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!

When I first joined Mumsnet when my first dc was born which was 10 years ago remember reading a post on here and just thinking about it now it brings tears to my eyes.

It was a mother talking about her dd who was 4 and had cancer, I read her previous posts and it had been going on for years but this thread she was updating how it was near the end and I remember her saying she said to her daughter "it's okay to go now, you have fought hard enough you go to heaven and wait for us" and how she passed that night.

I still cry now when I think about it

whatwouldLeslieKnopedo was another very young woman with terminal bowel cancer but an incredibly uplifting attitude to life 😢

I think there are a lot of trolls but there are people looking for trolls everywhere.
I had a post deleted once as I was told I was making it up and people took it apart. I also started changing my username regularly because of it.

Another thread that sticks with me was one from the FWR board about a news story: an obstetric surgeon (older, male) had sterilised a woman against her consent and was only suspended from practice for 3 months, rather than struck off from the register. In the news around the same time, a (younger, female) nurse had been struck off from practising altogether because of administering covid vaccines to friends and family that would have otherwise been thrown out the same evening. She thought she was reducing waste and contributing to the whole herd immunity thing.

It still makes me rage whenever I think of it, that that surgeon just got away with what he did. The mum had had many children including multiple c sections, so sterilisation was clinically advisable, but she did not consent to it and he did it anyway. I'm still angry about it!

Creepy voodoo dolls hanging from the neighbours' tree

Performance dad at the swimming pool

The wedding with the 12 groomsmen

The rozzers are coming! That one was absolutely hilarious

I also remember 'Ginny'.

Is this the one where she was due to leave on a Monday? I think people advised her to have the thread deleted as it was possibly outing, and to change all her passwords
I often wonder if she managed to leave as well.

The missing grandfather clock chains ! 😳

RedStripeLassie or something like that was the poster with the partner smoking week in the playground. I remember something about a winter coat or lack of that made me feel so sorry for the poor daughter.

I often wonder about the poster called...Andwhooshtheyweregone... or something like that. She was escaping abuse. I would love to hear she is safe and happy

The one where someone was looking for her AirPods and somehow Findmydevice showed her husband somewhere other than where she thought he was. Can't remember if it was real or not, I don't really care, if people want to troll then let them.

I liked the parking one last year, where workmen were resurfacing the road and the OP posted pictures of the scene.

I often think of the ‘cutted up pear’ one - it cracked me up!

and what about the ones posting from the hospital bedside of their gravely ill child?

Now that to me is utterly unfathomable

I'm not sure I agree. I have read threads like this, either with a child or other relative, or themselves, and sometimes it's the comfort of anonymity, at times when others might not be available & a chance to say whatever is on your mind, not worrying about others.

I've seen the 'virtual handhold' be a huge help at times like this.

(Some of these are going to be trolls, but it's not always the case, at all).

I can't see a problem if the child is unconscious or asleep then there really isnt that much else to do. I think i may done it when my ds was a teenager and had febrile convulsion bought on from pneumonia, he always slept for hours after a FC.
It's the poster who was constantly updating with pages and pages of perfect formatting, spelling and grammar from a mobile phone that makes it fairly unbelievable

I guess different people react differently
When my son was critically ill.I couldn't eat or drink I didn't want to leave his bedside starting a thread in mumsnet was the very last thing on my mind
Having said that his illness was very sudden ( thankfully he recovered)
I guess if you Have a child with a long term illness stating a thread may bring some comfort.

When my son was critically ill.I couldn't eat or drink I didn't want to leave his bedside starting a thread in mumsnet was the very last thing on my mind

ditto. i read them and i just can’t fathom it. no right or wrong to it but it’s just not something i can remotely relate to

The post when the lady fell at the petrol station she said she flew.
It was so funny the whole thread was funny but i never did find it again .
It cheered me right up.

Yes, I think it was that one. She was so close.

The FUCKING BOSWELL THREADS used to be this type of thread for me until I found the answer!

Poster asked for help solving a riddle/joke of her inlaws that she didn't get. She wrote:

'There once was a man called Boswell. For short they called him Bos, and he walked up the post office steps.'

Pages and pages of invested MN trying to help:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3441291-to-ask-for-your-help-solving-this-impossible-riddle-joke?postsby=killingtime9198

So much so there were sequel threads:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3442896-I-NEED-MORE-ABOUT-BOS-WELL-solve-a-riddle-part-two

and then the OP @killingtime9198 (looking at you if you are still here) had the unbelievable cheek to pitch up and tell all these MN posters who'd spent hours analysing and trying to help that they had solved it but couldnt tell us. It tells you something that I could be bothered to go to find that post to included it linked here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3442896-I-NEED-MORE-ABOUT-BOS-WELL-solve-a-riddle-part-two?reply=83092653&utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share&utm_source=copylink

Years later, someone unaware of this controversy on a different thread about riddles I think posted the answer and it turned out that a key part of the original was missing which was What is his name and occupation? and the words weren't right.

The full thing should have been:

There once was a man called Boswell and for short they called him Bos, and he walked up the post office steps in the morning. What is his name and occupation? '

The answer is Andrew Boswell, Postmaster.

Punctuation as in

There is a man call Boswell ('And' for short). They call him Bos, and he walked up the post office steps in the morning.

The name comes from the And for short. The job is because all the postmen will be going out in the morning to deliver and the postmaster goes into the post office.

I really enjoyed the one where the neighbours had put a sail or something on his trees at the back of his house. He kept taking them down and they kept replacing them. I think there was a diagram.

and what about the ones posting from the hospital bedside of their gravely ill child?

Now that to me is utterly unfathomable

Perhaps it’s one of those situations where you don’t know what you’d do until you were in that particular situation.

A bit like people who say to a bereaved parent - oh I know how you must feel, when the reality is that if you haven’t lost a child you have no idea of how the parent feels.

i followed up with my experience

i followed up with my experiencei

Im pretty sure you’re not the only person commenting on the subject.

given you quoted me… not unreasonable to suppose your comment was directed to… me

Not sure if anyone's already mentioned it but the thread with the disappearing chains and weights from the grandfather clock had me hooked!