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To want to put a padlock on her bloody mouth

55 replies

DerFlabberghast · 14/03/2017 16:27

So, my mother has a friend, quite an old fashioned French lady, who is always sniping about everyone's eating habits, she herself is rail thin.
This lunchtime she declined most of the food offered in a very snooty way because roast potatoes are 'something fat girls eat' (!!!!) and told me off for snacking (it was bloody fruit!) and suggested that 'if I was a slave to such habits I should think about putting a padlock on the fridge'

I have put on bout a stone after getting out of rehab and am a healthy size 12. WIBU to tell the miserable putain to shag off.

OP posts:
morningconstitutional2017 · 14/03/2017 17:06

Well! And they say that the French consider themselves to be so good at diplomacy!
They are also among the most miserable people in the world - hardly surprising.

OfaFrenchmind2 · 14/03/2017 17:13

Nice, morningconne...

2017SoFarSoGood · 14/03/2017 17:14

Der your turn of phrase is superb. Thank you for brightening my day Star

She is a cow. Congratulations - what strength you must have! Flowers

Comealongpond89 · 14/03/2017 17:14

Next time you eat with her you should have a ridiculously decadent dessert and make overly exaggerated yummy noises Grin

OfaFrenchmind2 · 14/03/2017 17:15

OP, you always tell her :"occupe toi de ton cul"

PersisFord · 14/03/2017 17:18

I have just popped on to say that I snorted coffee out of my nose at "galloping baggage". Can't wait to say that to someone!!

ShizerMinelli · 14/03/2017 17:18

Nothing to add other than "you galloping baggage" is my new go to insult.

amusedbush · 14/03/2017 17:23

I'd be a bitch too if I had never had a roast potato.

WhooooAmI24601 · 14/03/2017 17:27

You have to feel sorry for someone who never eats scampi fries or a family-size trifle in one go. Imagine a life without frazzles. Imagine never hiding in the bathroom with a double decker and a glass of wine so you won't have to share with your children.

Fuck that. You're a stone heavier because you're healthy. Whilst there's nothing healthy about being hugely overweight there's also nothing healthy about deliberately being rail thin because you've spent your life dieting. You know full well she only talks that way because she's been hungry for 400 years.

NorksAreMessy · 14/03/2017 17:28

"knacker's yard in a blouse"
"you galloping baggage"

I am completely in love Star

amusedbush · 14/03/2017 17:29

WhooooAmI24601

I hid in the bathroom and ate a bar of chocolate last weekend so I wouldn't have to give my husband a bit Grin

Butterymuffin · 14/03/2017 17:30

There's always the all-purpose 'Do you know, I really don't give a shit' . Some corkers on here though.

somewheresomehow · 14/03/2017 17:38

that is a bloody good phrase 'OP' Star

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 14/03/2017 17:40

Well done for going into and coming out of rehab OP Flowers

What a total bitch - how dare she say that to you. On the plus side, you are a far nicer person so she can fuck right off! Grin

Miserylovescompany2 · 14/03/2017 17:42

What a complete gobshite! I've no idea what that would be in French? Pay her no mind, she's obviously had a serious case of verbal diarrhoea...a couple of roast potatoes would of stemmed the flow.

TheDowagerCuntess · 14/03/2017 17:43

You have full license to be rude back.

It is a community service to give as good as you get, when dealing with unfiltered, socially inept buffoons.

They either have the hide of a rhinoceros and so won't even care - or the taste of their own medicine will do wonders for them.

ChippieBeanAndHorro · 14/03/2017 17:50

They are also among the most miserable people in the world - hardly surprising.

Biscuit

Well, she's obviously quite awful.

Good on you for not letting her get you down :)!

myshinynewusername · 14/03/2017 17:50

When I'm lying on my deathbed, I'd much rather think back on my life and think that I had a bloody good time, then think that I was hungry and miserable but at least I never put on a single pound.

Don't spend any more time around her, OP. Life is too short to spend around joy vacuums like her.

Well done on completing rehab too.

MrsJaniceBattersby · 14/03/2017 17:50

She's jealous of your youth OP
Congratulation on how far you have come

ChippieBeanAndHorro · 14/03/2017 17:50

My grandmother had a padlock on her fridge, btw...

Maybe that really was a thing, back then?

DerFlabberghast · 14/03/2017 18:28

You know full well she only talks that way because she's been hungry for 400 years

Exactly! I've seen the way she looks at food she turns down as it sails past to the next person, it's like watching a gargoyle weep.

Anyway feeling much better about it now thanks to you lot Grin

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PersisFord · 14/03/2017 18:38

GARGOYLE WEEP!!!

I wish you were an author OP. You are just so funny!!!

aintnothinbutagstring · 14/03/2017 19:20

I'd rather be a fat (and happy) girl that eats roast potatoes, her life must be so awful without roasties. Carry on eating and nourishing your body OP, I'm sure you look lovely. I think I'm much more laid back and sane now I no longer watch my weight to the extent I did in my 20s, I had a good figure but was pretty neurotic with it!

DartmoorDoughnut · 14/03/2017 19:25

You have a fantastic turn of phrase OP Grin Star

Congratulations and hope the baggage chokes on a lettuce leaf Brew

QuirstThenching · 14/03/2017 19:31

DH took drugs before I met him, gave up (gradually) as our relationship developed, and the inevitable weight gain came.

His parents complain more about that than they ever did with the drugs (he lived with them at the time)

Hmm