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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to think grown women, anyone over the age of about 16 actually, expressing lustful thoughts for actors/celebrities or men in the public eye, are just ridiculous?

159 replies

nameymcnamechange · 31/08/2010 20:13

How can you fancy someone you have never even met?

Surely that is the realm of tweenagers, teenagers or stalkers!

I do find it very hard to stomach when supposedly intelligent adult women go all silly over some sleb or other, whether its Jeremy Paxman or Michael Buble or Robert Pattinson or Brian Cox ... or whoever.

OP posts:
Imps7 · 14/03/2011 17:34

Seriously...not a single mention here so far for Daniel Craig???

Out of 10 I'd definitely give him one...

EdwardorEricCantdecide · 14/03/2011 17:35

"Previously, I may have agreed with you, though I do admit to watching Doctor Who purely so I could drool over David Tennant but I am afraid that since becoming hooked on Twilight & being rather smitten with Edward Cullen (yes, yes I know he's fictional but so was Mr Darcy & loads of women swooned over him) I'm afraid that I now have to say YABU"

Norma - we have the same taste in men! Grin

fastedwina · 14/03/2011 17:36

Imps - now that you mention it - I had a huge crush on Daniel Craig a few years ago (don't usually do the crush thing but it was quite a big one). Fading now but he has been quiet - see it it reignites with the new set of films due to be released.

UmYeahLikeTotally · 14/03/2011 17:56

Whatevs OP.

UmYeah 4 Johnny Depp 4eva and eva I.D.S.T (if destroyed still true)

GeneHuntsMistress · 14/03/2011 18:02

How very dare you

YABsooooooU !

TitsalinaBumSquash · 14/03/2011 18:19

What a misery, it's normal, healthy even to look at an attractive person and get a touch of fizzy knicker syndrome.

I have a couple many celebs that I admire drool over

Lizzie69 · 14/03/2011 18:30

I think of it as like admiring a piece of art. Just because I can't take it home and hang it on the wall doesn't mean I can't appreciate the beauty.

shemademedoit · 14/03/2011 18:31

Well I'm a happily(ish!) married grown-up and I have a major mahoosive crush on a well know recording artist. This fantasy/crush is very much fulled by the fact that I've had my wicked way with him on may occassions. So there Wink

bristolcities · 14/03/2011 18:32

I'm madly in love with Tom Hardy.

BulletWithAName · 14/03/2011 18:34

I really don't see the point to be honest. Yeah, I might find someone attractive but I don't come over all hot flush-like when I see them on TV or in a magazine.

fatlazymummy · 14/03/2011 18:36

OP are you being serious? If so you are being very very unreasonable. For heavens sake the whole entertainment business is based on good looking men and women for the rest of us to have harmless little fantasies over.

Happymm · 14/03/2011 19:44

OP You are being VVV unreasonable. And think I'm first in line for Patrick Dempsey :) and Horatio Cane :o

bettybosseye · 14/03/2011 19:57

Oh cheer up op! YABVU. You need to find yourself an unattainable and harmless crush to moisten that crusty old gusset of yours. Grin

AintMissBeehiving · 14/03/2011 20:15

Soooo NBU. The concept of women of my age having a crush on someone famous is entirely ridiculous. My feelings for Daniel Craig and Richard Armitage are pure and unadulterated and NOT a crush Grin

berylmuspratt · 14/03/2011 20:15

I must be ridiculous then, I was just lusting over Colin Firth as Mr Darcy the other day. Got me through a huge pile of ironing :)

upsylazy · 14/03/2011 20:48

Oh do lighten up OP, it just makes life a bit more interesting. I have some traditional celeb crushes like Colin Firth but have to confess for having unpure thoughts about Gordon Ramsay. Please someone tell me it's not just me.
Mind you, when all my teenage friends were lusting after Simon le Bon and Adam Ant, my lustful urges were towards Steve Davis and Cecil Parkinson I did keep this to myself snd never wrote it on my pencil case).

JudyJetson · 14/03/2011 21:04

I can happily while away ten minutes thinking about how fun mundane tasks (and other things) would be with Aidan Turner around. It's a nice bit of escapism and harmless.

Happymm · 14/03/2011 21:56

Hmmm, Colin Firth, mmmmmmm! [wunk] , and upsy, no, not just you-Gordon's well fit! :o

Imps7 · 14/03/2011 22:22

"wunk" - is that a euphemism for something?!

megapixels · 14/03/2011 22:34

I'm very much in the minority but, YANBU! Of course it's quite normal to look at a man and think that he is attractive, but I really don't get why you'd come on a forum and discuss it in great detail. I thought it is more of a fleeting thought that you forget about once you've turned away from the TV/mag etc., not something you'd be constantly thinking of. I thought people only did that when they were around 15?

In the beginning I used to wonder what posters meant when they say things like "Would you do Celeb X?" etc. Do what I used to think. Blush

UmYeahLikeTotally · 14/03/2011 22:35

Ooo colin firth. Yum!

mylovelymonster · 15/03/2011 21:09

I get goosebumps when I hear Sean Bean's voice Blush

MrsBananaGrabber · 15/03/2011 21:18

Ironing in front of Tim Minchin is the only thing that gets me through Grin

manfromCUK · 16/03/2011 10:14

YANBU it is total bobbins. Just because Robbie Williams looks and acts like Norman Wisdom doesn't mean he'd be any fun to be married to.

westernwaydomesticgoddess · 16/03/2011 17:34

What does this mean - YABVUI!
I cant work it out im so thick! Confused