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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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PixieLaLar · 27/08/2024 23:22

Oooh yes I think about the crow one still and the creepy music box!

Also the woman whose husband hid an air tag in her car before going abroad…I think he was planning on taking the kids to another country for a wedding or something? All sounded very worrying.

Thurien · 27/08/2024 23:23

The one I remember is from about 7 years ago. A woman came on to explain her issues with partner collecting guns. He was a farmworker and had a lot of rifles and guns which she wanted out of the house. He joined MN so he could post his own version and we had both of them on the same thread.

Skibidy · 27/08/2024 23:24

Around 5 years ago, there was a thread about the bitchy school mums who were actual friends just turned one day on op for no apparent reason. She used to talk to the partner of one and walk the same route home at pick up time and was ghosted by them all. I was very invested in that. I hope ops ok now!

another was by StickWhiteLovePiss and her DH alcoholic who died

aLittleWhiteHorse · 27/08/2024 23:24

SillyMooMoos · Today 22:33
Lady who was fostering a preemie baby who was born addicted to drugs. Really humbling thread.

i don’t think I’ll ever forget this one 💔

Needanewname42 · 27/08/2024 23:24

One that I often think about was Daughter DrowningInJunk.
She was being controlled, abused by family who kept filling her house with stuff. So cruel.

I often think about her and hope she is in a better place.

BabaYetu · 27/08/2024 23:25

Two that lingered with me were both women who came to realise they were in abusive relationships.

One had a husband who insisted she go to bed at the same time he did, even if that was 9pm. She wasn’t allowed to stay up if he wanted to go to bed.

The other started really innocuously - “He ate my soup”. The more she posted, the clearer it was that she was in a horrible relationship.

Both times Mumsnetters were brilliant in offering support and advice.

YoureRockingTheBoat · 27/08/2024 23:25

A thread on woo (is that even a topic?) where a poster had been driving along and passed a friend twice going in the same direction. Something about the friend’s reaction the second time, or a call they had later, meant that the theme of the thread was how time works and when it might break down.

After much discussion, the friend ‘fessed up to having done it as a prank. I just loved to think of this lady making her plan and executing it by driving furiously round back lanes and then acting surprised on the second pass, all to please her mate.

TheyNicknamedHerTheBolter · 27/08/2024 23:25

The lady who lost her ironing board. Bugs me to this day.

Education79 · 27/08/2024 23:26

JurrassicSnark · 27/08/2024 23:06

Is someone able to provide a link to the Pamela thread?

If you google Mumset Pamela they are all there, it went on from May to August last year and charts a very brave ladies journey with bile duct cancer, from diagnosis to her sad death only in her mid 40's.

They are a harrowing read, so be warned.

At the same time concurrently on that bastion of free speech that is Reddit there was a load of armchair detectives convinced it was all a scam - which sadly it wasn't.

Pamela fell silent the last few weeks, no updates, and this was of course when she was too ill to post. Then her husband came on (he had posted occasionally for her) and gave the sad news she had passed away, thanked everyone etc. bizarrely this very believable thread was a hoax, she had in fact died, but the dates didn't match up and her poor husband had to come on and confirm matters.

Meanwhile the armchair detectives on Reddit unearthed the details of her funeral and her husbands business, it all correlated, and was a true family tragedy played out on our screens.

Coughsweet · 27/08/2024 23:26

A very long thread (probably several) from at least a decade ago where the woman was being treated so shabbily by her boyfriend but she was clearly heartbroken. She said he’d found the thread but she continued posting at length what she was going to do next and how she thought he’d react and I’d think that was really odd because he was probably reading it. It felt to me that part of her motivation for posting was actually for him to see how she felt and he sounded like such a massive bellend I felt sad for her because I thought she was so vulnerable to more hurt and disappointment:

ZippyDenimBear · 27/08/2024 23:27

As mentioned, the very lovely lady with the drug addicted foster child. The love and patience she showed, then her getting cancer and eventually dying.

The creepy forest story was terrifying.

The lady who forgot to put her bottoms on in the pool and her husband shouting 'your minge!!' or something similar, so funny...

Synchronisedwitches · 27/08/2024 23:27

The couple who had been married years but we're trapped I'm some passive aggressive mutual argument. The wife was asking if people thought the husband was doing it on purpose when he kept making her cups of tea in a mug which had the handle in black then U N T in black letters on it. She called him up on it but he said it wasn't intentional.
Posters were telling her to bin the mug but I don't think she wanted to as it would let him see he had got to her.
It was really sad in a way but also quite funny.
I just imagine they are still married but still having this really low key passive aggressive argument where neither of them are entirely sure if it's still going on.

