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To tell ds9 he can't go in neighbour's garden now they have a swimming pool

542 replies

Bluesatinsashes · 01/05/2011 22:51

Been lurking for a while but this is my first thread. I'd like to know what you wise ladies think. Our back gardens are easily accessible, separated by hedges only so kids can run between gardens to play. DS is a good swimmer but we also have a dd3 who can't swim, so I've told them both they can't go next door but one anymore. DS understands my reasons but it's going to be hard for him when he has to say he can't go over, isn't it?

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Gooseberrybushes · 05/05/2011 17:37

Scuse - you responded to it earlier but then you have shown yourself to have a very short memory about what you've posted. Who knows what position you'll take next?

Anyway ST advises your aged relly not to swim alone so why not ask her about it?

lynehamrose · 05/05/2011 17:42

Nah, wrong initials mate, I've been consistent in my posting unlike you who does more u turns than the rest of us have had hot dinners.

With a Grin and a Wink and a LMAO

(whoops have I strayed into the realms of vile abuse now!!!)

Gooseberrybushes · 05/05/2011 17:45

I am not your mate. Not in this world or the next.

I think for "vile abuse" we can read "infantilism" here.

I've shown where all your uturns are. You just keep calling names. You just can't stand to be disagreed with so you resort to insults and "hysterical laughter" (which is slightly frightening actually).

lynehamrose · 05/05/2011 17:47

Scary place, mumsnet! If you cant stand the heat...

Gooseberrybushes · 05/05/2011 17:48

I'm frightened for you, not of you.

Nobody laughs hysterically about drowning children unless there is something amiss.

lynehamrose · 05/05/2011 17:50

Kind of you, but really, no need.
None of us are laughing hysterically about drowning children, we're laughing hysterically at you

tyzer2001 · 05/05/2011 17:51

Wow, you really do see what you want to see, don't you?

Gooseberrybushes · 05/05/2011 17:52

Tough to admit isn't it?

This thread, which contains possibly a dozen stories of drowning children, is so hysterically funny it ought to be in Classics, according to you.

Unless you've changed your mind again?

It's hard to keep up with your about turns tbh.

Gooseberrybushes · 05/05/2011 17:54

Oh tyzer you've come in late to the fray? What an impressive contribution you're making.

macdoodle · 05/05/2011 17:55

Wow, what a bizarre thread, I have last track of all the bickering but just my 2pence worth.
I grew up in South Africa, where every single person I knew had a large swimming pool in their gardens. Children could all swim from a young age (as can mine, a hangover from my childhood I suspect), and though supervised, not closely, and we would all swim in the afternoons while mum cooked etc.
In the winter we used to (unsupervised, and I suspect without parental knowledge), make boats to play on the pools.
As for adults not swimming unless supervised, how bizarre, as an older teen/young adult in SA, I would often swim alone early mornings or late afternoon, as did many many others.

tyzer2001 · 05/05/2011 18:10

No, GB, I posted on the original thread subject some time ago.

I've just tuned in late to the Gooseberry Show, that's all.

SpringchickenGoldBrass · 05/05/2011 19:31

Oh, before it gets deleted, I suggested that Goosie was either a nut or a troll because this isn;t the only thread that quadrupled in sized because he/she/it arived on it and started screaming his her head off, adopting several contradicotry and ridiculous positions at once and then screaming even more loudly that he/she.it is RIGHT about EVERYTHING even when WRONG and that everyone else is horrible for PTSL at the nutter.

ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 05/05/2011 19:36

SGB, I don't always agree with you. But right now I could snog your face off.

HellNoSayItAintSo · 05/05/2011 19:47

But pointing that out is apparently "vile abuse" and you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself? Wink

lynehamrose · 05/05/2011 19:50

Well this thread has confirmed one thing. You may be safe from death by drowning if you're round at gooseberrybushes place- but you'd be at an increased risk of dying of a heart attack from hysterical laughter!!

Gooseberrybushes · 05/05/2011 20:26

And you can report this next post too, if you fancy being called a whineyarse by the all knowing SGB.

Gooseberrybushes · 05/05/2011 20:28

This isn't the only thread where bullies have tried to ridicule, deride, abuse and embarrass other posters into shutting up and going away so that they can't disagree any more. SGB - you would know that of course. Your response to so many things is you nutter, you troll, bullshit, I'm right, everything else is bulshit, who cares if I don't know what I'm talking about, blah blah. You don't even have to have any interest in the subjec to come on and start FFS-ing around. I wonder if there's anything else in your repertoire. Most of what you say in your above post is wrong, but then that's never stopped you posting abusive rubbish and nonsense before, nor will it again.

People recommended swimming supervision for nine-year-olds. For some reason you decided this merited ridicule, derision and abuse. Someone says that's not acceptable and you all gang up in the hope of upsetting them.

Why would you do this? What is wrong with you? You can't stand to be disagreed that much? So someone stands up to it and you really, really can't stand that can you? You redouble your nasty comments because really, no one's going to get away with standing up to bullies on mn are they?

HellNoSayItAintSo · 05/05/2011 20:49

seriously love, go have some camomile or something, you are way way overinvested in this. Its just words on a screen. Calm the fuck down or step away.

Gooseberrybushes · 05/05/2011 21:05

Classic bullying behaviour - no, we didn't mean anything, we was just having a laugh, she's just a bit delicate, we ain't done nothing. She's just taking it too serious.

Aboslutely classic. And from a "post reporter" too -- a fellow tale telling whiney arse, apparently.

squeakytoy · 05/05/2011 21:10

blah blah blah blah... white noise.......

lynehamrose · 05/05/2011 21:13

has someone tuned into Radio Gaga again.......

EspressoDoppio · 05/05/2011 21:20

FFS. Just when I thought it couldn't get any funnier........... I am seriously seriously LMAO Grin Grin here.

What a great thread!

SpringchickenGoldBrass · 05/05/2011 21:22

Gooseberry, no one has threatened your wellbeing, questioned your sexuality, made racist or disablist remarks - or indeed sexist ones - accused you of crimes or suggested that you might be physically unattractive. You have just been called on the nonsense you post. And the fact that you keep coming back on the thread to a) assert (with no evidence) that you are Right and everyone else is Wrong and b) to start screaming and howling yet again about the fact that you have been disagreed with ie every time the thread goes quiet, there's another six posts from you, whining or trying to restart a fight, well, that's why you're getting laughed at and disagreed with.

lynehamrose · 05/05/2011 21:26

Is it a full moon?

(Just wondered about the screaming and howling!)

EspressoDoppio · 05/05/2011 21:34

Just checked Lyneham - a mere crescent of a moon so it can't be that!
It's like some dreadful road accident - you shouldn't keep looking, but you do.