To continue Torn's tacky and grim thread...

[PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks]

Girls were finally allowed to wear grey cords at my school in winter when I was 15. I have never worn a skirt in winter since.

Oh and we could all wear our leotards so that @TornFromTheInside doesn't feel too self-conscious

She's sewing reinforcements into my leotard, it appears to have shrunk since I last wore it 40 years ago.

I was about to say I'm not interested then, donniemurdo. But, actually, I'm up for a group diss'ing (whilst being secretly sucked in). I think I'm free at that time on Saturday.

But, watching actual live TV. Who DOES that any more? Are there still adverts on ITV?

I won't change my plans or anything, and... y'know, life happens, but if I'm about I'll watch and have my i-pad on my knee so I can comment on here. It's a date!

I'm wearing Shag. Pile. 😉

oh FFS - the gusset in my leotard's just given way and I've got whiplash and a twisted testicle as a result.

I currently sound like a Bee Gee on helium.

donniemurdo!!!! arrrgh can we please stop xposting
Step AWAY from the leotard suggestions (and stop encouraging him). You'll hate yourself in the morning.

I am NOT going on a group date which makes us all look like... what would it even make us look like???? What's the collective noun for sad people with nothing better to do with their lives wearing leotards to post messages to strangers on an internet forum on a Saturday afternoon/evening????
A sadness of leotards? Even my DDog who has NO shame would be embarrassed by me. Let alone DD, who finds me mortifying, even when I'm at my most cool

Is that a fragrance for laydeez, PSB?

Yes, Keep. Yes it is. It smell of old carpets.

She's wearing Chanel - Rug Allure

I bet you smell simply divine.

I don't really know what you're all going on about but toes socks and wrestling sounds fun. I had a leotard once, I named it Derek.

I'm putting my string vest on. It's not let me down in 30 years.

@KeepServingTheDrinks DH suggests it is a grapple of leotards

You can't wrestle in a string vest!!! That'd be dangerous. String vests are for the beach.

I like the sound of your DH Donnie. A grapple of leotards.

Yes, that works, I think.

We'll be in the next edition of the OED. Susie Dent will know our names

Quite right, Tatty. H+S. Always think H+S

That would be amazing @Keep I love Suzie Dent

It would be a tangle of knots in no time KeepServing, very dangerous indeed. Unless it was tucked in tightly and it was just 'light' wrestling.

EVERYONE loves Suzie, Donnie. Just the right mix of geeky and sweet.

I'm not sure I know what "light" wrestling is Tatty (although I'm sure Torn will pop up in a second with a pun about standard lamps), but I'm sure I'll find out on Saturday

BTW, I don't want MNHQ's attention to be drawn to the fact that this is actually a TAAT, but should we link Torn's original thread to this one? (I'm asking because I don't know how to do it, otherwise I just would)

Hang on a sec...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3336360-Seriously-tacky-and-grim

I liked her sweary things on the channel 4 website

Thanks PSB.

That was for you Tatty

Thanks PSB.
Keep Serving - what are you doing on Saturday that'll have you finding out about wrestling in leotards? Are you actually going to e wresting - in a leotard? Have I had too much wine?

Tatty RTFT (the current one, not the full one PSB linked). It's only 5 pages FFS.

Everyone, I hope you don't mind, but I'm about to do a mini de-rail. It's cos I feel like I've found my people on this thread (sorry! None of you owe me anything, and I don't think we're all proper friends in RL). Tomorrow, my DD gets her GCSE results. Can I do another mini de-rail tomorrow and pop back for a fist bump or a virtual hug depending on the result? It's just, lots of my RL friends don't have children, or not children at this age and stage. And if she's done super, super well (she won't have. We're hoping for average), I can't tell people in RL without sounding self obsessed [not that I sat the bloody exams personally] and boastful. And if she HASN'T done well, she won't want me ringing up Auntie Maud (etc) to talk about her. So either way, I'll have to go low key in my actual life.

The set up is: She needs 38 points to get into 6th form. If you didn't already know, GCSEs changed this year. You don't get A/B/C any more. You get 9 [A*] down to 1 [Ungraded] ; and she's worried about the maths paper (lots of stories nationally about children coming out of the exam in tears - it was quite tough). she needs to have passed maths to do her chosen A's. She already has about 7 points because her school does Citizenship (compulsory) a year early. (she might have 8. I can't remember now and don't dare ask her because she'd be insulted I didn't already know). A pass is 4 and above.