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

933 replies

MalcomTuckerisMyIdol · 30/06/2020 15:40

(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).

OP posts:
Tinyandpetite · 28/07/2020 16:50

I once had a thread about what to feed my kitten. She was 9 weeks old, I got every poster literally pile on me telling me I should rehome it because she wasn’t 13 weeks old. I was in tears

FruitLoopyLoo · 28/07/2020 17:25

The one where some posters thought the OP shouldn't be allowed to take her own daughter out for the day whilst her step children were at their mothers house, with her own money, unless she also treated the DSC with the same amount of money when they were back. The DD was being bullied at school and the OP just wanted to treat her daughter by herself! Confused

FruitLoopyLoo · 28/07/2020 17:32

@PablosHoney

So much anger is what I don’t understand, and yes to the being told to resign 😂😂😂 so stupid. My kids go to a church school and I did raise an eyebrow when I saw my four year old ‘crucified’ on the class page.
😂😂😂😂 I laughed out loud at this!
wanderings · 28/07/2020 17:39

Ice cream. The one where children were "behaving like knobs", where one kicked the other; and both children were punished with no ice cream that day, despite a huge imbalance of what they did wrong. Lots of replies are gleefully praising the OP for standing firm, and advocating parents buying themselves ice creams/McDonalds and eating them in front of punished children. (I'm still bearing childhood grudges about being punished when my brother started it!)

SecretWitch · 28/07/2020 18:12

I love the posts that start “I’m shaking and crying right now..” Right. You are hysterical but your first thought was “ I should post this on MN”?

I always look askance at people who post a picture asking how old we think they are.. the range is usually 3 to 97. Why do people do that to themselves?

FruitLoopyLoo · 29/07/2020 03:29

Oh I was also absolutely roasted when buying my first house (I'd asked about something on here, can't remember what now) by a poster who thought I shouldn't even be contemplating buying a property unless I had at least £15,000 in savings in case my roof caved in the next day and the boiler packed up etc etc...

They literally would not have it at all when lots of homeowners kept telling her that they didn't have anything like that in savings.

I'd said the house was perfect for us and she kept saying 'it can't be if it's only X amount'. I was a first time buyer who'd managed to scrape together my 10% deposit after years of saving.

Was insane. It was like this woman had a personal vendetta against me buying a house for some reason.

ItWasNotOK · 29/07/2020 04:02

It's not the most OTT, but the most OTT one directed at me.

I said something like "I get extremely bad headaches" and another poster had a right go like "I hate people like you who can't just say "I get headaches" or "bad headaches", it always has to be dramatic and "extremely bad". Get a fucking grip."

I am not the world's most sensitive person, nor do I get particularly easily offended. I grew up in a pretty rough area so I'm used to a bit of abuse or whatever, but I was just amazed that someone could get so wound up by such an innocuous statement.

I think that really opened my eyes to how so many people think underneath the facade. And also how pissy some people online are.

If you're out there, poster, I hope you've learnt to chill tf out.

ItWasNotOK · 29/07/2020 04:04

Oh and any dog ones. Unless you are feeding the dog pate and taking it for 10 mile hikes twice a day, you will get responses telling you to rehome the dog.

PablosHoney · 29/07/2020 07:46

As soon as you disagree with someone or point out that they are being unpleasant then they just reach straight for insinuating you aren’t very bright/well educated, so lame.

FruitLoopyLoo · 29/07/2020 15:09

Oo and on that 'does anyone just eat normally' thread where the OP asked if anyone just had a sarnie and a pack crisps for lunch and there was one particular poster who was absolutely OUTRAGED that anyone would eat a sandwich for lunch. Apparently it was absolutely not a common lunch item at all and instead was the food of Satan himself. BREAD!!! BREAD I TELL YOU!!!.

