Threads that have stayed with you

There was a thread about someone that worked with a trans women who was causing carnage and making everyone's life a misery but none of the higher ups would deal with them. I struggled to follow it as the OP had to keep editing the posts to remove outing information but it was mind-blowing at the time, Im sure there weas an incident where they insisted on being able to use sanitary products left in the toilets along with other batshit stuff.

I always wondered what the outcome was in the end.

There is a tiny elderly Korean lady in my garden and I want to go out - absolutely delightful

One about someone's neighbour changing their own window into a door without permission, expecting to be able to use her garden, or something like that.

The couple who drove miles to collect a cat that needed to be rehomed. It was a real adventure. I think the couple actually separated not long afterwards, which was upsetting.

Huge pram in the hall.
Poster started off saying neighbours leaving pram in the hall
All the usual responses. Eventually she posted a pic. It was the biggest pram in the tiniest place. I've always thought about it when a thread goes all one way, when actually we all have our own mental image of a pram and a hall.

Why would you think so? People wouldn't troll about this sort of stuff or at least I hope so. people absolutely do.

I’m not saying that poster did, but there have been some horrendous troll posts over the years. Oliver’s army, the poster with the twins She lost prematurely, I can’t remember her name but she posted all over the baby loss groups until someone outed her by showing that the pictures of her dead babies had been lifted from the internet.

There have been numerous DV posts, serious illness, children’s deaths and the list goes on.

But the thing about troll posts is that because they’re deleted people who weren’t there at the time don’t see them so don’t get how it happens.

I've been on here for way too long but the one that really hit me was the one where a much-esteemed MNetter Riven was on her knees supporting her very disabled daughter and was at the end of her rope facing a lack of support. That thread hit the headlines and David Cameron met with Riven IRL to discuss the needs of disabled children and families.

She left MN (at least under that name) and I very often think of her and hope she and her family are doing well.

My favourite thread of all time was the one titled something like 'There's an elderly Korean lady in my garden and I want to go out'. That was a really lovely, gentle, meditative thread that I re-read sometimes when life is stressy for me.

Also- the thread about the booble plate that fell behind the toilet. I think that was the thread that was my gateway MN drug.

Yes, the recent one of the woman whose husband just randomly went on holiday to France on his own, was so bizarre. The OP has seen the light and is leaving him, but has now bowed out of the thread.
I think that one will stick with me for a while.

There was a hilarious thread about leaving your clothes on the line overnight and someone said that the spiders would be rubbing their privates on them. I think they changed their name to SpidersWilliesOnYourFrillies!

Yes JennyWren. I was trying to remember her name and story. I wonder how her daughter and husband are doing. She was young and her child so little.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2259404-To-want-to-run-away

my own kids are grown up now so I only come back for practical other stuff but I remember coming for more parental advice and ideas too. And I remember these sad stories. It’s heartbreaking to follow but there’s been a lot of support for people going through loss too. And of course take stories. You know the odd story pops up and people say wait it’s the school holidays it’s just bored kids stringing people along.

Screaming in the Sistine chapel has to be up there. Every comment (and attempts at justification from the author) had me roaring with laughter.

There was a series of threads, maybe 3-4 years ago now from an older, slightly vulnerable-sounding lady who was being harassed by a younger woman who lived nearby. This younger woman had a history of drug abuse (I think), and this older woman had agreed to be godmother of the latest baby, but didn't really want to be. Then she started a thread about doing all the cooking for a male neighbour friend, but his kitchen was too cluttered, and he wanted his meals at a funny time. And then it went onto how she wanted to cut contact with him, but she still had the key to a horse yard his family owned, and how could she return this key and cut him off at the same time? But she didn't really want to hand the key back because she has fond memories of this yard and her horse that died yonks ago, and there's still some old feed buckets and blankets there that she might want at some point.

She had a very distinctive writing style, and was very articulate. But every idea others had to help her, she had a reason why it couldn't work and poo-poohed everything.

I haven't seen her here since the horse yard thread. But I still think of her a lot! I hope she's in a happier, more settled place.

Red toothbrush for me too! Hope you are doing well now.

Also, the poster whose abusive DH had calmly unravelled her knitting and rolled up a neat ball of wool and left it for her to find in the morning. I found that really sinister.

There was one about a DH ruining days out at museums by farting all day. I got told off for being immature on that thread for finding it so funny.

Also the one that started out as a thread about funny stomach feelings that got filled up really quickly and then the follow up thread was called "It wasn't wind it was a baby!" and she shared a pic of her surprise newborn.

the recent ones: the lady whose husband never went on holidays with her and the family and went to Europe alone

the lady with pregnant daughter with Epilepsy

There was one Jl2000 or some such user name and she lived with a horrendous partner and stepkids who were all awful to her and eventually she realised she didn't need to put up with that shit and left. She did post a few updates and it seemed like she'd definitely turned a corner but still was so sad that he had never loved her and she'd given so much to that relationship

@theworldsmad
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Lemon drizzle cake
Penguin bollards
Poo pouffe

The Irish mother with cancer. Eventually her husband came on to tell us that she had died. Still makes me teary to think about it

Was your username 'RedToothbrush'? I remember you, I have often wondered how you are doing now. I seem to remember your ex husband was a particularly nasty bastard, I'm so glad you got away from him. How are you?

Why would you think so? People wouldn't troll about this sort of stuff or at least I hope so.
Thinking of Claire's mum often ☹️❤️💐

I often think of a thread from possibly last year the lady's husband was having an affair, he refused to let her tell their adult children what was happening. The owned a business together and she had to suffer seeing him every day, he was threatening to take the house and the business and leave her with nothing. I really hope she divorced him.

When OP posted about her house being mess and it had got so bad that it was out of control and she didn't know what to do.

A couple of other posters went to help her sort it out. Would have been a decade ago now.

It still makes me smile (along with a few other threads and posters).

Mumsnet was really a special place in those days.

It still is in a way, but it has changed and doesn't feel like our little secret place anymore where we all got to know each other and invest in each other.

It's fun to look back and remember! I'm loving these comments 🥰

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3178898-DH-embarrassed-by-my-sensitivity
Found the original thread about the Sistine chapel 😂

Me too- the best bit was his comment "those scotch eggs were a bit greasy"

Hilarious!

I read your threads at the time, and even got a red toothbrush in silent solidarity and awe of your courage.

I hope you are well, now.

Sounds interesting 😂 Any chance it could be summarised in two sentences? Thanks.
edit: found another thread about it so I now know what happened 🙈

For me, it was a sad one 😔 Created by someone who was pregnant and said how she essentially wasn't going to look after the baby once it's born but she was keeping the baby. I hope that she is getting help and I hope the baby is okay. I think of them often.

I agree and the lady sadly died a couple of years later.