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.

I hope that last bit is a joke, but it's impossible to tell sometimes on MN! 😅

🤣

Only form adult relationships with adults.

Never form relationships with "fixer-uppers"

No, he won't change.

It is almost always cock up, not conspiracy.

Be careful what you give headspace to.

Here’s my story - I’m incapable of thinking of random names so I’m going to call them Person A through to Person Z and do my utmost to over-complicate what in fact a simple situation.

The other side of that is that someone will post about their friends Jane Smith and Joe Bloggs and another person will come along earnestly suggesting they ask MN to delete the thread because the names might be recognisable.

Better than the ones that write a lengthy OP omitting no detail, relevant or otherwise, and all the way through referring to DD and DS and after hundreds of confused replies she says 'No, not Dear Daughter and Dear Son! Of course not. Dear Dentist and Dear Surgeon.'

I prefer Pavlova myself.

Especially the one made with brown sugar.

Or the lengthy post covering all the relevant details of the incident with their dc - except their age.

I'm desperate to reply "so you fucking did" too many times on here but I'd get banned..

I find it rather annoying when all the want is a rant and to be told they are not being unreasonable but won't do anything to actively change their situation. If you comment getting to the crux of the matter through, you then get a shirty response from the op that they actually don't want to go nc with their abhorrent mother so will keep exposing their children to her or get rid of the useless dh. Or the ones where they respond to each and every poster with a short sentence, drip feeding as they go and get annoyed when someone comments that the drip feeds change things. Had they had the gumption to add all the extra information in the original post it would have solicited different responses.

I'm getting better at skipping such posts.

I do wonder about the IQ of some posters when someone posts some saga that might possibly be conceivable at the beginning but becomes more and more embellished to the point that even the EastEnders scriptwriters would view it as far fetched but a load of posters keep swallowing it, asking for updates and cheerleading for the heroic fake OP.

A case in point being years ago there was a series of threads about a misunderstanding about the OP paying for her friends child to go to soft play and spanned about eight increasing mental threads, I think by the end the OP had to move house with full police protection or something. Such obvious bollocks but people will see what they want to see.

YANBU. Can we have an 'eye roll' or 'next' button to click.......pleeeeeez

Yes, it's like the threads that start with some very minor disagreement with the poster's DP, then a drip feed prompting replies of LTB and then live updates of the OP packing her bags half an hour later 🙄

I used rigmarole in an email just last night!

Also a lot of threads could be answered without quoting the whole lengthy post , especially with just one sentence.

I love rigmarole, such a good word!

It's palaver.