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 remember one few years ago when the op thought new friends were swingers. It went on for days with various suggestions of hanging wooden hearts and pampas grass being a sign of swingers! There was also the thread about the perils of leaving clothes out on line to get ' darker on'.

" darked on" sorry.....

Ah DP loves the Darked On thread- "spider willies and burglar finger prints" just makes him giggle!

Mexican House Thief.

It has put a new perspective on boundaries, life, the universe and everything else.

@TheSunIsShining19 hahaha it’s my all time fave 😂😂😂😂

The grass is a sign of swingers

@Jinglejanglefish I remember the towel poster. I was reading the thread and had to stop and reread what she had written as it was so odd. Seems really mean to make your family dry themselves with hand towels and prevent them from sneaking bath towels out of the airing cupboard. She did seem to think it was a genius solution rather than bizarre which just made it even stranger. I can't remember what the actual thread was about now.

Love a batshit laundry thread- "how the other half live" indeed. I usually aim to be in between all the skanks and clean freaks, in the healthy amount of bacteria middle .

As well as Sistine Chapel etc, there was a post from a mum saying she’d found (what she believed to be) a real gun in her wayward son’s room. Another poster advised her to run it through the effing dishwasher to remove her son’s prints/DNA!

Boswell. For gods sakes I remember spending ages googling and found someone of that name was a sound engineer on some album - which seemed a massively Important Potential Clue/solution at one point. We were all sent crazy by that thread - shudder.

There was one that got deleted but was hilarious. It was someone who had given spare keys to a friend/neighbour in case of emergencies and then had come home to spot the friend in their house sitting watch TV during the day. For some reason they didn't confront them but just went away and came back later when they had left, this happened a few times but the final straw was when the OP had come back to spot (through the window) friend/neighbor in the house eating the OP's Fray Bento's pie, this was huge deal as apparently OP and her DH always had a Fray Bento's pie on a Thursday and her DH would be devastated by the lack of pie that night. OP still had not confronted the intruder and was just watching her through the window while updating the thread. I remember howling with laughter at some of the responses including the suggestion of marching in and shouting "WHO ATE ALL THE PIES!?"

So was there ever an answer to bloody Boswell?

James Boswell wrote Samuel Johnson's biography, that any help?

www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-2950

portia ! Don’t start !!!
No not ever an answer.

so it wasn't a joke/puzzle/riddle, it was just a made up cryptic post?

Feeling strangely drawn in again -

I think it was simply a made up puzzle/riddle which we all (or
Many) thought was real and thought had a solution.

One of my favourites was the one where the OP wanted the law changed to say that if you pressed the button on a Pelican crossing you had to wait until the 'walk' light was green and not just take a gap in the traffic to cross.

I really enjoyed the thread about the 'couple' having sex in the OP's hedge. It was light-hearted. It wasn't taking the piss out of anyone. There was no pile on of MNetters and unpleasantness.

That's the kind of thread I can have a chuckle at. Ones where the OP probably has some MH issues and has the piss taken just make me feel very uncomfortable.

Also the poster who was catcalled by builders and ended up madly gesticulating on her own shouting "Willy Willy Willy"

I think "Are you on glue?" was asked more than once

Oh god. Are you on glue was painfully unfunny and cringey. The way people reacted to it was bizarre!

Like that poster had made up the phrase or something and it was the wittiest thing ever. Really strange.

I read Boswell and was sorely disappointed. I felt cheated. OP made it all up, I'm sure.

Yes! Willy willy willy was a classic!

The ranty 'Wont anyone think of the Dinosaurs? one

The OP who was so indignant when posters said, No, your son shouldn't take a massive water-gun to a birthday party

Homeless person living in shed at bottom of garden - posters saying take him food and a flask, let him live there. Virtue-signalling gone crazy. No way would they do that themselves

Brian Yoni
Michaelangelo scream fest

Wasn't there one about the neighbours putting up a blow up sex doll on their house as a Christmas decoration?

What happened to the lady with a rock on her front door step every night?