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Threads that have stayed with you

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Cinnamonkie · 27/08/2024 22:25

What threads have you seen on here that have lodged themselves into your brain?

For me it's the lady who was gifted a periscope by her dh which was completely random and hilarious.

Also the lady who upset a crow and never came back! Assumed she and her dog were eaten by the crows.

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Mintyt · 30/08/2024 10:00

Thanks for the thread I've added a lot to my watch list, I remember a little boy who had a badge which was spooky

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 30/08/2024 08:00

@Cheeseeasyplease - thank you so much for your update, I am so glad that you are doing so well after all that trauma. Congratulations on your lovely daughter.

Cheeseeasyplease · 30/08/2024 02:45

@TheSquareMile

I knew I'd come up. It is incredible how the internet brings us together!

I ended up with a c-section under GA. I got to 42 weeks pregnant, 0 dilation and at a hospital that offers no pain relief of any kind (including epidural).

It turns out epidural wouldn't have worked anyway as I'm immune to local anesethia (no one believed me until I was on the operating table wiggling all over the place - especially away from the knife!).

So after my husband had given permission that they could use GA (thanks Japan) I went under.

As bad as a husband as he's been, he's an incredible dad. Poopy nappies changed, feeding schedule sorted and she's a little princess (he's lazy on her baths but I do that). It's been pure teamwork actually and while usually couples fall apart with a new born we're actually pulling though and seeing a future.

I received a lot of kindness on that thread so thank you. 😊 The doula never replied! x

PoopedAndScooped · 30/08/2024 02:22

Coinkydink · 28/08/2024 09:22

Little red toothbrush’s thread/s the courage it must have taken that day. I hope she is well and would love if some day she popped up to give us an update on how she is doing.

She posted on here

MrsPositivity1 · 30/08/2024 01:50

Pamela and Mexican house thief

Needanewname42 · 30/08/2024 01:36

I've just searched DDIJ there are a bundle of posts under the initials which are also deleted.
Could she have been a troll or something?

Needanewname42 · 30/08/2024 01:27

EllieQ · 30/08/2024 00:10

That sounds like DaughterDrowningInJunk. It was very sad - her parents would bring her things (furniture mainly) and she was so controlled by them that couldn’t refuse to take whatever they forced on her. She ended up in a house that she could barely move around in. I think they were turning the daughter against her as well. I don’t think she’s posted in the last few years.

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She hasn't all her posts have been deleted. I often think about her and wonder how she is doing.

It was mainly her mother who was abusive and controlling. DDIJ didn't have a car so clearing stuff out wasn't easy either.

Although it's odd though her thread and posts have been deleted.

Lndnmummy · 30/08/2024 00:19

AcrossthePond55 · 28/08/2024 21:47

Haven't RTFT so not sure if these have been mentioned.

This was probably 10 years ago or so. A poster was an alcoholic with a severely ill DH. She was struggling so hard to stop drinking because her DH needed her to care for him. She'd vow to stop, we'd encourage her but a day or so later she'd say she'd started drinking. I remember her because at one time she lived near where I had lived in the US so we shared memories of that place and other places we'd both visited. She abruptly stopped posting.

Seoladair's threads, although I believe she's still here under a different name.

A poster whose wealthy husband was vilely abusive and controlling. She managed to leave him and we continued communicating via PM as she walked her 'road' to a new life. She had met a new man and was pregnant by him when she must have deregg'd from MN as all her posts and PMs disappeared.

I hope they are all doing well.

Seoladair!!! Oh wow. I still think of her often. That was the first time I felt like I'd found 'friends' on mumsnet. Such a lovely supportive group of women. And hey @AcrossthePond55 lovely to see you ❤️🫶🏻

Seoladair if you are still around please dm me. I'd be so happy to hear from you.

EllieQ · 30/08/2024 00:10

Username12284949 · 29/08/2024 22:23

There was someone who used to post on here regularly, I can't remember her username it was a random mixture of letters and began with a D I think. She hated life didn't leave the house or do anything. She had a daughter who I think she claimed she didn't feel anything for and her daughter wasn't allowed to have friends over or do anything outside of the home either. I remember she had abusive parents who were still dragging her down and controlling her. She was planning to live in her car at one point. I can only vaguely remember the thread so I may have got some of those details wrong. Reddit had a thread going at the time discussing it.

That sounds like DaughterDrowningInJunk. It was very sad - her parents would bring her things (furniture mainly) and she was so controlled by them that couldn’t refuse to take whatever they forced on her. She ended up in a house that she could barely move around in. I think they were turning the daughter against her as well. I don’t think she’s posted in the last few years.

Modestee · 30/08/2024 00:03

"John Learns to Adult" I think it was called about a woman and children leaving her husband. It started as amusing real life under pressure.
It disintegrated later.

GinAndGooseberries · 29/08/2024 23:20

The one about the husband having secret sex with metalic kitchen objects.

