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

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

@Pacificisolated

But the most shocking thing to me is just how many people on here are afraid to answer a knock on their front door......

I'm amazed that you're amazed. I agree with @EvelynKatie. I live alone and only answer the door to delivery drivers, people I know or if there's something pretty obvious going on. Why on earth would I fling open my front door to a random stranger? Chances are they're trying to flog something in which case I don't want to get stuck on a cold doorstep trying to get rid of them. But they could quite easily be up to no good and sussing out if I live alone. If they want to get hold of me that desperately or tell me I've won the Premium Bonds they can write to me.

The fact that every third post on this is about cheese!

Does anyone remember the thread,where the op said she was thinking about leaving her husband. Her reasoning was something like she watched the BBC news for data/facts/truth and he didn't.

For some reason that one sticks in my mind.

If a consenting couple want to practice strangling/choking as part of their sex life then I'm sure they've weighed up the pros and cons.

You could say exactly the same thing about drug addicts, though: "they're consenting adults who will have surely weighed up the pros and cons before finding a vein and injecting the heroin - so the nanny government has no right in making it illegal".

I get that there are lots of kinks out there, but death-play is really not a wise one, however consenting or not you think you are. As well as the elephant-in-the-room fact that it's the perfect excuse for any rapist/murderer who can claim that "she got off on it and she asked me to choke her".

Lots of the posters on a recent thread saying they never use the word ‘toilet’, cringe when other people say it, their kids aren’t allowed to say it only the words loo or lav are permitted. I honestly never realised this was a thing until reading that thread!

If it's not consensual in a given situation, there needs to be a law on the books to prosecute the men who choke, and sometimes kill, women without their consent. Surely all the cool wives can understand that.

The poster who expected her husband to climb out of the window of a morning on his way to work so as not to disturb her and the baby's sleep by opening and closing the front door. That were a good 'un.

Wasn't mumsnet (before I discovered this site) but a similar parenting site had me horrified at the sheer amount of women who said without question in a life and death situation they would save their husband over their kids because 'If I still have a husband I can just have more kids'.

Maybe because I was infertile and had just gone through a long tried for pregnancy loss but the assertion by so many that their children where just 'replaceable' really made me sick.

I would be devastated if my DH died, he is my soul mate and I know I would struggle without him BUT we both are aware one of us will die first at some point as thats life, we hope NONE of our kids die before us.

As depressing as it is to say but many relationship break down too in general (but ESPECIALLY after the loss of a child) so having your current partner survive does not mean you can just 'restart'.

Maybe it was 'cultural' (god knows to what culture) but many also believed that 'husbands eat and have their fill with 2nds and 3rd, then grandparents, other adults and the mother and children get any remaining table scraps' as apparently that is 'respect for elders' (seems patriarchal bullshit to me though, many people where definitely 'husband' centric).

A bit of a dark one from the relationships board. Someone had been going out with a bloke for a while, he told her he wasn't allowed to work with children and 3 (I think) non related women had approached her to warn her off him. She didn't believe them and didn't even question why he was banned from working with children. Everyone on the thread was telling her he was a paedo but she wasn't having it.

@wispadelight can I ask what you enjoy about it, please?

I don't know anyone who does it in real life and have always wondered how it could possibly be pleasurable?

That’s the middle-classness of Mumsnet showing itself. ‘Toilet’, ‘couch’ and ‘dessert’ are all common, supposedly.

@ShortMotherfuckerWithTheIvoryHair I remember that too and hope the child is doing ok. Such an incredible woman.

If I was expecting a parcel that day, I'd know to open the door. These days most parcels have a tracking/expected time of delivery.

Meter reading? Smart meters so no need, and if they really need access I'd want a pre-arranged time to come inside my house not just whenever they feel like it.

The very sad post from a woman (with a young child) who would get blind drunk, then drive to men's houses (drunk) and bring them back to hers for sex.

She had a partner. But for some reason was repeatedly having sex with strange men whilst blind drunk and then regretting it the next day.

She said she knew they were using her, and that she was putting herself in danger, but she couldn't stop.

I believe her partner also knew (they didn't live together) but was unable to stop her.

Awful. I hope she is doing better now.

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.

Yes, it's one of those things where you might be lucky for a long time, but that in no way ever means that it's 'safe'.

Just because you could regularly run into the middle of a dual carriageway as a hobby and the drivers might see you and be able to screech to a halt, or they may hit you, but you're only hospitalised and not killed - nobody would be calling that a 'safe' activity in any way.

It reminds me of the old (but wise) joke about the elderly lady who wanted to employ a chauffeur and asked each of the four applicants how close they reckoned they could confidently drive to the edge of the cliff in her coastal village. The first one said ten feet, the second said four feet and the third proudly said just six inches. She hired the fourth one who responded with "What?! I wouldn't go anywhere near the cliff edge - I'm not an idiot!"

Not a particular post but certain threads like "what reading level should the average reception child be on" and almost everyone replies with something ridiculously high 😂 no one wants to admit their kid is average or slow.
Or the competitive under eating threads

Threads started encouraging mners to slag off threads started by other mners are a bit shocking tbh 😁

Lol to each their own, I guess!

As with the vulgar Neanderthal vagabonds who say 'bog roll' or even 'arse-wipe' when referring to what we naice MNers know as perforated buttock folios.

Wasn’t it that he was messing around with the neighbour’s 18 year old niece and when caught he told the wife that the niece was obsessed with him and won’t stop texting or something?

@EtiennePalmiere what's with the 'cool wives' bullshit? I see it trotted out on MN all the time as though it's some kind of insult!

Again, my body, my choice. I don't like feathery strokey sex, find it irritating and in no way fulfilling. I don't want sweet nothings whispered at me. Others do? Good for them heres a round of applause. I don't. So again, I will continue to have the kind of sex that me and my husband enjoy and I really couldn't give a fuck whether someone doesn't 'understand' it or tries to explain the risks to me. I'll draw up a risk assessment and method statement if it would please for next time.

😂😂😂😂

Grim, isn't it? Talk about a reliable daily first-class delivery service