Threads that flew in your face

[emkana]

Yesterday I started a thread where I was sort of expecting reassurance and commiseration, but ended up feeling terrible about my own wrongdoings, and upset at not having had the response I had been hoping to get - admittedly with hindsight I didn't fully deserve much sympathy, but still it came as a bit of a shock.
The thread was called "Shocked and upset by this..." and is still in active conversations.
I've started a few threads like this before, where I was expecting a certain reaction and then it totally went the other way. One was about my dd walking on a garden wall and the woman living there having a go at me... I thought everybody would say she was a miserable cow, but I had underestimated the British esteem for personal property . The other one I can think of was when I had a row with my dh whether he should or shouldn't make an effort to eat his dinner after I made the effort to cook it.
I'm sure there have been others, but those stuck in my mind.

Anybody else had threads like this?

[ssd]

Lets all go to the shops then!!

If only, my garden is full of kids, little darlings

[emkana]

Come on, ladies, any more memories?

Lovely to see that some of my more contentious threads are still remembered.
Fairymum, so you encourage wall-walking even more - I have near enough given up on it after gaining that insight into the British psyche. I must be a wuss!

[TwinSetAndPearls]

I always find it quite sad when a newish poster starts a thread and it all goes a bit pear shaped. I can remember a mum asking for advice about what to get her dd/ds for Christmas and everyone was so mean to her, suggsting that her kids were spoilt and trashing her ideas.

[moondog]

hmc,you were very unfairly villified for the 'bloody French' remark.
(You did however handle your defence admirably. )

[QueenOfQuotes]

No! - Never had any of them ever

[QueenOfQuotes]

"AND I agreed with QoQ on the school next door/baby in cot conundrum but know I was too chicken to post at the tim"

and you never came to back me up


Mind you that thread was started as a light hearted one...........

[flashingnose]

Does anyone remember the one where someone went to Cadbury World (iirc) and ended up knocking a bloke's glasses off in the theatre there? Now that one really flew in her face, poor woman.

[handlemecarefully]

Moondog, thankyou - you're lovely, kiss, kiss

Yep, I remember the cadbury world incident!

[moondog]

De rien hmc!
fn,that sounds bizarre (but then that's why I love MN!)

[PeachyClair]

Remeber one of my forst posts where I said that I thought the UK had a duty to accept genuine asylum seekers, and I got called Racist! Really laid into, I doidnt know what I was talking about etc! Knocked me for six but I reckon these days I can reach a decision more by the response I have to other people's replies than the actual replies IYKWIM.


PMSL at the patent leather kickers / knickers!!!!

[sunchowder]

I was part of a thread in which I recommended rice milk, I'm still not over it! I did threaten to flounce, but thank goodness I received lots of emails to come back. I like this thread, and I do remember almost every one that is being mentioned here too! I usually try to stay out of the ones that are getting really hot myself.

[flashingnose]

cadbury world thread

[handlemecarefully]

Poor Momp hasn't posted much since it would seem

[katierocket]

flashingnose - I was trying to remember that one, crikey that really kicked off didn't it.

[Ameriscot2005]

I was reading through a few of the big threads that I have been on just yesterday (hey, it was a slow day). My favourite had to be the self-actualisation one.

I agree totally with what Twiglett said at the beginning of this thread.

[tarantula]

where is the wall walking thread please I really really need to read it. Wall walking rules!

[Ameriscot2005]

Are we allowed to add to these threads? The wall walking one sounds intriguing...

[emkana]

There you go - thewall-walking thread

I don't see why you shouldn't add to it - that's another one of the great things about Mumsnet, I feel - threads can be resurrected!

[sunchowder]

I miss doormat....

[Littlestarsweeper]

I always take a peek at the threads that cover x partners and children and second families and all that. Whoaaa, they get a bit heated, you know the spurned x's having a go at new wives syndrome and using kids as ammo. There was one where one Mnetter, killed herself as a result and hasnt been seen since! The remarks to her passing away as Mnetter were positively criminal.

[Littlestarsweeper]

Sorry, i think she posted that she had been murdered by fellow Mnetters!

[Lizita]

One of my 1st threads was, very naively, "Does anyone else hate Gina Ford?" lol I learnt straight away not to be so strong on here (some people complained that i was attacking Gina Ford personally, and it was only her methods I didn't like), and I learnt a helluva lot about actually following Gina Ford too and how amazingly helpful she has been for a lot of people.
The reason I posted it was because I was getting frustrated that she (Gina Ford) seemed to be revered everywhere and I wanted to see if anyone else was in agreement with me, which they were, but lots weren't!

[Littlestarsweeper]

I saw that one, i think it was taken a bit literally. Everyone has a preference and as posted I think somebody said they had slightly different approaches to the subject.

[Littlestarsweeper]

Sorry, that last post was about lizita

[marthamoo]

I missed the glasses throwing thread...wow.