Any woman who’s fallen prey to the patronising art of mansplaining will know that it’s an experience akin to banging your head against a concrete wall.

It’s painful and pointless, yet that doesn’t stop certain men – and yes, in this case it is always men – feeling moved to explain things to us that a) we already know, or b) has no benefit or relevance to the situation at hand.

The latest example of this timeless conversational spasm comes from Twitter, and has created something of an online storm as one woman’s tale of mansplaining was promptly, well, mansplained back to her by several users.

London-based writer Maud Dromgoole works in a pub, where she recently encountered an instance of mansplaining so farcical, she couldn’t help but share it:

Twitter erupts over woman's painfully familiar story of mansplaining