Most amazing comment you have read on MN?

[marymarkle]

What comment have you read, maybe a long time ago, that you still remember?
I still remember one MNer insisting a 4 year old should be able to walk a mile in 12 minutes. Mine are obviously slackers.

Sparklingbrook I was really annoyed to read the whole thing and still not know what 'snapped and farted' is or was.

I think that OP was simply missing some punctuation.
She 'snapped' in terms of being very cross with her boyfriend.

She also, separately, farted in her anger - apparently as a result of her IBS (although she seemed to think this was not a laughing matter and got very cross about people finding it funny.)

@Frouby
For light relief try the Expectations V Reality style thread.
I've proved I'm shit at links-must try harder. So I'll just tell you it's in Classics

"someone's husband who refused to dry himself with a towel after showering and preferred to dry using a hair dryer as that's how his father had always done it."

I don't remember that thread, but what is wrong with doing that?

I don't remember that thread, but what is wrong with doing that?

Maybe they were doing it in the John Lewis hairdryer section?

The 'take a break' mag parody stories

Oh, yes! I loved these!

Here's the Take a Break ones
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/3175616-BRIDES-AGONY-Bum-Torn-Apart-By-Wedding-Dress?pg=1

@Stoppedat1 - cancel the cheque came after a CF thread.

A woman was invited to a wedding of an old colleague. Accepted, went, and as they'd said they wanted money, she provided a cheque for, I think, fifty quid? Not a derisory amount, for someone you aren't close to, anyway.

In the week or so after the wedding, she had an email from the groom I think it was (?) sorrowfully saying that they had expected her to be less stingy and they were inviting her to reconsider her amount, or words to that effect. I think she'd recently inherited some money, and she thought they knew that and it was probably, in retrospect, why they'd asked her? Anyway, posters suggested she cancelled the cheque. She explained that it was too late, and had already cashed. And then for page after page after page (it hit 1000 posts, pretty sure?) people just posted again and again earnestly advising her to CANCEL THE CHEQUE! So it's become shorthand for RTFT.

I want a stop the cheque emoticon. I'm sure people would notice a splattering of a cheque emoticons sometimes, even when too lazy to read previous posts. And it would relieve frustration to be able to post it!

Found it in Classics!

The cheque was for £100! Really, really CF.

I understand the snapped bit. See no relevance to the farted bit. IBS or not, it makes no sense.

Sparkling You and me and the rest of MN....

I read snapped and farted at the time and it honestly made me cry laughing. Just read it again and its power has not diminished. Full disclosure: I do find fart jokes funny and sometimes think my sense of humour is not too far removed from my six-year-old's.

Omg! I'm a hard faced old boot at the best of times and often read posts/threads that other posters say have moved them and I don't get it.

But that thread! That wonderful caring lady and that determined little baby who will never really know how much she did for her 😭😭😭😭😭

Ok I just spent far too much time reading linked threads. Needed the giggles. I don't have a beaker, and my dick is high value tyvm .... kinda worrying where the OP of penis beaker was from though.

EMIN thread was just so raw and emotive. In a world where platitudes are handed out like candy that woman just so selfless, amazing, total legend.

Off to find the Sistine thread, I have a feeling I'm gonna regret this.....!

*"someone's husband who refused to dry himself with a towel after showering and preferred to dry using a hair dryer as that's how his father had always done it."

I don't remember that thread, but what is wrong with doing that?*

If I remember correctly the op was pissed off that it took too long and she thought it was weird. She was asking what MN thought.

Drying yourself with a hairdryer? I hate to think what their electricity bills are like, and it's hardly environmental best practice, is it?

One of the first threads I ever read where the OP asked how to bug her husbands car as she thought he was having an affair ( he was being unusually helpful on popping out for errands!) and instead of replies saying - you should talk to him, you have a communication/trust issue etc. which would have been my response, she got advice on how to bug a car using a mobile strapped under the drivers seat and advice about the Spy shop at Selfridges that sells, well ‘spy’ stuff! I thought, these people are mad! Little did I know...

I have filed 'snapped and farted' under 'not my type of comedy'.

In a previous life on here I posted about my ex not washing for weeks and the fact his teeth had started to rot. He expected me to have sex with him in that state and used to pretty much badger me until I just gave up and let him. He also used to use the children as a way to stop me from ending things by telling them what I was doing making them cry and I backed down. There was so much other stuff I was putting up with that I didn't even realise and the majority of mum's netters helped me to see life could be better and I'm glad I listened to the. But one post really stood out it was someone almost angry that I would leave a man who obviously had mental health problems and what a bad person I was for doing it.

I am so glad I didn't listen to them. It's now 2 years on and we have never been happier.

someone's husband who refused to dry himself with a towel after showering and preferred to dry using a hair dryer as that's how his father had always done it

Seems it's not uncommon

@CallMeSirShotsFired haha that just gave me a flashback to when I was little and saw a woman trying to dry her bush with one of them. I was only about 5 and loudly asked my mum what she was doing.

How the hell did she manage to limbo-bend back the other way?! Or was she doing it from behind, so to speak?

I've just read the Take a Break thread as mentioned above. I am crying with laughter . I'm in bed poorly and its the best thing I've read for a very long time.
especially the " casserole too watery ? Bulk it out with sanitary towels"

Thankyou ! (not for the tip but for the laughs obvs !)

has anyone mentioned doing a t -rex in asda yet

i dont know why i couldnt stop giggling all day after that and i still chuckle when someone mentions a t rex