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).

Not sure if mentioned yet but the thread where the poor OP whose daughter needed socks so she was thinking about driving a few miles to an Asda (where she’d also have got her full weekly shop) as opposed to the local co-op got her arse handed to her as Asda was a non essential journey and kids socks were a non essential purchase

To be fair, the Easter Egg gestapo were literally Nottinghamshire Police weren’t they? Stationed outside Sainsbury’s checking shopping bags

One a few months back. OP posted asking for advice to form a better bond with her stepkids (who she saw infrequently) and some utter cockwomble just kept going at her with stuff like 'WHY DON'T YOU GIVE UP YOUR PRECIOUS JOB TO LOOK AFTER THEM?! PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE DISCUSTING!'

It was so disproportionate and odd. The OP suggested that the cockwomble was maybe responding to issues in her own life but she wouldn't have it. It was actually infuriating to read, such was the stupidity of that person.

@shebaShimmyShake
That's hilarious.. Surely that says more about them than anything else. Freud would have a field day with that.
Sometimes when I read a response I have an image of that odd westbro baptist woman all whipped up into a frothing frenzy standing over an antiquated desk top screeching red faced at the screen whilst slapping they keys.... "how dare you love your kid more than your dog" 😂😂

I am always infuriated by the ones that go:

My DP and I have a 2 year old and I'm 38 weeks pregnant with our second baby. DP goes drinking after work every Friday night until 4am, sleeps all Saturday, then does his hobby on Sunday. Now he's saying he's going on a stag do all next week but I really feel I need him here for the birth and to help with the toddler. AIBU?

Response: "You sound very controlling."

On the competitive Covid misery front, the poster who objected vociferously to a household group going out and playing football. She got terribly indignant and proclaimed that lockdown isn't a holiday. Only, as a number of people pointed out, it was the Easter weekend so it kind of was a holiday.

And stepmums are apparently expected to accept that they should treat the children like their own and always put them first, but that actually any decisions about the children are none of their business and they should remember they are not their parent or important in any way.

(Not a stepmum btw)

But then there are also posters that are so much in support of stepmums that the responses immediately proclaim the children as "horrid selfish entitled brats" after one episode of the child asking to sit in the front seat of the car or whatever.

Have people actually said that people are murderers? I’ve seen reference to “killing people” and talk of how “people are dying and you don’t care,” but have people actually used the word murderer?

That thread about the OP whose daughter has received a large sum of money into her account is batshit. While most are saying she has done the right thing, the amount of people who are essentially saying the child should be deprived of sleep and made to tel the OP what she wants to know (despite the fact the police are. Not interested) is astounding. Someone even suggested she march the child down to the bank to demand answers there and then. Given it was a Sunday I think that one might have not been successful. .

Have people actually said that people are murderers

Yes they have. I’ve seen it several times

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I saw the one with a poster who was too afraid to even go into her own garden and thought we should all be staying inside. BATSHIT. And demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of disease transmission. And when that was pointed out kept saying things like, "yes, but I couldn't live with myself if for the sake of an hour in the sun me/DC/neighbours got the disease." Was bizarre.

You get both extremes of the scale on here

“Ahh. If I get it, I get.”
“I can’t even go into my garden! I won’t risk it!”

@IsMiseMorag

My mind is always blown by zombie threads from 2008 about something innocuous like 'Should I invite my new neighbour in for a drink on New Year's Eve?' which are resurrected by one poster with a huge specific personal agenda yelling, 'NO, you definitely shouldn't because then they'll take advantage and shag your husband.' Followed by seven or eight polite responses from people who've only seen the OP, saying, 'Yes, that sounds very neighbourly, have you thought about serving a whipped feta dip?'

I always wonder HOW these furious posters find these threads to resurrect.

Wasn’t there a poster who replied to their own zombie thread as it had been resurrected?

I also remember people getting quite heated over posters using emojis that weren’t MN emojis. How very dare they! 🙄😉😝🤣

I wouldn’t get a tap lock incase it’s a thirsty homeless person...

