To think that Classics should be renamed Shittics?

[WellErrr]

.....or Trollics?

I used to love a trawl through whilst waiting for an appointment or on a train etc.

Now they're all 900 posts of placemarking, trolls who think they're funny, or someone wondering why a squirrel is sitting in a tree before finally scaring it off with a hose.

I mean come ON.

[WellErrr]

Just me then

[laidbackneko]

Not just you. I used to do the same and had me some proper belly laughs. But threads have become a bit contrived of late. The squirrel one was desperate, though it still managed to squeeze into classics thanks to a genuinely funny comment towards the end.

[whois]

The 'my DH has just eaten a fat ball should I tell him' was the BEST EVER.

[thecatfromjapan]

Ouch! Harsh!

Have to admit, I haven't had a look at Classics for years. I love it when people link to the favourites but I haven't seen any of the recent ones. Which may prove your point, I guess. [wry face]

[NeedACleverNN]

There are some in classics that are amusing.

I quite enjoyed the playgroup thread and over heard thread
"I'm 10 metres dilated=foof the size of channel tunnel." That made me laugh

The spray painted a pidgeon thread makes me laugh too "is that you Dave?"

Some are just not funny. The replies in the squirrel thread was more amusing than the actual thread itself.

[whatdoIget]

Agreed

[laidbackneko]

Just to clarify, the funny comment was not from the OP

[laidbackneko]

X posted with nn

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

A lot is rubbish but the dinner party ones are gold. Read one for about th 10th time yesterday and my fave is the anal pils.

[laidbackneko]

I mean the op of the squirrel thread, not you wellerr!

[KatieKaboom]

It used to be a lot better. More selective. They shove any old rubbish in there now.

E.g. I thought the courgette one was lame and contrived, but it achieved a sort of cult status within hours.

[NeedACleverNN]

Courgette one?

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

Agree. They are scraping the barrel when it comes to what goes in Classics these days.

[laidbackneko]

I thought the original thread about the colleague throwing away op's lunch was quite funny, again more for the replies but agree that the courgette follow up was a limp lettuce

[NeedACleverNN]

Is "my colleague hit me over the head with a courgette" the courgette one??

That's because it's a sequel thread to another one that was full. That's why it was cult status

[thecatfromjapan]

I really enjoyed the centaurs thread, though. I'm assuming that went into Classics.

I think we were a bit too picky in the past, too. I can think of a couple of threads that have vanished into the ether that I wish had been preserved in Classics.

[KatieKaboom]

It started as the mildly amusing tale of a wrongly binned sushi dinner.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2629482-My-colleague-has-thrown-my-lunch-in-the-bin

Then spawned a second thread of courgette pictures, cock jokes, IT bitches.. whatever?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2631196-My-colleague-has-twat-me-over-the-head-with-a-courgette

I didn't really understand the need for this two part fridge-related thrill fest to be Preserved For All Time, but everyone but me seemed to be going mad for it.

Probably a sense of humour failure on my part!

[KatieKaboom]

Xpost

[squoosh]

I don't expect to find all Classics threads hilarious or fascinating and I do get a bit bored with all the people who have to keep banging on about how unfunny Penis Beaker was but I kind of agree OP. The Classics standard has definitely dropped.

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

katie me too. Was never funny to start with (in my mind) is anyone going to read that back in 6 months and be entertained. Honestly? Mass hysteria and being part of 'something' a bit of fun, of course. Classic? No. (inmymiserableopinion)

[squoosh]

The lunch thread is bemusing.

[Hydroshield]

Not just you OP, although some of the older ones in Classics are amusing. Lately they just make MN look like it's a place for idiots or trolls.

The black bird in my bedroom was always a favourite of mine. Oh and Brian from Hull, but I'm not sure he actually made it into Classics.

[squoosh]

I can't remember the exact title but it went something like 'if you're raising your kids in a different country to the one you were brought up in what things do you do that other people think is bonkers'.

Twas amusing and educational!

[AuntieStella]

Classics is meant to be the best of MN.

I have a soft spot for EMIN's thread about fostering a baby with withdrawal symptoms that later spontaneously turned into her obituary.

[HowBadIsThisPlease]

Rather off-topic but I thought it was a little off and rather bad form that MN Towers started a "funny things your children have broken" thread themselves. Didn't that feel a little bit not the thing? Not the sort of thing that would have happened in the olden days?