To wonder if anyone has truly spat out a drink while reading a thread

[MadHattersWineParty]

What the title says really. Anyone has actually, literally, in real life, spat out their drink while reading Mumsnet?

Now, Mumsnet has had me amused on occasion, granted, I've probably chuckled or snorted audibly a couple of times too.


But I've never 'sprayed my drink all over the keyboard'. Am I missing out?!

[LordoftheTits]

I haven't spat my drink out but I have been shaking with silent laughter, trying not to honk like a seal at a few threads. It might be because I was skiving off it was a quiet moment at work and everything is funnier when you're not allowed to laugh!

[Vixster99]

I only discovered MN a couple of months ago so I have been catching up on Classics, Penis Beaker being my introduction.

Yes Dear Reader, I have sprayed my keyboard (not through my nose though) and had to invest in more Tenas due to literally PMSL.

Once I start in a silly mood I find it hard to stop laughing.

[FireTruckOhFireTruck]

I don't think I've ever even laughed out loud on MN, never mind spat a drink out!

[BeautyQueenFromMars]

so if you you shove a satsuma up there do you give birth to Peter Andre.

This has just made me laugh out loud - if I'd had a mouthful of drink, it would definitely have dribbled down my chin

[Andylion]

Scroll down to
YvaineStormhold Mon 13-Jun-16 15:02:31
on this thread.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2660593-How-have-your-teen-heartthrobs-fared?pg=3#prettyPhoto
Funniest thing I've read on mn, although I didn't anything anywhere. I did make a very loud snort.

[ShtoppenDerFloppen]

I sneezed with a mouthful of tea once, had to replace my keyboard.

[MangoBiscuit]

I have once. Bad combination of things.Being part way through a very funny thread, and having just calmed down from laughing till tears were rolling, took a big breath in, intending to take a sip of tea, swallow, and exhale calmly, then carry on reading once suitably calm. Instead I kept reading over the top of my mug, hit another funny bit, and couldn't stifle the laugh. It was messy.

The worst part is, I can't even remember what was so funny.

[SurelyYoureJokingMrFeynman]

Oh god, I'm snickering again just at the memory.

Here it is, sadly slightly depleted by deletions for privacy. But still a Very Fine Thing: The Least Professional Moments of My Illustrious Career

[SurelyYoureJokingMrFeynman]

MadamDeathstar, it was your "Least Professional Moments" thread that did it for me.

I laughed so hard for so long my face hurt, my ribs hurt, my stomach hurt.

I was at a very low ebb at the time, and literally hadn't laughed like that for years. It was fabulous.

[CesareBorgiasUnicornMask]

I've not done it on mumsnet but I have done it to DP once. Something he said particularly tickled me as I was trying to swallow a mouthful of cider and I accidentally sprayed it all over him. With mumsnet I tend more to be afflicted by silent but irrepressible fits of giggling in inappropriate places, like the train.

[SanityClause]

Me, too, Twirls.

[TwirlsInTwirlsOutAgain]

Nope, but I have LOLLED. Never ROFL, or PMSL but did do a lol.

[CarlGrimesMissingEye]

No but I once laughed so hard at a thread on another forum my tea came out of my nose.

[LadyLayLay]

YABNU, I hate it too. It makes me cringe! I feel like it's a real cliquey thing to say

[LadyMonicaBaddingham]

It's. A. Metaphor.

[Gobletofgin]

I haven't spat out a drink but I have actually cried laughing, recently at the GCSEs for teenagers thread where I was reading some out to teenage dd and couldn't speak for laughing, they were very close to home.
The other thread was about funny things to happen at funerals which sounds totally inappropriate but there were some very funny posts and it is probably partly because it should be so serious that some of it was so funny.
There are some very funny posters on mumsnet, one of the things I love about it 💕

[SecondMrsAshwell]

I once silently laughed so much at a thread that tears were running down my cheeks and I was shaking. One of my colleagues came over with a concerned expression and asked why I was crying, was I alright? I finally coughed out that I was laughing

The worst thing was the thread was very rude and I couldn't explain why.

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

I have cried laughing at MN threads.

Andif you haven't been on the thread about teenage heartthrobs and seen the post about Auntie Pauline and her friend Jean waiting for the bingo to open - well, there's a live example of a post I actually did nearly spit tea all over the ipad at.

[SatansLittleHelper2]

Everyones giggle tickle is different tho. It doesnt take much to.set me off laughing, i've choked on my drink more than once

[CalmItKermitt]

Gwenchi - either you've misremembered the hedgehog story, or someone appropriated it and embellished it, or someone had a remarkably similar experience because I was the hedgehog/mud rescuer 😄
However I was driving my own car, not travelling in a minibus 😄

[bluesbaby]

No, I generally don't drink near my laptop... but I have been absolutely hysterical over threads before! I remember cry laughing so much my eyes were slitty and sound wasn't coming out of my mouth anymore. For about 30 minutes. My OH thought I was completely insane. I can't even remember what it was that was so funny... could have been penis beaker, or possibly the dyed pidgeon (years ago!). Usually it's not even inherently funny comments that get me, it's usually just something completely leftfield and unexpected.

[UnderTheGreenwoodTree]

I didn't think Korean lady thread was LOL funny - it was just one of those nice threads. I resolved to be more like EKL - all calm and cool, with the neighbours cat on my lap

I have laughed out loud at posts where people are taking the piss out of trolls (not sure that's allowed anymore) - and by trolls I mean the ones that come on here (mainly feminist section) to be abusive to women - not the emotional vampire spin-us-a-tale ones.

The "teachers - funny things the kids say to you, it's a perk of the job right?" thread in classics, actually had me in hysterics, I couldn't breathe. There have been a few "funny accident" or "most embarrassing moment" threads that have had me in stitches.

Brian from Hull was amusing. Not least because he started his post in Style & Beauty.

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

Balonz, pb (not going to type it) Korean lady. just not funny. The is this lunch enough (rtft why aren't they making it?) Annoying things your parents do. Very funny because true. Not posters falling over themselves to be more hilarious than predecessors. In my non funny opinion.