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.

Including this one 😂

What's dreadful about it?

They’re just attention seeking. I ignore those. In this day and age you can find out if you’re pregnant so easily but they will say like “I don’t drive so can’t buy a test until Thursday” what? Order online for next day delivery ffs

At home I always say (in jest) "pavlova" (like some people say gazebo as "gaze-bo" in an ironic way). One of these days someone who doesn't know me will think I seriously think that's the word!

Even then some women seem unable to "see a line" on the pregnancy test, and need help, when it is either clear as day, or not there at all. I wonder how they manage to get on sometimes.

I often think that about threads where multiple people express horror at being heard having a poo in a public or work toilet - or, in extreme cases, even in their own home when their DH might hear them.

Not wanting to downplay people's anxieties, but surely nobody is as occupied by it as you are - and if they are, it says much more about them than it does about you.

Along with pullover(!), rigmarole and kerfuffle, may I also add ballyhoo into the mix?!

Hylda Baker would definitely say that this is a right pavlova, I for one would like to see the return of shenanigans.

So the next time an OP wants to ban their MIL from their home after all their ‘shenanigans’, which amount to daring to have a relationship with their son and his family even though the OPs mother is there all the time, I can say screw you OP, screw you!

I tried to work it out before I looked it up. I got 'hard to hear' which isn't very different really.

Now I’m a grown up I can see that my paternal grandmother was very difficult in many ways (I’m convinced if she had been born a few decades later she would have been diagnosed with a personality disorder) and I know my parents had fallings out with her/can see that my poor mum must have worked bloody hard to her tongue at times but I had such a lovely relationship with her.

We’d spend one night a week staying over and had all these fun little rituals and routines. In the morning she’d make us all pancakes whilst wearing the flounciest nightclothes known to man. She’d go outside at family parties for a cigarette with my friends who all loved her. We’d go on trips to the theatre. She was incredibly generous and incredibly stylish.

I’m so glad that I got to have her in my life and it’s made me appreciate my parents more that even though she could be a bit of a nightmare they still facilitated a close relationship. I think as a kid it actually made me feel safer because I knew that everyone in the family was accepted. They weren’t doormats and would happily have frank words with her when required but I knew we were still all family.

The ones that really wind me up are the threads where a person posts with something that literally no other human would ever think was reasonable and then does the faux-naive "but am I being unreasonable?" thing. Designed to get 20 pages of randoms slagging off their friend/husband/whoever.

E.g. "My best friend of 20 years kidnapped my child and took them to watch an 18 rated film, then out for drinks and cocaine chasers. They only brought them back at 2pm the next day by which time I'd called the police. She then threw her handbag at the police officer's face. She doesn't have kids so maybe she just doesn't understand what it's like to be a parent? Help, AIBU or is she?"

Oh god yes the ridiculous "line eyes" and "line progression" threads, or ones where the test was negative but they've fished it out of the bin the next day and they're wondering if it's now miraculously positive or an "evap line" 🙄

There are Op's who ask a really obvious question to which the answer/solution is glaringly obvious ti everyone reading it. I can also never understand somebody seeking advice from an online forum when their dc/dh is potentially seriously ill with worrying symptoms. Just go to A&E, don't ask MN if you should or what the medical issue may be!

It doesn't help that people use it probably equally either to give genuine support or to have a pass-agg dig.

"Contact this charity for advice with your situation, OP - they're brilliant and really guided me through it all when I was in the same boat. All the very best. HTH."

"You do realise that you can just scoll on by and ignore any thread that doesn't interest you, without deliberately choosing to come on and peeing on everybody's chips, you nincompoop? HTH."

finally, someone got it right )))))

And the " 'OMG somebody's knocking at the door' or, 'somebody's rang and I don't recognise the number and I'm terrified, what shall I do?' " threads.

How about answer it and find out?

And I always thought it was palavar😂oh well, we all know what we mean

There is a very high level of untreated anxiety on MN. And on most internet forums.
I always have to stop myself posting on those threads " Would you judge a woman eating lunch by herself?"

It's not, it's palaver.

At least you did take the time to look it up before using it.

Not like the folk who assume that LOL means 'lots of love'.

"Just to let you know: My Uncle Brian sadly passed away last night."
"LOL."

I can't comment on the other company's but Royal Mail have absolutely no customer service to their name, unless you wish to sit on hold for best part of an hour on the phone. Sometimes it is just easier to post here asking if someone has been in the same situation and what the resolution was.

So many peeps with stupid inane questions on aibu just need a quick kick up the arse and a tiny bit of common sense. Some of it is so stupid I can't help thinking 'how do they get through the day or even how they get out of bed in the morning?
The so called high fliers earning £100k a year but can't cope with the fact the local supermarket has had a mass sell out on some arty farty food.
If someone is ND or has problems they have mentioned anxiety / depression [I have severe mental health issues including bi polar and bpd] so I can understand that, but so many things are so stupid it's not real.

I quite enjoy the “shall I go to A&E ones “ as you always get replies saying if you’re breathing & not dead you shouldn’t be going.

But if people didn’t use this forum for advice, inane or not surely it wouldn’t exist?

Goodness, this thread: who would have ever thought there could be such a huge polenta palaver about the spelling of the word 'palaver'?!