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A dog shat on my picnic

197 replies

marmaladetwatkins · 18/04/2011 12:55

So I threw all of my picnic food in the bin because it made me feel like vomiting my spleen out. DH says I was being a bit OTT but honestly, I do not like dog shit.

WIBU to waste food after a dog shit on my picnic blanket?

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GabbyLoggon · 18/04/2011 15:25

you would need to be very hungry to fancy a dog sh+t sandwich.

Seriously there are said to be 7 million dogs in our country. They all defacate.
Its a frightening thought. (my area took a non poo picker up to court the other day. ARE YOUR AREA PROSECUTING?

BringBackGoingForGold · 18/04/2011 15:24
ilythia · 18/04/2011 15:23

Oh god. I am dying of laughter.

ACtually dying.

Sorry about your picnic though.

marmaladetwatkins · 18/04/2011 15:16

You disrespecting mah picnic?

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complexnumber · 18/04/2011 15:14

Dog is singing:
It's your picnic and I'll crap if I want to, crap if I want to
You would crap to if you needed a poo.

(To the tune of 'It's my party' if you didn't recognise it)

SpringchickenGoldBrass · 18/04/2011 15:13

Actually, given the description of your, erm, classy picnc menu, are you sure it wasn't Jay Rayner a food critic disguised as a threelegged dog?

limitedperiodonly · 18/04/2011 15:12

I knew a policeman called Inspector Bowell.

He insisted on it being pronounced Bow (as in dough) Well.

BringBackGoingForGold · 18/04/2011 15:08

flump, Grin. How did you keep a straight face?

Mumofaflump · 18/04/2011 15:04

I had a client at work called Mrs Shatwell once...

CheekyLittleSox · 18/04/2011 15:01

Eurgh i think i would have done the same.

marmaladetwatkins · 18/04/2011 15:00

"I said i would kick a dog up the arse once on a thread with Valhalla on it."

Was that the same thread in which expatinscotland talked about hitting a dog with her walking sticks? I cracked a rib laughing at that thread. It was absurd and Valhalla tore us new arseholes.

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Bit0fFunnyBunny · 18/04/2011 14:58

I love this thread- especially limitedperiodonly's Proustian turds Grin

MissMarjoribanks · 18/04/2011 14:52

I am crying with laughter. Grin Particularly at shitty pedantry.

I would have chased it away with a stick in my mind, but in reality probably would have sat there openmouthed and then been terribly polite to the owner, just like you, marmalade.

Anyway, I needed some cheering up as we are in suspected chicken pox isolation and DS is miserable, whingey and spotty. My boss is being terribly understanding, but I know he really wants me to get my arse into work and do some. Thank you for brightening up my day. Grin

MidnightsChild · 18/04/2011 14:50

Oh I lurve this thread ... I've felt so miserable this morning, but this has had me absolutely howling with laughter. Thank you, thank you, thank you Grin

Oh & YANBU of course ...

BringBackGoingForGold · 18/04/2011 14:50

Best.Thread.For.Ages.

And yes, 'shat' is the funniest word in this great great language of ours.

And yes, this story is even funnier because the dog had three legs.

DontCallMeBaby · 18/04/2011 14:49

I'm actually reading this on a picnic blanket in the park, sniggering wildly and scanning the horizon for below-averagely legged dogs ...

marmaladetwatkins · 18/04/2011 14:49

Perhaps this is cosmic balance for the time I told that woman to pick her dog shite up from outside my home, a few weeks back...

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NorfolkNChance · 18/04/2011 14:47

Oh dear I have tears running down my face and my DD (bless her) thinks I am laughing at what she is doing so is cackling along with me!

Mumofaflump · 18/04/2011 14:41

No Aldi hoops then?

I always manage to find the dog poo. It's like I am a magnet for it.

Sigh.

TeaForEveryone · 18/04/2011 14:37

Just found this thread. PMSL at Bum Gravy. Really cheered me up! Grin

marmaladetwatkins · 18/04/2011 14:27

I will try and draw it but I fear that my novice drawing skills will not do justice to the full horror of the event :(

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marmaladetwatkins · 18/04/2011 14:23

It was red, green and blue tartan with a thin yellow stripe running through it. It was finest, erm, Monarch of the Glen tartan.

And it is BINNED.

It was a huge field attached to a park. It's a riverside park type thing.The area we were sat in is for ball games/picnics/snogging teenagers/barbecues. And now scat-festivals, apparently Hmm

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PinkFondantFancy · 18/04/2011 14:22

A pound a bottle for Rola Cola??? What a joke!

WalterFlipschicks · 18/04/2011 14:18

The pattern of the blanket is bound to be generic green/red tartan at that price Grin

Did you bin it, god forbid you washed it

Hassled · 18/04/2011 14:13

"It's like madeleines but not as highbrow." :o :o

And Marmalade, what you need to do now is draw the whole thing. Quick, while it's still fresh in your mind. We need the 3 legged dog/pig hybrid, the poppadoms, the pattern of the blanket, the pattern of the shit, the Munchian scream look on your face. Then scan it in, upload it and it will be as if we had a photo. If you can't do it, how about your DS? How's he with the felt-tips?