To ask the most bonkers mumsnet post you've ever witnessed?

[agonyauntie]

After the deletion of various threads on here (you know what I'm talking about)

Just wondered what is the most bonkers mumsnet thread you've ever witnessed or came across?

I'd forgotten CatThiefKeith - I wonder what happened to him?

She was very funny but tragically she died quite suddenly. Very sad.

Not read the full thread but the one where someone made quite an obvious typo and it turned into a thread about this typo with people very confused and googling it and all sorts.

If anyone can link me to it I'll love you forever !

The two that stick in my mind are one by a pregnant OP who was stopping taking showers while pregnant because of the ‘risk’ of legionnaires disease
Several people patiently explained how legionnaires is caught, and a regularly-used shower wouldn’t be any sort of risk, but the OP lost her shit and accused everyone of being reckless for taking showers

And the other was just after the awful Haiti earthquake when one of the aid donations was formula
The OP thought this was a deliberate ploy to undermine breastfeeding and said that the money should have been spent on finding grandmothers and older women who could be made to lactate so they could breastfeed any orphaned or ill babies.
Just insane

It takes a lot to better ‘penis beaker’ an oldie but a real goodie

CatThiefKeith was a wumman?

I'm so sorry to learn that she died suddenly - loved the posts.

Today on the perennial topic of big brushes.

Someone claimed that they bulk buy cheap loo brushes and discard them after single use. What the actual?

The one where the OP found out that her sister’s partner (who volunteered with children) had a teenage dd who was conceived when her mum was 12 or 13, but she thought it was all probably normal so refused to take advice and report him.

I like some of the 'what spelling errors and phrases can't you stand' threads. Some of the things people say they've seen make me laugh out loud 😂. My ds still finds it funny that a whole section of society thinks chest of drawers is called 'Chester draws'.

CatThiefKeith was wonderful

Custard-gate, where the 'pure milky baby was spoiled' because 5 week old babies tongue touched custard.

Responses included to call an ambulance and to take them to A&E immediately!

CatThiefKeith was fabulous, and definitely a woman, her sudden death was incredibly sad. You knew instantly by the thread title that it was her and that it would be well worth reading, she had a great way with words.

@ooooohbetty Here is the Penis beaker thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1875847-Do-you-dunk-your-penis

Super soaker

The most bizarre replies to a thread I ever saw was a heavily pregnant OP who was giving her partner and his friend a lift home after they'd had a night out drinking. Very dark, down winding country lanes and the friend decided to repeatedly punch the back of her seat very hard, and ignored her telling him to stop.

OP was understandably upset because it hurt, frightened her whilst she was driving and her partner didn't intervene. But according to several posters she was pathetic for expecting her partner to stick up for her, she clearly shouldn't be on the road if she finds being punched in the back too distracting and how on earth will she manage to drive safely with a noisy baby in the back of the car if she can't even cope with a bit of punching? It was completely batshit.

I'm still reeling from someone today saying they buy toilet brushes in bulk from IKEA and throw them out after one use

I can't quite believe that either! If it is real MN certainly is an eye opener to some people's habits. Their bin must be overflowing with them weekly and and I started wondering if they had lorry loads of them delivered at a time.

I couldn't believe the one about a week ago about laundry baskets and germs. Someone said 'well you wouldn't wash your tea towels and pants together would you?' Err

Penis Beaker (obviously).

@AlphaJura I saw that washing basket one too. I put dirty washing in machine, leave basket there to then collect it and either put it in tumbler or out to dry. Never thought of germs! People are batshit.

Strangest one was probably that one that got deleted. Surely a troll.

Omg!! @lolaflores I just had to leave the room! I'm still crying and snorting with laughter! PANPIPES!!! 😂😅😂🤣😆

@nespressowoo same! I do have more than one laundry basket but they're interchangeable and it's nothing to do with germs. I know some people are more germ-phobic than others but it was the suggestion that no one in their right mind would even consider bunging different things in the wash! It had never even crossed my mind until they mentioned it 😂. Totally batshit.

Penis beaker. Classic. I have never forgotten that thread

Yes, Penis Beaker was bonkers and fiction and it changed MN. Not in a good way.

The ones everyone finds hilarious and people claim to be weeping with laughter over usually leave me completely cold.
Penis beaker, Sharon etc.

I didn't read 'Snapped and Farted' as it happened. I recently went back to read it wondering why everyone was wetting themselves/spitting tea/waking the baby etc. Nothing. Didn't even smile. Didn't even get it.

I agree, Sparkling.

There was one a while ago about a neighbours concrete shed and the OP thought somebody was living in it. Something like that anyway.

That and the sex in the hedge one.