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To ask what mumsnet post lives rent free in your head?

893 replies

mosiacmaker · 02/09/2023 14:20

Just for fun.

Mine is the woman who posted for advice about what to do about her husband who was talking to their cat really sensually. Not baby talk but like sensuous loving ”ooh your fur is so good my darling pussycat” and it gave her the absolute ick.

Every time I talk to my dog I remember her and chuckle. I wonder how she’s doing 😂

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elQuintoConyo · 03/09/2023 06:36

The woman in the swimming pool changing room, naked, playing the panpipes to her baby.

The child with the car seat stuck to his back, walking around like a turtle!

Some cake fail thread.

I've no idea what the threads are called, but they were great.

And, as already mentioned, TidyDancer's wedding thread - think it got to three threads long? And the thread about having a 3yo for the weekend - the little girl fell asleep in the dog's bead, it was very sweet.

VeloVixen · 03/09/2023 07:08

WhereHaveAllTheMooncupsGone · 02/09/2023 21:26

I think that was the Savernake Forest one. A MN woo legend.

talking of woo, the recent -ish creepy 🍦van music playing in the middle of the night one freaked me right out.

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No there was a different one from the savernake Forest one. This one was even scarier, it was definitely a caravan site, it was in Dorset, they walked the dog in an empty field one night between a wood and the caravan site and something chased them. I distinctly remember the description of them hurtling over a stone wall and running back to the caravan.

Riapia · 03/09/2023 07:27

One about an exh that was feeding their kids dead badger, in the woods.

grass321 · 03/09/2023 07:27

Mine would be the one where the poster wanted advice on the children next door kept looking into her garden from there new tree house. Was a good diagram and had me laughing

I recall a similar one but possibly just staring over the fence and someone replied something about trunky needs feeding. Which makes no sense at all as I type it out...

Was it Le Queen?

I can't remember the name but supposedly had a rich husband and seemed very disconnected from life. I suspect possibly posting from a studio flat in Whitechapel rather than a town house in Kensington. Definitely mentioned a daughter and taking her for a treat after school.

I'm also enjoying the current butter wankery thread.

CormoranStrikeIsBloodyLovely · 03/09/2023 07:43

The thread where the OP had peed on her cardigan (or long skirt) by accident and people shared their poo/wee accident stories. One that made me laugh was a poster’s mum was totally still in M&S and when she asked her what was wrong, she said she couldn’t move or she would shit herself (or words to that effect).

The super soaker thread.

Expectation v’s reality

I also enjoy any Large Cat/beast of Bodmin thread. There are always excellent replies on those and any unsolved mysteries threads.

Nonplusultra · 03/09/2023 07:51

One that always sticks in my mind was a woman who started a thread because she had an argument with her dh, and she kept compulsively bringing it up with him again and wanted advice on how to let it go. She just couldn’t understand why she was doing this to him.

It turned out that he had ambushed her in their hallway after the argument, beaten her and when she regained consciousness he was removing her boots and staging the scene to look like an accident. He wouldn’t let her call an ambulance either. Eventually he let her go to a&e in a taxi, I think, and he and his family heavily gaslighted her.

It was so chilling and horrific because she couldn’t process any of that and was convinced she was the problem, and was being a bad wife.

The vipers helped her see the full extent of it and supported her to leave but I’ve often thought of her since. I hope she’s living a great life.

IrresponsiblyCertainAboutSexualDimorphism · 03/09/2023 08:30

Birdy Friend is probably the most memorable. I suspect the whole thing was made up, or wildly exaggerated, but it was compulsive reading.

I thought the “messy” was supposed to be the Messiah (China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun has a similar theme with a child’s pronunciation of a word they don’t understand).

Daffodilsandtuplips · 03/09/2023 08:30

The Treaeme shampoo one: one whose husband was very controlling, she had two daughters, the youngest one had mental health issues mainly due to her fathers control over them all. He would only let them use Treseme shampoo and conditioner, the one in the black bottle, he had stacks of it.
She eventually got rid of him and took great delight in buying whatever shampoo she liked. It lovely reading how she was doing her up slowly how she wanted it.
Then there was one from a poster sat in a train station with her baby with bags packed after her in laws rang her to tell her they were going to take her baby from her and to have him ready for collection at 4 pm. She’d bought train tickets and was leaving with her baby. Some posters thought it was a troll but I’m not sure.

IrresponsiblyCertainAboutSexualDimorphism · 03/09/2023 08:34

Connected with the lovely Pamela and her husband Kerr, the threads from Bloodywhitecat (she still posts about it so I hope she won’t mind being mentioned) about her DH’s bile duct cancer will stick with me for a long time.

loveyoutothemoonandtosaturn · 03/09/2023 08:35

The really recent one where the husband didn't pay the rent for 3 months. OP kept trying to ring him at work but he was in a meeting all
morning, she kept updating regularly that she couldn't get through, calling him a bastard then silence... not a peep, still wonder what happened

TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon · 03/09/2023 08:42

SurprisedWithAH0RSE · 03/09/2023 00:53

I must be confused, I know her Dd had a welsh name, was it Celyn ? And she had teenagers as well.

