What's all this flipping tinkly laughing?

[MardyBra]

And bloody head-tilting?

Haven't been on MN much recently, and I've come back to find that the standard advice for dealing with MILs, SILs and Wendys is to say something passive aggressive with a head tilt and a tinkly laugh.

What's wrong with an assertive down-to-earth: "MIL, I know you want to spoil the grandkids with a large box of Quality Street for their tea, but I'd prefer it if you could feed them kale and quinoa. Thanks."

Instead the standard advice being doled out is increasingly a passive aggressive: "We don't want them getting fat MIL" [head tilt].

Fuck that.

Oh and anyone who posts a head tilt with a tinkly laugh as a reply needs to be banished to Nethuns.

You're not alone.

Actually I think I'm incapable of tinkly laughing anyway. I'm more a loud belly laugher à la Brian Blessed.

Maybe "a la" is wrong there. Makes Brian Blessed sound a bit feminine.

Thanks Sissy. Love the user name btw.

PA people need to fuck off, it is the WORST way of dealing with things.

I've noticed the tinkly laugh thing and for absolutely no good reason at all it really irritates me.

I just practised a tinkly laugh and the dog jumped off my lap.

Op agree tell it how it is.

Genuinely LOL'd at green.

I wonder if there is a positive correlation between the tinkly laughers and the lighthearted.

Tinkly laugh is the worst. But where have you been OP? I think that it has become a parody of itself by now around here?

I always imagine people who write like that look and sound like Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter.

MN BS like saying Nethuns, just because you don't like Netmums.

Tinkly laughers aren't the only ones who need to grow up.

ah come on, you surely know that MN is nowt like the olden days

I worked for a boss who did a head tilt AND a tinkly laugh in RL. Her continued survival is a testament to my anger management skills.

"But where have you been OP?"
Hi Queen. I hadn't disappeared totally, just not as addicted to MN as I was a few years ago. I miss the daft threads, but I saw TiggyD did a good one about posh cafés the other day.

Head tilt and a Brian Blessed belly laugh would be awesome though. It'd have everyone backing away slowly in the blink of an eye ...

Looks like Rainbow needed a lighthearted warning.

Totally agree - I just think "oh give over, you'd never laugh and say that"

And "lighthearted" can fuck right off

Seeing makes me want to spoon my eyeballs out.

It is far worse written down, for reasons that I cannot explain, than someone attempting a tinkly laugh in real life (See Angela Lansbury playing affected Mrs fucking Claus) or some real life display of passive aggression.

YANBU.

Trying not to rise to it Funnys

I attempted a tinkly laugh once. It came out as a maniacal cackle.

Yep, I think it's the new "did you mean to be so rude" in terms of how fucking un-useful it is

And biscuits can fuck right off while we're here

You ok hun? Would a spa day help?