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).

Guy 100%

Oh ffs sorry I don't know how but I've posted on the wrong thread !

There is also a poster on council house threads who suddenly jumps into perfectly normal discussion about who should deal with a tree/fence/etc and accuses posters of thinking about OP as a second class citizen and how disgusting that it👀

You can think whatever you want to but if it's landlord's job or thing, landlord has to be contacted whether they are an individual or a council🤷🏻

How has no one mentioned the food threads yet?

OP: I’ve been on a diet for a while and nothing is shifting/I feel fat, what should I try?

Posters: I only eat half a stick of celery and an oatcake a day.
No, your problem is the oatcake! No carbs!
Go 16:8, it totally worked when I combined it with only eating 800 calories and threw in the odd 24 hour fast and/or ate only dust for a week.
No, you aren’t eating enough! Eat more calories to lose weight!
We don’t believe that you’ve stuck to your stated meals. I bet you ate wayyyyy more calories than you’ve said. Did you weigh your every lettuce leaf?

Oh, or the ones about whether your child is eating a healthy diet. Those ones are batshit.

I might be alone in this but it's the shock and horror when an OP admits to leaving a 7 and 9 year old home alone for 5 minutes or suggests that they might be left in bath for a minute. Cue hysteria and in one memorable case the op was told by one poster that if she had any idea where she lived she'd report it to social services.

Or sometimes someone will come on with a genuine question of this sort that could go either way - my 4 year old wakes up and watches tv alone - lots of mixed responses but theres always one who will be beyond outraged and explains how their 14 year old is never allowed to be in a room alone unless they are sleeping... with a baby monitor.

It always just seems so OTT to me.

And yy to the ones where expressing any dissatisfaction with months of lockdown, homeschooling and wfh is met with some poster asking why the OP even bothered having children. Mind boggling.

I read a thread earlier where the OP said they felt like a lonely old lady because they lived alone and the first response was something like 'stop being misogynistic and ageist.'

Years ago a woman was asking for advice, she was a single mum and had 3 or 4 teenagers who were just treating her like a doormat, she was in her 50s and was sleeping on the sofa every night so one of them could have her room.

I commented that she needed to get her bedroom back, and get the buggers to start helping with the housework.

The next poster had a massive go at the OP but mainly at me for referring to these children as buggers and it broke her heart to think that anyone would ever refer to her precious child as a bugger. She said that if she knew me irl she'd report me to social services.

The next couple if posters agreed with her and they were so busy having a go st me that the OP got no advice at all.

Waits to get told off for calling the lazy teenagers buggers again

@BlingLoving

And yy to the ones where expressing any dissatisfaction with months of lockdown, homeschooling and wfh is met with some poster asking why the OP even bothered having children. Mind boggling.

Yeah, there was one of these the other week. She went on to say that she could post on Mumsnet because she was so organised and managed her time so well, but anyone who did it while struggling with lockdown was obviously neglecting their kids or not really struggling at all. Can't really argue with that, can you?

I thought she must be a troll but she was spectacularly lacking in humour or self awareness. Which of course could just make her a very good one.

@EveryDayIsADuvetDay

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!

That day my friend admitted she had been to the shop to buy a cucumber she forgot from the main shop I said did you buy two? You made mumsnet if you did

She declined to say

I was "called out" on a thread for not terminating my baby when I lost my job

I lost my job at 36+5 weeks I had her at 37 weeks.......and I still had my maternity pay so 🤷‍♀️

Innocent threads like 'what is your favourite buiscuit'. Someone will reply something completely ott in unpleasantness like CUSTARD CREAMS they taste like I've pulled my brain out, mixed it with bogeys and the fluff from between my toes and sandwiched it between two cow pats from a cow with a diet of ground up sheep.

Then there is a race to be competitively unpleasant or "funny". At that point in the thread if feels like you cant get back to the original point with a banal 'I quite like bourbons'.

The dog n deer leg thread was hilarious. All those posters going "so I assume you're a vegan then, eh YOU SNOWFLAKE WHO ONLY EATS MEAT FROM SUPERMARKETS"

I eat meat. But not generally whilst lying in my garden hurling pieces over my neighbour's fence.

Because, you know, rats.

