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Threads that flew in your face

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emkana · 09/08/2005 09:10

Yesterday I started a thread where I was sort of expecting reassurance and commiseration, but ended up feeling terrible about my own wrongdoings, and upset at not having had the response I had been hoping to get - admittedly with hindsight I didn't fully deserve much sympathy, but still it came as a bit of a shock.
The thread was called "Shocked and upset by this..." and is still in active conversations.
I've started a few threads like this before, where I was expecting a certain reaction and then it totally went the other way. One was about my dd walking on a garden wall and the woman living there having a go at me... I thought everybody would say she was a miserable cow, but I had underestimated the British esteem for personal property . The other one I can think of was when I had a row with my dh whether he should or shouldn't make an effort to eat his dinner after I made the effort to cook it.
I'm sure there have been others, but those stuck in my mind.

Anybody else had threads like this?

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emkana · 10/08/2005 13:49

There you go - thewall-walking thread

I don't see why you shouldn't add to it - that's another one of the great things about Mumsnet, I feel - threads can be resurrected!

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Ameriscot2005 · 10/08/2005 10:13

Are we allowed to add to these threads? The wall walking one sounds intriguing...

tarantula · 10/08/2005 10:07

where is the wall walking thread please I really really need to read it. Wall walking rules!

Ameriscot2005 · 10/08/2005 09:31

I was reading through a few of the big threads that I have been on just yesterday (hey, it was a slow day). My favourite had to be the self-actualisation one.

I agree totally with what Twiglett said at the beginning of this thread.

katierocket · 10/08/2005 09:24

flashingnose - I was trying to remember that one, crikey that really kicked off didn't it.

handlemecarefully · 10/08/2005 09:22

Poor Momp hasn't posted much since it would seem

flashingnose · 10/08/2005 09:06

cadbury world thread

sunchowder · 10/08/2005 03:13

I was part of a thread in which I recommended rice milk, I'm still not over it! I did threaten to flounce, but thank goodness I received lots of emails to come back. I like this thread, and I do remember almost every one that is being mentioned here too! I usually try to stay out of the ones that are getting really hot myself.

PeachyClair · 10/08/2005 00:43

Remeber one of my forst posts where I said that I thought the UK had a duty to accept genuine asylum seekers, and I got called Racist! Really laid into, I doidnt know what I was talking about etc! Knocked me for six but I reckon these days I can reach a decision more by the response I have to other people's replies than the actual replies IYKWIM.

PMSL at the patent leather kickers / knickers!!!!

moondog · 09/08/2005 23:34

De rien hmc!
fn,that sounds bizarre (but then that's why I love MN!)

handlemecarefully · 09/08/2005 23:33

Moondog, thankyou - you're lovely, kiss, kiss

Yep, I remember the cadbury world incident!

flashingnose · 09/08/2005 23:22

Does anyone remember the one where someone went to Cadbury World (iirc) and ended up knocking a bloke's glasses off in the theatre there? Now that one really flew in her face, poor woman.

QueenOfQuotes · 09/08/2005 23:18

"AND I agreed with QoQ on the school next door/baby in cot conundrum but know I was too chicken to post at the tim"

and you never came to back me up

Mind you that thread was started as a light hearted one...........

QueenOfQuotes · 09/08/2005 23:14

No! - Never had any of them ever

moondog · 09/08/2005 23:10

hmc,you were very unfairly villified for the 'bloody French' remark.
(You did however handle your defence admirably. )

TwinSetAndPearls · 09/08/2005 23:07

I always find it quite sad when a newish poster starts a thread and it all goes a bit pear shaped. I can remember a mum asking for advice about what to get her dd/ds for Christmas and everyone was so mean to her, suggsting that her kids were spoilt and trashing her ideas.

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emkana · 09/08/2005 19:13

Come on, ladies, any more memories?

Lovely to see that some of my more contentious threads are still remembered.
Fairymum, so you encourage wall-walking even more - I have near enough given up on it after gaining that insight into the British psyche. I must be a wuss!

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ssd · 09/08/2005 14:06

Lets all go to the shops then!!

If only, my garden is full of kids, little darlings

Tinker · 09/08/2005 11:31

I agreed with you emkana when you complained about your husband being a "fussy eater" - I remember that one. Phew!

handlemecarefully · 09/08/2005 11:29

Yes I agree with that - I like to see healthy discussion and different point of views, but want to bang heads together when I see a pov but across sarcastically in a way that belittles the pov of other posters.

Marina · 09/08/2005 11:23

I agreed with you on that bobbybob but we were very much in the minority IIRC
I also agreed with CD on the infamous "parent gets life on holiday" shocker but cannot remember if I even dared post to say so (was not around when debate was at its fiercest). I wonder what some of your critics have made of that woman running off with a DJ and abandoning her 15 year old child then CD...
AND I agreed with QoQ on the school next door/baby in cot conundrum but know I was too chicken to post at the time
Must go and find your thread Emkana.
I agree with everyone on here that the honesty of the postings on here makes it such a good sounding board.
I do find the terms in which some disagreements are expressed a bit upsetting sometimes though tbh

bobbybob · 09/08/2005 10:45

Oh it was all very polite, but like emkana says, sometimes you get taken by surprise that the whole world doesn't agree with you.

I have a thread at the moment about my ds's pre school serving peanut protein with the lunches and was amazed when everyone did agree with me, whereas in RL a couple of people have been quite in my face about disagreeing - apart from the pre school who obviously don't agree.

handlemecarefully · 09/08/2005 10:42

I contributed to that one bobbybob and disagreed with you, but I think I did it nicely and politely

bobbybob · 09/08/2005 10:25

I did one about tshirts that say "little monster" on them - never again.

oops · 09/08/2005 10:23

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