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Original poster

Fuck off with your fucking balloons

330 replies

MaryofMislethwaiteManor · 15/12/2018 11:13

Alright, hands up, I’m hungover to fuck from a big party last night (free bar and free food which no one was bloody well eating Hmm) and I have to go to a two year old’s party later (I might eat a very rare burger for lunch to try and get out of that, as last time I did that the world fell out of my bottom Blush)

But I’ve just seen on Facebook that they’re currently in the process of blowing up 500 FIVE HUNDRED balloons to fill the restaurant (yes, the two year old is having their party at 7pm in a restaurant Confused)

WHY? WHY??? Why would you just willy nilly leave 500 balloons floating around to just remain in a horrid wrinkly plastic shape for the next 1000 years, or blow away and just hang on a tree, or smother a bloody I don’t know, marlin in the sea? Why????????? And why would you spend your day blowing up 500 balloons???

Arghhhhhh it’s going to be such a long day.

OP posts:
Mumshotel · 15/12/2018 11:28

Fucking Macbeth. Dear lord

InSwamTiddler · 15/12/2018 11:28

Rage 😂
Omg this is amazing!
How do you know these people? They must be family because surely no one could be friends with such insufferable twats

KeepServingTheDrinks · 15/12/2018 11:29

What an utterly Brilliant Name!!!! Xmas Grin Xmas Grin Xmas Grin
Do they use the first half of it or the second?

We really fucked up with DD. I wonder if 17's too late to rename her?

Mumshotel · 15/12/2018 11:29

Maybe he wouldn't be so angry if he got more sleep, didn't have a shit name and got smothered with 500 balloons

InSwamTiddler · 15/12/2018 11:29

I’m hungover to fuck today too so I’m feeling your pain... I think I’d rather throw myself off a bridge than attend that party

InSwamTiddler · 15/12/2018 11:30

@Mumshotel 😂

Original poster
MaryofMislethwaiteManor · 15/12/2018 11:30

Yes, unfortunately the kid in question is my second cousin. Funnily enough his dad, my actual cousin, was always completely normal.

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InSwamTiddler · 15/12/2018 11:31

I hope little Mac “free sleeps” through his party 🙊

shamofamockery · 15/12/2018 11:31

I kind of feel like you should go, to live blog about it on here for our benefit, OP. That sounds fair, right?

Macbeth. Jesus wept.

BluthsFrozenBananas · 15/12/2018 11:32

They’re the sort of parents who haven’t realised that the toddler is the centre of their world but not the centre of everybody else’s, aren’t they?

Two year old birthday parties should be a few sandwiches and a Peppa pig cake at 4pm, ideally at their home or a relatives house, at a push the local church hall.

Lovemusic33 · 15/12/2018 11:32

A 2 year old having a party at 7pm and eating Chinese 😮, sounds like a odd children’s party to me, probably more fun for parents than kids.

500 balloons is just a huge waste of rubber/plastic and I don’t think I could handle trying to eat with 500 balloons floating around the room (probably with kids chasing them).

Janleverton · 15/12/2018 11:33

Well Macbeth did murder sleep. They maybe can’t help but freesleep if he’s living up to his name! 😂

InSwamTiddler · 15/12/2018 11:35

Please please please keep us updated later

Original poster
MaryofMislethwaiteManor · 15/12/2018 11:35

I can’t go!

I probably have to go. Oh my god. I’m a mess.

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rose789 · 15/12/2018 11:35

Oh my days! That sounds like hell especially with a hangover. Macbeth- wowsers!!!

CleanBee · 15/12/2018 11:36

What do theatre friends call him? The Tartans? The Scottish Kid? Wink

Lovemusic33 · 15/12/2018 11:36

You must go, we need updates 😁

Tinty · 15/12/2018 11:37

I do know he does play therapy once a week to help him deal with his rage. Ie, toddler tantrums.

Personally I think he needs the play therapy, because when he realises what a godawful name they have given him, he is going to be really angry. Grin.

recently · 15/12/2018 11:37

You do realize they are going to find out about this post when it gets picked up by the dm? but don't let that stop you liveblovging it

Stormy76 · 15/12/2018 11:38

Seriously ....free sleeping, play therapy to deal with tantrums, called Macbeth .......WTF how is that kid going to cope at school?

shamofamockery · 15/12/2018 11:38

Chinese food will be a brilliant hangover cure though..........Wink

Aridane · 15/12/2018 11:38

Sounds like a fun adults party / gathering (with a 2 year old in attendance and using their birthday party as an excuse). Would love to go to a party at a Chinese restaurant with a buffet.

< misses the point about balloons >

IAteMyGrandma · 15/12/2018 11:39

As an adult, the rubber waste annoys me - but the child in me thinks this would be fantastic!! Grin

recently · 15/12/2018 11:39

My kids used to go to nursery with a kid who "freeslept". He was chronically tired and would beat up the other kids before keeling over into his lunch.Hmm

Juells · 15/12/2018 11:39

MaryofMislethwaiteManor
The kind of parents whose two year old does ‘free sleeping’ and generally stays up until 11pm.

Haha my children did 'free sleeping' but that was down to laziness, there was no way I'd blow up 500 balloons.