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Being called a “single Pringle”

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ponderoflife · 13/06/2022 22:23

Would this offend you?

if said by someone who could sometimes be a bit smug about their relationship?

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Wateroverwine · 27/12/2023 16:32

I like the phrase I was a single Pringle until recently

cerisepanther73 · 27/12/2023 09:11

@GrandParade

L.o.l 😂😂🤔

cerisepanther73 · 27/12/2023 09:10

@ponderoflife

Like something out of the IT crowd tv series on computer Nerds and their navel gazings ect...
🤔😀

cerisepanther73 · 27/12/2023 09:08

@ponderoflife
I've never heard of this childish ridiculous expression 😂 terminology,

Whoever you are hanging around with currently or working with

they need to grow up and get a life themselves

Navel gazing expression and ideas ...

watcherintherye · 27/12/2023 09:04

I’d totally go with a pp’s suggestion and reply ‘better than being a gruesome twosome!’ Grin

TheSunIsOutAndTheSkyIsBlue · 27/12/2023 08:55

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Are you bored?

liveforsummer · 27/12/2023 08:50

Nope - Pringles are great and so is being single. Coming from a smug single Pringle who cannot relate to all the useless OH causing massive stress posts that are frequenting the page over the Xmas period 🙂

Kinneddar · 27/12/2023 00:27

ZOMBIE THREAD 🙄

GrandParade · 27/12/2023 00:20

Marmite27 · 13/06/2022 22:45

The full saying is ‘single Pringle, ready to mingle’.

No, it wouldn’t bother me.

If someone said that phrase in my hearing I would think they had a brain injury.

Theredfoxfliesatmidnight · 27/12/2023 00:15

Better than being a worn out, trodden down, smelly old Monster Munch 😁

Vitriolinsanity · 27/12/2023 00:02

Oh fuck a 🧟‍♀️

Vitriolinsanity · 27/12/2023 00:01

No.

As deep as I could dig, this wouldn't blip on my giveashitometer.

MintJulia · 26/12/2023 23:39

I'd think the person using that phrase was a bit thick and twee, but no, I wouldn't be offended.

My single status means my house is mine, my child's home is secure, my pension is secure and if I'm being lied to, it's only about the amount of homework done. 🙂

SeemsSoUnfair · 26/12/2023 23:37

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and I was called the same when single, it was just an in joke within our team that noone had issue with and it they did it would have stopped

My post is 18 months old, why on earth are you digging it up and directly insulting me?

ballsdeep · 26/12/2023 23:29

GoodThinkingMax · 14/06/2022 00:47

It’s fucking rude and a tad bullying.

Whoever called you that is no friend.

Bullying?!?!??
ffs people get so so offended and jumps to the bullying card so quickly!!

Sallybegood · 26/12/2023 23:25

SeemsSoUnfair · 13/06/2022 23:48

To be fair it was the 1980s 🤣 but it was seen as a joke by all. Skins were much thicker in those days.

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I guarantee your single co-workers thought you were utter dicks, but your hides were so rhino-like you didn’t realise

ImTheOnlyUpsyOne · 26/12/2023 22:15

Definitely rude being said from someone smug

Celebrationsnakes · 26/12/2023 21:17

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This thread is 18 months old! Why have you dragged this up and where from?

Beezknees · 26/12/2023 21:17

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Why are you resurrecting a thread that is over a year old?

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MissMaple82 · 19/06/2022 15:11

I'm proud to be a single pringle so no it wouldn't offend me

CanofCant · 19/06/2022 15:09

'Single Pringle' is a term I've heard for eons.

CanofCant · 19/06/2022 15:08

Now I want to gorge on Pringles. 😫

I like PP's 'I'm a free pea'.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 19/06/2022 15:07

It would if the person was already annoying me, as it sounds like this person is you!

Otherwise no, although I’d think it was a bit silly probably.