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Someone threatened my allotment.

288 replies

BigBarbara · 12/04/2024 11:49

I was sat in my allotment, minding my own business, having just potted some beansprouts and some mad couple come bowling over to me demanding I move my chair and leave their allotment!

I'd only just settled in with my voddy & orange in a Stanley Cup and a copy of Take A Break.

Weather was 19° and not muddy at all.

They said its their land! I said it bloody ruddy is not, I've been here 10 years and I put this bloody ruddy shed here myself. It cost me £89 from B&Q. And I had to pay someone from the face book £40 to put it up too. In cash!

AIBU to think finders keepers, losers weepers?? If they wanted the land they shouldn't have waited 3 months to come visit, even if it had been pissing it down for months and who in their right mind would bother with checking an allotment in a pissy February right after moving and being ill too?

I'm currently going through my paper bin to find some cardboard to make some signs saying 'Big Barbara's Beansprouts, keep away'
And tonight I'm going hedgehog hunting so I can strategically place the prickly bastards on leads around the perimeter of MY land.

The cheek of some people!

(Dear MNHQ this is satire and for a laugh. For legal reasons I am not in fact Big Barb and have no intentions of tethering hedgehogs. Please don't call the RSPCA)

OP posts:
Hannahbanannas · 12/04/2024 17:53

willWillSmithsmith · 12/04/2024 17:25

How’s that going for you?

😂

MoonWoman69 · 12/04/2024 17:52

Bloody hell, there's some proper Friday Fun Sponges around! Humour failure aplenty!

@BigBarbara
I'd suggest getting your grandson to empty the garage of all the boxes of crap old Bernard has been storing since Methusla was a kid, (free gratis at that, CF!) and filling your shed with them.
The new owners will be so chuffed they have an empty garage, bingo! allotment forgotten!
Gotta play 'em at their own game Babs!
If all else fails, castle walls and gun turrets...
Although... I do have some particularly aggrieved squirrels I could rent out - less prickles than the 'hogs, although harder to wrangle. I'd give you a hand obviously, for half the allotment space and no rent! 😁

butterpuffed · 12/04/2024 17:47

It's funny 😅

Gillbil · 12/04/2024 17:37

😂

WaltzingWaters · 12/04/2024 17:36

sorry Babs, you’ll have to pay the dude off the face book another £40 to dismantle the shed and move it to your land.

YaMuvva · 12/04/2024 17:34

needsomewarmsunshine · 12/04/2024 17:14

Fyi I was responding to the comments about not having a sense of humour, I don't find the OP amusing because that's not my humour style. If, you are implying that makes me a twat, so what?
I'm not remotely interested in what you think.

It why do you think that pointlessly telling someone you don’t find what they say is funny is ‘nailing it’?

Imagine being so arrogant to thinking your opinion on what is funny is so important you feel the need to declare it at every turn

YaMuvva · 12/04/2024 17:33

Sunquest · 12/04/2024 17:05

The original thread was bad enough. Now we have this one to endure as wellHmm

Is someone is forcing you to read MN against your will?

willWillSmithsmith · 12/04/2024 17:25

LadyWiddiothethird · 12/04/2024 15:00

Reported as its a TAAT.

How’s that going for you?

willWillSmithsmith · 12/04/2024 17:24

Rowleywaykid · 12/04/2024 14:57

You failed miserably.

The only miserable things here are the posters sucking on lemons. Even the original allotment OP is enjoying it.

willWillSmithsmith · 12/04/2024 17:21

YaMuvva · 12/04/2024 16:51

100%

Im the OP of the other thread so my opinion counts the most and this thread has really made me chuckle!

That’s brilliant! I honestly don’t understand why some posters are so po-faced.

ForCandles · 12/04/2024 17:18

And you succeeded in making me laugh op 😂

Conniebygaslight · 12/04/2024 17:16

Fabulous! 🤣🤣🤣

ForeveraBluebird · 12/04/2024 17:15

I don’t really think opening a thread on mumsnet is an act of endurance. Just don’t read it, good job every one has a different sense of humour isn’t it.

needsomewarmsunshine · 12/04/2024 17:14

YaMuvva · 12/04/2024 17:02

But then why come on a thread declare you don’t find it funny?

Theres plenty of posts on MN I don’t find funny but because I’m not a colossal twat I just move on rather than make them feel like shit by declaring I don’t find it funny

Fyi I was responding to the comments about not having a sense of humour, I don't find the OP amusing because that's not my humour style. If, you are implying that makes me a twat, so what?
I'm not remotely interested in what you think.

newnamenellie · 12/04/2024 17:12

Sunquest · 12/04/2024 17:05

The original thread was bad enough. Now we have this one to endure as wellHmm

Well, you don't really, do you? You could just not read it.

LittleGreenDragons · 12/04/2024 17:11

needsomewarmsunshine · 12/04/2024 16:59

Have a biscuit for a taat.

Someone ate your biscuit! I bet it was that Barb, she'll steal anything not nailed down.

Including MY hedgehogs! 🐾🐾

BionicBadger · 12/04/2024 17:06

Such a martyr@Sunquest. You’re not enduring anything. Just click somewhere else.

Sunquest · 12/04/2024 17:05

The original thread was bad enough. Now we have this one to endure as wellHmm

newnamenellie · 12/04/2024 17:05

I liked it @BigBarbara

Baffled by the posters who take the time to come on and say how unfunny it is. If you're not amused, that's perfectly fine, but it's odd to take it all so seriously.

I'm not sure if you're offended on behalf of the OP (who is on here stating that she does find it funny), or if you're keen to highlight that your sense of humour is too highly developed for this kind of low level, light hearted stuff...

Hadjab · 12/04/2024 17:04

LadyWiddiothethird · 12/04/2024 15:00

Reported as its a TAAT.

Why do people do this? Do you honestly think MNHQ don't already know there's a TAAT?

What's even wrong with having TAATs?

YaMuvva · 12/04/2024 17:02

needsomewarmsunshine · 12/04/2024 17:01

Nailed it.

But then why come on a thread declare you don’t find it funny?

Theres plenty of posts on MN I don’t find funny but because I’m not a colossal twat I just move on rather than make them feel like shit by declaring I don’t find it funny

Riverlee · 12/04/2024 17:01

Are you practising your Sad Face for the newspapers?

needsomewarmsunshine · 12/04/2024 17:01

YeahComeOnThen · 12/04/2024 16:15

@willWillSmithsmith

people can have a sense of humour & not find this type of shite remotely funny.

Thankfully.

Nailed it.

YaMuvva · 12/04/2024 17:00

YeahComeOnThen · 12/04/2024 16:15

@willWillSmithsmith

people can have a sense of humour & not find this type of shite remotely funny.

Thankfully.

Why are you so upset?

PampasGrass · 12/04/2024 17:00

Oh I love this and it has to stay! Don’t be spoil sports and remove it MNHQ

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