were people actually coming on to say that she was eating plenty/too much. It was mind boggling

I hadn't seen this when I posted but agree. This is the dangerous element of these threads and I always hope that the majority of people on here are smart enough to realise that most of the bullshit spouted on food threads is just that, bullshit.

Has anyone mentioned the mumsnet chicken that feeds a family of 5 for a week?

The ones that get me are the competitive eating threads and the ones about whether to leave teens home alone and for how long. Seriously read one where a poster said they'd only recently reluctantly started leaving the 18 and 20yr old overnight...yes that seemed beyond over the top!!

I agree that the food threads generally vary from slightly unhinged to downright dangerous, but to be fair, I have had paediatric gastroenterologists, immunologists and dieticians tell me that it is healthy to be able to see a child's ribs.Not that they are obese if you can't mind you, but that it is definitely normal to be that shape. I do think some have lost sight of what a healthy body type is, as demonstrated by the outrage when people get letters after the primary school height/weight measurements. I do voluntary work with children and there has definitely been a slow but steady climb in the size of the kids I work with over the years. And I'm in sports clubs, in not terribly mainstream sports so you would think there would be a greater interest than average in health and physical fitness amongst the parents. Not that I am advocating the batshit crazy diets that some posters seem to believe in, but I do think we need to be careful not to go too far the other way. Food threads on here tend to be the two extremes slugging it out with nobody taking the centre line. I sometimes wonder if people just like a row, and don't even really believe what they are saying. Fine if its just debate for entertainment but if the OP has a real problem its dreadful.

Seriously read one where a poster said they'd only recently reluctantly started leaving the 18 and 20yr old overnight...yes that seemed beyond over the top!!

Interesting thought I read somewhere. Anxiety in young people is caused a lot by anxious parents. I quite believe it. Having so anxious parent that they will not leave you alone until 20something must obviously affect your own anxiety levels.

I don’t post on relationship boards any more because I am a cool wife, apparently.

My husband has friends who are female and younger than me and single. They text all the time and I don’t care. They all do a hobby that is very boring takes fucking ages and involves going places. I wave him off to do this with his friends (who are not all young single women but that slipped everyone’s attention) and enjoy the bed and tv to myself for the weekend. My belief is if he is going to have an affair me banning him from these activities will make not a jot of difference, in fact nothing I can do will have any affect on whether he has an affair or not. I trust him not to and if that trust is broken the relationship will be over - it’s the basis for our marriage, and yes is based on faith rather than evidence.

I am also friends with people (not just men) that I have slept with in the past and partake of my own boring hobby with them.

Poor old innocent me said all of this when someone was ripping themselves apart with worry because their husband had started talking about a female work colleague intending to be reassuring but labelled myself a cool wife and to come back when I was left holding the baby. It made question how I look at people’s relationships in real life too to be honest.

There should be automatic warning on any "diet" etc threads. They are often horrifying and I don't even have ED! I can easily imagine how these can set someone off if they are having issues.

It's mix of some real posters who are ok, lots of people who themselves have an obvious ED and then the, as mentioned above, bullshiters who in my opinion are fat as I, but come in with the 800 cal a day (and still have like 200 left over because that's plenty, darling) bullshit because they wish they could do it because they read in a fucking S*n that it works etc and just get bitter and into such an extreme made up diets that it quite frankly gets dangerous for anyone with ED to read . And even for the ones without ED! No one content with their weight would come up with this crap.
And let's not forget the cure for everything. Intermittent fasting.

There's a slipper thread going on at the mo and someone has said 'maybe you deserve to be annoyed and the selection of slippers in your local M&S'

I meeeean...

@MrsAvocet I do agree that the UK has a problem with obesity, including childhood obesity (even if I didn't agree, that's objectively the case based on stats!) so it's important to discuss healthy eating and moderation etc. I just don't feel that MN is receptive to those kinds of discussions. People are always so eager to tell posters that their child is fat: not only is that really bloody weird, but it's also often based on very little info. Yes, if they've had their weighing results from school and it says they're overweight but the OP is in denial, then fair enough, but so often it's more like "Is this an okay diet for a three year old?" followed by a description of healthy, balanced meals and then posters responding that the DC must be the size of a house.

I was quite partial to the thread last week where the poster said that she didn't love her dog as much now that she'd had her baby.

One poster declared that she was the very definition of "vile" - it was a fucking magic thread, full of folk claiming they loved the dogs as much as their kids (more than in some cases!) - absolute dickheads, OP was ripped to shreds.

It was fucking bonkers, in the way only a mumsnet thread about dogs can be.

FWIW I agreed with OP, your pets do, and should, fall down the pecking order when a human child arrives. Otherwise priorities are skewed.

I do voluntary work with children and there has definitely been a slow but steady climb in the size of the kids I work with over the years. And I'm in sports clubs, in not terribly mainstream sports so you would think there would be a greater interest than average in health and physical fitness amongst the parents.

As a quick aside, I think that some of the food/obesity threads and the threads about children having very little independence should actually be taken together. DS is overweight (something we're working on). He does plenty of "official" exercise but what has been lacking is day to day movement. Now that he's a bit older, one of the reasons we've actively started allowing him out and about more is because we find it is having a directly positive impact on his overall fitness and weight - if he's out at the park with this friend from next door, they are running around and playing. If the friend comes over, they are, at best, playing board games or, at worst, playing playstation.

Actually, to take this a step further - the other day him and a friend were playing in the garden with water guns. But the garden is small. They played for about 20 minutes. If him and friend had been in the park, I'm confident they would have played and been running around for longer....

... but there are only so many trips to the park I can take with him/them. I am working, DD is much younger and gets tired quicker, there are things I need to do at home. So the more he and his friends head out to entertain themselves, the more they're moving around.

@bigcatlittlecatcardboardbox

There's a slipper thread going on at the mo and someone has said 'maybe you deserve to be annoyed and the selection of slippers in your local M&S'

I meeeean...

That's "may you live in interesting times" level cursing, that is. May you always be annoyed by the selection of slippers in M&S, may moths nestle in your John Lewis Egyptian cotton, may all your Twinings tea bags burst in the mug and leave horrible floaty middle class tea leaves in your drink no matter how many times you strain it.

The dog Vs child thread recently has got to be one of the strangest. Mumsnet is apparently full of people who see dogs as hairy human babies.

Is this dog vs child thread still there? Or did it get deleted?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3950706-to-think-you-don-t-love-your-pets-half-as-much-once-you-have-kids?pg=1

Still there, it seems.

OMG that thread 😱

There were actually posters on it telling the OP that she should never own another animal, and that was before they compared loving one children more than another to loving a pet.

It’s not hard to see why they all think like that though, they’re all barking.

AlternativePerspective,
Don’t be catty.
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I spotted one in the wild yesterday, with some competitive soft-drink refusing children. The OP’s first mistake was to mention “fizzy juice”, so the first few pages was people with a spectacular lack of imagination pretending to not understand that fizzy juice is a regional term for a soft fizzy drink.
Then followed poster after poster declaring that their children find fizzy drinks disgusting and will only ever drink water. They were, of course, out done by the posters who then declared that THEIR DC had never even been allowed so much as sip of a fizzy drink so wouldn’t even know if they liked them or not, because they are so dangerous to growing bones.
This was then topped by a poster saying that their adult DC had refused mixers with vodka because they had been taught so stringently to never drink evil soft drinks and ended up falling-down drunk. Amazing!