AIBU to ask what your favourite type of MN thread is?

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I love threads about personal finances. I just find it so interesting to learn about salaries of different jobs, cost of housing in different areas etc.

Though, invariably, they end up with a mix of "I earn £4,000,000 a year and can't afford more of a holiday than a week in the eaves of an abandoned public toilet in Skegness every January" vs "my husband earns tuppence a month and switching from branded cola to Lidl's version means I now live on a yacht".

I love a Woo thread. We haven't had a good one in ages and ages.

Think my fave ever one was the woman who felt ill one evening and mumsnet correctly diagnosed sepsis in time for her to get to hospital.

mNers collectively saved a life that night.

Anything about appropriate food types and portion sizes - e.g. 'I think one tin of beans between five of us and a single slice of toast each is a perfectly acceptable dinner but DP says it's not enough!! ' I start off wondering how anyone could think this is normal, then end up howling at some of the desperately competitive posters chiming in to say 'No WAY could I eat a fifth of a can of beans, I'd explode!'

I also enjoy 'is this stealing?' threads, where someone eats a few grapes in the supermarket queue or takes home the milk that's about to go off from the office. Mostly everyone responds normally, but you always get a couple of sanctimonious old cows who want to have the OP tarred and feathered, which is great entertainment.

Mine are quite seasonal.

I spend all Christmas reading about other people's crazy families and fall outs.

I love the fall out after valentines and mothers day when people don't get what they reckon they deserve

Anything where a poster is clearly bvu but fights til the very end...

Another vote for CFN (house in Mexico and the one with the neighnour and kids locked in the garden) and parking (particularly the dog-grooming parlour one). I loved one a while ago about a woman who had to report a group of doggers who kept parking on a nature reserve near her house - it was one of those real-time cliffhangers.

I love when people help each other out - one lovely Mumsnetter managed to get me the last elephant toy from Chester Zoo so that I didn't have to worry about removing DS2's to wash it

Hen do/baby shower dramas.
Baby name funnies (Balonz, anyone?).
Parking wars (with diagrams).

Yay Cough I love those competitive food threads!! There was one recently where the OP had given her small kids slow cooked soup and bread for tea. Someone said it wouldn't pass in her house as there were no greens!!! It was lentil soup!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant.

I like the threads that come with an update after/throughout the event, these seem to be far and few between though

I also LOVE getting to the end of a thread, seeing a recent post saying ZOMBIE and it turns out to be from 2008 something about them just makes me laugh.

What's a woo thread?

Mad hen/stag doos, and threads when one person wants to spend shitloads of money the family don't have on a holiday, leaving the other to manage five children.

Mad weddings, especially with poems.

Finance and budgeting.

Related to budgeting, I love a Can I survive on 4,000 pounds a week? thread.

Paying to sit next to my toddler on crap airlines.

To eat or not to eat food at the cinema.

Dubai.

Expensive bags v using a cheap bag and giving the difference to charity.

Drunk husbands pissing all over the house.

Christmas goats.

Safe cracking threads, that's all. The rest descend into trollery or malice so easily these days.

I love ones where I have to read the OP about 5 times and it still doesn't make sense.

I always think wtf am I not understanding here.

But then a few responses it, it has descended into surrealism and I piss myself at the responses.

I cannot fucking bear 'first time poster, but been here a while - cancel the cheque, maui, penis beaker'

Pisses me off sooooo much. Likebit makes any difference to what the responses are going to be!! Like you will get more respect because you've been on mn for a certain amount of time.

I love a thread that makes me laugh out loud, doesn't really matter the topic, it's often unexpectedly funny, and posters keep the ball rolling with their humorous comments.

I love an "is anyone awake?" thread. You never know what's going to come. I usually get quickly invested.

Afraid I also like a good poo thread - poonamis etc.

Ha! Just seen your username, op.

I love the woo/strange tale posts, I also like the ones where the OP can't decide between 3 houses and shows us the pictures to help her decide.

I love a 'help me compose this text' thread. Am always impressed by the way the Mumsnet collective can come up with something that is both stonkingly assertive and allows no wriggle room for the cheeky fucker recipient.

Or any thread where the OP gets to stand up for themselves in a way that they wouldn't if they didn't know they had a whole crowd of cheerer onners waiting for an update

What is a 'Woo'?

I enjoy an evolving story thread, especially the cliffhanger kind, involving a neighbour or friends.

People often refer to 'trolls' or 'Daily Mail' threads. I have even been accused of both. What factors would be present for contributers to assume a post was not genuine?

Woo is anything spooky.

Honeybee, Woo is a spooky thread.

I love :

I'm skint, how do I feed myself, 15 kids and grandparents for the rest of the month on £5

There's a weirdo parked outside my house

Woo ones

Hottest crush etc

MIL /family drama one

Competitive foods theads - lentil soup, bread and ham was gold

Hate parking threads

Also loved the recent 'what have you done today?' threads

The minutiae is intriguing

Thank you for enlightening me. I too enjoy a Woo thread.

Love a good spooky woo thread (especially as we head for Autumn). Also threads that evolve and develop a life of their own (Spanish grandma and the neighbour's who put in french windows leading into her grandaughter's private garden). The witty comments, songs and growing list of characters required a trello board to list everything - which one wonderfully organised poster helpfully set up.I also love threads where I'm awed at the collective wisdom and expertise of mnetters and where it's clear that irl someone has been helped by a group of strangers who have taken the time to post. I always come away feeling a little bit better about humanity. Ooh, and parking /neighbour/mil stories where the op starts out perplexed and diffident and ends up like an avenging fury with power radiating from their finger tips (or at the very least a bit more confident and mildly assertive in the face of numpty, entitled behaviour). In fact, anything with a bit of empowerment and a good eventual outcome does the trick for me.

Property Porn ;)