Aibu to ask what your favourite kind of posts are on aibu?

[mumofoneAlonebutokay]

Mine are relationship dilemmas (where the obvious answer isnt just to ltb) , sex and dating dilemmas, and gossip/tea spilling

More of those in 2025 please 🤭 x

My life is very uneventful, just revolves around my dd and my cat 😄 so I'm living vicariously through you all

Mine are what small things/purchases make you happy.
those make me warm and fuzzy and I usually get a few ideas

My favourite post this year was if your male partner thinks about the Roman Empire…the post with the women saying her husband sees himself as a gladiator, she said he was sat in a chair eating a cornetto while telling her 😂

Yes like these too

I love an AIBU where the OP actually is BU and are getting told so but they refuse to accept it and dig in for a slanging match with everyone else

😄🤭

Men are so strange - I've tried watching a few rv shows aimed at men, like swat and the rookie - i get the impression that they think about fighting and battle: every day

I like ones with a minor typo or error, especially if it contrasts with what could have been a quite decent AIBU, and everyone immediately starts clowning and being immensely funny. Even better if the OP gets all frothy and heated and wants us all to get back on topic. Sometimes I think about the Quern and “Er ner, call nern nern nern” and have to have a little sit down.

Intractable, stubborn, completely unreasonable OPs who double-down in their batshittery are also enjoyable.

I don’t mind a frothy wall of text because it often leads to comedy gold.

Yeah these are great but I often find myself being like Come On!!!

Parking and planning CFery. With MS paint style diagrams.

Divorce and finances and money related ones

The ones where posters are convinced they look like teenagers when they’re in their 40s. I love a good babyface thread.

Also dog threads. The dog haters get so worked up and I find it funny to see them losing their minds about a dog in a cafe.

Yes!

you should read the post - it must be in classics - astounding that alot of partners said “oh about 3 times a day” 😂😂😂

The dog hating ones. It's always the same.

Someone says "Dogs in pubs / cafes blablabla"
Someone says "Long time since the last dog hating post"
Someone says "I'm a dog lover but I agree"
Someone says "Kill all dogs"
Someone says "dog owners don't know how smelly their house is"
Someone says "What about kids"
Someone says "What about me?"
Someone replies to them "I love dogs but I agree with you my dog wouldn't blablabla because he's so well behaved he has his GCSEs and driving license"
The "what about me person" replies "Thank you for being such a good dog owner"
Someone gives an actual number of days since last dog hating post
Someone says "My dog is a rescue" so people are thinking "Whaoooo RescueDog1305 is such a good person"
Someone says "I can't go to my local park without having a thousand huge dogs ripping apart my child enough is enough!!!"
Someone says "The worst is people who say "he/she just wants to play"

I'm ready for a bingo.

Also quite like the "My child does this or that" and within seconds there are 5 diagnosis of ADHD and 8 of ASD.

Oh I find those absolutely infuriating!!

I quite like the ones where hapless posters who are trapped into giving someone a lift. The they could just say no. In fact it is the only way out of the situation.

Also the ones where the OP asks for opinions, is overwhelmingly found to be unreasonable and then accuses everyone else of being bullies.

@FastFood This is brilliant. I’m a certified dog-hater and I will bound over to any dog thread like an off-lead dog to a terrified toddler for exactly that pattern. It’s strangely soothing. And just as @AlwaysFlats finds it funny seeing the dog haters frothing, I find it equally funny watching the hound lovers get worked up that we don’t like dogs. It’s a weird thing the pro/anti-dog leagues of MN have in common: a mutually satisfying relationship.

I still always remember the mad Te Noihydc thread!

I'm always amazed at how many people don't even bother to check the title of their OP before pressing 'post'.

Any CF thread - especially those involving parking or bill splitting.

General 'tell me your CF stories' threads are just amazingly entertaining. We must be due a new one by now; I'd start one but I can't think of an example that's happened to me to kick it off with (lucky me!)

Oh yes, all the dh/partner/mil/ds/dd did or said something remotely odd or non consequential and before they know it Mumsnetters have diagnosed them as being on the spectrum!

Maybe it’s dementia

Woo threads are quite good but I was gutted to learn the Forest one was fake!

Parking ones for me! I have actually one to share but I know it will garner interest and I hate posters that don't reply!

@pelargoniums oh yes! Anyone over 50 who does anything remotely odd gets a dementia diagnosis!

The ones where the OP comes back plenty of times! I hate one off questions with replies and no responses.

😂 They are very funny and predictable.

I like bad parenting ones where for example someone has let one child run round a restaurant with the other sitting watching someone on an iPad full blast without headphones.
Someone has politely asked if the children could sit at the table and lower the iPad volume and the OP asks if they were unreasonable to scream at them to fuck off and that their kids were just being kids.

It’s usually 95% all agreeing the OP was BU but the other 5% saying they let also their kids run round and that English people are completely intolerant to kids. This usually leads to a debate where European children are either portrayed to be little angels who sit and eat quietly (usually French children) or have more freedom and can stay up later and run around being kids (usually Italian.)

Either that or OP backtracks when the majority say YABU and claim the iPad was only on very low volume and the other child just ran a couple of laps round their table and all the tables were miles and miles apart.

The two threads I can think of was the one where someone let their kids run round a hotel lobby, they were told they were BVU but one poster mentioned she just let her kids tear up and down hotel corridors “as long as it was after 9am” as though that was completely ok.

Another where the OP said her kids were stood on chairs in a restaurant shouting and waving to kids at another table and her partner wasn’t happy. As soon as people told her she was in the wrong she tried to change it completely saying her child had just given a quick wave and called a quick hello and the whole restaurant thought it was adorable.

Nothing divides people as much as parenting differences!