...to enjoy reading these threads so much, when it's really none of my business?

[Levadia]

Full disclosure. I'm a 48yr old man, happily childfree (or is it childless, I don't know the correct terminology on so many things these days, due to my old age! Ha!)

However, I only discovered the AIBU threads when my sister, who has 2 kids, asked my opinion on something a few months ago and sent me a link. I've been hooked ever since!

I love being an uncle to my nephew and niece - all the fun, none of the responsibility, etc. I'd never have had the guts to have my own kids, despite many opportunities. I'm far too selfish and financially insecure.

AIBU, to enjoy reading all these threads sometimes on my breaks at work. Or should I just "get a life" and find something else to occupy my time because it's really none of my business to be commenting on things which have nothing to do with me?

I've just signed up, so will abide by the vote - if most people say: "bugger off" I promise I'll delete account.

Either way, hardly important! Ha! I'm just on a very slow day!

All opinions welcome, the meaner the better! ;)

Plot twist: we all are child free old men, dumbass. You’ve just exposed us all.

In reality though, your transparency doesn’t change the fact that this happens every day, because everything that’s posted is open for every human on this planet to read and interact with. I appreciate people expect sensitivity but I don’t think any reasonable person here expects “gender privacy”

There's something about the way you've announced your arrival that is embarrassing and odd. It's the Internet, no one really knows who anyone is and no one's arsed.

YANBU.
A couple of glasses of wine and a good trawl of AIBU is a great evening's entertainment.

*"AIBU is great. I'm also a fantastic arsehole with nearly 5 decades of experience who has avoided any commitment or relationships beyond the sexual, despite trying to! Years of therapy.

So if anyone wants to use me as a punch-bag, or hit me up for how "hello, man here!" world works, I promise I'm sincere.

It'll make me feel validated and might help you too with insights?"*

Oh fuck OFF and go and be an edgelord somewhere else you total bellend.

HA! 😂

Is it the "Ha"s?

Stick around! It's good for a laugh.

If anything it's a good way to stay grounded and see that other people have very complicated lives sometimes! More often than not, self-inflicted.

Oh fuck OFF and go and be an edgelord somewhere else you total bellend.

Don't hold back 🤣

The Brian Blessed comments are sending me into fits of giggles. I'm picturing him posting on mumsnet, stabbing enthusiastically at the keyboard with two index fingers and bellowing "HA!" every time he hits the return key. "OF COURSE YOU ARE BEING UNREASONABLE!"

That aside, welcome OP! I think it's an incredibly valuable slice of life to gain extra perspectives. I'm thinking of the poor creature who posted the other day wondering "how people implicitly know things about parenting" when he'd apparently never read any books, talked to any other parents, joined any forums or looked at any social media posts related to parenting in the UK. I'm not British and find mumsnet so useful to work out what the social norms are in this culture, and it feels like having a community to learn from even though I'm otherwise a bit rootless.

(Also my brother was looking for grey/blue paint colours this morning and I managed to pull up a thread I'd seen this week which was mostly people showing what certain colours actually look like on their walls. Literally useful for just about everything everything.)

😂😂
Welcome to MN OP.

Op's gone I hope he hasn't fallen off a ha-ha!

Typical man - all the promises but doesn't follow through 🙄😆

but doesn't follow through

I know a few men who follow through but I suspect it's not the type you're hoping for @liveforsummer 💩🤣🤣

Hello back atcha.

May I suggest you take a look at The Royal Family board too if the good, the bad, and the batshit crazy is your thing?

Thanks for all the messages! Yep, as you've probably guessed, I only post when I've had a few (for few read gallons) of Shy Pig Shiraz! Ah, was going to finish that sentence with a "ha!" - but duly noted!

Anyway, I'm sincere in that, I'm very bored on my days off, and even on my work breaks, so I stand by everything I've said - I enjoy reading the AIBU threads!

It gives me a little dopamine hit to see someone has taken the time to reply to my first post! (And to the haters: *Rather how I imagine a certain demographic on here feels when they load up their benefit money onto Tombolo and rinse it through for that sense of belonging to a community! Not cynical at all!
(*joking).

🤡

Final point from me: - I'd rather comment now on other people's AIBU, nothing more for me to say here personally.

I accept the "ha!" comments and actually genuinely thanks for pointing that out, because I use it too much irl online communications and never realised how it might come across. I used it to show I'm being "light-hearted" or "self-deprecating" - clearly it doesn't come-off that way, so lesson learned. I'll stop!)

Anyway, in defence of one point - the "man here" thang - obviously it's the internet and anyone can bullshit anything they want to be. For MY OWN, sense of openness I wanted to disclose I'm a middle-aged, bald, hairy-arsed bloke! Otherwise for me to be commenting on a "female parenting site" is totally yuk/weird/nasty.

Does that make sense? Shoot me if "man here!" is a meme or trope. Surely, anonymity is good, yet something as broad and basic as that is important?

I'm off to read more interesting threads now. I hope y'all do the same.

One final, loving...... "Ha!" (Ahhhh, and breathe, I feel better now!)

A male friend of mine openly mentions having a MN account and scrolling through posts to "pass the time". He is a father and I believe he joined after he had his first child.

There are all sorts of demographics on the site. Once you aren't going to be trolling or nasty, your input is as valuable as anyone else's.