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[sixdinnersid83]

I have been surprised at how many long term posters on there turned out to be your basic troll.

 

[Gemgemgemgem]

I had plenty of those quinoa kids around for play dates. They demolished our pantry. They’re usually the ones at birthday parties gorging on as much junk as possible as they’re so deprived then end up sugar crashing!
I was one of them. Was never allowed chocolate or sweets as a child so now I have no self control I did the Boston marathon and ate 3 packs of haribo and 12 (yes 12!) Mars bars over 42km while passing everyone munching on their bananas and energy gels

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

I've really grown to dislike mumsnet.

I was banned from there a while ago for saying that I thought this sudden non binary trend is a load of bollocks. Something like 90% of the poll voters agreed with me but because a couple of the professionally offended got the hump I was booted off. Note how I was the only poster banned despite almost all of the commenters agreeing and giving their take on it, some of which were far more scathing than my OP.

I tried to sign up again a couple of times when I felt I had something constructive to add to a post or well meaning advice to give to somebody who was asking for support, only to be automatically banned again for being a 'PFB'

You're not allowed an opinion on there if it is remotely controversial. The site owners are too concerned with bad press to give a shit about the sites actual users.

Before being banned I had a separate thread in on another thread asking for support myself. I received some brilliant replies from kind posters about a very sensitive subject at a vulnerable time that was causing me alot of upset in my personal life as I didn't have anybody offline I could talk to about it. Poof went that thread though because the moderators 'had some concerns and wanted to look behind the scenes'

Er no, I wasn't a troll you twats (MN) merely a heavily pregnant woman needing advice on a forum designed to support such people.

Wankers.

I love how you’re not allowed to discuss gender but calling the resident full time parent of your partner’s children scum is pretty standard over there

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

I honestly believe that if they put such mystics around food that it'll damage the child in the long run. Kids want to eat cake at parties. As long as they're not eating cake for every meal what's the problem?

Agree - also not saying you have to go with the crowd on everything / would you jump off a cliff if they were, but surely needlessly othering your child from such a young age is going to have emotional effects later on? :/

 

[Sunlifeover50]

I once had a really bad experience when buying a house. I still to this day can’t believe how rude and unprofessionally it was handled. To cut a long story short we think the estate agents friend wanted it too and they wouldn’t put our offer in. In my absolute despair I turned to aibu to ask for some advice as they all come across as being “clued up”. What a stupid mistake that was. To be fair the first couple of posters were mega helpful and then they just started jumping on me being REALLY personal it was like feeding time at the zoo it was a wreck of a house that needed a full upgrade (electrics, plumbing, possible structural work) with potential farm land that we wanted to look at. One poster claimed to be an estate agent and said there’s no way she’d let me buy the house because I took over 20 minutes to view it wtaf!! Apparently that made me every estate agents nightmare client, needy and a pain in the arse so no wonder she broke her industry code. Only on mumsnet do you make the biggest purchase of your life in 20 minutes!

Id read that mumsnet admin don’t really ever pull posts but they wiped it off straight away so even they must have been shocked.

 

[Goosegamer]

I opened a Covid thread this morning and the OP was rambling on about how she thinks Omicron could be a Covid-AIDS mutation because she'd read that Omicron was first found in someone who had HIV.

These people are nutters.

 

[EmilyChambers]

Only visited once, and to be honest I didn't regret it (lots of shame but no regret).
After all, who could resist the lure of someone seriously asking if anyone else keeps a glass of water by the conjugal bed for their male partner to dip his dick in to rinse it off after sex ?
The OP was quite offended at the responses.

So weird but so funny.

Aahh, the famous "penis beaker"

Honestly, people are bonkers that post on aibu

There’s someone having a fit that the postman woke her up at 7am with a delivery. She’s not had her 8 hours sleep

That one was hilarious. She genuinely cant comprehend that people get up before that time.

Husband gets up at 745 to start work at 9, child 1 gets up at 745 to leave for school at 840 and child 2 gets up for school run at 820. She didn't say why time she gets up but was utterly shocked that people had a moan at her for driving 5 minutes to school and then spend 15 minutes looking for a parking space rather than a 20 minute walk each way

 

[Captainmouse]

What a stupid suggestion. Everyone knows she should take in ironing, sell stuff on Facebook and see if she has any necter points.

Apparently used lightbulbs sell well

 

[Inforapenny]

MN is a toxic toxic place.
I sometimes go on the wedding forum, i don't know why because they're generally vile and all show off that they spent under £250 on their whole wedding and if you dare spend more you're stupid, and showy and wasting your money. They will be vile to you if you suggest spending a bit of money on your wedding.
Every MN has worn a second hand, hand me down wedding dress that their aunt Phyllis wore, they didn't have a photographer or any guests and refused to spend any money on any wedding ring. If you ask about wedding cake suggestions you get a tirade of "that's so wasteful" ..."we didn't have a cake"..."who has a wedding cake on their wedding"

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[Kaylon8083]

I also hate the term give yourself a shake on there.

