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mxmxm · 2021-02-26T13:39:31+00:00

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?

Donotfeedthebears · 03/03/2021 13:42

Whatever happened to Birdie Friend? Did he kill the family?

panda2121 · 03/03/2021 13:43

I knew my post would turn up on here. Plus you've exaggerated bits.

OhCaptain · 03/03/2021 13:44

@panda2121

I knew my post would turn up on here. Plus you've exaggerated bits.

What post?

panda2121 · 03/03/2021 13:48

I'm not so stupid this time around I won't be mentioning it ever again oh here.

Lesson learned. Just because you can't get your head around something or ever imagining it happening to you it doesn't means it's made up.

It's just funny how I knew someone would eventually bring it up on this thread.

Elderflower14 · 03/03/2021 14:00

[quote Mrsfrumble]@Elderflower14 what a beautiful, dazzling smile Wilf has! I remember your threads from when I first joined MN in 2010 when I was pregnant with DS.

I’m thankful for all the posters from around that period who posted so honestly and informatively about raising children with SN. I learned so much just from lurking on random threads that when DS was diagnosed a few years ago, I felt much less intimidated than I would have done without all their knowledge and experience.[/quote]
Thankyou. I got to Facetime with MF and say a brief hello... I also have Facetimed with Wilf and Mr Tumble... The two funniest were 1)When he and his choir were involved in a WW1 anniversary concert. I had just taken the dinner out of the oven and had a face like a house brick!! 🙊 🙊 🙊
"Mumma, I is with a famous actor.."
"Are you darling? Who's that?"
"Samuel West Mumma! '
" Mumma saw him on the stage in the West End a few years ago Wilf!
My videocall then goes off and I had a lovely chat with Sam about Wilf and him being named after Wilfred Owen.
The second one was a week before Christmas 2019. Wilf and his friends went to see Dr Ranj in panto. I was in the middle of Poundland just asking an assistant to help me find something and my videocall goes off and up pops Wilf and Dr Ranj. I had to ask the assistant to hang on while I chatted to Dr R.
I missed a video call with Wilf and Noel the Supervet as my phone was on silent. I think I dodged a bullet there as apparently Wilf said.... "My Mumma fancies you, loves you and wants to marry you Noel!"

OhCaptain · 03/03/2021 14:09

@panda2121

I'm not so stupid this time around I won't be mentioning it ever again oh here.

Lesson learned. Just because you can't get your head around something or ever imagining it happening to you it doesn't means it's made up.

It's just funny how I knew someone would eventually bring it up on this thread.

That’s all well and good but nobody knows what you’re talking about!

BIWI · 03/03/2021 14:20

Nope, sorry @panda2121 - not a clue either!

ZackaryQuack · 03/03/2021 14:24

@OhCaptain and @BIWI I think @panda2121 is the one who's husband has a mystery job? The one that was compared to the spy poster.

OhCaptain · 03/03/2021 14:33

[quote ZackaryQuack]**@OhCaptain* and @BIWI I think @panda2121* is the one who's husband has a mystery job? The one that was compared to the spy poster.[/quote]
Ah ok. But the she said I’d exaggerated bits (since it was me who’d mentioned it) but I didn’t exaggerate anything!

frumpyswayingqueen · 03/03/2021 14:40

One from about this time last year from a lady in NZ.
Her "d"h has basically lied to her about his prospects in the family business to get her to move there. He was a kiwi but they'd met and lived in London where she had a job she loved ,was happy.
She had been in NZ for a few months already when she started posting and her utter despair leapt off the page.
The dh was being a total wanker and had reverted to the life he'd led as a young man, getting drunk, spending his time with his family who were a bunxh of dysfunctional alcoholics.
She seemed to be getting some good advice on here and in rl from her lawyer but then ddisappeared
I do hope she managed to divorce the manchild and will be able to bring her children home. IIRC one of her parents was seriously ill and she was afraid she wiuld never see them again.
So sad

ZackaryQuack · 03/03/2021 15:00

Not a clue @OhCaptain because to be honest my recall of the thread matches your post.
So maybe I'm wrong and she's someone else, it's only of the wording of her comment I assumed it was her.

Bluntness101 · 03/03/2021 15:01

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namechangerforthisconfessionn · 03/03/2021 15:25

I still often think of zombie's friends and loved ones, she had a lovely style of writing and is the reason I took up crochet again after many years

panda2121 · 03/03/2021 16:01

No my husband isn't a spy. I don't think!! Captain I did't mention you?

OhCaptain · 03/03/2021 16:12

@panda2121

No my husband isn't a spy. I don't think!! Captain I did't mention you?

I was responding to the poster who thought you were the OP with the missing husband. Your response was straight after mine. So I was reiterating that if that was the case, I hadn’t exaggerated.

