Tell me your pet peeve kind of posters!

[HurtPeopleHurtPeople]

Hands down for me are the ”if this was a man asking/doing/saying/bla bla”.....
all hell would apperently break loose.

What are yours?

(Oh and let’s vote on mine
yabu- you don’t mind these kind of posts
yanbu- you dislike these kind of post)

I write ‘see’...as in ‘see I do that’ - it’s conversational and I say it so I write it. It is a chat forum after all.

Ooh I've enjoyed this thread!

I hate the posters who start a random thread with no further detail... eg

"AIBU to find this a disgrace..."
I mean it's all over twitter and still not been taken down!

Erm give some bloody details we can't read your thoughts!

Also threads where the OP attacks anyone who disagrees-can't remember the latest one but the OP was having none of it with everyone's replies! It was crazy! Think it was an in law one.

When anyone considers having more than their allotted two children and endless posters start screaming about “THE ENVIRONMENT!!!”

What matters is overall population trends, you’re not going to save the world by harassing strangers about their decision to have a third kid.

PWMUAAAGO (People who make up an acronym at any given opportunity). The PPS and the CHR and "in receipt of WKW' 'has been referred to the TWO'.... Fuck knows what you're writing.

People who gang up on one poster for having a differing view to them - seems to happen to me a lot!

Posters who say - well you seem to be the common denominator. No - maybe my family are all just cunts.

Yes, to the vague thread titles. I click in and then have zero interest. I hate clicking as MN takes so fucking long to load pages.

Posters who don't like you so say - 'I've reported your post'. Tell-tale tittle tattles. Argue your fucking point you little turd.

People who will argue with you that you're clearly lying in your version of events. Yes, I went to the fucking trouble of imagining a false scenario as I was bored. Believe me, my imagination is not that vivid.

An OP mentions the age/sex/gender/race/creed/nationality/other status of the person in their OP as it's relevant and the first response will be - Was it necessary to mention their age/sex/gender/race/creed/nationality/other status.

People who are trying to find racism in everything. For e.g. I once posted a thread about my neighbours arguing and mentioned that as they were arguing in a foreign language that I didn't even have the amusement of picking a side - so I had an onslaught of posters shouting at me that I was clearly racist and that it wasn't because they were screaming at each other for an hour disrupting my sleep, it was because I was a fucking racist.

Oh yes, my personal bugbear - I went through your post history OP and on 8th October 1972, you had ten children. Now you have 2 children. I call troll. Why yes, I'm not going to spill my guts to you lot.

I'll probably be back with more because I'm a contrary old bint. I must question whether it was relevant to mention the fact that I was old there..........

The 'that's such a first world problem' posts
'If that's all you've got to worry about you're lucky'
'Meanwhile in Syria'
'You're lucky you've got X relative, mine are dead'
'You'll miss them when they're gone' (abusive relative)
'You're lucky you've got X sense / limb / whatever. Some people don't'
'HTH'
Competitive misery

“Posters who don't like you so say - 'I've reported your post'. Tell-tale tittle tattles. Argue your fucking point you little turd.“

Mwahahaa this made me laugh.

Oh and the ENTIRETY OF THREADS on Feminism chat. Every single thread is a hotbed of transphobia, yet they scream 'Show me an example of transphobia'. Read the fucking thread you bigot. I can hear the hooves approaching in the distance already.....

Anything vegan, about your climate footprint or your gender neutral children.

Oh and the 'who are you trying to please?' when you say that you wore high heels to work or something. 'I only wear birkenstocks and a woollen highly unflattering sweater, never even comb my hair, and certainly wouldn't be arsed wearing makeup'. Well Miss - I look like Attila the Hun, so I've gotta put a little effort in So there!

Baby names. Nub theory. Am I pregnant. . .

Oh and the ENTIRETY OF THREADS on Feminism chat. Every single thread is a hotbed of transphobia, yet they scream 'Show me an example of transphobia'. Read the fucking thread you bigot. I can hear the hooves approaching in the distance already.....

