The most shocking thing you've read on Mumsnet..

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Just that really.. (Kind of lighthearted/maybe not!)

Oh I loved EKL (elderly Korean lady) but didn't that one turn out to be fake too? Still, again very enjoyable

for me, t-rexing in asda.... https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1498923-Shouting-at-me-in-the-supermarket

Not shocking as such, just really, really memorable.....

@housethatbuiltme when the bus gets packed, I sit my kid on my lap and let old people sit down cause I'm not a dick. It's crazy for a frail elderly person to be left standing so a child can be swirling around and drawing in condensation.

Yup.

The three most shocking ones for me recently:

• a woman suggesting she lets her 12 year old have a day off school for his birthday

• a woman who was outraged that she should have to stop jogging when she encounters a horse and rider

• a woman who thought it was perfectly acceptable to take McDonalds into the cinema

Selfish, entitled morons the lot of them.

I'm always genuinely shocked by the number of women on Mumsnet who think they're feminists, but basically hate any women who are not exactly like them in every conceivable way

a poster who compared stay at home Mums to prostitutes.

Give it a rest @Beginningless , @MissConductUS posted one of the first responses on a thread that asked for lighthearted posts before anyone was posting about DV etc. And why single her out, there are loads of lighthearted posts on here as well as dire ones. Anyway I am partial to Humbolt Fog cheese and desperately wish I could get it here in the UK.

@Starrystarryshite I think about that one a lot as well, wasn't the poster Australian and the boy had given up a promising future in cricket or rugby or something for this awful girl? I think about it a lot because my BIL was in a similar relationship when he was a teen, gave up sport for her because manipulative teen GF said it made him "a jock" and went completely off the rails as a result.

Thank you for replying

Not really? It's a standard kink, and can be done safely. Needlessly judging people. Shocking... /s

Too many to mention 😂 off the top of my head..

• the woman boiling water for her baby’s bath so only bathed them once a week because it was such a huge effort.. only when she told her mother what she was doing did she see the light!!
• the woman who won’t let her husband naked in bed on her clean sheets incase he has a pooey bum.. this was a recent thread and hilarious
• the replies on the current thread about being engaged for ages and not getting married. So many women still being left financially vulnerable and ignorant of possible outcomes of choices around men/children and family workload.

I just recalled on another thread about the man (postie, was he?) who stopped off at a woman's house every morning to lie under her glass-topped coffee table whilst she curled one out into a Pyrex dish placed atop the table, nothing whatsoever would surprise me at all now.

(was lazy, just copied and pasted what I wrote on the other thread!)

My kids started school at 3... not an unusual age to be in nappies.

Most SEN is not investigated until after age 5. I was 5 when they started and 8 when diagnosed.

The threads that have truly shocked me to the core (been here since 2007) have been the woman who posted that her and her DH were having sex and were so into it that they didn't notice that their toddler was at the end of the bed playing and they carried on until the deed was done. It was abhorrent and the thread was a shit show of people justifying that they often had sex next to their sleeping child/others being absolutely outraged and saying it was emotional abuse.

The other thread was one where I ended up raising quite a lot of money for an OP's solicitor as her abusive ex had taken her to court for a child arrangements order and her abusive ex was doing really disturbing stuff with her 3 year old child's genitals - in the bath and bed - and he was justifying it to the judge as 'cleaning'. He also went to Fathers4Justice. CAFCASS, the social worker who was doing the Section 7 and the police were aghast but the judge kept remonstrating with the OP for restricting contact. She got there in the end and contact was stopped but it really opened up my eyes how awful the family court system was towards women.

As an aside, I rember eating nice cheese when I was in California many years ago. Why wouldn't there be good cheese there? The anti-American sentiment in here is embarrassing.

@BettyUnderswoob, it is embarrassing. It's a bit of British cultural bigotry, with no basis in fact, that people on MN like to repeat to big themselves up.

Nubbin schooner. I’m crying 🤣🤣🤣

One thing I haven't read yet, but am hoping to, is for everyone here to acknowledge that they don't actually like children, they just like their own (and not even those all the time).

Light hearted one here...a parking one where a lady couldn't get near her house so parked and blocked the (workers?) van in and walked to her house. Builder finally came out and needed to move his van and knocked all the doors in the road and I think the lady's son answered the door, spoke some Spanish and basically said it wasn't their car....i think? Had a picnic with his friend on the front lawn, something about his friend cycling round? I don't think the builder was able to move his van for about 24 hours!! Very hazy recall on this I'm afraid but I was hooked!!! Made me laugh anyway...

All of this talk about cheese has reminded me of the glorious Scottish/Canadian poet James McIntyre who actually became known as the 'Cheese Poet'.

If you're familiar with the work of William Topaz McGonagall, he was very like him - but all he ever wrote about was cheese

Just one of a great many of his absolute belters:

We have seen thee, Queen of Cheese,
Lying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze;
Thy fair form no flies dare seize.

All gaily dressed, soon you'll go
To the provincial show,
To be admired by many a beau
In the city of Toronto.

from "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese"

He will be remembered after Shakespeare has been forgotten... but NOT before

I was thinking of this one too and often think about what happened as we were following it in ‘real time’ and she posted photos too. And then some b@stard came in pretending he was her dh - thankfully the real dh posted to sadly say she’d passed away and he was signing off. Her son was late teens. So sad.

I wouldn’t be that sure. I went to a safeguarding meeting with different nurses , midwives, prison service, social workers, assistants in safeguarding capacity there were people who thought it was ok for a 9 yr old to walk home in the dark, another thought calling 999 for a laugh was normal behaviour. I was gobsmacked. I never assume people have the same moral/ ethical boundaries as you.

Whoever just referenced weed residue, thank you. Can’t believe I missed that. Unhinged!

This is absolutely Peak Mumsnet though.

It is not standard in any way and any man prepared to do that has serious red flags and issues.

There is absolutely no safe way to strangle ever. That is a lie, see the medical guidance published last month and the gov intending to make it illegal. It is appalling that people like you enable men to use this as a defence in court.

Something has gone extremely wrong in your sexual development if it turns you on to be strangled. I worry about prior abuse. This kink doesn't just develop, there must be a self hatred in there to want to pretend to be murdered or lose control and consciousness.

Young people might read mumsnet, it is not ok to perpetuate this myth that women want to be choked. Seriously wrong.