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AIBU?

to think that falling in your plate is not on at lunch?

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Hullygully · 10/10/2011 11:51

So, Sunday lunch at a friend's yesterday. A couple that we know slightly are also invited. The woman who is very bright and very pleasant for the first hour, drinks so much that she is literally unable to speak (but doesn't stop trying), and we all carry on with lunch pretending that everything is normal and not laughing where she can see.

Is this normal? In any way?

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Hullygully · 10/10/2011 12:42

I have been on MN for years, and yet I can still be staggered by people. Is that a good or a bad thing I ponder.

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PinotScreechio · 10/10/2011 12:43

Heh heh Rhubs, I'll not have a bad word said against You've Been Framed. Makes me snort like a piggy every time. That is my level of humour and I'm sticking to it!

Hullygully · 10/10/2011 12:44

Can you not laugh at a situation without it being personal?

Really?

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VampiresWearBlackVelvet · 10/10/2011 12:45

The world's gone mad.

We spend our lives on here judging everything from fucking fruitshoots to X Factor (and souls have died, I'll have you know )

But Hully raises an eyebrow and has a teeny bit of a giggle at someone who has clearly drunk far too much and is making a bit of a cunt of herself to be fair and all of a sudden the OP doesn't understand alcoholism and is a terrible terrible person...

Jeez...

TheRhubarb · 10/10/2011 12:45

Hully - you know you have my full sympathies for that one! I can still feel the bruises.

Pinot - bloody love it myself!

My God, I bet loads of people have had a right old laugh at me when I've been pissed! If she gets that pissed that easily then how is that alcoholism? That's just a case of her not handling her booze very well.

AgentZigzag · 10/10/2011 12:45

'I have been on MN for years, and yet I can still be staggered by people. Is that a good or a bad thing I ponder.'

Is this why you thought everyone would laugh at this woman as well, because you've been here 'years'?

What on earth has that got to do with your OP?

Or are you trying to tell me I shouldn't say anything because you've been a regular poster for a while?

Not on.

Hullygully · 10/10/2011 12:46

It was to Clarence, zigzag.

Are you trying to have a fight?! Do say so if you are, it will save time.

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TheRhubarb · 10/10/2011 12:47

Agent - do you laugh at anything? Ever? If someone walked into a lamp-post would you not snigger? Even a little? How about one of those trips that they turn into a comical run - no giggle?

Best to ban humour then - no laughing at anyone from now on. At all. It is banned.

AgentZigzag · 10/10/2011 12:47

Might be an idea to say who you're talking to OP?

Hullygully · 10/10/2011 12:49

I'll bear that in mind, zigzag. Thank you for your kind and helpful suggestion.

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Hullygully · 10/10/2011 12:49

Or are you trying to tell me I shouldn't say anything because you've been a regular poster for a while?

Are you quite well? There's a section you might like: Frothing Berserkers.

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VampiresWearBlackVelvet · 10/10/2011 12:50

I once waited for a bus at a lamp post, I thought the fucker was a bus stop sign!

Now if that don't make you laugh then nothing will...

ClarenceDarrow · 10/10/2011 12:50

Well she doesnt. Far toomany people think you cant be an alcoholic unless you are swigging spirits for breakfast.
And personally if I was at a lunch where someone was horribly drunk, seemungly a regular occurance, and with no one helping her, id feel uncomfortable, sad, and a bit guilty. I wouldntbe giggling and gossiping behind her back, but i guess im just a boring killjoy.

BupcakesandHaunting · 10/10/2011 12:52

Assuming that Mrs Dipso is not an actual dipso and merely cannot handle her lunchtime vino, then I'd say it's fine to have a titter about it.

And by "it", I mean the situation. Not her.

There must be some sore hands from all the wringing that's going on here at the minute.

TheRhubarb · 10/10/2011 12:52

I once fell on my arse at the top of a hill in the ice and slid all the way whilst desperately scrabbling at anything I could hold onto which dh and the dcs stood at the top holding their sides. Oh the shame!

Hullygully · 10/10/2011 12:52

I once got off a school games coach early, at my bust stop, and was mucking about waving to everyone and walked into a lamp post and it hurt SO MUCH, but i had to laugh and wave and not faint till the coach was out of sight.

Wotevs Clarnece

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Hullygully · 10/10/2011 12:52

bust stop!

boom boom

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Snorbs · 10/10/2011 12:53

Years ago I would have laughed out loud, particularly if it was a mate rather than a casual acquaintance.

These days I know a lot more about alcohol problems than I did then and I find that kind of thing sad. Rather than laughing I'd be having a gentle and private chat with her DP about the realities of alcoholism and the effects thereof.

I suppose it all depends on your perspective.

hairypotter · 10/10/2011 12:55

I will admit to finding my ex workmate's antics slightly amusing. It is funny sometimes.

She would get very annoyed if the falling asleep etc was mentioned the next day, I am of the opinion that it is the job of her partner/dc's to point her in the direction of help. Not mine when it clearly isn't welcome.

We did all feel sorry for her, but fgs, don't go out and get tanked up if you know that's how your night will end.

BupcakesandHaunting · 10/10/2011 12:56

How earnest. Taking her partner to one side and sticking your nose in about a "problem" you don't even know exists? If I got spectacularly drunk at lunch, I'd rather hope my mates would have had a chuckle at my expense, rather than trying to cajole DH into marching me off to AA.

VampiresWearBlackVelvet · 10/10/2011 12:56

For the love of all that is good and pure!

One day, one day we will all just take the OP as it reads and not keep throwing all these isshhoos into the mix...

Some people just make fools of themselves FACT. In fact, if I was the pisshead woman I'd be phoning you up now Hully to laugh at my drunken antics :)

VampiresWearBlackVelvet · 10/10/2011 12:57

Ha Ha Hully, you made a right tit of yourself then

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Hullygully · 10/10/2011 12:58

snorbs - I'm old. I find humour and sympathy not necessarily diametrically opposed.

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TheRhubarb · 10/10/2011 12:59

Talking of ishoos or tishoos, I have hayfever and once sneezed whilst talking to another mum at the school gate, to my horror a huge blob of snot flung itself out of my nose and hung there whilst I searched desperately for a tissue. She obviously saw it but chose not to comment, however I'm sure she related the story to all her friends or even posted on Mumsnet about the commoner at the school gates with snot hanging out of her nose.

VampiresWearBlackVelvet · 10/10/2011 13:04

Rhubarb you minger - I would've talked about you too.

What would you have done if she brought out a hankie and wiped it for you

I once hoovered a large snot out of 1 month old dd's nose with my mouth - I felt she was finding it hard to breathe with the big snot so BigMumma had to step in...

I now expect you all to point and laugh at me and my PFB'ness.

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