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AIBU to fancy the pants off a serial killer?

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kelliebrookexoxo · 25/11/2014 12:25

Okay please forgive me for the slightly shocking title but it sets the tone for the predicament that I have gotten myself in to. So, on Thursday night, I settled down to the second episode of the new series of The Fall, cuppa tea and Dairy Milk in hand ;) Half way through I posted a FB status, (Facebook here we go, I know!) saying that Jamie Dornan could kill me anyday! And that he was a sexy serial killer. Obviously, this was a joke and I do not infact want Jamie Dornan nor anyone for that matter to kill me... ever. However, a lady (in her thirties) whom I'd only met a few days before at a friend's birthday dinner took offence to my status and left the comment 'Oh dear. What a silly thing to say! Think before you press send'. I promptly deleted the status very embarrassed and so as to make sure none of my friends could publicly defend my little comment or indeed so that no one else could criticise it! I private messaged her, saying 'Sorry, I didn't mean to cause offence. Have deleted the post xx'. No reply. Now I am kind of angry with myself for apologising in the first place and not defending myself. What do you think? Was my status inappropriate or was she out of line?

Kellie
xoxo

OP posts:
Tammy1212 · 26/11/2014 01:43

You should of just blocked her
He's a fitconal character she's a loser
iPhone spelling

EatShitDezza · 26/11/2014 02:00

I thought the 'oh I'd let me any day' was a known phrase meaning 'I'd let him/her shag me'

Like my mum would probably say 'I would let Horatio CSI me any day'

Or me saying 'I'd let Channing Tatum Magic Mike me anyway'

Just using whatever the attractive person is doing into something sexual.

Obviously a real serial killer would be a bit strange bit a fictional one?

Bet a few have said 'I'd let Benedict, Cumberbatch me' or something as weird Grin

Peepants78 · 26/11/2014 02:46

I've said much the same about many a TV vampire. I don't actually want to be bitten by ian somerhalder/aidan turner/alexander skarsgard too hard!
If I'd have seen your post and it was in relation to a dashing vampire I'd have asked to join the queue.
Have yet to watch the fall. I scare easily.

islandmama · 26/11/2014 02:51

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MrsGuyofGisborne · 26/11/2014 05:10

YABU. He's not at all fanciable...and the title of this thread makes you sound like a maddo who marries an imprisoned phsycho

ScrambledEggAndToast · 26/11/2014 06:48

But surely, you just fancy the actor don't you? This is exactly why FB/texts etc can be awkward though because she obviously got it into her head that you were into serial killers whereas had you been in the same room, it would have been obvious this wasn't the case I hope Grin

MokunMokun · 26/11/2014 08:29

But a friend once say Viggo Mortensen (sp) can rape me any day. It made me skin crawl.

Ir1na · 26/11/2014 13:39

Would there be this much fuss if you fancied a 'hero' character who goes around killing? Which most of them do, although maybe that doesn't usually count because it's done unrealistically?

SistersOfPercy · 26/11/2014 17:53

If I had a "friend" put up a status like you did I would block her.

You wouldn't be on my friends list in the first place if you were so easily offended.

Slubberdegullion · 26/11/2014 18:25

Do you fancy Jamie Dornan or Phil Spector? Because one is fine to fancy and the other one really, really not.

dailygrowl · 26/11/2014 22:50

Oh, I didn't watch The Fall, OP. Even so, I think an intelligent adult should know that you were saying you like Jamie Dornan's looks and not that you've suddenly started fancying serial killers just after watching one show.

Some people like friending friends of their friends on FB. In practice I have found that just because A & B are great pals of C, they aren't necessarily going to be pals with each other or even like each other at all, and that the FB friending goes cold (either leading to one or the other party unfriending, or simply ignoring each other's posts). However, I have sometimes become great pals with a friend of a friend, and we have both later admitted/ realised that our mutual friend didn't really like us that much to begin with since she/he has stopped keeping in touch with either of us. (This is in real life, not on FB).

If I do have a friend on my FB list who might find the post (eg about a subject on the show) upsetting, I will make it a point to customise the settings so they can't see it. You wouldn't always know every single thing your friends have gone through, but if you are quite good friends, you should. That's why I don't friend people on FB if I don't know them well. Also, I have sometimes customised a post that might be more outspoken or "left field" in its humour like yours was, so that they were only seen by close friends that I know really well who wouldn't be upset.

dailygrowl · 26/11/2014 22:53

typo: "..if you are quite good friends, you should know most of the important things"

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