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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.

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

I posted an AIBU thread about awful service in a high end store. When they discovered I was 'only' spending £120 omg the shaaaaame! "Why would they bother about you, you're obviously a cheap skate, who only spends £120 on a 21st birthday present" etc etc etc. Fuckwits.

 

[FrannyGallops]

There was a really weird thing on MN when I first joined about birthdays. People would post saying they were upset their families hadn’t remembered their birthday or they’d only got a card from their husband and no gift and the replies would be trying to outdo themselves with how much they didn’t care about their own birthday.

‘It’s just a birthday. Who cares? Wouldn’t bother me if no one remembered’

‘DH and the kids never get me a birthday present let alone a card. In fact, they want a present each on my birthday and I’m happy to oblige even though they don’t get me anything’

‘I haven’t celebrated my birthday in so long, I’ve forgotten how old I am. It’s just another day’

MN seems to think it’s a cut above all the other chat sites out there, but the reality is they’re all bleeping insane.

 

[maytoseptember]

People would post saying they were upset their families hadn’t remembered their birthday or they’d only got a card from their husband and no gift and the replies would be trying to outdo themselves with how much they didn’t care about their own birthday.

Oh, I love it when people try to outdo each other when it comes to being cheap or not caring about things people usually care about. Weddings is another. They always start competing over who had the most low key wedding or cheapest ring.

“We only had 30 guests and had the reception in our local pub. I can’t imagine spending loads of money on a wedding”.

“Well WE only had 15 guests and didn’t have a reception at all. We just had a meal in a restaurant and came home”.

“You had a meal in a restaurant? Hubby and I got married on a Tuesday morning, grabbed two witnesses off the street, then did our weekly shop in Lidl”.

 

[sixdinnersid83]

They love Any Fucker. She’s a rude, blunt, arsey twit but I think she gets away with it because she’s one of the well known ones. She had a thread during lockdown asking if it was ok to go to her holiday home because she was fed up. Anyone else would have got a pasting, but there were loads telling her it was ok because she’s AF and deserves a holiday because of all the good advice she’s given on MN.


They’re all wankers looking for an online scrap because I think a lot of them wouldn’t dare say boo to a goose in real life. I once had an argument with someone on there about how I could have prevented my daughter developing T1 diabetes. You can’t, and if you could or there’s any known advice, I would have followed it to the letter, but that poster was adamant that in my position, she would have done everything she could to stop her child getting it (but couldn’t actually tell me what that would be. Just that she would have done it).

Silly grovelling sycophants

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.

Oh that will be the sekrit FB groups with the alerts. The same mats that do the ‘vair’ on threads and Reddit. FYI you are not funny.

 

[Youre a wizard Harry]

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 bits”

 

[Gemgemgemgem]

There’s a thread right now about a lady who is about to lose a close family member and it’s titled about experiences when a loved one passed. There’s also another thread titled something like why do people say passed instead of dead and how they’re disgusted/offended etc about people who can’t say dead or died and how disgusting it is to say passed or passed away. bleeping vile. Surely people can use whatever words they like?!

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 bits”

love that one!Fun police alert!

 

[Lady_H]

HarryToby - you’ve just reminded me of the one time I was foolish enough to start an advice thread!

I remember posting about some concerns I had about my 6yo being unable to entertain herself at home. I was really perplexed by this, because no child I’d ever encountered before was so resistant to sitting down with a toy or a puzzle or some colouring pencils and just getting on with it. I wondered if anyone else had a child like this and what did they do about it?

Someone piped up: did I take her to the park often?

To this day I do not know why that question was relevant to my dilemma.

I replied no, not really. My then-toddler was a total disaster in parks and had to be closely followed to make sure he didn’t seriously injure himself falling off a slide/walking in front of swings etc. Which meant that my older child got neglected and would stand there screaming at me to push her on the swings when I physically couldn’t. I said I found it FAR too stressful and basically couldn’t supervise two kids at the park by myself.

I got slaughtered. A massive pile on started. Post after post berating me for not taking my kids to the park. What was wrong with me, making excuses like that? Did I need help with my anxiety issues or something? It’s no wonder my child couldn’t sit down and amuse herself with toys or crafts if I didn’t take her to play outside!

I was made to feel like the shittiest parent on the planet. They spotted a chink in my armour and just attacked. I changed my username and never went back to the thread. To this day I don’t even understand how taking my kids to the park was supposed to be the answer to all my problems.

And guess what? Both of my kids were diagnosed with autism several years later. The toddler with no sense of danger? Autistic. The 6yo who couldn’t play by herself? Autistic. I wasn’t a tit parent. It wasn’t my fault.

Ooh this is such a helpful post. Sorry you had to go through that on MN. But your post has really correlated with some thing I’ve been thinking about my son. Very familiar issues. Thank you!

 

[Lurker527]

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 bits”

This one is hilarious..most of the replies are saying how immature and childish it is and how would be having serious words with DH if he thought that was amusing... they must all be a barrel of laughs at home.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

There was a really weird thing on MN when I first joined about birthdays. People would post saying they were upset their families hadn’t remembered their birthday or they’d only got a card from their husband and no gift and the replies would be trying to outdo themselves with how much they didn’t care about their own birthday.

