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'Hi Op'

127 replies

Mooey89 · 23/03/2016 15:24

Hi ladies,
I've noticed a huge influx lately of people starting OPs like this, or starting responses 'hi Op'.
Don't even get me started on the X's.
Yes, yes. I know I'm a MN nazi. But I'm a purist. I don't want to be a nethun.

As you were.

OP posts:
BumWad · 23/03/2016 20:56

Bollocks YOU'RE

ClopySow · 23/03/2016 21:25

I think lo in the biblical sense is under used. We should reclaim it

"And lo, they did know it was obnobvious"

ILikeUranus · 23/03/2016 21:30

Hi OP
This is how to politely address someone who's made a thread. In the nicest most vipery possible way, get over yourself!
xx

MrsHathaway · 23/03/2016 21:32

I use Lo sometimes.

As in:

Behold the field in which I grow my fucks!
And lo! They beheld that it was barren.

I sent that by WhatsApp to a friend in reply to something and it made her chuckle.

ouryve · 23/03/2016 21:34

Hi Moeey,

I haven't RTFFT but YABVFU

HTFH

Our xx

ClopySow · 23/03/2016 21:37

And lo! Clopy did marvel at MrsHathaways great humour and she did congratulate her on her abilities.

Chocolatteaddict1 · 23/03/2016 21:37

cuntyMcCuntface wins!

Obnobvious Grin

MrsHathaway · 23/03/2016 21:41

Thanks Clopy - I did not make it up I found it on Facebook but I use it a lot.

Minutes are so boring I'm often tempted to theme them eg biblical minutes, scifi minutes.

ClopySow · 23/03/2016 21:43

Minutes as in time or minutes as in meetings?

MrsHathaway · 23/03/2016 21:58
Grin

Meeting minutes.

ClopySow · 23/03/2016 22:10

And lo! The chief executive did state that that the events manager doth spend too much money.

Damn i wish i'd thought of that in my last job, minutes were a huge part of it and writing them up was boring as shit.

I would write up utter nonsense with lots of swear words to amuse myself then obviously delete and write the boring shit.
"Following discussion, members agreed..."

OhGodWhatTheHellNow · 23/03/2016 23:19

I'd forget to do the deleting bit Blush

My minutees have no sense of humour and never miss a missing apostrophe, the fuckers, so would definitely spot the chair telling the head of housing that I Am Your Father wheeze wheeze

ClopySow · 24/03/2016 00:22

"My minutees"

I like that. They're yours. You own them. I hope they understand this.

Mine spent an awful lot of time having conversations that started "don't minute this....blah blah woof woof"

With one particular group i used to say "you can have this conversation after the meeting and i can get back to my desk". I was an upstart.

OhGodWhatTheHellNow · 24/03/2016 08:15

Mine generally end the conversation with 'don't minute that', I score out my notes very ostentatiously. Little victories... I have no power

MrsWooster · 24/03/2016 08:28

I used to get v bored whilst minuting and write things like "after some acrimonious debate, a tentative détente was established" to fill in time while they waffled on to reach a foregone conclusion.

Also did anyone else scroll thro whole wiki link to huns, hoping that a wiki mn editor had added a section on Nethuns?

EBearhug · 24/03/2016 08:49

I like to walk along when the lights have gone out (we have movement-activated light switches) saying, "she said, 'let there be light!' and lo! there was light!" as the lights come on.

It's probably the nearest thing I'll get to holding any power in this place...

MerryMarigold · 24/03/2016 12:26

Thanks to this thread, I've finally worked out what Nethuns is. I always read it as Nee-thuns and wondered (thought it was something along the lines of Neantherthals but was clearly missing a joke!)....Thank you Mrswooster Flowers

Sometimesithinkimbonkers · 24/03/2016 14:01

Cunty McCuntface....

Kid just looked at me and told me I'm WIERD !!!! I'm pissing myself laughing!!!

cbigs · 24/03/2016 14:58

this thread was mint for so many reasons. and lo! I have wasted ten minutes of my shite work day. minute that you middle management dickheads

MerryMarigold · 24/03/2016 15:36

Headline:
MN Nazis reclaim Lo! From Nethuns

jeremyisahunt · 24/03/2016 16:01

And people wonder why MN gets labelled as a 'nest of vipers'...

Guiltypleasures001 · 24/03/2016 16:05

I always do this, mainly because I have such a shit memory I instantly forget names I have the same problem with words, so I struggle with this

Thanks for pointing this out though op

Arkhamasylum · 24/03/2016 20:15

🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

viper dance

SaucyJack · 24/03/2016 21:55

They look like a row of tiny toilet ducks on my phone screen.

Clare1971 · 24/03/2016 22:05

Smack me now for the numbers thing. I'll try really hard to care.

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