What’s the most seemingly uncontroversial opinion you can think of that will still spark a fight in AIBU?

[OaxacaChihuahua]

I’ll go first:

Losing a pet is not the same as losing a child.

Now your turn!

You can be married, and still have your own money and your partner have their own money, even with having kids.

I remember a right dust up on a thread regarding

Another thing/think coming.

Only time I’ve ever been in the MN roundup!

It’s THINK btw. 😆

Behaving like a Karen

It isn't my responsibility to ensure that colleagues on furlough still feel "included". I'm busy working very very hard to keep the business afloat.

@ThePluckOfTheCoward

I really, really like my MIL and she often visits us.

She visits without a written invitation three weeks before the V-day? Now that is controversial!

Why would you even care if someone spells something incorrectly, or misses a comma?

(Though those threads are always fun as the person who thinks they know dead lots about English invariably shows, in their own post, that they know far less than the person who missed the comma)

@MzHz

I remember a right dust up on a thread regarding

Another thing/think coming.

Only time I’ve ever been in the MN roundup!

It’s THINK btw. 😆

I remember this 🤣

You’re right - it is think. It’s not a matter of opinion. It’s a fact, about which A LOT of people are wrong. I don’t know why I found it so infuriating but I did…

That calling an ambulance in an emergency is ok

@Hardbackwriter

Dogs aren't people

Fruit is good for you, including grapes and cherries, and children should be offered as much fruit as they feel like eating.

@FlyingRabbitsAtNoon

Actually I’m sitting here scratching my head trying to think of any topic on MN that doesn’t have the potential to become controversial.

Maybe - veggies are good for you?

With respect, this is just the sort of ill thought out generalisation that has created the obesity crisis. Vegetables contain carbohydrates, which are grim. Also not everyone can afford vegetables. And they often need to be cooked, which is usually done by women, which perpetuates the patriarchy.

That if you put something on Mumsnet, more so if it's something obviously quite dramatic/unusual, and the Daily Mail publish it it's tough. Don't put things on the internet that you care about becoming gossip column fodder, because that's what the news does.... Where do people think they get stories about tragedies like child murders, and rapists? They follow real people about looking for the dirt, whether the families want it or not, so they aren't going to be "sympathetic" and not publish your thread about your MIL being caught DTD with your nanny at your DCs birthday party.

Recently on a thread that got deleted, someone said about child sex offenders: ‘we can’t expect them to stay in one place for the rest of their lives.’

So mine is: Sex offenders should be in prison for life because of the risk they pose; and if that means building more prisons - I am happy to pay more taxes for a safer country.

Others include:

• 99.9% of people can wear a mask without serious medical issues; and a lot of people making things up only worsens perceptions of truly disabled people. We could easily provide help to allow those who can’t wear masks to stay at home if it wasn’t thousands of people lying on top of those in need

• Some countries in the Middle East have a far more feminist perspective than the UK, and it’s prejudiced to assume that women are treated poorly because it’s an Arab state
• Chocolate at lunch is fine, sushi at lunch is fine. Kids eating and enjoying lunch is the goal, rather than some weird middle class bun fight over trying to be the most cheap/‘down to earth’/‘healthy’

• Your home security is probably terrible, and you should invest time into planning threat response. It’s not a climate of fear, it’s being responsible for your family

People think you are abnormal if you say you don't like children!

You should LTB at the first sign of any unreasonable behavior. Forget the grown up option of sitting down and talking things through, he should leave immediately, there is no coming back from this.

You must never suggest overweight people are unhealthy

Vegetables contain carbohydrates, which are grim.

Carbohydrates are not, as a blanket rule, “grim”.
How do you find anything to eat if you find the carbs in vegetables to be unacceptably unhealthy.

@FlyingRabbitsAtNoon

Actually I’m sitting here scratching my head trying to think of any topic on MN that doesn’t have the potential to become controversial.

Maybe - veggies are good for you?

I once saw a thread where someone said peanut M&Ms had more nutritional value than potatoes. Potatoes were basically the lowest of the low in their mind.

That most people/their DH don't have a more "high stress" job than is normal. Believe all of them on here and about a third of Mumsnet is obviously a/married to a brain surgeon ect.

Same goes for "high needs" babies.

Obviously some peoples jobs are more stressful, but by actually saying that in your OP you imply you think yours/your DHs is more so than most people on Mumsnet would understand.

Same with the "high needs" babies, yes some babies are harder but by putting it in your OP you imply your child isn't like the babies most of Mumsnet have experienced so they can't just give you normal ideas becuase for your baby that would be impossible because he/she is so unusual.

My MIL . . .

Not sure if it’s already been said but grandparents being expected/obligated/asked to help with children.

I think that some of you are playing fast and loose with the phrase "seemingly uncontroversial"....

Everyone can't do everything if they tried hard enough.

Hand sanitiser is of no use whatsoever,

People really do earn over 100K, 200K or even 500K without being trolls or liars.