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).

@Thedogscollar

I was told to get back to my OK mag and Loose Women

I was told to stop being a bully and go back to eating pot noodles and rocking in the corner because I laughed at people stockpiling Zoflora on a Mrs Hinch thread

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

Yesssss! Or you must be “lying”. “I only have sex every millennium, and I definitely don’t enjoy it therefore You can’t possibly have sex every week!- and you say you enjoy it? Ew must be a pervert!”

I was once reading a thread where the OP was a landlord & had some sort of query about tenants/tenancy, I can’t remember the exact details. After a couple of pages of replies someone told the OP she should give the house to the tenants. It is still one of the most batshit things I have ever read on here.

@JudithGrimesHat that was hilarious as an instant response! 👏 👏 😆

Years ago there was a cracking thread where the OP's DH was a Scoutmaster (if memory serves). And in the best traditions of people doing voluntary work being shat on, parents whose little darlings went to said scout group, were constantly contacting her DH out of hours about non-urgent scouting matters.

This culminated in one particularly batshit woman tuning up on OP's doorstep, when her DH wasn't there, demanding to know about something scouting-related and refusing to leave.

The best response was that OP was being cruel by not inviting the woman in and offering her dinner. The thread ended up in two halves - the virtue-signallers who were busy trying to 'out-kind' each other, and the rest of us who were watching with bemused disbelief at some of the ridiculous suggestions being made. Apparently telling batshit woman to fuck off the doorstep and get in touch during normal hours made us uncaring and u feeling.

Weaning threads are always good as well. In our house peas are known as "sugar bombs" after one memorable post about how only certain types of veg will do...

Haha at the healthy lunchboxes and the competitive cleaning of holiday cottages.

One that annoys me is where the OP is clearly wanting a bit of reassurance because e.g. they feel a bit anxious about something or they shouted at their kid and feel bad - often on top of not having enough time / sleep / money, and the responses are "you should think about going for counselling".

Yeah of course they should join the 2 year NHS queue, or find the money and time to go privately. I wouldn't mind if it was said in a helpful way, but it often seems intended to put the boot in when (for example) the OP's kid was a little so-and-so and got a minor telling off.

@ConstantlySeekingHappiness I can't find that thread, please link it, it sounds hilarious!

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

Narcissism is so passé these days. It’s all about the Gaslighting now. Posters lurking on the relationship boards waiting for the smallest white lie or minor sulk, ready to get in there first with the G Word.

Narcissism is so passé these days. It’s all about the Gaslighting now

Ha! “I’ve lost my keys and can’t find them, I thought I left them in the car but H said he didn’t see them there”

“He’s gaslighting you. You should read “why does he do that”, log with police, see a solicitor, start a secret bank account, and if you can, change your name and move to a remote part of the outer Hebrides when he leaves for work. Good luck!”

@MandosHatHair

SnugglySnerd

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.

Yes, exactly! I use reusables too as it happens, but some posters think they are the perfect solution to every period-related problem! Like an 11 year old going on a residential is going to want to rinse out a moon cup or leave reusable pads soaking.

@Russellbrandshair ducks. In. Row

@Russellbrandshair

Narcissism is so passé these days. It’s all about the Gaslighting now

Ha! “I’ve lost my keys and can’t find them, I thought I left them in the car but H said he didn’t see them there”

“He’s gaslighting you. You should read “why does he do that”, log with police, see a solicitor, start a secret bank account, and if you can, change your name and move to a remote part of the outer Hebrides when he leaves for work. Good luck!”

Don't forget they also need to get their ducks in a row!

Yes! Nothing worse than your ducks being in a circle!

Haha crosspost!

@Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies

I once said that just because you don’t like your MIL, SIL or whichever IL was being written about, doesn’t mean that they’re narcissistic. I suggested that mutual dislike was a more realistic possibility.

Apparently this means that I am clearly a classic narcissist

The narcissist thing comes up on pretty much every in law thread. I do suspect often if the OP is the narcissist.

I think there has been more than one thread like this but: frantically worried OP, who doesn't drive and has 4 year old, 2 year old, newborn and absolutely no spare money, has discovered that her eldest has been allocated a school 5 miles away on 60mph country roads with no pavements and no bus service instead of the village school in the road she has lived in for 10 years. She is clearly posting for advice on how to appeal the LA successfully to reverse this decision.

Instead she gets:

• learn to drive and buy a car
• walk
• [my personal favourite] cycle! Get the 4 year old his own bike and put the toddler and newborn in a trailer.

Greedy husband thread followed by the most ridiculous and hysterical replies about the OP under catering.

@madcatladyforever don’t get me started on that thread! Food brings out the worst in everyone.

The ones were people are moaning about or thinking of rehoming a dog. You might as well come on and say you microwaved a kitten.

@XDownwiththissortofthingX I always remind DH (lighthearted, jokingly, because we're adults who appreciate humour in our relationship) he's lucky he's got a 'cool wife' when he's got the hangover horn. Which during lockdown seems to be quite often...

Years ago we had a problem with our landlord still having his post delivered to our address two years after we moved in. He was demanding (nicely tbf) we pay to post it in a big envelope every week. Apart from this he was a decent landlord but we're both bloody busy people and it was just really annoying me so I asked how best to raise it with him. One poster literally spammed the thread telling me how lucky I was to have a decent landlord, how I should be grateful he trusts me with his post, suggested we'd be evicted if I asked him to have his mail redirected etc. So OTT.

Also the ones that really get my goat are the posters who's DPs have suggested they go for a run or something and they're automatically labelled 'fat shamers' and 'controlling abusers'. Like weight gain is never, ever to be mentioned or spoken about.

@chubbyhotchoc ah but if you’re thinking of getting a puppy ...
Cue horror

Or “I have a cat, want a small dog with low prey drive” what’s the first recommendation always...

Most recently I found the responses on a thread children chasing pigeons completely OTT.

I mean I haven't spent a life time collecting chidren and getting to run at pigeons but I did think it was a tad mental to like it to animal torture. Which nearly everyone on the thread was.

I started to wonder if it was a far more sinister act that I thought it might be.

Wasn't there one at the beginning of lockdown where a poster claimed that milk wasn't an essential purchase and the OP should consider putting cheese in her coffee as it was basically the same thing...

Many years ago, when DD was 6*, I had to miss her school play for a good reason which I'd explained, and mentioned it was the first thing I'd ever missed.
I was told that DD was probably used to me being a shit mother and never being there for her anyway!
*She'll be 19 next month!

Good thread

A favourite recent one, I can't remember if it was the original post or a response, was at the start of lockdown; poster had their knickers in a twist because they'd seen someone buying TWO cucumbers (and only two cucumbers) which clearly wasn't essential shopping.
Still makes me smile whenever i buy/eat cucumber!