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.

Penetration man for the funniest thread.

Best phrase ever on mumsnet: "Suzie Quattro's fat nan". Makes me snort with laughter and I haven't been able to wear a leather jacket since reading it.

There was a bonkers one years and years ago about someone ‘rescuing’ a guillemot from the beach and taking it on the train to be returned to the zoo.

It popped into my head the other day when someone near me on the train mentioned a penguin, and I couldn’t stop laughing to myself

What about the one with spangran, Ken from the off licence. I think it was taken down in the end for being a troll but it went on for days

Just had one of those silent giggles reading pp re Your minge! I remember that one! 🤣

One from at least 5 years ago, I think, was posted by a guy saying something like, My neighbour's cat hates me. Apparently the cat freaked out every time he left his house and he tried changing his appearance or something like that to appease the cat after the owner told him the cat didn't like his glasses. I'm not remembering/explaining it well, but god it was hilarious.

Think most of these getting mentioned on this thread were trolls.

@NeverMindTheBackProblems

Thank you 😂

The one with the phantom shitter in the office. It was the first thread I ever read on Mumsnet and I was hooked and read the entire thing from start to finish.

Yes that was absolutely awful. I hope it persuaded at least a few women to get out of bad marriages while they still had time. I hope her son has input from adults beside his revolting father.

Also Biscuits & Bandages. She was so straightforward and her horror of leaving her children was palpable. I hope her DH & DC are doing okay.

Sad one … star spangled blue

her young daughter was being abused by the father (she don’t know him well) … so sad

And Candy, OFC. Could never forget Candy. Absolutely inimitable.

Claire’s mum. Was it a troll?

Tilly and her doggy and then her threads on the Cancer Boards
R.I.P Tilly

I’m only up to this page (6) and someone might have helped by now but her name was Earthmotheriamnot. Thank you pp I knew she had earth mother in her name but not the exact name.

The woman who has a large pond with wildlife and has ducks that come to lay eggs every year. One of the was called Eggwina IIRC.
It was such a lovely thread and I loved looking at the pictures of the babies growing!

claires mum, was that the one where she ended up getting back in contact with a long lost cousin or similar? Or am I getting mixed up.

the lady who was away at uni and her mum had mental health problems and dementia or similar I think and she was very stressed and absolutely torn and not sure what to do.

i also think there was a thread about a lady and her daughter, and there was bullying or issues in the area they were in and they ended up moving to Northumberland or similar, and I think it ended up working out well.

I could be misremembering these.

Alphabet Street was pure gold. I know there were suggestions that it had all been made up; but if so, it was so skilfully, entertainingly done.

Personally, I object to people making up hilarious (false) situations like that being called trolls at all. Trolls are nasty, vindictive, deceitful, manipulative, negative, deliberately upsetting, controlling etc. To me, somebody presenting a harmless, brilliantly-crafted work of top-comedy abstract fiction like that for our combined community delight and engagement is absolutely not a troll at all.

Dd and I often reference looking like Suzi Quattro's fat nan.

There was one a number of years ago that still breaks my heart to think about. A lady fell asleep in the chair while holding her young baby. She woke up to find the baby had slipped down and sadly passed away at some point. Absolutely horrendous.

The Pamela thing still makes me so mad. To anyone who knows anything about her stage of cancer, it was clear she was dying. But instead of spending her last days at home surrounded by her family - which included a teenage son - she was riled up by a consultant, who hadn't reviewed her case, (and possibly MN...), into flying overseas for surgery and treatment that wasn't going to do shit.

Claire’s mum - her daughter was in a car accident and she was by her bedside

The one where the woman and her husband had a masage therapist come to the house and the DH cooked the therapist a steak dinner. Her issue was that the DH charged her ( the OP) for the cost of the steak (not whether it was totally weird he was cooking for the woman.)

Also- how crazy the Megan and Harry threads got during the first lockdown. I must admit to being caught up in it. I cannot think whatever possessed me to give the whole thing the time of day. I had never given them any thought before . Threads would start and reach a 1000 posts in hours.

Was there a follow up to the woman who's husband had gone abroad but she found an air tag in the car?
And the woman who was leaving on one particular morning to a refuge, with tight timings.
I also think of purple coats too - her son - and I hope to read an update one day.

There was a detailed dissection on the r/ place. I gave up. All very confusing.

About ten years ago there was a lady in her 60’s I think, who was living in a mobile home with her abusive DH/DP. Mumsnet collective began to help her see just how bad he was and possible pathways out of there.

Snapped and farted

Lemon drizzle cake - the schadenfreude re: the letter writer. I think it was something like “she’s a moron with a CAD subscription”.

Savernake Forest

Recently a woman who’d had a good career and couldn’t figure out a way (practically) to get to work every day after she’d had her latest baby because her H would do nothing to help.

A bonkers thread titled something like 'What on earth is the private troll topic?' where the OP had found a weird talk topic that didn't show on active conversations. A load of posters piled on and turned the thread into a kind of choose your own adventure story with riddles. Pretending to be an army going to rescue the OP when they disappeared. So funny.