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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

..to really take a dislike people who I only know as paragraphs on a webpage??

350 replies

thinkaboutthepepilepticdogs · 24/08/2009 23:06

I've namechanged for this, and won't name any of the MNetters that I'm referring to (so please don't either!). BUT, do you ever find the same MNetters on threads you are commenting on - and they always disagree with what you think??

This seems to happen to me alot and I find myself really disliking them, which is ridiculous. Sat here on my computer, they aren't even real people, just paragraphs of text on the screen so how can I dislike them so much??!

Am I the only one that gets this? Or are there more of you out there that are just as irrational as me?

OP posts:
Morloth · 25/08/2009 17:02

Well you are just fucked then AnyFucker.

Could be true, sigh the opportunity never arose for me to find out .

Lizzylou · 25/08/2009 17:03

Oh and AF my mate who lived in South Africa for a number of years says the same all the time

daftpunk · 25/08/2009 17:05

part of the deal greensleeves is that you stop crashing in on threads i'm on and calling me homophobic and racist ....can you keep a deal..?

just need a one word answer.....

GreensleevesFlouncedLikeAKnob · 25/08/2009 17:06

lizzylou maybe you're right, I am being a bit oversensitive at the moment

bloody depression etc

was going to start a thread about it and maon, but didn't want to namechange (because then people who know me wouldn't) and don't want to do it under this name as people who hate me will smile [victim mentality]

agree this thread is a bit like a microcosm of MN, but MN can be a lot better than this too...

HerBeatitude · 25/08/2009 17:07

LOL at crashing on threads - do you need an invitation to post on some then?

GreensleevesFlouncedLikeAKnob · 25/08/2009 17:07

I don't want a deal with you daftpunk

I don't want anything with you

if you don't want people to react to you, don't post ridiculous offensive things

now go and bug somebody else

junglist1 · 25/08/2009 17:07

I've heard it a few times too. Why were you roasted for that?!

Morloth · 25/08/2009 17:09

So don't start the thread on AIBU Greensleeves, isn't there somewhere more suitable to getting support? What about the Mental Health/General Health boards?

AIBU is a bit of a bull pit. It is one of the things I love about it. Can't imagine anyone actually takes any of this stuff seriously enough to hate you.

Lizzylou · 25/08/2009 17:09

Greensleeves, I think both you and DP have been a tad oversensitive on this thread (start the thread, if you need to, if there are people who dislike you, they won't post, will they? That would be very shitty).

I just see two people who fundamentally disagree on lots of stuff, no attacks at all.

GreensleevesFlouncedLikeAKnob · 25/08/2009 17:11

but morloth you are one of those posters who thinks this is just a bit of light entertainment and that people shouldn't feel too deeply about stuff on MN

not everybody is like that

people DO really love/hate each other on here, trust me

Morloth · 25/08/2009 17:12

Ah, but have you ever ever seen me post anything hurtful/deliberately provoking anywhere near a support thread?

This board is not one to get involved in, there probably are boards where it is safer to do so.

daftpunk · 25/08/2009 17:12

fair enough greensleeves...but i'm gonna stick to what i said...i'll avoid you...

i can keep deals...

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GreensleevesFlouncedLikeAKnob · 25/08/2009 17:13

I doubt I'll notice tbh

Morloth · 25/08/2009 17:14

At this rate you two are going to need to get a room. It is like a damned Mills & Boon novel.

Lizzylou · 25/08/2009 17:19

DP, just leave it.
You don't agree, and I think Greeny has other things on her mind.
S'OK.

GetOrfMoiLand · 25/08/2009 17:20

Greensleeves - FWIW I absolutely didn't think your name change meant anything - my slag off of flouncers corner was solely based on some Daily Mail flouncing activity I saw last week. Wasn't a snidey comment about you. Just want to make that clear.

GreensleevesFlouncedLikeAKnob · 25/08/2009 17:22

no, I'm being a paranoid idiot, and I should clear off the AIBU section

I never think about what board things are on, I just read the titles in active conversations and react to the ones I react to

and anyway it serves me right for flouncing

am off to brood possibility of posting a "feeling shit" thread which will invite all my detractors to gloat silently at my misfortune

worriedaboutbuses · 25/08/2009 17:25

i like greeny and dp and am now discombobulated

dp i didn't read any of that stuff about homosexuals (disagree strongly) and bnp (disagree strongly) but thatcher (agree strongly)

but I think it's good sometimes to have a view that shakes people up, otherwise things get too complacent

also i have found you to be polite when not "on the case" and spiky when "on the case"

i think that's ok

greensleeves I don't want you to be upset and I don't think anyone seriously downgrades the value of the site, everyone knows people make good friends on here

when people say "it's only the internet" it's like an internal reassurance, the way people say "well it's all the same in a hundred years" -- it doesn't stop it mattering in the instant

worriedaboutbuses · 25/08/2009 17:26

ps i namechanged for something else

thinkaboutthepepilepticdogs · 25/08/2009 17:29

I'm loving the use of 'discombobulated', it not used nearly enough!!

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scottishmummy · 25/08/2009 18:10

ach its not AIBU unless someone is in a huff/feels got at/gets the wrong end of the stick

all we need is some one to say
"i'll get the popcorn"
"oh grab a hard hat"

and the cliché that is AIBU has once more become a self fulfilling prophecy

GetOrfMoiLand · 25/08/2009 18:13

Or, FFS, get a grip.

There hasn't been mammoth copying and pasting of wikipedia nonsense to support someone's claims yet, so it can't yet be a classic, scottishmummy.

mollyroger · 25/08/2009 18:15

It's one of my fave words, though I am unable to say it unles I say it in a Last Of The Summer Wine, old Tyke sort of accent....eeeh I feel reet dis-com-bob-ul-ated, tha' knows.

scottishmummy · 25/08/2009 18:17

ok noone has spouted quasi-empirical stats from Shitsville Uni .

so an emergent lil squabble that has potential for classic (perhaps)

AnyFucker · 25/08/2009 18:24

junglist, I dunno why I got such a roasting (err, is that the right term to use in this context ??? )

it must have been a very pc day on MN that day

and to be fair, it generalises about black men. Is that racist?, I dunno. I just posted my experience, as I see felt it