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The long lasting chicken meal and other MN legends [light hearted]

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Thisismyfinesthour · 18/08/2026 10:01

Most MN know that a chicken can feed a family of 6 over several meals. What is your record?
Our chicken fed 8 of us when the kids were young for two meals. We sent it to the chip shop after the stove broke down.😀
Other MN legends - washing being darked on because it was left out overnight.
Any that you've heard on MN inthe respect if your heard them said irl you know the speaker is an MNer?

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AFigureWalks · 24/08/2026 20:11

I loved the relatively recent thread where teenage brother and Dad were arguing about who had been watching porn on the family PC as they’d been caught by mum/wife when it was left uncleared on the browser.
Mum was furious and brother and Dad were accusing one another and going mad, both really angry to be under suspicion.
It was the OP, who was just a teenager herself and not under any suspicion.
She kept quiet and I laughed so much at that.
I always loved the pearl clutchers who’d kick off if anyone talked about sex on here. One thread descended into an argument with imaginings of hairy-handed truckers spying on our ladies sex chat and wanking with someone piping up to say, “Have one on us, Hairy-handed Trucker!”
And the rude bakery products chat about glazed ring donuts, cream splits and French sticks.
I miss the filth.

AgentPidge · 25/08/2026 09:44

Washingupdone · 23/08/2026 09:26

Someone wrote about the neighbours across a stream at the bottom of the garden. They crossed the stream and put a huge sheet up, attached to the trees, during the night, on the writer’s land to block the view onto their property.

Oh yes, I remember that one! 🤣

AgentPidge · 25/08/2026 09:51

My favourite was one where the OP was in her car, on a hot day, stuck in traffic in Brixton. There was a loud bang that sounded like a gunshot in the car and she felt something running down her leg. A bloke outside the car said "Someone's shooting at you, ma'am". Then she realised that a bottle of pop in her car door pocket had exploded!

It was half open and had been there for some time, fermenting away.

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Beesandhoney123 · 25/08/2026 22:32

@scalt i remember a thread about ' artisan slippers' was it that one?

sashh · 27/08/2026 11:09

Does anyone remember the women who owned a shop and had employed a teenager who went to private school.

She waxed lyrical about him for a few posts and then people started taking the piss.

I think it was this thread that the OP then demanded her thread be deleted and various people said "Contact MNHQ" and she ignored it and started putting details like her real name.

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