LeopardPrintKnickers · 03/03/2021 16:44

I still think of FabPhee. She and her husband had young twins and her husband, out of nowhere, fell for someone who he worked with and upped and left. I can so clearly remember her utter devastation and shock at his cruelty and how quickly he moved on. He initially described the OW as 'wank fodder' before deciding she was the love of his life and the best thing ever, even lecturing Phee on how she could be more like her... What a dick.

I'd love to know how she's doing.

Also, did the post about SoftPlayZilla or something along those lines ever get resolved? Someone went to soft play and paid for her friend when they arrived as the friend had paid for her the week before, and a second friend got very irate at not being paid for. She then went out of her way to make life miserable for her, spreading lies, following her to the supermarket, going to the same baby groups and ignoring her - I seem to recall the police were involved, but I don't remember the outcome...

bruffin · 03/03/2021 16:49

Also, did the post about SoftPlayZilla or something along those lines ever get resolved? Someone went to soft play and paid for her friend when they arrived as the friend had paid for her the week before, and a second friend got very irate at not being paid for. She then went out of her way to make life miserable for her, spreading lies, following her to the supermarket, going to the same baby groups and ignoring her - I seem to recall the police were involved, but I don't remember the outcome...
I really dont think that was real!

Luckyrabbitfoot · 03/03/2021 17:11

@bruffin

Also, did the post about SoftPlayZilla or something along those lines ever get resolved? Someone went to soft play and paid for her friend when they arrived as the friend had paid for her the week before, and a second friend got very irate at not being paid for. She then went out of her way to make life miserable for her, spreading lies, following her to the supermarket, going to the same baby groups and ignoring her - I seem to recall the police were involved, but I don't remember the outcome... I really dont think that was real!

I genuinely can’t believe anyone thought that was real!

LeopardPrintKnickers · 03/03/2021 17:20

I was brought up watching Dynasty and Dallas, I'll believe anything!

askmeagainin5 · 03/03/2021 17:23

Sorry if this has already been mentioned. But there was a thread probably 2 or 3 years ago by a lady who found a folder on her computer of thousands of voice recordings and videos etc that her DH had taken of her without her knowing. IIRC it then turned out he had hacked her phone too and was spying on her. I think about how awful it was all the time and pray she got away from him.

Psychonabike · 03/03/2021 17:56

I think I started using MN about 10 years ago...one of the first threads I read has haunted me on and off...I was probably quite naive to trolls at that time though. Maybe it turned out to be a troll thread, would be interested if others remember?

A woman with several children, maybe 3. Background was rather feckless husband, never listening to her about safety etc around the children, always shrugging her off for nagging etc. Husband decided to have a barbecue, promised her he'd be careful/ keep children away etc. She stepped in the house for a moment and he stupidly decided to get the fire going by squirting petrol on it. Daughter caught alight, had severe burns. Husband also got severe burns over arms as he rescued the child from the disaster he'd created. The poster was dealing with the huge emotional fall out from the severe burns both had received (life altering in the child's case), having to provide a huge amount of care to both child and husband, while keeping everything else together. Feeling huge anger and hatred toward him for the whole thing, in the context of many previous incidents...while having to care for him too.

It really resonated...I guess because I am forced into the sensible role a lot too and have averted many a disaster. I think of that thread whenever I am dismissed as nagging.

Another thread was one about allergies (and people being dismissive) where a woman came on to tell her story of her repeated warnings to her mother about her daughter's allergy to coconuts. The grandmother was absolutely wedded to coconut oil being the best thing for hair and used it on her grand-daughter anyway while babysitting. The child died. It was all so sad. The grandmother, the OPs mother, accepted that her own daughter would never forgive her and they lived on estranged and bereaved. I think about that often too.

I suppose some of these awful tales have resonated with me because they show how much life can change following one simple (bad) decision.

Kiftsgate · 03/03/2021 18:31

@LeopardPrintKnickers

FabPhee - was her username actually OpheliaRose or am I mixing up two different posters? I never could make up my mind if she was a troll or not (OpheliaRose I mean)

AnyFucker · 03/03/2021 18:47

@Psychonabike I think the burned child one was real, unfortunately

Have never heard of the coconut one.

lemorella · 03/03/2021 19:07

One that sticks with me is a grandfather I think it was who had been invited to the wedding of a close friend of his adult daughter.

His daughter and her toddler had died in horrible circumstances that he didn't want to elaborate on. He was asking whether or not to go as it would be to painful being reminded of what he wouldn't get to experience with his own daughter. The advice being given was so kind and gentle.

My heart hurts whenever I think about it.

Muddledupme · 03/03/2021 19:10

I remember bedandbandages I think she was called. Her baby wasn't very old when she discovered she had cancer. Such a sad thread.