To ask what is your favourite style of “beef” in AIBU?

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I love all sorts of wicked MIL and SIL stories, except when related to childcare of tiny babies. Followed by wicked stepmother stories and dissection of family budgets, who pays for what.

I opened this thread hoping for recipe tips 😂😂

Parking, obviously.

And weddings.

And unexpected puppies/kittens from stray or newly adopted pet.

The ones from childfree people saying they’d like to very occasionally see their friends with kids without their kids. I’m with the childfree poster on that, but they usually get little sympathy.

Sickness beef if that counts!

The threads where they ask for advice of sending their DC into school/to party/ on holiday etc when they’ve vommed 17 times in the night yet they are still adamant their decision is right and then the drama that follows kills me🙈

politics and then omg at the level of political understanding people have

I know this isn’t what the OP is asking, but I have my own personal beef with questions such as “Am I rich?” and “How much money do you need to feel secure?”

Such daft unanswerable questions, and the thread quickly fills up with high earning fantasties boasts.

Anything with a good diagram - parking, boundary disputes, arguments over trees/gardens/outbuildings, the whole shebang.

Allotment Squatting Babs: The Musical was a particular gem of that genre. There was even bonus garage-squatting content. I often wonder how the OP and her husband are getting on with their gardening now.

A nice meaty CF, particularly with Amandaland vibes, is great too. The non-RSVPing CF demanding last minute vegan pizza and a personalised party bag was a recent example.

Wedding ones.

Especially where the OP is considering taking out a credit card and forgoing a family holiday to go to the wedding/hen do of someone that they don't even like very much.

Or people who get by very well when earning £20k a year (but only later mention they own a house outright and have a trust fund).

"My MIL wants to cuddle my newborn DC. Should I go NC?"

I love it when a narcissistic or invasive relative gets to come face to face with someone with strong boundaries and gets absolutely shut down.
I like it when the op comes back and says they called the police and changed the locks or just told someone to their face to fuck right off.
As a non confrontational people pleaser, I LOVE to see that.
Good for them!!

i love the completely unhinged - faves have been babs who stole the allotment and the friend who stole the air wrap.

Filet Mignon 😂

Oh, and I like anything with a drawing/diagram 😅

I hate the CF ones because usually they’re written by such a passive op who ‘hates confrontation’ and lets people walk all over them and just complains about it without doing anything! I just want to say get a fucking grip you wet wipe 😂😂

I do like ones where the op is so adamant they’re right and everyone says they aren’t and they keep posting defending themselves making it worse. Although I do like it best when they hold their hands up and accept they may need to apologise to someone irl rather than the ones who flounce off still
convinced they were right despite the outrage of everyone else.

Yes, I wish we'd learned the outcome of the allotment story.

I do like a good parking drama.

Cheeky fuckers always. The more brazen the better

'Can I leave my 12yo home alone for 10 minutes?' Thankfully there's a few more honest and realistic responses more recently but there's still a few 'I didn't take my eyes off my little darling til the day they turned 18' 🤣

I love a cheeky fucker thread. I don't love cheeky fuckers but could do with some of their chutzpah. How do they do it with a straight face?

Cocklodgers.

I like a CF thread, definitely. I also enjoy when we have a cake thread. In these threads, a poster will upload a photo of a cake. We all have to comment on how much we would pay for it. Generally guessed will range between 50p and £900 (ok I’m exaggerating) with a few pro bakers chipping in and someone asking if it’s a reverse. 300 posts later, the OP will say that they bought the cake for a celebration and paid £X for it. Rest of thread is taken up with a discussion of if OP had value for money and if not, steps to take now.

Bloody love a 'my husband has not returned from a quick drink' thread.

Or, a stating the obvious thread ' Best friend has slept with my husband, AIBU for being upset?'

As a pp mentioned, threads where a woman is being mistreated and comes to realise it as the thread progresses, and by the end she's putting steps in place to leave. This is one area in which I feel MN can be a really helpful resource, and it helps counteract the depressingly toxic shit people post on other AIBU threads.

And CF threads, just because. 😄

Neighbours, parking, CFs, (supposedly) horrible in-laws.

I love the funny ones, where the op describes a super embarrassing incident they have just had and then everyone replies with their own stories.