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?

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@Emeraldshamrock

Another poster josie she got an absolute trashing, she was an alcoholic, I'd passed her on a few threads previously she'd a negative experience with the Samaritans on a call she had a few drinks on her and was feeling worthless, she mentioned Irish in her OP, the thread raged of her accusing the Irish of being alcoholics, she has half Irish afaik. The thread got deleted. I searched for her a few times afterwards she was suicidal. Who knows how she is.

I know there is a lot.Of casual racism around these days but it does irk me a bit how many MN see everywhere lurking everywhere and try to bring it into every discussion.

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It was a shame, she seemed on the edge and needed some company.

@Emeraldshamrock

It was a shame, she seemed on the edge and needed some company.

i have seen threads where very vulnerable posters have got thrashed for stupid reasons too. It makes me worry someone could end up doing something daft because of it.

Many, many years ago there was a poster called Getorfmoiland.
She was lovely and funny and had a DD a little older than my DC.
She may still be around under another name (as am I), but I don't know.

@PollyGray thanks! I had no idea, it was such a long running thread... though good to know the arsehole DH wasn’t real I suppose.

As others have said, I hope TrickTreeLou is doing well and that she’s happy and settled.

I always liked @LiviaDrusilla and @ItalianGreyhound. Lovely, compassionate MNetters. Hope they still here .

@Emeraldshamrock
Thank you.
I remember my DH was less than keen to go to the cemetery when we left the hospital.
I was bloody adamant we were going there. I even made him get Dd2 out of the car and carry her in her car seat over to the grave.
He knew not to disagree with me😂😂
Dd2 was 5 in December.

I remember fluffydressinggown, so warm and intelligent.

A previous poster mentioned @ Runningintherain. The name rings a bell but I cant recall the backstory

Getorf left mnet I believe but is well. She was great. She has RL friends who are still about.

One I remember is LaQueen who was like Hyacinth Bucket making every thread about how posh and marvellous she was.

I also remember ScottishMummy who a lot of posters disliked but who, when I once posted about something very difficult, was very kind and understanding.

There used to be threads fawning over prolific posters, it was quite tragic, very cliquey. But equally there were a lot more fun threads and much less troll hunting /thread disruption. So many posters now seem to treat the boards as a fight club, even in bereavement. And that thing of stalking a poster by researching their threads in order to deliver a gotcha moment by saying "oh but on X thread 3 months ago you said something a little different", that never used to be a thing unless it was a repeat time waster. I struggle to understand what motivates a poster to stalk and harass. And I struggle to understand why MN condones such low standards.

@PhylisNightsIsAwesome awwww thank you sweetie, thank you.

[quote Italiangreyhound]@PhylisNightsIsAwesome awwww thank you sweetie, thank you. [/quote]
You're here!!! Yay!!!

I seem to remember a poster who had moved in with her DP, her children had moved in also. Her kids only had a small box room to share. Her DP refused to let her kids have one of the bigger bedrooms his grown up kids used only occasionally? I'm a bit vague on the details. I'm sure she decided to move on in the end. I hope things worked out for her in the end.

LaQueen was a fantasist. Great writing style to reel a polarised audience in, but easy to search her rather underwhelmingly suburban life on instagram.

@Runwithtorches

Does anyone else remember the lady who was going through such a hard time (I think she was an alcoholic) and she was marooned in an American or Canadian hospital where her dh was seriously ill. She posted in the early hours really sad and overwhelmed by her situation and I really felt for her.

I remember her well. She was struggling to stay sober for her DC as well as caring for her desperately ill DH.

We PM'd a bit during her threads as she and I had lived or holidayed in the same places on the US West Coast.

IIRC she began to lose her battle with sobriety badly and then suddenly stopped posting. I sent her a PM wishing her well but never heard from her. I often think of her.

This is old school so hopefully not still taboo but what about dizzymare / Emma Bowyer? Does anyone still have the link to the Emma Bowyer dossier with all the old honeybeez forum posts about the fake twins?

I do on occasions and will sometimes respond to an update by indicating thanks for the OP coming back, and in some cases, support for their decision.

@Chocolateandamaretto

Not a long thread but there is/was a woman who has posted a few times about how her daughter was murdered by her (the daughter’s) partner. That sticks in my mind.

I know who you mean and also think I know who she is based on bits abd pieces. Not that I would ever ask if I was right.

@AndOffFlewMyLastFuck

Where is wilfs mum? We used to have regular updates about him and his dog, I loved those threads, hearing how he was doing *@Oldat40* I am still cheering you on

Definitely still around and mentioned Wilf regularly - he is doing well and also posts himself sometimes. She did name change though.

Oh I wonder about the dad pinching a wotsit off his child. I made the mistake of saying there are worse things that could happen and got told it's people like me that cause mh issues !
I wonder about the dynamics of the relationship between the father and mother .

There was a thread a while back by a lady with one child I think , who was ecstatic because she had been allocated her dream house in a dream location , countryside , village , quiet etc .

It was going to transform her life , so different from where she was currently living .

The thread ran to 1000 posts very quickly with everyone sharing her joy .
It was a lovely thread and I have often wondered how it worked out for her .

I often think about lostjennywren I think she was called. It was years ago, and she was dying and leaving behind a very young child.