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Tell me your pet peeve kind of posters!

444 replies

HurtPeopleHurtPeople · 04/07/2020 22:11

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)

OP posts:
DuineArBith · 04/07/2020 23:09

Also, people who write cross post or x-post. I don't have a clue what that means! I presume it's referring to another location / post but they never say where.

They just mean that they've posted more or less the same as someone else on the same thread at the same time. For instance, on a classic parking thread, two people posting a message at the same time telling the OP to box the offending car in.

WheresMyMilk · 04/07/2020 23:10

I hate posters who respond to a thread with “could you not have posted on one of the million other threads on this?” Or “oh not this again” or some other snarky policing of the topic they’ve started the thread on.

People can start threads about what they want, don’t open it if you don’t want to read it.

LightDrizzle · 04/07/2020 23:12

Solipsists. Posters incapable of imagining that someone else’s relatives/ life/ experience is different from theirs.
So a poster complaining about their bonkers mother who is destroying family life by trying to take over, gets told that the solipsist’s mother died when she was ten and she’d give anything to have a mum that cared. Your FIL is insisting your 2 week old baby sleeps overnight with them every Friday to “bond”? Think yourself lucky, Solopsist’s in-laws haven’t offered to babysit once in 5 years! She’d like to swap!

Sparklesocks · 04/07/2020 23:14

‘Am I pregnant?’

Errm - I’m not sure why we are more qualified to answer that than the poster or their doctor??

RedLlama · 04/07/2020 23:15

“Reader, that girl was me”

Sparklingbrook · 04/07/2020 23:16

I really don’t mind ‘didn’t wasn’t to read and run’ especially when an OP has been hanging about unanswered for a while. To me it indicates that yes I have read the thread, can’t help, sorry to hear your predicament but this gives it a handy bump for you. 🤷‍♀️

KetoWinnie · 04/07/2020 23:16

I hate posters who make a sport out of being offended by reasonable opinions

Sparklingbrook · 04/07/2020 23:16

*Didn't want

vodkaredbullgirl · 04/07/2020 23:19

People who throw their toys out the pram, when their post is not going their way.

KetoWinnie · 04/07/2020 23:20

Oh that reminds me, bandwagon pile onners

Bloodylovecheese · 04/07/2020 23:20

The ones who post...do you like this? Or this? Or this? With endless links to the 'thing' so you have to open every link rather than them doing a screenshot to see easily.
I just scroll on by...

Minikievs · 04/07/2020 23:22

@RedLlama

“Reader, that girl was me”
This!

"Reader, she didn't marry him" Hmm

pictish · 04/07/2020 23:23

And you had a child with this man, why?

That can fuck right off.

Russellbrandshair · 04/07/2020 23:23
  1. Posters who are perpetually baffled that people like different things to them and make different life choices. Like, how thick do you have to be to be so aghast that we are all different. Eg They often pop up on threads asking for recommendations for some activity only to piously announce “well I hate x activity and never do it” - um why are you posting about it in a thread specifically about that activity then ya moron?!
  1. Moral one uppers. Eg. If you donated 10k to charity they donated a million. They donate ALL their bonuses to food banks and if they ever inherited anything would gift it immediately to a stranger and so should you. They also never EVER lie either 😆
  1. People who come up with outlandish and ridiculously rare exceptions to the rule. Eg I’m so upset, a stranger just told me on the train to fuck off for no reason!
Well I have Tourette’s syndrome and I can’t help telling people to fuck off. You should really be more kind and empathetic the next time someone tells you to fuck off because you really don’t know what they’re going through and you are clearly a vile person!
DieSchottin93 · 04/07/2020 23:25

Posters with really vague titles (especially in AIBU)

Posters with very short, vague opening posts, particularly when they expect people to know what they're meant to be on about (like a video of something terrible on Twitter but they never give a link)

Posters in AIBU who ask really stupid questions, or questions where the vote is overwhelmingly going to go in one direction

I had some more but I've forgotten them 😂😂

RonObvious · 04/07/2020 23:27

Posters who say “Did you vote Conservative? Then you’ve only got yourself to blame.”
Equally those who shoe-horn “At least we don’t have Jeremy Corbyn in charge.” into every thread.

jessstan2 · 04/07/2020 23:27

People who say, "Couldn't of", "Wouldn't of", "Shouldn't of", "Bored of". Those who start sentences, even paragraphs, with "So", or even, "OK so".

Greengrocers' apostrophes.

"Them" instead of "Those".

IcedPurple · 04/07/2020 23:27

@Stella8686

OP who posts and never replies.
Yes. Very annoying.

Also: drip-feeders.

People who make discussions all about them. The "But what about meeee...?" types.

Posters who act as though everything is shit in the UK but perfect in unnamed 'other countries'.

Posters who become needlessly combative and aggressive simply because you disagree with them.

MarthasGinYard · 04/07/2020 23:28

I personally can't abide the, 'lighthearted' twee shite of

'DH just ate my last salted caramel, I'm going to have to LTB aren't I?'

Ensues the predictable little LTB posts

Nauseous

Viviennemary · 04/07/2020 23:31

Poor little me type posters who couldn't earn much even if they tried but luckily their DH has a seven figure salary plus bonuses.

monotata · 04/07/2020 23:34

People who post things about children’s first names I.e my friend has called her daughter the same as mine and never tell you what the name is.

People who have “hobbies”

SunInTheSkyYouKnowHowIFeel · 04/07/2020 23:34

People who write "Source please" - I agree sometimes it would be good for people to say where they have got their random statistic from, but it just sounds smug and I've often seen it used when someone has stated something fairly obvious.

IcedPurple · 04/07/2020 23:34

3. People who come up with outlandish and ridiculously rare exceptions to the rule. Eg I’m so upset, a stranger just told me on the train to fuck off for no reason!
Well I have Tourette’s syndrome and I can’t help telling people to fuck off. You should really be more kind and empathetic the next time someone tells you to fuck off because you really don’t know what they’re going through and you are clearly a vile person!

That gave me a chuckle! So many MNers have exotic health conditions and we should all really be aware of that and take it into consideration at all times.

Oh, and another time of annoying poster who has been in frequent evidence on the Coronavirus threads: The person who knows for sure there's going to be a virulent reccurrence next winter because their 3rd cousin twice removed is a renowned virologist/ICU nurse/high up in the NHS.

funinthesun19 · 04/07/2020 23:34

And you had a child with this man, why?

Really fucking annoys me that one does. It’s so RUDE and totally misses the point of what the op is asking. People forget that they’re actually talking about someone’s child who they love.

OohKittens · 04/07/2020 23:35

Ok this is so petty but it really annoys me when people use regular emojis rather than the mumsnet ones. Especially the heart eyes and crying laughter ones.