What's the most bonkers thread you've read on here?

[passioninthisworld]

I've been on Mumsnet for around 10 years now, I have read some crazy threads.

I'm lying in bed hungover and looking for some stories to brighten up my shameful Saturday afternoon.

If anyone wants to share it would be greatly appreciated

I hope I don’t get hated for writing this but I can’t stand or can never understand the threads “How do people afford x y and z” “How can others afford x y and z but I can’t”

I find them bonkers

OP had a large walled garden with various swings/climbing frames etc. and her neighbours were pissed she wouldn’t let neighbour kids use the garden. Sure the children where older.
She found out they had been using it while she was out and told them not to use it.
It was ignored and OP locked the door to the garden. The neighbour and children where inside.

one stick in my mind

the OP in a professional group who had a colleague saying they were married to the actor Jeremy Northam.

all the detail that unfolded was absolutely bonkers

OP had a large walled garden with various swings/climbing frames etc. and her neighbours were pissed she wouldn’t let neighbour kids use the garden. Sure the children where older.

She found out they had been using it while she was out and told them not to use it.

That also reminds me of the OP who had a single-storey garage next to a neighbour's first-floor flat, and they installed a door specifically so that they could use the roof of her garage as a patio and host barbecues out there!

why do you think it disappeared? I too find the disappearance of some threads odd.

It was deleted by MNHQ because people reported it as a troll thread. @pendleflyer

thanks - sounds harmless as a troll if was (though I pity the troll).
Have the idea (from a previous place I used to hang out) that some folks are rampant reporters. *That I also find damn odd, with the proviso of course that gratuitous nastiness is out of order.

• I knew one person who reported an incredible number of posts a day and even confessed to having at least once reported one of their own.

I agree @pendleflyer

The person reporting one of their own is funny though.

I think we need to be clear in our definition in what a troll actually is. Surely a troll is somebody who is deliberately trying to goad, upset or manipulate people - often with a highly emotive and even triggering subject matter - with malicious intent.

Somebody inventing a harmless yet hilarious thread that's obviously meant to be lighthearted and fun is not what a troll is at all. Some people called the OP of the classic Balonz thread a troll, but where was there any victim in that?

+1

• I knew one person who reported an incredible number of posts a day and even confessed to having at least once reported one of their own.

Wow, did they know that it was their own or did it just get caught up in their 'report net'?!

I think that's actually a much more troll-like behaviour than the OPs of harmless, fun made up/embellished threads that are reported as trolls. Somebody like that must be extremely unhappy with their life and can't have many friends - either online or irl.

Sounds like the online equivalent of the net-curtain-twitching nosey neighbour who can only look for self-worth in their ability to spread gossip - even the most terribly boring things that nobody else could care less about, such as people not opening their curtains in the day, having a new washing machine delivered or forgetting to bring their bin back in.

agree with you totally.
Yes they knew it was their own post :)
I think they confessed to reporting around 15 posts a day day in day out. They saw it I think as some sort of social service.
Me - as long as really nasty/malicious/spiteful/threatening stuff is slashed I'm essentially for free speech - even or maybe especially stuff that some "reporters" might like to label as an ism of some sort.
this seems like a nice place so far - lots of human wisdom and fun :)

I'll never forget the screaming at the Sistine Chapel thread

The one where a poster was acting like eating a sandwich for lunch was akin to eating a puppy and everyone else was mad for thinking it was a fairly normal lunch time meal.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3486465-Is-there-anyone-who-just-eats-normally www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3486465-Is-there-anyone-who-just-eats-normally]]

Peak MN about food this thread for me.

And of course all the teeny tiny posters started posting pictures of their quinoa salads that lasted them all day.

There was one recently where OP asked if she was unreasonable to be angry that her husband had left her asleep in a hot car with the windows closed, parked in direct sunlight.

They'd had an argument prior and it sounded like he'd done it out of spite. The amount of posters accusing her of being melodramatic, or saying it was her fault for falling asleep, or that she must have been pissed, was bonkers!

I just searched 4 pages of Jeremies (Clarkson, Hunt, Paxman, Vine etc) but no Jeremy Northam.

Mmm, Jeremy Northam.

"Badly done, Emma!" (Android melts).

Several:

1. The one where the OP bought a house with a swimming pool that the neighbours had previously used as a communal resource - and her struggles to get them to stop
2. The OP who was trying to get out of giving a work lift to a CF (several of those!)
3. The one still in classics about bonkers behaviour at funerals

Funeral thread

Really inappropriate funeral thread | Mumsnet

😅 I thought I was back on that thread myself

Jeremy Northam if you happen to be reading this and usin MN, come thru 🙏❤⚘

Haven't read the full thread so apologies if it's been mentioned.

There was one a while ago where the childminder charged the OP for taking their child to the zoo or something and OP didn't believe they actually went. The childminder produced a clearly fake ticket and the zoo's Facebook page got absolutely flooded with MNers asking if it was a real ticket. Not sure what the outcome was.

All MN JN fans hold hands & don't break the circle.

Is there anybody there?...

All MN JN fans hold hands & don't break the circle.

Is that you, Noel, trying to cosmic-order Jeremy Northam?!

Was there ever an update on the thread where someone make an older lady pick up dog poo and then found out it was the woman’s own field? The op was worried she was going to become a pariah in the local village?

Also does anyone remember a thread several years ago where the op hadn’t heard from someone (they started dating?) for a while and weren’t sure if something bad had happened to them and they were wondering if they should go round and check?