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What is the most memorable thread on here?

207 replies

YellowRedBlueGreen · 09/10/2022 17:25

What's yours? I remember the Dumped By Text one a couple of years ago (by the girl who ran in the rain!) She was very inspirational.

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cheerfulpanda · 09/10/2022 21:45

Penguin bollards!

I occasionally visit the Isle of Wight and always keep my eyes peeled for them when driving around

tillytoodles1 · 09/10/2022 21:53

That was the saddest thread I ever read especially when the OP died.

Usernamenotavailabletryanother · 09/10/2022 22:07

The one in the GP surgery where the OP had meant to call her grizzling toddler with ‘Come on you whiny tinker’ and instead shouted across the packed waiting area ‘Come on you tiny wanker’

Also, DENTINOX. Bruxeur was my favourite.

HRTQueen · 09/10/2022 22:19

ya minge 😆

ones about embarrassing stories is always funny. I remember one poster who had held fart in during meeting (I think she had bean burgers the night before) got to her car and released fart in safety or was safe until a colleague knocked on car window

or the 70’s health and safety threadbthe school trip with the teacher doing a live pupil experience experiment of electricity conducting from electric fence 🤩

HRTQueen · 09/10/2022 22:25

There has been some very sad threads too

one a few years ago it was about memories from childhood that have stayed with us (for some they didn’t make sense at the time) some of the posts were absolutely heartbreaking. It bought our the best in MN them wonderful support that is here

newfence · 09/10/2022 22:37

Yes, that one really affected me as well, right at the end 😞

newfence · 09/10/2022 22:38

Invisableperson · 09/10/2022 18:05

The baby born addicted and MNetter fostered the baby through withdrawal etc and she then became ill and died

One of the first threads I ever read. Still saddens me

Yes, me too 😞

AdditionalCharacter · 09/10/2022 22:45

The thread where a toddler bed was delivered from the south of England (from Riven who's DD never used it) to Scotland (for TrinityRhino's daughter) , ferried by several MNers meeting each other along the way. Really heartwarming stuff, back when before things went viral and ''twas all fields here.

Roundlampshade · 09/10/2022 22:54

Darked on and Spider Willies.

I cannot ever never ever leave my washing out now.

A580Hojas · 10/10/2022 06:01

Just remembered another ancient one that really made me laugh. Someone was out clothes shopping and they wanted to post a link to what they were thinking of buying. But they just couldn't make the link work. It was unintentionally hilarious.

I also remember the pram in the communal hallway. I can see that "big reveal" photo as clear as day.

Has super soaker had a mention yet?

Halstead · 10/10/2022 07:46

I also remember the pram in the communal hallway. I can see that "big reveal" photo as clear as day.

I don’t remember that one, @A580Hojas - can you tell me a bit more about it please?

FindingMeno · 10/10/2022 07:52

Zombie apocalypse one with OFRS's and going to Sark as a safe haven.

Notarealmum · 10/10/2022 09:00

One that stays with me from a few years back was by a husband whose wife was seeing a therapist who had convinced her she’d been abused as a child, though her family said it hadn’t happened. She’d become deeply reliant on this therapist and the poster appeared to be at his wits’ end over it. They had a young son who was very much affected. Does anyone remember? I don’t know if it was genuine or a troll thread in the end as it was all quite strange.

0pheIiaBalls · 10/10/2022 10:12

Some of the covid ones near the beginning of the pandemic were pretty memorable. The one about not sitting on park benches and the whole cheese in coffee debate. A while ago I went onto the covid board and read some of the oldest threads on there - people were so scared. But some of it was memorably batshit.

VampiresWife · 10/10/2022 10:16

Some of the woo threads have been quite memorable. I do take them with a pinch of salt (some do have a whiff of creative writing about them) but when you read them before bed they can play on your mind a bit!

That one with the cabin in the woods for example. And the glitch in the matrix ones. And the kerjillion haunted house ones. Love them all.

crumpet · 10/10/2022 10:26

I am Angela Hernandez
following the Booble plate in tea time was good
the lady who sent her pants to school in her some lunchbox instead of his lunch

crumpet · 10/10/2022 10:27

*son’s

x2boys · 10/10/2022 10:42

LearnerCook · 09/10/2022 17:40

The Mexican House thief was most memorable for being hilarious but there are a couple of very sad threads that will stay with me, too

The Mexican House their wasent a thread ,it was a post on a thread.about cheeky fuckers

x2boys · 10/10/2022 10:48

Cherryapples · 09/10/2022 19:04

I swear I am not trying to sound like an arse but does anyone have the sort of opposite to everyone else and just not get the hilarity of some of these?

Like he pushchair one is a bit amusing but not THAT funny. Never really ‘got’ the elderly Korean lady either.

Yeah I never got the pushchair one ,maybe raise a smile but all the spitting the coffee out hilarity no it just wasn't that funny imo.

catsonahottinroof · 10/10/2022 11:05

x2boys · 10/10/2022 10:48

Yeah I never got the pushchair one ,maybe raise a smile but all the spitting the coffee out hilarity no it just wasn't that funny imo.

Yes me too - the penis beaker thread wasn't funny at all and I cringed when the media made so much of it. Also the sistine chapel thread was blatantly ripped off from Alexander McCall Smith (if true I guess it would have been quite funny).
The funniest threads are where the op isn't meaning to be funny, but then the thread goes a certain way organically.

x2boys · 10/10/2022 11:33

catsonahottinroof · 10/10/2022 11:05

Yes me too - the penis beaker thread wasn't funny at all and I cringed when the media made so much of it. Also the sistine chapel thread was blatantly ripped off from Alexander McCall Smith (if true I guess it would have been quite funny).
The funniest threads are where the op isn't meaning to be funny, but then the thread goes a certain way organically.

Yes I remember a rather mundane one where a prolific user was spectacularly outed they had always said they had lived in London with several children of varying ages and then a thread was bumped from a few years brgore where the poster said they had no children, but it didn't fit in with the ages and timeliness, half the thread was replying yo the original poster and half was commenting on the other poster being outed .

IncompleteSenten · 10/10/2022 11:50

I like the ones that aren't trying to be funny.
Like the mangoes.
A poster (feda?) Posted in recipes saying she had 3 mangoes and what should she do with them.

Someone suggested juggling. She was not amused.

A580Hojas · 10/10/2022 12:29

The question was what is the most memorable thread on here, not the most funny @x2boys @catsonahottinroof.

I imagine you wouldn't find EMIN's thread about her drug addicted foster son funny either.

catsonahottinroof · 10/10/2022 12:35

Sorry, my mistake, but I was just agreeing that some threads aren't all they are hyped up to be (the ones that many people find 'hilarious').

TheDutchHouse · 10/10/2022 12:41

freakydeaky · 09/10/2022 19:15

I’m going back years now, but there was one about a blind date where they were meeting at the penguin enclosure at the zoo? Can’t remember the details but I found it funny at the time, was one of the first threads I read on here.

And for the absolute power of Mumsnet, I’ll never forget the wonderful support and encouragement given to a poster who wanted to leave an abusive marriage, she was terrified but got out, practically updating as she went, think she hired a car to escape in.
So many posters cheering her on, willing her to get herself to a place of safety - and she did it! I never knew it was possible to feel such relief for someone I’d never met.
Think she changed her name on later updates, but I was so happy to hear that she escaped. I hope she’s still safe and is happy now.

Three years and one week and I'm still going strong 😊

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