Mumsnet posts which drive me mad

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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? 😊

Ok so I've found a TAAT and Mumsnet accidentally deleted the original thread as a spam so we won't see the deletion message but it was a troll. Evil thing to do posting about a serious issue like that.

I've seen a couple of others recently that weren't spam but disappeared without a trace, you get the "lost down the back of the sofa message. Very frustrating.

Oh definitely this. Sooo annoying

The posters that have black and white thinking and refuse to accept anyone else's views or experience. For example, it happens on threads such as blended families. A poster will say that blended families NEVER work and ALL children will be damaged by it. A poster comes along to say that they grew up in a blended family and it worked for them or it works for their family and they'll have their experience dismissed by a poster who has never met them. Similarly to any threads about putting children in nurseries etc.

Someone coming on saying they are exhausted and at their wits end after their baby, toddler etc wakes every 20 mins but then dismisses all and every piece of advice to them saying it won't work and they don't want to sleep train.

People who are told to ignore any advice from health visitors or nurses as "they don't know anything"

Someone will post they are struggling with a newborn/baby/toddler and ask when it will get better and then someone will come on saying they have it easy and they have a suicidal teenager and the poster has no idea what hard is etc etc.

Inheritance threads where some1 who inherited 10 million tells the rest of the posters to stop moaning about not getting inheritances as they had to lose their beloved great aunt who was 96 and had her whole life in front of her and the poster never saw the death coming...

Lotto threads where multiples posters say ''nobody needs 100 million, just make 100 millionaires, it is absurd and people don't even want it...'' Well clearly the millions of people playing the lotto want it! If you don't want such a sum don't play it.

Threads that bash men...

Threads where posters say they feel terrified of males at all times, how on earth these women function in everyday society is beyond me...

Threads that tell people with 5 kids and are 50 who have no money to go back and train as lawyer or some other high up job to improv their finances...

Threads where a 6 year old comes home from school recounting a story about their teacher doing and saying something totally outrageous. The posters kid would never lie to them, the word of a 6 year old is gospel and then the posters who egg on the mother to go to the press, write to Ofsted, go in with all guns blaring

Threads where posters are shamed and bashed for saying they don't let their kids share beds with partners until after marriage.... surely your house your rules

Threads where 14 and 15 yos should be allowed to drink/sleep together as it's safer to do under your roof and at that age they are adults anyway...

Threads where posters are bashed for having curfews for 16 yos as again they are adults so should be allowed to stop out all night...

People who post a scan photo with the question, "What do we think, Mumsnet? Is it a boy or a girl

No one cares.

or they go and totally change/fabricate the narrative op stated to suit their own version.

In fairness though on many threads there is pile on against the op and the 1 poster agreeing with her is the only one who is right.

The " it could be early onset dementia" brigade when a older person usually a mil has questionable behaviour 🙄

It’s very irritating tome when someone posts tags a poster and then just posts “I agree” or “well said”. Especially if it’s a long thread. What is the point of doing that when it’s not clear what you are agreeing about? Either quote the post you’re replying to or use the thanks button!

Posters who ignore the point of the thread and just tell us all about themselves.

This thread isn't about our eating habits.

Posters who are really literal regarding comments. I once said on a thread that I thought the OP was being excessive on ringing her husband every 15 minutes to see when he was coming home. Someone haughtily replied, “Well I don’t know what you’re reading, but the OP NEVER mentioned calling every 15 minutes. It doesn’t say that ANYWHERE in her posts”.

Well no, she didn’t use the exact phrase “I called him every 15 minutes”. But she did say she’d called at 6.45, 7 and 7.15. I can add to fucking 15.

Posts that bash an op for asking for opinions when she didn't want to listen to the responses... eh when 500 of the opinions are inflammatory and goady do you actually think she will listen?

Posters who are unnecessarily unpleasant. and jump on a convo not intended for them

If I want to expand on a point I don't need permission

People who ask for advice, receive 150 posts of advice and then reply 150 excuses why they can’t accept that advice.
It’s an infuriating waste of time.

And the drip feeding of extra 'bits

But what about if the pea was the size of an elephant, and what about if the pea turned out to be purple, and what about if the elelephant was really a giraffe and what about....

1. “l haven’t read the full thread but …” 🙁
2. Those who lecture people about what they should or should not do with their own bodies.

Sorry but this annoys me because the two people I know who do this are right handed. And the left handers in my family don't do it.

I'm sorry I know this is about annoying threads but it annoys me so much I had to comment. I should probably leave the thread now.

I’m one of those ‘annoying’ people who is right-handed but has my knife in my left hand. Never had a problem cutting up things with my left hand, and if my fork is already in my right hand, I don’t need to switch. Please get over it.

Maybe people should be less annoyed about things that don’t actually matter 😁

Do ppl really go through the whole “ War and Peace “ saga on really long posts or skip large parts of it. I guess if the content is of interest some may persevere but generally I either go straight to the comments or scroll on by.

I also find quite a lot of what’s posted on here a tad iffy but then you’re only getting the edited highlights of one side of the story.

The only other thing I find annoying is the blatant hypocrisy and double standards.

Confession. I used to do this! But two days ago I noticed the ‘thanks’ button. I felt slightly silly 🤪

The thanks button just shows privately, doesn't it? Sometimes people want to show their agreement in public.

Yes, it's just private to the poster receiving the thanks.

On the app there are no like / thanks buttons either. Or edit function.