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AIBU or AINBU, that is the question

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KateSMumsnet · 19/03/2014 09:51

Zounds! It is Shakespeare Week, apparently.

To celebrate, we happy few, we band of brothers* thought we'd ask you clever folk to put on an antic disposition and post as if the cast of Shakespeare's plays had access to Mumsnet, similar to the classic Biblical Mumsnet thread

For example:

  • SPORN - Out, out damned spot!
  • DH has become really obsessed about an old handkerchief he gave me, is this a red flag?
  • Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have to use tutors....

The three posts that tickle MNHQ the most will be bound for a prize all too precious (or whatever we can find in the cupboard).

So if MN be the food of love, post on....

  • If you thought we wouldn't take this opportunity to shoehorn in and abuse Shakespearean quotes in for no good reason, you thought wrong.
OP posts:
PricillaQueenOfTheDessert · 21/03/2014 23:38

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in MN forums.

ballsballsballs · 21/03/2014 22:42

Is that a fat ball I see before me?

ErrolTheDragon · 21/03/2014 22:20

'What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals'

I still say LTB Angry

sunshinemmum · 21/03/2014 22:16

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GarlicMarchHare · 21/03/2014 18:46

OP: I had a few drinks and forgot to pick DS up from pre-school. I'm a bad mother, aren't I?

MN: Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack
and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon
benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to
demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.

MNHQ: Ahem. Link to Mumsnet rules, etc.

TribbleWithoutATardis · 21/03/2014 18:46

'Bless thee Bottom, bless thee! Thou art not as stinky as one could be' Thought Honeydragon

'oh what fools these mortals be' thought the dog as he scampered off to inspect the roses.

NeverEndingLaundry · 21/03/2014 17:49

S and B:

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off - you're a Sweet Pea Summer and it's not in your palette.

amicissimma · 21/03/2014 17:03

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

AlansLeftMoob · 21/03/2014 15:58

He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all my substance into that penis beaker of his.

MNHQ
KateSMumsnet · 21/03/2014 15:28

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the page we made!

AIBU or AINBU, that is the question
OP posts:
Miggsie · 21/03/2014 13:59

So as waves do make towards the pebbled shore
So do MNetters rush to the Pombear aisles

Miggsie · 21/03/2014 13:59

When my mistress swears she is made of truth
I do believe her, though I know she lies

I really need to go non contact, don't I?

Miggsie · 21/03/2014 13:58

Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
And you don't need sunscreen
When typing into MN

HeinousPieTrap · 21/03/2014 13:49

Peace, ye fat-balled rascal! what a brawling dost thou keep!

HeinousPieTrap · 21/03/2014 13:41

One MN Woolly Hug makes the whole world kin Smile

GarlicMarchHare · 21/03/2014 13:29

"Who is here so vile that will not love Mumsnet? If any, speak, for they are professionally offended." - Julius Caesar

"By the Lord, a buck-basket! Ramm'd me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril." - Merry Wives
WIBU to make DS do his own laundry?

MNHQ: Message deleted as it contained a personal attack.
Poster: "All offences, MN, come from the heart; never came any from mine that might offend your Majesty!" - Henry V

AtrociousCircumstance · 21/03/2014 11:55

I have of late, and wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth.

But then I read the 'I pooed on my skirt at work today' thread.

Grin
IWillOnlyEatBeans · 21/03/2014 10:52

Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick!

MN: It is an unfortunate name, but it could be worse - it could be hyphenated! There's a child in my DD's class called Gracie-Faye Shock

Lady Macbeth: So I said to DH "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it"

AIBU to expect him to murder our King so that he can take the throne and I can become Queen?

MN: Of course YABU. The Monarchy are an outdated institution and we resent paying taxes for their upkeep. Maybe consider getting a job?

*

OP: DH and I going to start ttc next year. I saw my DBro and SIL last night and she told me that they are ttc! I think she is doing it on purpose so she gets to have the first grandchild. AIBU to cut her out of my life?

King Lear: YANBU! How dare they. Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey sterility! Dry up in her the organs of increase; and from her derogate body never spring a babe to honour her! If she must teem, create her child of spleen; that it may live, and be a thwart disnatured torment to her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth; With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks; Turn all her mother's pains and benefits to laughter and contempt.

WheresMyCow · 21/03/2014 09:42

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

So, whether you like it or not, you are being unreasonable.

Essiebee · 21/03/2014 09:21

I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes; getting into my spanx may take longer.
You spotted snakes with double tongue: the playground mafia?
Ill-met by moonlight , proud Titania; leave the landing light on when you breast-feed.

SouthernComforts · 21/03/2014 08:54

NeedsAsock Grin

ErrolTheDragon · 21/03/2014 08:46

Food and Drink: I had some unusual pie last night at Titus's house - anyone got the recipe?

FiveExclamations · 21/03/2014 07:09

Or rather

A DH/DP/MIL/FIL et al may smile, and smile, and be a villain—
At least I am sure it may be so on Mumsnet.

FiveExclamations · 21/03/2014 06:52

A DH/DP/MIL/FIL et al may smile, and smile, and be a villain—
At least I am sure it may be so in Mumsnet.

kickassangel · 21/03/2014 01:56

Flouncers corner: I do desire that we may be better strangers