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To ask about trolls

453 replies

HairsprayBabe · 16/02/2017 15:05

NOT a TAAT - just inspired by a certain one

Tell us about your fave MN troll

I liked the woman who had a dead husband who hand painted the childrens bedrooms, and now she was remarried she wanted all of her stepchildren to sleep in one room so that her children from her first marriage wouldn't have to give up their bedrooms even for one night!

Surely IANBU to ask what your favorite troll on MN has been?!

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ElderDruid · 16/02/2017 17:47

Reading the Zebrugge one - crafty way to get free legal advice. I'm bought by it!

TeaCake5 · 16/02/2017 17:55

Looks like a couple of long aibu threads today were trolls

DesolateWaist · 16/02/2017 18:12

I never remember the troll threads.

TheEagle · 16/02/2017 18:13

sharonthewasp is a troll?!

She always used to be quite upfront about saying she was a health visitor (I think!) so maybe I should have been suspicious of her from the start.

I still feel cross that I took breastfeeding advice from the multiple mother troll. I couldn't quite believe some of her stories but some of her advice and chat was quite sympathetic and kind.

boatdancer · 16/02/2017 18:17

Wealthy pregnant 18 year old isn't TOTALLY out of the realm of possibility. That was my sister 10 or so years ago. Maybe she's the troll Shock

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 16/02/2017 18:24

I agree wealthy pregnant 18 year old is potentially real but it crops up on here quite a lot and the details are always:

-Pregnancy was planned or they're currently TTC.
-Family don't approve.
-Poster is in very well paid job with amazing benefits however never reveals what line of work they are in.
-Often partner is also a teen and also in well paid job.

Some of the salary amounts I've seen quoted are amazing for someone just out of school too.

Twunk · 16/02/2017 18:26

I would like to point out that I had a "live" thread going when my son was diagnosed with leukaemia, but I am very much real and known to other mumsnetters. I was actually wondering what the hell was wrong with my son and did in fact get the diagnosis mid-thread! No photos though...

Thankfully he's fine! 3-plus years into remission.

I have a terrible trolldar - am pretty credulous in real life too. Blush

TheNaze73 · 16/02/2017 18:30

I loved the wanking monkey

OnHold · 16/02/2017 18:32

Does anyone remember carriedababy? She was here for ages then she went all bonkers and trolled about a twin pregnancy.

ProudBadMum · 16/02/2017 18:32

SharonTheWasp isn't a troll. The original author of the Sharon, wine and a wasp was. I think the poster got their nickname from that

OnHold · 16/02/2017 18:35

The Sharon poster was obviously trolling. Was funny though.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 16/02/2017 18:35

Yes I remember carriedababy

ElderDruid · 16/02/2017 18:36

I'm so sorry Twunk I can't begin to imagine what you've been through. May his remission be life long. Flowers

PerryCoxHair · 16/02/2017 18:40

Gunslinger nanny and pastagate was the thread that got me hooked on mn!

Champagneformyrealfriends · 16/02/2017 18:41

VI as in coding? Or as in body by mlm vi?

RatHammock · 16/02/2017 18:43

Visual Impairment Champagne Smile

DesolateWaist · 16/02/2017 18:44

I find that too much champagne tends to lead to visual impairment.

Champagneformyrealfriends · 16/02/2017 18:45

Thank you and Grin desolate

MetallicBeige · 16/02/2017 18:46

Beesimo was gold.

I'm always Hmm when an op says they've shown the thread to sister/neighbour/friend, and the sister/neighbour/friend thinks Mumsnet is wonderful, then the people on the thread give a nickname to said friend and start waving pom poms. Sometimes they even end up posting on the thread themselves... 👀
But maybe I'm just cynical cos I share my MN use with nobody in rl. Cringe.

MerylPeril · 16/02/2017 18:50

Girl whose boyfriend who ate all the pies and never shared.
Is that a food fetish making them make this shit up

I know there was one recently I was very invested in that turned out to be a troll - but can't remember what it was obvs

lia66 · 16/02/2017 18:51

I know in rl, a young 26 year old successful party planner who won our local beauty pageant last year. She looks like and dresses as Anna as part of her business.

She is genuinely massively successful.

HCantThinkOfAUsername · 16/02/2017 18:58

Oliver's army has always stuck in my mind.
I'm pretty useless at calling troll and got completely suckered in.
Iwashappy was another one I followed but it all started to sound a bit odd.

Twunk · 16/02/2017 19:01

To be fair I was taken in by Oliver's army and I've been through it! I think it upset me so I wasn't concentrating and, as I've already said - my trolldar is dreadful!

OnHold · 16/02/2017 19:02

I sat on my hands through the Olivers Army thread. I so wanted to post "this is not real '

There had been a spare of threads with pictures of children with bruises. Obviously the same poster.

ImnotPadget · 16/02/2017 19:02

I think Balloon Slayers theory is probably accurate for at least some of the trolls.

My DS was premature and in NICU for a bit (absolutely fine now) and I was desperate to talk about it and replaying moments over and over. But I had a lot of good people around me who were willing to let me blather on to them. I can imagine, under different circumstances, retelling the same thing over and over.

I think a dead giveaway in a lot of troll cases is the speed of events. In a lot of medical cases and babies in NICU there's a dramatic event and then a lot of watching and waiting - events arent progressing like a story would. But then, sometimes real life is very fast and dramatic and those people might get unfairly dismissed.