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MN the old days

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Boredasshit · 23/07/2023 17:55

What are your most remembered threads or posters ?

I know this has been done before but I'm bored shitless.

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DogSitterMum · 23/07/2023 23:54

ElizabethBest · 23/07/2023 23:49

@StGertrude Me too. The good old days when all the children were genius doctors and every sheep came with its own Christmas lights 🤣

Crumbs was hilarious. She reminded me of Bridget Jones mother

Amispringy · 23/07/2023 23:58

SemperIdem · 23/07/2023 23:42

There was a male poster, whose name I forget now, who confessed to driving a dog (his neighbours possibly?) to the countryside and leaving it tied to a fence pole. Always thought he must be a vile individual in real life.

Andrew of off

Amispringy · 23/07/2023 23:58

Og

ElizabethBest · 23/07/2023 23:58

@DogSitterMum The rich London one was PeachMilk/VogueVE!

Tilllly · 23/07/2023 23:59

Nomorecoconutboosts · 23/07/2023 23:24

There was a poster named crying very quietly (CVq) who was perhaps vulnerable or maybe a liar.
she was renamed quite quickly as whinging very loudly and similar versions of that.

there was a poster who had terrible presents from her mil - a length of knicker elastic one year iirc

There were many many pram threads.

There was a long running thread ‘sleep is for the weak’ and another where posters tried to eat 10 or more of their 5 a day (fruit/veg)

37 metres of elastic
And some plastic spoons

SgtPercyTwentyman · 24/07/2023 00:00

A wonderfully strong lady called WellWhoKnew and her long-running divorce saga. I hope she's around and happy.

SemperIdem · 24/07/2023 00:01

Amispringy · 23/07/2023 23:58

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Yes that’s it!

The only male poster whose name I could remember when I posted was PigletJohn and I knew that he wasn’t the one who had posted the terrible story about the dog.

SgtPercyTwentyman · 24/07/2023 00:02

Amispringy · 23/07/2023 23:58

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I remember him. From some things he posted, he must have lived fairly close to me.

SgtPercyTwentyman · 24/07/2023 00:15

TwitterQueen RIP. I read her posts but never knew who she was until, at a memorial service for a friend, one of her daughters mentioned she was on MN under that name. She was a smashing lady IRL.

HoneyDragon · 24/07/2023 00:18

Weird. I’ve been feeling nostalgic this evening for the Pop Idol/XFactor threads and lovely Wand Erection.

Thought I’d have a mooch and see if any were still standing and find all these lovely names being mentioned. Truly sorry to hear about Noddy.

YouBetYourBippy · 24/07/2023 00:22

The Balonz thread (mentioned upthread) honestly had me in stitches at the time.

I also contributed to a few of the Christmas collections back in the day and still remember LittleLapin's mega organisation efforts.

OnlyJoking is a poster that always stayed with me for some reason. And VeniVidiVicky (?) And Hecate. Although I never particularly interacted with any of them!

RitzyMcFitzy · 24/07/2023 00:23

I loved Crumbs' fantasies about village nativity plays, and her 5 ever so successful adult children, and her fancy Surrey bedroom which google images told us was apparently in a Parisian hotel. But her heyday was 2017 or so, so post-penis beaker and therefore not officially 'old days MN'.

Yes, I'm a nerd. Why do you ask?

mellicauli · 24/07/2023 00:23

I've been here on and off since 2003.

It wasn't a comfortable place back then. Sometimes you put a comment you didn't even think was controversial and the ferocity of the responses was scary. I never feel the need to name change after an exchange now, which I did back then.

The threads that always stick with me are the ones of women in abusive relationships trying to escape. I didn't really appreciate the true horror of it until I read it here. The manipulative behaviour. The administrative nightmare. The vulnerability of the position some women are in. It truly opened my eyes.

CallieQ · 24/07/2023 00:28

WWIFN

EduCated · 24/07/2023 00:47

Gosh, you’re all making me feel
old and nostalgic. Some
of the posters named were incredibly
kind to me at points when I needed it more than I realised at the time.

FFSwhatisthis · 24/07/2023 00:55

YellowAndGreenToBeSeen · 23/07/2023 19:14

LaQueen was a great poster, as was BupcakesandBunting.

Miss those two plus the others above. There was also a poster around the time of the Referendum whose name is on the tip of my tongue - antagonist, difficult and very opposing views to me but used to get thread roaring along!

My first thread was ‘YOUR BUSH!’ aka ‘I forgot to pack my bikini bottoms!’

@YellowAndGreenToBeSeen

yeah, LaQueen was great, absolutely FULL of utter bullshit, but still loved posts about her house her DH & her girls.

it was 'ya minge'

i loved 'I AM CANADIAN'

i miss the old days A Lot.

MillicentTrilbyHiggins · 24/07/2023 01:03

I remember one Poster. She was a bit odd, Her name had Rose in it.

I remember one post that was about her awful neighbours. About a billion posts in it turned out that the only thing these neighbours did was walk past her house on the way out of the street. (I've got a feeling they lived in a cul-de-sac so they literally had no choice to go out another way.) And I think the neighbours child has the audacity to ride her scooter. I don't think anyone ever got to the bottom of quite what was so awful about it all.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 24/07/2023 01:04

Oh yes I AM CANADIAN was brilliant. The way the original poster just blindly carried on spouting their assumptions in the face of facts.

I remember there used to be a way of doing blank posts that really upset tech.

FFSwhatisthis · 24/07/2023 01:08

DogSitterMum · 23/07/2023 23:20

Who was the one that we all thought was super rich in London and ot turned out to be fake?

Was that not Crumbs?

There was also a lady whose daughter did dancing, I loved reading her threads.

Do you mean LeQueen?

the dancing mum still posts, brain fog is thick tonight... I'll be back when I remember her user name.

FFSwhatisthis · 24/07/2023 01:10

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 24/07/2023 01:04

Oh yes I AM CANADIAN was brilliant. The way the original poster just blindly carried on spouting their assumptions in the face of facts.

I remember there used to be a way of doing blank posts that really upset tech.

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude

yes, it was brackets. I'm not sure it still works or of I can remember properly how the naughty girls <ahem> used to do it.

FFSwhatisthis · 24/07/2023 01:11

FFSwhatisthis · 24/07/2023 01:11

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FFSwhatisthis · 24/07/2023 01:12

apparently not, sorry folks, I'll practice elsewhere!!

Namechanger1002 · 24/07/2023 01:14

I am without the fourth vowel 😂

Namechanger1002 · 24/07/2023 01:16

MargaretThursday · 23/07/2023 18:50

And then there was the Mitmoo evening. It was not long after I'd arrived and I wasn't quite sure what was happening but it was quite funny as a spectator, I seem to remember it ended with lots of posters changed their name to have Mitmoo in. So I'd have become "MitmooThursday" or similar.
For a while if anyone mentioned Mitmoo the post got deleted, I think.

Somebody wrote ‘mitmoo’ in flowers 😂😂