What is your favourite type of thread?

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My absolute favourite are ones where you get a snap shot of people’s lives in the recent past. For example “How did you see in the new millennium?”
I also really like the Sunday ones when people tell you their plans and what they are having for dinner. I find it very comforting.
I like the woo ones too and conspiracy theory threads but I tend to reread the ones in classics as they don’t se to get off the ground so much at the moment.

I like to look back at some of the really old parenting threads about problems similar to ones I am having, ie. toddler tantrums, baby won’t drink from bottle etc. I find it quite comforting to know that the toddlers in question in those threads are now grown up and obviously well past that stage. A reminder that this too shall pass.
Also love the woo threads and live parking dramas.

Cf threads

Most mil ones. I just can't get over the amount of people who hate their mil.

Any wedding threads. The more outrageous the better.

Bra intervention ones, where the op realises that she's a double d, not a triple a.

Ones where the op gets all pissy!

Sarcastic responses.

Skincare threads.

Funny/anecdotal ones

An evolving romance with drip-fed developments

A relationship drama such as an affair that has been exposed with drip-fed developments

Dramatic entertaining ones with regular updates. I’m not even bothered if they’re really a troll unless they are distressing/sensitive topics likely to trigger or upset people.

Also celebrity stories, woo threads, and stubborn AIBu posters.

Complex and acrimonious disputes about pronunciation.

Wedding ones are always good, as are the cheeky fucker ones.

My favourites are the AIBU ones along the lines of AIBU to think that this woman was really rude? There then follows a description of something that happened in the queue at Sainsbury, or something that, without Mumsnet, would never have been thought of again. But with Mumsnet, it makes for a long thread, usually with posters arguing with each other, not the OP.

Threads about letting sons go to school in Princess dresses are also good, although they've dried up recently.

Competitive undereating and competitive thriftiness I love.

@missmouse101 😂

I like the ones that dissolve into a series of off the wall funny answers - the current numbered crumpets one for example

Love the human history related ones about ancestors, things you remember from childhood etc some are in classics, love the shared experiences of the 1984 Miners' Strike (and permanently hope for one on Greenham Common)

And of course pet pictures

Get irritated when OP turns out to be self indulgent over their problem, or is not prepared to consider anyone elses point of view

Oh and I love the various music threads. So many MNetters with great and varied taste in music.
Best song intros, anyone?

It used to be the music one about 15 years. We used to talk about bands, favourite gigs, new albums etc
Then it became as boring AF and people wanted to know about cello lessons and piano exams.
I miss the good chats about arguing how shit Muse are!!

I don't really get the 'list' threads where someone asks a not very interesting question and then posters just add their answer without looking at anyone else's.

Such as what's your favourite pizza topping or something...

I like the "useful tips about xyz" or "things you didn't know" threads.

Although every single fucking time someone pops up with the "fact" about petrol pump direction on your dashboard. It wasn't true a gajillion years ago when it first started doing the rounds, it still isn't now. Ditto babygro over the shoulder thing

Yes it's definitely a sign you have been on MN too long when you know every fact on the 'things you didn't know' thread.

(Correction to my pp - the babygrow shoulder thing is true of course, I meant that it's just trotted out like brand new information every single time!)

Ones that make me raise an eyebrow are the most MNy of threads where someone comes on and asks whether they are being U for the most justifiably U thing possible. E.g. "AIBU for wanting to eat my lunch in peace?", before going on to tell a long story about how some random walked up to them in street, snatched their baguette out of their hands, threw it on the floor, jumped on it, then spat in their face three times before pushing them over.

I love a CF thread but also ones where a narrative unfolds throughout. Where the OP posts updates and it starts to feel like a soap opera!

The babygro trick may be true, but my youngest was 9 years old when I found MN.

It has often been said AIBU should be renamed 'Petty gripes'. Lately I think it should be 'I want to rant but on no account disagree with me'.

I really like whats for dinner threads you get pie and chips and seabass with fennel and samphire on the same page its fab.

I like tv threads when we are all watching and commenting.

I love the parking threads and funny ones like 'sex in the hedge' but my favourites are the ones where the OP gets the support they need without any arsehole coming on being goady or troll hunting. Sometimes this site just warms your heart.

The Olympic Opening Ceremony thread(s) in 2012 were brilliant.

I forgot one. I love the AIBU to do this totally unselfish and obviously the right thing to do act? There's always an insane friend, who apparently thinks the OP should have minded her own business.

Today, in town with my friend, we noticed a cat that was on fire. There was a bucket of water nearby, so I threw it over the cat, put the fire out, and took the cat to a vet. The cat is going to be fine. I thought I'd done the right thing.

But my friend had a right go at me. She thinks I shouldn't have taken the water without the owner's permission. Then she said what if the cat had been trying to commit suicide, and I had ruined tge poir thing's plans. Lastly, did I not consider that the vet might have been looking forward to an early finish?

We're now not speaking, and she has threatened not to invite the DCs to her DS's party next weej.

Who was in the right?

Dripfeed money threads - OP is so skint but can't see where they can back then 4 pages in they admit they have a horse (there is always a horse)

Competitive disordered eating threads -

OP: I ate a grape and some dust for lunch

Posters: A grape and some dust? I'd be as sick as a pig if I ate all that.

Really boring threads about buying a new bread bin or whatever.

Threads about class where loads of middle class people claim not to be middle class because the once went into a pret that was next to a greggs.

Non eating threads worry me women eating so little and worry that it is stil
Too much food

Threads about class where loads of middle class people claim not to be middle class because the once went into a pret that was next to a greggs.

Or the ones where people come on and say huffily that social class only exists on Mn, because they never hear it mentioned in their daily lives, and then it emerges that they think class is a matter of having matching cushions or those little novelity identification tags for your party wine-glasses or listening to Sade or something, because those things are 'classy'.

I have an appalled fascination with the 'things I never knew' threads where people cheerily admit to having thought Sinn Féin was a person, or that 'Vietnam vets' were veterinary surgeons who for some reason went into US the army a lot, well into adulthood -- genuinely, I do not believe most of the claims on them, because I do not believe anyone is that thick. But I always read them. It's like picking a spot.

The woo threads where posters refuse to accept the myriad rational explanations for draughts or flickering lights or creaky floorboards, and insist it's a ghost because one of the neighbours once told them someone once died in their house.

I’ve just remembered my favorite type of thread and I’m feeling sad and disappointed not to see one at the moment. I love passport threads! Someone has three days until their holiday and they’re waiting for a new or renewed passport to arrive for a child and lots of people offer support and good ideas, and then people come on to say they automatically renew their passport 2 years before they need it and feel smug and often the op is feeling broken and can’t sleep and on a good thread you get updates. I find it thrilling! I also remember quite a good lost passport one and op found it in the middle of the night with help from a suggestion.

I think it’s the honest anguish and also the fact that they’re normally annual!

Oh another one...

When people post on MN - a community of millions of people - and ask something like "has anyone ever been to Majorca?"

Nah, probably not love, it is such a far flung and rare holiday destination.