To wonder why posters say they've been a longtime poster...

[RainbowBriteUk]

...and say they remember various posts? It really pisses on my chips! So what?!?!

[quote Ratched]@MyPatronusIsACat Yes! The very best and funniest threads have been off the cuff funny ones.
Any thread that goes to #2 or #3 always feels 'created[/quote]
I agree with this. ^ I hate it when a supposedly hilarious often clearly fake thread goes to multiple threads (for 'updates...) I actually just end up hiding them to be honest, because I find them so tedious and annoying.

I also find it so bizarre that people get massively invested in them. Some of them are so clearly fabricated.

They say it to:
a) piss on their territory
b) excuse their namechange to be goady/offensive/talk about shit or piss, kids in showers etc
c) aim for classics like all the other invented rubbish already referenced.

I haven't read the thread but am going to list: snapped and farted? fatballs? Elderly Korean Lady? SpanGran and Mexican House Thief? Puddles? Patio doors?

Some people really need hobbies. I reckon most of the above (especially the ones running to thread after thread) were written by the same person.

Definitely agree about the off the cuff funny stuff. The one liners, and quick moving chats that are (were) genuinely brilliant.

The crap that the fangirlz leap on salivating for updates just encourages more and more (literal) unbelievable creative writing.

No Balonz from Frensham Ponds?

I think they think it gives them more cred and less likely to be seen as a troll/tabloid journo.

@TheQueef

Burrito EKL is worth a read, such a wistful, wholesome thread. The rest aren't that funny.

And ever so slightly racist.

Does anybody remember the thread about the woman stuck on her kitchen counter for hours because her husband wasn’t home? Something about paracetamol?

Sistine chapel

@plodalong12

Does anybody remember the thread about the woman stuck on her kitchen counter for hours because her husband wasn’t home? Something about paracetamol?

I think I remember, he wouldn't get her a paracetamol and she couldn't possibly get it out of the cup board herself?

I am Canadian!

Seriously though, it makes me back space and hide the thread.

@GillBiggeloesHair

I am Canadian!

Seriously though, it makes me back space and hide the thread.

Now, that was funny. But the Canadian never intended it.

I’m obviously low brow because I did find snapped and farted funny. Everyone assumed it was a typo but it wasn’t - why the OP had to let us know that she farted remains a mystery to this day.

People reference all those things to show they’re genuine MNers, not trolls on the make. But penis beaker is pointless - it needs to be the threads that didn’t make the tabloids.

I was here when it was all green fields and we had a MN WI thread complete with Victoria sponge competitions - the "high sift" being an essential component of a successful bake.

And the booble plate stuck behind the cistern.

And not forgetting the bat. Does anyone still have the link?

@Justawaterformeplease

I thought the OP made a typo as snapped and farted didn’t make sense in the sentence it was used in but then because everyone found it funny she followed it up with “I have IBS” which had people howling so loud they woke the neighbours up as drinks dribbled down their chins. I didn’t find it remotely funny in the slightest.

This is a good interpretation too! But yes, definitely overrated.

@Lollypop701

Sistine chapel

More bollocks.

@ShaunaTheSheep

I was here when it was all green fields and we had a MN WI thread complete with Victoria sponge competitions - the "high sift" being an essential component of a successful bake.

And the booble plate stuck behind the cistern.

And not forgetting the bat. Does anyone still have the link?

I had the actual photo on my old phone. Long gone, sadly.

@GillBiggeloesHair

I am Canadian!

Seriously though, it makes me back space and hide the thread.

Oooh, I don't think I am aware of that one!

@Geamhradh I totally agree with your posts...

Calm down cranks, find a hobby or try some yoga.
It is easy to understand why posters use this information.

A quick google found it @ShaunaTheSheep. Obviously you can’t have the bat without Terry’s cock!

@sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea yes I remember the shed and the fake vagina ! I think that might have been the day the last remnants of my innocence were swept away

Posters often report to be crying with laughter at threads. I can report the only thread I have ever cried laughing at is snapped and farted.

Screaming in the Sistine Chapel was pretty funny too.

I have never spat my tea out or woke the baby laughing (I’ll admit to not having one - is that used as a fertility humble brag?) at a thread. maybe I need a better sense of humour.

@phishy
I think I remember, he wouldn't get her a paracetamol and she couldn't possibly get it out of the cup board herself?

Something like that! Off to search!

YANBU, it gets boring to see the same references. They could be put on a "reminiscing thread" as then posters can talk about their memories and 'out-memory' each other instead of discussing current events. MN can award a first prize to the one who remembers the most.

Reminds me in work, when someone says how good things used to be and the rose-tinted spectacles come out...

Some of the old threads had me in stitches but I suppose if I re-read them I'll be wondering what was so funny. The ones I read in the middle of the night during the years of the non-sleeping children were side-splitting. I remember Honeydragon found a weird glitch in the matrix which meant that we could create 'invisible' threads. Much hilarity ensued, but only amongst the severely sleep-deprived.

I'm pretty sure Angela Hernandez is still funny though.

Angela Hernandez still makes me laugh. Occasionally an Angela Hernandez appears in the wild and I’m quietly giggling, unable to explain.

Sinister Easter Bonnet was possibly the first memorable thread for me.

@TattiePants thank you, that's made my day!