IndigoIsMyFavouriteColour · 27/08/2024 23:28

mine is the woman who stayed in Savernake forest and got attacked by witches with her dog - was truly a hair-razing story and I've never forgotten it

TheaBrandt · 27/08/2024 23:28

There was an epic one where a loony brought her Dh and toddler along to a girls weekend after explicitly being told not to.

One where a poster was adamant that no child of hers had ever left the house without a parent until they were 18.

One where a poster had a joke with her Dh that they would run into a room topless Tarzan style beating their chest and shouting ooh aah. Op did it to her Dh only he was sitting at the kitchen table with their builder.

The fashion one - what you thought you would look like in an outfit v the cruel reality.

jacksonlambsregulardisorder · 27/08/2024 23:29

I think it was by RunningintheRain and the fine art of maintaining a dignified silence when you've been suddenly dumped by text. I hope she's found a much better boyfriend now.

HyggeTygge · 27/08/2024 23:29

YoureRockingTheBoat · 27/08/2024 23:25

A thread on woo (is that even a topic?) where a poster had been driving along and passed a friend twice going in the same direction. Something about the friend’s reaction the second time, or a call they had later, meant that the theme of the thread was how time works and when it might break down.

After much discussion, the friend ‘fessed up to having done it as a prank. I just loved to think of this lady making her plan and executing it by driving furiously round back lanes and then acting surprised on the second pass, all to please her mate.

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Ahhh I need to read this, it sounds excellent!

Another one - the lady who got dumped by text with a "don't reply to this" - so she didn't. A long while later the dickhead came crawling back while she continued to ignore him.
Edit - this was RunningInTheRain as per the previous post!

OldCrocks · 27/08/2024 23:30

Education79 · 27/08/2024 23:26

If you google Mumset Pamela they are all there, it went on from May to August last year and charts a very brave ladies journey with bile duct cancer, from diagnosis to her sad death only in her mid 40's.

They are a harrowing read, so be warned.

At the same time concurrently on that bastion of free speech that is Reddit there was a load of armchair detectives convinced it was all a scam - which sadly it wasn't.

Pamela fell silent the last few weeks, no updates, and this was of course when she was too ill to post. Then her husband came on (he had posted occasionally for her) and gave the sad news she had passed away, thanked everyone etc. bizarrely this very believable thread was a hoax, she had in fact died, but the dates didn't match up and her poor husband had to come on and confirm matters.

Meanwhile the armchair detectives on Reddit unearthed the details of her funeral and her husbands business, it all correlated, and was a true family tragedy played out on our screens.

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Omg, I actually know someone called Pamela who died of bile duct cancer, though it was the year before last, not last year. Perhaps I should take a look for the thread.

HeadacheEarthquake · 27/08/2024 23:31

100% the embarrassing things you did as a child thread

It makes my gut ache laughing

StillSeekingResponsibleAdult · 27/08/2024 23:32

@Cinnamonkie I remember the stolen woods, as the same poster was also on the pregnant after miscarriage thread I was on. I still think of her often and hope things are better for her now.

Education79 · 27/08/2024 23:32

OldCrocks · 27/08/2024 23:30

Omg, I actually know someone called Pamela who died of bile duct cancer, though it was the year before last, not last year. Perhaps I should take a look for the thread.

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Maybe I'm a year out, this lady was Scottish but lived in NI and was a beautician.

She came over as a really lovely person - it was very heart wrenching.

OldCrocks · 27/08/2024 23:33

Education79 · 27/08/2024 23:32

Maybe I'm a year out, this lady was Scottish but lived in NI and was a beautician.

She came over as a really lovely person - it was very heart wrenching.

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Ah, not the same, thank goodness. Not sure I could bear to read about it all unfolding in real time.

Bunny44 · 27/08/2024 23:34

aLittleWhiteHorse · 27/08/2024 23:24

SillyMooMoos · Today 22:33
Lady who was fostering a preemie baby who was born addicted to drugs. Really humbling thread.

i don’t think I’ll ever forget this one 💔

Is there a link to that one?

Squr · 27/08/2024 23:38

A thread a few years ago about hygiene where a poster said that the soapy water that ran off her stomach in the shower was sufficient to clean her genitals. I see her post regularly now and cannot unthink the thoughts I had

BunfightBetty · 27/08/2024 23:39

The one where the DH ate the fat balls that had been made for the birds, thinking they were a tasty homemade snack. Cried laughing at that one.

echt · 27/08/2024 23:39

The one where a woman posted whose husband kept the garage locked and never allowed her in it. The OP stoutly resisted all the sensible suggestions made by MNers and then went away.
Probably a troll but there you go.