aibu is mumsnet absolutely batshit today?

[lockedownloretta]

Is it lockdown sending everyone mad?

@the80sweregreat

The 'HMRC 'have been busy today then with the scam calls! I'm still waiting to be arrested.

Oh god my family will totally fall for any type of scam call under the sun. Last one was a ‘tv license’ men insisting they needed to come into the house 😬

How did you get scammed? (Forewarned in forearmed!)

Yep. On the cusp of losing it.

I had to back away quietly from the face mask thread.

I just read the masks thread. Farkin' hell!

Fascinating though, to read an artefact from the Before Times.

Friday afternoon is the new Saturday evening - glass in hand -keyboard warrior emerging.

@JorisBonson

Wibble.

Pencils up the nose too?

HMRC have been threatening to arrest me for weeks. I'm guessing they're a bit rubbish at the whole arresting people thing because they haven't turned up yet.

I missed the underage Texan atheists one but I'm totally convinced by the women who didn't notice her boyfriend was shorter than her until after they'd had sex.

woman, not women, although it may be a tag team effort.

The short man sex thread is very entertaining, possibly not for the right reasons...

@khg1

The short man sex thread is very entertaining, possibly not for the right reasons...

It is, it is. I particularly enjoyed the suggestion that he is probably mentally unstable

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

I just wish people weren't so quick to report. I quite enjoy a troll thread.

Same

@Robbybobtail

Yy to people posting zombie threads - especially ones from January 2020 - with the aim of crowing “see, we were right that this pandemic was going to be awful!” Not acknowledging the fact that it could really have gone either way and there were lots of different opinions at the time, as there are now. Lots of “good god, how stupid everyone one was!” type comments.

Oh, except Sue in accounts who tried to warn everyone!

I think everyone is very, very bored (well, I am anyway).

Amen. Predictably sanctimonious, repetitive, and tedious. 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏 💤

Shame that the entertaining trolls can't have their own board. We could dip in there for some bonkers fiction occasionally. But alas (I caught that from Boris) they wouldn't stay on their board.
I had my suspicions about the argumentative 22 year old who was hell-bent on getting her boyfriend back after he dumped her a day before his dad died. I see that has been deleted with no message.

‘
Mumsnet never used to be like this, there was always the mental contingent, but never like this, it ended when people had to pur lighthearted in the title.’

People have been saying that for ten years.
Pass the gin.

This place has always been batshit. It's the reason I like it so much

@lockedownloretta

i remember back when it was alll fields round here.....

Was the one who posted screeds of identifying info about her family, whilst complaining that MN had too much text to read and was too hard to use, a troll?

Well, the Government's already gone mad, so why not the rest of us?

I clicked on that "Covid is it scaremongering?" one from Jan 2020. Took me about 10 mins to work out it was from a year ago 😅

Seriously people are bored. I am bored. So bored I've started doing jigsaws 😅

@khg1

The short man sex thread is very entertaining, possibly not for the right reasons...

I’ve just read that on your recommendation. The OP’s a complete loon.

MNHQ were looking into that one, @DriveThroughSwabber. That was definitely batshit.

The short man sex thread is very entertaining, possibly not for the right reasons.

Dang it all I missed that. Going to check it out for some light relief from the WFH!

Yep. Been on the gin at 4pm for 2 days in a row now thanks to all the shitty news headlines plus working and home schooling a reception child

I've said this on another thread but does no one know how to think critically any more?

It's lunacy here at the moment

I’ve just read that on your recommendation. The OP’s a complete loon.

My husband, who is sufficiently un-well-endowed in the height department to describe his height with a half inch, was particularly amused by it. If only I could find those elusive shoes which raise a man's height by 4 inches, I'd have his birthday present sorted..l