to ask if you ever wonder about certain posters/threads?

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i’ve used MN for years, and i often think about particular threads or posters that stuck out to me or i interacted with ages ago that i haven’t been able to find (or just seemed to stop posting without a trace) since then.

anyone else get strangely nostalgic/curious thinking back to threads/posters and wonder what became of them?

*Fanta

This thread is wonderful - support and caring and some good updates.

As for Sistine chapel - I am looking right now at 2 postcards from the Sistine chapel from the 60s and 70s childhood visits.
I put them up in my kitchen after that thread and every time I notice them I laugh.
They have had the desired ‘lockdown mood lifting’ effect.
Don’t think I could ever visit now without being in highly inappropriate shrieking hysterics. Wonder if they know ?
Support all.

@HeyDemonsItsYaGirl yes! Thank you

I remember feeling like I'd been punched in the gut when I read CatThiefKeiths bereavement thread. What an amazing poster she was. It was always great fun to read her threads

I'm glad ESD is doing well

@OverweightPidgeon

There was a lovely thread where a bride to be found her dress was too small and through the power of mumsnet , someone offered to alter it for her.

I remember that one! Lovely story.

There was a lovely thread where a bride to be found her dress was too small and through the power of mumsnet , someone offered to alter it for her.
I remember that one! Lovely story.

Didn’t it end really sour though? Did the dress altering MNer get really funny with her?

@StanfordPines

There was a lovely thread where a bride to be found her dress was too small and through the power of mumsnet , someone offered to alter it for her. I remember that one! Lovely story.

Didn’t it end really sour though? Did the dress altering MNer get really funny with her?

I think the bride wasn't happy. If I am thinking of the right thread.

I too still have the doors/garden claim on my watch list. A very convincing troll! Gutted it wasn't real.

I thought the person who altered the dress got pissed off as the bride didn't even say thank you for all her hard work

I recall a thread where a poster was fed up with a bloke that used to pop into her office once a week and take a massive dump in the office loo making the place stench.
I think the poster wanted advice on how to approach him to put a stop to it.

oddsockshighheels does often come to mind. I do wonder about her.

the socks poster who went round on buses turned out not to be quite what everyone thought- or rather, someone offered her a sofa for a couple of days and then had to get her to leave rather forcefully. Troll? Dunno. She certainly existed as the poster with the sofa would confirm. She certainly wasn't the fallen on hard times gentle soul she portrayed herself as on here. I have a feeling she might also have posted under a other very well known name at the time too

That's a bit demoralising to hear. I remember her being offered so much support, it was quite mindblowing how far people were willing to go to help out an invisible poster in real life. MN was more like that years ago. We're all far too cynical now.

AnyFucker has always been a real voice of reason and pragmatism with a bit of a bite. I'm always pleased to see her. She keeps shit real.

Interesting thread a few threads. Maybe someone will know here? I have been wondering where is Helenadove Has anyone noticed her?
She popped into my head and I realised it's been awhile.

I miss the old days on here. We used to have much funnier threads without people jumping on with criticism or so much cynicism.
That said, I'd like mumsnet to go back to even what it was a year a go. Since this pandemic has started it's become so volatile, judgy, nasty and even competitive. Not everywhere and not every day, but it's certainly not as much fun on here, but then the world isn't either these days is it.

I might spend the day visiting classics for a laugh and cheer up.

I love a good parking thread. Can recall a few corkers.

@Emeraldshamrock

Interesting thread a few threads. Maybe someone will know here? I have been wondering where is Helenadove Has anyone noticed her? She popped into my head and I realised it's been awhile.

She's named changed but she's still around.

Not RTFT but there was a very young woman who posted about (I think) her waters breaking at about 28 weeks, she posted with the name she planned to give the child (a boy) etc. After quite a while the thread got taken down as MNHQ thought she wasn't what she seemed and everyone on the thread left excoriating comments about how betrayed they felt. A few months later someone was watching One Born Every Minute and a woman was featured whose story matched up to the poster's exactly; location, exact medical problems, baby's name, due date. Sadly the baby died. It later turned out that MNHQ had wrongly banned the user and essentially left her to go and whistle during one of the worst times of her life.

David whose wife Carolyn died of cancer wasn’t all he was cracked up to be.

Had a fundraiser going to get as much cash as he could and was pm’ing posters with highly inappropriate sexual messages. He was banned in the end. No-one ever really knew if there was a Carolyn but David’s intentions certainly weren’t honourable.

[quote icecreamgirl94]@BessMarvin yes that’s her. I don’t know the details of why she was banned as I only know her through friends and I wasn’t on mumsnet myself at the time. She was friends with another user who stopped speaking to her after she was banned so maybe that had something to do with it, or maybe the friend believed she’d been conned. As I say, this poster was absolutely genuine and found the site very supportive. Unfortunately she’s not in a good place at all right now.[/quote]
I'm really sorry to hear that. I do hope things improve for her. This is not an easy time with small children

@sunflowersandbuttercups Thank you.

@InsaneLockdowner

I recall a thread where a poster was fed up with a bloke that used to pop into her office once a week and take a massive dump in the office loo making the place stench. I think the poster wanted advice on how to approach him to put a stop to it.

Lots of poo trolls. It's a thing.

Helenadove is still around.
I think there was unpleasantness elsewhere so she was forced to namechange.
She is still tireless in her campaigning for the underdog.

[quote Bloodybridget]@StepOutOfLine I did wonder if BertrandRussell had namechanged, but it didn't seem likely somehow - she had a very distinctive style, always posted on certain subjects, and I certainly haven't seen anyone who sounds like her since she disappeared.[/quote]
I also miss seeing Bertrand around the place. Yes, she wasn't everyone's cup of tea but then who is eh ? She was quite bossy and tenacious but I liked her.

I remember a poster called Hedgehog, I think, from many years ago. She had 4 children with various health issues, her own mental health wasn’t great and her relationship with the children’s father was pretty rocky. She sticks in my mind because she seemed so downtrodden and vulnerable. I hope she’s okay.

Does anyone else remember the poster with the filthy kitchen who was helped out by mnetters? She’d been suffering from depression and been unable to manage housework for a while, until her kitchen got into such a state she didn’t know where to start. Some lovely mnetters who lived nearby went round to her flat, armed with bleach and marigolds and cleaned up for her, posting about their progress. It was so lovely and heartwarming.

@BessMarvin thank you for finding the "work says I resigned" thread!

I remember a poster called Hedgehog, I think, from many years ago. She had 4 children with various health issues, her own mental health wasn’t great and her relationship with the children’s father was pretty rocky. She sticks in my mind because she seemed so downtrodden and vulnerable. I hope she’s okay.

I remember her. She name changed I think to Violet something, but I've not seen her around in a long time now.

@CassiaLime

The most recent one for me was the woman who's husband was seriously ill in hospital but still managing to indulge her with 'witty'sex jokes. That was a load of nonsense. As is one thread that's been mentioned on here - absolute bollocks but it's got all the ingredients to run and run

That was me. Mr Mushroom is sat in the garden next to me getting some sunshine. It's been a long recovery but we are winning. He was discharged Covid Positive but remained asymptomatic. His colostomy is working well and we are coming to terms with it. We are still as smutty as ever.. and laughing our socks off at the most benign stuff!