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!

Has to be penis beaker!😄

I seem to remember her dh was blind or partly blind and she was on the verge of walking out and leaving him

I also think a 'laurie' and another lady went to help

Had the ceiling partly fallen down and she was too ashamed to tell the landlord?

I cried at the kindness and how you could feel the darkness had lifted from the ladies shoulders as the thread went on

I wish her all the best and hope she's getting on much better in life

The woman in the summer whose teenage daughter was in hospital and had signs of sepsis but the doctors weren't taking her seriously. Whole team of medical people on here giving her advice to try to help. Her daughter was nicknamed an -ette version of her user name but can't remember what it was.

It was like going through trauma with her in real time, horrible - my own son had sepsis last year so I got a bit over-invested!

On the odd occasion,while getting dried or dressed I find myself.looking at the crook of my arm and thinking "hehe SMELLBOW" in memory of a mn thread.

I often think about t-rex hands or mole, it was funny, about a woman who's husband resembled various different animals sometimes and it irritated her. He got told off by her numerous tines in a supermarket for innocently imitating said animals.

BUT there was a weird erratic nature with the OPs post and as the thread went on I started to wonder if she was OK. She didn't use punctuation at all as I remember and just seemed a bit chaotic.

@PosyPrettyToes https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1843270-Earthmotherimnot-passed-away-peacefully-in-her-sleep-today She is definitely missed on here 💐

I remember one from many years ago; possibly as many as eight to twelve years or even longer. Knowing how fast time flies it’s probably 10 to 20 years ago!

It was posted by a woman who was an alcoholic I think, posted late one evening, from a hospital waiting room, possibly in the States. Her husband was seriously ill and she didn’t give away too many details but she was in despair because of life circumstances and her drinking and somehow her distress that night stuck with me.

I sometimes wonder how she is and what happened to her afterwards and whether or not she is ok?

Sane with a poster who was living in very straightened circumstances with a disabled son. Her rented house was constantly being flooded and she was posting for support but was quite a stubborn character because she didn’t want to ask for help. I was on her thread for a while and then it suddenly stopped. I sometimes wonder what happened to them?

Ah I'd love to read this one!!

takes lala one from about a a decade ago

twins
husband drinking

i have spent a ages trying to find it but no joy.

also the poster who had been raped at uni and couldn’t write or say the word, even if referring to the crop

The woman who believed someone was living in her attic. The police were involved and I think a court case ensued.

A poster called MrsMartin who loved Elemis Marine cream.

ChopinandChampagne and Lobster Boy. Though posters on Tattle say she was a troll.

A wedding one with about 14 bridesmaids.

it was made up i believe?

The one where someone borrowed the really expensive shoes then pawned them.

The one where OPs DH ate the fat balls she had made for the birds

I don’t recall ever contributing to the thread but I wonder whether @dellacucina ever got away from her strange lawyer DH.

The penguin on a land train thread is my go to when I need to cheer up. I laugh every time.

The thread where OP found a letter on the doormat from her DH who had just left her for someone he had met online. The thread stopped very suddenly and I wonder if he'd been catfished, as the OW was overseas.

I recall that one as well awful but it showed mumsnet at its best.

One from a poster called “desolate” or similar, her DH was in the navy i think and had dumped her and she refused to leave his flat. Probably 20 years ago 😲

there were lots of “you go girl” type comments around her standing her ground and confronting him. It was really weird. The poor guy quite legitimately just wanted to end their relationship and she was stalking and harassing him.

second was from a young mum whose husband took his own life. She later posted to say she was in a new relationship but her ex’s family were giving her a really hard time. She came across as such a lovely woman doing her best in shitty circumstances. I really hope Her and her DC are happy.

Unfortunately too many threads from women who are in horribly controlling marriages

There was one where the woman lived in the countryside and didn't drive and her husband wanted an account of every penny she spent and yelled at her when she had squirreled away a small sum to buy him a surprise present and took her bank card off her. She was only allowed out of the house to take their toddler to soft play once a week or to visit his mother.

I genuinely laughed out loud at that, what a bizarre thing but also so funny to read!

“People keep having sex in my hedge”. I was having a very bad patch and read it from cover to cover in a night. I have since attempted a dramatic reading to my boyfriend but he doesn’t have my (reading) stamina.

That one where OP had a poet boyfriend with a man bun. Both were in their twenties. Then suddenly her BF invited an American woman with 5 children to stay with him in rainy Manchester, I think, and OP found a pregnancy test in the bin. What happened, I wonder? I hope she dumped him. Many posters argued it was completely innocent!

I also think about that poor compulsive liar. I think she’s 25 or 26 or 27 (depending on the thread) married to a husband who is 40 or 42, and her baby (son or daughter depending on thread) who is anywhere between 5 months and 9 months old in a two-week period.

She’d escaped an abusive past but managed to graduate university debt-free, buy 2 investment properties during her time at university, got to a senior management level in her finance job which earned her £100k but somehow did that while getting pregnant in her early 20s and being on her 1 year of mat leave. Oh and she and her ‘hunk’ of a husband have sex 3-4 times a day when baby was a few months old and had been doing so since 2 weeks after the birth.

Great imagination but she did seem very troubled and insecure. I wish her well.

There was one a few years (5?) that I'm pretty sure ended up being a troll, about someone putting patio doors into her garden courtyard. It was brilliantly written and did make me chuckle.

Also alphabet street and puddle, both the same troll posting at the same time. People had gone out of their way to help her, even writing legal documents and I genuinely cannot understand what made her troll like that. It was so bizarre.

There a couple of others I think about where the OP is clearly in a very controlling marriage, but I don't want to say because they are recent and the OPs may still be here.

I do wonder about the post about the 14 year old girl who was potentially pregnant? It was only in the past couple of months! She wouldn’t do a test, the dad had left her home alone to have sex with her bf then bf dumped her? Then the thread was deleted.