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To be tired of penis beakers?

249 replies

Beanispeeker · 14/09/2023 20:14

Seriously!

Penis beaker has become the benchmark of being on Mumsnet for long enough to allow for a slightly risky post.

But it makes no sense... You could have just copied a well used phrase on the site having (blissfully) no idea about the thread.

Sorry. It's been a long week.

But AIBU?

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Mysterian · 14/09/2023 21:08

I've been here since Sue Lawley's Inflatable Trousers and the Runaway Scotch Egg Cart.

LampsAndWatches · 14/09/2023 21:08

I like the round robin (is that what they were called??) threads

Viviennemary · 14/09/2023 21:09

Not even been mentioned for ages. Boring and silly. Why bring it up again.

Glarptip · 14/09/2023 21:11

Ofcourseshecan · 14/09/2023 20:27

LTB

Leave the beaker.

ThanksItHasPockets · 14/09/2023 21:11

You bunch of Johnny-come-latelies. A MN shibboleth thread and not a single mention of Brian from Hull and his yoni massages?

TinaYouFatLard · 14/09/2023 21:11

Someone’s grumpy - did you poo on your skirt at work today?

Bananasplitlady · 14/09/2023 21:11

You sound stressed OP. Maybe you need Brian to pop round to give you a yoni massage to help you relax.

EmpressaurusOfCats · 14/09/2023 21:13

CAT me you cunt.

Greentrilby · 14/09/2023 21:14

I think this thread needs to be logged with the police ‘just in case’

socialdilemmawhattodo · 14/09/2023 21:14

Avatartar · 14/09/2023 20:36

Fat balls

You stole my exact quote - although I have enjoyed many of the others listed.

SprogTakesAQuarry · 14/09/2023 21:14

Still Balonz for the win. Proper good trolling that was.

EmpressaurusOfCats · 14/09/2023 21:14

BodegaSushi · 14/09/2023 20:47

Yes, the Balonz one (didn't see it live) had a comment like 'that's like naming your children Tom, Dick and Frankenstein' or words to that effect. That made me giggle. IIRC, the OP (of the story was real) had 2 other children with perfectly normal names

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The original Balonz thread was about someone’s friend from Surrey who talked a lot about Frensham Ponds.

PangramAddict · 14/09/2023 21:16

I was there for Brian from Hull and Balonz love, good times.
.my favourite ever thread is the "worst day at work" or similar, with "I am Angela Hernandez". But thats not a headliner for some reason.

SprogTakesAQuarry · 14/09/2023 21:17

Balonz was a well known poster on a music forum who came avisiting and nailed it.

PorpoiseWithPurpose · 14/09/2023 21:19

It’s because your husband doesn’t have a marrow-sized member.

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 14/09/2023 21:19

bread
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SerafinasGoose · 14/09/2023 21:24

Oh, how I agree! Its 15 minutes have well and truly passed, and it wasn't even that hilarious to start with. Relentlessly tedious.

At the risk of sounding completely po faced, the more recent 'missing flip flops' thread was a lot more entertaining!

DustyLee123 · 14/09/2023 21:24

Is it to do with Tracy Beaker ? 🤣🤣

CosyNightsOnTheSofa · 14/09/2023 21:25

I don't really understand how being here years somehow makes you an honest poster who isn't posting made up shit, incidentally I don't actually understand what difference it makes even if you did make things up? I could be posting about a fantasy life for years pretending to be a married woman with kids, when in actual fact my name is Keith who lives in a 1 bed flat alone but I'd like to be the person I pretend to be. I could suddenly decide to post as real me, so does that get deleted because it doesn't align with my fantasy. Also people may sign up because they have an issue to get advice about, maybe it's something embarrassing like piles, but you are automatically a bum troll because your 1st post is about piles 🤣. You could still be a bum troll even if you've been here years, it all makes no sense.

I think the funny/entertaining threads are all made up and written by writers who are testing out plots for books or just having a good laugh. The way they reel you in just like a book and the level of description, it's v obvious (no less entertaining to read though).

ilovepixie · 14/09/2023 21:26

My washing is getting darked on, the spiders are rubbing their willies over it and my minge is showing.

QueSyrahSyrah · 14/09/2023 21:28

Jesus in the Cabbage Van, I'd forgotten all about some of these.

ScruffMuffin · 14/09/2023 21:30

Cutted up pear was hilarious. So was Super Soaker-gate, although that was many, many years ago now. My favourite thread of all time was the one about stupid things people did as kids for the hell of it, which resulted in one person taking a running jump at some swivelling seat at school lunch, being swivelled around on it and deposited on the floor (I think). There was a baby name thread once where someone casually threw in the suggestion of Box. Between a bunch of other, actual boys' names.

RaisedOnADietofBrokenBiscuitsOh · 14/09/2023 21:32

Rusticanella · 14/09/2023 20:53

@RaisedOnADietofBrokenBiscuitsOh

Oh wow I remember being hooked to that thread about the Lemon Drizzle. This is the one where a PTA mum took the pee out of the posters fun cornflake cakes or something? And I think a text got sent to the wrong phone? I might try to find it again!

That's the one.

N0RKS · 14/09/2023 21:32

The very first thread I read on MN was a woman who was stranded in Paddington Station loo with a shitty skirt….and folk were rushing to her aid. She was imaginary, but it was still hugely entertaining.
And I was coming to say Terry Wogan’s cock…because it has been a long time

To be tired of penis beakers?