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?

Can anyone please link to the elderly Korean lady thread if possible, thanks

@scarecrowhead yes I think they were, something like that! I think she updated that they went somewhere again and the other woman was a nightmare and didn't have any money again. It was all a bit odd tbh

I feel rather 'cheated' when posts turn out not to be for real, especially if I've experienced annoyance by proxy on the OP's behalf! I'm a bit of a soft touch though so tend to assume they're for real because unlikely things do happen.

Sinister this one is just for you!!
I work in a library and late yesterday afternoon I looked up as the loud automatic doors opened heralding the arrival of two women. They stomped in (obviously on a mission), got to the end of the room and then started harrumphing angrily as they stomped back towards my desk and the exit. They had faces like thunder on them and the body language of v short and stocky warriors taking no prisoners. It had been a quiet and exceptionally boring afternoon up to that point, so the devil in me 'sweetly' asked if anything was the matter. Without stopping one barked at me that it was DISGRACEFUL there were no spare computers to use!!! Then they swept out taking their cloud of entitled rage with them.

And on the matter of the amusing things people do in public places... I am inclined to believe a lot of them just because you do see unusual behaviour all around.

I was queueing up to pay in a Boots store many years ago and spotted a woman stepping onto the weigh yourself machine near the pharmacy. She was obviously a little disconcerted by the reading because she stepped off and removed her shoes. She re-weighed herself and then removed her cardigan (carefully folded it and placed it on the adjacent chair). Obviously this wasn't sufficient either because, in the absence of anything else to remove which wouldn't leave her facing an indecent exposure charge, she carefully removed her double string of pearls... I hope that made the difference. I think of that woman everytime I step on a set of scales.

I remember that Alpha and scarecrow. I have to say I didn’t believe it, as it emerged that the Bad SIL (or whoever she was— her husband’s cousin’s girlfriend?)was visiting from Ireland, and it managed to tick virtually every anti-Irish stereotype box — the woman was foul-mouthed, an aggressive drunk, spendthrift, dishonest, a huge drinker, and apparently too thick to realise the UK had a different currency OR that she could use her own bank cards in London.

And, from what I remember, when the OP got up in the morning, the Bad SIL had already gone out wearing the entire outfit the OP had carefully ironed and laid over a chair for herself to wear to the tiara-making workshop. And to add insult to injury, because she was bigger, she’d stretched it.

Mousetolioness;
I saw a similar thing when I worked in an independent chemists back in the 70's. Except she stripped down to her petticoat!

Another one, not sure if it's been mentioned - absolutely loved the decoration of grumpy neighbour's no parking sign

This may have been mentioned already but there is a glorious thread going on right now about a woman who made uninvited guests sit on her front drive and gave them blankets when it got cold.

Lord I have just read that!!

After this thread, are people putting up more batshit threads to try and get a mention or is mn always this mad and I'm only just noticing.

In the last 24 hours there has been a woman who had a play date on her drive in the rain and a woman who got caught on a old man's umbrella and is unsure if he was being unreasonable by continuing walking away while she was still attached.

@ooooohbetty was that Tomas? I do miss him!

In the last 24 hours there has been a woman who had a play date on her drive in the rain and a woman who got caught on a old man's umbrella and is unsure if he was being unreasonable by continuing walking away while she was still attached.

And I’ve read both. Nothing like the smell of cray cray when it’s fresh out the oven.

I think my favourite is the woman who's husband came in from work, was angry she was in bed and she had to move to the sofa while he dried himself with his special hairdryer. Apparently he could spend hours blow drying himself after a shower.

@Justtheoneplease

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2154580-There-is-a-tiny-elderly-Korean-lady-in-my-garden-and-I-want-to-go-out

Once this thread started and I saw Maui I tried to Google the thread and came across this! '15 legendary mumsnet threads'

www.mumsnet.com/features/15-legendary-threads

Yes @Groovee it was Tomas. Thanks. I've searched for the thread but can't find it.

Just read the kept the visitors on the driveway. Mad.

These “legendary” threads like T-Rexing, Sharon and the Wasp, Penis Beaker and Sistine Chapel screamer .... what do you reckon the authors intentions are?? Do you reckon it’s just done for a laugh? Trying to make a name for themselves? Fancy themselves as comedians/authors? I find it mind boggling in a way that adults would take the time to do it! (Not that I’m complaining as they have brightened up my day many times!)

The OP I just read who made an uninvited guest hang out on her driveway to make a point she wasn't going to invite her in rather than just saying no 😂

@CassandraCross

I've found the pirate one! It was in the MN legends top 15 threads.

Here it is

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/115727-pirate-noises-during-sex

Was the do doo doo song name issue ever resolved??

One of the best ‘fuck ups’ I saw was the journalist, username Debbie I think, who copied and pasted her editor’s brief for a goady get them frothing thread idea into her opening post.

Haha yes I remember that one!

Thanks Rousette!

Oh I remember one where the OP lived on a busy main road and was fed up with passers by looking in her window.

Her solution was a light up sign that read “DON’T LOOK”

te noihydc- that was so hilarious, I have enjoyed re-reading it!

There was also one about someone who had bought a silver chain from her SIL for £100, then decided she did not want it and her SIL had refunded the money. Then she asked to buy a gold chain from her instead which was £200 and she insisted that as she had given her back the £100 chain she only owed her £100 for the gold one. She just could not see that she still had to pay the £200 despite pages of people explaining the maths to her. It was crazy !

I love this thread even though it's proved me badly wrong.
I always thought that 😂 and similar were exaggerations. Well, last night I literally did laugh until I had tears in my eyes over the "snapped and farted" thread. Couldn't begin to explain it to DP. Sniggering now as I write this, just due to thinking about it.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

You're my hero! How did you find it?!

Thank you! Very tenuously and with a bit of luck, really - I seemed to recall that it started 'te' rather than 'de', so I searched for 'te typo' and came up trumps!