To ask if there are certain “red flag” AIBU topics which you avoid?

[Thepeopleversuswork]

I know, without having to open them, that I will be bored or irritated by threads about:

• Parking (why do people find this interesting?)
• Anything involving a diagram
• Anything describing someone in the thread title as a narcissist
• Anything about Brexit
• Any thread in which someone describes themselves as “fuming” (or fumming)
• Weddings or hen nights. Discussion about the etiquette of having children at weddings makes me want to put myself in front of a firing squad
• Most of the trans related threads (though I think there are some important discussions)

I normally open them anyway 🤣. Anyone else?

And my baby name was “Jane” or “James”. 😀

…then they’re on here asking if they should report them.

I’ve been on MN so long, that all threads are repeated or a variation on a much done theme.

But a new trend which really makes me roll my eyes is when the OP prefaces her (lengthy, boring) post with ‘please be kind’.

Sod off.

Oh I love a 'live, with photos!!' parking thread 🍿
Detest any thread - and it's not the OP'S fault - when the first or second reply immediately copies and pastes the opening OP'S post🤬 Why??!!

The OP should be able to immediately delete this knobhead's reply (usually one sentence at the very end)
It makes me so irritable, I leave the thread.

These have been far less frequent recently, but I avoid the threads rubbishing Americans.

The ones where the OP can't just set out the relevant facts using sensible adult language, but has instead decided that we will all have to endure love their hilarious writing style and if they do it often enough somebody from a publishing house will definitely see it and offer them a book deal (or at least a few paragraphs in the sort of magazine that has exclamation marks on the cover).

You are not funny. You will never be funny. Just get the fuck on with it.

Any threads whinging about the sun coming out for a hour and they can't wait for autumn when they can snuggle with their family under a throw
The weather is shit in this country, grey skies and rain rain rain 🌧️ ☔
Let the sun come out FFS

Ugh I just also thought of anything Harry and Meghan! Especially when there's a Royals board! And it's usually not very nice

Anything with poo and wee in the title. There are poo and wee trolls around and a lot of these threads are started by trolls but for some reason they are allowed to stand, even when reported.

"Man here" threads

I can't do the ones where the OPs just a bit pathetic and the whole thing would be resolved if they had a sliver of a back bone. Its just to frustrating.

Handhold requests

Hand hold please

Ah beat me to it ha ha

Any MIL where the main complaint seems to be the husband hasn't severed all contact with his family and likes and speaks to his mother.

Anyone where "vanity sizing" is mention in the OP. Always someone not hiding very well the fact they are angry as a hornet’s nest that there's some fatties out there that, obviously, think they are thin because they bought a size 12.

Any thread that involved two groups of differing opinions, both groups always claim they know "absolutely no one" who does/thinks differently to them. Be it shoes on/off, a "paid bar" at a wedding being the norm (in fact the even the definition of "paid bar" is something devide that poster have opposite opinions on).

Threads that are whining about "Americanism'. Aways by someone who doesn't seems to have spoken to anyone outside their own house.

Evidently I have read this threads, but now don't because the experience has never been a good one.

I think we’re in the minority here but the rest of society is generally more accepting.

The ones where people are asking whether one £800k property is better than another. I live in a cheap area and don't think my honest opinion of "How much???? I'd want 5 of them for that!!" would be helpful. The ones about jobs in finance, tax issues or inheritance.

I think the majority of women outside of the secret world of MN don’t want men in their spaces, however they identify. And most aren’t fussed about transmen.

I love a parking thread.
Avoid baby names, step-parenting as the first wives/partners come out and the stepparent gets ripped to shreds, and anything to do with Katie Price.

I am happy with the sex ones... if they are posted in the 'sex' category ! I got fed up of posting, "Please use the 'Sex' topic for this", so I no longer bother commenting.

Oh god, yes. Can't stand those stupid comments like "You could get a castle for that where I live". Makes me want to scream "But you live in the arse end of nowhere with no jobs and shit public transport"

It depends on what spaces you’re talking about. I couldn’t give a toss about who’s in the next cubicle to me in the loo but I do object to seeing a penis when I’m getting changed at the gym.

Yes I agree with you on all those subjects! I just can't get excited about parking issues.

I've never seen any!

Drip feeds, reverses, just curious and posting for a friend.

Just tell us all relevant facts and who you are in the scenario.

Divorce

Boring things with diagrams / neighbours

Smug Theads

Vat on private schools on here make me run a mile (and I say that’s as someone with kids in private schools - I talk to other private school parents regarding this who have skin in the game)

@TheJones

Vat on private schools on here make me run a mile (and I say that’s as someone with kids in private schools - I talk to other private school parents regarding this who have skin in the game)

I totally agree and I also have a kid in private school. The wailing and gnashing of teeth among some of the most privileged people on the one hand and the spiteful, envious class war stereotypes on the other.

Thoroughly unedifying all around.

I have always thought if you put your kids in private school you have to live with the risk that it may get more expensive and just maintain a dignified silence on the point. Claiming to be part of some persecuted minority is pathetic. Yes it’s inconvenient. Thems the breaks.