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Threads that have stayed with you

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Cinnamonkie · 27/08/2024 22:25

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.

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Monkeysatonthewall · 28/08/2024 15:07

AnnieMcFanny · 28/08/2024 14:12

Monkey, I’m Claire’s mum cousin. The one who realised as the thread infolded that the Op just had to be my cousin who I’d last seen/had any contact with 50 years earlier just before we both went off to live on opposite sides of the world. Once I’d realised it had to be her it was only when someone asked about the hospital she was heading to that I thought - if she says Ninewells then it’s definitely her. And of course it was. After that I then decided to text her sibling who I had only been in touch with again for a few weeks and there in my inbox was a message from her saying - this is what’s happening right now. My father and the ops mother were brother and sister and our family was rather fractured.

My cousins is newly retired and is currently in our home town and I think going forward her and her husband will split their time between San Fransisco
and Dundee. We’re currently sorting out our travel plans for the first 6 months of next year to make sure we’re under the same sky at some stage.

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Thank you for your message. Like I said, people wouldn't be joking about terrible things like that.
Hope Claire's mum is doing as well as she can be given the circumstances 💐

marmiteoneverything · 28/08/2024 15:23

There was a thread written by a young woman who was concealing a pregnancy from her family. She was quite far along and planning on having the baby during her first term at uni, then giving it up for adoption. She ended up changing her mind and had the little girl (I think she called her Megan?) and got back together with her ex boyfriend. I think her last update, a few months later, was that she was pregnant again.

I still sometimes wonder how she’s getting on.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 28/08/2024 15:24

LeeHarper5 · 28/08/2024 12:20

I always remember a thread from a few years ago from a poster I think had Della in her username.
She was an American living with her husband and young daughter. He was a nasty piece of work, awful the her, their child and even their aupair. He was obsessed with using her savings to build an extension sh didn’t want. She covertly made plans to leave while he was at work, having secured a flat to live elsewhere in London. I believe one or possibly both of them worked as solicitors. She used to post in 30days. I often wonder how she is. She used to meet husband in parks to drop child off for weekend visits so he wouldn’t find where she lived. I hope she is safe and happy.

I remember that one, too, Della Cucina was her user-name. I think she got away from her controlling husband in the midst of Covid, or she had just moved when lock-down started, so it was all particularly stressful for her. I have her feeling her family (mother) didn't help her much. I hope she and her daughter are doing well now, too.

YellowphantGrey · 28/08/2024 15:36

It was a few years ago but it properly wound me up and still gives me the rage now.

A poster basically insisted that the phrase "talking behind someone's back" was factually wrong.

Their logic was that behind their back was actually the front of their back and to talk behind it, you would need to be inside their body and talking behind the inside of their spine/back area.

Loads of people tried explaining that your talking to the back of the person and therefore they are unaware but she was absolutely insistent that it wasn't possibly to do that

AnnieMcFanny · 28/08/2024 15:58

Thank you for your message. Like I said, people wouldn't be joking about terrible things like that.
Hope Claire's mum is doing as well as she can be given the circumstances 💐

Thank you, My cousin is doing as well as can be expected. But she’s fine.

We hadn’t been in contact for 50 years but we’re from a big family although it’s a scattered and fractured one though I always knew what was going on with other family members through my dad who’d visit my cousin in the states, and my birth father and siblings who’d visit family in Scotland from New Zealand. It was very easy to pick up from where we’d left off a very long time ago.

Womanofcustard · 28/08/2024 16:03

Toilet slippers!

Wineandwine71 · 28/08/2024 16:16

Mydustymonstera · 28/08/2024 06:58

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.

@Mydustymonstera I am still around I never left . Sadly some people on MN think they have the answers. It's not a matter of not following through. Sometimes things are much more complicated then others think or the system does not work how some people think.

ShinyHappyTits · 28/08/2024 16:21

TheHangingGardensOfBasildon · 28/08/2024 00:34

Yes, I was very invested in the saga of Twittlebee Woods. I hope she is OK now.

There was also another bizarre one where the OP bought a house with a lovely big garden to the side, and the neighbour had been hoping to acquire it for a song from the elderly lady who had owned the house before she died. He ended up sending her a series of completely bonkers 'solicitor's' letters using fake-Latin mumbo-jumbo to try to 'prove' that she was 'legally bound' to let him have it for next to nothing!

The school raffle where OP won a laptop, but the organiser told her endless lies and just kept it. I can't remember if that one was resolved or if it maybe got deleted for being outing.

An outrageous, heart-breaking one: the disgusting, vile husband who forced his wife to eat paper on which she'd poured out all of her distress (caused by him, of course) when he found it - in front of his own parents, who were visiting. One particularly sad part was the fact that his own mother urged her DIL to obey him, as she too was scared of her own son.

That last one...WTAF???? That's the worst thing I've read on here and it's a bloody high bar.

