Threads that have stayed with you

The lady who fostered the baby born addicted as the most devastating/inspirational

and Sistine Chapel as the most WTF

Gutted to have missed it

I too loved Somervilles threads. Sadly widowed with young children after being in a loving marriage. She was braving dating again and we all went along for the ride as she dated and fell in love again. I believe later threads updated that they went on to have a baby together.

A lady posted about how ridiculous a school WhatsApp group had got and how OTT the other school Mums were, the other Mums happened upon the thread and there was a showdown. I was hooked. It got deleted.

Pamela
A few years ago a lady posted about her dp spending xmas with his ex rather than with her when she was 38wks pregnant. The thread continued, she had her baby and not long after it transpired her partner had slept with the ex and got her pregnant too. The OP got piled on no end and the usual keyboard warriors dug out some posts from years ago where the OP had had SS involvement. For some reason this thread stuck with me, perhaps as she lived around the corner so I could picture her with her baby in winter waiting for the bus etc. I still think of her now years later and hope she is ok.

My own thread from years ago when my ds had meningitis and night after night loyal mnrs held my hand virtually through the nights of dispair. I will never forget the kindness and compassion shown.

On the uglier side of MN there was a woman who was
so indignant that she had been called a Karen by some black teenagers in the park. It transpired that she had shouted at an autistic little black girl for jumping in a puddle next to her and had splashed the OP's dog. As she was berating the little girl, the girls dad had intervened (he was tending to his other you g child, who had fallen) hence he was a few minutes behind the puddle jumping girl. OP then goes on to have a shouting match at the dad who she felt was 'ever so intimidating'. It was so clear through her post, how entitled she felt and how indignant she was. She had no regard or remorse for making a disabled little girl scared and upset. And she had nothing but support from most posters. It showed a very ugly side to
MN. It broke my heart.

I was going to say Pamela. She was unreal. I think if her husband and son. I hope they're ok.

The one about what we did for our PFBs.....I still laugh remembering the woman who squirted Johnsons Baby Shampoo into her own eyes, to check it wouldn't sting her PFBs eyes 😄

TrickyTreeLou, chutney man.

I remember the crow one, I never trust crows now. The woo thread with the guy at the Disco still gives me the shivers years later.

Can't remember the thread, but someone had asked for ideas for things to do with kids. Mumsnetters gave great suggestions including museums etc. Someone replied saying something like kids shouldn't be taken to places like museums etc as they are boring and not for kids. I found that reply really sad and think of it often. Kids are missing out on education, culture and new experiences because a adult has deemed it boring for them.

When Somerville found love again after her bereavement. That was a wonderful thread.

There was a lady in her early 40's who was pregnant with her first baby by a lover who was not committed and who didn't want the child. She was able to go it alone and really wanted the baby but complied with his wishes and terminated. She was so sad and was clinging to some hope that the termination had actually failed. It hadn't. The man was living his carefree life and she was dealing with that grief. I think about her often and hope she found some peace.

A lady with Saz in her username...she thought that her husband was falling in love with his colleague. It was so sad and her dignity about it was just astounding.

I think it was a couple of years ago now, but I still think about her sometimes and hope she's found happiness.

Oh that woman was outstanding. She passed away from cancer in the end. What a loss to the world.

Pamela was relatively recent - I think of her too. TQ, for whom the mumsnet gin bottle emoji was created, is also missed…. Along with Cat Theif Keith and her most infamous of threads. I would like to know that Onnit is ok (& her dipshit ex got his comeuppance somehow🤞).

I came on the say about the ‘RunningInTheRain’ poster. I think about her whenever any of my friends get dumped - she behaved with so much dignity and her ex ended up kicking himself and trying to come crawling back. Ha! I hope she’s happy these days, what a star.

The bloke that clapped his hands and skipped about in an elephantine manner as he was going to be a grandad. The kids had absolutely nothing but to say he was pleased and couldn't wait was an understatement. The thread still gets updated.

The one where a woman posted whose husband kept the garage locked and never allowed her in it. The OP stoutly resisted all the sensible suggestions made by MNers and then went away.
Probably a troll but there you go.

The one where the DH ate the fat balls that had been made for the birds, thinking they were a tasty homemade snack. Cried laughing at that one.

A thread a few years ago about hygiene where a poster said that the soapy water that ran off her stomach in the shower was sufficient to clean her genitals. I see her post regularly now and cannot unthink the thoughts I had

Is there a link to that one?

Ah, not the same, thank goodness. Not sure I could bear to read about it all unfolding in real time.

Maybe I'm a year out, this lady was Scottish but lived in NI and was a beautician.

She came over as a really lovely person - it was very heart wrenching.

@Cinnamonkie I remember the stolen woods, as the same poster was also on the pregnant after miscarriage thread I was on. I still think of her often and hope things are better for her now.

100% the embarrassing things you did as a child thread

It makes my gut ache laughing

Omg, I actually know someone called Pamela who died of bile duct cancer, though it was the year before last, not last year. Perhaps I should take a look for the thread.