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Mumsnet posts which drive me mad

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Ilovecleaning · 25/02/2024 21:20

Anyone hate these posts?

  • really really really long posts
  • long posts with NO paragraphs
  • posts which start ‘ I have a friend, let’s call her Jane; her DH, let’s call him Sam… you can’t bloody well follow the post. Much easier just to say Friend and DH.
Any others? 😊
OP posts:
TotalAbsenceOfImperialRaiment · 26/02/2024 15:05

People who get all worked up because their mother-in-law/the school mums/the checkout operator at Tesco is 'judging' some aspect of their appearance or behaviour. What does it matter? The only judge anyone needs to worry about is the kind you meet in court. Or, if you are religious, in the afterlife.

SweetBirdsong · 26/02/2024 15:08

People who post a long OP about someone, and bend over backwards, and arse over tit, to avoid mentioning whether they're female or male, and go through the entire thread calling said person 'they' and 'them.' It's so exhausting to read, and very irritating. When I put a response, I will put he or she/him or her.. It's got to be one or the other, so based on the OP's posts, I will guess, and pick he or she.

The 'am I pregnant/is their a second blue line' threads, where the OP goes on to post a negative pregnancy test, and 2 out of 3 people say 'yes I see a second line, congratulations baby mama!' Grin Hmm

How old am I? Stupid STUPID threads. When said poster is 48, you get people saying 29, and 70, both of which are ridiculous. She looks her fucking age! Everyone does! Why would you not? Confused

How much do you earn? Full of 90% bullshit about what posters earn. See also, how much is your house worth, how much savings do you have, how much do you have in your pension? As a pp said, it just turns into a massive bragfest, making other people who have very little feel like shit.

'Oh no, we have a trip to Disneyland in America, leaving this Friday, and I just realised my passport fell out of date in January! '😖 Who the fuck books a multiple 1000 pound holiday and doesn't check the dates of the passports of everyone going, before booking?!

The 'anyone who is size 12 or more, is a chubby fucker' posts, piss me off (and so do those who boak at the thought of being over 8 st 3.)

As several posters have said, suggesting every bit of bad or toxic behaviour, must be ADHD, autism, or dementia. Very often it's NOT, and it's an insult to people with these conditions.

The 'my husband hasn't come home' threads. One a week guaranteed, where the OP posts it at around 11,30pm. (He was due back at 10pm and she is worried SICK.) He returns by 2 or 3am EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Threads being deleted with no apparent reason why, and wondering happened.

A poster telling someone else to 'calm down!' Just because they disagree with them. Patronsizing and goady and misogynistic, and made to try and shut the poster down. Whenever anyone has ever done that to me, I just ignore them. Even if someone IS angry, does anyone seriously think saying 'calm down' is going to make them calm down? LOL!

The fact that dripfeeds (from the OP) are now called 'updates.' Hmm

Race baiters.

The LTB type posts, that suggest you can just pack up your life into one suitcase, and move to a shiny new life, a new career, a university degree, a young hot new partner, and masses of wealth that you can store in your million pound house.

A poster talking about a useless twatty fat lump of a cocklodger man, who is verbally and physically abusive to her, saying 'but he's a good dad!' NO. No he is NOT!

Man here, Teacher here, GP here, Solicitor here, Magistrate here, etc etc etc.. Just grates on me so bad.

Grief vulturing... eg, 'I was in New York in summer 2000. When I think how close I was to being involved in 9/11, it makes me weep.' 😢 AND when someone has been murdered or gone missing and people start threads with all their private detective shit! GAGGING for new information, and desperate to be the first to break any new news.

OP not returning to their thread.

DNiece, DCat, Ddog, DNephew, DUncle, DAuntie. FFS, just put niece, cat, dog, nephew, uncle, or auntie!

Posters calling others 'unhinged.' Fucking vile thing to say.

Suggestions that gaming is for children, when the majority of gamers are ADULTS! (Shows how little they know! And just proves they are ignorant.)

The patronising 'I couldn't get worked up about that' phrase. Someone mentions something that another poster deems silly, and tries to make the poster feel daft by belittling them.

When someone says their mum is a nightmare, and someone dives in and says 'be grateful you HAVE a mum! I lost my lovely mum 10 years ago!' I am sorry for anyone who has lost their mum, but doing this is just is out of order IMO.

TV snobs/book snobs/food snobs who look down on anyone who watches Love Island, or Big Brother, or who don't cook from scratch often, or who read take a break and that's life magazines!

People who look down their nose at social housing tenants, and seem to berate and spit bile at them for getting a 'free house,' and being a 'benefits scrounger.' Whilst insisting they should give it up as soon as they hit £30K household income, so someone 'more deserving' can get it. Not able to comprehend the fact that if the person in the social housing home who is possibly reasonably comfortable and has surplus income, would be in the other person's position if they swapped their £420 a month social housing for a £1100 a month private let. By the way, my local housing association have 7000 properties and 60% of the tenants have a job! (And most of the 40% are pensioners/retired, or unable to work because of health conditions.)

