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

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

You do Know that internet is the best and vetted newspaper- right?

Why is it not okay?
What does age have to do with it ?
Why does having children affect what you do with a consensual partner in the privacy (hopefully) of their own home / bedroom ?

What I have found the most shocking recently are the thinly disguised terrorist supporters and anti-semites openly spewing their hate and false propaganda on a parenting forum. The denials of the atrocities of Oct 7th in Israel baying for pictures as proof they happened (including of rape I assume). I have no connection to either side of the conflict but I have honestly found it shocking that people could be bringing up children with such hate in this age.

I am shocked at the number of posters willingly sharing their, er, wiping habits on here. Do they not know about the poo troll(s)?

@Anisette Thank you for mentioning that. I try so hard not to comment on those threads. My late DF thought my poor parenting was why my DS was not "cured" of ASD. He was always super strict with DS and as a result my lovely, funny, clever DS still hates his memory. With hindsight, and 21 years of experience with DS, I now believe my DF was on the spectrum, as is my sister!

I guess this thread with women actually advocating that being strangled as a sex act is enjoyable and they get off on it, comes a close 2nd.

Sounds about right. It is pretty bland 😀

Oh look out, the sex police are back despite being told to move it elsewhere

I think about Pamela who posted from the day she had pancreatic cancer symptoms until when she died. Her husband posted to announce her death .
She was so stoic and brave right up to the day she died…she was in her 40s and was an amazing lady 💕

Because every time they do it they may well die or become brain damaged. I can't believe I have to spell that out.

https://www.tasteatlas.com/usa/cheese
all kinds of good cheese

The one where the woman bought herself a new towel and husband wiped his shit on it

What on earth are pooh troll(s)!!!

the post where the OP always bought their friends DC presents for birthday and Christmas but this friend never bought the OP’s DC anything (the friend was not struggling for money). The OP who was in a more challenging financial situation decided to stop buying presents. The CF friend therefore kept asking the OP to continue with the presents and guilt tripping them so the OP continued buying them not once acknowledging they didn’t reciprocate. Such odd behaviour on both parts in stuck in my mind.

I’ve also been horrified by some of the links posted on those threads. Things I wish I had never read and never seen, and not posted on news websites.

It has helped me to understand much more clearly the side I wasn’t as inclined to sympathise with (I’m not saying which as that would no doubt become the mother of all derails!).

Parents are actually allowed to teach their children as well as after school drivers ed classes. I self taught. The first step is to pass a written test and you get a learners permit. I had to keep logs of driving lessons and hours behind the wheel then they took a written test and road test with an Examiner.

The poster who was annoyed at their guest for opening the jam they were saving for a special occasion.

I think that was Littleredtoothbrush who made plans and got away (over a protracted period of time), updated one last time with an outcome and then namechanged so as not to be confused with redtoothbrush who is also a prolific poster.

If it's the one im thinking of, it was not fake

That is nasty. I don't call it cheese.

But when I spent the summer in the UK I tasted Stilton. That did not tickle my taste buds.

If anyone had tasted Vermont White Cheddar that is a great "American" cheese.

Parents can teach their DC in the UK too. They need a provisional licence which would be similar to a learner permit (no test needed just pay £24? for one), need to be added to insurance for car used for lessons, theory test needs to be passed before road test with an examiner (if you can get one, been trying to get one booked for DS for 2 months now).

No need to log lessons or hours.

We did it with DD due to driving instructors being fully booked during Covid. She used our car for road test as well. Now doing the same with DS. Extra cost of adding them to car insurance far less than cost of lessons!

A mother on the adoption board who asked for her two daughters, I think they were 3 and 5 to be adopted because she had mental health struggles and no support. Even the judge asked her if she was sure because she was a good mother. I cried when I read her posts, my daughters were the same age at the time. Even now I still wonder what happened to them all.

Another was a young woman who lost her son to forced adoption. It was heartbreaking. She was 18 , in a violent and abusive relationship, he forced her in to prostitution and when she tried to leave him he told the social worker she was an unfit mother and a prostitute and he signed the adoption papers and she tried to fight to keep her son but lost. Ten years later she’d turned her life around, settled in a relationship and had another baby which she’d kept and was reliving the trauma of losing her first son. She spoke of how alone she was at 18 from a dysfunctional family, violent partner and no one helping or guiding her. It was so so sad. She desperately wanted contact with her first son and to let him know she didn’t want to give him up.

I’m still a bit shocked that people don’t wear knickers in bed!

I am most shocked at the vile jealous abuse that is spewed out repeatedly at any parent who claims benefits for a disabled child, and heaven forbid it puts them in a better financial position than other posters.

Also shocked at the lilly livered behaviour of some posters who simply will not assert themselves and get walked all over.

Particularly shocked at the posters who work themselves up into a frenzy and foam at the mouth if posters disagree with them!

Massive examples on this thread ( not the 🧀 one 🤣)

PS - The biggest chocking risk a few on here will have is when they clutch their pearls too tightly 🤣😂

What on earth are pooh troll(s)!!!

They're seabirds with big tube-shaped noses.

No, wait; I think those are petrels...