I also hate the MN threads where they ask “What happened to this poster? And I haven’t heard from poster X for years? Then suddenly said posters appear (or name change/change from sock puppet account to the old one) and posters are falling over themselves to fawn over them.

 

[Gemgemgemgem]

Every other post now is about how nobody can be happy. Nobody noticed how unhappy they were before COVID but now everyone is so unhappy and life is in limbo that they fear for their children’s future as they’ll obviously be far unhappier than any other generations. Everyone else comments how they’re unhappy too. It’s strange times and they should all cut themselves some slack and allow themselves to be unhappy. They all agree with one wise commenter who believes that aspiring to be happy is unrealistic and unobtainable, you should just practice gratitude and strive to maybe one day be content. In unison they all wish to one day be content if they can ever overcome this unhappiness. Nobody they have ever met is truly happy. Those who seem happy are lying, not to be trusted or they’re just deeply unhappy and kidding themselves.

 

[Becclo44]

People on mumsnet have the lamest most basic sense of humour. Someone posts something maybe slightly a little bit possibly ‘amusing’ and there are hundreds of calls for it to be in Classics within minutes, before the thread’s even gone anywhere!

 

[EmilyChambers]

There’s a thread on there atm about someone who doesn’t want the childminder to give her 14 month old any sugary treats. Which is fine. But then goes onto say her kid was happy eating raspberries while all the adults stood around eating the kids birthday cake. Poor little bugger didn’t even get any of her own cake! Why buy one in the first place?! Obviously everyone’s rushing on to outdo the OP with tales of how their kid has never touched sugar in any form and now only eats raw horse meat and grass as a teenager out of choice.

Fruit sugars can be as damaging as sweet sugars on the teeth, our dentist has always discouraged eating fruit alone.

Why buy a cake for a child who you won't let eat it?!

 

[House of Tea]

What level of desperation do you need to find that impotent looking trip attractive. I wouldn't touch Matt Hancock with someone else's fanny.

Paging @Gym&Tonic - care to explain yourself?

 

[DCICassieStuart]

There is a thread in the AIBU section by a woman who is annoyed because her husband changed the letters on her “let it snow” sticker in her window to “melon tits”

And shock horror, they live opposite a SCHOOL!
In the words of Helen Lovejoy, "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?!"

 

[Kaylon8083]

Tattle is definitely much nicer. People here are much more friendlier and I haven't seen anyone post rude sarcastic replies or sneer at anyone for having a different opinion or ask for evidence to back up their opinion.

Mumsnet is just an echo chamber now full of mean joyless bitter women who never left the mean girls mentality in the playground.

I've now blocked the website on my phone.

Any thread of interest gets deleted or someone with a different opinion comes on to destroy it. An example of this is someone who is trying to spread some joy on a Covid thread or a leaver trying to calmly explain why they voted differently

Anyone who dares post something joyful on the Covid thread or tries to explain why they voted differently gets their thread derailed.

As soon as they post it, you almost know that a klaxon goes off and familar posters jump on the thread as they're forever on the Covid and Brexit boards and rip the OP's opinions to shreds. The OP gives up and goes away and it just becomes an echo chamber.

Some posters remind me of my ex - he thought his opinions and likes were the best and everyone who thought differently was a brainwashed sheep or had crap taste.

The black and white thinking on there annoys me.

 

[Hunsgraveyard]

I honestly don't know why any man of competent mind would stick around with one of that lot Has to hand over all rights to every penny he earns, can't go to the pub/football, can't do any hobbies or see his friends and wo betide if he doesn't do at least 50% of everything even if he's worked a long week. And if he dares leave his socks on the floor...... The sad thing is the double standards, if one of them posted their "DH" was imposing conditions like that on them, it'd be LTB/he's controlling/red flag/abuse.

Me and my hubby regularly laugh at some of the mad shit on there

 

[doctordoctor]

Then there‘s all the ‘I agree with AF’ that’s after 100 people have all said exactly the same thing, some eejit comes along with the ‘I agree with AF’ as if she’s the Queen Bee and they want to be in her inner circle!

 

[Gym&Tonic]

They also keep the ones that are blatantly made up and are just a creative writing exercise for the OP. ‘Rainy puddles’ being the most obvious, but once you suss them out you notice them all the time. Probably one person under several sock puppet accounts.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

There was a horrible thread the other day from a woman who was heavily pregnant, didn’t drive and was struggling to walk her son to school. Some of the comments were vile like they were getting off on kicking someone who was down. I thought it was meant to be a supportive, feminist and enclave? You’d never have thought so from reading that!