Where has the thread gone re boss and baby.

[Burlea]

I'm sure I read a thread about a boss bringing into work a new born baby. His wife had died last year. Some people knew his circumstances but the op didn't and was going to ask him where the baby had come from. Or was this a troll post.

OP was fairly open about it being fictional by the end. People got quite cross.

Oh blast, I'm disappointed! I was intrigued. It wasn't boss though, was it, it was a colleague.

Never mind, we'll get over it.

MNHQ took it down to have a look-see. I think the banhammer fell.

I could tell from the start that was total bollocks

A newborn baby and two conveniently and unspecifically 'dead' women was a bit Victorian Gothic.

What did she say about it being fictional?

It was not a genuine thread.

I know we're all pissing about on Mumsnet, but do people really have nothing more interesting to do with their time than make shit like that up?

Can I just add before this one is deleted too that whoever posted the picture of the woollen baby, it made me howl 😂🤣

Oh! That was the most frustrating thread ever.. I invested a good 10 minutes reading it

Did she actually say she was trolling?

Yeah she did.

I mean in the very first line she called it 'poseable'. Was that not a giveaway?

I was crying with laughter.

But I can see why they removed it. The site would just descend into buffoonery if people did that all the time.

But man I haven't laughed like that in ages.

What was her "grand reveal" that she was trolling? I missed it

It was obviously fake but I thought it was lame, didn't find it funny at all.

I prefer a more subtle troll

It was fairly low-grade, z-list trolling, in all fairness.

I can't believe that some people were falling over laughing at that! How? Why? What was funny about it? It was awful and the OP wasn't even amusing!

Yes, "poseable" did strike me as odd. What an odd thing to make up though.

Yes two dead women and a newborn being cared for by an apparently inept and inexperienced non relative - hilarious

When it's blatantly fake? Yeah I think it's funny. The responses were funnier. But maybe you have to have a dark sense of humour.

I agree, Way.

It was ludicrous in and of itself, but posters also pointed out other posts of the OP's on other threads which from memory would make her an active social worker in her 70s and mother of 13 teenagers including two sets of twins.

Hence not just the deletion but, I believe, the mighty banhammer.

Even my trolldar detected that one. And it's pretty shit