my mum keeps emailing me generic, nauseating and frankly depressing snippets of BS she finds on Facebook. I am not on Facebook, partly to avoid this kind of nonsense. Today she sent me this:
?There comes a point in life when fun no longer means clubbing, drinking or being out till 2am, or thinking about yourself! Fun means Disney movies, family dinners, bedtime stories, long cuddles, a messy house, sleeping by 10pm and hearing little voices say ?I love you.? Becoming a parent doesn?t change you, it makes you realize that the little people that YOU created deserve the very best of your time ♥ Repost if you get it. I hope I see this on the wall of every Mom & Dad I know?
She prefaced this by saying 'saw this and thought of you'. What she should have thought was 'this is exactly the kind of thing that catchthefox would fucking hate, i'd better not send it her in case she drinks all the trifle sherry and smashes a window'
i have told her before that these things get right up my cuff. she's known me for 38 years FFS. i am desperate to tell her to stop but i have a history of being a knobhead so AIBU?
AIBU?
to tell my mum to stop emailing me this shit
CatchTheFox · 30/12/2012 18:58
Could be worse- could have my mother emailiing you what your faults are where you've failed and how lucky I am to have a mother like her 
there is some mawkish crap on the internet isn't there, i'd tell her to stop, why have you a history of being a knobhead? 
eeeeeeeeew YANBU
But do it nicely.........maybe lie tell her some of them have viruses attached and, as much as you love them, just to be safe etc
That should do it
My mum forwards me all of the WARNING! THIS IS 123% TRUE bollocks.
I've just started emailing her the Snopes link that disproves it each time... It's rather good fun actually
"I'd better not send it her in case she drinks all the trifle sherry and smashes a window"
Oh, this is too funny, I am giggling so much DH is giving me funny looks
I love that you are deliberately not on Facebook, and yet your DM still copies and pastes shit like this so you don't miss out. 
. Can you change your email address?
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My friend must be so thrilled her mum doesn't have Facebook, as she gets ominous newspaper clippings whenever she announces she is so much as walking out her front door. She booked a last minute trip to Nepal over the holidays and received an article about how 2 girls were drugged and died in their hotel room in Nepal. When she mentioned she'd be working offshore(she works in the oil industry) her mum sent her an article about a woman who had been gang raped on an oil rig. When I was going to Australia her mum sent her articles (to pass onto me no doubt) about people who had died of dehydration down there.
Be thankful you get the mawkish sh*t.
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