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Anonymous wrote:The one who calls people dummy. Who says that?

I do, dummy!

Hahahaha

I do too.

Does dum-dum count?

Dum dum doesn’t bother me as much but dummy is like nails on a chalkboard. I am picturing a high maintenance type A single woman who judges everyone and lives with lots of cars every time I read it. Am I close?

No, dummy.

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous. They’re the worst.

LOL!

Anonymous. They’re the worst.

*cats. Not cars

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The one who calls people dummy. Who says that?

I do, dummy!

Hahahaha

I do too.

Does dum-dum count?

Dum dum doesn’t bother me as much but dummy is like nails on a chalkboard. I am picturing a high maintenance type A single woman who judges everyone and lives with lots of cars every time I read it. Am I close?

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Anonymous wrote:The people who post about the same situation over and over but never listen to advice.

The posters who regularly reply to threads “You’ve posted this before” because it vaguely resembles another thread from several years ago. (1) it’s probably a different poster, (2) anyone who spends enough time on DCUM to notice these similarities has a much bigger issue anyway.

I frequently recognize posters and their stories! I don’t always call it out, but I have a few times when they tell a story just differently enough to make a point in a new narrative. Yes, I am on DCUM way to much. But I also have a bizarrely good memory, to the point where when I see, say, a BBC documentary about the Plantagenet dynasty, I can remember a specific textbook and a specific area of the page where I’ve read about Eleanor of Aquitaine before. It’s a blessing and a curse.

Some of my favorite repeat stories:
FIL who “bypasses” [very specific description] the other bathrooms in the house to poop in the master bathroom.
The poster who watches “Gone With the Wind” on AMC the day before Thanksgiving while she makes her pies (I wonder if they even air that anymore)
The poster who told off her MIL over the Thanksgiving table and has no regrets
There are many posters who switch viewpoints as DIL and MIL, but there’s one who repeats stories from different perspectives, and I always recognize her style of writing

I love this poster and how reliably she appears anytime a post includes some combination of the words bathroom, houseguest, and FIL. What I'm not sure about is whether she is the same person whose ILs come stay for weeks and eat tons of "fresh organic berries" and DH keeps taking them shopping on his credit card. [b]

I'm the PP, and I know exactly who you are talking about! And everyone is like, just buy apples/oranges/grapes while they visit, dummy, and the OP of that thread is just like, "They keep eating all the organic berries and expensive snacks that we keep buying!"

Anonymous wrote:I feel like Elaine Benes but the exclamation points are off the charts here. I don't mind so much within posts, but subject lines make me crazy.

There's always someone in celebrities who posts exclamation point celebrity news. So-and-so is pregnant! Angelina Jolie's kid wears her Oscar dress on the red carpet! Just inane stuff that doesn't require a giddy exclamation point. Makes the poster seem dim, to be honest.

Today there was one in real estate - listing proves housing bubble! Idiotic.

It’s the world now. Exclamation points and emojis. Sigh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who post about the same situation over and over but never listen to advice.

The posters who regularly reply to threads “You’ve posted this before” because it vaguely resembles another thread from several years ago. (1) it’s probably a different poster, (2) anyone who spends enough time on DCUM to notice these similarities has a much bigger issue anyway.

I frequently recognize posters and their stories! I don’t always call it out, but I have a few times when they tell a story just differently enough to make a point in a new narrative. Yes, I am on DCUM way to much. But I also have a bizarrely good memory, to the point where when I see, say, a BBC documentary about the Plantagenet dynasty, I can remember a specific textbook and a specific area of the page where I’ve read about Eleanor of Aquitaine before. It’s a blessing and a curse.

Some of my favorite repeat stories:
FIL who “bypasses” [very specific description] the other bathrooms in the house to poop in the master bathroom.
The poster who watches “Gone With the Wind” on AMC the day before Thanksgiving while she makes her pies (I wonder if they even air that anymore)
The poster who told off her MIL over the Thanksgiving table and has no regrets
There are many posters who switch viewpoints as DIL and MIL, but there’s one who repeats stories from different perspectives, and I always recognize her style of writing

I love this poster and how reliably she appears anytime a post includes some combination of the words bathroom, houseguest, and FIL. What I'm not sure about is whether she is the same person whose ILs come stay for weeks and eat tons of "fresh organic berries" and DH keeps taking them shopping on his credit card.

Anyone who thinks they have ptsd from the thought of running out of toilet paper and canned vegetables.

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Anonymous wrote:The people who post about the same situation over and over but never listen to advice.

The posters who regularly reply to threads “You’ve posted this before” because it vaguely resembles another thread from several years ago. (1) it’s probably a different poster, (2) anyone who spends enough time on DCUM to notice these similarities has a much bigger issue anyway.

I frequently recognize posters and their stories! I don’t always call it out, but I have a few times when they tell a story just differently enough to make a point in a new narrative. Yes, I am on DCUM way to much. But I also have a bizarrely good memory, to the point where when I see, say, a BBC documentary about the Plantagenet dynasty, I can remember a specific textbook and a specific area of the page where I’ve read about Eleanor of Aquitaine before. It’s a blessing and a curse.

Some of my favorite repeat stories:
FIL who “bypasses” [very specific description] the other bathrooms in the house to poop in the master bathroom.
The poster who watches “Gone With the Wind” on AMC the day before Thanksgiving while she makes her pies (I wonder if they even air that anymore)
The poster who told off her MIL over the Thanksgiving table and has no regrets
There are many posters who switch viewpoints as DIL and MIL, but there’s one who repeats stories from different perspectives, and I always recognize her style of writing

Anonymous wrote:The people who post about the same situation over and over but never listen to advice.

The posters who regularly reply to threads “You’ve posted this before” because it vaguely resembles another thread from several years ago. (1) it’s probably a different poster, (2) anyone who spends enough time on DCUM to notice these similarities has a much bigger issue anyway.

The posters who brag about being underweight with big breasts

The airplane noise over the Palisades, Georgetown and Brookmont poster. I'm listening to plane now and I don't care!!

Anonymous wrote:Posters who think there is just one person out there in the nether who disagrees with them. They must ALL be the same person.

Posters who make comments like this without having read all the other previous comments saying the exact same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:People who think that a woman wanting platonic attention/conversation before sex are being manipulative.

People who fill in gaps in stories with random details to make the poster look awful and then say something like “wow I feel really bad for everyone who has had to be in your presence.”

people who get upset about somebody about a high salary and low net worth; you would think with the number of people around here who went into debt for a law degree and then went into big law, it would be obvious why somebody in their early thirties would have a high salary compared to their net worth.

Agreed! Why write out a whole fictional scenario and respond to that rather than what the OP actually writes in their post?

Oh, I’m sorry that the avalanche in the Swiss Alps gave you amnesia, but I’m still on your side about your sil upstaging you in Milan and when we go to great wolf I’ll be sure to put the twins to bed early. They were only hyper because of the DH and the assistant principal at the Montessori.