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To think he's being a bit tight?

77 replies

SydneyLa · 19/12/2011 14:17

£1 is all it would cost to buy a bag of food for the emanuels and my boyfriend reckons I shouldn't buy it if I'm complaining that I'm short of money.

AIBU to think £1 is well worth keeping them going through the winter?

OP posts:
LordOfTheFlies · 19/12/2011 16:03

I reckon they should starve to punish them for that dishrag effort they produced for Princess Diana to wear.(Wouldn't have wiped my bum on it TBH)
Bacon rind's too good for them.
Use your £1 to buy the mad bint (Eliz Emman ) a hairbrush.

Acandlelitshadow · 19/12/2011 16:03

Are these the same emanuels who designed Princess Di's wedding dress?

£1 seems jolly reasonable to feed them all winter. Where do you buy your emanuel food?

HidingInTheUndergrowth · 19/12/2011 16:04

Oh dear. I am now in tears giggling madly on the sofa.

We live next to a river and when it snows my dp buys special really quite expensive duck food as he worries about them getting cold and hungry. I think if I suggested we couldn't afford it he would refuse to eat for a day to make up the money. He is a bit of a softy though :o

ViviPrudolf · 19/12/2011 16:05

There's an alpha squirrel in our garden who is a right fat get - we call him Sumo Squirrel. Last week I saw him running across the top of the fence on just his hind legs with an apple clutched in his squirrely little paws.

We have a squirrel baffle on our bird feeder and I enjoy watching them attempt all manner of contortions trying and failing to get at the peanuts.

mynewpassion · 19/12/2011 16:08

Hiding, my dad is the same way. He feeds most of the critters that wander into our yard: squirrels, rabbits, wild turkey, and deer. Every winter he puts food out for them. He worries they won't survive the winter.

FellatioNelson · 19/12/2011 16:08

They got divorced though didn't they? Which is a good job as no-one ever believed he was straight in the first place. Perhaps they fell on hard times since Diana's dress was so monstrous they never worked again, and they had a massive monthly hairdressing bill (mostly his, to be fair) which bankrupted them, and they took to begging around soup kitchens and stealing from bird tables.

LoveInASnowyClimate · 19/12/2011 16:11

So is stale bread not the ideal food for ducks, then? Oops Blush.

Lexilicious · 19/12/2011 16:14

If you keep back a little from the seed mix is it a Tobin Tax?

EnjoyResponsiblyIfSleighFlying · 19/12/2011 16:22

Crying with laughter. Thank you OP.

Emanuals forever.

When the red, red Tobin comes bob bob bobbin along!

candrcane · 19/12/2011 17:40

You need to watch those tobins, they may gang up with the starlets and afro carribean birds. Ours all chase away the cows.

LargeHadronKaleidoscope · 19/12/2011 18:03

Thank fuck for Tena Lady. This thread should go into classics.

FellatioNelson · 19/12/2011 18:17

Oh, how the mighty have fallen

No wonder he is subsisting on donated Trill.

FellatioNelson · 19/12/2011 18:19

Sarah Burton, think on. Don't let it go to your head. You could be working for Ethel Austin one day, and begging for bacon rind.

Anniegetyourgun · 19/12/2011 18:33

Anyway, back to the original question (if anyone can still remember what it was): Yes, he's being tight. Bin the bastard, and then spend as much as you like on the emanuels. They'll be cheaper to keep happy, and they make nicer noises.

Btw DS3 says Emanuel Tobin has a better ring to it than the other way round.

EauDeLaPoisson · 19/12/2011 18:37

YANBU but which Emannuel would you rather feed? David or Elizabeth?

ChippingInLovesChristmasLights · 19/12/2011 18:37

He's being tight and miserable - tell him tight & miserable men end up with empty stockings come christmas eve Grin

Anniegetyourgun · 19/12/2011 18:55

Or... say to him that you have decided he is right and you should spend your money on him instead of some freeloading wildlife.

Then give him a fat ball wrapped in sparkly paper.

ViviPrudolf · 19/12/2011 18:56

Annie Xmas Grin

LoopyLoopsWoopDeWoops · 19/12/2011 19:02

Sop it. Now. I am trying to feed the baby to sleep and the laughter is putting her off.

rhondajean · 19/12/2011 19:06

Oh hilarious, I think we should all send OP £1 each so she can have as many bags of emanuel food as she wants.

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 19/12/2011 19:14

Ah, Tobin the Emanuel. I know him well. Likes cashews.

NoOnesGoingToEatYourMincePies · 19/12/2011 19:25

Tobin's in my experience like those fruit cakes with the Glacé cherries in them.

We had a very territorial Tobin that would scare away all the other Tobin's and Emmanuel's from the fruit cake until he had picked out all the cherries for himself.

Let them eat cake OP.

Acandlelitshadow · 19/12/2011 21:18

[muse]

Only one lot of famous emanuels but several famous tobins:

Tobin Hood
Cock Tobin
Batman and Tobin

[/muse]

PreviouslyonLost · 19/12/2011 22:14

FellatioNelson D&E were indeed separated, until now.

I pondered that SydneyLa lured them into her home office shed on some new-age ' F riends A fter D ivorce' course she may or may not run. When they arrived she saw a gap in the market for overblown, creased, Leg-O-Mutton sleeved vintage style Wedding dresses.

And there they remain, fearful that the Boyfriend may cut off their meagre rations.

But, to anyone falling in love with the name Tobin...don't, serial killer...not a baby name IMO Sad

FREE the Emmanuels...

Anniegetyourgun · 19/12/2011 23:30

Free Emmanuels with every bag of peanuts. An unbeatable offer.

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