What were the Penis Beaker and the Pom Bears threads? Are they worth looking up?
And what is the Litter Tray?
(I really on have only been on AIBU!)
I agree that name changes can be annoying (can't remember who posted that, sorry), esp if you're aware of someone and have a kind-of connection to them (as I kind-of feel I have about people who've posted on this thread) but I've done it because my post was too revealing about who I am in RL and I don't know if anyone posting lives near me. And Worra posted on the same thread and I wanted to tap her on the shoulder and whisper "this is really me", but couldn't, in case she lives where I do and we meet over work!
I like swearing too SuperFlyHigh.
I also feel I've "met" some rather super women on this site. And, yes, I'm talking about all of you on this thread!
I've just read a thread where I REALLY wanted to post, but it ran to 4 pages and EVERYONE told the poor woman she was BU (including you, Worra, more than once!) and I think some of the others on here too. Anyway, by the time I got to the end, I couldn't bear to be another voice telling her the same message, so I didn't. (it was only 20p!)
I think something that I find a bit surprising is just how much people on here advise you to ditch people in your life - partners, ILs, relations, friends (and esp 'so-called' friends). I don't know what life is like for other people on this site, but I don't generally meet loads of new people in order to make loads of new friends. Honestly, I made some brand new friends when she went to nursery. A few more when she started primary. And that's pretty much the last time I made new friends, until the last couple of months. And she's now a teenager! (It's probably because I'm not very nice or very social!)
(although, funnily enough in the past couple of months I HAVE made some new friends, but generally I really don't meet new people in a 'making a new friend' kind-of a way. How many people can you cut out of your life before your life is just you and the 4 walls you live between????
Basically at about the same time I discovered AIBU, one of my new friends, who is also someone I work with, in a place where I only work part time told me that I'm someone who it is socially acceptable to dislike, and I was a bit shocked. [I could understand it on one level, because in my first week in the job I was tasked with s.thing that put others out of their way and their comfort zone, and they had no choice but to go along with it, and I then worked on a project with a VERY established member of staff, and she loathed the project, and - by extension - me]
So one of my very first posts was to start a thread about this and ask what people thought. And I did it very late at night and quite drunk, and I only got about 8 replies and then it died.
And in those approx 8 responses I got a couple of bunches of 
which I found INCREDIBLY touching and lovely; but a big percentage of those who responded told me my new friend was a shit stirrer and I should dump her immediately.
Unfortunately, then my computer went down and I don't have a fancy phone, so I couldn't go back to that thread for a week. And although I eventually DID go back, I don't think most of the posters ever saw it. Cos my friend wasn't really shit stirring, she was just asking me why she was the only person in the office who likes me. And although I was shocked at the time, it actually made a lot of little things clear. And through my friendship with her, and her talking about how hilarious I am (which I very much hope is something you have all picked up on!) people are beginning to see me differently (I do keep warning her that I'm her social suicide!), so she's actually helping me a lot.
(actually, going to go back to that thread and look if it was any of you!)