Page 3 | He called a wasp a moron at dinner

TorroFerney · 08/10/2024 10:37

januaryjan · 07/10/2024 19:59

I never knew wasps were multilingual. I've learned so many things on mumsnet.

I’m worried now as we were talking to the German wasps in English!

Lyraloo · 08/10/2024 10:29

PrueHal · 06/10/2024 17:39

Ok that is quite funny

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So that’s funny, but it wasn’t when your partner did it?!!!!!

user98786 · 08/10/2024 10:26

Growlybear83 · 07/10/2024 20:45

Is there anything nowadays that isn't considered offensive ? 😳

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TERF? Karen? Bitch? Nasty woman?

Lyraloo · 08/10/2024 10:25

PrueHal · 06/10/2024 17:13

No!

My point was we were having a nice meal and him calling the wasp a moron caused other diners to look at him like he was mad. I was embarrassed

This is the most ridiculous question I’ve ever seen on Mumsnet, get a grip, it was a comment when a creature flew into his drink! Over sensitive doesn’t even cover it 😱

user98786 · 08/10/2024 10:24

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 06/10/2024 18:24

That comment must have stung.
Wasps have feelings too.
#beekind

😂

Whatafustercluck · 08/10/2024 07:54

If I'd overheard this I'd have pissed myself laughing. He's right - wasps are hideous Dementors. They think just because they can go around stinging people without disemboweling themselves that that's exactly what they were put on earth to do. No matter how much anyone tells me they do actually pollinate and therefore serve a purpose, or tries to make me feel sorry for them because the hive cuts off their food supply sending them into a frenzy, I hate them with an absolute passion. I hate their stupid black and yellow stripes, I detest their whiny little voices and how they follow you around like an unwanted younger sibling asking to borrow your hoodie. And I particularly despise how they call for back up from their second cousins twice removed just because they decide to come into your air space and ram raid your meal. To be frank, calling a wasp a moron is on the tame side. Little fuckers, they are.

Fun fact - there is a way of making a wasp commit suicide. But not even I am cruel enough to either try it or divulge how.

MibsXX · 08/10/2024 07:25

PrueHal · 06/10/2024 17:11

Ok, this isn't a serious thread exactly just a weird moment

So I was having dinner with my partner, a very nice outdoor meal. Very romantic and looking into each other's eyes etc.

Then a wasp came along and dropped into his wine. He responded by saying 'get out of there you moron' which caused the couple next to us of stop talking and stare at him then me. He then gave the wasp a small pep talk after rescuing it.

I felt embarrassed as I felt it was a really OTT response! I wanted to say was it really necessary to verbally abuse that wasp but seemed an odd thing to say...it just felt like a very angry response

See, I would be impressed that he rescued it rather than kill it.. look at it a bit like yr child running into a busy road, your first reaction is to be cross, closely followed by cuddles and kisses. IMO he seems like a very nice man and a keeper, better that than some guy who everyone THINKS is wonderful but actually isn't! Stuff what anyone else may or may not have thought! :-)

CookieMonster28 · 08/10/2024 06:23

SnozPoz · 08/10/2024 05:28

He sounds hilarious. But I guess it depends how it was said? If it was said really viciously and in an out of control burst of anger and then he was back tracking with his pep talk maybe he has anger management issues? If it was said as a bit of light hearted banter, I think the people at the other table are the ones with the issue

Totally agree...I would have found this funny and thought the other couple snooty 😂

Retiredfromearlyyears · 08/10/2024 06:15

Hysterical! Is the wasp now in therapy? Is that the real 'Sting in the tail!' Really your partner should just have looked "deep into its eyes" and told it to Buzz off! 😆 🤣 😂

SnozPoz · 08/10/2024 05:28

He sounds hilarious. But I guess it depends how it was said? If it was said really viciously and in an out of control burst of anger and then he was back tracking with his pep talk maybe he has anger management issues? If it was said as a bit of light hearted banter, I think the people at the other table are the ones with the issue

llizzie · 07/10/2024 23:48

PrueHal · 06/10/2024 17:11

Ok, this isn't a serious thread exactly just a weird moment

So I was having dinner with my partner, a very nice outdoor meal. Very romantic and looking into each other's eyes etc.

Then a wasp came along and dropped into his wine. He responded by saying 'get out of there you moron' which caused the couple next to us of stop talking and stare at him then me. He then gave the wasp a small pep talk after rescuing it.

I felt embarrassed as I felt it was a really OTT response! I wanted to say was it really necessary to verbally abuse that wasp but seemed an odd thing to say...it just felt like a very angry response

Was it that the people who heard might have thought he was calling you a moron?

MapleLeaf123 · 07/10/2024 23:11

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I”m embarrassed by the stupidity of this problem.

TheMamaLife · 07/10/2024 22:26

Seems you’re bothered about what the other diners thought. Why? You’re having a nice meal, partner did something funny in response to something quite scary, and carried on the joke after. Take the stick out of your ass.

CrowleyKitten · 07/10/2024 22:20

that's cute and funny.
at some point over the summer, my cat was eating plastic, like they do, and I yelled at him "don't eat plastic, you NONCE!" then I fell about laughing that I'd basically called my neutered cat a paedophile.

ConfusingTrousers · 07/10/2024 22:15

Divorce him. No, marry him, then divorce him. The wasp I mean.

Radiolala · 07/10/2024 22:13

I really dislike the word ‘moron’. It’s almost as bad as the awful R word imo. It would have been nicer if he had of called it a cunt

Him saying it loud enough that other diners looked would have embarrassed me.

JKe · 07/10/2024 22:02

I think it's quite an amusing anecdote, your boyfriend sounds quite a sweet guy giving a nearly drowned/drunken wasp a telling off, like with a crotchety baby; you can say anything with the right tone of voice. I think your boyfriend sounds like a keeper, I wouldn't like to see a giant of a person, or anyone, stamp a wasp to death, that would be the end for me.

OldScribbler · 07/10/2024 21:16

Frankly it sounds as if he has a sense of the ridiculous but you don't. Maybe you should look round for someone more boring. My ex whom I am very close to often calls me a moron. It's a bit of a running joke between us.

CrazyMare70 · 07/10/2024 21:14

I called a spider a ‘dickhead’ after it dropped and perilously swung in front of my face on a busy A road yesterday, gave it a proper talking to about how he could’ve got us both killed….I blame the peri-menopause

Madrigal12 · 07/10/2024 20:56

Wasps can be morons, but Bees can be real arseholes.......don't get me started with Hornets

KMarr · 07/10/2024 20:55

I would have made a bee line for the bar 😉

Newsenmum · 07/10/2024 20:46

Growlybear83 · 07/10/2024 20:45

Is there anything nowadays that isn't considered offensive ? 😳

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I mean if means someone who has an intellectual disability. The same as ‘sp**tic

Just the messenger!

Growlybear83 · 07/10/2024 20:45

Newsenmum · 07/10/2024 20:44

I think that term is now considered offensive so may have been that’

Is there anything nowadays that isn't considered offensive ? 😳

Newsenmum · 07/10/2024 20:45

DaniW1234 · 07/10/2024 20:25

Moron is a harmless light-hearted term like 'daft'. Or idiot. Or pain in the arse.

If I were him I would be calling that wasp a LOT worse than 'moron'. Calling a wasp a moron seems quite endearing and funny to me.

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It’s changed a bit unfortunately

Newsenmum · 07/10/2024 20:44

I think that term is now considered offensive so may have been that’