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Wrinkly laugh

20 replies

MrTrebus · 17/10/2018 22:31

It really is the most amazing thing just do a little tinkly laugh, sat what you want to say and somehow come across not rude!

"Trebus would you like to come to this party?"

"No and you've only invited me last minute because you feel guilty tinkly laugh"

They laughed back and I did more tinkly laugh then backed away slowly. I can now see them on the other side of the room looking perplexed. Thank you tinkly laugh for giving me the courage to say what I think and get away with it without seeming rude!

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MrTrebus · 17/10/2018 22:32

FFS fuck a duck. Clearly meant TINKLY laugh.

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ChasedByBees · 17/10/2018 22:32

Sorry but Grin

IStandWithPosie · 17/10/2018 22:33

Do you know, ive heard of tinkly little laugh so many times on MN but I really struggle to imagine what it actually sounds like and whether by ive actually ever heard one IRL.

GloomyMonday · 17/10/2018 22:34

"Thank you tinkly laugh for giving me the courage to say what I think and get away with it without seeming rude!"

I'm glad you feel assertive but please don't be under the impression that they didn't find you rude and confrontational. Of course they did. That's what they're talking about now.

Maybe you weren't invited in the first tranche because you do passive aggressive stuff like this?

Aprilislonggone · 17/10/2018 22:35

I am 47, would that constitute as a wrinkly laugh?!

MrTrebus · 17/10/2018 22:37

I've never done it before Gloomy! That's why I feel so heroic. I usually am the doormat and because it's family they feel it's easy to leave me out for some reason "Trebus won't mind" this is the first time I've ever stood up for myself but I couldn't do it straight up confrontationally so I used the tinkly laugh. Person in question just looked perplexed alone then just started chatting to someone else. No conspiracy.

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FlowThroughIt · 17/10/2018 22:41

"I really struggle to imagine what it actually sounds like"

I've only ever heard it from cunts, so luckily you don't know any or the ones you do know don't laugh.

IStandWithPosie · 17/10/2018 22:42

Grin flow!

Villainelle · 17/10/2018 22:46

I imagine the tinkly laugh to sound like Dolores Umbridges little laugh.

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RibbonAurora · 18/10/2018 01:53

Clearly your target for the wasn't a fellow mner or they would have come back with a patented accompanied by, of course, the obligatory mn .

Yeah OP, still twatty and rude no matter how you slice it.

MozzieMagnet · 18/10/2018 02:13

I like the original title - Thought it was a thread about crows' feet.

sansouci · 18/10/2018 03:36

Yeah. Go wrinklies! I'm not there yet, though.

steff13 · 18/10/2018 03:47

I imagine the tinkly laugh to sound like Dolores Umbridges little laugh.

Me too!

Loonoon · 18/10/2018 04:28

My mum and her two sisters are the world champions of the passive aggressive comment backed up by a tinkly laugh and quite often a head tilt. They might think they being cute or clever or funny (TBF sometimes they actually are quite funny), but most of the time they are just rude, unpleasant, bitchy and very hard work to be around like non drag versions of the old act ‘Hinge and Bracket’. They don’t get many party invitations.

LongSummerDays · 18/10/2018 10:12

Thank you tinkly laugh for giving me the courage to say what I think and get away with it without seeming rude!

No, you didn't seem rude.

You were rude.

dinkydonky · 18/10/2018 10:26

Ahh, the good old passive-aggressive laugh. Yes, it's incredibly rude. Sometimes that's necessary though.

ahouseofleaves · 18/10/2018 14:46

Yes, probably rude. But sometimes you get tired of being invited out of guilt or to make up numbers. I would have said it without tinkly laugh.

SlowlyShrinking · 18/10/2018 14:53

It’s a start, op! Maybe next time you can say it without the laugh? I don’t think most of these comments apply to you if this is the first time you’ve ever done it though Smile

ilovesooty · 18/10/2018 15:49

The tinkly laugh thing is ridiculous and indicative of near non existent social skills. Try working on your assertiveness and interaction with others. The content of the OP is cringe worthy.

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