What is the most ridiculous thread you've read on MN?

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I've never got over someone coming on to complain that a dog weed on her garden wall, on the pavement side. It boggled my mind that anyone would have the time to care about that and now I think about it whenever I'm walking the dogs.

Difficult to choose now that 99% of threads are creative writing but any thread citing the words "neighbour" and "CF" in the first paragraph usually. If only for the fact that most of them, if real (which most of them are glaringly not) would have the real world firmly on the side of the CFN and not reduced to pompom waving cheerleading absurdity within 5 posts.

An old favourite of mine was the father who closed his own daughter's hand in the Ryanair loo.door and a)wanted compensation b)paramedics on the ground waiting for them on arrival.

Never imagined I'd feel sorry for Ryanair.

Most ridiculous in the MN pantheon though probably the weird fuckers and the One Direction baby thing. EKD, Spangran and PB pale into "trying out a plotline for my self published available on kindle only" mediocrity in comparison.

Agree that the "could I be pregnant" ones or "is there a line" ones are ridiculous. Or "what do you thing, will I have a boy or a girl?"

Also the ones by posters whose leg has fallen off and they're debating whether to go to hospital.

Or people who dither over a very simple decision. AIBU not to know whether to have cheese or ham on my sandwich for lunch?

My dd is a one direction fan and tells me people still doubt that louis fathered a baby.
Err oh course he's probably the dad, why wouldn't he be.

I loved the poo on the pouffe thread.
I can't remember how it ended but a poster had taken in a par for a neighbour and it was a pouffe,
Somehow it had been pood on and she didn't l ow what to do.

Also the one where a woman was stuck on the kitchen worktop and asked posters if she should ask her dp to come home from work to get her down.
A poster asked why she couldn't just get down herself and was met by horror from the op.

A favourite of mine was when HQ tried to launch Mumsnet House Swap. About 5 houses were available and they all looked like something out of Country Life - a small manor house in the Cotswolds, a cottage with river frontage in Henley, a Penthouse in Kensington etc. All the owners were hoping to swap for a ski lodge in Chamonix, a folly in the Scottish Highlands etc. Didn't take long before the witty posters of Mumsnet started offering their 2 bed terrace in Doncaster with a stunning views of the gas works or their council flat in Dagenham with handy cannabis farm just across the corridor. All very funny and house swap (quite rightly) died a death.

The parking threads. Particularly the ones where the op finds out whose car it is but won't tell them to shift it and is all put out that they have to stay home because they can't get out of the driveway .

The one where the Op wanted horse riders to pick up their horses shit made me roll my eyes. Weirdly, quite a few people agreed with her.

The "unpopular opinions" or "things MN would judge me for" soon degenerate from "I have a loo brush" and "I formula fed" to "I drink drive" or "I let my child play with guns", along with posters trying to outdo each other with endless tedious anecdotes about how wild and crayzee they were in their youth.

A PP has mentioned this already, but the MIL being a carcass 😂

I have vague memories of a woman arranging to meet a bloke by the penguin enclosure at the zoo on a blind date. I think she may have been winding him up.

@Grill if you have eagle eyes then you should have noticed my name is Sofie not sofia lol #AgreeToDisagree

It's little old Korean lady for me.

obsessive cleanliness discussions

"Why can't they read my mind? They should have know I'd be upset even though I never told them this kind of thing bothers me" threads

"I can't assert myself and it's outrageous to expect my child to ever stand up for themselves. So much better that we nurture resentment instead" threads

"I'm about to do something most MNers disapprove of but I'm going to ask for your blessings anyway": just grow up & make your own adult decisions. Live with any consequences. Don't ask for fucking MN approval

Hysterical "you can't do that it isn't perfectly safe!" threads (see above about being an adult means you get to make unsafe decisions)

Males presumed guilty in any female-male dispute

Can't believe that no-one has mentioned "He has eaten a fat ball". That was great! Agree that "apparently I'm dead" was the greatest thread for a looooong time...

Can't believe that no-one has mentioned "He has eaten a fat ball". That was great! Agree that "apparently I'm dead" was the greatest thread for a looooong time...

The op wasn't asking about great threads. She asked about "ridiculous" threads.

Came to put the super soaker one.

'aibu to take huge super soaker water guns to another child's party and basically hijack the whole party to how I want it because my little Johnny so desperately wants to and I don't want to disappoint him.

MN: yes you can't do that

Op: i'm not BU

MN: Yes you are

Op: no I am not!!!

Repeat x 1000

Notmyred I forgot about Mumsnet house swap!!

I can't imagine a Mumsnetters staying in my house or me staying in theirs though. Can you imagine if they took to Mumsnet to tell all about your slovenly ways.

There was one a few years ago when someone wanted to nane their child something bizarre but the ridiculous bit was the op insisting that the name was perfectly normal and common. Can anyone remember what the name was?

The gifted children ones and how they are so bored at nursery/school

Was it slither, Smiley?

Hmmmm... anything about packed lunches I find usually gets a bit hysterical.

There was a locked garage one ages ago with CCTV trained on it and the OP wasn't allowed in, I always wonder what happened there.

Still gobsmacked that people wash and tumble towels every day (the environment?) or manage without the necessary evil of loo brushes.

Any thread complaining about other people posting threads on topics they are not interested in or in sections they don't want them in, as MN is not a public message board but some sort of private party.

People on a public forum will post what they see fit, where they see fit, as often as they see fit. Don't click on it. Trauma avoided.

as if

Balonz Smiley?