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

Like the ones where the person in the wrong gets their just desserts . Can be about anything but as long as the underdog wins l love it 😊

You have just reminded me of something mentioning the baby face thread.

What happened to the OP who was pregnant and obsessed with her appearance and posted pictures of herself asking if she needed to lose weight and how old she looked?
Every post was about fake tan, hair or make up and worrying if she’d have time for it after having her baby.
Even after she had the baby she never mentioned him and just constantly worried about her hair or mentioned her YouTube channel.

Lots of posters constantly advised her to seek help and support but she ignored it.

She hadn’t posted for a long time and I have thought about her a few times and hope she got the help she needed. Either that or just focused on her baby and now isn’t as worried about how she looks and is just happy being a new mum.

She made a lot of posts in a short time and just disappeared, she did change names a lot so maybe I’ve missed some. I hope that’s because she’s made peace with herself.

Threads without a long context-changing drip feed.
There's currently one in 30 Days (sorry, not in AIBU - but could have been) with a massive double-dip drip that completely changes the entire circumstance.

That's so sad, hope she's doing better

The CF ones.

I might be alone here, but I love the utterly batshit ones.

They come in two types,

1. Where the op is clearly a completely toxic/snobby/deluded/unhinged (delete as appropriate) individual, who won’t listen to the 99% that tell her she’s absolutely unreasonable.
2. The clearly completely made up, nonsensical, goady posts

🤣🤣

I also like when one of the RF posters venture onto the AIBU board and try to start a post that is horrible about Meghan. They get their arse handed to them because other than the obsessed people on the RF board who hate Meghan, most other people either don’t care or don’t have the Meghan hating obsession that they do. No doubt they convince themselves that we’re all wrong and then go back to the RF board to spread more hatred there about her.

There's a weird group on the Internet who HATE her 😄😄 they're so obsessed, I just cringe

I like it when someone posts about their DH potentially going away on a stag do shortly after their second or third baby is due, they’re a little worried, will they be able to manage, etc. It brings out the real lunatics:

”I had an EMCS with triplets in the back of a broken-down Robin Reliant on the M25 during Storm Arwen and I still did the school run for my stepchildren the next day because my DH was disappeared by a brutalist regime, why can’t you?”

”Pregnancy isn’t an illness, newborns are easy, they simply sleep all the time, always, never ever heard of a difficult pregnancy or a colicky baby in my life, you liar.”

“He’s allowed to have FUN you know, it’s YOU who’s having the baby, why are you POLICING his DOWNTIME.”

”But you knew when you got pregnant that you already had a child? Why didn’t you think of his potential holidays before?”

”Gently, get the fuck over it.”

😄

Yes, I love an underdog 🤭

The threads where the OP is soon revealed to be the unreasonable one, yet they steadfastly refuse to see why and usually flounce off.

Competitive under eating posts are my absolute favourite but I also enjoy the all germs are bad, I throw out anything within 3 weeks of a best before date posts. I rarely read posts that are really long, or if they mention ADHD or the word Neurodiverse. Not interested.

Parking ones, esp with diagram
Planning permission ones
Inheritance ones
Christtmas fridge/tree ones
Rings ones (I just love looking at other people’s jewellery)
CF ones

I lurk a lot on MN because I don’t live in the UK anymore but can still vote. MN tells me so much that the papers/ news can’t. Stuff about PIP and schools and CoL I only ever hear about properly on here.

there Are Christmas tree fringe posts 👀 this is news to me

Yeah mumsnet is good - I like it because if I have a specific question, I can usually find an answer on mumsnet (similar to reddit, only with adults)

Ones where the OP comes along to ask if she is unreasonable for not answering the door as someone is knocking. And has jumped behind the sofa shaking and trembling with fear. And then sometimes even asks this forum who it could be at the door.

Hmm I’d say live updates.
I’m pretty sure Christmas 2006 didn’t happen properly in a lot of households due to absolute scenes on mumsnet.

Omg what happened 😄👀

There was one recently by someone upset about a Facebook post from 3 years ago that may or may not have been about her from an ex colleague

The ones asking a question, where people don't take a couple of minutes to read through the thread despite it being quite a new post, and repeat something over and over as if they are coming up with something new. 👍

I'm amused by the unreasonable requests from brides

I love the 'celebs you've met' threads.

I also enjoy the dating/relationship ones. I've pretty much given up on it now, but it's useful to sometimes give others the benefit of my experience ... especially if they're being a bit red flag blind!

Teenager ones are good. Sometimes it's handy to know that my 15 year old isn't that bad! I don't mean that in a smug comparative way at all. Just that it's hard sometimes, especially as a single mum, and I like the reassurance!

There was a recent thread where a new mum was struggling, and the VAST majority of posters were so kind and understanding. It really was Mumsnet at its best

There's loads of others, to be honest. I reckon I've used Mumsnet more over this Christmas break than I ever have

Ones where people don't ruin it by wilfully misunderstanding answers or flying in with weird accusations.

Ones that don't seem made up - there's someone out there asking if they can eat 9 day old cooked and chilled poultry. As John McEnroe would say 'you cannot be serious!'

I like the ones with quite a straightforward dilemma - 'I can hear Jim and Sally upstairs shagging - should I tell them?' or 'My neighbour has called me Debbie for the last 11 years but my name's Danielle' - which bring out the Helpful Letter Suggesters, who create ever-more wordy and earnest texts to help inflame clarify the situation.