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To tell my mum the truth about her elbows?

167 replies

MsRamone · 20/10/2015 21:39

So my younger sister kept going on about my mums green elbows and was always told to stop it. This morning I noticed that she does actually have green elbows and they should be stopped

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Siwi · 20/10/2015 22:34

Oh, I get it!

icouldjusteatacroissant · 20/10/2015 22:35

If you're stuck in the middle, what colour is it in there? My middle varies in colour according to my mood. Sometimes it's yellow, then I can hide in custard, sometimes it's blue if I'm blue, that's when I turn into a chameleon.

Moln · 20/10/2015 22:35

She does go on and on that wine one

MiscellaneousAssortment · 20/10/2015 22:36

She's turning into a Newt-Lady. It's the next stage of evolution, your mother is ascending. Help her in her quest for newt-dom by providing her with lime green eye shadow and a bucket of slime. And a spatula.

Congratulations, she has been CHOSEN Grin

icouldjusteatacroissant · 20/10/2015 22:38

PMSL laughing at gang green Grin

Moln · 20/10/2015 22:39

Ooh custard. We used to get given green custard at primary school

icouldjusteatacroissant · 20/10/2015 22:50

We had pink custard in school, but I think it was green custard in disguise. It can be really sneaky, green custard

DonkeyOaty · 20/10/2015 22:53

Proper shouting at gang green

Grin
AvonleaAnne · 20/10/2015 22:57

Just out of interest, I can lick my elbows - I just tried. Is that unusual? Can I enter Britain's Got Talent?

FadedRed · 20/10/2015 23:00

Nooooooo!!!!! Custard is YELLOW! Anything other than yellow is NOT custard. It's sauce, or custard substitute, or an adulterated custard-like abomination. It is not custard. Do not Let yourselves be seduced by rainbow-hued non Newtonian fluids. Custard is yellow.

MrsJuice · 20/10/2015 23:01

Could you find a way to bleach them (repeatedly) whilst she is distracted?
That's what I'd do.

PaulAnkaTheDog · 20/10/2015 23:03

It could be a fungal infection. Ignore the fifty odd people in this thread who thought it better to joke, than actually consider something a bit odd could be real.

Moln · 20/10/2015 23:04

There was also pink custard, and yellow of course.

The pink or green custard was served with concrete. Colouring was entirely random.

Always came with skin though.

Gazelda · 20/10/2015 23:04

Are you sure she hasn't got half a lime wedged on each elbow? I remember that Jackie magazine used to recommend lemon (or lime) for elbows. Don't know what problem they solved - tennis elbow, custard disease, double posting ....

FizzyGood · 20/10/2015 23:06

I feel like I've stumbled into an old people's home. WOULD ANYONE LIKE A BISCUIT??

Moln · 20/10/2015 23:06

Licking your elbows is little unusual.

Do you do it in public? How often do you get the urge?

FadedRed · 20/10/2015 23:07

Avonlea do you have an unusually short humerus or an unusually long tongue? Or both?
Mrs Juice Good idea! Could you sneakily put your DM's elbows into half a cut lemon without her noticing, Op? That should bleach the skin nicely.

pieceofpurplesky · 20/10/2015 23:07

Wineneeded to be able to take part in the bonkersness going on here

YakTriangle · 20/10/2015 23:09

Then put mayonnaise on her hair! Nothing to do with the green elbows but magazine Top Tips have always interested me.

Bodear · 20/10/2015 23:10

Are we talking inside or outside of the elbow? For licking I mean, not the colouring mould

MsRamone · 20/10/2015 23:13

I know it might sound funny but when my sister is going mad shouting "mucky filthy elbows" or "germy bastard elbows" at my mum and smacking her arms in public it becomes a genuine problem. My mum gets upset. I get embarrassed. People stare.
Admittedly my sister does have anger issues but even I'm getting the urge to give them a nip here and there. Like I say, they must be stopped.

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Muddlewitch · 20/10/2015 23:17

It sounds like they could be bruises. From the prodding and slapping.

shutupanddance · 20/10/2015 23:19

My dd has a green face. Lesson learned, never eyeliner your face.Hmm

Jux · 20/10/2015 23:19

We got brown custard. I envy you for having pink custard.

ijustwannadance · 20/10/2015 23:20

Is she the hulk's mum?

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