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WHY ARE YOU NOT EMBARRASSED??

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Doingtheboxerbeat · 27/08/2023 20:36

Why do people not check and double check the original post before adding a scolding reply which makes them look really silly, when the answer is right FKING there? Honestly, should we take a breath, a moment to consider if we are not going to look really twattish by letting our angry little fingers type stupid responses?

It almost makes so much sense why society fails so spectacularly when people are so confident in being loud and wrong.

I already know that I have made several errors in this post, and I fully expect to be pulled up on them because of murphrys law 🤭.

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PoshPineapple · 28/08/2023 17:24

Doingtheboxerbeat · 27/08/2023 21:19

I love you for this honestly, but murphrys law was deliberate. It means that when you correct someone's grammar and spelling in a post, you end up FKING up your own spelling and grammar. It's a thing of beauty when it happens, when someone is being an absolute arse.

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I get jolly cross when people correct my grammar. Just because she's old doesn't mean she can't say or write what she wants. I'm not so precious about my grandpa though, he's even older and smells a bit funky.

TooBigForMyBoots · 28/08/2023 16:43

Pisses me off too @Sweetpeasaremadeforbees and I bet we're not the only ones. Someone should start a thread about it.

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 15:13

Is this to me? I was just using capitals ironically in reference to the earlier use of capitals in the thread. Or are you being ironic too? I can’t tell any more.

I assumed that poster was referring to the OP's title. Now that really pisses me off, people replying to the thread title without even bothering to read the OP!

RyanGoslingsTan · 28/08/2023 14:34

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 28/08/2023 14:28

(awaits someone telling me that that is a female godwit hence not a guy…)

Yes definitely a female.. tut tut 🤣😂🤣😂

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 28/08/2023 14:28

(awaits someone telling me that that is a female godwit hence not a guy…)

TeacheeTeacherson · 28/08/2023 14:28

ThinWomansBrain · 28/08/2023 13:32

same reason that some people fail to take the caps lock off?

Is this to me? I was just using capitals ironically in reference to the earlier use of capitals in the thread. Or are you being ironic too? I can’t tell any more.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 28/08/2023 14:28

MrsJellybee · 28/08/2023 08:34

It's Godwin's Law

(Sorry, I wanted to play)

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Hmmm, yeah, except I was talking about this guy….

WHY ARE YOU NOT EMBARRASSED??
SinnerBoy · 28/08/2023 13:40

Doingtheboxerbeat · Yesterday 21:19

I love you for this honestly, but murphrys law was deliberate.

I just found that one out last night, on an old episode of QI!

RyanGoslingsTan · 28/08/2023 13:38

I just can't believe your husband did that OP. Although not worth huffing over. Just move on..

ThinWomansBrain · 28/08/2023 13:32

same reason that some people fail to take the caps lock off?

LikeShitMermaids · 28/08/2023 13:29

@LuciaPillson

I love that they still display his photo in the village hall every year at the fete.

insert crude helmet joke of choice

Newnamehiwhodis · 28/08/2023 12:47

They’re not embarrassed because they’re too ignorant to see what they’re missing.
I have about had it with mumsnet. The intelligence level has declined sharply, and I am tired of the trolls that sound like young boys and/ or incel type men.

TooBigForMyBoots · 28/08/2023 12:45

twirfle · 28/08/2023 01:16

Fyi i would expect mums net to be full of 20 somethings as I thought it was for parents to share similar experiences these womens kids would have been adults when mums net was created so how did they end up here??

Plenty of people in their 50s have kids still in secondary school - Mumsnet is never going to only be for 20 somethings. (And if it was, what will happen to you when you stop being a 20 something? Will you leave?)

I am over 50. I have a 5yo. My ma was well embarrassed. But not me. I'm Frank Gallagher SHAMELESS..

LuciaPillson · 28/08/2023 12:39

TooBigForMyBoots · 28/08/2023 12:31

YABU OP. I am sick, sore and tired with covid. I have no energy spare for EMBARRASSMENT.

Maybe Wedensday.

That's Wōden'sday. Don't disrespect the old gods.

TooBigForMyBoots · 28/08/2023 12:31

YABU OP. I am sick, sore and tired with covid. I have no energy spare for EMBARRASSMENT.

Maybe Wedensday.

LuciaPillson · 28/08/2023 12:22

LikeShitMermaids · 28/08/2023 11:36

Stop it. It's crab STICKS. Just read the posts and look at the pictures on a completely different thread

Crab sticks, crab cakes, it's completely irrelevant. The point is that the OP is being completely unreasonable to divorce her husband just for weeing in her mother's koi pond. But that's the trouble with the young folk these days, no sticking power. Why, when my husband went marching down the village high street in nothing but an ammunition belt, pink wellies and a policeman's helmet, I just gave the kitchen floor an extra scrub and sat myself down with a nice cup of tea. Mind you, there was a war on.

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:39

IT’S NOT UNLUCKY IT’S IRONIC!

😂😂

LikeShitMermaids · 28/08/2023 11:36

Stop it. It's crab STICKS. Just read the posts and look at the pictures on a completely different thread

TeacheeTeacherson · 28/08/2023 11:32

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:29

I'd have just hooked the fly out and swigged it down. I felt more sorry for the bloke who took his first flight and the plane crashed. How unlucky is that?

IT’S NOT UNLUCKY IT’S IRONIC!

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:29

I'd have just hooked the fly out and swigged it down. I felt more sorry for the bloke who took his first flight and the plane crashed. How unlucky is that?

TeacheeTeacherson · 28/08/2023 11:26

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:23

Ok, now I feel like we need a term for people who refer to things as ironic who don’t understand the meaning of the word irony. Alanis’ law perhaps?

Oh yes, I like that idea, though I'm not convinced that even Alanis believed everything she was singing.

Yeah, Alanis mostly seems to think it means something a bit annoying and inconvenient. A fly in your Chardonnay etc

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:23

Ok, now I feel like we need a term for people who refer to things as ironic who don’t understand the meaning of the word irony. Alanis’ law perhaps?

Oh yes, I like that idea, though I'm not convinced that even Alanis believed everything she was singing.

TeacheeTeacherson · 28/08/2023 11:17

Ok, now I feel like we need a term for people who refer to things as ironic who don’t understand the meaning of the word irony. Alanis’ law perhaps?

ilovesooty · 28/08/2023 09:40

Saverage · 28/08/2023 08:57

You sound unintelligent and bitter, that's probably the reason you can't get a job, rather than 50+ women being jealous of your figure, car and husband and whatever else you floated as a reason.

You got deleted on the Work thread you were on by the way.

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I expect that deletion (whatever it was for) will be because she's working class. Apparently MNHQ don't delete middle class posters.

BogRollBOGOF · 28/08/2023 09:01

HRT on ketamine sounds much better than old skool glue sniffing.

Not that I've tried either, but I did find it funny when friend A was horrified and panicked that friend B sniffed a Pritt Stick when we were at school, back when a B was a decent GCSE.

I refrain from commenting about spelling and I don't like drinking Murphy's or Guiness.