Threads that have stayed with you

[Cinnamonkie]

What threads have you seen on here that have lodged themselves into your brain?

For me it's the lady who was gifted a periscope by her dh which was completely random and hilarious.

Also the lady who upset a crow and never came back! Assumed she and her dog were eaten by the crows.

It's 5am, I'm struggling with peri insomnia and reminding me of that thread has given me the will to carry on 😂

On a more somber note I do think about Pamela's threads often and a few mumsnetters who have passed away. MN on good days has 100% made me laugh, made me cry and sometimes both at the same time

Came on here to say Birdyfriend too!

Yes. IIRC she went to her adoptive family and emin retired from fostering and then fell ill.

A couple that stick in my mind from years ago when I first joined.

The woman asking where people kept their tampons where their DH's couldn't see or find them. I found this so sad on several levels.

A new Mum who was absolutely distraught because it was her baby's bedtime and she couldn't find a matching pair of pyjamas - she inly had a clean top of one pair and the clean bottom of another and was worried about what effect it would have on the baby.

I've often wondered 'what happened next' in both these situations.

I think that thread should be mandatory reading for all the posters that post about what to say or do when they’ve been broken up with or ghosted. It really is the best response.

Fairly New to MN so for me the funniest has been the sch mum and mum in hotel room with farting DH.

Wow! My DH buys mine and DS uses my tampons (not used!!!) for his homemade sling gun 😄. I don't even look if the pyjamas are matching neither do my DC. Drives my DH nuts though

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4486761-What-did-we-see-last-night

this one?

Yonks ago now but the threads about a large building being built in the garden next door, when it really wasn't big enough for the size of the building.
It caused the OP much angst.

Pamela's story has stayed with me.
I often think about Chopin and her situation with lobster boy too. Wonder if it will ever be resolved.
Some of the domestic abuse threads too, especially where the OP doesn't reappear to let us know they are safe.

Can anyone link the Pamela thread please?

mexican house thief is a stand out for me and the Sistine Chapel thread.

Also one that I can’t remember all of but a mum lost her daughter. She had a few threads right up until she died. My memory is vague but when I travel through a certain part of Scotland, I always think of that mum and her little girl. It was extremely moving reading the threads.

The young woman whose baby was placed for adoption against her wishes when she was 19 and in an abusive relationship. Her bf had forced her in to prostitution and signed the papers to have their baby adopted. I cried at her heartbreaking story. She’s since updated and is now in a settled relationship with a child but still trying to contact her first born.

Anyone remember a poster Ghost something? She had several children, a really distinctive posting style, and always a whole pile of totally intractable, impossible problems. The children had high needs, she couldn’t follow anything through, they had a housing problem. She posted all the time then just stopped.

More recently a lady found out she was pregnant and was a few weeks away from giving birth, she was so worried and had to go to the hospital but we didn’t hear from her again. Every now and then, when I come on here, I wonder and hope everything was ok

The woman who's husband was having an affair with his crewmate.. felt a bit close to home as I'd previously questioned DH closeness to a female crewmate.. she handled it so well and I hope she's doing well, think of her often

Thank you for the cringeworthy thread. I’ve only just started looking at it it’s already making me laugh. I do feel like MN has lost a lot of its humour in recent years.

I did enjoy the thread about the ex-husband who took his children camping and they ended up eating badger in the woods. It had the classic “did he order from the sett menu?”

I sat in a really tedious work meeting and just laughed all day to myself about the geniusness of that joke

I often look to see if Pamela's husband has updated . I'd love to know how he, her so and her mu are getting on.
Also the mum of the little girl, I think her name was Maude who had Glioblastoma

PurpleLampshades and GoJetterBoy always stayed with me. Humbling and eye opening

I’ve been thinking a lot about Pamela and her brave fight against gallbladder cancer. I think it was a year ago. Her husband and son are still in my thoughts, as was Pamela herself. She seemed like such a wonderful woman.

Also, the little boy who was diagnosed with a brain tumour, after his mum pushed for an MRI. She was called back to see the consultant after a few days following the scan. Her little boy has been so brave (he was on a TV programme too, if I recall)

The one years ago where someone posted about her 12 year old being in a relationship with a 16year old. Loads of posters gave out advice along the lines of "you won't be able to stop them" "she's better off sleeping with him in your house than behind the co op" "make sure she uses protection".
OP would not be told that at 12 a child cannot consent to sex and that actually this was a safeguarding issue. I often think if that poor girl.

Amazed no one has mentioned Mexican house thief… that’s an old one but one of my faves!

Does anyone remember Whiskychaser? The thread about giving a daughter's friend a lift?

I enjoyed the CANCEL THE CHEQUE thread. It had everything, a CF wedding story and posters who kept on posting without checking for updates from the OP. Followed by wails of RTFT.

The troll threads about the lady with a sick child stays with me. She had multiple threads and posted partial photos of her child. I think there was twins involved somewhere, which is always a bit of a give away. I wonder about her motivation.

The kids company threads fascinated me, Munmsnet sleuths.

I am currently on the Neil Gaiman threads on FWR. I used to be a fan and when I see the threads go quiet, I post on them. Mumsnet has a power, sometimes it is very, very small, sometimes more significant to influence. That's important.

Does anyone remember a thread from a man whose wife was seeing a therapist who had convinced her she’d been abused by her father as a child. Everything seemed to point to it being a false memory but she totally believed it and it was wrecking her family life. The poster had been investigating the therapist and thought he was a charlatan. It may well have been a troll thread but the poster seemed genuine, and at his wits end. They had a son that the wife was neglecting because of her perceived trauma.