Regarding a grown woman who constantly refers to herself as a "Princess"?

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A few months ago a girl I was at school with added me on Facebook. All well and good, but whenever she updates her status she says things like "I'm a tired Princess today" or "Princess can't wait to go shopping with mummy" or "Poorly Princess". We're both 32 years of age.

Is it me just me or is it fucking bizarre? Today she's posted saying "Five days till my holidays. Excited Princess!"

As far as I'm aware she's not a Princess or in any way affiliated with royalty!

She's always been very, very girly. Has a love of pink and such, but to be honest so are a lot other women I know. They don't go around referring to themselves as Princesses.

I've not hidden her statuses as I far them so ludicrous. She's deadly serious as far I can see.

Does she have some kind of personality disorder?

Arrange to meet her for drinkypoos and turn up in black leather thigh boots and a spandex mini-dress with "I'm not a Princess, I'm a Khaleesi" eblazoned across your chest

I have a Facebook friends I was at school with who has her babe on there set as First name Princess Jasmine Surname. It's weird. She's a married woman with a child.

I had a manager at work who would arrive at a meeting of her managees, all male, and say Morming, boys. She was cured when one of us, alas not me, answered in an imitation schoolboy voice Good morning, Miss.

Excellent Andrew

I have a FB friend who refers to herself as Tinkerbell or 'Tinks' for short. Fucking jebend

redruby

That even beats the guy who uses all his qualifications in his email signature, no matter how irrelevant - "Annoying Colleague, MBA, BA(Hons) TVU (Business Management) Short Course - Being Your Best You; The One-Minute Manager; A-Level Business Studies, Maths, Biology; MS Word and Excel Aware..."

I've been really tempted to reply with Vlad Disorganised, MA, BA, Grade 5 Piano (Distinction), Voted Second Most Awesome Ollie Grind in Vladsville Skate Ramp 1992..."

Ooh vlad I really dislike pompous business cards and e-signatures that list a person's qualifications. Some professions are worse than others but in mine and dh line of work it's just not the done thing at all, it's regarded as twattishness.

I work in academia so most people are at least a PhD, though many could list a whole lot more letters after their names on email signatures, but don't. Dr J. Bloggs is about as much as anyone tends to bother with.

But our director of operations, who is not a scientist and a total twat puts BA or whatever degree he has on his signature - why bother to mark yourself out as one of the least-educated people at work? Yes, I know having letters after your name isn't really impressive and plenty of awesome people have none at all. But in a field where most people have strings of letters (but don't bother to list them), why advertise how few you have!?

That even beats the guy who uses all his qualifications in his email signature, no matter how irrelevant - "Annoying Colleague, MBA, BA(Hons) TVU (Business Management) Short Course - Being Your Best You; The One-Minute Manager; A-Level Business Studies, Maths, Biology; MS Word and Excel Aware..."

Love this!

Does Princess have a dd who is a 'diva'? That's my other pet hate. Little girls being called divas

To be fair Annie, I work in academia and we have very strict rules that ALL our academic and professional qualifications from Bachelors onwards must be listed in our email sigs.

I don't even have my MSc yet so it probably looks as if I'm being a pompous twat when I list BA, DipHE and my professional post nominals only, but I get a snotty email from the admin dept if I don't! This time next year I'll have a few more though

Anyone else remember Rodney Trotter TIT DIC?

Long ago I worked with a fool young man whose cheques (remember those?) had the printed signature T Utter-Knob BA Oxon [sadly, not his real name]. This was the same man who told me in complete seriousness that he had no interest in marrying an intelligent woman. If only I had thought to say to him at the time 'Very wise - always best for a married couple to be of similar levels of intelligence'.

Re qualifications obtained,no one in my work cites them.its a requirement of job,so unnecessary

"To be fair Annie, I work in academia and we have very strict rules that ALL our academic and professional qualifications from Bachelors onwards must be listed in our email sigs."

I'm in academia too and there is no such rule. Practically everyone has a PhD as a minimum so it would look ridiculous us all having our letters after our name in emails!

I should have said "there is no such rule FOR US". I'm not disbelieving lacuna! Just realised what it looked like!

No such rule for us either. And it tends to just be the arrogant knobbers who do use their letters.

Sounds like Gilderoy Lockhart.

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