‘It’s just a birthday. Who cares? Wouldn’t bother me if no one remembered’

‘DH and the kids never get me a birthday present let alone a card. In fact, they want a present each on my birthday and I’m happy to oblige even though they don’t get me anything’

‘I haven’t celebrated my birthday in so long, I’ve forgotten how old I am. It’s just another day’

MN seems to think it’s a cut above all the other chat sites out there, but the reality is they’re all bleeping insane.

Plus the guaranteed 'Are you five years old, OP?'.

Well yes, yes I am. I grew up in an abusive household where birthdays weren't celebrated (apart from the main abuser, who always got expensive gifts to try and keep her on side). So somebody not bothering to get me a card and a present means I am instantly plummeted back into the feeling of being a small child wondering why I didn't get a little tea party, a pretty dress, cake with candles and a card with a pretty wrapped gift to unwrap when other children did - and being told it was because they weren't horrible children like me and then I was too old and laughed at for looking unhappy from the age of 8 'Oh, look, she's got a face on her because she thinks she should have got a birthday present like a little baby'.

I wouldn't post on one of those threads though, because I have no desire to be inundated with exactly the same sort of abuse I had for years. And no amount of therapy would change that (you know people would reply that I'd need psychiatric treatment) feeling - because it is a perfectly reasonable reaction to be sad at not feeling loved or valued.

 

[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 bits”

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

 

[Traveler001]

This one is hilarious..most of the replies are saying how immature and childish it is and how would be having serious words with DH if he thought that was amusing... they must all be a barrel of laughs at home.

Someone was like 'I'd be wondering if I ever really knew my husband at all'

 

[Hunsgraveyard]

This one is hilarious..most of the replies are saying how immature and childish it is and how would be having serious words with DH if he thought that was amusing... they must all be a barrel of laughs at home.

Me and my hubby read that and were crying with laughter, and thought it was really funny he'd done it. They really do go out of their way to be joyless indignant old busibodies don't they?!?

 

[Traveler001]

Plus the guaranteed 'Are you five years old, OP?'.

Well yes, yes I am. I grew up in an abusive household where birthdays weren't celebrated (apart from the main abuser, who always got expensive gifts to try and keep her on side). So somebody not bothering to get me a card and a present means I am instantly plummeted back into the feeling of being a small child wondering why I didn't get a little tea party, a pretty dress, cake with candles and a card with a pretty wrapped gift to unwrap when other children did - and being told it was because they weren't horrible children like me and then I was too old and laughed at for looking unhappy from the age of 8 'Oh, look, she's got a face on her because she thinks she should have got a birthday present like a little baby'.

I wouldn't post on one of those threads though, because I have no desire to be inundated with exactly the same sort of abuse I had for years. And no amount of therapy would change that (you know people would reply that I'd need psychiatric treatment) feeling - because it is a perfectly reasonable reaction to be sad at not feeling loved or valued.

I'm sorry for what you've been through.

It's the same on the adults who like Disney threads, no thought as to why adults might like disney just are you 5/it's creepy etc.

 

[DuckDuck]

They’ve had the cheek to call us Tattlers bleeps ! Someone pointed out that MN was much more vile . They are absolute people over there that wouldn’t dare say to someone’s face what they say online. None of them like their husbands / wives partners going out for a pissup if they are out beyond 11pm or god forbid early hours said other halves are hand wringing , anxious , constantly phoning and texting and are nearly calling hospitals ffs
They are always saying how selfish the other one is and how they are parents now and shouldn’t be going out on the piss.

 

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Sorry to lower the tone, but it always amazes me how many of them claim to never fart in front of their ‘DH’. There are some who’ve been married for 20 plus years and have never farted in front of them. Do they have corks stuck up their backsides or something?

I mean if you can’t trump in your own home when can you? Everyone farts, it’s natural and normal.

 

[DuckDuck]

Yay !!! I called ‘ not in the spirit of MN ‘ the night that Hinch one went up
It’s just been pulled .. * bows , I thank you *
Someone had said never has the word bleep been used in one thread as much AND she’d been on the Christine mcginness thread

 

[gigilouxx]

They don’t have to LTB, they could book a spa date and dump the kids with him to get back at him!

Thats my bleeping fave "OH drinks a lot and never looks after the kids properly"
First reply "book a spa weekend and just go and let him wake up to the kids" hahahahaa

 

[FrannyGallops]

Has anyone seen the thread on MN about someone wanting to make a Hinch hamper for their sister? Tattle gets a mention as ‘vile’, before the thread descends into posters calling each other wankers and bleeps. The irony!

 

[sixdinnersid83]

Has anyone seen the thread on MN about someone wanting to make a Hinch hamper for their sister? Tattle gets a mention as ‘vile’, before the thread descends into posters calling each other wankers and bleeps. The irony!

sounds like a certain PBP and her gang.