to be furious with dh for eating cakes he knew were destined for the bin!

[alfrex]

OK. I bake a lot. And sometimes my cakes are beautiful, and we all enjoy them. But sometimes it does not go so well and the cakes come out sunk or burnt or still wet in the middle (if dh would get the fan fixed on the oven this would happen a lot less often, but that's another thread)

There is a system, dh and the children are well aware of it. If the cakes are good to eat, they either go in a freezer bag for later use, or in a sealed tin for use over the week, or on a plate on the side so that they can be eaten now. DH knows this and I never complain about him "sampling" even if th cakes are meant for after dinner or whatever. I bake a lot so there is usually something there if he fancies a nibble.

If the cakes are not up to scratch, they go in the bin as soon as they are cooled (or as soon as dh empties the bin - there's another thread there!)

so this morning dh saunters into the kitchen to get himself breakfast. I come in and find him cramming his mouth with the burnt, crappy cakes that were sitting in the bun tray by the bin. I was really pissed off and had a go at him for it. I can make really nice cakes and I make plenty of them, so he has no need to wind me up and embarrass me by eating the ones that have gone wrong. He know it is a pet hate of mine.

so he strops off to work having called me a "control freak" in front of our children who were sitting having their breakfast. I am Not Happy.

I'm a genuine poster but tbh I am a bit [meh] about jokey troll posts.

This one was really well done, Greenie had some genius lines, but they just add to my growing sense that nothing on here can be taken at face value.

It's not the jokey/trolling that is the problem. It's the fact that the site is filled with troll posts so no one can see the wood for the trees.

And all the 'wow - genius - should be in classics!' just encourages people less funny to try their hand.

Really, I don't have a problem, I can see why people like these. I just on't like the effect they have - not now that the site is so constantly trolled. And we are all quick to be fucked off about trolling when it isn't done by someone as funny as Greenie.

I am not normally a PO faced arsed but it's how I feel.

Don't make me Pagwatch 8 or some such twattery

"I think MNHQ do not realise and understand what it is like for genuine posters."

Oh, I absolutely do think MNHQ realise and understand what it is like for genuine posters.

It's called having fun

Something that used to happen rather more than it does these days. The dreary frequency of trolls puts paid to that, as does the dour, humourless kind of poster that we seem to also attract these days.

FFS, amillionyears. Step back and get some perspective. This is a forum.

If you really dislike it the way you seem to, as you seem to be a regular complainer, then perhaps this really isn't the place for you?

And, by the way, I think your assertion that only you and the other minority who are bosom-hoiking over this thread are genuine is just a teensy little bit offensive.

It is about trolls and MNHQ and trust.
Hecate put it well.

Maybe that's a good thing, Paggy. A lesson that nothing on here should be taken to be gospel truth.

If people read everything here with a larger dose of cynicism, then maybe the trolls wouldn't get away with as much?

So often you see posters so eager to spill their personal beans, it does make you wonder how much more vulnerable it makes a site like this - especially Relationships - to trolls.

Yeah. Maybe that's true.

Maybe I just have troll fatigue syndrome

Simple, amillionyears. Don't trust anything or anyone on here, and then you will be fine.

Why should you trust anything you read here, or what anyone says? We could all be making it up and you have no way of knowing. Because it's a forum and not real life.

Ah well, I think this thread has demonstrated 2 things.

1. There are an awful lot of very, very gullible people on here (alf rex/burnt cakes?)

2. There are an awful lot of people who don't read the thread! Couldn't believe there were still people coming on here after several hundred posts, and the OP had already confessed to it being a wind-up just answering the OP without having read the thread at all!

Thanks so much for the laugh Alfrex. That was brilliant. I thought it might be a wind-up,but I wasn't sure.

I've dipped in and out of this thread, thought it might be a troll but you never know with some folk.

Appreciate that some people don't mind these kind of post, just see it as having fun, but to me it's like the situation in real life when someone tells you a really funny story and then you later find out that it didn't happen to them and they are complete and utter bullshitters. That annoys me.

Greeny if I were you, I'd be rather upset that MNHQ saw it was you, but just thought you were genuinely having a strop about your shite baking[shocking].

