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One liners and quick posts on MN that have made you laugh?

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Snooks1971 · 11/02/2021 20:03

As in... tickled you.. have a wry inwards smile.. dare I say it have a silent chuckle? I don’t drink tea and so have never spat it out Smile

There are tons... one from this week is from a thread where the teenagers had drunk all the milk at 2am leaving none for the OPs morning tea. What tickled me was a different poster empathising and saying that in a different thread the other OP had retaliated by “aggressively hoovering” outside their teen’s bedroom door.

Aggressively hoovering. Love it.

OP posts:
Original poster
Snooks1971 · 12/02/2021 13:18

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/3106919-Anyone-want-to-come-and-mourn-the-reality-vs-expectation-of-new-purchases-with-me?pg=2

This is the thread with Suzi Quattro’s fat nan, also the poster who had the red dyed pixie cut and she thought she resembled a fat match. Also has the Cath Kidston dress attached to a drip in a hospital corridor, and, one of my personal faves, a poster who tried contouring for the first time. Her very young DD was suitably impressed and exclaimed she looked like she’d drawn Malificient on a paper plate Grin
Tons of other gems here too

OP posts:
RockingMyFiftiesNot · 12/02/2021 13:21

A poster's smugness resulting in their being referred to as 'Sanctimummy'

Inastatus · 12/02/2021 13:23

‘Household objects that are pricks’ is a great thread in classics.

One poster refers to her iron that spits water out as ‘an incontinent cunt’ Another talks about her ‘awful and malevolent bathroom, it has weird cream/orange/wtf fake marble tiles with tiny threads of dark orange/red veining. It’s like having a shower in a diseased lung.’ 😂

SingToTheSky · 12/02/2021 13:27

It must have been on a thread about trump being ill or something? But somebody replied “I hope he makes a full recovfefe” and it just slayed me :o

WeatherwaxOn · 12/02/2021 13:29

@FusionChefGeoff

Fuck off then you spud cunt
That one made me laugh so much.
SingToTheSky · 12/02/2021 13:29

And “UCM is that you?” first reply on a thread where UCM had posted a very embarrassing OP and said they’d name changed... but hadn’t (disclaimer I may have got the initials wrong)

CassandraCross · 12/02/2021 13:40

@elsaesmeralda

The other day about someone's friend had sent a pic of her kids in the bath and her fellas dick was floating in the corner of the pic, the first comment was about the penis floating by itself no longer attached to its owner 😆😆
From the same thread after a discussion to a poster who was wondering about the floating capabilities of a penis:

More of a "submerged hover" when sat in the bath I'd say.

They certainly don't bob around on the surface looking like a cold Duncan Goodhew.

Tangledtresses · 12/02/2021 13:41

Oh gawd these are so funny 😆 what a great thread
I'm off to look at them all!!

MechantGourmet · 12/02/2021 13:45

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

It's not in Classics, it's here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/377622-what-do-you-do-with-mangoes

"Juggle 'em" is the last post. Please, nobody add to it - it's perfect as it is.

I'm so sorry, it wasn't Hecate it was rhubarb!
MechantGourmet · 12/02/2021 13:46

@wellthatsunusual

I've been on Mumsnet for about 15 years and why have I only read that Boden thread for the first time? It is genius.

Also love the Jewish Fridge in Classics.

Yes, I also missed first time round! V funny.
MechantGourmet · 12/02/2021 13:50

@SuePurblybilt is just brilliant on that thread Envy

heidbuttsupper · 12/02/2021 13:54

@SylviaPlath1984 I loved the new potato comment! GrinGrin

wtfisgoingonhere21 · 12/02/2021 13:56

Long term here and I absolutely love these threads.

I woke dh up last night laughing so much although I was trying to be quiet.

I just made the dog jump as I'm laughing so loud now.

I've needed a laugh like this for such a long time this is like a tonic.

I've been around for donkies years and remember every single one of these mentioned but the one that makes me roar is Gregg Wallace looking like a thumb and smelling of ham SmileGrin

I've been watching the factory shows he took part in and literally I forget what it's even about because all I do is stare at him imagining a thumb

I'm off to classics later

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 12/02/2021 13:57

My most recent favourite response. Posted by someone on the WHO report thread

It’s like the worst COVID cluedo - it was Asda who done it, in the frozen section with a pangolin.

OR

It was Lady Gaga's mum, wielding a frozen bat in the virus research lab.

FollowingFlitwick · 12/02/2021 14:02

Does anyone remember the rhythmless man one?! It was hilarious and I think of it whenever I need a chuckle.

OccultGnuAsWell · 12/02/2021 14:04

Two memorable favourites here.

Unfortunately I can't recall the thread title of the first but someone said their DH had been relaxing on a sun lounger on holiday and had farted. Due to his backside being pressed up against the plastic it had reverberated magnificently and finished in a flourish with what sounded like a question mark. (OP wrote it so much better).

The second was a very old thread that may be in classics. Someone had moved to a village and was intending to enter a Victoria sponge cake in to the village show, taking on the seasoned veterans who had been winning for years. The thread ambled on over time with various suggestions as to getting the best results including that the flour should be sifted from a great height into the bowl.

At the end the OP collated all the advice together in a series of posts as a "this is what I'm going to do" as preparation for the baking session. Rather than writing out "sifting the flour from a great height" there was simply a picture of a sieve protruding from an upstairs window of a house with flour floating down. The juxtaposition of the photo in amongst the carefully written details was so unexpected it cracked me up.

If anyone can remember the title I'd love to read it again.

CassandraCross · 12/02/2021 14:06

@FollowingFlitwick

Does anyone remember the rhythmless man one?! It was hilarious and I think of it whenever I need a chuckle.
Yes, I do! It was very weird and funny, wasn't there was something about buying shoes for orphans in it?
FollowingFlitwick · 12/02/2021 14:09

Also there was a thread last week where the op was asking, "how do you mark the occasion when you stop breast feeding?" Some of the responses were hilarious!

FollowingFlitwick · 12/02/2021 14:11

Yes!! Wasn't it all for charity?! I think I'm going to have to read it again.

CassandraCross · 12/02/2021 14:17

@FollowingFlitwick

Yes!! Wasn't it all for charity?! I think I'm going to have to read it again.
If you find it pin a link to it it's well worth another read! Rythmless man, shoeless orphans and possibly, if memory serves correctly, an African drumming troupe.
BitOfFun · 12/02/2021 14:21

@Reality, that bastard Gandhi was me, wasn't it? I think the original thread is gone now, sadly.

MechantGourmet · 12/02/2021 14:41

Slubber was the queen of the high sift!
@OccultGnuAsWell

FollowingFlitwick · 12/02/2021 14:50

@CassandraCross
Here it is!
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3349315-AIBU

CassandraCross · 12/02/2021 14:51

Thank you @FollowingFlitwick!

ptumbi · 12/02/2021 14:57

All so funny! Anyone remember the poster whose thread title was something like 'am I BU to think that minge is not cheap?' She meant mince, but that didn't matter... Grin

And a thread long long long ago, possibly in Classic, about the hamster who had escaped his cage, which was on a shelf above the cooker. OP was worried that he had fallen in the stew she was cooking. It transpired that the hamster's name as Popcorn, at which point someone pointed out that if he'd fallen into the pot he would have made a hell of a lot of noise Grin I was proper laughing at that.

It was one of the first 'trolling' threads, posted by a well-known poster (@Greensleeves IIRC, if she's still on here ) and also sparked a discussion as to whether 'untrue' threads should be removed as trolling...