So funny. I think you may be the bigot but you can't see it.

Superior posters who sneer at anyone daring to try to make friends, ie, "No one seems to like me at the school gate" and inevitably up pops a posters who says, "I don't have time to talk to people at the school. I have plenty of friends already " or "The people I work with are not very sociable" and the response is, "You don't go to work to socialise; I have all my friends already."

The message being that if you haven't formed a tightknit group of friends from back when you were a foetus you are a loser and should give up forthwith and never bother exchanging a pleasantry with anyone ever again.

This always bothers me a bit. Do people think this in real life?

I think you may be the bigot but you can't see it. Well the first of the horses has arrived I see.

IrmaFayLear

Yes to that and at the mere sniff of a personal trauma - can you go and stay with your friend? Why yes, I have an army waiting in the wings for me to call up at 2am and invite myself over. I don't have friends in this country. Probably because I'm a cunt - but it is what it is.

Oh and the ENTIRETY OF THREADS on Feminism chat. Every single thread is a hotbed of transphobia, yet they scream 'Show me an example of transphobia'. Read the fucking thread you bigot. I can hear the hooves approaching in the distance already.....

GimmeAy oh you are a brave woman (erh person), totally agree Btw.

I had hoped that any self respecting feminist wouldn't be on such a mundane thread as this, but I was wrong. Brave or stupid. I'm expecting an 'I've reported your post' next.

Yes, the patronising posts about makeup and if you dare wear any, it MUST mean you are brainwashed by the patriarchy, doing it solely for men, are insecure, blah blah blah. You couldn't possibly be doing it because you actually enjoy it and the fact that they wear no makeup or make no effort whatsoever with their appearance and havent even washed since 1986 means they are morally superior to you and are better feminists!

So much that has already been mentioned.

I hate the passive aggressive HTH.

@GimmeAy Agree with you, wholeheartedly about the number of trans threads.

Oh and I'm really rimming it with this one, but when HQ post a deletion message 'we're checking behind the scenes' and you never see hide nor hair of the thread again - they are in their holes checking behind the scenes, the ban hammer comes down and that's it.

I agree with @3cats

This is a peculiarly personal or Irish thing maybe, but I personally, and most Irish people, in Irish company will tend to swear a lot. You'd swear you had threatened to gouge Her Majesty's eyes out by swearing sometimes on here. Yet you'll have the British (I've learned yesterday that Brits is an offensive term to them), exclaim loudly how wonderful their sense of humour is and that they can use the word cunt on MN.

Then you have the men.
They give you chapter and verse on the very long history with their wife, followed by asking for a female perspective on whether their wife is not pulling their weight. The prose is so lengthy and perfectly punctuated that I almost feel like nominating them for a scholarship to Oxford English Literature at times.

Sometimes I wonder whether Boris Johnson is posting on here, so lengthy and 'wordy' are the male posts. And then the subsequent fawning over the men. Lord above. Get a cold shower woman!

‘Line eyes please’ threads with 100 ‘Congratulations OP! You’re pregnant!’ posts.

99% of the time I see absolutely no line.
Not even a shadow.

I really dislike the word ‘goady’.

It seems to be used to mean “I disagree with your point of view and I am going to use a pointless piece of internet-speak to imply that the only reason you are saying it is to annoy people”.

I have never heard anyone say it out loud, but whenever I read it, I practise saying it in a mock-offended voice. It’s fun.

What’s a line eye post?

Twee abbreviations that are confusing. DF is Darling Friend/Fiancé/Father? Why not just say friend, or Dad? Especially if they’re not Darling at all.

Posters who post exceedingly unlikely look-how-brave-I-am responses like, “Well if my mother in law knocked on my door without a deckle-edged invitation that I'd reluctantly agreed my husband could issue I’d tell her to fuck off and shut the door in her face!” You wouldn’t, though, would you? You might lie in bed, seething, in the small hours of the morning and wish you could say it, but you never will. Or, you would, in which case you’re a shrieking harpy and you’ve cut your husband off from his family. Nothing to boast about.