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43 replies

fluckered · 10/03/2013 21:06

to the overused and predictable "shocked" and "horrified" aibus. may i suggest that instead of being horrified over a friends' parenting style you are "aghast" or indeed "un-nerved".

that instead of being shocked at a family member having their birthday party on a week day that you are "scandalised" or "double whammied" or "stupified".

lets change it up a little .... Wink the more far fetched alternatives the better and bonus points for teaming new word with a popular aibu topic!

OP posts:
Buzzardbird · 10/03/2013 23:46

I'm a little cheeses off that I couldn't make it to the cheese board on my Mother's (there you go worra) Day dinner.

Buzzardbird · 10/03/2013 23:46

*cheesed

lurkedtoolong · 11/03/2013 08:16

I love all the people who shake with rage that a child, we'll call them X, well child X nudged their PFB off the seesaw at the park. They shook with rage for literally five hours.

No more shaking with rage. I want them to have been blinded by fury.

hortensemancini · 11/03/2013 08:25

I like 'dismayed'. It has a sort of 'you've let the school down, you've let me down, but most of all, you've let yourself down' passive aggressive tone.

I'm dismayed that my SIL has arranged for her dogs to act as ring bearers at her wedding but has only asked my DC to fly from invisible wires during the signing of the register playing their recorders while dressed as Botticelli cherubs.

shewhowines · 11/03/2013 08:29

I'm up in arms at this whole thread.

Badvoc · 11/03/2013 08:31

I am thoroughly discombobulated.

openerofjars · 11/03/2013 08:35

I'm more disappointed than I am angry.

WafflyVersatile · 11/03/2013 08:38

I am iridescent with apathy at your plight.

RivalSibling · 11/03/2013 08:39

flabberghasted.

LittleChickpea · 11/03/2013 08:51

Oh, oh dear I am rattled, ruffled, disquieted, in a flap, all in a fluster, Shaking, hot and bothered about............ PMSL!!!

LadyPessaryPam · 11/03/2013 09:45

I would look askance TBH.

Flumpyflumps · 11/03/2013 09:50

I am flabbered and indeed ghasted.

Trills · 11/03/2013 09:56

I like AIBUs where people are miffed.

Because often "miffed" is about as far as it goes.

They would BU to be aghast, but miffed is perfectly R.

DoJo · 11/03/2013 10:13

Well, I'm standing at the foot of our stairs about almost everything.

Shodan · 11/03/2013 10:15

I must confess to being irked on occasion.

I like a good irking.

My mother recently claimed to have been made catatonic by a letter she received. Since she subsequently told me that she then went to her painting class, I'm afraid I didn't believe her.

LadyPessaryPam · 11/03/2013 10:17

I am absolutely mortified by the turn this thread has taken.

Shodan · 11/03/2013 10:17

Does anyone rend their garments anymore? They should.

Wishiwasanheiress · 11/03/2013 10:18

I hate "clutches pearls". Dear Mary Martha and evaline why would u want that as an image of u?

Not keen on 'hoiking judgy pants' either. Reminds me of a guiding woman when I was a kid that had what we called "tea bag bloomers" on as she always sat legs apart...

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