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To think my neighbour has taken gender identication too far .

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Missmarplesknittingbuddy · 09/01/2025 12:09

Neighbour has been unwell with flu . Just rang and asked her if she needed any shopping . Gave me a short list including washing liquid . She asked for the Persil " non binary one " . 😁 She knows i am posting and wants to read the responses to cheer her up .

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stickygotstuck · 09/01/2025 14:42

@EdgeofSeventy , yes, I've heard that. My niece feels exactly the same, which makes me think it could be genetic too.

I believe it's similar with celery, which I find mild and inoffensive, while DH thinks it's bitter and the spawn of Satan, and can detect it in soups a mile off.

I cannot tolerate rocket. I know it's meant to be a bit bitter, but to me it tastes radioactive. Really disagrees with me too.

(Edited to say, I don't really know what radioactivity tastes like, obviously!)

Kashmiri24 · 09/01/2025 14:40

Knittedfairies2 · 09/01/2025 14:14

My friend's aunt used 'to lie down with a couple of paramedics' if she had a headache. Maybe that's what your poorly neighbour needs...

I could do with a lie down with a couple of paramedics, to be honest. 😂😂😂

murasaki · 09/01/2025 14:37

AlltheClocks · 09/01/2025 14:34

My left eye isn’t working very well today and I was trying to work out why your FRINGE contained cheese and wondered if it was a new position you’d adopted?
🤔 😱 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤣🤣

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I no longer have a fringe, but when I did, it certainly was capable of having cheese in it, a bit like Roald Dahl's the Twits.

Especially if bent over a baked camembert...

Gallowayan · 09/01/2025 14:36

Surely this is a malapropism: she must have meant non bio?

EdgeofSeventy · 09/01/2025 14:34

@stickygotstuck it's evolutionary apparently, unlike a dislike for something.
Very annoying when it's not listed as an ingredient on menus and has ruined many a meal for me.

AlltheClocks · 09/01/2025 14:34

murasaki · 09/01/2025 13:03

I've just realised that my fridge contains sexist cheese. Where is the womanchego?

My left eye isn’t working very well today and I was trying to work out why your FRINGE contained cheese and wondered if it was a new position you’d adopted?
🤔 😱 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤣🤣

Hoppinggreen · 09/01/2025 14:24

murasaki · 09/01/2025 13:03

I've just realised that my fridge contains sexist cheese. Where is the womanchego?

Think theres a little shop near womanchester that sells it

stickygotstuck · 09/01/2025 14:23

EdgeofSeventy · 09/01/2025 13:58

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER , coriander would make total sense, it tastes like soap to me (🤢)

Snap! Uncannily like soap, coriander...

murasaki · 09/01/2025 14:20

I've just put a wash on with parsley non binary, and shall inform DP that that is what it shall be called henceforth.

DungareesTrombonesDinos · 09/01/2025 14:20

We didn't find out what sex our baby was and MIL was just a lovely woman, and bought tonnes and tonnes of clothes and kept saying they were "bisexual". Oh I've got some lovely bisexual clothes for the baby. She meant unisex haha!

Knittedfairies2 · 09/01/2025 14:14

My friend's aunt used 'to lie down with a couple of paramedics' if she had a headache. Maybe that's what your poorly neighbour needs...

WoolySnail · 09/01/2025 14:09

wastingtimeonhere · 09/01/2025 14:02

Reminds of a neighbour who bought a 'baby growbag' for my DD. I did chuckle.

What did they mean? Because you can get a baby gro bag which is like a sleeping bag with a top, but I'm assuming they didn't mean one of those? 😀

murasaki · 09/01/2025 14:09

twoshedsjackson · 09/01/2025 14:06

One of the treble choristers , at an Evensong rehearsal, was baffled by the muffled merriment from the altos, tenors and basses when he mentioned a problem with the melody line where we were singing about the "Light to lighten the Genitals"

Ha, we had a chorister one, there were only two kids in the choir, me and P. He'd missed choir practice that week. So on Sunday we were singing a hymn that had the line 'your fears to assuage ' in it. P clearly didn't know the word, rearranged the letters to fit a word he did know, and in a clear and true loud treble worthy of Aled Jones, sang 'your fears to sausage'. Half the choir corpsed and the vicar was barely keeping it together

twoshedsjackson · 09/01/2025 14:06

One of the treble choristers , at an Evensong rehearsal, was baffled by the muffled merriment from the altos, tenors and basses when he mentioned a problem with the melody line where we were singing about the "Light to lighten the Genitals"

wastingtimeonhere · 09/01/2025 14:02

Reminds of a neighbour who bought a 'baby growbag' for my DD. I did chuckle.

Mountainash · 09/01/2025 13:58

Printedword · 09/01/2025 13:09

Is it similar to she/her butter ?

This has caused me distress and discomfort because I don’t understand the question. 😉

EdgeofSeventy · 09/01/2025 13:58

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER , coriander would make total sense, it tastes like soap to me (🤢)

Whatsitreallylike · 09/01/2025 13:56

Reminds me of when I was messaging a colleague about a long winded conference where I had to stand for two hours… I message to say I was desperate to shit down 😂😂😂

TickingAlongNicely · 09/01/2025 13:48

My DD, age 7, wrote a letter to my rather posh neighbour thanking her for the lovely peasant she had been given for Christmas. Fortunately neighbour was amused.

Amomynous · 09/01/2025 13:47

TimPat · 09/01/2025 13:40

My elderly auntie who's sadly no longer with us once indignantly reported how the pharmacist had looked at her like she was mad when 'I only asked her for some of yon crystal meth'.
She had a cold and wanted menthol crystals.

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I just choked on my chocolate 😂

yorktown · 09/01/2025 13:46

ladycardamom · 09/01/2025 13:07

My friend offered some of her little boys bisexual clothes for my little girl once. I think she meant unisex.

I did something like that once, described DS's school as bisexual, unlike DD's school which only has girls.

Magpiecomplex · 09/01/2025 13:43

Persil is named after the ingredients IIRC. Perfluorate and silicate? Something like that.

LiesDoNotBecomeUs · 09/01/2025 13:42

I still remember the history essay which included much outrage about the illiterate pheasants in France before the revolution. Those were bad times for pheasants.

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TimPat · 09/01/2025 13:40

SafeAndStranded · 09/01/2025 13:20

Reminds me of my lovely late Nan who complained she didn't get to finish her exam because the vigilantes came and swiped her paper!

My elderly auntie who's sadly no longer with us once indignantly reported how the pharmacist had looked at her like she was mad when 'I only asked her for some of yon crystal meth'.
She had a cold and wanted menthol crystals.