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

[PricklyPear1234]

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

I was in a fire, wearing knickers in bed, and the knickers melted and stuck to my skin.

Have slept naked ever since.

do you have a dry fanny?

Unless your a preteen child or menopausal you should have vaginal discharge all month round. If you don't you may have a medical issue worth speaking to your GP about as not all could it effect sex but you maybe more prone to infections and skin complications.

I had a job where I worked with fire training... any polyester or man mad fabric will melt.

Historically these where rife in kids nighty/PJs of the past, thats why a lot of children's clothes still say 'keep away from fire'.

Melting is the worst as it usually requires skin grafts.

Natural fabrics like cotton do not melt, we always had to wear 100% certified natural materials when working with fire as they just burn off instead of melting to the skin.

At worst in natural fibers if it happened it burned your hair off and left your skin red and hot rather than a mass of melt plastic burned into the skin.

That is a good point that night is the best time to 'air' it and it does reduce thrush to get regular air. Best way to do it is to sleep naked though.

I'm not on the side of you must wear knickers or you must not wear knicker either (I do both depending, who can be arsed to get re-dressed after sex etc...) but its a bit odd to wear trousers with no knickers then say your 'airing'. You will create equally as moist/warm and environment between the PJ's or the knickers.

You should not have 'no' discharge though, during fertile years thats indicative of a medical issue.

How are you alive if this happened?

God I couldn't wear PJs without pants at my age ... I've only got to laugh or cough to slightly pee myself.

It doesn't matter if you wear knickers with pyjamas or not. It's personal choice. I do because I find it more comfortable and I don't keep getting thrush. But if others don't, it's fine. Some people sleep naked, I never do. But that's also fine. It's certainly not shocking either way 🤷

What a weird comment, they never said they died in the fire!

You said “how are you still alive?”

the alternative to being alive is being dead surely?

I didn't say 'no' discharge, I said 'what discharge'. What type did she mean, not there should be none.

Well they aren't dead because they have just posted. I meant I didn't believe them. Take a chill pill.

Ditto

Congratulations on your PJ's,cheese and choking thread OP. Currently in my nightie (no knickers) after a very late night finishing the dreaded wrapping. I am eating an English cheese toastie - cooked in the airfryer - with no intention of choking or being choked unless I eat it too quickly and swallow some crumbs...

Polyester melts into skin thats an absolute fact. It was MASSIVELY common in the 70/80s for children's clothes to contain melting plastics and be HIGHLY flammable. So common they had safety campaigns dedicate to telling parent not to let kids in sleepwear 'warm' by the fire.

House fires do happen. Given OP was likely a child over ten years ago the number of annual house fires was over 35,000.

Over all theres nothing wildly unlikely in the story so why don't you believe it?

You don't believe that people get burned in fires and survive?

Stop derailing the thread.

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Well done op, for the most derailed thread of 2023.

Mental.

Grown women talking about being choked when having sex and if they wear pants in bed.

Pure gold!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Some of the comments on this thread are hysterical! Honest to God, some of you would argue black was white!
Just to add my two penneth, I do not have any kind of discharge, never have had, unless I was ovulating... I'm now 2 years post menopausal.
I use Hibiscrub in the shower. Its the only thing that prevents my skin from breaking out in all sorts of hideous eruptions. But having used it for several years, I can now say, with complete confidence, that there is no smell emanating from any part of my body! Any time! So yes, I can go knickerless with complete confidence! I think if there's that much discharge going on, then that's a problem! I go for regular smear tests and I've never had an issue yet... But then we're not all the same down there I suppose?!

This is a big part of why I don’t sleep naked. Imagine having to faff around getting dressed in a nighttime emergency situation.

Congratulations on your PJ's,cheese and choking thread OP.

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I confirm that I am not a zombie, revenant or vampire and am still alive 40 years after the house fire, with only some serious scarring on my arse to show for it.

Everyone else who was in the house fire and was burnt is also still alive, and some of them don't even have any scars to show for it.

The most likely cause of death from a house fire is smoke inhalation, not burns. We got our burns walking through areas with a lot of fire to exit the building and get away from the smoke, which was considerably more likely to kill us than some burns.