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AIBU?

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to think that sometimes we just want to be involved in a lighthearted thread?

102 replies

StealthPolarBear · 23/07/2010 09:36

To everyone who responds with "Is this all you have to worry about", well no, but why does everything in your life have to be high drama / of utmost seriousness?
Sometimes, you use AIBU just to vent a little about something that winds you up!

OP posts:
dizzytrout · 23/07/2010 14:12

Ok I admit it, I just wanted some sympathy and a hug, but I really don't have any pegs......or a washing line

StealthPolarBear · 23/07/2010 14:14

can i pay the dcs less than min wage to hold it on?

OP posts:
PlumBumMum · 23/07/2010 14:14

No don't all send her one each, she will end up with LOTS OF DIFFERENT COLOURS

StealthPolarBear · 23/07/2010 17:54

is this a thread where everyone agrees then?
Why have none of the people who do it been on to explain?

OP posts:
YouKnowNothingoftheCrunch · 23/07/2010 18:10

I love aibu's where everyone agrees. They're so refreshing.

I like petty complaints. They are necessary. Usually they consist of a minor issue that is not important enough to warrant confronting but that you need to vent about. Mn is a safe outlet for these minor grumbles, and it's lovely to know other people have similar niggles.

People who think discussion must always be worthy are missing out on a valuable outlet.

however, in my day, we dreamed of having any kind of outlet; emotional, sewer-related, door...

And don't get me started on the luxury of having pegs! We had to use pigs! Hav you ever tried to hang washing on a field of pigs? No! Didn't think so. You lot don't know you're born.

BubbaAndBump · 23/07/2010 18:23

But surely your clothes dry quicker on a field of pigs than with pegs on a line as the pigs will run them around in the wind. Count yourself lucky YouKnow!

YouKnowNothingoftheCrunch · 23/07/2010 18:28

Bubba I do, I'd do. I know some as'd dream of drying their clothes on a field of pigs.

It's the rolling in mud that they do, that's the problem.

Ah 'tis reet grim oop north.

BubbaAndBump · 23/07/2010 19:01

So says my DH (I think - can't understand what he's saying half the time!)

YouKnowNothingoftheCrunch · 23/07/2010 19:07

I'd do?

I was talking to a friend the other day and she asked if I was watching something on sky, I replied "no I don't have it up here", she gasped and said in her londoner way "you really don't have it up north?!"

"no, eejut! I don't have sky in my bedroom!"

YunoYurbubson · 23/07/2010 19:08

I agree SPB.

I particularly hate the threads that go...

OP: AIBU to be a tiny bit very slightly, mildly peeved about XYZ? I probably am.

Arsey Poster: OMG I can't believe you've got your knickers in a knot about this, chillax woman, no need to be spitting feather about something so minor...

ponceydog · 23/07/2010 19:12

whaddya mean 'sometimes'?

Give me a fun thread any day

bronze · 23/07/2010 19:14

My friend wrote a 'blues' song which this thread makes me think of

Never got up this morning
never got out of bed
got no wife to leave me
got no dog to be dead
but I've got the blues... for no apparent reason
I've got the blu..oo.oo..oo.ooos for no reason at all

YouKnowNothingoftheCrunch · 23/07/2010 19:14

And anyone who says 'chillax' should be put up against a wall and shot.

I don't think that's an overreaction.

said · 23/07/2010 19:17

Ha ha YANBU

BubbaAndBump · 23/07/2010 19:25

Kids I teach say "chillax" and "take a chill pill" - so I agree with your remedy for it YouKnow

YouKnowNothingoftheCrunch · 23/07/2010 19:28

It's the only way they'll learn

juneybean · 23/07/2010 19:42

Ah chillax, have you got nothing better to worry about?

YouKnowNothingoftheCrunch · 23/07/2010 19:44
juneybean · 23/07/2010 19:45
Grin
whomovedmychocolate · 23/07/2010 22:39
scottishmummy · 23/07/2010 22:45

haha "Is this all you have to worry about" unclench toots.

people can post anything on aibu

wigglesrock · 23/07/2010 22:55

Lets be fair here - you can buy your pegs anywhere you want as long as its not Primark!!

nikkidale · 23/07/2010 23:03

I have pink and blue and grey pegs.... They make me smile. So does walking around clothes shops and touching all the material... [wierd obsession smiley]

tethersend · 23/07/2010 23:19

My Grandma used to say:

"Eee, she's the sort of woman who'd leave her pegs on the line"

I never really knew what she meant. Until now.

MissWormwood · 24/07/2010 00:15

I have lots of different colours of pegs.

Every time M&S brought out a new colour, I'd have to buy them. They are all in pretty pastel shades that have to be pegged in an aesthetically pleasing way. They must not clash with the garment in any way

However now I have a tumble drier, the pegs are neglected!

Unless I have plastic-lined bibs to dry. THEN they come into their own once again!!!!

And I have lots of ramekins.