What's all this flipping tinkly laughing?

[MardyBra]

And bloody head-tilting?

Haven't been on MN much recently, and I've come back to find that the standard advice for dealing with MILs, SILs and Wendys is to say something passive aggressive with a head tilt and a tinkly laugh.

What's wrong with an assertive down-to-earth: "MIL, I know you want to spoil the grandkids with a large box of Quality Street for their tea, but I'd prefer it if you could feed them kale and quinoa. Thanks."

Instead the standard advice being doled out is increasingly a passive aggressive: "We don't want them getting fat MIL" [head tilt].

Fuck that.

[MardyBra]

Oh and anyone who posts a head tilt with a tinkly laugh as a reply needs to be banished to Nethuns.

[SissySpacekAteMyHamster]

You're not alone.

[MardyBra]

Actually I think I'm incapable of tinkly laughing anyway. I'm more a loud belly laugher à la Brian Blessed.

[MardyBra]

Maybe "a la" is wrong there. Makes Brian Blessed sound a bit feminine.

[MardyBra]

Thanks Sissy. Love the user name btw.

[YelloDraw]

PA people need to fuck off, it is the WORST way of dealing with things.

[PurpleDaisies]

I've noticed the tinkly laugh thing and for absolutely no good reason at all it really irritates me.

[Greengoddess12]

I just practised a tinkly laugh and the dog jumped off my lap.

Op agree tell it how it is.

[MardyBra]

Genuinely LOL'd at green.

[MardyBra]

I wonder if there is a positive correlation between the tinkly laughers and the lighthearted.

[Queenbean]

Tinkly laugh is the worst. But where have you been OP? I think that it has become a parody of itself by now around here?

[paxillin]

I always imagine people who write like that look and sound like Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter.

[RainbowJack]

MN BS like saying Nethuns, just because you don't like Netmums.

Tinkly laughers aren't the only ones who need to grow up.

[FunnysInLaJardin]

ah come on, you surely know that MN is nowt like the olden days

[paxillin]

I worked for a boss who did a head tilt AND a tinkly laugh in RL. Her continued survival is a testament to my anger management skills.

[MardyBra]

"But where have you been OP?"
Hi Queen. I hadn't disappeared totally, just not as addicted to MN as I was a few years ago. I miss the daft threads, but I saw TiggyD did a good one about posh cafés the other day.

[ProfYaffle]

Head tilt and a Brian Blessed belly laugh would be awesome though. It'd have everyone backing away slowly in the blink of an eye ...

[MardyBra]

Looks like Rainbow needed a lighthearted warning.

[TanteRose]

Totally agree - I just think "oh give over, you'd never laugh and say that"

[TanteRose]

And "lighthearted" can fuck right off

[KondosSecretJunkRoom]

Seeing makes me want to spoon my eyeballs out.

It is far worse written down, for reasons that I cannot explain, than someone attempting a tinkly laugh in real life (See Angela Lansbury playing affected Mrs fucking Claus) or some real life display of passive aggression.

YANBU.

[MardyBra]

Trying not to rise to it Funnys

[tallwivglasses]

I attempted a tinkly laugh once. It came out as a maniacal cackle.

[Queenbean]

Yep, I think it's the new "did you mean to be so rude" in terms of how fucking un-useful it is

And biscuits can fuck right off while we're here

[ALemonyPea]

You ok hun? Would a spa day help?