Mumoftwo1312 · 26/02/2024 15:13

DNiece, DCat, Ddog, DNephew, DUncle, DAuntie.

I like to pronounce these in my head like a 90s rapper.

"So I recently had a row with Da Niece about Da Cat y'all"

Mumoftwo1312 · 26/02/2024 15:17

Haha I quite like the missing husband posts. Everyone gets spurred on into a mutual frenzy of panic "have you called the police yet op?" "I've just checked and there's been an accident on the m6" and then op always comes back later faintly embarrassed because he's stumbled in drunk and then, to save face, she has to half-promise us all that she'll LTB to punish him for getting us all worried. Comedy gold

colinthecaterpillars · 26/02/2024 15:18

Kittensat36 · 25/02/2024 21:39

Yes!!! Especially when the OP makes War And Peace look like a pamphlet.

🤣🤣war and peace as pamphlet this absolutely tickled me 🤣🤣

WeAreWarriorsWeAreWarriors · 26/02/2024 15:20

I've just turned 40 and I'm in a style rut. What should I wear?

Size? Taste? Budget? Body type? Purpose?

We're not all bloody clones of each other.

Whydosomanywomensleepwithsuchlosers · 26/02/2024 15:28

@SweetBirdsong

Incredible work of vitriol, thoroughly enjoyed it, well done. Although would gently suggest you might be spending more time here than it's worth!

You can probably tell which type of post I find most aggravating from this username.

willWillSmithsmith · 26/02/2024 15:33

Donthaveausernameinmind · 26/02/2024 14:30

The ones who are 46 but insist they're constantly mistaken for 21, don't have a single line on their face and their nan had beautiful smooth skin at 110 years old despite smoking 200 fags a day and only putting bin juice on her face.

🤣

HotChocolateNotCocoa · 26/02/2024 15:40

sammylady37 · 26/02/2024 12:19

The most bizarre acronym I saw here was DDiPoW - it meant Darling Diana Princess of Wales. And it didn’t seem to be in any way ironic, the poster was sincere!

That trumps my choice for the weirdest one! Mine was “DSTBXBIL”. Would it really have been that hard to type “my ex’s brother”?

RampantIvy · 26/02/2024 15:57

Brilliant piece of summing up from @SweetBirdsong

Can I add posters who think that it isn't worth going to a university that isn't Oxbridge/Durham/St Andrews/LSE/UCL/Imperial/other top 10 university.

slashlover · 26/02/2024 16:07

When people bring up the in jokes

Sistine Chapel
Snapped and farted
Ballonz
Penis beaker
Mexican House Thief
etc.

People who see an obvious typo in the opening post or title then make lots of "jokes" and ignore the actual post.

ShareTheDuvet · 26/02/2024 16:13

@SweetBirdsong I absolutely love the juxtaposition of your beautiful username and your long rant - but I agree with you 😄

OrigamiOwls · 26/02/2024 16:19

Could I be pregnant? If you've had unprotected sex within the past 9 months then it's a possibility - but no one on Mumsnet actually knows, you need to do a test like everyone else.

Posting in AIBU "for traffic". If people actually started posting in on other boards then they would be busier and have more traffic.

OP: AIBU?
All other posters: Yes you are!
OP: No I'm not & stamps feet.

My DH has done something terrible - he's not your "D"H then.

Posts a convoluted problem that could be easily cleared up if the OP actually spoke to the other person.

People who quote the original OP. We can all see the original post, you don't need to quote it.

slashlover · 26/02/2024 16:24

People who post deliberately vague titles.

To think that...
Would you let your child do this...
At what age would you...

RampantIvy · 26/02/2024 16:24

I can never see a line on the "could I be pregnat" threads.
How do some posters see them? Do they have magic eyes?

SweetBirdsong · 26/02/2024 16:33

@RampantIvy

Brilliant piece of summing up from @SweetBirdsong

Why, thank you. Blush 😊

Can I add posters who think that it isn't worth going to a university that isn't Oxbridge/Durham/St Andrews/LSE/UCL/Imperial/other top 10 university.

Yes to that too!

@ShareTheDuvet

I absolutely love the juxtaposition of your beautiful username and your long rant - but I agree with you 😄

Thank you too 😆

@Whydosomanywomensleepwithsuchlosers

Incredible work of vitriol, thoroughly enjoyed it, well done.

LOL. How kind. Grin

Although would gently suggest you might be spending more time here than it's worth!

