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

236 replies

SofieMonde · 24/02/2018 20:43

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OP posts:
SanFranBear · 25/02/2018 19:07

Smiley - Balonz Grin

Twas a troll but very funny

TheGoalIsToStayOutOfTheHole · 25/02/2018 19:08

Then someone in the thread bid £1000 for one of his listings, and someone else got all goody two shoes and emailed the guy and Ebay, and the thread was deleted, spoiling it for everyone.

I was the high bidder, under a different UN I think, might have been when I was batshite. I think it was 10k I bid. He cancelled it and relisted for 1p Grin

Brian from Hull and Dave from Nottingham were hilarious did anyone go to the WOW workshop in the end?? lol
EDIT: it was Katie from Nottingham To the person who wrote to the womens centre did they reply?

I cannot find that thread now..guess it was deleted. I actually signed up to that, I don;t remember the link or anything to check if there were any updates though. I may have messages on there asking when I am going to pay, and for a body shot photo as Katie wants to make sure there are no male women there..despite being male themselves.

monkeymamma · 25/02/2018 19:13

Oooh I know! The couple who had shared custody of a teddy, and the ex-GF was muscling in on the man's new r'ship by washing his pyjamas in an unsolicited manner. It was batshit but really sweet too!

Roussette · 25/02/2018 19:16

There's a couple of ones that just made me laugh so much...

Someone posted that they'd been out with DH, kids, DM, MIL etc all in one big estate car... one with extra seats facing the other way in the back. They'd got home and all got out the car but her (although she could get out but hadn't) and they'd all gone into the house and left her. She was posting on MN about how awful it was that they hadn't noticed that she wasn't in the house.
Everyone kept telling her to get out the car and go in the house but no...she was waiting for them all to notice she wasn't there.
So she was posting from the boot about how upset she was that no one cared she wasn't there. I was hysterical with laughter because it was so ridiculous. I think I posted 'in the name of all that is holy, get out the bloody car!!'

Not funny really but... very funny
Someone posted a link to Rightmove house for sale and everyone was laughing at bits of the house. The owner came on. Furious. Carnage ensued

Sparklesocks · 25/02/2018 19:21
  1. any that are essentially:

Op: ‘My DP does/doesn’t do X and I really hate it, what should i do?’
MN: ‘Have you ever spoken to them about it?’
Op: ‘Oh no never, i don’t feel comfortable with that’
MN: ‘But they’re your DP, you should be able to have a civil conversation?
OP: ‘How dare you!! You don’t know me!!!’

Or

  1. I think I’m ugly/fat/have the face of Satan - if I DM you a pic can you be honest??
drumandthebass · 25/02/2018 19:28

Dalek - that was a favourite of mine too

ChampagneSocialist1 · 25/02/2018 19:46

How old do you think I am photo threads= unashamed attempts for flattery

Countingsheeeep · 25/02/2018 19:48

My fav by far was the one where the op was trying to charge their neighbours to attend their Halloween party. I think it was about £20 a head. It was then closely linked to another thread which was equally hilarious about a very theatrical dad who had dressed up as a vampire for his child's Halloween party complete with smoke machine, and said child was deeply embarrassed. It made for a hilarious read.

Smileyaxolotl1 · 25/02/2018 19:57

Yes - Balonz. That was it!

I remember the 'you're a carcass' one fondly too .

MagggieMay · 25/02/2018 20:11

All the posts where people hide behind their misunderstanding of feminism so that they can be disgustingly transphobic and feel as though they have a "cause". Then more people pile on and think they have an educated understanding of the matter because they can quote Twitter.

Montyrage · 25/02/2018 20:26

iklboo

'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'

Yes! I remember that!
Wasn't it someone called Shiny or something similar and think the other user had tiger in their name.

I can't remember why but I seem to think she had been online messaging him and he had been a twat. Another Mumsnetters went to meet him I think.

Whydomypubeslooklikeanest · 25/02/2018 20:31

Definitely fashionistas at a taxi rank. A woman who had children with her was horrified that she had to wait at a taxi rank behind 3 fashionistas. She should have been at the front of the queue because she had given birth. Grin

Also one where a mum was walking around a supermarket with a new baby. The baby was crying so the op had offered to carry the woman's new born around the shop. The woman, obviously, declined. People were advising the ok to go to the shop, get the cctv, find the number plate then report her to SS as she may have post natal depression Confused it was so odd.

Montyrage · 25/02/2018 20:32

Oh I was right the posters were called Shiny and tiger by the end of the thread.

