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Things you wish you’d never read on Mumsnet

154 replies

Silverflake · 19/12/2019 12:21

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?

OP posts:
RantyAnty · 19/12/2019 14:07

The man child enablers, rude lazy children enablers, the NAMALT chorus. he's a great dad but he does x,y,z horrible things.

PoultryBallot · 19/12/2019 14:07

@Afternooninthepark the thread has been deleted . I'm really sad as I've been in a situation where I really did need help and it was by strangers kindness that I survived. Problem is there are real people really going through that situation.

PoultryBallot · 19/12/2019 14:10

@TryingToBeBold if it's not a troll it does get reinstated. I know as they deleted one of mine as I was asking a very personal sexual question and it was reported as being a troll, in fairness to them they looked at my posting history and reinstated the thread, I was really greatful as the advice I got was excellent and have referred back to the thread since.

lilmishap · 19/12/2019 14:10

@DanielRicciardosSmile Dam you to hell! I'd been winning the game for about a year...

TryingToBeBold · 19/12/2019 14:11

@PoultryBallot that's good.. but if it doesn't get reinstated.. is it likely to be a made up post? We never really find out do we. How do you even suspect them , or am I just naive?

PoultryBallot · 19/12/2019 14:17

@TryingToBeBold yes if they don't return we just assume they are trolls. I'm cynical normally and trolls often have a turn of phrase or a way of writing that makes my troll sensors twitch, I didn't feel it with that one at all. It's one thing trolls posting for a bun fight about controversial topics (ie I'm getting my new borns ears pierced) but to post about that Confused

Savingforarainyday · 19/12/2019 14:17

Hmmm
Lots of people clarifying abuse - changed my life.

slipperywhensparticus · 19/12/2019 14:20

That Boswell non joke

And the safe

TryingToBeBold · 19/12/2019 14:25

@PoultryBallot

Controversial topics are obvious. People do it in real life knowing it will cause a debate so online is no different. It's the posts that are sad.. low.. and could be a very bad time in someones life if it was genuine..

Original poster
Silverflake · 19/12/2019 14:26

Oh yes I remember the Savernake Forest post, terrifying

OP posts:
Bunnyfuller · 19/12/2019 14:27

Using fog lights when no fog is a traffic offence and you can get a nice ticket and points

Stravapalava · 19/12/2019 14:35

Good people of Mumsnet - the only way to win The Game is not to play The Game. Then you can't lose it. Good luck and godspeed.

MontanaSkies · 19/12/2019 14:38

The one where someone posted that she'd had the song Electric Avenue on a loop in her head for years. She hadn't even heard the actual song for ages.

I now find myself singing it to myself too on a regular basis. Wish I'd never read that!

JuniLoolaPalooza · 19/12/2019 14:38

I wish I'd realised how much is made up bollocks before taking a lot of things to heart.

I also wish I hadn't read and then commented on a troll thread about child abuse as it's such a sick thing to make up.

WeirdCatLady · 19/12/2019 14:45

On a serious note I wish I didn’t read so many of the sad posts in relationships.

On a less serious note, it would be when I was introduced to The Game (fnarr, yes you’ve all just lost too Xmas Grin )

Aquilla · 19/12/2019 14:53

Silverflake That thread also struck a chord with me - I'm paranoid the person driving behind me is annoyed about my full beams now!

minisdriver · 19/12/2019 14:59

Opening a link to 'Two Girls One Cup'.

dementedma · 19/12/2019 15:01

all the gross ones - blue waffle, dragon butter, munting, space docking.
Once heard of, never forgotten.

ZebrasAreHorsesInPyjamas · 19/12/2019 15:08

The fact that most people on MN think that someone must have had an affair if a couple are renewing their vows... I'd never heard of that before. Made me sad as I never had the wedding I wanted and we always planned on renewing our vows and doing it the way we always wanted. Seems tainted now... Sad

JustASmallTownCurl · 19/12/2019 15:09

Sootikins.
Boswell.

