What were the first mumsnet threads you remember reading?

[Bluefinger]

The first ones that stand out for me were one which was a huge bun fight about piercing babies ears.

The other one was by an obviously depressed mum whose house was a tip and the social worker was coming to visit soon (there was no sympathy to be had)

The 'booble plate' thread in classics, hadn't laughed like that in a while.

Also the mumsnet scarf. Which I still own and love.

The one where the OP’s DH ate a fat ball.

Trinityrhino bloody hell hope she is doing well, had a bastard of a time.

‘Cunting Sainsbury’s’ (if anyone remembers that...)

c.2004

Was the prophetic fridge from mumsnet?

When I was TTC DC1, I knew so many people who'd said they conceived first try or by accident, so I was foolishly panicking when we hadn't conceived after a whopping three months

I Googled "TTC for 3 months" and a thread came up on here where someone had posted for advice in a very similar position to me. Omg, she got her arse handed to her. I remember thinking "fucking hell, I won't go there for advice". Of course a few months later, I was pregnant and discovered the pregnancy boards on here and what a huge about of info there is available here. That was 7ish years ago and I'm still here (with a few flounces in between, natch )

Luckymcducky did you not get baby centre boards recommended? They were my training grounds for mumsnet lol

The only thing I remember from baby centre was an annoying bint called Melanie who had planned a wafty incense birth but ended up with a c-section

A woman who's ex husband fed their kids badger on a picnic at a museum.

I read Cancel the Cheque live, I had just checked a few days at that point

The first specific thread I can remember was nickelbabe's live birth thread, but I'd been lurking for a while by then. Cutted up pear always sticks in my mind, as does the 'artisanal scotch egg' fat ball thread. I miss pre-penis beaker MN...

It was 2010 when I joined. Just realised how long ago that actually is!

Dittany was awesome. I wonder who she was?

One about dinosaurs and religion I think. Someone linked to it on FB and I read it all and found it hilarious before having my own DC. It’s how I heard about MN and what made me come back here once pregnant.

I looked at nothing except sleep boards, and in particular the “early wakers support thread” for about a year. Said early waker is now 10 and an absolute joy.

Baby names - which is how I found MN actually. I have no babies or plan on having any soon, I think I was just googling my name or something like that?

As I started lurking more regularly, I remember stumbling across a MN classics thread so I discovered some gems including Sistine chapel, penis beaker, cancel the cheque... I feel like I had a proper MN crash course as my initiation to the site

@Bluefinger

Luckymcducky did you not get baby centre boards recommended? They were my training grounds for mumsnet lol

I tried baby centre at one point, but I didn't like it. Mumsnet is still my favourite, for all its faults

Stunt Pineapple and Stunt Washing up area

I remember the dinosaur one. There used to be lots of steiner threads too.

Penis beaker

Wtf is stunt pineapple?

Penis beaker

Twittlebee (?) and the woods the neighbor was trying to steal by fencing land that did not belong to them.