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Threads you remember with fondness for being utterly batshit

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amiafreakofnature · 18/02/2022 22:41

The one that always gets me is the one where a woman gets angry with some builders and yelled 'Willy Willy Willy' at them
Also didn't see this delight at the time but have since learnt about it was the Sistine screamer- I could die laughing thinking about that one
What are your best threads for comedy value?

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LadyAnglerfish · 19/02/2022 07:28

Elderly Korean Lady.

The Quern Grin

Mumsnet’s take on Fifty Shades of Grey. In particular, the sentence: Bernard entered the room, roughly, from behind.

ButtockUp · 19/02/2022 07:29

The one where the poster's child had some sort of talking bird badge that could predict things.

I'll see if I can find it...

TibetanTerrah · 19/02/2022 07:40

@ButtockUp

The one where the poster's child had some sort of talking bird badge that could predict things.

I'll see if I can find it...

Birdy friend or something wasn't it?!
Winterfellismyhome · 19/02/2022 07:52

The one where the OP had sold her house and was halfway through moving out but decided to stop for lunch. She was very offended that the new owner had turned up and started ripping the kitchen out whilst she was eating her sandwiches Grin

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 19/02/2022 07:53

The exceptionally CF bridezilla one, where the OP gave a cheque for a wedding present and the BZ sent it back, saying she knew OP had come into an inheritance, so in the circs the OP ought to send a rather fatter one.

Plus of course the cutted up pear.

ufucoffee · 19/02/2022 07:55

The last post by the OP in the Sistine Chapel screaming thread where she says that security came and escorted her out is brilliant. Her poor OH.

MangosteenSoda · 19/02/2022 07:58

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/a2301982-Im-getting-sick-and-tired-of-dinosaurs-being-forced-on-our-children

This is the first MN thread I ever read and it’s still hilarious.

I was a bit taken aback when searching for it just now that there are actually quite a lot of threads doubting the existence of dinosaurs.

SallyWD · 19/02/2022 08:02

The recent one where a woman made owl noises at her colleague to stop her talking about Muller Light yogurts!

ufucoffee · 19/02/2022 08:06

Did the trex poster post any other threads? She sounded delightfully mad

Joystir59 · 19/02/2022 08:10

If you haven't read the fat balls thread please do, it's very funny right from the get go and not overly long.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2017083-He-has-eaten-a-fat-ball

StarryNightSparkles · 19/02/2022 08:21

@WutheringHeights66 it was so bizarre. I must have missed the update @Aroundtheworldin80moves will have a look for it. Funnily enough I thought the update would read like that.

Velvian · 19/02/2022 08:41

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/3784524-To-think-you-cant-get-past-the-ick-im-a-relationship?pg=1&order

I can't get this to go click for some reason, but 'the ick' thread was one one that made me LOL the most. Especially the woman that went off a man when he said something like 'come in, I've just made a lovely shepherd's pie' Grin - he sounded such a lovely man. Smile

GruffaloSolja · 19/02/2022 08:42

Back when I first joined there was WORKzilla, who thought the poster should look after her kids for the entire summer holidays.....for free.... Because she had to WORK. I think op had initially agreed to have the kids for a couple of days during the holidays, but definitely not the entire holidays. When op got wind of WORKzilla's plan to offload her kids on her for the whole 6 weeks she put her foot down and asserted some boundaries. Which resulted in workzilla telling everyone at the school gates how op had let her down on child care and now there were no places left in the holiday club. I think at one point she text op asking how they were going to sort it out together.

lucysmam · 19/02/2022 08:43

@catinboots123 it was a fair few years ago now & I can't find it using search so must have gone "poof".

It was very funny.

I'd forgotten about a lot of these. Fat balls was hilarious!

Zoom101 · 19/02/2022 08:44

The one relatively recently about a woman having used a ‘standard’ pack of mince to make a bolognaise only to find her husband and two grandkids had eaten it all and not left her any.

Many people said that that was too much meat for just 3 people or why didn’t she make more, how selfish they were etc. etc and then someone claimed that they could take a ‘standard’ pack and make 12 portions of food.

The comment that had me howling with laughter was something along the lines of ‘12 portions? Who are you, the fucking Borrowers?’

OwlIceCrem · 19/02/2022 08:47

One of the first ones when I joined mumsnet was from a woman who had paid an extortionate amount for a birthday cake with icing teddy bears and balloons but it just looked so rubbish… people were commenting that the bears looked like they were on glue…

And also the one with the gatecrashers making eyes at the PIL’s posh champagne…

DropYourSword · 19/02/2022 08:47

*The comment that had me howling with laughter was something along the lines of ‘12 portions? Who are you, the fucking Borrowers?’

I love some of the comments people write. There's some really funny posters!

CorsicaDreaming · 19/02/2022 08:52

[quote crabb]www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2154580-There-is-a-tiny-elderly-Korean-lady-in-my-garden-and-I-want-to-go-out[/quote]

Just read this Tiny Korean Lady thread - lovely!

AndAsIfByMagic · 19/02/2022 09:02

One saying from here has passed into our family usage.

A woman had sold her dining room chairs but not the table. She complained that the table "was sitting there like a cunt".

This has been used so often in reference to useless things in our house.

I also remember (from the Mexican House Thief thread) the stealth bridesmaid inserted by the mother in law.

lborgia · 19/02/2022 09:32

I've just gone down a bit of a dino-denier rabbit warren and found something interesting... they don't like Trump, and they encourage vaccination!

I'm oddly surprised. In my head, the Venn subsets of:
People who are Christian Evangelists,
People who deny dinos existed,
People who supported Trump, and
Antivaxxers

Would pretty much completely overlap.

Not so sure of my tidy world view nowHmm

Cailleach · 19/02/2022 10:15

The Sinister Easter Bonnet thread is still my all time favourite for the OP's picture of said hat alone...the look of sheer goggle-eyed terror on the chicks' faces will never leave me.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/937597-Sinister-Easter-bonnet

Squiff70 · 19/02/2022 10:19

"Foxes don't ask for a finger up the arse".

Crying!

MyOtherProfile · 19/02/2022 10:20

@MalloryMal

There was a thread where someone wanted advice on how many dominos pizzas to order for (I think) 5 10 year olds for a sleepover. Answers ranged from OP was basically committing child abuse and if they knew her they’d ring social services, through to one medium pizza to share between them and dotted in between those ridiculous posts and the normal posts we had people saying things like order 10 large pizzas with different toppings plus 5 garlic breads, 5 wedges, 5 boxes of chicken, 5 2l bottles of coke and don’t forget desserts.

You really can’t beat an MN food thread where you have people looking at a dominos leaflet and feeling full to people who eat 2 large dominos pizzas plus sides and then need to go to the little Tesco down the road for a cheesecake.

Having just had 5 teens for a sleepover and a Domino's discussion with DH this made me laugh out loud.
PAFMO · 19/02/2022 10:30

I've never believed many of those mentioned- Sistine Screamer/Korean lady/Penis Beaker/Mexican house thief/patio doors/puddles/fat ball etc, but one I always remember was the twat of a father wanting an ambulance on the tarmac and compensation from Ryanair because HE shut his kid's fingers in the loo door. In a similar vein a mother who forgot to pick up her kid from a Saturday language school and it was somehow the teacher's fault.

@crabb- I think a lot of the made up for classics threads are by the same posters.