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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To roll my eyes at people giving their irrelevant opinions on Mumsnet

130 replies

MsLuxLisbon · 02/05/2024 22:48

I don't want to make this too specific because then it would be a TAAT, but to give a general example: OP starts a thread that says something like 'I went to an expensive seafood restaurant and I was served stale bread, warm wine and I think that one of the oysters was past its best. The staff were unhelpful and I think I should message their head office. How should I go about it'.
INVARIABLY, someone will come along and say 'I hate seafood. YABU to go to a seafood restaurant.' Then someone else will come along and say 'YABU to eat somewhere expensive in a COL crisis. And what about the situation in Gaza/Sudan/Ukraine/Wherever'.
It is so so annoying and people do it all the bloody time on here. AIBU to find this so annoying?

OP posts:
bloodyplumbing · 03/05/2024 07:02

HampdenRadius · 02/05/2024 23:01

It’s all very well you trying to police people’s postings and opinions, but I’m surprised you have the headspace to do this given the coral reef bleaching crisis. Time to get your priorities straight.

GrinGrinGrinGrinGrin

Brilliant 👏

YANBU OP

bloodyplumbing · 03/05/2024 07:03

@allgroyellow I don't think the problem is OP, now whom could it be 🤔

Tombero · 03/05/2024 07:04

OP, it won’t hurt to log it with 101, then at least they have a record.

Woohow · 03/05/2024 07:08

I hate it when people say, 'If that's all you have to worry about you are very lucky' or similar, as if people can only have one problem in their life at a time! Or more likely, they cannot imagine people having more than one thought a day.

Willmafrockfit · 03/05/2024 07:22

yes, no, i wonder if i should go full time?

Willmafrockfit · 03/05/2024 07:25

you were lucky to live in a shoe box in the middle of the road

PleaseletitbeSpring · 03/05/2024 07:27

Teal should OF won. Anyone who voted for mustard is batshit and needs A&E now!

shadesof · 03/05/2024 07:30

Have you been assessed for ASD/ADHD Op?

Freakinfraser · 03/05/2024 07:31

There seems to be regular threads where people take objection on folks posting style. It’s a chat forum. What do you expect. All sorts are posting, from utter thickos. To goady, to rational. To irrational, to happy to angry to sad. That’s what chat forums are like.

why you need to start a thread telling everyone you roll your eyes, quite frankly made me roll mine.

CookStrait · 03/05/2024 07:34

Most people will give the same answer over & over again.

NoWordForFluffy · 03/05/2024 07:40

Neveralonewithaclone · 03/05/2024 06:34

I'm going to get my dicks in a row.

Dicks? 😳 Plural?! 😳😳 <faints>

🤣🤣

ajdhpoqnavd · 03/05/2024 07:42

Read a thread yesterday asking how old you were when you first had Botox IF you get it, but inevitably there were several "never had it"...

Mookie81 · 03/05/2024 07:47

After reading this thread, I've just read the one from a woman in the US who wants to leave her loser husband while she has an 8 week old.
Idiots are now questioning whether she really had her pubes shaved for a c-section, as its not what happened to them in the UK. Even though other US posters are saying they had it done, and it's not the fucking reason the OP posted!!

StopStartStop · 03/05/2024 07:48

It's a public forum, an entertainment. People can write what they like until they break the forum rules.

ComfyButFrumpy · 03/05/2024 07:48

I thought dogs were colour blind?

WillJeSuis · 03/05/2024 07:48

ComfyButFrumpy · 02/05/2024 23:24

I wish my Nan was still here to be able to give an opinion, even if it was irrelevant.

Wow. Some of us have never had a Nan. Check your fucking privilege.

ParrotPirouette · 03/05/2024 07:50

Of course you got food poisoning, it’s your own fault for going to McDonald’s

YeahComeOnThen · 03/05/2024 07:54

JamSandle · 02/05/2024 23:32

Yes some people's responses don't even connect to what the OP was asking.

@JamSandle

to the point where sometimes I think they're on the wrong thread!

@MsLuxLisbon YANBU & I'm on the bench next to you!!

Neveralonewithaclone · 03/05/2024 07:58

ParrotPirouette · 03/05/2024 07:50

Of course you got food poisoning, it’s your own fault for going to McDonald’s

I like McDonald's. I don't care if it's common I enjoy eating chips off my shoulders.

StasisMom · 03/05/2024 07:59

CranfordScones
Do you know how much I paid for a kumquat today?

Please keep your kumquat privilege to yourself! Don't you know that some people can only afford bog standard easy-peelers?

Speak for yourself. I'm in the north and we don't have fruit up here.

StasisMom · 03/05/2024 08:01

ComfyButFrumpy · 03/05/2024 07:48

I thought dogs were colour blind?

Actually no, but they can't see the range of colour we can. They don't like neon type colours, like hi vis jackets etc.

TheEyesOfLucyJordon · 03/05/2024 08:05

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 02/05/2024 23:40

Easy peelers? Easy PEELERS? Some of us can only dream of easy peelers, we have to sit in the bath (cold water only, of course, can't afford to heat it) and goudge strips off ordinary oranges!

A bath? Luxury. LUXURY, I tell you. When I were a jass, we had to get washed in a puddle 😯

chaticat · 03/05/2024 08:06

I blame UPF.

Idpicktheman · 03/05/2024 08:06

allgroyellow · 02/05/2024 23:16

well, if that is your response, i would suggest the problem is with you, rather than with anyone else

I agree.

Its Mumsnet.

Part of its glory is you get out of your cosy echo chamber and hear people with opinions you don’t like, and personalities you don’t like, and who react to posts in a way you don’t like.

A bit like I’ve been exposed to your opinion on this.

Complaining about it is like moaning at Tigers for eating antelope. It’s just in the nature of the beast.

Shayisgreat · 03/05/2024 08:11

It's a little off topic here but I prefer when people use "speech" rather than 'speech' in their posts. Looks better IMHO.

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