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 think it was me who came up with smellbow?! And within about one minute someone had it as their username 🤣🤣

I loved that thread, and loved Mouse's posts. I struggled with alcohol at that time in my life as I was going through the worst time. Her posts made me feel so warm and welcome. And she prob will never even know it🙂

Thanks for the update @StrawberryJellyBelly I'm sure the controversy on here made an awful time so much worse. Thinking of the OP and hoping you manage that meet up in Scotland.

There was one user "Rosemary" or something similar. She had a couple of threads about her (ex)husband she called "John". Basically he was a hoarding twat, along with his daughter who didn't want the OP at her wedding or something. She ended up leaving him with her 3/4 other kids who were pretty disinterested in him. Possibly the most classy and dignified user I've ever come across. I do wonder what she and her kids are up to these days.

@Pebble21uk

You’re welcome. My cousin has been back to our home town every few months since Clare died and we just missed each other by a couple of days back in October. Neither of us could change are plans at the time but we will see each other soon.

One of my favourite (light hearted) ones was when there was a pregnant op who asked her dh to go out and get fish and chips for the family, and said she wanted one portion of fish and chips for herself. He went and bought fish for everyone but just one portion of chips to share!

At first everyone was like haha silly man but then it descended into people accusing him of being controlling and financially abusive or having an eating disorder or implying she was fat and there was a chorus of LTBs. My dh reminds me of it often (I read it out to him at the time) when choosing what to order, he errs on the side of over ordering to avoid making the same mistake!

Oh, this is the one I was talking about. I didn't realise it was fiction. Well written in any case!

One where a poster was out and about and really wanted to buy a hot chocolate but was on a limited budget. So instead they bought a jar of hot chocolate and a bar of chocolate and enjoyed a hot chocolate at home every day that week.
I think of this a lot and it has lead me to think about how people can’t afford things and I hope I have more empathy now.

@AmeliaEarhart I remember that one. I think a couple of the netters posted to say what they'd been doing, one did a tip run, one got the rubber gloves on etc. It was fab.

Don't know if this has been mentioned as haven't RTFT, but the one about the women who thought her husband was moving/taking her stuff and gaslighting her about it. Things were going missing, like chocolate and face cream. No one else had been in the house. Husband said it wasn't him, but OP felt there was no other explanation. Was so disconcerting and strange... Posters were encouraging her to leave hidden cameras, and she was actually rethinking her relationship because of it all. I often wondered what happened with that situation.

I often think of dellacucina and wonder how she and her daughter are

I remember this. The OP updated a few years later. She and her DH had split up, but her daughter was doing well and sounded like an amazingly brave and resilient little girl.

@Sharontheodopolodous I’m glad someone else remembers that thread! You’re right that the OP’s DH was blind. She was in such a dark place when the thread started, and you could see the hope blossoming in her posts as it went along. From what I recall it ended with her and her DH going to the pub to celebrate, having not left the house for months previously.

Yes @PorpoiseWithPurpose i think about MoreLegs as well. She was so devastated but managed to move forward and on with her life. She was fab. I hope she’s ok

a very recent one but the thread where Dawn Butler reported mumsnet to the metropolitan police & there was a long light hearted thread about whther we would all be arrested & slung in prison by the rozzers 😆 general consensus was most MNetters woukd happily be in prison over Christmas & not have to cook dinner fir 20/entertain in laws/do endless clearing up and it would be a good opportunity for some much needed sleep 😁

There was a (semi- no pun intended) cocklodger (stayed at his mum's EOW when he had his kids) complained that she wasn't getting enough shopping in, ate all the OPs kid's snacks plus hogged their video game systems - and wouldn't let them join in. He also started to use her house to store stuff like a racing bike (which was never used) but managed to snag her shins everytime she tried to manoeuvre herself around. When she finally chucked him her eldest let her know the CL was communicating with the youngest via a video game. She claimed she'd stuck to her guns and all well but didn't come back - I was convinced he'd wormed his way back in.

I still wonder what happened to the poster who's husband didn't pay the rent, she couldn't gey in touch with him then she just disappeared.

Does anyone remember a thread where a small child was abruptly abandoned by arguing brit parents on a random Mumsnetter- I think maybe in France?

And they had no idea what to do and then were going to ring the police . I cannot remember exact details, but I think they were at a holiday campsite and several hours had already passed and they were asking for suggestions on what to do.

Would love to know what happened and if the child was ok.

An OP who's relationship ended and she was so wonderfully resolute despite being treated so badly

I think the twat had dumped her by text with a 'no need to reply' and she found joy running in the rain

@DinkyDonkey2018 I tried to find that thread some months ago. It had vanished. Search again if you like. I am pretty sure of the title but see if you can think of other clues. an you remember when it was running?
If it was fiction that woman had a future as a writer.

@AmeliaEarhart thank you for updating me. I’m very glad to hear she’s doing well.

Pamela’s threads are the first thing that came up to my mind. I very much hope her husband and son are doing okay, it was such a great loss of a very brave and beautiful woman.
RIP Pamela

@StrawberryJellyBelly

Thank you for that update.

I remember the thread about Clare so vividly. I stepped back from MN for a while as it was truly awful, some of the harassment the OP received. I also made the mistake of reading some Tattle thread - it was beyond belief. Crass, tasteless comments & jokes about a tragedy.

I'm glad to hear OP is doing as well as they can be.

I think I found it!

www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/4257752-John-learns-to-adult

One about a MN whos husband hadnt come home when he said he would after going to a festival and she'd left him a "where the fuck are you" ) type voicemail.

It was around the time of this news story
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/park-tragedy-man-found-dead-6048594

because she'd then seen it and was full of traumatic contrition about how maybe he'd died and that was the last thing he'd ever hear from her.

I may have some details not quite remembered rightly - I was shocked it was 2015 when I googled for the main story - but it is one of those things that stuck with me - thinking that if you are aggravated with someone apparently missing, you shouldn't leave horrible messages and give them the benefit of the doubt - partly because you do never know but partly you will then start stressing about your message tone.

@DinkyDonkey2018
Well Done Dinks! Thank you
A few posts in is a link to the first half of the saga..

Sistine Chapel thread.

I often think about it and wonder how OP is getting on in life (particularly when I've seen some really moving artwork such as the graffiti on the Southern line into London Bridge)

Sometimes I re-read the whole thread just to brighten my day.