Aibu to ask what your favourite kind of posts are on aibu?

Anything involving a nanny.

Also the real time parking or going on dates ones.

I think lots of posters came on to say it was.... if course it might still be true! It gave me proper goosebumps and I've wanted to visit ever since I read it.

Balonz …! was my all time favourite post ! tittering now just thinking about it

and the one where the poor woman found a lipstick in her washing machine that wasn’t hers and the very next poster derailed it and it went off on a bonkers tangent about things found in the human body that shouldn’t be there - poor op didn’t get one sensible answer but it was awesome !

the ghost stories are super interesting too

WHAT?!?! NOOOOO!!!!!
how did you find out the story was fake?!

Came to day this.

Love a good CF thread.

Not read all this thread but the latest CF one involved a dyson airwrap; I think sadly the OP is going to have to fork out for a new one.

Another was where the OP had lent her new laboutin shoes to someone who then bloody pawned them!! Unreal! 😳

But the best one of all was the Mexican House thief 🤣outrageous!!

Love a spooky story too...savernake forest!! 👻

The "someone has knocked on my door" threads, but they're too scared to answer it, but who could it be and what could they want?!
Only on MN are grown adults scared to answer their doors!!! What is happening to the world?!

They’re not AIBU though.

I know the normal argument is ‘posting for traffic’ but maybe what HQ need to do is spend a week or so focusing on moving threads to the correct boards & see if it makes any difference to where people post.

”I had an EMCS with triplets in the back of a broken-down Robin Reliant on the M25 during Storm Arwen and I still did the school run for my stepchildren the next day because my DH was disappeared by a brutalist regime, why can’t you?”

😂😂

I've never TTC or been pregnant, but I absolutely adore "line eyes" threads. I get such a vicarious rush when other people confirm that they can see lines or the OP posts a clearly positive test a few days later. It's just nice to share that wee bit of hope and joy.

Absolutely this. The woman whose mate stole her glasses. The guy who parked in what was essentially someone's garden. I absolutely live for those

Supermarket ones
Smelly people in supermarkets
Should you have uncovered bread rolls
What's the best dupes
Also dating dilemmas

Parking threads and CFs.

I like a reminder that my own life isn't as batshit as it seems

This! My neighbours are saints compared to some on here!

I love the ones where an OP in a clearly abusive relationship comes back a few months later to say that she has left him and is now doing great.

The best of this genre was 'CoatsProtectionLeague'.

I love the ones about something bonkers someone has done (including parking, decorating a house terribly, etc) that lead to a whole host of similar stories from posters, as well as humourous suggestions as to how to deal with the OP's situation. Even better if there's ongoing developments/updates from the OP.

(Best thread ever in this vein was years ago, involving the OP's neighbour knocking out a listed building window to put some patio doors into OP's garden. By the end of several threads, we'd had endless humourous suggestions, re-written several songs to suit the situation, had cast all the main characters for the movie version, had a comical saga running alongside about Putin following the thread, and located all the most tasteless garden ornaments one could wish for.)

MN has got too serious recently!

Agree, especially the ones where the CF gets their comeuppance.

I like the ones with quite a straightforward dilemma - 'I can hear Jim and Sally upstairs shagging - should I tell them?' or 'My neighbour has called me Debbie for the last 11 years but my name's Danielle' - which bring out the Helpful Letter Suggesters, who create ever-more wordy and earnest texts to help inflame clarify the situation.

Ones where people don't ruin it by wilfully misunderstanding answers or flying in with weird accusations.

Ones that don't seem made up - there's someone out there asking if they can eat 9 day old cooked and chilled poultry. As John McEnroe would say 'you cannot be serious!'

I love the 'celebs you've met' threads.

I also enjoy the dating/relationship ones. I've pretty much given up on it now, but it's useful to sometimes give others the benefit of my experience ... especially if they're being a bit red flag blind!

Teenager ones are good. Sometimes it's handy to know that my 15 year old isn't that bad! I don't mean that in a smug comparative way at all. Just that it's hard sometimes, especially as a single mum, and I like the reassurance!

There was a recent thread where a new mum was struggling, and the VAST majority of posters were so kind and understanding. It really was Mumsnet at its best

There's loads of others, to be honest. I reckon I've used Mumsnet more over this Christmas break than I ever have

I'm amused by the unreasonable requests from brides

The ones asking a question, where people don't take a couple of minutes to read through the thread despite it being quite a new post, and repeat something over and over as if they are coming up with something new. 👍

There was one recently by someone upset about a Facebook post from 3 years ago that may or may not have been about her from an ex colleague