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 was reading snapped and farted thread as it was happening and remember thinking wtf when she wrote that.Soo funny.

I miss the drama of when popular posters like AnyFucker got banned.

Or I also remember the time a poster was suicidal and mumsnet nuked the thread. There was sooo much kick off about that.

Well there is one live at the moment where a lady had an unexpected visitor sit on her drive.

Couldn't make it up.

I often don't get why everyone's announcing "literally crying here" etc etc ad lib.

Read snapped and farted yesterday and didn't find it funny until a good way down where a replies actually made me laugh hard. And I can't even remember what they said 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷‍♀️

And I'm someone who regularly cries with laughter at work as I have a fabulous bunch of colleagues.

But I've very much enjoyed some threads over the years due to how batty the OP was as well as some fab typos. I don't necessarily judge a thread by how much I laugh but rather like a good read - if i want to keep going back - it's a goodun!

I googled dinosaurs to find bedroom ideas for ds recently and found a long mumsnet thread about dinosaurs. Apparently something has to be done about them and we should not be partaking in the dinosaur myth lest we all end up in hell. In a nutshell, dinosaurs never existed.
That was a long rabbit hole, suffice to say I completely forgot about bedding by the end of it.

Yes, Bluntness, the unwanted visitor being grudgingly entertained on the drive — with blankets brought out from the house when it turned cold — is a brilliant example of the Mn odd thread.

I read a thread last week, the op's DH was due to have a birthday meal with her parents, his parents decided that they should go and eat out with them on his actual birthday. This was completely impractical, but loads of posters kept insisting that he should go to his mum's.
I couldn't get my head around the fact that so many people thought adults must spend their birthday with their parents.
My DC's are adults, I don't expect to see them on their birthday, but see them at a time that is convenient.

I'm with Sparkling. I didn't find Penis Beaker funny, or snapped and farted. I also didn't find the Sistine Chapel one funny - 4 posts from the OP and then just a bunch of people piling in to call her batshit.

I do find plenty of things funny in RL.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1237046-In-thinking-he-should-call-my-lecturer-and-tell-them-what-he-did

The one where a husband ejaculated over the OPs assignment during an argument. Absolutely bizarre but I do remember crying with laughter at that one. Just the mental imagery

I don’t think I have ever more than smiled at a Mumsnet thread. There have been some usernames that mage made me laugh though. I don’t get the howling with laughter/spitting tea responses. But I don’t get any of the visceral retching and sobbing either.

I think Penis Beaker going viral meant loads of new members registering in the hope of finding similar threads possibly. Heading straight for AIBU and not really getting the measure of the whole MN Talk forum.

Then we had the hacking thing when loads of people namechanged/deregged as a security precaution.

Both of these events changed MN and over time you didn't recognise anyone at all.

I agree that these events changed MN but i am less nostalgic for the 'old' MN which was very cliquey and ab upper middle class enclave, you'd hear people described as Mumsnet Royalty and people would suck up to them like mad and agree with people based on who they were rather than what they'd written, falling over to tell them how funny they were. It also seemed one of the quickest ways to get 'royalty' status was to be needlessly rude under the guise of telling it like it is. I for one don't mourn the old MN.

I don’t think I have ever more than smiled at a Mumsnet thread. There have been some usernames that mage made me laugh though. I don’t get the howling with laughter/spitting tea responses. But I don’t get any of the visceral retching and sobbing either.

Me neither, but then i get the impression that people fall over themselves to prove themselves to demonstrate they're the most emotionally in touch.

I have just read some of the husband ejaculating over an assignment thing. My first thought was 'that it never happened.
My other one was that out of 394 posts only about 5 were from the OP which is a bit odd too.

I also raise an eyebrow at threads where everyone is getting very over invested in proceedings to the point it is a bit worrying.

I had a look at the ejaculated over the assignment thread and all I can think is what an utterly vile oaf.

Yy, Sparkling. That never happened. And minimal involvement from the OP.

Though that’s the case with quite a few ‘classics’ — if I remember rightly, the Sistine Screamer only made one or two posts on that my bread, too.

Thankfully I seem to have missed the assignment one.
Agree with funky about not mourning the old MN.

Mmm, when the OP has minimal involvement in a long 'hilarious' situation thread I always think it's a bit 'wind them up and watch them go'.

That too Bertrand. Bleurgh.

I find the 'zilla' threads largely like that.

I am sure a lot of the hilarious threads are 'light the blue touch paper and stand well back' set-ups.

Agree with Bertrand on the ejaculated on the assignment thread, foul. Even if in the remotest universe it did happen why would you want to make it public albeit anonymously, what do you expect people to say or advise?

Funky 'old' MN was reminiscent of boarding school for me at times and not in a favourable way.

The thread where the op was Fumming (sic) because she had told her son's school he was not to participate in anything religious, and then was outraged when he was not given a part in the nativity play. She thought the school would recognise the nativity was different in some way

Also the really sweet thread where the op was looking after her friends 3 year old dd for the weekend who was full of character. She slept in the dog bed for a bit, got soaked somehow and got into all sorts of other mischief and then told her mum how much fun she had had and wanted to come again

Funky 'old' MN was reminiscent of boarding school for me at times and not in a favourable way.

Yep, ive never been to a boarding school but for me it conjured up the playground dynamics and friendship groups in a posh all girls' school, with a very definite pecking order and due deference expected and given.

Just read the wanked over the assignment thread. It was disturbing but it was the replies that really made me laugh. I did actually laugh. Out loud. I too have a very low laugh threshold. I know a couple of people who say they never laugh whilst alone.

Actually I should amend my zilla comment.
The OP tends to have quite a lot of involvement in a 'wind them up and watch them go' type of way.
Lots of little 'look what she's done now' with 500 million posters going beserk, when it's clearly bs

If there's 'zilla' in the title I don't even open the thread, and it's nearly that way if there's 'CF' in the title.

I thought for ages that 'Liftzilla' was about an elevator lift as I didn't read it.

Haha, forgot about the CF threads as well