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What thread outcomes that never got posted are you curious about?

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Addicted2LuvIsland · 12/05/2022 18:20

Which thread were you invested in where perhaps the OP stopped posting or the thread died and you never got to know the outcome?

For me there are two:

The one where the lady got her heart broken by a Jewish guy who just suddenly dumped her.

A more recent one where a girl was "exclusive" with guy she hadn't heard from in 3 weeks and she went out and bought him birthday presents anyway. He then posted pics on Instagram of his bday celebrations which she wasn't invited to. She messaged him and I would love to know if he replied and what happened.

You go....

OP posts:
OnthePiste · 13/05/2022 06:21

Tryhard40 · 13/05/2022 05:57

The lady who's husband was supposed to be in Portugal playing golf but then was discovered to be in Spain.

This is the one I wonder about - there was no conclusion was there? I SO hope she turned up at the airport to confront him.

There was a conclusion-it was a troll!

bruffin · 13/05/2022 08:00

Rogue1001MNer · 12/05/2022 23:46

Thank you so much for going to the trouble @whynotwhatknot

The link doesn't work (victim of the replatforming???)

If you've read it, could you possibly summarise?

what you have to do is go to the address bar and delete page=33 from the end. This happens when one poster views only 100 pages at a time and the viewer views 1000 post etc

whatwasIgoingtosay · 13/05/2022 08:07

@AmysBeehive the mother in that one about her son and his girlfriend posted an update today. I can't lay my hands on it right no, but basically the outcome has been good and he's stopped seeing her altogether.

IEatChocolateForBreakfast · 13/05/2022 08:43

Tryhard40 · 13/05/2022 05:57

The lady who's husband was supposed to be in Portugal playing golf but then was discovered to be in Spain.

This is the one I wonder about - there was no conclusion was there? I SO hope she turned up at the airport to confront him.

Oh yes this was the most recent one! Was totally gutted when the post was removed. How do people know for sure it was a troll. I honestly can't stand it and find it so petty when people automatically assume 'troll' and report the post. If they don't like it move on. 🙄

Now I'm hoping a movie will eventually come out on Netflix that will answer all my questions and out an end to the story 😆 *Hoping that if it was a troll, the troll was at least a film maker 🤞🏻🤣

Allthe4s · 13/05/2022 08:53

The recent one with the lady hosting a Ukrainian refugee who was a friend of a friend. There were issues and it didn’t sound good.

Surprised to have not seen any threads either good or otherwise about those hosting.

ShirleyPhallus · 13/05/2022 09:16

IEatChocolateForBreakfast · 13/05/2022 08:43

Oh yes this was the most recent one! Was totally gutted when the post was removed. How do people know for sure it was a troll. I honestly can't stand it and find it so petty when people automatically assume 'troll' and report the post. If they don't like it move on. 🙄

Now I'm hoping a movie will eventually come out on Netflix that will answer all my questions and out an end to the story 😆 *Hoping that if it was a troll, the troll was at least a film maker 🤞🏻🤣

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People report troll but MNHQ don’t necessarily delete the thread just on people reporting, they look at stuff behind the scenes before deleting them

IMO it’s important to delete troll threads because while some are amusing and harmless, there are lots of gullible MNers who fall for stuff like Oliver’s Army and donate money to troll accounts

caringcarer · 13/05/2022 09:26

I wondered what happened to the poster who asked about is it enough food for her wedding and was having a van with waffles and a van with mini pizzas. I got so invested in her wedding.

caringcarer · 13/05/2022 09:31

@regret89, I am so happy for you. When you meet your baby you will know it was meant to be.

Toddlerteaplease · 13/05/2022 09:46

The one where she slept with her best friend, was worried she'd made a mistake. I think they got engaged soon after. I hope they are still together, I loved that thread!

ToffeeNotCoffee · 13/05/2022 10:01

@Eddielizzard & @DFOD

The poster that went to NZ, pretty much so her husband could go back to his hard-drinking parents/brother etc and join in i.e. pick up where he left off, work for the family business for nothing so his parents could retire off the backs of their adult children on the understanding that they would inherit the (pretty much worthless) family business one day. (If his parents didn't sell it out from underneath them at a time and place of their choosing I suspect. Probably after the adult children had worked some value into the business.) His mother had been supporting his workshy no good brother for years as well.

When last heard of that poster was taking legal advice in NZ. They did have a rental property in Britain which she could have come back to. With the kids ? Without the kids ? Dunno....

Her husband's attitude to the whole debacle was pretty much, 'oh well.'

Yissie · 13/05/2022 10:04

caringcarer · 13/05/2022 09:26

I wondered what happened to the poster who asked about is it enough food for her wedding and was having a van with waffles and a van with mini pizzas. I got so invested in her wedding.

We haggled the pizza van up to 12” pizzas and added lunch. It’s not an overly exciting update sorry Grin

DFOD · 13/05/2022 10:47

The tragedy here is that the OP and her children born, bred and educated in the U.K. until there were late primary were unable legally I understand to return to the U.K. without the DH approval which he was never going to give. The OP was then effectively trapped in NZ for a decade until the DC reached 18 and could make their own decision. I also remember that they had only very recently arrived in NZ and had then separated.