ExhaustedHousewife · 28/08/2024 16:37

Iamthezombie finding her long lost son
Curry leaving her cheating husband
The woman from wem who's husband was killed in a car crash leaving her with 2 small children.
So many times I've cried on this site.

CharlotteLightandDark · 28/08/2024 16:44

housethatbuiltme · 28/08/2024 12:03

I read the Sistine chapel and while I know its mumsnet so possibly just someone being weird I have recently discovered there is a mental health condition that can cause it.

Stendhal Syndrome - a psychosomatic condition causing rapid heart beat, crying, panic, sweating, confusion, fainting and even hallucinations when exposed to art or items of beauty.

Its believed to be a variant of a panic attacks and while rare in general day to day life it is very commonly occurring at famous art sites like the Mona Lisa, David and the Sistine Chapel.

I posted this on the thread at the time!

Heedthaball · 28/08/2024 16:45

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MindTheGap099 · 28/08/2024 17:06

HungryLittleCrocodile · 27/08/2024 22:46

Penetration Man. 😆

Penetration man | Mumsnet

Omg !! Howling 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "whispered penetration and stuck his tongue in my ear" 🤣🤣

SpinningOutWaitingForYa · 28/08/2024 17:10

The Snavernake Forest post and the man in the bar.

I still check on PurpleLampshade's thread hoping for positive news.

Preemie foster baby thread, I didn't realise the foster mum had died until this thread 😢

wtfissummer · 28/08/2024 17:11

Mypuppyismad · 27/08/2024 22:38

Oh and also the spooky thread where the man was in the nightclub years later looking exactly the same.

That's always stayed with me

How angry he looked

PocketSand · 28/08/2024 17:33

@TheaBrandt
Oh I remember the fashion thread with how you thought it would look and the reality. I could do with a laugh - do you have a link?

wtfissummer · 28/08/2024 17:40

I can't remember the thread but it was about funny things that people had said

One post. "I'm so sorry Alan".

That's now become the go to saying in this house whenever someone farts

Cattyisbatty · 28/08/2024 17:40

neilyoungismyhero · 27/08/2024 22:43

I often think of Pamela

Me too 😞

Nchanged89 · 28/08/2024 17:47

Mydustymonstera · 28/08/2024 06:58

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.

Don't know if anyone else has commented, but she's still posting away on here.

TheDutchHouse · 28/08/2024 17:57

Sevenwondersofthewoo · 28/08/2024 11:52

Red tooth brush for me
Mexican house thief

france one where the husband fucked off to and came back thinking all was well but his wife was/is leaving him but she’s left the thread now and I wish her well.
penis beaker 🤮

Red toothbrush.. I'm doing well . It's nearly five years now .
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TheDutchHouse · 28/08/2024 18:06

@sallyanne33 and others who mentioned me , thank you for remembering.
The colour of the toothbrush was because I wasn't allowed anything red.
I'm doing well, can't quite believe it's nearly five years.
Took me three years to get all dental work done due to the forced bulimia.
Nightmares due to the abuse still happen occasionally but certainly not as bad now.
I'm still in the same safe area but no longer in the safe house. I'm still in the job I took a month after arriving here.
I'm happy on my own , living a very quiet life.
I couldn't have done it without the support from all the love on here that day to spur me on .

GrimeldaUpNorth · 28/08/2024 18:09

BiscuitsandBandages. I’ll never forget her courage and heartbreak.

sallyanne33 · 28/08/2024 18:25

TheDutchHouse · 28/08/2024 18:06

@sallyanne33 and others who mentioned me , thank you for remembering.
The colour of the toothbrush was because I wasn't allowed anything red.
I'm doing well, can't quite believe it's nearly five years.
Took me three years to get all dental work done due to the forced bulimia.
Nightmares due to the abuse still happen occasionally but certainly not as bad now.
I'm still in the same safe area but no longer in the safe house. I'm still in the job I took a month after arriving here.
I'm happy on my own , living a very quiet life.
I couldn't have done it without the support from all the love on here that day to spur me on .

What you’ve been through is horrific and you’re incredibly brave. I’m so pleased to hear you’re happy and safe now. Xxx

Mylovelygreendress · 28/08/2024 19:32

The one where a poster wanted to treat her friends to a holiday as they had helped her through a serious illness and the husband of one wanted to join them . Turned out the friend had a very controlling husband.,

HyggeTygge · 28/08/2024 20:22

Mylovelygreendress · 28/08/2024 19:32

The one where a poster wanted to treat her friends to a holiday as they had helped her through a serious illness and the husband of one wanted to join them . Turned out the friend had a very controlling husband.,

Was that Anne, Barbara and Colin or similar pseudonyms?

Gagaandgag · 28/08/2024 20:27

Monkeysatonthewall · 28/08/2024 10:21

Why would you think so? People wouldn't troll about this sort of stuff or at least I hope so.
Thinking of Claire's mum often ☹️❤️💐

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Someone up thread said it, not me!!

I was upset and very invested in her thread