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).

Someone once told me bringing by kids up bilingual was showing off. Sorry love but I like my kids to be able to talk to me AND their dad, I’m funny like that.

Crikey ...

I have no words .

My favourites are on Style and Beauty where an OP wants advice on whether her (Perfectly normal) clothes are ok, cue pile on of “Oh, black jeans and converse are v dowdy and will age you TBH. Try swapping them for some taupe assless chaps and flippers made of solid gold, and a crisp white shirt.”

@SheikhaPinty I read that thread. It was clear from some of the responses that people hadn't actually read the OPs updates if they were suggesting taking them. It went far beyong behavioural issues and no way she should expose her own children to that. The amount of emotional blackmail from some was disgusting.

@drspouse I'm on loads of knitting and crochet pages and I've never witnessed that level of crazy! Shame on you for not locking up those deadly wooden weapons

Some of the COVID replies have been quite astonishing e.g. the person who said that 'older people who have exceeded the average life span for their location should die' so that younger people can go out!

I know jax, even going as far as to suggest they should willingly and nobly sacrifice themselves at the alter of COVID

I hate the posters who get all sanctimonious about not putting their elderly parents in a care home.

It absolutely boils my piss.

Wrong thread, sorry

@FluffyKittensinabasket you forgot spa day

@Mathbath

Sheikha if my dsis's children were going to be taken into care i would move heaven and earth to have them stay in the family. That's really not OTT that's what a decent family would do.

What ignorant and sanctimonious post! Do you have any idea what the OP’s personal circumstances are? Whether she can cope with 5 children, the finances and mental and physical strength? impact on her job, where she lives etc etc Everyday people are on here complaining about the stress of raising their own children, to suddenly take on 3 extra children all at once will be a Herculean task for anyone and impossible where the dc have serious behavioural issues including violence etc.

Children aren’t cans of beans where you just decide, “yeah I’ll have 3 more” on a whim. These are vulnerable children needing interventions, therapies, rehabilitation etc that will involve probably a multidisciplinary team for best outcomes . They’re also a danger to each other.
You must try and give your big head a wobble sometime!

@ResumetonormalASAP

Whenever someone posts

'you sound like you are on glue'

What a stupid response - I imagine the person posting that is a right twat.

I’m with you on that one .

I am particularly enjoying the current thread about the BIL who wants the OP and her husband to give him 25 grand of their savings having blown through a 90k inheritance and living waaaay beyond his means (16k charter yacht holiday!)

There is a persistent poster who insists that they should just gift him the money as they have it available and asking BIL and his family to address their extravagant and unsustainable lifestyle choices would be damaging for his mental health. FFS.

To be honest, I think we forget sometimes that we are on the WWW. where everyone is anonymous. Many imagine they’re having a nice conversation with a group of people we imagine as similar to ourselves. The truth is people come on to post for all sorts of reasons, some want to engage positively with the thread, some come on for a laugh (hence some of the wacky advice), I marine some of them and really setting themselves laughing at the other end. Some just come on goad. You also don’t know anyone’s age, some posters are quite young. I was surprised to read that a very vocal poster on ‘relationships’, on another thread about ‘Age’, had revealed that they were 17yrs old! They had been advising an OP on a very tricky marriage situation to leave the bastard etc etc

Theres a thread running where a 14 year old dd has money from unknown source in her bank account. Obviously v concerning. But the screeched about gettingnpokice involved immediately, take her to police station etc shows a complete lack of reasonableness. I mean, it may wel come to that but the level of hysteria ans lack of understanding of what police will prioritise.....

I'm amazed at the things people on MN assume the police have time to deal with.
An unexpected knock on the door at lunchtime? Log it with 101. If the person comes back, dial 999.

The best ones are threads where OP has noticed 'someone suspicious' sitting in a car outside their house for 30 minutes. "DH isn't due back from work for another couple of hours and I'm really worried, I've never seen this car before. Should I call the police?"

You also don’t know anyone’s age

I find that posters always like to insult you by making assumptions about your age. On one thread I was accused of being young and only being interested in Instagram stars. I don't even have Facebook let alone Instagram so I couldn't even tell you the name of who is on it.

On another thread I was accused of being too old and things must have been different in my day! I'm in my 30s!

I'm amazed at the things people on MN assume the police have time to deal with.

Whenever I see those lots of ridiculous calls made to the emergency services I alway think I bet they post on MN

I asked for advice on dealing with husbands difficult "ex" We're married with children and a good few years together. His "ex" was a holiday ONS (confirmed by her) who fell pregnant . I also have children from previous marriage.

I was told my husband should leave me and our children. Shut down his business (it's not possible to move it, think cleaning etc so it'd mean starting all over again) and move to the country the child's mother is in to better support her.

Apparently her death threats to me and our children and her utterly ridiculous demands are irrelevant and I was lying about the situation 🙄

I don't ask anymore!

I was told I was an idiot by someone for trying to conceive. And that the world would end soon Lt something.

🤷🏻‍♀️

Or* not Lt.

My own thread a few years ago re a man changing baby’s nappy in ladies toilets. Apparently I was VERY unreasonable to be annoyed by it and I was “pathing the way” for my 2yr old son (who was with me at the time) to become a rapist

Not sure, Coronavirus has given rich pickings. Maybe someone suggesting milk isn’t an essential and someone should use cheese instead. Or maybe the posts about people “crying and shaking in terror” when someone dared to go to a shop to buy a non essential item.

Try swapping them for some taupe assless chaps and flippers made of solid gold, and a crisp white shirt.”

I was told I was an idiot by someone for trying to conceive. And that the world would end soon Lt something.

Very shitty about the conceiving part, but they may have been right about the latter point 😂
Trump has nuclear codes.
Soon Kanye West will have nuclear codes...
They may have been right about the world ending 😂😂

Oh and I remember another one pre CV where many posters said it was “incredibly rude” for someone buying a pint of milk to ask to nip in front of someone in a supermarket queue. Mildly cheeky maybe but “incredibly rude”?

@JoJothesquirrel

@pictish and @Strugglingtodomybest secret cool wives Handshake. One day we’ll be proved wrong and come crawling back here in tears. Or not.

Ooo, I like the idea of a secret handshake, but we might need something more of these Covid times

@SpnBaby1967

I got called a "cool wife" once when I said I couldn't give a shit if my husband went on a stag do/strip club.

Come and join the club then, although I'd personally not be happy if DH went to a strip club, we cool wives understand that different people have different boundaries and that's ok.