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).

Oh another one that gets on tits - the anxiety drip feed - usually bought out after op has been called unreasonable. “Oh I should have mentioned that I have anxiety which is why I was “shaking and crying” when a postman unexpectedly knocked at 9am”.

Conversely - “are you always so anxious op maybe you need to see someone” when they mention a worry that dh has been missing from three days without a call or text.

Without wishing to rake over dying embers, the huge thread about what happened on Bournemouth beach recently really did it for me - several posters claimed we residents were snobs, practising NIMBYISM, pearl clutching and should be grateful for the rush of tourism money into the town and not put off future visitors by criticising anti-social behaviour, complete disregard for lockdown measures etc etc or our economy would crumble when people went abroad instead of visiting the town. Over and over we explained that an influx of 500,000 over the day in question, nearly tripling our population with most places shut till July 4th caused an infrastructure crisis and over and over we were told it was "regrettable" and "not ideal" that people had defecated in residents gardens / around beach huts, to organise ourselves to clear up the 50 tonnes of litter and that of course people had been welded into their homes for the whole of lockdown and must be excused for the isolated incidents of you know, stabbings, fights, and abuse of council workers trying to clear the rubbish. Oh and plenty of reminders that we don't own our local beaches.... although last time I looked we do pay for them with our council tax......not that we do think we own them and normally visitors are welcomed with open arms......

By the end of it I was beginning to think we were all living in a frigging parallel universe it became so hilariously surreal.......

I love a lunchbox thread where everyone competes about what healthy packed lunches their kids have.

OP - looking for some new packed lunch ideas, DCs a bIt bored of cheese/ham sandwiches.

Replies "what about an egg mayo sandwich and an apple"
"An APPLE! That has far too much sugar, don't you care about your child's teeth? Mine only eat organic home grown lentils harvested at midnight when there's a full moon"
"Not much protein there. We offer (it always says offer) home made sushi made from line-caught fish and organic avocado.

Weaning threads offer a similar level of madness.

I honestly wonder if any of the people who get so het up act the same in real life. I assume that, on the whole, not.

On the other hand, there are an awful lot of posters on Mumsnet who say they have no friends, don't like their colleagues, don't like their family etc. And I do wonder if there is overlap - if everything minor mistake that any other human makes ets you so worked up, it's no wonder you can't form meaningful relationships.

Almost forgot about the Holy Grail.

Formula Feeding V Breastfeeding.

The thread will have been up for 0.15 seconds before someone comes on with a mental post because they feel their choice to FF/BF has been completely undermined because someone on the internet said something they didn’t like.

A few years back and under a different account I started a thread in chat asking for advice on 'in' trainers for my then 12 yr old. I explained he had high functioning asd and attended mainstream but had no interest in clothes and would happily wear thomas the tank trainers given half a chance. Well someone replied saying this was the saddest thread they had even seen and that I was cruel and should stop trying to change him and just source him Thomas trainers in his size . It made me feel really shit.

Someone posts that a relative has hurled abuse at them and they're really upset:

I'd have said 'Did you mean to be so rude?'
You should have said X with a tinkly laugh and a head tilt
They might have dementia / depression / autism / had a bad day / their pet has died
Well, what had you done? Nobody calls you a twat for no reason
Go No Contact

Or they could just be a nasty bastard.

The dog threads are hilarious as posters try to out-batshit each other with their pleading.

OP: I am finding my dog hard to look after, he keeps swallowing socks and vomiting them up. AIBU to feel pissed off and sick of this?

Poster 1: Poor dog. Please don't ever get another dog.

Poster 2: Poor poor dog. Please please don't ever get another dog ever again.

There was a hilarious one about a woman who was getting sick of looking after her DD's hamster. She was still looking after it perfectly well but admitted she wouldn't be at all sad when it died and she wouldn't have to keep on doing it. Many people lost their shit over that one, as if a well fed and clean hamster would know or give a monkeys how the OP felt about it.

Then there is the recommendation of a moon cup on every single thread about periods, even if this is of no help.

OP - I'm on holiday in a very remote place, it's Sunday night and my period has started unexpectedly, I don't have any tampons with me. What should I do to improvise?

Reply - get a moon cup, it literally changed my life.

@isabellerossignol hmm good point. Think sometimes there’s then a feedback loop here though “yeah tell hr about how your colleague nicked your mug, go no contact with all these family members being mean - you just do you”m - they’re all just jealous

Also makes me laugh are the ones where people describe how they leave a holiday cottage.

"I always strip the beds and take the rubbish out."

"I always strip the beds, take the rubbish out, vacuum the whole place, clean the fridge, microwave and oven, bang dust out of all the rugs, clean the windows and weed the garden."