I kind of admire these type of threads, the creativity and the subtly of the wind up are very clever, but personally I've always found them ultimately a bit tedious. I can see it must be hilarious for the winder upper, but for the rest of us I feel 'what's the point?'

welcome 8, 9 and 10
I suggest a lot more MNetters start threads like Greensleeves.

I agree, just doesn't do it for me.

"He's a Geography teacher." is going to make me laugh for a long time.

As is the no birds.

I wanted to ask how he could be thin and eat the millions of cakes you baked, wanted to see the mad explanation. But you fess up before I had the chance.

I think there have been some very funny wind-up threads:

• woman who was asking AIBU to video my labour and birth and then show the film on a projector at the christening party
• woman who found her husband having sex with kitchen utensils
• woman who was polling opinion on her MIL who was being overbearing about the name they had chosen for their PFB. turned out the name was "Slither" (or "Slitherin")

I for one don't want to see them go.

I apologise again to anyone who was pissed off by this

There really was a time when wind-ups like this didn't upset anyone, and nasty/vampire trolls were quite rare

but I do appreciate that times change and with more really malicious trolls about, this kind of joke isn't funny any more

So no more wind-up threads.

I think this thread was a right laugh.

Surely the whole trolling thing is a problem when it could have a negative effect or they do it with malicious intentions, if it's just good old clean fun.... what's wrong with that? All this MN obsessiveness about trolls is just weird, like someone else said just presume its all bollocks!

You had me hook, line and sinker. But man, I laughed all evening. The Vegetarion "girlfriend" was a genius touch.

The poster with Gothic in her name should be recruited as your sidekick dome her posts were hilarious.

Don't make me Pagwatch 8 or some such twattery

Is it wrong that I was hoping for a 5th poster to turn up, called Mambo?

Oh greensleeves. I hope you don';t feel bad. Many more people enjoyed it than were upset by it. Threads like this use to be part of the essence of MN. I guess they aren't really practical anymore, as the site ages and turns into something very different from what it used to be, but there was always going to be a transitional phase when old-style MN wind-ups fell on new-style MN ears.

I found it funny. I hate when people make up shit that stirs up a lot of emotion and has people sharing their painful experiences just for the fun of it.
I hate the "im so poor, give me some money" threads that have people investing time and money and it turns out to be a lie.

But as far as I can see, this did not hurt anyone. It didnt bring bad experiences for anyone. It didnt do anything but make people laugh.

million you genuinley seem very unhappy about a lot of aspects of this site. It isnt real life. It just isnt.Its the internet and a load of anonymous users.

Please before you stop all piss taking and only discuss Serious Stuff, tell me what you reply to the cake/fatness ratio would have been. I read though the whole entire thread in one go, I'm exhausted!

I also didnt know who Paul Hollywood was. So I've learnt stuff too.

Hurrah. More people understand now.
Thanks for your post Greensleeves.
I agree that "in the good old days", it wouldnt have mattered. And maybe on some sites it still doesnt.

But many people on the internet are fed up of trolls, and people who are out to con.

I, and many others want and are happy to help people who are in distress. On relationships, on Mental Health, and on other boards.But if we all go about not trusting anyone, like BIWI does, then why are we bothering?

I went from completely buying it and believing the OP to be a raging loon to thinking it must be a well executed joke to going back to thinking it was genuine and OP was a nut job. It was a fabulous joke and well played to Greensleeves.

There's a huge difference between a troll who sets out to hurt or offend people or worse to con people out of money and a mischief maker out to cause a laugh. Greeny is clearly the latter and is to be congratulated on a job well done.

I think MNHQ probably let this one stand because rather than being a very sensitive issue where possibly emotionally vulnerable people could open up and share personal stories, IT WAS ABOUT CAKES.

I figured it was a joke from the start, it's just too unbelievable, but then I got further down (not much) and started getting a strop on because I was a) drunk and b) looking for an excuse to vent with a bunch of expletives, so thanks for that :)

I so wanted to shout 'Troll!' but I've seen posts deleted for troll hunting so meh