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oObyeOo · 22/08/2024 11:36

all year to save up enough money for a well earned camping in the uk holiday when your 15yr car breaks down 200 miles from home and you have to put a tent up in the rain, cancel activities that cost up to £600 and go in to debt because the car needs fixing.

It’s fucking shit

OP posts:
SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:31

ssd · 22/08/2024 22:28

🤣🤣🤣🤣

It wad fairly simple childish humour to be honest. Something you expect from a six year old.

People talking about buses.
Then talking about Everest in Nepal.

Poster: snigger, "which bus did you get?"

Really evolved educated humour there!!!

oObyeOo · 22/08/2024 22:32

The turn in this thread has made me laugh! Thank you!

Car’s still broken. We have a mobile RAC mechanic coming out tomorrow to hopefully fix it. Alternator 🙄

Hopefully we’ll be up and running by lunchtime and we can salvage some of our activity in the afternoon.

Thanks all.

OP posts:
SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:32

Glitterglitch · 22/08/2024 22:31

Again I don't see anything queer at all about saying why not take the bus if you have to get somewhere.

Thats not what you said though…

That's exactly what I said

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:34

oObyeOo · 22/08/2024 22:32

The turn in this thread has made me laugh! Thank you!

Car’s still broken. We have a mobile RAC mechanic coming out tomorrow to hopefully fix it. Alternator 🙄

Hopefully we’ll be up and running by lunchtime and we can salvage some of our activity in the afternoon.

Thanks all.

That's great if you can make at least some of your activities

ByCupidStunt · 22/08/2024 22:34

TeenagersAngst · 22/08/2024 21:13

Jesus, people on Mumsnet are getting weirder by the day. Can no one just do what is expected on a thread like this and show the OP some empathy.

It doesn't matter what you would have done in the same situation or how many buses you've taken round Suffolk and Norfolk. That is not the point.

The problem isn't the trolls. The problem is the mumsnetters determined to have the last word instead of ignoring the trolls.

oObyeOo · 22/08/2024 22:34

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:22

Again I don't see anything queer at all about saying why not take the bus if you have to get somewhere.

OP has said there were buses running, but clarified that she had bikes with her aswell that she couldn't get on the bus.

It’s pretty common and normal to stay with the broken down car. Even if you were local and had no extra kit. You can’t just abandon it.

OP posts:
oObyeOo · 22/08/2024 22:35

Ironically we broke down in a bus lay-by 😂

OP posts:
SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:35

ByCupidStunt · 22/08/2024 22:34

The problem isn't the trolls. The problem is the mumsnetters determined to have the last word instead of ignoring the trolls.

Do people over the age of 12 use the word "trolls" these days?

Drachuughtty · 22/08/2024 22:36

AtomicBlondeRose · 22/08/2024 22:11

To be fair, here’s a photo of my DH and friend waiting for the 417 to Chipping Sodbury after climbing Everest. Gets a little crowded but it’s very handy for Tesco.

😂

oObyeOo · 22/08/2024 22:37

😂😂

OP posts:
NCManager · 22/08/2024 22:39

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 19:30

Buses are everywhere.

I stayed in a nice caravan park in a very remote location in Suffolk last year.

Buses went right to the entrance of the caravan park

Kerrrrrist. Tell me you’re just on here to stir without telling me… I live in London and I know full well that outside London buses are not everywhere. Especially in the middle of the night. Jolly nice that you could catch a bus (4 or 5 times a day maybe?) when in Suffolk, but it really isn’t relevant.

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:40

NCManager · 22/08/2024 22:39

Kerrrrrist. Tell me you’re just on here to stir without telling me… I live in London and I know full well that outside London buses are not everywhere. Especially in the middle of the night. Jolly nice that you could catch a bus (4 or 5 times a day maybe?) when in Suffolk, but it really isn’t relevant.

kerrrrist. Youre about four pages behind

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:43

AtomicBlondeRose · 22/08/2024 22:11

To be fair, here’s a photo of my DH and friend waiting for the 417 to Chipping Sodbury after climbing Everest. Gets a little crowded but it’s very handy for Tesco.

I've been to base camp everest. I'm sure you haven't.

Glitterglitch · 22/08/2024 22:43

People talking about buses.
Then talking about Everest in Nepal.

You mentioned buses which had about as much relevance to the OP as a bus to Everest. It’s ok though, clearly self-awareness isn’t one of your strengths. Humour obviously isn’t either but luckily we have other posters for that.

NCManager · 22/08/2024 22:44

Glitterglitch · 22/08/2024 21:28

The OP has a legitimate moan & certain posters are berating her for not getting a bus because buses go everywhere. This is why MNs gets a bad press, wtf?!

They must be thinking about the bus in the HP films that turns up if you just stick out your wand

Glitterglitch · 22/08/2024 22:44

I've been to base camp everest. I'm sure you haven't.

So have I, too many buses for my liking.

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:48

Glitterglitch · 22/08/2024 22:43

People talking about buses.
Then talking about Everest in Nepal.

You mentioned buses which had about as much relevance to the OP as a bus to Everest. It’s ok though, clearly self-awareness isn’t one of your strengths. Humour obviously isn’t either but luckily we have other posters for that.

As you feel fine giving out the nasty insults, I presume you are also okay with receiving insults?

I would say that humour is definitely not one of your strengths. Your posts are extremely dull, tedious and dry.

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:49

Glitterglitch · 22/08/2024 22:44

I've been to base camp everest. I'm sure you haven't.

So have I, too many buses for my liking.

Its Not my fault that you're a posho who is horrified at the mere idea of getting on a bus

Thankfully I hang around with normal people

lazzapazza · 22/08/2024 22:50

When was the last time that you applied for a better paid job? Or considered how to make a career change?

NCManager · 22/08/2024 22:50

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:40

kerrrrist. Youre about four pages behind

And? You seem to be implying that people don’t get buses because they don’t think of it and not because THEY ARE NOT FUCKING THERE. You are several decades behind.

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:52

NCManager · 22/08/2024 22:50

And? You seem to be implying that people don’t get buses because they don’t think of it and not because THEY ARE NOT FUCKING THERE. You are several decades behind.

Have you fucking read the thread?

OP said that there were buses there to take!!

NCManager · 22/08/2024 22:53

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:48

As you feel fine giving out the nasty insults, I presume you are also okay with receiving insults?

I would say that humour is definitely not one of your strengths. Your posts are extremely dull, tedious and dry.

Whereas yours are.. informative? Entertaining? Life changing? Witty even?

Why are you bothering?

Namechangedforthis25 · 22/08/2024 22:54

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 21:45

Why on earth wouldn't you go on a bus?

I'm starting to wonder what kind of people are on here.

Buses are such a normal thing to take.

This reminds me of a show I watched once it was called "Rich kids go skint" and the posh kid says "Eh I think I've gone on a bus once".

And they made fun of him as it was so ridiculous.

I'm really starting to wonder what kind of people are on here who seem shocked, horrified even at the thought of taking a bus

Give it a rest

i live in suburban London and there are many roads here which don’t even have a bus - it just goes around the outside of the suburb

AnnikaSettergren · 22/08/2024 22:54

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:43

I've been to base camp everest. I'm sure you haven't.

If there's no photo it didn't happen.

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 22:54

NCManager · 22/08/2024 22:53

Whereas yours are.. informative? Entertaining? Life changing? Witty even?

Why are you bothering?

Eh are you able to read?

You do see that i replying to her insulting me, yes?

You seemed to conveniently skip over that one.

Bullies of a feather stick together