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Come cringe with me......I made a complete fuckwit of myself earlier this week and the cringing won't disipate

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Triooooooooooo · 16/05/2015 00:03

Picture the scene, important meeting regarding my childerbeast, im prattling on about a trip we have coming up and how I'll be getting some work done when I came out with this corker.......

'Ooohhh, I've been having a right mare getting my damp patch sorted, can't get anyone to even look at it'

Deathly silence.

Looks up, 1 lady doing the silent laughing thing, second lady openly hooting., poor bloke in corner like this Shock eventually turning into an unsure snort.

Eventually was broken by a screeched, 'eee, you do have a way with words Trio.'.

Im still Blush when the very feck will I learn to think before I speak ??!

OP posts:
TheCowThatLaughs · 16/05/2015 09:17

Yes that's right! Everyone on the thread who thought the colleagues were childish is highbrow with no sense of humour. They weren't trying to make the op feel better at all Hmm

stardusty5 · 16/05/2015 09:18

Oh and just to help people out, childebeast is an affectionate play on words, combining Child and Wildebeast.

Another example would be mums and internet to make mumsnet.

I bet you've been scratching your heads about that for ages!

EugenesAxe · 16/05/2015 09:25

Also in the camp of why are you cringing days later? Woonerism is completely right - it's just a bit of double entendre; laugh it off at the time.

Why not move to another thread? Because I was invited to cringe, was expecting to get a laugh and instead stumbled across something that is only remarkable in its normality.

CrabbyTheCrabster · 16/05/2015 09:32

I've never heard childerbeast before but I think it's a great word and shall use it at the earliest opportunity. Smile

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 16/05/2015 10:12

I thought yours was funny, OP, ditto Worra and Poppy's. Grin

There are some crass and dunderheaded responses on this thread... I hadn't heard 'childerbeast' before but have enough general wildlife and childlife knowledge to make the connection. Did some of you used to 'tell' when you realised that a child was being humoured in class when you were younger? Hmm

Double-entrendres kept some of Britain's best-loved comedians going for years and years and years...

Don't worry, OP, the miseries will no doubt be posting something very un-amusing themselves before too long and I've made a list in my head... I shall make a point of pouring scorn and derision and "What's funny or interesting about that?" on their threads. Wink

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 16/05/2015 10:14

... and I didn't think that a single one was 'highbrow', wow at the arrogance.

TheCowThatLaughs · 16/05/2015 10:19

If you're talking about me saying highbrow, Witch, I was quoting another poster. I'm far from highbrow, but obviously misunderstood the thread and was trying to reassure the op she had no need to still be embarrassed 5 days later. Never mind though Smile

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 16/05/2015 10:20

We all have moments when we don't find somebody else's funny story funny. Why bother to take the time and trouble to say so? Just move on to another thread.

CaptainAnkles · 16/05/2015 10:23

It was a bit of a badly worded moment OP Grin but nothing to torture yourself over. I've put my foot in my mouth in far worse ways, I promise you. I like 'childerbeast' too, I'm stealing that.

SoupDragon · 16/05/2015 10:25

Seriously, still cringing days later?! It was a weak double entendre, hardly hysterical or mortifying.

I love the way you took the time to critisise the OP and yet then go onto add your own, arguably equally weak, double entendre moment.

GingerFoxInAT0phat · 16/05/2015 10:31

I was at a children's party last night sat at a table with a bunch of women I don't really know from school. When I got up to go instead of saying "Thank you for inviting us",I loudly said "Thank you all for coming".
Whyyyyy?!

I made a joke of it and had a chuckle with dh when I got home.

Op, next time it happens just laugh it off and try not to dwell so much :)

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 16/05/2015 10:37

No, Cow, not you, the appropriately-named Cactus.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 16/05/2015 10:40

I would do that, Ginger. In fact, when I read your post I had that sinking feeling that you get when you have that 'there but for the grace of God...' realisation. Blush

TheCowThatLaughs · 16/05/2015 10:40

Ah right Witch, but I think she was actually quoting MetallicBeige? I don't know this for a fact though!

netty7070 · 16/05/2015 10:47

I think it's hilarious OP. I've done many a worse one though. Grin

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 16/05/2015 10:50

She was Cow, then added a 'jab' that wasn't there in Metallic's post, which was 'in the spirit' and Cactus then had to add a superior 'swipe' afterwards to let us all know that She.was.above.it.all.

These boards are fascinating, people are so revealing. Grin

Fairenuff · 16/05/2015 10:51

Another example would be mums and internet to make mumsnet.

I bet you've been scratching your heads about that for ages!

Why are posters being so sarky at those who didn't know what childerbeast was? At first I thought it was a typo, then I wondered if it was a euphemism for fanjo and OP was at a gynae meeting.

Yesterday I didn't know what a meat knocker was either but posters who did just explained without all this sighing and snootiness.

TheCowThatLaughs · 16/05/2015 10:54

I didn't really get that but maybe that reveals something about me. I don't think I'm cut out for AIBU tbh Confused

anxioussally · 16/05/2015 10:56

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 16/05/2015 11:06

I don't know what a 'meat knocker' is, I imagine it's another word for a man's cock. It's easier to get the gist in a sentence. I'm usually the last to pick up on memes and lingo anyway.

Cow... I only took issue with the posters who were being pointed with the OP when there was no need. It's like dong a 'high five' and being left hanging... and that's a bit mean. If you didn't see the high-five in the first place then it doesn't smart, ie. click on the thread, think WTF and click out again, no harm no foul.

I'm going to leave this now because it's in danger of making it worse. The posters who wanted to jibe the OP know who they are and that they've been clocked doing it.

CactusAnnie · 16/05/2015 11:07

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Fairenuff · 16/05/2015 11:10

I don't know what a 'meat knocker' is, I imagine it's another word for a man's cock. It's easier to get the gist in a sentence.

It's a pork pie Lying so, no, it's not always that easy to work out is it Grin

Which proves my point really that people should not be sneered at (or accused of lying) simply for asking Hmm

WoonerismSpit · 16/05/2015 11:11

Ah but soupdragon, did I say I was still cringing about it? Embarrassed by it? Regale you with the hooting laughter accompanied by it there was none Or did I, in the spirit of the thread (and indeed the question asked by the OP) give my own story of a double entendre gone wrong?

CactusAnnie · 16/05/2015 11:14

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 16/05/2015 11:15

Read your own posts, Cactus and see if there is anything in them that you would like to have posted to you... "weird group of adults that would be dying of silent laughter...". I didn't think it was very nice.

You didn't quote Metallic, you just picked up the word 'highbrow' and used in your post. I see what you mean though, re-reading, it's not superiority, so apologies for that part of my post.