To ask about the weird things you only learned from MN?

[Blanchedupetitpois]

It seems like in MN world there are all kinds of rules that I swear I’ve never seen expressed or followed in real life. What have you been most surprised by? I’ll start:

1. Adults don’t celebrate birthdays, and if you expect any recognition of yours, you’re being childish.

1. Halloween is exclusively an American import with no history in this country, and celebrating it is therefore tacky and meaningless.

1. Trick or treating is glorified begging.

1. Absolutely nobody other than you or your DP is remotely interested in your pregnancy, and even telling another person that you’re pregnant is akin to riding a donkey down the high street while calling for palm fronds to be laid at your feet in recognition of the impending miracle of your unborn child.

They are not meatballs. They are made with a meat and offal mixture wrapped in caul.

Because they're not fucking meatballs.

No Salem I haven't been spiteful or nasty at all, I'm using language because I can. It's hardly my fault you're offended.
Telling me that I'm full of hate and spite is thoroughly unpleasant though. If you're referring to the term 'go boil your head' it's a phrase I grew up with and there is no malice in it at all, it simply means you're annoying me so go away.

Meatballs are made with minced meat and breadcrumbs

Anyway. Isn’t it about half 3 in the morning in Australia? You are up late frothing.

Well thank fuck we’re not in your country Salem. How boring to have ‘car’ inscribed on your Porsche or ‘vegetable’ on your King Edwards packet. What a boring use of language.

@visitorsentrance.

That everyone needs an Argos Raven

@VisitorsEntrance I am currently in Perth where it is 12:32am. I am also a shift worker usually and on holiday but my body clock can't seem to switch to holiday mode.

Faggots aren't meatballs, pizzas or ice creams. They are bloody faggots FTLOG!

Seems like your mind can't either.

I don’t think having a pop at everyone on here will be putting you into sleep mode Salem your heart rate must be through the roof.

@ThroughThickAndThin01 Lol our products are not worded as plainly as that. But a meat ball made of meat, offal etc - whatever ingredient, it is still a meat ball wouldn't be allowed to be called a 'faggot', just as black shoe polish, for example, wouldn't be allowed to be called N-gg-r Shoe Polish'.

Who knew there were countries where you can label food or products as they are without using outdated and offensive terms? Such a difficult concept to grasp. smh

SalemBlackCat4

People in glass houses...

I'm pretty sure this word is offensive in the rest of the English speaking world.

am surprised it is even allowed on there. In my country the company would be told by Fair Trading they have to change the name or they would lose their licence to make/sell the product. Names like that are simply not allowed on packaging.

Really?

Yes but shoe polish is shoe polish.

A faggot is an item of food, it is not a meatball. It’s like calling an apple crumble an apple pie. Basically the same ingredients but two different things.

iklboo

That's hilarious!

Don't feed the troll faggots

I've learnt some wierd things however, it has also made me more aware of the struggles someone goes through especially if they have a child with learning disabilities.

I think its helped me become more emotionally aware and realise there have been times when I've been an utter twat. I'm incrediably fiesty and blunt and its made me realise that I need to try to calm this down.

Plus after reading some threads about gender pay gap/women not going for jobs because they don't necesarily have the experience but men would. I went for a job and got it. I wouldn't have done this without reading some of threads on here.

SBC you must either be trolling or you are hard of thinking. Faggots have been an English staple food for centuries. Try one, you may like it. Maybe we should all send you a packet for Christmas.

@ThroughThickAndThin01 No, heart and blood pressure is fine. If anything I am more depressed at having to respond to all this. Never thought that people would be outraged at someone simply saying something is an offensive slur. In 2018. What a bizarre world. Trump's America. The re-grouping of far right extremism, anti-semitism, and now people on here saying a slur is ok because, well, just because it has different meanings in another country when it is a universal slur. We've gone backwards as a society in general. No tolerance, no consideration for anyone else; I will use whatever term I want, fuck you! And saying they wish they could blow smoke in someone's face as well, the mocking. Just feral and really hateful, spiteful and nasty. I don't understand it because I'm not used to that behaviour. It's like the type of behaviour one hears about or sees on tv, for e.g People asked not to smoke in a no-smoking area, so the person goes and blows a mouthful of smoke in the employees face to spite them. That type of selfish, spiteful, immature and really vicious way of thinking. I just wonder what happened to people to make them so hard-hearted and so selfish and nasty that the person asking someone to exercise consideration be it on here or elsewhere is the one who deserves to be ganged up on, as if that person is the one in the wrong. What a messed up world.

Pretty certain I have heard lots of Aussies say they are vegging out as opposed to relaxing, as in plonking oneself on the sofa and not moving like a vegetable which happens to.be a derogatory term in this case.

@Notwiththeseknees N-gg-r brand shoe polish was a thing in America if not for 'centuries' then for decades. Same as golliwogs. Just because it 'been that way for centuries' doesn't make it right. Most countries evolve. I guess there are those that don't.

Nice ones DontCall and iklboo.

Pot kettle salem

They actually call a cheese that? Now that really IS offensive.