why do some people ask such daft questions on mn when common sense should be obvious ?

[warmandtoasty2day]

it's raining should i take an umberella out with me? should i go shopping if there's no food in the house ?
these are extreme examples but you get the jest. there are a coupleon here todayand posters are giving the most obvious answers i.e use your common sense.
i'm just curious, everyone is different, could be due mh, nn, and that's understandable needing support or reassurance but that wouldn't always be the case.

Yep... th oh sea threads are just as annoying and pointless as this one 🤣

I dont understand the what have you eaten in a day ones like I would give a shit about what 400 internet strangers have eaten
I used to have an ED though and would have been way more overinvested interested then.

Does anybody really care what random internet strangers owe on their mortgage/have in their pension pot/earn/spend on Christmas and Holidays? I can't see any point in it.

People are bored, sometimes lonely.

You can understand they find a forum more social than google. Just ignore the yellow pages threads.

I find the ones: am I BU?
Yes?
Oh, of course on MN posters are quick to abuse and be vile, fuck off all of you!
...you DID ask!

those, and the "being recognised in real life".

I have often wondered the same thing. Have these people grown up always being told what to do and want spoon feeding as a result?

I'm in my mid 60s, I love modern technology and make good use of it but I sometimes wonder how we survived with no internet at all. Answer: we guessed or looked in a book/magazine or asked an actual person or just had a go and found out what happened.

Lots of people have no one to talk to.

@GintyMcGinty

Lots of people have no one to talk to.

I do get that, but they could start an actual normal conversation thread rather than daft questions in AIBU for attention.

Contact with others,maybe no one else to have general chit chat with. Having had a controlling relationship that chipped away at any confidence they have in themselves, meaning they doubt every single decision and thought?

I like the titles that ask things like “has anyone ever had a boy after a girl?” Or “has anyone ever had a golden retriever?”

No, no one has, you’re the first.

@loginfail those people always know very well what the rules are, they just don’t like it and want a way of doing what they want instead.

Yes Ginty and I'mFree

You've worded it far better than I did.

There was one a few days ago.
About letting the neighbors use your company credit card.
Like, seriously who knows their neighbours well enough to do that.

I think a lot of threads on here are just ficticous.

@RUOKHon

Someone in my family is like this. We’re going out: “shall I bring a coat then?”

Figure it out for yourself, you’re an adult!

Haha my OH asked me this last night as we were about to go and sit in a pub garden for 2 hours

I'm standing outside a shop. Should I go in ?

Sometimes, even if it is obvious, people need others permission to do something such as eat out, ring in sick, take an umbrella etc.

@Pyewackect

I think a lot of threads on here are just ficticous.

Agreed.

@UhtredRagnarson

I like the titles that ask things like “has anyone ever had a boy after a girl?” Or “has anyone ever had a golden retriever?”

No, no one has, you’re the first.

This! The amount of times I've has to sit on my hands not to reply exactly that.

I like the titles that ask things like “has anyone ever had a boy after a girl?” Or “has anyone ever had a golden retriever?”

I agree I have so often wanted to say, "no, not ever, no one on the planet"

I also facepalm at some of the answers to clear questions, it happens a lot on the baby name forum.

"I love long classical names, I already have an Elizabeth and a Cassandra, I've just found out I'm having a third girl, I wanted to use Victoria but there are already two in the family, can anyone suggest a name"

There will always be two answers, "what about Victoria?" and people who clearly do not understand or care about the OP's question.

"Have you considered Jaxon? Kaleesha? Kylie?"

Note I am not saying those names should not be used, just that they are not appropriate answers.

@butterpuffed

I'm standing outside a shop. Should I go in ?

Let me guess. Do you have a ‘friend’ who says you must always go into a shop whether you need to or not?

I’ve no idea which threads you mean.

@blueandcream

I’ve no idea which threads you mean.

I think some people fake it though, to get away with offensive comments. On a thread about racism against mixed race asian/white people, a couple of posters refuse to believe you can exierience racism if your skin is light, despite being given examples. One poster in particular repeatedly made this assertion, despite being asked not to.

And then right at the end of the thread, a new poster pops up and asks "Are Japanese people not white" and "Are people from Australia white"?

sparkling I wasn’t joking, sorry! I’ve looked down AIBU and I genuinely don’t know which this applies to!

I guess as a pp said, people want some kind of 'human' contact.
Don't worry though, they always get put in their place very quickly by a patronising "Google is your friend" post.