Most ridiculous things you’ve been criticised for on mumsnet

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Lighthearted…
What’s been the most silly things you’ve been heavily criticised for on mumsnet?

Got asked just a few days ago if I “used my ex husband for childcare”. For his own children.

In another name I was chastised when I said the Captain Tom.moore thing was insane and dodgy!

Have you seen the recent thread.about McDonald's chips and ice cream ?

That I was totally unreasonable to have my children at home after school while I was WFH - they should be in childcare so I can "work properly" and they could be "adequately cared for"

They are 8, 12 and 15 - they just watch TV after school FFS!

For letting my child play GTA online. Letting kids have mcdonalds. Letting kids have ipads. The 3 unforgivable sins.

I have been called a man a few times, I then go look in my knickers to remind myself what I am

I was called all the names under the sun for calling dps dd 'an evil,spiteful little bitch'

I stand by it-she pulled some awful stunts to break dp and I up,didn't expect to work (we where meant to pay her way for every single whim and kiss her arse at all times) and caused so much trouble,simply for her own amusement

When I said she should get a job and pay a tiny amount of rent,she went scorched earth on me (my own dc all got jobs and all paid a small amount in housekeeping at her age)

She contacted my narcissistic family (who I'm nc with) telling them so many lies,which in turn caused so much trouble for me,ditto my friends (they ignored her) and as her final hurrah,she found some 'personal photos' on dps laptop and sent them to every member of my family,their friends,her mother,her grandad,my workplace/colleagues and then put them on the Internet

I was in the wrong for not kissing her arse,paying her way (on utter crap like taxis,plants,food she didn't eat,posh oat/almond milks she didn't drink and her nails and hair) but she wasn't in the wrong for not even thinking of getting a job and sitting around on the sofa waiting for a rich man to marry

I was paying for her food (about 3/4 she'd demand what to buy but didn't eat but just binned it) clothes (that she'd just dump on the floor or cut them up) and her phone

She was 18 at the time-plenty old enough to get a part time job and pay her own way (I wasn't asking the earth-just £25 a week)

That I would have supported but I'm damned if I'm slogging my guts out at work to pay for a spoilt brat who was trying her hardest to destroy my life and very almost succeeded

I guess some people had evil stepmother and I took the brunt of it

I called someone a fan girl and was accused of being like the Taliban.

My gran put all 4 of hers down in the orchard. Was good for them hahaha

I was criticised for NOT using a loo brush, eg I wipe off any marks on the inside of the loo with tissue, rather than the brush, and then use the brush for a scrub over with loo cleaner. Apparently, even though it’s a small but thick wedge of paper, and nothing could possibly get onto my hands, which get washed anyway, I am “rank” .

Making my guests take their shoes off in the house.

Having a clutter free house, because being tidy and clean means I can't have a nice cosy house. It must be piled high with bits and pieces. The thought of clutter and having stuff everywhere makes me all jittery and uncomfortable.

This is JUST the sort of thing my DH would do!

Are you sure you’re “rank” and not “grim”? That’s surely the standard term for everyone who doesn’t douse themselves and their family in bleach every time they do a wee.

Being a cyclist. People are quick to attack without actually knowing me. I’m very considerate to other road users and part of a club with strict road etiquette but I’m still a nuisance, aggressive (no idea where that even came from) and jump red lights (never in my life) apparently. Again no evidence - just assume!

For being a man on a parenting forum whose owners have repeatedly said that men are welcome to join.

I said dishwashers were lazy once. Was great fun

Being a man. (I'm not).

I forgot the one time I posted to say id been sexally assaulted at work-7 times In 8 years (retail)

One poster told me that this couldn't have happened,I was lying and 'why doesn't a manager follow you around?'

My own personal bodyguard!

Another poster called me a liar when I said I've caught god knows how many teens having sex in our toilets/vaping/smoking/getting pissed/shoving boxer shorts down the toliet and shitting on them/junkies shooting up/men 'accidently' going into the ladies-the list is endless

Apparently we should have a member of staff on each toliet door,supervising who goes in/out

We are that short staffed,we are all doing the work of 3 people-we cannot have 3 members of staff just standing outside the toliet doors all shift

Tell me you've never worked with the public without saying 'I've never done retail...'

Not critical exactly but I often spell words wrong and get a PA and sanctimonious as fuck helpful "I think you mean/I think you'll find it's spelt" response. You can feel the glee coming off them that they get to point it out.

There’s a circle in hell reserved for sanctimonious spell checkers like that!

We all got that. Posts deleted and everything

It was obviously a con, pandemic insanity that was.

😂 yeah I've had a similar one of those too. Some people are extreme.

I sincerely hope so!

Quitting potty training because my dd clearly wasn’t ready and was crying fearfully at the potty/toilet. I was told that I should force her the same way I should force her to brush her teeth. Last time I checked, not brushing teeth can be detrimental to her oral health whereas having a few more months in nappies is unlikely to cause any deep rooted issues.

My first ever post on Mumsnet was asking AIBU to be angry at my MIL for strapping my 9 month old DS into her car in his bouncy chair using two seatbelts because she couldn't remember how to do up the straps on his car seat.

I was extra angry as DS (and bouncy chair) was positioned behind 14 yr old DD (in front passenger seat) in the car and they'd both have been seriously injured or worse in a crash.

I was ripped apart for not purchasing a rear facing carseat for DS for MILs car even though that had nothing to do with my post. It's not as if he'd have been safer with the bouncy chair faced backwards! This was over 10 years ago too so rear facing for older babies just wasn't as widely accepted as it is now.

I already had horrendous postnatal anxiety and OCD and the posters attacking me actually said things like "you can't blame your MIL for risking your baby's life when you clearly don't care either". God, it was awful. I'm amazed I ever came back on here.