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What does PBP mean?

The football stuff was potentially comedy gold though. Surely there’s a sitcom waiting for this character who takes their footie so seriously and makes up stuff about drug tests and transfer windows

there was only so long op could hold the naive act really

I haven’t fine tuned my bs radar enough on MN, still learning, but something just didn't sit right with the mil saying ‘Darling, in my day’. Her day being circa the 1980s but sounded more like she was from the 1880s. I was beginning to picture Maggie Smith. Also by the end of it his initial bad behaviour seemed tame to the absolute douchebag he was developing into, then adding an even worse character in the mix in the shape of the football manager, I mean even the most trusting person must have been getting doubts. I believed them to start with because it wouldn’t occur to me that someone would waste their time with fictional nonsense🤷‍♀️

I mean you couldn’t make it up, except apparently they did.

I'd started to eventually suspect it was bullshit on thread 4. Sad bastards making shit up for clicks.

If you've ever watched that awful programme called Catfish, the OP will have similar traits to the type who put similar amounts of energy and time into Catfishing. They're societally rejected or lacking in some way, but find power, kicks and immense control holding court virtually. It's a mental illness. Basically the type who make the worst psycho exes.

I though it was...

Same here.

That poster stating the threads only got to 20 pages isn't actually being that helpful since my settings are 100 posts to a page which means I can only get to 10 pages maximum. Saying the post count would be better for everyone.

lol I actually googled what PBP was on mumsnet and this came straight up - weirdly similar story! 👀

It was so obviously bullshit.

From ten years ago! Wow you have a great memory 😊

😂😂

Honestly, some MNers are so very gullible. It was so obviously utter claptrap from the outset. Much like one that went on interminably a while ago in a similar vein, over several threads.

Precisely! I wondered how she was getting time to actually address the situation as she was fully committed to the threads.
Sad really.

Wanting attention from random online people is sad tho, whoever OP is I hope they found something better to do

Do people get that invested? I reported the thread because it looked dodgy but MNHQ said they couldn’t see a problem. I then engaged on the basis it was probably nonsense but it’s a bit of entertainment

unless it’s a thread that needs facts (eg politics) then I assume it may be all fake drama

People asked why people care if its fake but some posters invested hours into giving advice, a couple in particular were very vocal on the threads and I felt bad they wasted so much time on what was clearly utter rubbish.

Never feel bad.

Those posters will have had time to waste, just like all of us when we log into a chat forum.

And of course they know there's always a chance the person they're posting to might not be genuine 🤷‍♂️

That's the point though – the OP never let the threads fill up. Threads 1 and 2 only got to page 20 before the OP started a new one, presumably because they knew a shiny new thread carrying the "drama" on would prompt more engagement.

BUUUUUT maybe the threads, with the many helpful posters, helped real women with lying, cheating dickhead husbands/partners think more clearly about their lives.

Is that the one who was setting up a new thread before the old one was full?

That's usually a decent clue.

I think I 'unwatched' it half way through the first installment. Thank god I didn't get too invested and waste my time.
I find when you have 50 or 60 people advising you what to do/what not to do, it all gets a bit mad.

I did start wondering once the mil came on the scene. She sounded like a character out of Downton Abbey.

Yep, multiple part soap opera style threads usually draw a 🙄 from me too.

I think it probably had a modicum of truth at the beginning, maybe the first few posts. OP then gets more attention than she's ever gets in real life, and it goes from there.
As with all of these things it was baffling how it got as far as it did.

Totally. I was stunned when I saw 'she' had a 4th thread. The last post I read on it was from someone telling her she was enjoying the attention. I'll say! What was it? 4 threads in the space of a week?

That has made my mind up not to invest any more time with MN now.