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to ask you what you think David Cameron means by "purring?"

69 replies

hugefatso · 23/09/2014 23:16

I mean, it's not a very human noise.

Or does he just mean it metaphorically, like the Queen was very thankful and grateful for the news about the Scots?

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hugefatso · 23/09/2014 23:19

Just realised this is already in feminism, but a slightly different question.

My curiosity is more just random and out of interest than political.

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Behoove · 23/09/2014 23:20

He's a sexist arse and the Queen will wipe the floor with his bollocks next time they meet.

But in answer to your question, yes I'd agree she was probably making a pleased sound.

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 23/09/2014 23:25

I did wonder. I hope she didn't actually purr.

Pathetic really.

GlitterIsJustVampireAsh · 23/09/2014 23:27

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Flipflops7 · 23/09/2014 23:28

People are overthinking this (am half-watching the analysis on Sky). I think the Queen will be amused.

wildfig · 23/09/2014 23:29

It means that DC secretly thinks of himself as James Bond, saving the Union for Queen and Country, and the Queen as Honor Blackman or similar, making appreciative flirty noises down the phone at him.

Would love to be a fly on the wall at their next meeting. Although the temperature in the room will probably be glacial enough to kill any flies stone dead.

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 23/09/2014 23:30

I thought you weren't supposed to repeat conversations with the monarch?

I'm not really up on royal protocol mind you.

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 23/09/2014 23:31

Oh gag at her Maj and Dave flirting. Grin

I won't sleep now.

hugefatso · 23/09/2014 23:32

wildfig hee her you're so right! Wink

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FreudiansSlipper · 23/09/2014 23:32

I doubt the Queen will be amused

I am though

Bang goes his knighthood Grin

Flingmoo · 23/09/2014 23:35

I think it's a bit sexist sounding to me... implying she's like a cat O_o He wouldnt have used that phrase to refer to a man who sounds happy...

KnackeredMuchly · 23/09/2014 23:58

Link

m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29335028

MrsTerryPratchett · 24/09/2014 00:01

I'm not a Royalist and I'm pretty disgusted with him. He is talking out of school, sounds horribly sexist and fawning at the same time. Yuk

LineRunner · 24/09/2014 00:01

He's let the monarchy down, he's let the country down, and most of all he's let himself down. The shiney shiney knob.

YonicScrewdriver · 24/09/2014 00:05
Chunkamatic · 24/09/2014 00:05

I have it on good authority that she already detests him, so he won't have helped his cause with her at all.

What a nob.

VeryStressedMum · 24/09/2014 00:09

Chunkamatic who is the good authority??? How do you know that?????

Greyhound · 24/09/2014 00:10

I don't know, but he is creepy.

"Purring" has dodgy sexual connotations that irk me when applied to Her Maj.

He is smug.

MrsTerryPratchett · 24/09/2014 00:11

Chunk are you Phillip? You can tell us

abigamarone · 24/09/2014 00:13

Purring, it's what my cat does when he lies on his back and I tickle his belly.

Lovely mental image I've got now...

ShakesBootyFlabWobbles · 24/09/2014 00:14

Did Queenie do her best Eartha Kitt impersonation?

And tonight Matthew, I'm going to be...

I hope it wasn't like George Galloway on CBB

thecatfromjapan · 24/09/2014 00:25

A sexist, fawning fool, with no sense of gravitas. Our leader - Fgs.
And, yes, a shiny, shiny knob.

(Thank you, Linerunner.)

How could he sound any less like an adult and a statesman? The ulcers shit was bad enough. But 'purring' ....

What a fool.

WaywardOn3 · 24/09/2014 05:17

Well there are those people ego believe the royal family are all lizard people or some such nonsense, maybe he's one of them but believe she's part cat? :-/

WaywardOn3 · 24/09/2014 05:17

*who not ego

FindoGask · 24/09/2014 05:21

I don't know, and I don't want to know. Horrible.