to think it is impossible to have a lighthearted thread on Mumsnet anymore, even if it has the dreaded *lighthearted* in the title?

[Mintyy]

Cos I can't think of one for yonks.

The only ones that people claim to "spray tea over their screen at" all turn out to be silly attention seekers who don't know how to check their autocorrect before posting, or pervy singletons posting to get their sad little kicks.

Please someone show me a good humoured and amusing thread from anywhere on the general boards in the last three months.

Here you go Mardy

Try not to-

Spray coffee at your screen/wee yourself a bit/split your sides etc....

to sparkling.

Good luck Mardy. Come back and review it for us.

I'm a relative newbie, only been on here within the last year but I think MN has now got the reputation as a bit of a joke especially with the tabloids. I was reading an interesting article about Aspergers in men this morning which had included a very brief MN comment within it. The comments at the end of the article included someone just mocking mums net. So to answer the Ops question, there has been a definite shift in how threads are now perceived both on here and off

I'll have a look but not now. Got 3 glorious hours in the house on my own, not going to waste it on bloody line!

Hmm. 2 autocorrects in just seven words resulting in a meaningful sentence with a bit of innuendo.

Yet the opening OP has three paragraphs and no autocorrects whatsoever apart from the repetition of Peter.

What's the odds of that happening?

mardy you cynic

Ha ha!

Just got to the bit where coconutty calls the op out and gets the reply:

"no it's just unforunate ...has it buggered you?"

You are enjoying it a bit too much Mardy.

I've never found the famous 'funny' threads funny at all ( Pom bear one for example ) they're all too contrived & trying too hard for me. I have laughed on here though, but at individual posts on threads not intended to be funny at all. & I'm not sure putting the word 'lighthearted' in the thread title means anything, other than you think it's lighthearted but no one else will. - like others have said, it's like the 'I'm mad me' type thing, people who say that are usually ultra boring.( ime )

K999

it was funny!

I photocopied my baby since. now expecting triplets!

I like the Franglais threads, very clever posting on them

pervy singletons?

And there are a hell of a lot of moaning about MN threads at the moment.

One about text speak, one about people not taking advice, one about people not understanding English etc etc.

I think everyone has cabin fever & is wet & fed up after the last couple of months & is coming here to moan.

Roll on Spring & some dryer weather & things will buck up. It's a shit time of year & been a very shit winter.

Yes, for me it has to be spontaneous wit which Mn used to be so good at.
I see it very rarely now, and people who miss the irony tend to report and more often than not they get deleted.
But it's them that are crying with laughter at threads like Peter, penis beaker and the like.
I do think many people put in lighthearted in the titles, because otherwise the PO will be out in droves taking something that was meant to be ironic seriously.
It reminds me of Hully's long ago thread about wondering if her neighbours were dead.
It made me laugh, but so many people complained I think it was deleted.
I didn't report the stupid Peter thread, I just thought not funny and moved on.
Why other posters can't to that on the more satiric threads that they just don't get, rather than reporting, I don't understand.
I'm still pissed off about what happened at New Year though, I thought the threads were funny but no one dares post like that any more or the whole site might be shut down

I have been on MN since Oct 2011. I can honestly say I have cried with laughter about a thread probably twice. I have laughed a lot. Never wet myself or spat hot beverages at my laptop though.

These threads always end the same.

Someone somewhere will mention the bjullying bjitches, and the quiches, and then the corkscrew duck penes will start....

I've seen it so many times before...

Nah magi, plenty of moaning to be done. Even on a glorious sunny day people will moan about the heat, and we've still got Easter to come when the kids having too much chocolate will come up again.
Mn is very seasonal for the moaners.

LadyBeagle - You forgot the biggest moan fest of all (& so did I) -

Mothers Day

I haven't got a clue when it is but I'll be taking a short break from here over that time!

lol at sparkers

Where's Mardy? Has she split her sides over the Ruded peter thread and gone to A&E to have them stitched?

Definitely agree OP. I have started threads before that were meant to be light hearted and have been absolutely flamed. People can be very nasty on here and there are some posters who just seem to love it. Some people just won't accept that what the poster has said was meant light heartedly however many times they say it and threads have got really bad.

na, I find lots of individual posts very funny, some intentional and some not every time I mumsnet.

don't really like the contrived 'lighthearted' threads as they are usually boring.

also everyone's experiences are so different that what one person perceives as lighthearted another poster does not.

I don't really get the 'getting flamed' bit either. if you just post what he majority do and are too scared to post what you really think then why bother. just post what you believe and if others disagree then so what? everyone's entitled to their opinion however twattish.

last really good thread was the book describing one. can't remember who started it but think its in classics.

There just seems to be more po miserable contrary fuckers around nowadays.

On a positive note though rl is more appealing.