the most ridiculous thing you’ve read on here?

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I’ve been on MN since September so still fairly new but I’m obsessed . I am always reading AIBU’s but I’m hooked on the chat section, and I have read some funny stuff over the last few months . Just wanting a laugh really so if you’ve been on here a while , are there any particular threads that have stuck with you ?

@ItsNovemberNotChristmas it was never really the post that made me laugh, it was the comments, they are golden. I spent ages trying to figure out what had auto corrected to "farted" in the first place!

I love this one. It just tickles me:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/3124765-long-name-for-hugo

The best thread ever was the piss take of those terrible Take a Break stories, where the OP wrote out this incredible spoof of a woman meeting a waiter on holiday. My favourite was the line ‘I miss you with my meat package’, I was HELPLESS!

The worst are the ones where the op is obviously on a wind up, so posts a really dull story with a mad typo in it and the thread fills up with people trying to make it funny.

@Aquamarine1029 I had totally forgotten that one!

Ooh I've just remembered, the one where the OPs DH had found some white pills in the daughters car and had eaten them, OP posted on Mumsnet to see if we thought he'd just overdosed on ecstasy. The comments were hilarious but the OP failed to see the funny side and I think it got deleted

Casander

Who knew travel mints could be so dangerous.

No-one's mentioned Sharon and the dead wasp yet, I don't think. She was having an affair with a man who sold bananas in a supermarket and had a penchant for Erasure, (Jeffrey?) and didn't much care for her live-in partner because he was shit at DIY and lazy.

Then the same person started a thread about "hamwidges". It was a glimpse into a surreal mind.

Talking about surreal, does anybody remember Gabby Loggon? He was obsessed with GL and posted extensively about her and Kew Gardens.

The one where the OP was talking about her DH and "rubbing him sweetly" - very very cringe (i think the post was about tiredness/new baby/division if chores maybe)

Most recently, the woman who can’t work because she has to be available for her dc’s nativity!

O M G just read the thread on the woman who screamed at Michaelangelo

Michelangelo oops

Grapefruit where is that?

Linked on page one of this thread - dh says I’m too sensitive, something along those lines. It’s HILARIOUS.

No I mean the nativity one

Oh I’m sorry - it was deleted unfortunately, as all great threads are 😂

The absolute best real time thread was onehundredtimes and her home made hair bobble plate down the back of the loo.
It’s fun to read in hindsight but if you had been there living the drama it was both hilarious and gripping.
AND there’s a magnificent poem at the end iirc.
Mumsnet at its absolute best. God I laughed and laughed that night.

@Namestranger Shudders. I didn't need to remember that traumatic event again today cringes internally for the next 24 hours

Can't believe no one has mentioned the lady whose ex took their kids to a museum and brought lunch from home... Badger and rice.

Can anyone remember the thread with the woman who declared we needed to save our children from the lie that is dinosaurs. Didnt she get mad that school was teaching kidd about them & was insistant that dinosaur fossils were just part of one big hoax?

Anytime someone says howling. It's really not that funny, if at all

Michaelango is a troll as is Korean grandma and Softzilla

Michaelango is a troll as is Korean grandma and Softzilla

I'm still not convinced by the application of the word 'troll' to people making up funny but otherwise harmless threads. The Michaelangelo and Balonz ones, along with many others, wouldn't have made any real difference to me if they had actually happened to a stranger or not - they were just hilarious and very entertaining.

I'd prefer to reserve the 'troll' epithet for the likes of those with ulterior motives who lie about their own circumstances in the hope of getting people to talk about personal experiences with children and their underwear or even those who want to get people invested and angry on behalf of the OP for an entirely fabricated mass injustice that has supposedly befallen them.

I started a silly thread around the time when Princess Eugenie got married, subtly suggesting that I was her and complaining that my DGM was hijacking MY wedding and making it all about HER, expecting everybody to sing a special song about how important SHE was etc. Most people cottoned on, but had folk somehow not quickly realised what I was getting at and started getting furious on my behalf and hurling abuse at this mystery DGM, I would have instantly come clean. It clearly raised a smile and was all good-natured. Does that mean that I was a troll?

Casander Oh no, I was looking for that one. He ate some pieces of crack thinking they were sweets, complained they tasted 'dusty' then spent the afternoon discombobulated.

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I thought the mum called the daughter In the end to ask, the daughter told her to eat one and they turned out to be travel mints?

Cunt for the butter. I think it was crazy overheard things. I still use this one.