So she effectively ended up a very distressed non working, socially isolated single parent, on the other side of the world having given up her own career, home, much loved community, social life, extended family including unwell elderly parents in the U.K. with no prospect of return. It felt very bleak to read over many months. I hope she has found some peace.

DFOD · 13/05/2022 10:49

That was for @ToffeeNotCoffee - think the poster was called WitchesandWizards.

orangeisthenewpuce · 13/05/2022 10:53

Snowpatrolling · 12/05/2022 20:38

The one where the woman’s husband was supposed to be in Portugal and she tracked him in north Spain!
Found out by trying to find her airpods!!!

Wasn't that very entertaining thread removed because it was a troll?

longtompot · 13/05/2022 12:53

SuffolkBargeWoman · 12/05/2022 23:30

Twittlebee and the woods she inherited was a troll.
The neighbors putting patio doors into a private garden was a troll.
The husband in Portugal instead of Spain (or vice versa) was a troll.

The ones I've always wondered about are Yellowblinds and BountyIceCream. One had a very odd mother-in-law, the other a very strange and possessive husband.

Was Twittlebee really a troll? She seems to be still posting under that name, unless someone else has taken it

ThreeRingCircus · 13/05/2022 13:43

longtompot · 13/05/2022 12:53

Was Twittlebee really a troll? She seems to be still posting under that name, unless someone else has taken it

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Do we know Twittlebee was a troll? I'd be surprised but had forgotten there was never an update

VainAbigail · 13/05/2022 14:00

CTPT · 12/05/2022 21:08

Does anyone else remember a thread where the OP had woken up after a night at a friends house and had a really intricate drawing on their back the next morning?!? I don't think they ever updated the thread but it was very bizarre, posters wondered if the friends DH had been responsible.

I always wondered about this one, too!

TalkingCat · 13/05/2022 14:39

SuffolkBargeWoman · 12/05/2022 23:30

Twittlebee and the woods she inherited was a troll.
The neighbors putting patio doors into a private garden was a troll.
The husband in Portugal instead of Spain (or vice versa) was a troll.

The ones I've always wondered about are Yellowblinds and BountyIceCream. One had a very odd mother-in-law, the other a very strange and possessive husband.

This is getting ridiculous now. There is no actual proof any of them were 'trolls'.

Btw, just because a thread is deleted, does not automatically mean it was a troll. It's quite rare to have actual trolls on here.

TalkingCat · 13/05/2022 14:44

ShirleyPhallus · 13/05/2022 09:16

People report troll but MNHQ don’t necessarily delete the thread just on people reporting, they look at stuff behind the scenes before deleting them

IMO it’s important to delete troll threads because while some are amusing and harmless, there are lots of gullible MNers who fall for stuff like Oliver’s Army and donate money to troll accounts

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Many a time Mumsnet don't bother 'looking behind the scenes' and only delete based on reports. Several people over the years have said their thread was deleted and Mumsnet never once bothered to attempt to contact them.

Threads are deleted based on hearsay, witchhunting and reports. There is rarely any actual proof of someone being a troll.

TalkingCat · 13/05/2022 14:46

DramaAlpaca · 12/05/2022 23:36

I don't get over-invested in threads. Call me cynical, but generally if you think it's too good/sad/weird etc to be true, it usually is.

Real life is far stranger than you think. You seem quite sheltered and naive.

Nailest · 13/05/2022 14:47

I remember a thread years ago in Aibu from a girl asking if it was unreasonable for her boyfriend to eat chunks of her flesh 😮. Or it may have been her friend’s boyfriend. Eating flesh was definitely involved anyway and I sometimes think about the girl involved and hope she got away (in one piece :) )

And another one which still makes me tearful to think of. The op had a disabled son and they lived next door to a family who had a ds in the same class as her son. The next door neighbours son had a party, and invited everyone in the class except for her little boy. So the poor lad could see all his classmates arriving to the party next door :(. I may have invented this bit but I think the neighbour was a vicar too. I cried reading that thread and often think about the op and her ds.

Lizzy1980 · 13/05/2022 16:01

There was one not that long ago where the OP had bought London theatre tickets for her friends birthday. The friend had suddenly gone off the radar and OP just wanted to know if she was still going or if she should invite someone else. I think she’d just started ignoring her calls and texts with no explanation but OP knew that she was ok because she was active on Social Media.
Does anyone know the outcome?

DramaAlpaca · 13/05/2022 17:12

TalkingCat · 13/05/2022 14:46

Real life is far stranger than you think. You seem quite sheltered and naive.

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'Quite sheltered and naive'? Me? Oh that's funny!

FWIW I'm neither of those things. I've been on MN a long time, which is the main reason I'm cynical about much that's posted on here. It doesn't mean I don't enjoy a dramatic thread, I'm just sensible enough not to get over-invested in them.

FriteFuaite · 13/05/2022 17:51

I think a lot of those posts were creative writing exercises.

Why do you ask, OP?

SatsumaLover · 13/05/2022 18:03

I dont think Twittlebee is a troll she’s a regular poster and genuine as far as I can tell

I always wondered what happened to a poster who had a large family - was called ghost something and I think was in temporary accommodation and seemed to have a really hard time