The weirdest responses I have ever had were

• a poster who told me to buy a net sling so I could take baby Dd1 in the shower with me rather than put her in a bouncer for 10 mins

• a poster who took massive offence on a thread where I had said I was a bit down because a HV had asked if I wanted Homestart support as she thought I was struggling - I thought I was coping well - the poster kept sneering about how arrogant I was and how when I was further on in my "parenting journey" I would be a bit more humble etc - it was so weird

-a lighthearted thread I started ages ago about wearing no make up in the office and one poster went beserk and asked if I thought women who wore make up were clowns - I wear make up! - and then changed name to keep on going

I like the weight ones.

"i am 5 foot 11 and 6.5 stone and not skinny so you must be huge at 5 foot 7 and 9 stone"

Also the smoking ones. I will always remember a poster saying her baby reeked of smoke and she was gagging because someone who had had a cigarette hours prior had held the baby for 2 minutes.

There was also a thread once about what quick meals people make when they can't be bothered. Rather than beans on toast or putting a pizza in the oven people claimed to be whipping up gourmet meals from scratch.

Not OTT as such, just deliberate twattishness - the OP who asked recently AIBU to hate having too much food in the fridge... OP stated she knew she was essentially lucky to have this worry, as she'd been homeless at one point and knew the value of having easy access to food. So of course the third reply was "I'm sure the families fighting for food bank vouchers will be really sympathetic to this "problem"."
FFS.

Any weight related thread turns into a competitive eating saga 800 cals a day an 2 hours of hitt anyone? Or any comment on drinking more than a small glass of wine for a special occasion labels you as a neglectful raging alcoholic mother.

Actually there's a Fourth Category RE Mumsnet Stepmum Madness

"Stepmums" who are going out with the childs father, have been doing so usually for a small number of months, often around or less than 3, who are not only referring to themselves as a stepmum but are referring to the childs mother as "the biological mum" as if the child became their actual child when they started sleeping with this man and this woman should stop being an interfering inconvenience by and should know that she is merely an egg donor and she is second place now and fuck off.

I have seen so many threads like these and I'm like, where do these people come from?

Anyone who has the nerve to say that they are attractive or look younger than their age. Cue mass pile on.

Any photos posted of the op wearing something she wants an opinion on, if op is overweight she gets told she looks fab, if op has an amazing figure she gets told she’s fishing for compliments.

@happinessischocolate blimey that was an old one!

I generally can’t get along with the ones where so many people are winding themselves into a froth. I know this sounds awful, but it really does sound like bored mums at home with nothing better to do.

I do so love the threads where OP asks a succinct question and the responses are just wild little backstories the poster has made up to justify a ridiculous response.

A thread today where a poster felt undervalued in her job, so many people posting that she sounded full of herself and maybe she wasn’t as good as she thought. Tall poppy syndrome there for some.

The threads that pop up once a month or so
“Every single woman I’ve ever met in my life hates me, I’m not too pretty maybe a 9.5/10, Only a bronze medal Olympic gymnast and I’m shortly going to cure stomach cancer. The people who turn everyone against me are normally absolute munters with 7 children and a brain the size of a pea I just don’t understand why no one likes me”

90% of responses are supporting OP and saying the Exact same thing happens to them all the time and men are so much better. The rational 10% saying that you should maybe look at how you interact with people are shouted down as evil bullies and the reason OP has no friends.

I may have slightly went on a tangent compared to the thread title...

The one where a thread about BAME and BLM was hijacked by a Karen determined to make us all realise how her life is seriously impacted and oppressed by the Karen meme and anyone who use it is using a form of racism 😂

Oh the children's diet ones. If you mention your child ate an apple, you'll get piled on by people gasping in horror. Think of all the sugar in an apple! You might as well give them a Mars bar. The only acceptable thing for MN toddlers to eat is steamed broccoli.

The one where the lady publicly shamed her husband for eating a normal plate of food rather than admit she didn't make enough for her guests. Apparently he wolfed down a chicken breast half a pita and 8, yes 8 whole crisps in the corner like a greedy pig 🤦🏽‍♀️

"Anyone who has the nerve to say that they are attractive or look younger than their age"

To be fair there is also a large contingent of posters who are 57 "but everyone thinks I look about 17". No, they really don't.