She managed to get David Cameron to come and visit her to highlight the lack of respite for families like hers .

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Yes. Her husband is a writer.

And the day David Cameron turned up, Posie Parker (the PP) hid in the bushes with an apple pie or something to see him. Or was going to.

Shouldn't be forgotten that little good came out of that visit. The publicity and the press intrusion then got too much for the family at the time and very shortly afterwards Riven went under the radar here as well.

SkiingIsHeaven · 03/09/2023 08:44

It's got to be the one when the dentist said suction and she sucked his finger.

MoiraRosesBaybay · 03/09/2023 09:05

The very first thread I read on here was one where the op lived in a house with a shared alleyway running between her and the house next door. She had the flying freehold over the alley. She wanted to extend her kitchen out into this alley, filling it entirely, and couldn’t understand why that was a problem.

MrsGusset · 03/09/2023 09:19

A post on a thread about inappropriate things done or said at weddings.

During his speech the bridegroom thanked his new mother in law for not wearing any knickers that day which had helped to keep the flies away from the cake.

aloneagaingreat · 03/09/2023 09:20

DrFoxtrot · 02/09/2023 21:48

Does anyone remember the poster who 'made eyes at the champagne' when she was a guest at someone's house and wanted a drink 😂. I think about that often when looking at the fizz. 🥂

Ha, yes, I remember this.

As I remember, it was her parents in law house, and they had been specifically asked not to drop by on that particular evening (think they were having friends round or something).

But the dropped by anyway, she "made eyes" at the champagne, and was very huffy that they weren't offered it Grin

MinnieTruck · 03/09/2023 09:26

PollyThePixie · 02/09/2023 15:20

I often wonder about OpheliaRose and TomatoPlantProject. I hope they’re ok and doing well in life.

Bluntness too!

Bapbap45 · 03/09/2023 09:32

I know my friends kind of judge me for using mumsnet (it's reputation precedes it!) But this is just a great reminder of why it's so good.

SlashBeef · 03/09/2023 09:34

Snapped and farted just because it made me laugh so much. I was sitting in my car waiting to do the school run while I read it belly laughing and cackling and I just loved it.
Also that scary thread where odd things were happening with red baubles or something outside the house?? I never got closure and I still wonder shout it.

TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon · 03/09/2023 09:34

MinnieTruck · 03/09/2023 09:26

Bluntness too!

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I've just searched OpheliaRose as I seem to recall there being a lot of thinking she was a troll.

Oddly, she's often mentioned on the "does anyone remember" threads in the same sentence as TomatoPlantProject. (I've never come across the latter) Were they the same person?

TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon · 03/09/2023 09:36

Ah, Bluntness.

Only 32 people in ICU in the whole of the UK with Covid in April 2020 dontcha know.

I never minded Bluntness's bluntness as such. But blimeyheck the interpretation of numbers was hilarious.

JamieFrasersfurrysporran · 03/09/2023 09:38

blackpear · 02/09/2023 22:54

Someone whose husband had just died wrote the most beautiful piece about imagining finding him again, and he was well as he had been before the cancer, and they went for a winter walk and then went home together to the children. It was so beautiful and moving.

I think that was Tunnocks?

SlashBeef · 03/09/2023 09:41

Ooh and Softzilla!

BabyStopCryin · 03/09/2023 09:41

I remember a ‘husband and dad’ posting about his wife either dying or just died and looking for support. It went on for a while. I thought he sounded a bit off (but I’m very cynical).

then there came reports of him DMing posters for hook ups…

worragit!

DaggerIsle · 03/09/2023 09:45

MoiraRosesBaybay · 03/09/2023 09:05

The very first thread I read on here was one where the op lived in a house with a shared alleyway running between her and the house next door. She had the flying freehold over the alley. She wanted to extend her kitchen out into this alley, filling it entirely, and couldn’t understand why that was a problem.

That one sadly had no resolution! I was gripped. She kept repeating neighbours didn't use the alley so they had lost the right of passage. It was also an old listed building and she had a tiny budget.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 03/09/2023 09:46

The very first thread I read on here was one where the op lived in a house with a shared alleyway running between her and the house next door. She had the flying freehold over the alley. She wanted to extend her kitchen out into this alley, filling it entirely, and couldn’t understand why that was a problem.

There was another one in a classic CF thread that I think back to now and again, where the poster's neighbour had quite a few kids and so she had decided to knock through into the poster's loft and build a huge double-attic bedroom suite. She told them that her builder would be coming around to measure up and that he would need access to their loft.

When she said that they were not willing to give away a third of their property to somebody who had decided they would just help themselves to it, she was a horrid, nasty big meanie-pants who just couldn't understand the challenges of having a big family!