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.

There was once a thread about a mysterious smartphone that appeared in someone’s living room in the night and no one knew how it got there or who it belonged to. I think it was bullshit but as far as I remember the poster didn’t come back.

Mexican house thief.

Also really enjoyed the Christmas Haikus one quite a few years ago.

Another brilliant one with poetry 😉 was many years ago when a woman had gone to a Musictots session at her local library and sat down in a vacant chair. Only trouble was the chair was next to a petty piece of work who resented her sitting there because she was ‘keeping it’ for her new friend.

It brought out the wittiest Mumsnetters adapting nursery rhymes to insult the seat keeper. Must go and look for it.

What was the name of the poster who was having difficulty with the transwoman at work? I think they kept taking tampons from the toilets… The boss always defended this individual because they were having an affair and none of the other women in the office felt safe.

I don’t believe she came back but would have loved an update.

Just remembered another one…

Someone had posted about a new baby being called Eglantine, saying how awful the name was and how bad they felt for the baby. Lots of posters agreed, lots of Egg jokes, people saying how could the parents be so mean etc.

Then some friends of the parents posted to say Eglantine’s parents were aware of the thread and how awful OP was mocking a newborn and that they’d be found out.

I think it ended up Swiss-cheesed in the end, as OP's posts were deleted, but the thread about the man who turned up at OP's company to bring/fetch his DD (who worked there) and left a monster honking turd that stank everybody out every single day was one that I remembered for quite a long time!

I’m so glad this thread was started because I’ve been thinking and wondering about a lady who posted a while ago about her girlfriend who was very overprotective and wondering what happened.

She used to mother her a bit, obsessed about what she’d eaten, help her with her coat on and it started off as seemingly being overprotective but ended up more like controlling. The more the OP shared the more she started to realise, she confronted her girlfriend who sent her back a video of herself crying.

I thought I’d watched the thread but apparently not. In the end OP asked her girlfriend for space who agreed but I doubt it ended like that.

I don’t know why it’s stayed with me but I’ve often wondered what happened next.

I’ve been very vague so not sure if anyone will have a clue what I’m talking about (even the OP!) but on the off chance there is an update I’d really like one!

There's one from a few years back, quite a sad one but I remember it well, she had a very controlling partner and didn't have any personal space, she did update to say that she had a new job and new place to live lined up but never saw any updates after that. I hope she did manage to move on and is having a lovely life now

I've never forgotten.this either 😱

Can't remember the name of the thread but the 'darked on' thread where a poster was horrified at the idea of washing being left outside overnight.
Makes me chuckle every time I put washing outside.

There was one from a woman some years ago whose husband was abusive to her and her sons. I can't remember the details now, but he'd done some unsafe DIY for the sons - an unsafe sleeping platform or some bunkbeds? - and was insisting the boys slept up there. It was quite extreme.

Another poster who discovered her DP was filming her naked while she slept and posting it in an internet forum. Another woman came on to say the same thing had happened to her.

A woman who had bought a dreadful crow or raven in the Argos sale, and loads of us ended up buying one for a laugh and puzzling the people at Argos terribly.

Edited to add the woman who was having a dreadful holiday somewhere in Europe. It turned out another poster was staying in the same hotel, had already seen her husband around the hotel, (I think they were in nearby rooms) and the two families ended up spending lots of time together and having a whale of a time. That was a lovely one, and very funny.

This one for sure. A wonderful woman who tragically died far too young. I cried when I read that she had died.

Penis beaker!

Another one about things that had happened to you that only years later you realised was very wrong or even abuse, such sad things I read

The thread from the woman whose abusive husband had installed a giant aquarium with blue lights that caused her migraines in their kitchen, and insisted the lights had to be on during her morning feeding the kids and such.

Also, a thread by a poster called MrsHenryWinter about a man who turned out to be monstrously abusive. I remember her saying how she just wanted to choose how to arrange her own carrots.

I often think of both of them and hope they got out ok.

This thread alerted me to CathThiefKeith's death--I didn't know, and I am so sad to read of it.

Did the Allotment thread ever get resolved? I think it was Barbara (?) who adopted the allotment and the OP who'd bought the house was trying to get Barbara to leave because it was now her allotment. I think there was some contractual wrangling going on between solicitors.

or was it all made up

I read somewhere that most deaths announced on the internet are fictitious and are merely someone killing off their character.

I mean it of course makes sense that a longstanding poster who is well known might have someone who knows that they post on mn and who might come on to announce that they had died. E.g. emin was a well known poster who posted about her foster babies long before she tragically fell ill, so it stands to reason that some in would post an update when she passed away.

But a first time poster who asks whether they should go to a&e, who end up not doing so and then their death is announced? I’d never say it but I’d take that with a bucket of salt. As if a bereaved relative is going to go through someone’s internet history and find the exact thread, and then post an update.

Lots of threads stay in my mind but the one that I think about is the little 9yr old girl Allidah, who had leukemia and sadly died. Her favourite song was Call me maybe. Can't hear that song without wondering how old she would have been and what she would be doing now. This was 2012 I think.
If her mums still on here, I remember your beautiful girl.

This one (David and Caroline).Not sure how many years ago (quite a few) but yes I still remember. So sad.

I remember this. She was quite scared about leaving but planned her escape really well. Settle into a new place and then nothing. She said he would look for her. I wondered what happened.

I remember a woman who found out she had ovarian cancer. She said her belly had gotten big quickly and noticeably and so she went in for tests. Then she was in and out of hospital after thar with a diagnosis and it was a really sad journey. She had two girls who were not young but at home and needing their mum. I always wondered what happened to her daughters. It was so sad seeing her pain and loss through her journey.

think of Pamela too & Claire. Claire’s mum was accused of being a troll but then someone posted the death notice for her daughter. The thread & the way it was written with such regular updates was a little unusual & some posters noticed inconsistencies. The whole thing was a little odd but I do find myself thinking about it.

Claires mum is my cousin. She’s just retired and is currently in our hometown spending time with family.

Final one: the Im sick and tired of Dinosaurs being forced on our children. 🤣 that was almost 10 years ago now. I thought they were for real. www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2301982-Im-getting-sick-and-tired-of-dinosaurs-being-forced-on-our-children

Did the baby make it? 🥹

Penguin bollards on The Isle of Wight.
Hilarious!

One of the 'What was you best Christmas present?" threads.

Someone said a a set of dove soap and shampoo.

She then went on to explain she had taken her children and run to a shelter with nothing, she couldn't even pack a toothbrush.

I still think of her and the year after I started sending small amounts of make up and basically what ever is on offer at Superdrug to my local shelter in December.

No. She’s my cousin and it was all sadly very real.