To have realised that I just don't belong here?

[Bambambini]

Been here for donkeys years but reading recent threads, I realise that:

I don't really care if people pierce their babies or toddlers ears.

Can't get that worked up about male circumcision.

I like Mathew Wright

Am actually quite fond of WH Smiths

I like my in laws

I hate the phrase "wine o' clock"

There was something else also very important but I can't remember it.

Suggestions of suitable new hangouts that meet my superior/ inferior (depending on your viewpoint) tastes are welcome.

I saw a prepping title today i thought they were prepping for christmas are they not

You're a welcome voice of reason on the Israel/ Palestine threads bambini!

Ha MrsJayy, 300 mince pies in the freezer, 3 Christmas cakes, 5 boxes of Quality Street - that sounds like a more fun Prep to me!

I assumed prepping for exams like the 11+!!!

I see now that there is a Preppers section on MN. I missed that and wondered why threads kept popping up. Some of it is just common sense, like being prepared in a cold climate for being snowed in, just as we are prepared for hurricanes in Florida. Other aspects sound a bit well, let's just say, not what I come to MN for. I'll hide it.

The most "prepping" we do is buying in bulk so that it will last us for a while and save us money over all. Although, when a snowstorm is coming we're in line like the best of them over at the store with cans of soup and food to make it through a few days.

I saw the Prepping title and just scrolled by- I will take a look.

I can only find the one about being disturbed by all the prepping threads- I haven't seen any! I have no intention of doing it- even now that I know what it means.

Yes Fairenuff you absolutely should watch both Father Ted and Seinfeld

And Curb you Enthusiasm

The prepping isn't about Christmas?! Gawd how'd I miss that? I've got week old irn bru and a tin of beans for emergencies I might have a nosey....the list of stuff in inadequate at grows everytime I visit mn

*I'm inadequate at.

I went on a Preppers thread and saw that as I can cook, sew, knit, grow stuff and light a fire, I'd be OK in case of whatever.

I offered the wild boar currently in my garden to anyone who wants to catch/kill/adopt/eat them but sadly had no takers.

Then I hid the topic.

Same again here: I thought the prepping was about Christmas too! I had visions of freezers packed with par-cooked veg.

Just getting the kids out the door to school in the morning exhausts me. That's all the prepping I'm up for.

I once read something in AIBU where the OP got really thoroughly condemned for putting something in someone else's wheely bin.

Then I thought I really was on a different planet. I pondered about it for a few days (I don't have a very busy life)...

lol @ MM.

I so thought they were batching cooking sprouts

I thought they were all back at boarding school doing their homework.

I've been posting on here, under different names, for about 5 years. It definitely used to be much lighter hearted. Now there seems to be a self righteous, sanctimonious brigade who land on humorous threads like a dead weight, sinking them beneath tons of finger wagging, taking offence where none was intended, and jumping delightedly on any word or sentence they can twist out of context in order to display their PC credentials.

Urm yup Usual you are of course correct

It was a 'fuck it' post worthy of a Saturday 'what the fuck did I post on MN last night' and dare I go and look ' post.

It has taken me this long to dare to look

Ha, ha - welcome back Swirly! I did a "fuck it" post a month or so ago late one night (possibly Saturday) and got banned. I even emailed the mods back very self righteously and totally unrepentant. A week or so later I sent another much less controversial (slightly grovelling) email to be admitted back into the fold.

Thanks bambambini lets us not speak of my 'fuck it' moment again

I blame the hip flask of whisky consumed on Bonfire night.

And I failed epically the next morning at the Rememberance day service where my DS friend started giggling quietly, then my DS and then of course me. I had to pinch my nose hard and think of terribly sad things to stop myself. Mortified I was and the vicar was facing me about 20 yards away. Earth swallowing moment.

Thanks usual

bambambini am of course dying to know your 'fuck it' moment now