NO YOU DON'T

Threads about dyslexia can go badly. Two camps largely: "he'll be fine - my brother couldn't read until he was 18 and still graduated med school" types - which really is unlikely though not impossible - and then there's the ed pyschs and teachers who won't let you mention your experience without jumping down your throat to correct you about something. One told me my child's scores were impossible

No other SN - just dyslexia I think.

It's a current one!

Resort recommendations for this summer

First response -

Leicester is in lockdown again.

I once made a post about DH picking me up from somewhere 5 minutes (10 minutes round trip) away and was asking about paying a babysitter for such a short time etc. I got quite a hard time but the response that cracked me up was “ I bet it’s a lot further than 5 minutes away” . They had no way of knowing that (and it wasn’t).
There was another one where someone had lost her job and one response was “my sons friend died and he lost his job”

I've seen some pretty OTT reactions to posters being complete arseholes. 'I've got morning sickness, and my neighbours dog got into my garden and peed on my lawn. So I kicked it over the garden wall and when the woman next door saw she shouted at me, so I told her I would burn her house down'.

And someone will inevitably respond with 'it's totally normal to be easily upset when you are hormonal, you haven't done anything wrong'.

See, in my world, being unreasonable because you are pregnant is something like bursting into tears because your husband brought you a Double Decker from the shop when you had hoped he would bring you a Boost. Not being a complete shrieking banshee and then trying to excuse it with 'but hormones'

The one where the OP kept having her can of Ka drink stolen everyday by a pregnant colleague who ‘needed it’ because she felt sick, never bought her own, only ever stole the OPs and understandably the OP was getting pissed off with it.

Queue several replies saying the OP should just buy a pack of 4 everyday then the CF colleague could just help herself from the fridge and still leave one for the OP.

Haha yes, I do like the “I bet it’s a lot further than five minutes away” ones, the ones where someone decides the OP is lying and makes up their own story about what REALLY happened and then tells the OP off for it.

“DH refused to get me water after I’d been locked in the porch all day and it was 35°, I was dying of thirst, AIBU?”

“Well the fact you said you were ‘dying’ of thirst tells me you’re prone to exaggerating OP. I bet you weren’t really locked in just the porch, it seems more likely to have been the whole house. And probably it wasn’t all day. And I bet your DH didn’t just rudely refuse either did he? God you sound like hard work, poor bloke.”

@Hingeandbracket

It's a current one!

Resort recommendations for this summer

First response -

Leicester is in lockdown again.

I’ve just seen this one too!!

The second post actually made me laugh more than the first.

I love this thread. It reassures me that there are normal people in the world.

One I remember was a few years ago. It was in chat rather than AIBU I think. OP wanted to treat her DD16 to a spray tan, manicure and limo with her friends for the end of year prom. Can’t remember what the question was but the replies were absolutely bonkers. Posters told her she was profligate and not to bother posting when she was bankrupt (OP had no history of money worries); that limos were so bad for the environment and maybe her DD should consider cycling, and, perhaps most ridiculously, that she would be poisoning her DD with the fumes of the spray tan and might be reported to social services.

Oh weddings and hen do’s - spend more than £5 on either of them and you’re a tacky spendthrift.

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There seems to be a reusable san pro cult, I've seen it on period poverty threads where people have suggested that cloth pads and moon cups should be given out in place of disposables. Like that's going to always be suitable for teenage girls who have just started or a woman living in a B&B with limited washing facilities. When I was a teenager I would have really benefited from some of these schemes to get san pro to girls in need, reusables would have pretty much been useless to me.

Now use reusable san pro on lighter days to try and limit the amount of plastic waste, it's alright, not really anything special, apart from the pretty patterns on the pads.

Admit to your sex life involving anything more unusual than once a month missionary with the lights off, and get hit with a barrage of 'urgh', 'vile', 'yuck', 'your DH is a pervert', 'here come the cool mums (wtf does this even mean???) etc etc

It's not even when someone has admitted to hanging from the pendant light while DH shoves the kids lego up their arse. Nope, it's reserved for such depravity as oral, sex toys, etc

@MalcomTuckerisMyIdol

I honestly wonder if any of the people who get so het up act the same in real life. I assume that, on the whole, not.

I've no idea, but I simply don't know as many people in real life who get as worked up in real life about day to day stuff as people on here do.

Many people lost their shit over that one, as if a well fed and clean hamster would know or give a monkeys how the OP felt about it

Maybe the hamster was a narcissist?! 😆
Isn’t everyone who even slightly gets on anyones nerves diagnosed as one ? They’re instantly a narcissist, some people are most unfortunate- they are surrounded by narcissists! Everyone at work- all narcissists! Entire family- raging narcissists, all their friends? So obviously narcissists!

I posted once that I knew a child called a particular name that was more popular in the 70s. I do, he's DS's friend. One poster kept calling me a liar, that I couldn't possibly know a child by that name, nobody has ever called a child by that name since 1972 or something. Utter madness.