To think some people on here just can't (won't) take advice? *lighthearted.

[Moofart]

For example...
OP: Agh crisis! I have no pigs in blankets.
Mumsnetter: Have you tried a shop?
OP: I dont live near any shops.
MN: Could you drive to the shops?
OP: I dont drive.
MN: Could you get a friend to drive you to the shop?
OP: None of them drive and they are all at work.
MN: Could you get a taxi?
OP: I only have 15p in the house and there are no cashpoints on this remote island.
MN: Could you check down the back of the sofa, empty pockets, etc, to find some money?
OP: We don't have sofas and none of our clothes have pockets.
MN: Could you try making the pigs in blankets?
OP: I have no fingers or thumbs. So no.
MN: Could you just go without them this year?
OP: No can do, I'm afraid. Have promised the children. They would be heartbroken.
MN: Could you move Christmas to another day so you can get to a shop to purchase the pigs in blankets?
OP: This is the only day I have off until 2022. It has to be today.
MN: Could you order some from Amazon Prime Now?
OP: Can't.
MN: Could you go for a walk, source a pig from a farm, make sausages and bacon from it and get the kids to make them? It will double up as a fun Christmassy activity.
OP: No. Baby's just gone down for his nap. Then it will be too dark to find a pig.

Etc.

What's good advice ? - being told what you want to hear.

Agree. It’s the ones where the Op is expecting posters to come up with a solution to an impossible situation.

🤣🤣🤣 love it OP.

Yes, some posters a so obtuse it's untrue.

Love it! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏

I kind of love hate those threads and watch them with growing excitement and frustration

@RunningFromInsanity

Agree. It’s the ones where the Op is expecting posters to come up with a solution to an impossible situation.

I think you'll find a lot of the time they're expecting posters to come up with offers of cash

On some threads it feels like op wants someone from here to enter there home and fix the problem for them 🤣

MN: Could we send a Mumsnetter to your address with an emergency supply of pigs in blankets?

OP: No, because I never answer the door to anyone.

love this not exagerrated in the slightest

Essentially "I have a problem usually of my own creation but I am not prepared to be flexible/creative/resourceful/collaborative in order to solve it" 😂

YABU because it the twins that have to go down for a nap and there’s no mention of several DC with special needs and a heart condition.

This is said entirely in context of this thread and in no way meant to offend anyone in this unfortunate position.

Absolutely love "too dark to find a pig."

Totally agree. Then they start another post 3 hours later asking the same thing and ignoring all the duplicate advice they get on that post as well.

My favourite was the OP who was struggling with forgetting arrangements/appointments etc. Pretty much everyone said ‘Put a reminder in your phone’. She responded with ‘Oh no, I don’t put reminders in my phone’. People obviously asked why not, or suggested she start, but she just kept saying it and getting more and more frustrated, screaming ‘How many times - I DO NOT put reminders in my phone!!!!’ - as if this was somehow an insurmountable problem, and that she just didn’t do it and couldn’t easily change that (in the same way you might say you can’t fly a plane or speak Swahili). In the end she claimed that putting things in her phone ‘gives me the heebie-jeebies!!!’

I mostly assume they require cash

Saw a couple of obvious begging ones recently

Don't forget also, their DH can't possibly be trusted to go to the shop and buy them as "he will probably buy the wrong thing". (Maybe an amusing anecdote of when he went to buy ham and came back with pyjamas or something). Also said in a tone that indicates the OP finds this endearing while we all think "what a gigantic bell end"

It's the parking ones I notice.

OP - my neighbour has parked right over my drive, I can't get out, they keep doing it, what shall I do..?

Everyone else - tell them to stop being CF's and tell them to move/stop it.

OP - Oh.

And 'but I don't like confrontation, other excuse, other excuse'.

Well you're just going to have to be stuck in your drive then!

Agree.

Worst of it is, my sister does the same thing.

Was recently complaining of how long it's been taking her to ring round all her customers to update them about covid bits and bobs, because lots of them stay on the phone chatting. I suggested some kind of mailing list might be more efficient. She has every single reason for why that wouldn't work even though every one of them could be easily addressed.

There's really no helping some people.

Isn’t there a sociological theory that people don’t really want advice when they ask, they’ve already made up their mind (even if only subconsciously) and just want people to affirm their decision or let them have a moan?

Haha, I was just thinking this earlier!

MN: "If you don't like confrontation, put a note through the door for your neighbour".

OP: "I can't read or write and my neighbour doesn't have a letterbox".

There are so many posts on here exactly like this. It makes you wonder why they bother posting it if there is NO solution.

I agree that when people can't possibly consider a perfectly sensible suggestion it's usually a begging thread.

I also wonder how some people get through life generally.

Ha! But Olympics (paired well with Misery Olympics as I just pointed out elsewhere).

I sometimes admire the creativity when it comes to the Buts tbh😂