One poster suggested she may be in for a pretty big surprise if she ever actually visited a shop at lunch time 😂

luckoftheirish92 · 29/07/2020 16:18

There was one a couple of weeks ago where a lady had posted about her ex FIL dying, I think he had shot himself and wrote to her son in his suicide note. She had used the word "devestated" which got her accused of being over dramatic because how could you be DEVASTATED if it is your EX FIL?! Totally unacceptable word for someone you know shooting themself!!!!

PablosHoney · 29/07/2020 16:54

That’s awful 😱

iklboo · 29/07/2020 17:47

I saw that thread @luckoftheirish92 - it was disgusting. Lots of posters saying X relative is old so they know they're going to die and won't be upset, or 'you didn't even know him' which wasn't what the OP had said at all.

PablosHoney · 29/07/2020 17:50

That’s horrendous, that is something that often happens here, people presuming to know more about the people you actually know than you do 😂😂 nuts

LunaNorth · 29/07/2020 17:52

Has anyone mentioned the 10 year old who went out for a run yet?

Apparently she’s a drug running victim of sex-traffickers, with an eating disorder.

PablosHoney · 29/07/2020 17:54

Yes and the poster who won’t let her 17/18 year olds out with friends 😂😂 ‘Jogging as a gateway drug’ classic

FruitLoopyLoo · 29/07/2020 20:05

I'm reading the food thread again and this is just one of the responses I was referring to.

only on MN would a sandwich for lunch be considered the "norm"

Absolute madness 😂

FruitLoopyLoo · 29/07/2020 20:08

And another from a poster who only ever eats one square of dark chocolate...

and what is wrong with 1 square of choc?Perfectly adequate and reduces sugar consumption. Oh I see, you've not been listening to the news about the diabetes and obesity epidemic

drspouse · 29/07/2020 21:54

Oh I'm sure it's not allowed but I need a link to the food thread...

Watdafark · 30/07/2020 00:37

I answered a question about job interviews. Somebody responded smugly saying that I must be very young and clueless to answer in such a manner, and that I'd no doubt get wiser as I got older.

I'm 50 and have been hiring for 20 years.

Lardlizard · 30/07/2020 00:42

The shouldn’t buy a dog nutters

ItWasNotOK · 30/07/2020 01:28

A sandwich for lunch? Whatabsolute madness, who ever heard of such a thing.

BitOfFun · 30/07/2020 02:29

Somebody posted fairly recently about being disappointed by their birthday, only to receive a reply (presumably to shut her down) that people's mental health was so awful at the moment that they personally knew of two who had taken their own lives since lockdown.

I struggled to see the relevance.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 30/07/2020 02:51

@OhhhPeee

Someone had accidentally sent their Tesco delivery to their old address. It was an 11pm delivery, OP had been round at about midnight and no one answered the door. Tesco customer services were closed, due to it being the early hours of the morning.

The OP was advised to:
Phone the police and report that the occupants had stolen her shopping (she didn’t even know if they’d taken in the shopping).
Go back to the house and bang on the door until someone answered.
Go back first thing in the morning and refuse to leave until someone answered the door.

It was absolutely mental.

I remember that one! There were some bonkers suggestions on that.

I once made the mistake of moaning lightheartedly in chat about my teenage ds eating a (small, one person) pizza as an "after school snack" and then wolfing down dinner 2 hours later because he was "starving". According to lots of responses he apparently was heading to an early grave due to heart failure/obesity/diabetes. Even when I explained that he was very fit and sporty, that the pizza was a small one etc I was told I was in denial. Lots of posters explained that if he was hungry after school he should eat an apple. Clearly they had never tried to feed a 6 foot sporty 15 year old.

LunaNorth · 30/07/2020 03:07

@ItWasNotOK

Oh and any dog ones. Unless you are feeding the dog pate and taking it for 10 mile hikes twice a day, you will get responses telling you to rehome the dog.
Yes, unless you post that you actually want to rehome your dog.

That immediately provokes hand-wringing, clothes-rending and keening. Literally the worst thing anyone can do, ever.

Yet we should all get rescue dogs, not buy one. Where are they going to come from then?