What's the first thread you clearly remember reading here?

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And how did it play out?
I must've read thousands of threads over the years must get a hobby but the first thread I have vivid memories of reading was someone complaining because she'd been invited round to her new friends house for a drink one evening but only got offered orange squash.

As far as I remember the general consensus was that she WNBU!

I remember this too. Although I wouldn’t have been able to name the poster.

EatShitDerek’s posts were great!

I came here to read the ?Janet and Roy? letters (made up Christmas letters). That was well over a decade ago!

I also remember a poster whose three year old was ill with a bad throat, went to either A&E or an out of hours GP with her father I think (the mother started the thread as a handhold because one of them had to stay with the other child) and was sent home. The toddler was found dead in bed shortly after. There was some debate about whether it was real, but it happened locally to a MNer who shared the news item and the timings matched. I always remember the description of them finding her in bed. Devastating.

A few stick in my mind

The thread that MN shut down on New Years Eve
Husband eating fat ball thread
Someone’s neighbour built a small house without planning permission in their garden, she posted photos.
The threads where people swapped Christmas gifts
The one where people were posting in Olde English
There was one where the poster apparently shat themselves at a major London train station

It’s a very different forum I remember playing words with friends with a poster I met on here and meeting up with a couple of posters.

The first thread I remember was EMIN and her drug-addicted foster baby. Then to read some time later that EMIN had died was devastating. What a special amazing woman she was.

The first one I ever saw was the hamster that ended up in the stew, maybe it fell in?
I think it turned out to be nonsense though.
I stayed and remember Booble plate, I AM CANADIAN, patent black kickers, Horses at the Olympics which was 2008 , Moldies etc etc.

First thread I remember was Cod and pals discussing Paula Radcliffe doing a poo during the London Marathon. Chat descended into speculation as to whether it was a white poo due to the diet she was on. Must have been circa 2004 iirc.

edit to add: needless to say, I was hooked from then onwards.

I still tell people about the fat balls story and re-read it to cheer myself up.

A thread of mums perving on Mr Tumble.

Can't remember tbe first one, but definitely an early one was about a guy who felt terrorized by neighbour's cat. Neighbour said it had to do with the guy's glasses, I think. Cat went nuts every time he went in/out of his house. I was pissing myself laughing. I wish I could find it!

Can’t remember what my first thread was but I think the earliest thread I remember was Riven. Every now and then I still wonder what happened to her.

Yoni masseuse from Hull. Was his name Brian?

I’m quite new here so it was the one where someone’s cat broke into their neighbours house and it got stuck so she posted ham to feed it through the air vents and then was shocked when she got a cleaning bill

Gina Ford.

Snapped and Farted!!

I got here from that other site with the name the wrong way round 😁
I found MN by needing good info about primary school applications and how the priority and placement actually works.
Stayed for the pom bears, snapping and farting and the amazing humour and empathy on here. What a view into other lives, even if it's sometimes made up.
MNers have helped me more than once!

Penis beaker.
A friend shared it on FB.

I lurked for a bit before I joined.

Was that Wyatt? I think of them. What a shock. I hope the family are doing well.

My first was about the murder of Joanna Yeates in Bristol, and the subsequent hounding of her slightly eccentric but completely blameless landlord .

My first spoof thread was by I was Happy about the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. It went on for many threads and I felt so foolish when it was revealed to be a hoax. Anyone remember?

And around a similar time Wavesandsmiles posts about her young family.

The beautiful thread about the Maileg mouse, which I think is now in classics.
The OP’s daughter was heartbroken at losing her mouse; OP had managed to find an identical one and I think she had asked for ideas about how to sell the idea that this was the same mouse to her daughter. It ended up with MNers worldwide sending postcards to her daughter from the mouse, who had been “travelling”. The OP’s description of her daughter’s reunion with the mouse was gorgeous.
MN at its finest ❤️

About 20 years ago. I didn’t have kids, but Mumsnet had been in the news so I had a look. There was a lady struggling with her partner’s mental ill health, and it sounded from the details as though she cane from my home town. I really hope she and her little kids were ok.

Not the first thread but one of the most bizarre ones
About a Poster Margaritte who was posting about struggling financially, had several kids ,couldn't afford nappies etc for the baby
Another poster Sad widow
Started writing daily lists of life admin for margaritte to tackle
And took it upon themselves to try and organise other posters into sending stuff to Margaritte
It went on for quite a while
It transpired Sad widow had bern sending Margaritte 20kg Hermes packages weekly it was all very strange
I think a secret phone was also involved

I was working as admin/IT support at a primary school in 2005. We were having problems with parking issues, and the head teacher asked me to see if I could find out what other schools did. One of the first things that came up was an Mumsnet thread where the OP was furious that the headteacher at her school had told her off about where she parked - iirc, it turned out she’d actually double parked blocking the road, so she didn’t get a lot of sympathy, but the thread ended up a massive one, covering all aspects of parking near schools, including a major debate about whether getting a long dropped curb to turn a garden into a drive was fair because if everyone did it there would be nowhere for anyone else to park. I was hooked and have been here ever since.

Can’t remember totally but I remember a lot of cf soft play ones at the time, people turning up with invitees’ siblings, also I was wowed by cleaning suggestions and relieved that other people found cooking and everything really hard to juggle. Miss the old days too

The first thread I remember is the one I started (and why I joined Mumsnet).

It was about Health Visitors and I was absolutely astonished to read the 100s of replies I got, of which about 80% were saying really nasty things about Health Visitors. I genuinely couldn’t believe how hated they seemed to be 😳

There was a parking one where the OP had property behind flats and the flat people would not stop parking on her land. Eventually a barrier was put up but because they wouldn’t listen to her a couple of cars got trapped behind it. Then they had to come and ask to be let out.

Second one…OP lived in a town with an annual event, which she got comped tickets for. Every year friends or family came to visit for the week. This year a family invited themselves to stay. They get free accomodation, free tickets, free food and drink, and had the cheek to arrive empty handed. On their last day they were making a quick super market run and asked the OP if she needed anything. She asked for bread and milk. When they came back the freeloaders asked for a pound twenty seven or suchlike and waited to get the cash, despite being looked after all week.

Honourable mention…it’s in Classics. A thread about pooping yourself. I cried with laughter reading it. I don’t think I ever finished reading it in case karma came for me.

Tiny wanker, pops into my head every now and then and still gives me a giggle.