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 hate the faux naivety ones. Like where someone asks for kitchen roll brand recommendations and elicits “I’ve seen that in the shops but never known what it was for. What do you do with it?”

Really, are we meant to believe it’s beyond your wit to work out that a roll of paper towel emblazoned with the legend “kitchen roll” might be for wiping and cleaning up a kitchen

Re the age thing, l imagine the average age of a Mumsnetter to be around forty.

Really, are we meant to believe it’s beyond your wit to work out that a roll of paper towel emblazoned with the legend “kitchen roll” might be for wiping and cleaning up a kitchen

After being here for few years, I would believe it. I would...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/3860068-Anyone-not-just-delaying-but-reconsidering-TTC-altogether-due-to-Covid-19-and-the-impending-recession

“Personally I think it's selfish and pretty stupid to plan to bring a child into the world now. No one knows what the immediate future is going to be like but I very much doubt it is going to be easy or nice.”

“ Also what about the not too distant future and climate change, water shortages, food shortages, rising sea level etc.

Children today almost certainly face a pretty bleak future. I would never ever bring a child into that”

On a now deleted post, somebody was told they should get an abortion rather then have a child in a pandemic...

“we cool wives understand that different people have different boundaries and that's ok“

Love this.

I did an AMA last year, have name changed prolifically since then, because I am a self made millionaire without a college degree and I wanted to explain how anyone can do it too.

I got torn to shreds with accusations of lying, hiding financial help from parents, how I just got lucky, I couldn’t be from working class background, and some posters now matter how many questions I answered just wouldn’t believe me. It was bizarre

I’ve done an AMA...wish I hadn’t either.

I know my set up is unusual but it works for our family. I was accused of being naive and how I was ruining my kids and that SS should be involved all because we are a throuple. Meaning me, dh and our female partner

A recent contender is the poster who’s given Ho her job to be the health and safety designated person for her family as she no longer trusts the government to keep them safe.

Given up

@FizzFan

A recent contender is the poster who’s given Ho her job to be the health and safety designated person for her family as she no longer trusts the government to keep them safe.

Does she get paid? Cos you know I can do that for my family

When Tesco introduced the queuing outside there was a poster wailing 'but what happens if it starts to rain' erm, take a brolly perhaps.

Similiar as a poster upthread...

Award goes to the completely batshit poster on another thread who has made herself her families designated health and safety person for her family - she actually said that she gave up one of her jobs to fill this position herself - now if that isn't batshit and the prize winner then what else is that mad

"Cool wife" is annoying. The term is "Cool Girl". It's from Gone Girl.

When Tesco introduced the queuing outside there was a poster wailing 'but what happens if it starts to rain' erm, take a brolly perhaps.

On that same thread there was a poster who said she couldn't wait to see it rain on the people ours Tesco because it would wipe a few smiles off some smug faces.

Such anger at people for the 'crime' of needing to buy food.

@isabellerossignol

wow I didn't see that one. That is weird why be angry at people queing to food shop! There are some very odd and angry people on here.

[quote ResumetonormalASAP]@isabellerossignol

wow I didn't see that one. That is weird why be angry at people queing to food shop! There are some very odd and angry people on here.[/quote]
I suppose it would serve them right for daring to go and get luxuries like milk and bread!

@isabellerossignol

When Tesco introduced the queuing outside there was a poster wailing 'but what happens if it starts to rain' erm, take a brolly perhaps.

On that same thread there was a poster who said she couldn't wait to see it rain on the people ours Tesco because it would wipe a few smiles off some smug faces.

Such anger at people for the 'crime' of needing to buy food.

Smug? Who's smug about queueing at Tesco? Surely the smug ones are the ones who got a delivery slot.

There are some weird people on here. Of all the things to demonise, going to buy food is a strange choice indeed.

Besides, who the fuck lives in Britain and is surprised when it rains?

My absolute favourite, because I was there when it was unfolding and saw it in all its glory, was the poster who said another poster was selfish and murdering people for going to the corner shop to buy milk as it was non-essential, because the OP could just use water on her breakfast cereal instead.

I responded to a question about refusing tests in pregnancy.
One poster took it upon themself to accuse me of trying to kill OP's baby then doubted whether I had children myself.
It made me SO CROSS and I always note that poster when they pop up on other threads - they went through a period of posting similar crap everywhere.
I have now hidden the pregnancy board.

sonjadog I know exactly who you mean, and she was batshit. Because she was shielding, she didn’t feel anybody else should be allowed outside for any reason whatsoever either. Not for work, not for exercise, not for food, not for anything. Not even in your own back garden - she wasn’t using her garden, because she was afraid of the virus flying through the empty air, and she didn’t think anyone else should be allowed to use theirs if she wasn’t.

Nobody pointing out that she was inflicting these restrictions on herself and that even shielded people could use their own gardens, had any impact on her. Just made her more entrenched.

@Soubriquet

I’ve done an AMA...wish I hadn’t either.

I know my set up is unusual but it works for our family. I was accused of being naive and how I was ruining my kids and that SS should be involved all because we are a throuple. Meaning me, dh and our female partner

People have very strict views on what they deem acceptable and I believe there are a lot of prudes on this forum

As long as people are happy, it's up to them what set ups they choose to live their lives in. Wish I'd seen that thread, may have helped with a story I'm trying to write (A fanfiction, I'm not a journalist scouting for stories )

Same poster: her husband was going to the shop in person, to buy essential food. So it was outrageous that other people were also going to the shop to buy food, and putting her at risk via her DH. Those people should stay at home and eat sawdust, because their food purchases were entirely non-essential. Unlike her DH’s food purchases, all of which were totally essential.

If that's the same poster I am thinking of, it was also deemed unacceptable to buy things like wine or chocolate even if it was alongside your normal shopping. Even if you were standing at a standstill in a queue in the supermarket, and you were queued beside the chocolate, it was deemed unacceptable to reach across and pick some up and put it in your trolley. The reasoning wasn't clear but it was somewhere between 'it makes you a murderer' and 'I couldn't live with myself if I thought that I had held up the queue, because people are dying'. Or something. The Covid threads have brought out a lot of competitive misery.

Don't forget the Easter Egg Gestapo