Mumsnet threads you can't stop thinking about

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Happy New Year!

I'm still off work and getting bored. Looking for some good threads to waste a morning diving into.

What threads have stuck with you since you read them on here? Any with particular good advice? Funny or just plain scandalous also welcomed!

I often think of a thread which was on here about 11 years ago because I was irrationally annoyed for the OP 😁 but literally no one else seems to ever remember it.

It was called "Quad Mum" or something and it was about the OP who used to go to a gym with a crèche which only had places for 4 kids. A mum of four ("quad mum") would arrive 5 mins before the OP every day and unload all of her four kids, only to sit and have a coffee in the gym cafe and not actually use the gym.

There ensued a debate as to whether the quad mum was taking the piss as she wasn't actually using the gym but was just using the free childcare for "me time" when the OP would then have to go home or wait until there was a space for her child. And then lots of investment in the OP racing to get to the gym before quad mum who would then moan that she could only offload three of her four etc etc.

There are 2 in classics I think about often. The first is EarthmotherIamNot's thread about the drug addicted baby. Just a lovely woman, gone too soon.

The other is the thread about the most PFB things people have ever done. There was one woman who had read that you should dress your baby in one more layer than you, and went out with her newborn then panicked because they were wearing the same number of layers, so she took off her coat and chucked it in the bin. Still makes me laugh about a decade later!

Anyone know what happened to poster OpheliaRose? Her husband left her for his colleague. OP and her husband had twins and the colleague even wrote a card when the twins were born. Husband seemed quite successful, and besotted with the colleague.

OP seemed lovely, and devastated. I got busy with life so didn't follow the thread after a while.

"I cooed at her like an owl"

About if ASDA own brand yogurt was Syn-free or not on Slimming World.

Not at all a funny one - I often think of a thread from a few years ago. The OP's husband had died suddenly on a work trip overseas. She was sitting in bed, in the middle of the night, with her sleeping children, trying to deal with shock, grief and how she would tell the children and family. I often think of her. Mumsnet did good service that night.

One about an angry husband. It was relatively recent and I "knew" the OP's username from years and years on the board so I was pretty sure it was real.
He was an angry driver, and made dangerous manoeuvres to get back at people who had wronged him on the road somehow. The worst thing was the OP saying he pushed their toddler in their pushchair in front of a fast moving car to "prove a point" (I think the point being that the driver was going too fast and it was dangerous) His justification was "I knew the driver would stop" but that absolutely chills me. Surely if the "point" was that the driver was driving dangerously, they may NOT have stopped?
I keep thinking about the OP and wondering what's going on with them now.

Poor purple and her son who she has lost to a much older woman who groomed him age 15. He is a shell of himself now. Not sure if she made a new thread as the other one got filled up 🙁

The bizarre new girlfriend of a friend who when at the poster’s house, went through her cupboards, pissed on stick and came down and announced she was pregnant.

OP had to tell her it was an ovulation test and you would always get two lines on it.

She then flounced.

Lives rent free in my head.

i don’t even think it was a thread, i think it was a comment about weird house guests.

The worst thing was the OP saying he pushed their toddler in their pushchair in front of a fast moving car to "prove a point"

Bloody Hell! What a bloody moron.

I think about ‘toe jabby run’ a fair bit.

I follow this thread, no update since November though but I too think of it.

To think someone must be able to do something - part 3 http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4932919-to-think-someone-must-be-able-to-do-something-part-3

Haha! This one always sticks in my head too!

who? do you mean in RL?

ignore me!!

All those people thinking about the Roman Empire multiple times a day/week.

Oh, and this one - hauck stroller £25 Asda | Mumsnet

This still crosses my mind a lot. I hope we'll hear from her again with a positive update.

The thread from a woman whose kid had gone on a fairground ride and didn’t like it. It was so brilliantly over-dramatic.

I often think about a poster named Awesmum who had left her exceptionally abusive husband and he was making her life hell. I often pray that she's living a happy life without him causing problems.

A poster years ago who went by various changes of user name Mouse.

I often wonder what happened, her life was a mess for various reasons and she was a prolific poster. I don't know if she turned out to be a troll.

I’ve mentioned it before on a thread like this, but there was a poster who was (I think) a carer for her disabled DP, and she herself had been severely depressed and their flat had a got into a really terrible state. She was completely overwhelmed by the mess but some lovely MNers who lived locally to her went round with rubber gloves and cleaning products and cleaned for her. Cleaners and OP updated throughout with photos of their progress. It was just a beautiful thread, so positive, compassionate and a free of judgement but sadly I can’t remember what it was called or the names of the OP and cleaners. It was maybe about 12 year ago if anyone else remembers it?

There was a poster who used to post all the time who had a child called the ‘tude who then got trolled and someone said he’d died. She name changed to something about shit derek and then I think got pregnant again, then disappeared?

Oh and the MNer seamstress who travelled ages to help a MNer out with her wedding dress and then got blocked and ghosted by the MNer!

I found Mumsnet by googling helium balloons. I ended up down a rabbit hole on a thread where the OP had asked where to buy hellium and it was taking about the damage to environment and descended into a weird thread with mention of hippos in it. I have never been able to find it since but I was howling, but the poor OP wanted balloons and was ripped to shreds. that was about 9 years ago and I never left

There was a thread from maybe a year ago that I wonder about often. The OP was in an abusive marriage and desperately wanted to leave. She was so terribly unhappy. There were no DC, and I think she worked for DH's business and basically never went out. She got her ducks in a row and made plans to leave while he was at work one day, but then all went quiet. I then lost the thread and never found out if she updated it. If it rings a bell with anyone I would love to know if she got out.