Emeraldshamrock · 19/12/2019 15:11

I never read the things that irrate you threads. When I read them I find things annoy me that I never realised before.
Opening milk for example.
Mumsnet has made me much more aware and considerate of the people around me.

Needtochangemymindset · 19/12/2019 15:11

I have several and all were things Id read on the Adoption board.

The first being a young woman who had a child at 18 or 19, child was removed whilst still a baby, her abusive DP had forced her in to prostitution, and when the child was removed by SS he signed the paperwork to say he agreed to the child being adopted and provided SS with evidence she wasn't a fit mum. Several years later, in a new stable relationship and pregnant she was asking for advice on whether the new baby would be removed. She updated the thread with the good news SS had assessed her etc and she would be allowed to keep her baby. There was lots of info on her emotionally and physically abusive ex and I found it so upsetting.

Another one is a woman who had a horribly abusive childhood that has left her so scarred she doesn't feel able to parent her two little girls and put them up for adoption. I have girls the same age and I sobbed at her story.

It is heartbreakingly sad that some people suffer so much in life.

overtheseagull · 19/12/2019 15:14

Yes, the Savernake Forest post. I'm certain it was fiction, but very well written and shit scary nonetheless.

Also the post about the MNer who was working nights in a hospital and took the lift to the basement with a colleague to get a snack from the vending machine. Upon the lift doors opening to the basement, they were met with a full on scene from a WW2 hospital burns unit. Anyone else recall that one?

TanselleTooTall · 19/12/2019 15:39

My eyes have been opened by reading the feminist board, especially regarding the brainf* that is self ID. I'll never be the same. Neither will DH as I chew his ear off on occasion and he now shares my frustrations and worries for our children.

I really wish I hadn't read the MN posters majority that for the most part, removing of pubic hair is akin to paedophilic fetish. There is never any leeway either : you remove your hair - you're a disgrace to womanhood. The thought always flashes through my mind when I'm in the shower shaving.

A thread about what to gift someone who was very eco conscious. It was interesting to read, i was making mental notes in the event I may find myself buying for someone similar. (Ie no wrapping paper, nothing to be bought brand new, nothing imported etc). A suggestion was to buy an impoverished family in an African country a goat, a charity endorsing thing to help the family, help themselves to be sufficient on their own reared milk, cheese etc.

I think the OP was vegan or it was another poster who replied, and my mouth was open in shock when she wrote she wouldn't even consider that because it was against her principles that animals should be used for human benefit. It was really, really short sighted on her part IMO. A family with a handful of tattered clothes to their name, no shoes, no education for the children, relying on water from a well miles away and the family is located in a country recovering from civil war. The goat would vastly improve their day to day SURVIVAL and yet, Brenda from the UK who has the liberty to take her pick of any lifestyle she chooses, because of sheer circumstance, would rather a human family continue to struggle because she elevates the rights of a goat to that of humans. Or higher. (I know I'm ranting and I'm being deliberately obtuse in my assumptions of Brenda from the UK, but its because for all the things I've read so far, this stood out as pretty stupidly blinkered and patronising) So, I'm sorry for that. And for this. Fuck you Brenda. Anyway, I left the chat without saying a word, no point in derailing the thread.

Lastly, the Game of Thrones episode reviews for S8. I watched the season and came away feeling perplexed and quite unsatisfied (for obvious reasons) at its ending. Read the episode reviews and the posters articulated and pointed out all the stupid plot holes, the stunted dialogue, the rushed events - all of it. I mean, I knew I was miffed at how it all concluded but the thread really put it into perspective! I recently tried to re-watch S8 and I eventually had to turn it off as it was all winding me up ConfusedAngry. Silly really.
Ignorance really is bliss, I suppose.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 19/12/2019 16:34

Poster complains of horrendous abuse at the hands of a man.

Chorus of responses to the tune of: 'but he might have depresssssssssion!'

Fuck that noise.

Savernake Forest was a thumping good yarn, when read without willing suspension of disbelief and taken in the 'spirit' in which I'm sure it was meant. Were I the author, I'd be hawking that one to a magazine somewhere. Fab, entertaining stuff!

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