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

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(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).

People being told to 'log it' with the police when someone rings their doorbell after 9pm

The one where the OP was told to gift her tenants her house was insane!

Not the most ridiculous, but I was told that I have health anxiety for posting a post to ask for ideas to get my child (who never drinks anything through choice) to drink more...

Because it’s perfectly healthy for a child to not have a drink until 6pm when I forgot to remind him.

@blackcat86

The stepmother threads are so weird, they fall into 3 categories for me

The ones were the OP is clearly bang out of order and gets a deserved pasting, BUT

The ones were its a nice stepmum who genuinely likes the children get pasted for overstepping

And the ones were the stepmum gets on with them ok, but there are some issues gets pasted for "you knew he had kids"

Classic damned if you do damned if you dont, with the extreme Category 1 type poster ruining the forum for all perfectly normal stepmums

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've seen it suggested that sanitary towels aren't an essential purpose and that visiting the supermarket makes you a murderer.

The woman who had Weetabix once a year as a treat.
The people who have called me a boomer, a twat etc because of differing opinions to them. It never upsets me and I always reply with the annoying . I'm not one for the bunfight thing.

Oh this thread is an absolute gem! Highlighting all the reasons why I continue to browse MN daily - I bloody love those weird OTT threads!

PLEASE LINK ME TO THE DOG LOVING THREAD! It sounds hilarious and somehow must have slipped through my MN reading!

Honestly though, I'm shocked at least 3x a week by the 'LTB' responses to what are really mundane and common marriage issues! Lately, I've noticed it's progressed on from a simple LTB to sofa-psychologists declaring the husband guilty of coercive control of the OP because, for example, he got the hump about OP spanking 100's of £ on new curtains that he isn't keen on.

I recently asked for good educational iPad apps for DS to use in lockdown. Unsure why I thought I'd get decent responses. 1st response was literally seconds after I posted "the best app is OF COURSE, no app. Children should be playing not palmed off with a tablet." .... it went downhill from there!

@blackcat86 I love these ones too!

The OPs partner / husband has lost their job and the OP is suddenly responsible for her family plus the ex wife's family finances. OP gets totally ripped apart and told she knew what she was getting in to.

Every post such as 'I just spat tea all over my keyboard' or 'literally just woke DH up from laughing' feels OTT to me!

Sometimes on AIBU I like to play “guess the extenuating circumstances”. You read the OP, which seems pretty reasonable, eg “AIBU to think everyone should pick up their dog’s shit?” Then you have to guess what mad reasons people will give in their very defensive and accusatory posts.

There’s usually one within the first page or two, e.g. “I can’t pick up my dog’s shit because I have no arms. I lost my arms rescuing grannies and kittens on 9/11. Do you hate disabled people, OP? Do you want all disabled people to be rounded up and gassed? Are you HITLER, OP? People like you make me sick!”

Someone was talking about the fact they inherited a property from their parents or GP but the property had tenants and she wanted to sell it. She was told to GIFT the house for free to the tenants or else it made her "selfish". LMFAO. As if THEY would just give away a 200k+ inheritance to virtual strangers.

I once posted about a skin cream I wanted to try and was nastily told that I should "get a life". I'm still not sure how wanting to try a new skin cream means I have no life- they never explained their thought process!! I just assumed they were out to be nasty and I happened to be the first person they came across. Really dont get that level of vitriol for people who have done nothing to you.

The OP who said her new neighbours were letting their one-year-old play barefoot, alone in the road.

Rather than report them to SS, she was advised to take them some home baked goods and try to be more understanding about how stressful a house move is.