Sadly lots of posts have been withdrawn following the hacking including the ops :(

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/a735696-to-have-set-up-a-false-date-with-this-idiot?pg=1&order=

windchimesabotage · 25/02/2018 20:33

I loved that one with the 'C- unt' mug where the C was the handle and then it had unt printed on it. The couple were having this passive aggressive, middle class stand off. The woman couldnt work out whether he was serving her her coffee in this mug on purpose as a message or it was just an accident. He was acting completely normal but kept giving her her coffee in this cup that she hated and had expressed hatred for in the past.

It was so deeply funny I was laughing to myself about it for days afterwards. And it was how seriously some posters were taking it as well... like it wasnt the most hilarious scenario.

Maybe im really mean but I couldnt stop laughing at the thought of it and how ridiculous the whole thing was.

ChangeyMcNameface · 25/02/2018 20:47

I loved one where the OpP was trying to get everyone to confirm that a particular dress would be fine for a wedding/christening where she would probably have to breastfeed during the service.

The dress in question was a rather stiff looking, tailored, officer shift dress with a back zip. The only way you could possibly breastfeed in it would be to frantically wiggle the whole dress up above boob level.

The OP said this would be fine as she would hold the baby in such a way that it would cover her belly and pants, so no-one would notice.

Everyone on the thread was like "noooo you can't breastfeed in that...!" But she was adamant it would be fine... Think she might have been a bit persuaded by the end.

Could just imagine being at a wedding with a woman sat breastfeeding in just her pants, wearing her dress as a necklace...

topsyandtimison · 25/02/2018 20:48

The one about certain instagram parental/family bloggers 'cashing in'

Flipflopflipflap · 25/02/2018 20:53

Obvs penis beaker.
Maui
And that ........ one

Probably many more but they’re not at the front of my brain right now.

Minestheoneinthegreen · 25/02/2018 21:13

So, so many. Lots as mentioned. Plus such irritations as:
What is mungo and bathilda's sister called?
What shall I do in London?
How much is your food shop?

And I really hate threads such as:
Op: I nearly got hit by someone jumping the lights
Posters:

  • You bitch. He was probably depressed. Can't believe you gave him the finger.
  • Omg. Log it with 111.
  • I'd have twatted him.
  • Or posters derailing with their own horror stories.

Teacher told my child off. Should I log a complaint with the head.
90008 posters: God yes. The poor child, so little. I'd go to Ofsted. Remove him from the school.

And drip feeders.
I fed my ds biscuits for Lunch, AIBU.
Everyone : yes
Op: yeah but, I have anxiety and have no money and I am 49 weeks pregnant and my leg fell off

scrabbler3 · 25/02/2018 21:40

An OP had inadvertently (I think) opened her husband's credit card statement and seen a payment to the Child Maintenance Service (or whatever it's called). She was adamant that he'd never fathered a child other than theirs, and wanted to know what it could mean. Those who replied were suspicious and asked her to talk to him, which she did. He advised her that HMRC had taken the money from his credit card to cover an old self-assessment bill, without his prior consent, out of the blue. Posters told her that HMRC doesn't do that and it was probably a tall tale but she was resolute - he would never have cheated/lied, he just wouldn't etc etc.

Actually, was pathetic rather than ridiculous but I think of her from time to time and wonder what's happened since, if anything. It was so odd.

Lemonyknickers · 25/02/2018 21:40

Lady who complained about everyone taking photos of her son, drip feed was she drags him round the streets on a little wooden horse.

Grilledaubergines · 25/02/2018 21:48

Touché

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

FYI it’s GrillED. 😂

TroysMammy · 25/02/2018 21:51

When someone has left food out overnight and not put it in the fridge. "Is it ok to eat or will I die?"
Up to you love.

ladymariner · 25/02/2018 22:01

The one where a poster said she only made her half of the bed, as she wasn't her husband's mother....really, WTAF????

JaneEyre70 · 25/02/2018 22:10

That godamn awful thread about the patio doors in the listed building that then became a thing about a spanish gran and man running the local shop. It attracted the weirdest people out of the woodwork, making up songs and rhymes. Most needed sectioning. It was beyond ridiculous.

Most though are just downright depressing. The "my DH doesn't do anything for the kids/financially abuses me/physically abuses me" kind but where the OP has no intention of change or listening.

TieGrr · 25/02/2018 22:26

The thread about the OP's fellow villager stealing her unique baby's name, which she couldn't have got from anywhere else because the OP made the name up herself.

It was Farrah...