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

[thinkaboutthepepilepticdogs]

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?

If you are then I am too. I'm extremely fond of several posters here,though there's also a few people,not many, that I really dislike.

oh, well liking peoplw you've never met is fine.
especially if it's me.

am beginning to wonder if anyfucker actually IS me?

Half the fun, though, is working out just who you can provoke into a knicker-filling frenzy that will, with any luck, bring in half a dozen other squawking acolytes. Nothing like a good game of poke-the-piggy-with-a-stick online.

I get tired when the same old faces turn up again and again to criticise anyone who may actually buy something aimed at parents, or, gasp, actually do something they read about in a book, i.e.:

"individual fromage frais, you are mad, you should be churning your own organic yoghurt, children don't need individual fromage frais you idiot."

Or:

"why the hell do you want to read about something that might help your baby to sleep through? You should just put it in a sling and breastfeed while you do the dishes because that is what I did."

I actually find that some of the people I disagree with I like the most. I could quite happily name 2 or 3 MNers with whom I disagree on nearly everything. But I respect them enormously for being erudite, well-reasoned, confident and interesting posters. I just disagree with their ideas.

I'm not awfully fond of posters who call themselves JakeyWakeysMummyWummy3477362662 and write thing like 'ne bodee out there want 2 talk about prams 4 hours?' I can find solace in neither the content nor their posting style.

arf at showofhands.

Ah I love those ones. "throw away the books AND THEN DO IT MY WAY"

I love anybody who says arf too.

no platesmasher, I am just stalkin' ya

Exactly Libra

Oh how true ShowOfHands!

And while on the subject of prams, can we include in that anyone who posts along the lines of
'AIBU to resent someone who looked vaguely working class walking within two yards of my Buggaboo. Germs might have flown off said person and landed on the £100 pram cover'

"I get tired when the same old faces turn up again and again to criticise anyone who may actually buy something aimed at parents, or, gasp, actually do something they read about in a book"

GirlsAreLoud that is exactly how I feel about people on the style & beauty thread who gasp and condemn because you are willing and/ or able to spend more than £2 on a top. Or who accuse you of 'showing off' when you ask for an honest opinion on a piece of clothing, simply bc it is pricier than Primark. I'm like, if I could afford to just throw away money on this kind of stuff, would I bother soliciting opinions?? I'd just buy it, decide it was shite and give it to my (immigrant, non-tea-drinking, or at least not in my house) cleaner to do the dusting with.

I've been told several times how awful my dc's names are, but that's cool, I don't mind that. As long as they're well dressed, innit.

I think if you own a pram called a BuggerBoo you deserve everything you get frankly.

People who say thankyou to only the people who agree with them on AIBU threads annoy me. If you only want people who validate your decision/opinion then post elsewhere.

Likewise those who flounce because people dared to tell them they were being unreasonable.

re: style & beauty, to be fair, that happens far less since TroutPout left. Or left and came back renamed or whatever she did.

I get irritated by the people that respond to threads where someone is complaining about a family member doing something strange by saying that they should be forever thankful that the family member in question is even interested and part of their life.

Example:

"My MIL wears my clothes when I'm not about and insists on my DD calling her Mummy"

Answer:

"Oh for gods sake at least she has a grandmother that loves her!"

Yes, cos that's helpful how exactly?

roller Equally, the ones that say 'well, at least you have a sister/mother/etc'

i don't really remember people long enough to hate them. i do have folk i like to see.

maybe you need to get out more.

eleanora oh, I don't hate them, just take a bit of a dislike thats all.

do you dislike me now!

No, of course not!

I do sometimes go out, I promise!

"those who flounce because people dared to tell them they were being unreasonable"

was that aimed at me thunderduck?

actually i lie there are about 2 or 3 mners whom i regards as nobs

eleanora yes, you see I think we all do!