What are your favourite MN posts

[havingoneofthosedays]

Top 3 posts that you will click into…
Mine:

1. Missing partner - said partner hasn’t come home from the work night out etc
2. Should I go to A&E - pile on from all the armchair medics
3. Mounjaro - the teeny tiny fighting for their life against the cheeky fatties who are cheating the weight loss game

Lighthearted and genuinely interested in what others like!

Parking or CF.

Parking yes, especially the ones that play out in real time

They were a lady looking for an item of clothing she had seen somewhere and everyone was posting suggesions trying.

The OP kept responding with "no, it's too red", "no, it'a too long", "no, it's too strippy" etc.

One poster had enough and just posted "Calm down Goldilocks".

I thought it was brilliant!

Buffet ideas, stupidity tax.

Why isn’t my house selling …….. with Rightmove link 🍿

The made up ones are usually the most entertaining. Especially CF or parking related. Remember the one with the allotment. Don't know if it was made up, but that sort of thing.

The one about baby centaurs 🤣

Like;

CF
Parking
Food portion sizes
Splitting the bill
How should I reply to this text?
Book recommendations

Detest;

What colour are my eyes
Anything AI
SAHM vs working debates

Cf parking
aibu partner
inheritence

This one. I often think of it. It was just so lovely 😍

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2154580-There-is-a-tiny-elderly-Korean-lady-in-my-garden-and-I-want-to-go-out

Another one was the person who's neighbour had created a door into her outside space.

’I met X celebrity and they were lovely/horrible,’ etc.
I’m not sure why I enjoy those threads so much, as I’m not a celebrity obsessed weirdo! I don’t do social media or reality TV. I just find them really interesting.

I also like dating related threads. I used to be in the world of online dating, but can no longer be arsed 😁

also book recommendations and help me find this book

In laws being bonkers
CFs
Parking
Christmas

Hate:
ones where someone is in a genuinely distressing/dangerous situation, thanks everyone for their support, says ‘you’re so right, something has to change I’m going to do x ‘ and then does nothing or never returns

Birdie friend will forever be my favourite. BF knew the pandemic was coming.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3798666-My-child-has-a-badge-that-sees-ghosts

Another one was the person who's neighbour had created a door into her outside space.

That was Span Gran, a made up thread. It's infamous.

In the context of the popular UK parenting website Mumsnet "SpanGran" (Spanish Granny) is a legendary, fictionalized character born from a famously viral "Am I Being Unreasonable" (AIBU) forum thread in 2017.

The Backstory
The saga—often referred to as the "CFN" (Clueless/Cult-like F*wit Neighbour) or "Tape-Gate" thread—followed a forum user ("Watty") who was dealing with nightmarish builders and a boundary dispute. After returning home to find her garden invaded and property damaged, she called her grandmother in Spain. The forum imagined the grandmother as a fiery, paella-pan-wielding matriarch coming to her granddaughter's defense.

The Mumsnet Phenomenon

The Mythology: The Mumsnet community eagerly rallied around the updates, humorously tracking the "arrival" of SpanGran, her paella-making skills, and her beloved "sangria".

Enduring Legacy: What began as a genuine plea for advice turned into a months-long saga. The character became a beloved inside joke, with forum users referencing SpanGran in follow-up updates well into 2018.

Love:
Sex toy got eaten by dog
Let me see your nails
Is this too white for a wedding

Hate:
Lumping together an entire nationality based on one experience of that nationality, eg, why do Germans wear socks with sandals?
Infidelity threads that begin with “don’t judge me I feel bad enough”
Inheritance when the person hasn’t even died

I love CF threads. Always look on the weekends for missing partner posts.

cant stand - is there a line?? Go to a dr.
do you like this baby name? Then when everyone says no it’s atrocious gets all upset. Why did you ask??
my husband is a great partner and dad—- erm no he’s not.

Holiday woes/drama
Neighbour disputes.
Food nostalgia

Outfits for a specific event.
you will get a few suggestions that fit the brief. You’ll also get the complete opposite, some overpriced sacks, people telling the OP that they wouldn’t get dressed up for an event (especially if its a restaurant, that proper brings out the snobbery) and usually an argument about overpriced sacks and why you shouldn’t be on style and beauty if you’re recommending high street stores.

i get my popcorn and my bingo card every time.

Seeing as people are posting specific threads, can anyone remember a thread from m 2016/2017 (at a guess) from a woman asking if she was being unreasonable not wanting to pay for private school for her stepchildren. It was the thread that brought me to Mumsnet and I’m not sure if there was a resolution.

I just love cheeky fucker threads, especially ‘what’s the most CF thing you’ve witnessed?’ style ones with loads of outrageous CF stories.

There was a similar thread last year@FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee. The op was the higher earner and the new DH and his ex wife had decided she should pay for their son.

I always read the cocklodger ones, suspicious partners and weight loss bashing. Plus disabled parking/ pip.

I don't bother to contribute to LGBT or 'I'm hard up on £100k' threads.

cf threads
ive added loads of stories myself over the years as i seem to be a cf magnet
thank god for mn,and have finally grown a set and ill always say no before they really dig their nails in

I always eyeroll at the "my DP is an amazing, fabulous, fantastic partner but he never does any housework, wont look after the kids, wont pick up his socks or flush the toilet, doesnt cook, doesnt work, expects me to pay for everything - aibu to expect him to put a lid on the toothpaste"

I love a CF thread!

I hate a humble brag post..

I love an airplane seat thread and the inheritance ones.