To be not too pleased by this comment?

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Just met some new neighbours today. My 5yo dd was very excited and chattering away like mad to them.

"Glad mine isn't the only one with verbal diahorrea."

Wasn't said in a nasty way, but didnt come off jokey, either. I didn't really like the comment. I mean, dd is a chatterbox; she does talk a lot but I prefer to say that as opposed to the verbal diahorrea thing. I would prefer to hear that from perfect strangers, too.

I guess the neighbour could have been nervous and/or it just popped out ...

Anyway, AIBU?

I think of diarrhoea as meaning that what comes out is uncontrollable!
I think you are probably being a bit over sensitive though personally I would not say that (in case someone took offence, not because I think it is actually offensive).
Don't call people arse holes though.

Fucking hell - YABU

You are being precious especially since you acknowledge she is very chatty.

doesn't come off as a self-deprecating joke Cours. Comes off as an unpleasant comment to Missy

What adoptmama said.

She was obviously trying to bond and make friends and what she said wasn't offensive.

adopt I've just seen the ops attack. Nice.

Start a fight in an empty room comes to mind.

No, it didn't corus if it was meant as a joke, then the op is asking us to give her the benefit of the doubt, which she didn't give her neighbour.

Badly judged joke, then.

The OP is a snob. No other explanation for such an over reaction.

A biscuit? Really?

You utter arsehole!

Really? How rude. So you want people to speak in a way you prefer, but you're happy to call people names when it suits you?
Here, have a packet. It will give you something to do with your mouth.

No it doesn't come across as an obviously jokey response.

Or indeed an appropriate response.

Can't think when calling someone an 'utter arsehole' would be an appropriate response.

Unless you are pissed, hugging your BFF and telling this to them this as they tell you they want to take their ex back.

Then it is probably an approprate response.

In the context of a forum poster simply saying YABU and offering a biscuit it comes as a rather nasty attack by the OP who has professed herself to be offended by something far less offesive and which was not a deliberately insulting comment.

What the OP did was deliberately rude and insulting.

Although obviously had the OP said 'you have verbal diarrhoea, you utter arsehole' it would have been much, much worse.............

'You utter arsehole' is much worse than saying that your kid has verbal diarrohea just like my kid. I agree with the teacher above who said that all five year olds have verbal diarrohea.
I think your new neighbour will be better off not getting to know you any better as you will take everything she says as an insult but deem your own more offensive comments to be fine.

or shove your fucking biscuits up your arse

that would have been pretty rude too

someone pass the bourbons over, I could do with some to dip in my wine (is that terribly ill mannered of me?)

Great nn btw 'coruscate' lovely word altogether.

Brianthemole - save some biscuits for me, people who call other people arseholes don't deserve the whole packet; unless they are garibaldis and then she can have them all . If they are chocolate digestives then I want some........

It's an unpleasant phrase IMHO. Who wants to be reminded of stomach upsets? Much nicer to describe someone as chatty, talkative, friendly etc. And compliment the parent on the child, rather than "glad mine isn't the only one".

"verbal diarrhoea" is a term used to describe a person who talks constantly. The diarrhoea part presumably related to the ability to stop. It does not mean that the individual is talking shit.

yabu, My mum used 'verbal diarrhoea' to mean 'non-stop-chatter', and so do I.

And if the OP's arsehole comment was meant to be witty or sarcastic it was a complete failure.

uh oh. An AIBU thread meaning rudeness.

miisbee it does not mean it to you.

it does to me and thouse around me... maybe its an "area" thing!

Don't worry impatient. They are garibaldis. And they're stale too. Here, you can have one of my nice luxury chocolate biscuits that I save for polite people

Here, Forgot to actually hand it to you impatient

I think it was an odd and overfamiliar phrase to use on a first meeting but certainly no malice in it. Deciding now that you will not bother trying to be friends is a massive overreaction.

You describe "chatterbox", they use "verbal diarrhoea". I suspect that's like the distinction between "spirited" and "pesky" in all honesty, ie in the eye of the beholder.