You're probably right! But I'm a bit addicted! Grin Been here quite a while too, and am an angry menopausal woman! 😠 Some days worse than others. Grin
When I started that list, I couldn't stop. Took me half an hour! 😆

@Mumoftwo1312

DNiece, DCat, Ddog, DNephew, DUncle, DAuntie.

I like to pronounce these in my head like a 90s rapper.

"So I recently had a row with Da Niece about Da Cat y'all"

LOL 😆

SweetBirdsong · 26/02/2024 16:33

@Donthaveausernameinmind ·

The ones who are 46 but insist they're constantly mistaken for 21, don't have a single line on their face and their nan had beautiful smooth skin at 110 years old despite smoking 200 fags a day and only putting bin juice on her face.

Bah ha ha 😆

SweetBirdsong · 26/02/2024 16:35

RampantIvy · 26/02/2024 16:24

I can never see a line on the "could I be pregnat" threads.
How do some posters see them? Do they have magic eyes?

I know right! I have said 'no second line!' on a few of those threads in the past, and get a bunch of posters saying my eyesight is obviously shit as it's incredibly clear! 9 times out 10, there is no second line visible!

Kinneddar · 26/02/2024 16:38

RampantIvy · 26/02/2024 16:24

I can never see a line on the "could I be pregnat" threads.
How do some posters see them? Do they have magic eyes?

I dont believe for a minute they do see a line most of the time. I'd love to post a photo of a brand new unused test & wait for the congratulations to pour in

marshmallowfinder · 26/02/2024 16:45

Ilovecleaning · 25/02/2024 21:20

Anyone hate these posts?

  • really really really long posts
  • long posts with NO paragraphs
  • posts which start ‘ I have a friend, let’s call her Jane; her DH, let’s call him Sam… you can’t bloody well follow the post. Much easier just to say Friend and DH.
Any others? 😊

Or just 'friend and H.' All this bloody 'D' stuff is ridiculous.

SweetBirdsong · 26/02/2024 16:45

Kinneddar · 26/02/2024 16:38

I dont believe for a minute they do see a line most of the time. I'd love to post a photo of a brand new unused test & wait for the congratulations to pour in

I have actually been tempted to do this in the past! Never got round to it, but thought it would be so funny to do, and see dozens of posters saying 'I see a line!' 😀😆 I bet someone has already done this! 😂

StockpotSoup · 26/02/2024 16:47

OP’s writing “no judgement please” after describing their at best questionable behaviour. Er, no - it’s an open forum. If I want to judge you I will. I also hate its twee little cousin, “Please be kind”. It basically means “Don’t say anything even vaguely critical, even though I need to hear it”. Plus anyone who actually is planning to be deliberately unkind isn’t going to be swayed by being told not to do it.

”Are you the OP’s sister?” Sometimes said under the illusion they’re being amusing or original, but also sometimes suggested in all seriousness. Yeah, out of millions of registered MN users, the person at the centre of the story has just happened to find it and, rather than ringing their sister up and saying “What the bloody hell do you think you’re doing slagging me off all over the internet?”, has decided to anonymously post something mildly supportive of their viewpoint.

Ridiculously over-flowery language. There was a thread about in-laws the other day when someone said hers always wrap presents in plastic bags before adding wrapping paper on top. She said “My heart weeps for the waste”. Your heart weeps? Over a fucking Tesco bag?!

Posters who indulge/encourage an OP’s ridiculous delusions. I remember someone posting about how she’d seen her dream house for £600k, but her budget was only £480k. She’d asked “Should I try a cheeky offer just in case?” Most people had the sense to say she was living in cloud cuckoo land, but one idiot chimes in saying “My friend bought a £1.5 million house for £1.3 million, so it can happen! Good luck!!” Delusional OP leapt on this in delight. Apparently neither of them had the brains to work out that a 12% reduction on a property worth two and a half times more than the OP’s dream house was slightly more realistic than one of over 30% on a £600k property.

Coatscoatscoast · 26/02/2024 16:49

HairyMcHairyFace · 25/02/2024 21:32

Or an OP who's struggling with an awful mother and wants to know how to deal with her mum turning up on her doorstep drunk at 8am or has started trying to breastfeed OPs baby.
Response: "you should be grateful you've still got your mum. I'd give anything to have another 10 minutes with my lovely mum"

Agreed, years ago I once posted a rant about our local train service’s constant delays because it meant DH missing the kids and me having to do bedtime after a long day with a demanding toddler and baby. The first two replies were people telling me I should try being a) a single parent and b) a military wife. 🙄

JMSA · 26/02/2024 16:52

So you get a poor soul in need of help, who is married to a useless or abusive guy.

I would never tire of slapping the posters who ask 'but why did you have children with this man?'

It's a bit bloody late, so why make her feel worse?!

Scarletttulips · 26/02/2024 16:57

What’s worse it the married with 3 kids

and posters still say ‘don’t have kids with this man!’