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Recurring MN threads - rate your favourite...

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PuppyMonkey · 24/05/2019 10:10

You know the ones, they crop up every couple of weeks and yet I for one STILL feel compelled to take part. EVERY TIME. Here’s my personal top ten.

  1. The CF friend/neighbour - usually something childcare related or, even better, about giving someone a lift. Brilliant every time.
  1. Live parking row. With diagrams and, preferably, pictures - must be updated every ten minutes to avoid getting your audience too cross.
  1. Weddings and hen parties - doesn’t really matter what the issue is, I just want to know about them.
  1. How often do you change your bed sheets?
  1. How often do you have a shower?
  1. Things that irritate you. Where everyone comes on and says the same thing as if they just invented it, eg The X Factor, sniffing, people who say “should of and would of” etc.
  1. Workplace problem - from a smelly colleague to someone trying to take credit for your project. I cannot get enough of these.
  1. Something interesting happening in a cafe - preferably as it happens, involving bagging a table before queuing for food.
  1. What to buy at Aldi.
  1. How to pronounce Esme.

How about you?

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ISeeDeadDandelions · 24/05/2019 16:13

The "how old is the child that wrote/drew this" threads.

I don't know, but it's unlikely your child is a genius overnight if their teachers haven't pointed out how ahead of the rest of the class they are already... 🤦🏼‍♀️

Leakinglikeacolander · 24/05/2019 16:14

@vampirethriller Grin

PortiaCastis · 24/05/2019 16:16

Posting from an ambulance
" I'm being blue lighted to hospital " but clearly not comatose or writhing in agony or choking or convulsing as you're fit enough to post online luvvie and want attention.......

Morgan12 · 24/05/2019 16:17

Wow wow wow wow wow, Softzilla was a troll? What!!! I totally missed that!

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:18

AIBU to ask whether you've ever had a tarot reading?

MN: YABVU, they are vultures preying on the weak and vulnerable. Utter charlatans. Have you a very low IQ?

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:21

AIBU to think that waiting for 7 hours in A&E is unacceptable?

MN: You should be grateful for the NHS. The NHS is on its knees.

AIBU to think that 3 weeks is too long to wait for a GP appointment?

MN: You should be grateful we have an NHS

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:22

AIBU? I think I need an ambulance, as I've passed out for 4 hours and have just woken up.

MN: Ambulances are for life and death situations. If you can post on MN, you're fine.

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:24

AIBU to have voted for Brexit?

MN: You are thick, uneducated, white, small-minded, certainly a racist and bigot and a xenophobe. Are you a member of the KKK?

bumblebrambles · 24/05/2019 16:28

The zombie threads are great - the amount of times I’m just about to comment, then luckily I notice I already did comment three years ago...

Did you ever see the zombie thread revived by the OP, answering her own question? Fantastic.

mumwon · 24/05/2019 16:44

my next door neighbour & the fence, children, dog, cat, noise smoking pot, smoking, weeds, in my garden,
Teacher is always wrong should I yell at them!
Brexit (hate this bangs head against wall)
my fav - three word story chains (thinks must start one good for insomniacs)
am I too old for - change in career, going to uni, etc (no your not!)
I have an enormous salary & I cant cope (not me by the by!)

anothernotherone · 24/05/2019 17:02

AIBU to look 10 years younger than my age, evvveerrryone says so when I embarrassingly demand they guess my age and like everyone else they knock 10 years off the first estimate they think of in order to be polite / not to upset me so it must be true!

kenandbarbie · 24/05/2019 17:31

I love the conspiracy theory threads!

BarnabasTheMaineCoon · 24/05/2019 17:38

We had our wedding at a stately venue in the middle of nowhere that costs a bomb to get to/destination wedding, the food was two canapes per person, we didn't even supply our guests with a single drink and asked for money as gifts but everyone told us it was the BEST wedding they've ever been to so you go right ahead and do the same, hun, it's YOUR day!

Mississippilessly · 24/05/2019 17:40

Sleep threads. OP days she wants to get into a routine, cue 100 people telling her she must not love her baby and she should be enjoying the cuddles. Or OP says she is sleep deprived because her baby doesnt sleep, cue (probably the same fictional posters) telling her she should have been in a routine from day one because theirs sleep and that's what they did so it just be true.

A teacher related thread. 100 people saying 'you cant criticise teachers on here, they are treated like gods' and another 100 saying 'teachers cant win on here'.

Someone expressing disappointment in a gift. Cue 'someone once spat in my mouth for my birthday and I still said thank you because it's the thought that counts. You sound grabby'.

Someone saying they have had more than 2 glasses of wine in the last year. 'You sound like an alcoholic'.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 24/05/2019 17:43

I hate them, but I can't resist them. Vegan/vegetarian threads.

You can't beat a good live parking thread, to be fair.

Also the ones that bring out MN's finest wits, usually off the back of a typo in the OP's post that renders it meaningless or risible. They don't happen often enough for me.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 24/05/2019 17:44

Ooh, though of another one - "Why is my house not selling?" MN rolls up its collective sleeves...

Mississippilessly · 24/05/2019 17:57

Sorry - softzilla was a troll?!?!

PlinkPlink · 24/05/2019 17:58

Nooooo Softzilla wasn't a troll thread, was it?

I invested alot of time in those threads 😂😂

NeverSayFreelance · 24/05/2019 17:59

Oh definitely the medical ones!

My left arm is hanging off and I can't breathe - do you think a paracetamol is enough or should I go to the doctor????

Hmm

Honestly though I'm saddened by the sheer volume of DH infidelity threads on here. It seems to be an hourly occurrence.

Kettleison · 24/05/2019 18:03

Of course Softzilla was a troll. (extra proof was some of the advice she was being given by the police which was utter rubbish).

Moving on..

The aibu that get posted on a Sunday night about being to ill to go out to work tomorrow when the op has not much more than a cold and just wants to be validated to have a day off work

NeverSayFreelance · 24/05/2019 18:05

Oh and the baby name ones are great Grin I'm just fascinated by the process of naming children and wonder what some people are thinking 😂

"Is it weird if I name my son Plug?"
"Yes OP."
"Well fuck you my grand uncle was called Plug and we love it!!"

Eminybob · 24/05/2019 18:13

The ones which ask how old do I look or how much do you think I weigh.
Accompanied by an incredibly flattering picture of beautiful woman. Clearly fishing for compliments Hmm

Drinking and breastfeeding- just google it!

Any obvious CF reverse.

Mammatino · 24/05/2019 18:20

Should I leave him threads, where no one in their right mind would stay... He is a thieving, liar, herion addict who is having sex with his ex, should I leave?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 24/05/2019 18:21

@PlausibleSuit - why didn’t I think of EsotericName for any of my children?? Grin

LolaSmiles · 24/05/2019 18:26

Garden threads.

I especially enjoy it when posters turn up and point out that next doors children playing in the garden of their family house in a popular family area one weekend afternoon is antisocial and the OP should log it with 111.
After that there's usually claims that people have the right to 'peaceful enjoyment of their garden' which seems to translate as 'sit in silence with a book whilst furiously mumsnetting about lawnmowers, family gatherings, children, dogs, the wind...'