Aibu...... To hand out grips

[Lewwat]

From reading MN this morning I fully expected on leaving the house to see people rushing around in a state of hysteria. To see sobbing, devastated people unable to look their daughters in the eye on the school run.

Nope.

Have a grip

You can definitely hand a grip to the TWO people who wound down their windows to yell at me this morning in car (at different times). I wasn't actually doing anything wrong or even blocking road either time (the second time, I didn't go when someone flashed me as it was going to cause a problem further down the line, but clearly he didn't realise that and thought it was reason to yell at me).

World gone mad, I tell ya.

YANBU

Such a shame that hand wringing is not yet recognised as an Olympic sport.

Tbf in RL the only people that I have heard overly upset or in tears about this are my family in USA, so they have a right to be tbh especially as they are in Trump states in different areas

such a shame hand wringing is not yet recognised as an Olympic sport

^we'd definitely win gold!

piglet Totally understandable if people are in USA.
Methinks the majority on MN are not

Anyone who indulges in that MN cliché of ‘handing out grips’ is invariably a tedious bore.

Yes, this. And I also don't get why you can't just, you know, leave election threads unopened?

I'm pleased there's an uproar, it shows people care and are concerned about the future.

Are you going to hand out a grip to the man who was held up at gunpoint twice and in New York when the towers fell who said he'd never been more frightened?

How about a grip for the women who have said they're scared to wear their hijab?

It must be nice to live in the kind of bubble where you can dismiss a xenophobic sexist bigot becoming President as an irrelevance.

Someone on another thread has declared they are wearing full on black today.... in mourning or something

Someone else 'couldn't eat'

Ridiculous.... but only seen this on MN. As usual

How about a head tilt to go with your twattish grip

lewatt. But it's the end of the world! He's gonna 'push the button' (have had a SugaBabes earworm for days now)! We're all gonna die! Oh, also - all the people who voted for him are uneducated/old/poor (delete according to disapproval of a particular demographic whilst pontificating about Trump's racism and misogyny).

Shaking and crying right now actually couldn't give a fuck as Clinton was just as awful, and the fact she lost kinda proves it

No thanks, pet. We can get our own grips as required. Carry on gazing at the navel of yours.

Head fully tilted in full twat position, goady fucker face fully on whilsting sugarbabes....

Whistling serves me right for using my phone

I wonder what would happen on here if Corbyn ever got elected? Palpitations and attacks of the vapours? Sorry, but I'm joining the OP in tossing out a few grips. What's done is done. Don't like him, don't like Clinton. One of them had to win it. Not eating and wearing black is just.... Maybe join an am-dram group as an outlet for your more theatrical tendencies, eh?

I don't think the OP actually knows much about politics and the way countries are inextricably linked. Remember Bush and how he dragged the UK/Blair into war? And that in turn had a knock-on effect with the inception of ISIS, which caused the flood of refugees ... That is just one example that illustrates how we can be affected by US politics and why people are worried. Trump is set to be much worse.

Here's what I love about the British public.

They get outraged about an election in America. It distresses and depresses them. Much hand wringing and emotional turmoil.

And yet, they couldn't give a flying fuck about homelessness in our country, about child poverty, about cuts in benefits for the disabled, about the shoddy treatment of the elderly, the collapsing NHS and an education system which consistently fails vunerable kids.

Save your shock and horror for the very real circumstances of the very real people living right under your nose.

How do you know what anyone gives a flying fuck about? Today we are talking about Trump because .... it happened today.

Save your sweeping generalizations and baseless assumptions for.... well, just save them, and bin them, and don't be so stupid.

And yet, they couldn't give a flying fuck about homelessness in our country, about child poverty, about cuts in benefits for the disabled, about the shoddy treatment of the elderly, the collapsing NHS and an education system which consistently fails vunerable kids.

How on earth did you get to that assumption?

They get outraged about an election in America. It distresses and depresses them. Much hand wringing and emotional turmoil

You do get that what happens in America has no small impact on what happens here, right? You do get that Trump is now the most powerful man in the world? And we live in the world. As if it needed explaining....

I knew this would be about Trump.
I agree with u OP.

If everyone gave more thought to the "little" people. The people in poverty, struggling etc then maybe we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with ay?

But no, stand there in your black clothes being devastated branding people who have literally got fuck all to lose as stupid.

clap clap clap

I agree there are some people being particularly dramatic, but its a good sign that people still do care about whats going on in the world.

Caring about the result of the presidential election doesnt mean the problems of the uk are forgotten not sure why you would think that.

chicky. Because I've yet to see a thread on here where an OP decides to wear black/not eat because she or he is 'distraught' at the existence of any of the issues I mentioned...