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

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

So just to say about the stoma sex thing (I haven't seen the thread nor did I want to type those words) which has understandably worried a few people, I have seen a hospital pamphlet issued to new stoma patients which cautions not to use it for sex... and my question is how many people attempt that for the hospital to feel moved to put it in the info pamphlet? 😨

It doesn't particularly shock me any more tbh but the threads where people say that it's unacceptable to basically let a young child do anything in public. Walking, talking, singing, shopping, riding a scooter, etc etc. They're always full of "nobody wants to hear them," "they're too slow and in the way" etc and usually culminate in "why don't you just put them in a buggy/get an online shop/stay locked in the house until they're 18" (possible slight exaggeration, couldn't say for sure 😊)

The super soaker thread. Absolute comedy gold now but I could feel the frustration of posters when OP was just absolutely not listening and was insisting it was fine. If that was a troll please don't tell me, I want to believe she's real and causing havoc somewhere 🤣

Not so much shocking but memorable, but the one recently where a new mum was worried about taking baby up the Burj Khalifa because of the pressure etc, and someone very kindly said "I take it you're flying to Dubai?" The penny dropped and OP found it funny, it was quite lovely really!

No it can't. There is always a risk to the person being strangled.

I saw someone say that on Facebook.🤣🤣🤣 2 large yeah I've done that. Skipped the salad though had bread with it.

I actually agree with your example. If consenting adults want to take drugs, that's their perogative.

I guess the entire BDSM industry needs shutting down, then. You might want to start by campaigning to get shops like Ann Summers to stop selling kink and BDSM products.

And just like with other forms of bdsm it becomes the world's business when one of them dies. If you want to risk your partner's life for sexual gratification no one can stop you. But it's on you if they die and you should face the full weight of yhe law.

@VolvoFan

I guess the entire BDSM industry needs shutting down

They should be given a sound flogging!

A woman posted that her young daughter had told her that her stepdad was sexually abusing her. One poster said something along the lines of "He's your husband, you know what he's like in bed, ask her for details and see if it sounds plausible."

I think everyone was a bit shocked when catthiefkeith posted about having earache and within a mater of days was dead.

Meningitis.

I will never ever forget the poster who jokingly refused to get her DH a new toilet roll when it had run out and he'd done a shit, so he wiped his arse on her dressing gown!

Any sex can be rape. Any 'choking' or 'strangulation' as you put it, can lead to death. All these women dropping like flies from accidentally being strangled to death.

There are risks (the main one being consent) but let's not with the hyperbole, people don't listen to that.

OMG just so hilarious 😂It reminds me of the time I was happily inflating my tyres at the petrol station and a middle aged man came up to me (I'm 62) and said let me do that for you, I'll show you how.
I said great thanks I have no idea what I'm doing here, he got absolutely filthy because I don't stick my car in the car wash very often, I said thanks and drove off with nice and clean hands.
Mansplaining at its best - and saves me a dirty job.

This!

Many stories of narcissistic mothers and the trauma they produced. The scale of the abuse is staggering.

The disordered eating boasts on 'what have you eaten today' threads.

The disgust for people who wash daily, usually from the same people who complain about the smell of fabric conditioner 🙄

The amount of people who eat cereal with a teaspoon.

Not a thread but a person...the utterly fabulous WhatwouldLeslieKnopedo

She was the wisest, funniest most glorious friend (I knew her IRL) and died of cancer before she was 30. I don't want her to ever be forgotten.

You know better than the forensic medics who have researched this and seen the consequences, @wispadelight? Sure.

ifas.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/There-is-No-Safe-Way-to-Strangle-IFAS-Position-statement-22-November-2023.pdf

This is one of my pet hates on here. Yes, we all noticed the grammatical error or whatever, but someone posts here asking for help and some people just have to point out loose/lose, bought/brought or que/queue. So bloody superior and completely lacking in empathy about a real life, potentially very serious, issue.

Thanks ladies.

I have now started my Christmas cheese. Couldn't resist any longer.

There are things that consenting adults aren't allowed in law to do though - wasn't there a case about men nailing each other's scrotums to things? And it was ruled that there are harms to which no one can consent? I really do feel concerned about the mainstream normalisation of choking and the impact porn has on teenage girls' experiences of what's expected of them in sex. I don't think we should be blasé about strangulation being a normal part of sex or that we should assume the only people doing it are fully informed and aware and truly consenting.

The most shocking one I remember is a mumsneter who's friend told her that she allowed her husband to have sex with her while she was asleep, on condition that he didn't wake her. 😱

The threads debating whether wheelchair users should have priority for the fucking WHEELCHAIR SPACES on buses always astonish me. It's like a competition to see who can come up with the most convoluted reason why parents with prams need the spaces more than wheelchair users (who campaigned for the spaces in the first place!) do. The pièce de résistance was a post from a woman who said she wouldn't fold her buggy for a wheelchair user because she once knew a child molester who ended up disabled after being attacked by vigilantes. (The thread was deleted shortly after she posted that, unsurprisingly.)

@housethatbuiltme, it might not be unusual for three year olds to be in nappies these days, but when my children were small (nineties babies) it was. The usual rule of thumb then was around two for a girl and two and a half for boys. It seems that these days it is not unusual for four year olds to be in nappies. My younger two conformed to the nineties average but my oldest is autistic and not diagnosed until he was five. I was horrified because he was later than he should be for toilet training and was suddenly dry night and day just before his third birthday. Once he realised he had significant special needs, the delay made sense. However, I did say that I was going against the MN grain and l still think that four or even three is far too old to still be in nappies for the vast majority of children, as do the majority of people of my generation and older.