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AIBU?

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Is it all a race to the finish?

150 replies

Lottora · 02/08/2011 15:14

I worked for around twenty years to get where I am. Few people could say the same. I read mumsnet and see people complaining, yet I never have a complain.

I seem to have a pretty normal life. From the time I wake up, to the time I take my afternoon nap, I'm focussed on my task.

If it's a race to the finish, and the winner gets what, then why are you still here?

OP posts:
TheMagnificentBathykolpian · 03/08/2011 10:36

Ok, fair point. Now I feel guilty in case it's not a wind up merchant and is instead just a stroppy person complaining about people complaining when she feels that they don't have the right to.

gabid · 03/08/2011 10:41

You must be kidding yourself. Always happy, never any doubts, worries, moans. Not sure which planet you live on and I am not sure whether I would want to live there either - its human nature to always want a bit more, improve a bit.

I am very happy on planet earth with slightly imperfect self, DP and DCs. There are lots of people who work hard and have good jobs, they have good times and they have bad times, its how you deal with those bad times what makes the difference.

Ormirian · 03/08/2011 10:46

pseudo - yes were were taking the piss about her opaque English. Lots of people write poor English - not all of them don't have English as a first language. However if her sentiments were less unpleasant and santimonious the piss-taking would have been gentler Hmm

Oh look at you all whingeing - none of you have worked as hard as me Hmm Wrong and unpleasant.

Ormirian · 03/08/2011 10:48

And judging for my last post it would be reasonable to assume English is not my mother tongue Blush

Gwan! Take the piss! .....

gabid · 03/08/2011 10:51

Pseudo 341 - I don't think it is a language issue, most people who's first language is not Enlish could express in very simple words what you assumed she may mean.

ShirleyKnot · 03/08/2011 11:00

Ha! Typical!

HedleyLamarr · 03/08/2011 18:29

CogitoErgoSometimes Wed 03-Aug-11 08:11:39

No grasshopper.... mumsnet is not the race..... life is the race.... and the winner is death....

I have just had to wipe tea off the monitor. Grin

Sn0wflake · 03/08/2011 19:52

" it was like walking through a giant bollock plantation. " Had me laughing so hard you may have brought on my labour. Its sooooooo funny.

GotArt · 03/08/2011 20:52

This thread is making my head spin. Grin

UntitledNo2 · 04/08/2011 03:42

Ah, Talc - I really don't indulge in cannibalism... Nor have I ever buried a husband under the patio (though I did love that Brookside storyline!). You know, Billy Roll? That weird sandwich meat made in the shape of a bear face? It's like luncheon roll, but face shaped? So, it's actual food. Hmm, the eye extracting is still weird though, right? Grin

garlicbutter · 04/08/2011 04:06

This thread has out-weirded me. No, I don't mean weirded out, I mean my own, quite weird, capacity for weirdness has been exceeded and excelled by the weirdness of the posts on this thread. I have been weirdly trumped.

This means, obviously, I have LOST the race and will never get my what.

So don't ask me what a what is, because I am forever what-less.

Confused
garlicbutter · 04/08/2011 04:09

I think you get a what, though, Untitled, for blinding Billy before eating him!

UntitledNo2 · 04/08/2011 04:16

Well garlic, surely the only humane way to proceed was to pluck out Billy's eyes before I scoffed his meaty face. Otherwise, he would have been watching as he made his way through my digestive tract. Which probably would have disturbed him.

I do hope you get your what back. Wink

CogitoErgoSometimes · 04/08/2011 06:28

MN AIBU blanket get out clause... English is not my first language, everything I know I've picked up from the BBC World Service and I have a tenuous hold on reality.

Welcome to Just a Minute. Accrington Stanley nil. Wider still and wider. Dogger, Fisher, German Byte... backing westerly...... good.

TalcAndTurnips · 04/08/2011 11:20

UntitledNo2 face-shaped bear meat?? Why, for the love of Gerald, would one eat a face made of compressed flesh, with or without eyes?

What next, carrots in lederhosen?

garlicbutter · 04/08/2011 13:29

I don't even want to know what you searched to find that, TAT.

TalcAndTurnips · 04/08/2011 14:04

It's from the Museum of Food Anomalies; I frequent there for all my comedy vegetable needs.

Here - have a meat parrot at sunset.

knitpicker · 04/08/2011 14:21

I think the OP might be using google translate

thesurgeonsmate · 04/08/2011 14:27

After reading knitpickers post I did the stupidest thing ever. Stupider than the time I asked how the little street cleaning vans with the brushes that run in the left hand gutter managed when they had to do the other side of the road. Go on, ask me what I did.

garlicbutter · 04/08/2011 14:41

Go on, then?

LadyFlumpalot · 04/08/2011 14:48

Who, where, what, why, when now? Huh?

I have "Lemon Apple" cucumbers growing in the garden, they are meant to grow cucumber shaped but mine are growing as little balls, and have little hairs. I also have peas. And carrots, but not in Lederhosen.

My car is blue.

thesurgeonsmate · 04/08/2011 14:51

garlic, so what I did was, despite the fact that I don't speak any language other than English, rushed to Google Translate to paste the text in and translate it back to Spanish ("siesta" an' all) to see if that would make matters clearer. Couldn't have been more suprised when a whole bunch of stuff I couldn't read in a foreign language came up in the results part...

plinkduet · 04/08/2011 14:51

Why do people rant on about grammar lapses? :( Don't you stop to consider a poster's first language may not be English? It makes you look more ignorant than them.

I don't understand the last sentence of the OP's post, but the gist seems to be one of work hard and stop complaining so much on forums! We are all racing around trying to get nowhere fast for no conceivable reward.

I thought forums were expressly designed as Virtual Nags though? Grin

CogitoErgoSometimes · 04/08/2011 14:55

It's not a grammar lapse. It's just gibberish. There's a difference.

TalcAndTurnips · 04/08/2011 15:28

I was so fascinated to read about your testicular cucumbers LadyF that I googled them. Aren't they supposed to be spherical and not cucumber-shaped? They look delicious, but not at all cucumbery.

I am glad to hear that your car is blue; it probably feels very tranquil and relaxed Unlike red ones that seem to enjoy gunning their engines at the traffic lights. We have two vehicles (out of necessity) and always park them bonnet-to-bonnet so that they can talk to each other at night. I always thank them after a long journey too - I feel a bit churlish going indoors after a 200-mile slog and just leaving them there in the rain, engine ticking in the dark. A pat on the bonnet too, makes them feel more appreciated I find.