Probably not the most OTT of threads, but weddings seem to bring out the best of the worst. For example the responses on a recent thread which made me roll my eyes so far I saw my brain was one where the OP was thinking about getting married in DP’s home country because of elderly relatives who couldn’t travel, and just asked opinions on travel arrangements for the guests (organising transport to and from venue etc) and the responses were unreal “you should pay for flights and accommodation for everyone to attend if outside the UK. Unbelievably selfish and entitled otherwise”, “I’d be bitterly disappointed it wasn’t in the UK”, to the usual “how very dare you get married anywhere outside of a 5 mile radius of my front door where it’ll take me more than 8 minutes to get to and cost me more than 90p to attend. You should give whatever you were going to pay on the wedding to me as I haven’t had a holiday since 1976 due to being practically bankrupt due to my kids addiction to Cheerios/cats lumbago/DP’s piles...”

Last time I checked a wedding invitation wasn’t a court summons 🙄

The one where the OP was told to gift her tenants her house was insane

Haha! thats the one I remember too because it was so absolutely ridiculous

I once made a comment on a thread on the Lone Parents board about how it’s probably easier to be single than have a man child living with you.

Oh my fucking god. The abuse I got from almost every single poster on the thread. It actually brought me to tears.
That was ages ago now though and nowadays I’d just laugh at someone falling over themselves to say how being a single parent is harder than living with a man who is abusive, selfish and lazy. And I’d also tell them to up their standards a bit and get some self respect if they’d settle for a super duper amazing man like that just to prevent them from being a single parent.

They were so hysterical and batshit.

Anyone say Sistine chapel yet?

One recently where OPs dog had pushed a deer leg then a cow ear through neighbours fence and neighbour had screamed.
Would I have screamed? Probably.
Was it funny? Yes!

The responses OP got was like she'd sawed off the deer's legs and pushed them in the garden herself, whilst wearing the head of the deer.
The responses added to the comedy.

OMG there’s a thread right now...asking about returning a dress and someone has replied at least you haven’t had to organise a socially distanced funeral!

@shadowcat17 if it's the recent thread about the wedding, I felt sorry for the OP. She is obviously a thoughtful person and got flamed for daring to say that she wasn't asking for gifts. She was sorting the mini buses and things for the guests to do. Poor woman.

terriblecustomercervix just as a matter of interest, what’s an Irish goodbye?? I’m Irish and have never heard of it. All I can think of is saying goodbye and then taking half an hour to leave.

Helgathehairy It’s ducking out of a party or get together without saying goodbye so you don’t get stuck having to talk to people before you leave.

I have perfected it. shines badge

There was one absolutely hilarious thread about builders. Someone was complaining because she set up a tea station for her builders and they still came inside to get tea/coffee etc

Cue- everyone one upping her about how kind they are to their builders and it got more and more ridiculous as the thread went on. Eg.:

"I offer my builders a full course roast lunch every day and drive them home from work - otherwise they'll make your extension wobbly on purpose!"

"I provide home made cakes, free lunch and I brew the tea myself from leaves Ive picked with my own bare hands on a trip to China which I made a month before their arrival"

"Well I make my builders a full english breakfast every morning (even on their days off, I drive to their house to do it), then I provide a full Fortnum and mason buffet for them every day at noon. For the afternoon, they relax on our chaise longue and I pop peeled grapes into their mouths and give them all blow jobs. Then for dinner its takeaway pizza and free beer. They ALWAYS come back to do building work at mine"

LOL

I love the ones where the op is livid that a trades man has used their loo.

How dare a working class man shit in their middle class no bog Bush loo😀

no way should they go to A&E as it would be riddled with Covid but should find a local vet instead. 😂
Oh this the best thread! These have just made my shorty day end really well!

The ones where OP says they've got 50p to last a fortnight because ex has cleared out the bank account. She's in a different country in the middle of nowhere with no friends or family. Endless variations of:

Take in ironing
Look down the sofa for change
Sell everything you own on eBay
Just use your credit card
Get a credit card
Surely you've got friends or family who will help out
Use your kids' savings / inheritance
Why did you marry and have kids with this loser?
I'm reporting this blatant begging thread you vile scamming scum