So very many threads could be simply answered with

[leafybrew]

You're stupid OP - HTH

I do know this is a pretty awful thing to think and extremely negative but I will quite often think it and have a little giggle to myself.

It isn't always the OP - it can be applied to many other posters

NB post menopausal here and the filters came off a while ago.

Hope that helps. HTH 😂

I can't believe I did a pedantic correction without checking for typos!! I hang my head in shame!

This

I am not a MIL but I am definitely on their side on the majority of threads and think DILs that are posting here need to get over themselves most of the time

@ChampagneLassie

Very informative and I do like to delve into the origins of words. Would likely bore the pants off many but each to their own 🙂

Rigmarole is a good one and not a word used much now. If I said it to a couple of younger family members they'd think I was doolally (there's another one) and they wouldn't be far wrong.

Sorry for derailing the thread.

That was a lie. Am not sorry at all 😋

Definitely agree with this. I am surprised how often posters will say they won’t speak up because they ‘don’t like confrontation’ but what they are describing is actually just expressing their opinion or not letting somebody walk all over them.

But free childcare has to be the way the baby's mum dictates or there will be complaints of disowning the grandparents

Profiteroles are no match for a pavlova

I always think ‘golden dick’!

TheChosenTwo · Today 09:19

MrsSkylerWhite · Today 09:15
Seen many comments of HTH - what does it stand for?
Hope that helps 😂

Thanks! Only taken about twenty years to get round to asking. Did a David Cameron (LOL) and thought it meant how the hell? 🤣

And the dictionary you go on to quote has it as "palaver" so um... what?

I often think the mil posters are right. So much family expectation when a baby comes along and the DH having no idea that he needs to step up and help it all work. Hopefully that’s changing as the young dads I know seem to be much more active in family life than when mine were little

For every time someone is surprised at how much shit women put up with, there is an equal and opposite overreaction from posters about fairly trivial shit, with people falling over themselves to make confident assessments about the strength of a total stranger's marriage/relationship on the basis of a few posts on the Internet giving one side of the story.

See the thread recently about a husband mixing up a container of salad, people wading in to say, "Your husband really doesn't like you, does he, OP?"
About a bloody salad! And I don't buy the whole defence of oh, it might seem like a small thing but it's indicative of a bigger issue. Sometimes trivial shit is just that: trivial shit. And the most vociferous posts come from the ones who are all, 'My DH would never shout or lose his temper: in our house we are all respectful of one another, we discuss things quietly and politely and never have cross words, and that includes our tall, beautiful, Russell Group uni bound teenagers.'

I take it all with a pinch of salt.

lol all this time I thought it meant “Happy to help” which is a bit more pass-agg really.

My husband forgot to dress the salad
He is cheating

So many people lack common sense these days.

The ones that annoy me the most are the regular "could I be pregnant" threads. They go into detail about dates they had sex and when they think they ovulated. Take a damn test and find out yourself! I often wonder how these people function in every day life.

I often think that just a smidgeon of common sense and/or some basic good manners would solve many of the problems posted on here.

The massive salad, obvs.

They do tend to boil down to

1. just communicate
2. stop overthinking things
3. dump him because you’ve set the bar so low a leprechaun couldn’t limbo under it
4. pay for childcare or suck it up

And of course the weirdo, germ-phobic, non-door-answering, shaking and crying, no-I’m-not-unreasonable-you-are-all-meanies types.

For those not meriting a palaver or rigmarole, I offer you kerfuffle.

I often want to say 'well why did you let him move in so quickly, you can have a relationship without living together you know'
I'm amazed at the amount of people who feel their relationship isn't valid if they're not living together.

I don’t why people complain about threads. You can just scroll past, your input isn’t always needed lol.

90% of the problems that people post in here could be resolved or never happen if the poster simply spoke up.

@UnimaginableWindBird
That's called Muphry's Law

So many threads each year where posters are adamant that them not driving isn’t an issue… but more than double the amount of threads where the issue could be easily solved if the op could drive.

Yes, some medical conditions mean you can’t drive but outside of that, it’s an essential life skill. Don’t limit yourself unless you can afford 24 hour chauffeurs.

Dreadful thread. Well done @leafybrew .

Sometimes a dose of common sense is just what's needed, tbh.