Things you wish you’d never read on Mumsnet

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I realised as I was driving to work this morning, that prior to reading someone’s comment on MN about how it irritated them, I had never noticed people having their fog lights on unnecessarily. Now it registers every time I see it and it’s really bloody annoying!

What do you wish you could un-read?

The poo knife. DH and I still find it hilarious. And grim!

How much more healthily than me everyone else seems to eat.

And also, the fact that someone may have washed their loo brush in the dishwasher.

The guy who used to post and posted on petty acts of revenge that he had hated his neighbours so he kidnapped their dog, drove it 100s of miles away into the woods and dumped it

He was basically hounded from the forum for it

And yes another one who's had their eyes well and truly opened by the Feminist section. Dont post just lurk.

I had to Google muffin loaf the other day. I wish that I hadn't.

We buy that Dragon butter every year on holiday in Wales and bring some home. So much nicer even than the posh French stuff in Waitrose. I will not have it taken away from me by pervy google weirdness. In fact I’m going to recommend it for Mumsnet Swears By - take that pervs

That people can troll about their dh having lymphoma and MN coming to the rescue and genuinely caring all because someone wanted a laugh.

Oh yes, I often lurk on the Feminist threads. Its an eye opener.

I knew that was a troll. Sick.

But is also worth reminding people that a person behind a pseudonym, declaring themselves DBS checked and volunteering to care for the children of strangers is also while well meant is not an offer ANYONE should take up on face value.

On the Strictly Come Dancing thread, someone mentioned Anton du Beke's sex face.

I do wish that had never been thought of.

All the threads by enablers. We hear an account of how husband/partner is being abusive, emotionally, physically, sexually, you name it, towards the children and often towards the OP as well. The account is peppered through with "I know he's a lovely man really" and "He's under a lot of stress and I just want him to be happy." No, he is not a lovely man and what about your kids, don't you think THEY are under a lot of stress.
My mother was like this. My father has been dead quite a while now and she STILL defends him. "Oh, he was a lovely man really!" Take heed enabling women: my relationship with my mother is virtually non-existent because of her enabling. You don't get to stand by while your child's basic well-being and sense of safety is being eroded and then, many years later, waltz into the now-adult child's life and expect to have a wonderful relationship.

The lymphoma thread was a troll?? Good grief - that's just plain nasty :(

Oh God the ones were the OP recounts horrendous abuse and then adds :

"But he's a great Dad"

No. No he isn't. Stop justifying staying with him by pretending it's for the DC.

Yes, audacity - the BBQ.
I know it was about 8 years or more ago that it happened but it's stayed with me.
Other situations have too.

I know if I had posted about my own situation when I was living with my abusive ex it might have had an affect on others.
I shocked someone today by referring to one detail without really prefacing it with a warning.
If I had gone to marac I would have been high risk.
But honestly at the time I was coping rather than thinking about getting out so it didn't seem anything other than normal.

The recent holiday thread. The vast majority were 3 foreign holidays a year, huge expense, long flights.

There were hardly any one trip-ers, or local camping type things. Where I live people just do not take three foreign holidays a year. Sometimes mn makes me feel like I live in an alternate world. But then I do not live in the UK and in has also made me realise that although we are close neighbours and I had always thought we were alike we are actually very, very different.

Honestly.
Those posts that seem quite sad or traumatic or are a horrible home situation..

That end up deleted because they were previously banned or MN are suspicious that it's not legitimate

@onescaredmumma....nooooo! I hadn’t thought of the game for over two years. Now I’ve lost...

@posterhaverhill - i'm going to take your word as gospel & it's now a made up story

how many activities other people's kids do- that always makes me feel a tad inadequate!

and the trans/self ID stuff- makes me so angry and, yes, fearful. Lost a friend over it- but prob for the best.

Yup abuse enablers and defenders of shitty male behaviour. Yuck. Always outnumbered by what seems to be a growing army of women here who can spot red flags.

Also wish I could whizz back to 2017 when I thought that trans rights was about people rejecting gender norms and living in peace, rather than enforcing a belief in gender stereotypes in law thus removing the ability of any woman to say she has been discriminated against on the basis of her sex.

So many women putting up with abusive twats. So many with completely disordered eating or who demonise food ('cheating', 'greedy', oinking).

The one where a lady was using a vibrator on the couch and her father in law walked into her house unannounced.
Feel for her must be awkward now but was quite funny and mortifying!

@Santasy I don’t think most people do that. I live in a quite affluent part of the UK, and I think that most people we know, friends, neighbours and my children’s friends families, have a holiday a year, and some also have weekend breaks, but the short breaks are usually within the U.K. More and more families that I know are choosing main holidays in the UK too. We have lots of Airbnb breaks and no main holiday for about 5 years because of our pets.

Sootikin

Fucking penis beaker bollocks

That you can tell how houseproud someone is by looking at the bit between the carpet and the skirting, for tell-tale bits of debris missed by the hoover.

Please tell me that the lymphoma one wasn't a troll. I offered to help that woman. What has the world come to 😣

@Afternooninthepark

Yea took down. MN will never come back so.. we are just left to assume