why do people on here feel the need to be so dramatic?

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not a thread about a thread, i saw on another thread someone telling the op to 'move out. now' over a minor inconvenience with her dh aibu to think people on here are unnecessarily dramatic?

Frankly, I have no idea why people have to be so rude and dramatic. A lot of people don't take into account that the OP and they are bringing external experiences and emotions to the situation. Then again, I don't see why people have to be so extreme. A lot of responses to AIBU are "it depends".

" Your DC is an adult and should be responsible for their own lives" is another good one that was aimed at me. Because I was really going to say to my 22 year old DD "well it's not my business that your house share has fallen through on the day before your tenancy runs out on your current place. Nope you're an adult now so stop crying and get on with it!!". As it was I phoned a relative that lived about 10 miles away from where DD lived and 3 miles away from the house share she was supposed to be going to and all was sorted. I'm her mum it's my job to help her when she couldn't think straight enough to form a logical plan.

light hearted

The fact that people feel the need to caveat a thread title with this just to pacify some po faced professional offence taker shows how bad it had become on here.

I agree with all these posts, but if there are so many people who feel like this then why is the tone of the site still so bloody overdramatic? Rational posters need to fight back!

I posted about an hour ago about not being moved to tears by other people's stories and I have just read a news story (about child neglect) and found myself fighting back tears.

Turns out I am more emotional than I thought.

Report them. All of them. Neighbours, ILs, work colleagues, Doctors, friends. Report, report, report!! Who the hell to ?

Oh yes, I love how posters think every situation can be “reported!”

I'd still rather be told to report someone rather than offered an awful, cringy drafted reply to send to them that the poster obviously thought was the height if wit and eloquence. Painful.

@FluffyKittensinabasket

Oh yes, I love how posters think every situation can be “reported!”

There certainly are a few posters, particularly in the past few months, who seem to yearn to live in somewhere resembling East Germany. It's terrifying.

Or 'log things'with 101.

What do people things happens with the millions of minor discrepancies they log.

"Oh your neighbour looked at you a bit funny, I'll mark it down in their file, and we can use their funny look as part of a jigsaw puzzle that MN think we have the time to piece together about everyone who behaves slightly oddly"

I think that when you pay for mn premium you must get access to some phone number where you can report every trangression you may have suffered or witnessed.

Its the only way i can think all these reporting posts work

@Flatpackback

Report them. All of them. Neighbours, ILs, work colleagues, Doctors, friends. Report, report, report!! Who the hell to ?

Didn't you know that the UK has a hurt feelings database?

Re the "reporting" - I always imagine that the poster is imagining a long table of prefects in a school who sit there all day and every day waiting for someone to come and report something that will be worthy of a detention.

@ScorpioSphinxInACalicoDress

it's an Aibu involving an old man (or potential serial killer) an immaculate lawn in a nice area and a floppy handshake (due to him being a stoner) (apparently)

Brilliant thank you! Anyway none of us are going to tell tales report because we are not like that!

I hate all this reporting business, it's so goody two shoes, sucky up. Why don't they get it? no one cares

You've obviously not been in an abusive relationship or raped, or arachnophobia, otherwise you wouldn't have a laugh at people's expense who have the chance to avoid threads that would be deeply disturbing to them, because they contain the words "Trigger Warning". It isn't done for shit and giggles, it's to support real people who've been to hell and back.

I'm sorry, but did you just put a fear of spiders into the same sentence as rape and abuse and state that as hell and back? I have a phobia of earthworms, honestly had an influx of them at a flat I was living in any time it got too rainy and it was one of the factors that made me move.

But never would I think that was 'hell and back' and compare that to the trauma experienced by rape and abuse victims. Drama right there.

Nobody is "having a laugh" at anyone's expense.

I think the original mention of spiders was suggesting that a thread with the actual word "spider" in the title doesn't need the addition of a trigger warning to stop people with arachnophobia clicking on the thread.

@isabellerossignol

I suspect I've found the drama thread. It certainly is an ongoing drama.

Ok another clue please??? I couldn't find it!!!

To whoever @MolyHolyGuacamole is quoting...

I feel I should remind you that this thread is a safe space for those with an aversion to phobias. Please be respectful when posting and remember this.

I dont want to have to report you.

Ok another clue please??? I couldn't find it!!!

Based on what the poster said after I had posted, I think I was looking at a different thread. The one I was looking at didn't meet with the other poster's description, although it had been running for a while and there seemed to be a lot of drama.

So, sorry, I'm no longer sure what one it was!

God damn. I vaguely remember a pot smoking neighbour one but read it, went 'Meh' and moved on.

It was the excellent description of the drip feee timing that got me!

@FluffyKittensinabasket

During peak Covid19, there was one post where two people were trying to outdo each other with “sobbing and shaking” because one of them went to a supermarket to buy a chocolate bar. They worked themselves into a frenzy of anxiety before the post was deleted.

I think all the posters who were accusing people of being Covid murderers have name changed...

Oh no, that one was about how it's ok to buy a small amount of chocolate but selfish if that is actually an Easter egg. Because

@Vodkacranberryplease

God damn. I vaguely remember a pot smoking neighbour one but read it, went 'Meh' and moved on.

It was the excellent description of the drip feee timing that got me!

I also need to know

I agree with pretty much every 'LTB' I ever see on MN tbh. That doesn't mean I don't understand that leaving is difficult or that it can be hard to do quickly, or that women sometimes find it hard to see their relationship is abusive or bad when they're in the thick of it.

But I rarely think the LTBs are over-dramatic or wrong. The vast majority of men described on the Relationships board sound like men that any woman would be better off without.

Thought this man was rude.

I've killed it 🤣

Well I have not been able to find it! And am devastated. Sitting here sobbing so I hope you are happy @ScorpioSphinxInACalicoDress

Now my lovely weekend I had planned is ruined! And I spent so long searching for it I actually made myself exhausted. I think I need to find a therapist to help me unpick every fucking thing that has ever happened to me the trauma so I can move on.

So sad 😢😢