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!

@JaneJeffer amazing news! I’ll have a look for it.

It was a few months ago, pregnant woman (with other kids) found out that her surgeon husband was secretly messaging his female colleague. He had started at his new job recently. Poor woman. She disappeared and I’m hoping we’ll get an update one day!

i often think of the posters on the cancer support threads who sadly died, VampireQueen, BitofFun, LeslieKnope, Pamela and too many others. Such incredibly generous and caring individuals who will never know how much they touched the lives of others 💐

The DH who ate the fatball in the fridge.

When mumsnet bought all the ravens from Argos.

DH couldn't buy canestan, thread took a brilliant and unexpected turn.

The random woman who used to turn up at the cycling meets !

The 4x4 that parked on the ladies land (think she lived near a country park)

There was a post, maybe a year ago, that almost no one commented on yet I found it really shocking.
I can't remember the name but it was a woman in her 50s, I think, who was married to a controlling arsehole. She wanted to go to her daughter's graduation but was too scared to because it would upset her jealous husband. Despite him being the daughter's dad he seemed jealous of his wife spending any time with their daughter. I seem to remember that she often let the daughter down to keep her DH happy and obviously the daughter was very upset.
Another example of his depraved behaviour was that he made his wife wear very revealing and sexy clothes whenever her parents visited. So she'd have to have there chatting to her mum and dad in the most inappropriate clothes. If she tried to cover up with a jumper or cardigan, he'd be furious.
I often wondered what happened to that poster. She seemed to have no strength or inclination to leave him so she's probably still living in this horrible situation. Very sad and disturbing.

Penis beaker. There's no comparison for sheer shocking hysteria.

I need to read this thread 😂

Really? It was very in-depth and they never tripped themselves up. She even out pictures of the garden and walls on?

It did suck me in I have to say.

One from sometime last year about a family who loved pate not being able to ever finish a whole pack despite having it for multiple meals. I think about that thread whenever I've had pate since (especially when I do a big, thick layer of it that you can see teeth marks in when you bite it).

I also think about the deleted thread about the mysterious sound in a garden too and wonder what it could have been.

The Sistine chapel and penis beaker will always be classics too.

My memory is a bit hazy on this one and it was years ago but as far as I reacall there was a poster who was quite popular and posted a lot. She had a disabled child. There was something going on, maybe a lack of services and support and it ended up in the newspapers. It was quite a big thing at the time. I think the poster was called Raven or something. I seem to think it made the involvement of mumsnetters made the situation worse.

The one when spanish grandma turned up?

If you are talking about Pamela who had bile duct cancer it most certainly wasn't fake. I think some randomer turned up claiming to be her husband and that person was fake but Pamela did have cancer and she did die.

Think it was an Australian poster whose son was in a relationship with an unstable young lady of a similar age.

There was a Thread called John learns to Adult, I think it was pulled because it was fiction but it was well told. OP was having a bad time separating from DH in a Very Important Job. Op did turn it round to make it funny rather than a misery act. He was on a phone call and expected the Removal Team to wait and he had not packed.

It was very very sad that it wasnt fake. That poor woman.

Noo no Spanish grandma that I recall! But this one sounds like it would suck me in too 😂

Span gran.
I'm sure that was the thread with the grade 2 listed flat with courtyard and neighbour knocking through into her property.
2 or 3 threads worth and her no nonsense Spanish Gran turned up.

Penis breaker and fatball eating husband got to be up there!

So many sad and depressing ones over the years. Some recent ones I struggle with as they seem to be trolls drip feeding but it's impossible to tell.

The rare occasions when someone in AIBU isn't! Or where they are but take advice - sometimes think of the lady who slept with her exes brother who was in the army and the lady who realised her husband was actually abusive and not pranking her.

I often think about the poster who thought her colleague was flirting with her on Teams because he was making a lot of "eye contact", which just mean he was looking into his camera.

I often think of the eloquent poster (champagne something??) who had a daughter in Ireland with a controlling husband and she was pregnant again. They bought a farm and are being all "off grid"
Dunno why that one sticks with me

@Sususudio Argh I think of that one too! I wonder what happened!

The original thread wasn't fake. Someone setup a fake one to announce her death. She hadn't died

I remember Red Toothbrush and wonder how she is too. There is a poster now with a similar username but it's not her I don't think.

I liked the one with the woman whose neighbour wouldn’t stop talking to her in the garden. The op tried everything to get a bit of space and in the end the neighbour resorted to bouncing on a trampoline to see over the fence and keep on talking to her!