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)

When a poster is saying they are having an issue with childcare for dc or that they are emotionally/financially struggling and some idiot chimes in with ‘what about their dad op’, I would think that if the kids dad was able/suitable/alive etc then the dad would be the first person to ask.

I’m struggling to imagine a parent thinking right I have no childcare, I’m desperate, I’ll see if I can get advise of Mumsnet, for some idiot to suggest they rely upon the child’s dad and the poster to think, well I’d forgot all about him. I’ll give him a call 🤦‍♀️

I hate the posters who get all sanctimonious about not putting their elderly parents in a care home.

It absolutely boils my piss.

When a poster states they have 'name changed' to remain anonymous.
Yet stating you have name changed outs you.
Just change your name.

There are some posters who always have the same personal mission regardless of the subject of the thread. You can be quite happily reading an amusing thread and some misery manages to relate it to veganism or brexit or more recently, coronavirus, and uses it as an opportunity to lecture. There are other subjects, but those are the ones that come to mind. One gets to recognise some of the names that go with specific personal axe grinds.
When a long thread somehow inspires people to poetry, which, without exception, is toe curlingly awful. It has happened a few times, usually when a thread goes into its second chapter, or whatever you call it. There was one specific one a few years ago, about a patio door being knocked through from an adjacent property into the posters garden and the Spanish auntie. It went on and on and on, with contributors trying to out ode each other. Painful to read...so I didn't any more.

People who are annoyingly vague so op says ‘we live in another country and me and dp can’t decide if we stay in this country or move back to U.K. for D.C. schools’ everyone ‘what country op?’ Op ‘sorry don’t want to be outed’

Or ‘name changed for this, been here for years’ and then to’prove’ this point mentions posts that are constantly mentioned and all of which probably live in classics ‘Pom bears, naice ham, Penis beaker and Mexican house theif’ because saying this somehow makes you credible?

Posters who don't bother to check OP replies/updates and post something several pages in that's now totally irrelevant. Suggestions to change their settings to highlight OP posts on threads is met with a screech that they don't have TIME for that. Get to fuck.

Posters who seem to only read the thread title or barely the first line of an opening post and reply something totally stupid. For example, there was a thread about a woman seeing a racist post on FB. She clearly said she wasn't "friends" with this person in her OP but the racist post was public so she saw it. Halfway down the thread there's some twat saying "so why are you friends with her? Just unfollow" duh!

"Posters on threads by step parents who trot out the nonsense that everyone on MN hates stepmothers and they will never get fair responses."

I think there's a lot of truth in that. There is hostility to step-mothers.
I'm not a mother or a step-mother so have no skin in the game.

Posters that scream RTFT!

'Cancel the cheque' proved it is worth saying

"Very petty, but posters who are overexcited about their tea on ‘what’s for dinner?’ threads."

I'm so uninterested in what anyone's having for tea that I don't even open those threads. You might have more interest in food than you realised Luna.
Wish I could get excited about something as simple as a meal!

Being a foreigner, I hate when you have tea, eat dinner ffs. To foreigners tea is a liquid and it frankly sounds horrid .

Daily Mail readers who start threads moaning about the Daily Mail

Posters who blatantly just want a pat on the back but they'll twist it into an AIBU. "I saw an elderly lady sitting on a bench with blood on her face. I approached her, called an ambulance and stayed with her until it arrived. My neighbour's, aunt's cousin's cat said I was BU and now I'm starting to doubt myself".

FFS.

Oh and anyone who lives in another country and starts bashing Britain, but refuses to say where the wonderful country is they live in and are comparing it to.

Oh and anyone who lives in another country and starts bashing Britain, but refuses to say where the wonderful country is they live in and are comparing it to

Yes, I referred to these above: The "In my country..." brigade. They're very quick to say how crap all things British are, but when it comes to telling us where they live/come from, they get remarkably coy. Some will say it could be 'outing' but given that even small countries have at least a few million people it's not like they're going to be immediately identified on an anonymous forum.

Those smug posters that wave to to their friends on a thread .

The bloody crossing out. Just use brackets or leave it out FFS.

I can't read the Feminism threads. I want to but they just descend into a bun fight.

Counselling being suggested for everything more traumatising than a stubbed toe, like we all have the money and the NHS waiting list isnt absolutely enormous.

Irrelevant stealth mum brags even when it doesnt relate to the subject matter- like how massive their baby was, how they breastfed for 7 years etc

Posters who put 'can't bring myself to get worked up about it'. Why post then?

I hate 'naice' as it 'naice ham'. It irritates me every time I read it. Only seen it on Mumsnet and I can't help reading in a particular voice.

Some will say it could be 'outing' but given that even small countries have at least a few million people it's not like they're going to be immediately identified on an anonymous forum.

Exactly! And especially if they've named changed to do their spot of Brit bashing anyway.

I hate the fact I haven't worked out what the biscuit/jammy dodger is all about.

I have to say also, the way MN staff talk winds me up, they are so twee and the way they refer to 'tech' when someone has a problem with the site.
I'm sure it's the son of one them working from their bedroom.

Posters who never reply to questions and posters who, if they aren't getting the responses they want, say they are being bullied and purposely misunderstood.

@therealkittyfane

‘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.

Yes! This! And 'my invisible line is now 7 years old'.

@JaneJeffer

I agree with *@3cats*

Love it!!

Line eyes threads to the person who asked are threads where the OP posts a photo of their stick they've peed on and ask whether you can see 2 lines to confirm whether they're pregnant or not.

Likewise the twerps who think everything is just wonderful in “Europe”. On a thread about naughty misbehaving children, you can bet your bottom dollar that along will come a poster declaring that “Europeans love children”. Yep. Every single one of them in every European country.

I think these posters have only experienced holiday resorts in which the staff are paid to grin indulgently at poorly-behaved Brits (adults and children). Try letting your kid run around a restaurant or smearing food everywhere in northern Italy. They’ll double your cover charge.