It was fake but harmless fake - always intended to be revealed as a joke. And as the youth would say "the comments passed the vibe check" and everyone played along

Bettysnow · 29/08/2024 22:51

A thread that stays with me was from a lady who was worried sick about her son. The young man was autistic just left one day and rang her from France. He hadn't contacted her again and no one could find him.
Heartbreaking. I hope she found him safe

Itiswhysofew · 29/08/2024 22:37

SantasRubiksCube · 29/08/2024 20:32

Could someone either link or explain the penis beaker thread? I've seen it mentioned on here over the years but couldn't find it after a search and it's intriguing me as it's been mentioned so many times on here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1875847-Do-you-dunk-your-penis

Do you dunk your penis? | Mumsnet

I considered name changing for this, but, fuck it. We have a dedicated post-sex cleanup area on the bedside table. A box of tissues, a small bin, and...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1875847-Do-you-dunk-your-penis

Username12284949 · 29/08/2024 22:23

There was someone who used to post on here regularly, I can't remember her username it was a random mixture of letters and began with a D I think. She hated life didn't leave the house or do anything. She had a daughter who I think she claimed she didn't feel anything for and her daughter wasn't allowed to have friends over or do anything outside of the home either. I remember she had abusive parents who were still dragging her down and controlling her. She was planning to live in her car at one point. I can only vaguely remember the thread so I may have got some of those details wrong. Reddit had a thread going at the time discussing it.

CherrySocks · 29/08/2024 22:21

A disturbing one where someone was worried about safety in her own home and she went and stayed overnight in the attic of someone else she knew who was away, hid in their attic with the ladder pulled up, and she made it sound like this wasn't that strange. I hope she is OK.

Sewsewsew · 29/08/2024 22:12

The women who had the two from the flats behind having sex in her hedge. She’d not lived there long I think, and her dog wouldn’t pee on its own or something odd so she was at the bottom of the garden and heard these two regularly. Then her neighbour got involved too.

I laughed and laughed.

Buffs · 29/08/2024 22:09

The woman whose daughter was doing Gcse exams. Her family invited them over but deliberately kept quiet about how they were all recovering from the norovirus. The poor child had to do all her important exams while constantly throwing up in a bucket in a separate room. When the OP told her family,they berated her for trying to make them feel guilty. My blood still boils thinking about that poor OP and kid and her ignorant, selfish family.

BabaYetu · 29/08/2024 22:08

Oldtigernidster · 29/08/2024 20:28

A thread earler this year about an allotment purchased with a property. The buyers were trying to evict a woman who was not cooperative at all. I always wondered what the outcome was.

Betty's Beets Thread 4 is the most recent update from her, I think. The sister of the neighbour who had co-opted the garage from the OP was still around and moaning about the OP and her husband actually enforceing their ownership.

HareHarePinchPunch · 29/08/2024 22:06

There was one where the next door neighbour made the DH cry and she never found out why but suspected an affair with the NDN niece or something. Hope that OP got closure.

Tagyoureit · 29/08/2024 21:21

sillygoof · 28/08/2024 08:42

I remember one that ran to three or four threads but I either lost it or she left… I think she was Australian, and her teenaged son was being coerced by his girlfriend, not seeing his family or friends, not going to school. I wish I knew there was a happy ending there.

If I remember correctly, the son did break up with the nutty girlfriend.

Neveranynamesleft · 29/08/2024 21:20

There was one about a woman complaining about her partner and his carrier bags. Something about he had them folded up in his pockets and wouldnt let her have a bag when they got to the checkout ? Bonkers.

OVienna · 29/08/2024 21:11

strawberrysalsa · 29/08/2024 20:07

I still remember the thread about the couple who had an acquaintance invite themselves to stay in spite of getting a firm 'no'. The acquaintance still turned up and lots of fun ensued including discussions of siege equipment to fend her off.

It feels like there is a thread like that out weeks!

NotADaffodil · 29/08/2024 21:06

FuchsiaForever · 28/08/2024 09:52

Haven’t RTFT yet, only got half way through, but wanted to add one that always sticks in my mind. It was a lady who had emigrated to New Zealand with her DH and kids, he was from there and I think they either lived with his family or were very involved with his family, who were very controlling and abusive, a family business was involved too, and she wanted to leave him and take the kids back to London as she hated it so much, but couldn’t. It went on for a few years, she kept updating it and had made progress and moved to her own place but was still stuck in NZ. Last time I checked I think she hadn’t updated since lockdown and I often wonder how she’s doing now.

I think about this one all the time too, the posters name was ‘thumbwitchabroad’ or similar but I can’t find the threads anymore. Her situation made me so sad and I always wonder if she and the kids ever made it back to London

DucklingSwimmingInstructress · 29/08/2024 20:55

Seoladair's threads, although I believe she's still here under a different name. @AcrossthePond55 oh how lovely to hear she might still be around. I think of her too, she was up against a terrible witch and fighting for her child and to lead her own life. She was amazing.