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fluckered · 10/03/2013 21:06

to the overused and predictable "shocked" and "horrified" aibus. may i suggest that instead of being horrified over a friends' parenting style you are "aghast" or indeed "un-nerved".

that instead of being shocked at a family member having their birthday party on a week day that you are "scandalised" or "double whammied" or "stupified".

lets change it up a little .... Wink the more far fetched alternatives the better and bonus points for teaming new word with a popular aibu topic!

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Shutupanddrive · 10/03/2013 21:14

How very dare you

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Coconutty · 10/03/2013 21:15

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catgirl1976 · 10/03/2013 21:15

Can I be "rocked to my very core" by something? Preferably something really trivial which doesn't actually impact on my life at all?

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Maebe · 10/03/2013 21:16

I am frankly quite disconcerted by this post. It's making me quite agitated.

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fluckered · 10/03/2013 21:19

oooo rocked to my very core i like that!

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zoobaby · 10/03/2013 21:21

I'm terribly vexed and discombobulated by the very suggestion.

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fluckered · 10/03/2013 21:21

rather agitated that your teeth itching which i never ever heard of before until MN and to be honest it baffled me as well as the usual horrification at the thoughts of teeth itching ... rocked me to my very core you could say.

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catgirl1976 · 10/03/2013 21:23

What about "sickened. sickened beyond belief."

Possibly over something like a toddler having a biscuit on at its own birthday party?

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fluckered · 10/03/2013 21:26

GOd yes, sickened! how did i forget that one ... or "a little saddened".

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catlady1 · 10/03/2013 21:32

As long as nobody is claiming to be "shell-shocked," I can turn a blind eye.

But preferably we should all be agape. Sounds wonderfully pornographic.

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NeverWinsMNComps · 10/03/2013 22:53

I'm stymied. Almost discombobulated.

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NeverWinsMNComps · 10/03/2013 22:55

Damnit, I started that post ages ago, before discombobulated had been mentioned. Now I'm feeling disenfranchised.

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Buzzardbird · 10/03/2013 23:06

I'm 'bereft' that someone parked in a p&c space without a child :(

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silverstaresatnight · 10/03/2013 23:12

Bewildered

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WorraLiberty · 10/03/2013 23:15

I'm torn. Bound and broken...lying naked on the floor.

Because so many people are leaving the apostrophe out of Mother's Day Sad

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WorraLiberty · 10/03/2013 23:16

My heart was ripped from my body over it...

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HarrietSchulenberg · 10/03/2013 23:18

I am disappointed that this thread has fallen below your usually exceptionally high standards, OP.
Whilst also being f*cking gobsmacked.

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NeverWinsMNComps · 10/03/2013 23:23

Not to mention incredulous, as well as incandescent with rage...

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harrogatehussy · 10/03/2013 23:30

I have taken the headstaggers......... because we were promised snow, but oh no, no snow, so will have to go to work tomorrow after all!

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DevonCiderPunk · 10/03/2013 23:33

I am done in, spent and knackered.

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DevonCiderPunk · 10/03/2013 23:34

Ooh I am also crestfallen and deflated.

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WafflyVersatile · 10/03/2013 23:37

I came over all unnecessary.

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Crikeyblimey · 10/03/2013 23:40

I want to be incandescent with rage (or anything else).

Can one be incandescent with anything other than rage?

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Buzzardbird · 10/03/2013 23:44

Is incandescent a bit like iridescent? Sparkly? Grin

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DevonCiderPunk · 10/03/2013 23:44

I suppose you could be incandescent with burning magnesium.

That would make an original OP.

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