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!

Weekends away with friends are really fun. Even hen weekends.

The vast majority of men are good people.

Your relative/friend/ex/parent who you fell out with is not a narcissist.

You were allowed to take your dog for 2 walks a day during the first lockdown.

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

My seemingly uncontroversial opinion is that it's entirely fine to have a house that isn't 'visitor ready' at all times and answer the door if your inlaws call by.

Horses enjoy being ridden and having a job to do.

@Biker47

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

Until you get divorced and one of you has £100,000 in savings and the other has £100 and the lower earner demands a 50/50 split and the whole, my money, your money was fucking pointless!

@Antsinyourpanta

its ok to wash a pet bowl in the sink or dishwasher.

(People seem to have a problem with both options which begs the question how are you supposed to clean them )

You are supposed to have a dedicated hut in the woods far far away. There and only there should you wash pet bowls. Anything closer is unhygienic.

That is then countered by the people who let their toddler lick the bowls clean as anything else is wrapping children in cotton wool.

@Knittingupastorm

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.

MASSIVE salads of iceberg, mushrooms and spinach fill me up for a week.

Meghan Markle. Those two words are all that is required for an absolute dust up.

That wheelchair users always have priority over buggies/ prams on public transport.

its ok to rehome pets if its not working out.

Your husband should buy mothers day cards from your kids until they're old enough to be taken to choose their own.... and vice-versa for mom buying for Fathers day.

There may be some truth in astrology.

@LifesNotEnidBlyton

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.

And adding ‘Oh, and the Daily Mail is shit and can just FUCK OFF!’ into your opening post is not some super clever way to avoid your thread being picked up. The Mail might not be known for its sophisticated journalism, but there’s probably at least one person in the graphics department that can crop an image or blur out some wording.

Might have been said already but...

... it's clearly selfish to not get yourself vaccinated.

People who go No Contact with close relatives for trivial reasons are being abusive.

There is a happy medium between not liking people ‘just popping in’ and ‘So your own mother needs a written invitation to visit you?!’ Sending a text saying ‘I’m over your way tomorrow morning; I might call in if you’re not busy?’ really isn’t that hard.

Until you get divorced and one of you has £100,000 in savings and the other has £100 and the lower earner demands a 50/50 split and the whole, my money, your money was fucking pointless!

They can demand 50/50 doesn't mean they get it.

I don't wear knickers under my pyjamas in bed

I don't wear knickers under my pyjamas in bed

Are we meant to? misses point of thread entirely

People who drink at weekends aren't alcoholics.

You are supposed to have a dedicated hut in the woods far far away. There and only there should you wash pet bowls. Anything closer is unhygienic.

Is it next to the hut you direct visitors to, should they have the rudeness to need the toilet, when at your house?

@Antsinyourpanta

You are supposed to have a dedicated hut in the woods far far away. There and only there should you wash pet bowls. Anything closer is unhygienic.

Is it next to the hut you direct visitors to, should they have the rudeness to need the toilet, when at your house?

Don't be disgusting. It's the other side of the woods. Poo particles, people. Poo Particles.

I think helium balloons are lovely and want to get some for DC's birthday....

Oh god, in the early days of me posting here

"Dh & I will just have lasagne for Christmas Dinner, DD doesn't eat yet and I cba to spend her first Xmas cooking"

Your poor DH
A Christmas dinner is the easiest meal ever
Oh so you will use your mother to make you a proper meal but can't be bothered to do it yourself
I despajr at schools, parents and society at large churning out grown adults o (direct quote) "lack the wherewithal" to make a Christmas dinner
Don't serve garlic bread with it because double carbs are bad
Do you think you might have PND? Being uninterested in life is a symptom.

Many teachers work quite hard...