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? 😊

Posts with, 'reader, I. . .'

You ain't no Jane Austen love.

Oh yes. Posters who think The North is:

1. one big monolith.
2. cheap as chips everywhere.

Most of the "Ask Me Anything" threads are not very exciting. Although I think the best one I read was a funeral arranger.

I loathe the "my kid is 14 and wants me to buy alcohol for a party on Sat. Should I?" and any and all variations to the teen drinking threads.

No. It's not something 'all' teens are doing
No. It's not something they 'have to' experience
No. "everyone else" will be drinking and they'll be embarrassed is not a reasonable justification.
"They'll do it anyway". Then they don't fucking go.

The normality of teens drinking and 'hanging out' and the casual attitude about it does my head in. Our (general) approach to alcohol is appalling.

And no, not every teen is rude, defiant and lazy.

I found the ones by orthodox Jews fascinating, and it was lovely that everyone was very polite and respectful.

So that's a potty shot. Ok thanks. Are you American? ☺

"You are all 'sheeple'/'sheople' because I disagree with you". Particularly dislike that lazy insult but you don't have to insult others just because they have a different viewpoint to you.

Although I am sure some posters come on MN just to be contrary

Ones where they ask AIBU but then blatantly don't think they're being unreasonable and argue with everyone. They think they're right but just want Mumsnet to validate their thoughts/ behaviour

Posts along the lines of:
OP: I'm right
Rest of MN: No, you're not
OP: Yes, I am, and you're all horrid.

Not only do they come over as sanctimonious and judgmental, but all too often that is not a reflection of how the thread has gone, and actually there has been a substantial proportion of people agreeing with OP. What tends to have happened in practice is that a few posters dived in with the usual MN "Kick the OP" response, then some more people turn up who've actually read what OP put and thought about it, and the original posters get a bit disgruntled at their fun being spoilt.

I think that should be Charlotte Bronte.

Yes, I know where Pedants' Corner is.

PMSL, love it!

Two days is perfectly reasonable. Not everyone has the time to keep up with a thread in real time.

The current frumpy thread.

Totally. Just a waste of everyone's time as they will not listen to a different point of view.

Posters that do what you're doing now (or were doing earlier!):

Hijacking.

This thread isn't about birthday phobia.

The amount of people who post answers as fact, especially on legal, financial or medical, matters on topics they clearly gave no knowledge or expertise on.

My DH, fell, severely banged his head and is drowsy & struggling to breathe, should I go to A&E? Posters- see what he's like in the morning 🙄

Non drivers supposedly lacking a life skill.
The sheer abundance of females who get the fanny gallops when hairy armed men reverse said car.
Everyone seems to have a niche career earning a fortune.
The faux surprise at possibly being entitled to something like £800 a month on Universal Credit even though they don't need it.
Pooh crumbs.....
The name change announcers..just why?

Non drivers supposedly lacking a life skill.
The sheer abundance of females who get the fanny gallops when hairy armed men reverse said car.

Yes yes YES! The threads where women say they’ve just failed their test for the eighth time and should they give up… almost everyone says no!!

Can you imagine a scenario where the OP is struggling with how to operate a heavy piece of machinery - one where you could easily kill someone if you get it wrong - and people actually encourage them to try to pass the test for a ninth time?! You’d tell them it was a bad idea and to give up. It’s insane to keep encouraging terrible drivers because “it’s a life skill!!”!

I get a bit fed up with incredibly angry responses when they are not required. We are a bunch of random strangers on the internet - very little of what someone writes should warrant a massive torrent of rage.

I also get fed up when posters don’t read the OP’s posts before commenting. It makes the site a bit boring - I wish this was something that we could report to MNHQ.

I think it would be a good category for all the women on here who are saddled with the most feral idiotic men

I also get fed up when posters don’t read the OP’s posts before commenting.

I agree. A massive really relevant dripfeed a few posts later gets missed and lazy posters miss it and just reply to the first post only, and their replies are irrelevant and pointless.

I know you can highlight the OP's posts, but I think they should be highlighted automatically.

To be honest, often it is that they don’t read the original post. It’ll be something like:

”I had to drive to my sister’s as she has a broken leg and four angry parrots”

Then you get responses like:

”Your sister should walk to the park!”

”Why does your sister have six parrots?!?”

”I wouldn’t keep raccoons in the basement!!!”

Women who are proud non-drivers who "never need to" as if that status is likely to be true for all of their life.

But it will be true for my entire life. If I can manage perfectly well without driving in my 40s, why on earth would I suddenly need to start in my 70s?

Because you don't know how your circumstances will change through your life. Where you might live. What you might work. What public transport will be withdrawn or altered. For how long the drivers that you depend on will still be around, or able to drive you (ill health etc.).

There are plenty of my mother's generation of women, for example, who relied on their husbands to drive then all their life, then their husbands died. Suddenly, they are isolated.

Or what if you drive somewhere and the person who drives you falls ill? How would it not be better in those circumstances to be able to drive?