About someone who was finding their outside tap had been left on twice

@FizzFan

Not sure if mentioned yet but the thread where the poor OP whose daughter needed socks so she was thinking about driving a few miles to an Asda (where she’d also have got her full weekly shop) as opposed to the local co-op got her arse handed to her as Asda was a non essential journey and kids socks were a non essential purchase

Wasn't there one where the OP's son needed shoes but she was told bare foot running is good or to buy him flip flops instead?

Slowly working my way through this thread, brilliant stuff. Sorry if my example has been mentioned:

The one that sticks in my mind was one about a woman who ordered a bespoke breadbin from a local craftswoman. The OP got an email saying that the craftswoman had decided to make it out of an old pallet and basically not what the OP had ordered (and at quite a high price). OP refused to pay for it and the craftswoman started harrassing her - online harassment and even getting all her mates to ring up OP's work to continue the grief. Most people commented that she should report it to the police. One poster commented:

I hear the police are most interested in solving all the bread bin crimes which was nearly witty.

However, the next post hit 100% on the WTF-ometer

Bit racist that.

Breadbin was a pisstake of
Bredren which was patois for
Brethren
When I was at school.

The squeal of brakes as the thread stopped was audible.

Wasn’t there a poster who replied to their own zombie thread as it had been resurrected?

Yes, a woman who wanted recommendations for a pram to take on holiday. 3 years later, she replied to her own thread about the pram she bought in the end.

@TheSecondMrsAshwell - Jesus. That's more of a leap than Skippy on steroids and whizz. The poster surely didn't believe that bollocks and was making it up?!

This thread is very entertaining!
I haven’t been on MN long, but I read some of the threads and comments and I’m like

There’s always some really OTT responses to Ops asking opinions on names - I get that some people don't like the names and will say so, as requested by Op, but holy hell , some of the responses!! ‘Omg do not call your DC that, they will be forever bullied for it’ or ‘OP, do NOT call your child that. Just awful, they will be forever ridiculed’ and god help anyone who might want to spell the name abit differently!

Also some of the responses to Ops who dare to have more then 2 DCs, apparently they are responsible for all the environmental issues in the world - or so you would think by the comments!

I read a thread earlier about someone wanting to give notice to her lodger as she has brought the police to her door 3 times due to her guy friend harassing her, but then turns out she keeps going out and seeing him, even though the landlady is meant to be shielding etc, and she has been smoking weed in her property. the consensus is to kick her out and be done with it, one poster compared this to, watching someone getting raped in an ally and turning a blind eye and not helping, they want her to stay and help her with her drug problem and crazy ex, okay then, some people are so over the top.

I'm always a bit about the ones who should pay. Apparently if someone even suggests something it's basically an invitation and therefore that person needs to pay. Child can invite a friend? You have to pay for everything. Suggesting to meet a friend in Starbucks? You have to pay. Suggesting drinks when it is your birthday? Pay all evening for everyone. Anyhtign else, you are cheap and shouldn't see people anywhere ever and if you cannot afford to feed 10 people you shouldn't go to a restaurant. This is not something I've experienced IRL.

@Rewis What I always find weird about these threads is for the birthday type ones. In my circle, there's usually communication around this. So if it's a fancy restaurant, and you're expecting your guests to pay, the invitation is worded to make that clear. Whereas if it's a party and you're hosting and paying, it's clear too. I'm always a bit surprised by how many people don't seem to take this approach.

But then, I seem to recall that I've been to a few weddings with a cash bar - no issue there - but where the invitation didn't say that. This might be cultural (I'm not English) but where I come from, it's assumed guests do not need money. There may be a limit in that only beer and wine is free flowing and other drinks are cash only but you can safely turn up without a wallet knowing you'll get a drink. DH had to do an emergency trip back home to get cash on one memorable occasion as it turns out they weren't paying for anything and hadn't said anything on the invite!

@iklboo

People did ask whether "when I was at school" was in the 70s.

If it wasn't serious, the poster never came back. Maybe they just wanted to derail the thread. There were a few posts on the comment and then we all went back to WTF was the craftswoman on?

@TheSecondMrsAshwell

Wasn’t there a poster who replied to their own zombie thread as it had been resurrected?

Yes, a woman who wanted recommendations for a pram to take on holiday. 3 years later, she replied to her own thread about the pram she bought in the end.

Made even more funny by the fact her name was ecco and one of the first replies was “Can you hear an echo in here”