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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:
ChesterGreySideboard · 15/12/2018 19:00

Right. It’s 7.00. Are you there yet?

Original poster
MaryofMislethwaiteManor · 15/12/2018 19:02

I’m on my way. With a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird as suggested from the present list of literary classics.

OP posts:
Philomensapie · 15/12/2018 19:13

That poor boy. Macbeth, Chinese buffet, literary classics... Xmas Sad

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 15/12/2018 19:14

Ok surely your just taking the piss OP.

im quite sure little Scottish child will delighted with to kill a mockingbird or prehaps he'll look at it and chew it a littke and then throw it at his parents.

Surely this isnt real, macbeth, a 2 year olds birthday at 7 pm, literary classics suggeated as presents, in fact there being a present list in the first place, no parent is that pertentious

SparklyMagpie · 15/12/2018 19:24

Take it you had a spare copy

Blii · 15/12/2018 19:28

This is hilarious. It has to be fake Grin Grin Grin

NewGrandad · 15/12/2018 19:35

I hate balloons but wish I'd called one of my sons MacBeth.

That is so cool.

MummatoaMunchkin · 15/12/2018 19:49

GUYS!! Dont for the love of god google freesleeping, if brought up sex video link!!!

All i wanted to know was what the hell free sleeping is!!

Also Op good luck! I know you are dying but this thread cheerd me right up!!

Also i love balloons and use any excuse to get some but 500 is a bit much (says the mother who got 10 for her sons 1st 😂)

ChesterGreySideboard · 15/12/2018 19:56

I’m guessing ‘free sleeping’ is when you allow the child to sleep when they want to rather than instigating a bedtime.

user1474894224 · 15/12/2018 19:56

I knew there was a present list! Grin

sue51 · 15/12/2018 19:59

I can't get past free sleeping.The parents sound grim. Stay home and nurse that hangover.

GlitterStick · 15/12/2018 20:02

A two year old's party in a restaurant at 7pm?!
With the remnants of a hangover to boot?!
Fk that lol.
I thought you were going to say in a soft play area - noisy hell pits without a hangover as it is Grin
Who in their right mind has a toddler party in a restaurant at night?!
Overtired, hyped up whingebags then.
Or maybe that's just mine Confused
Throw in a gazillion balloons for them to bonkers with- gah, uh no.

ICJump · 15/12/2018 20:08

This is the thread that keeps giving

MummatoaMunchkin · 15/12/2018 20:08

@ChesterGreySideboard ah i see! That makes sense just wasnt sure!

Cadburyssurpriseegg · 15/12/2018 20:09
Xmas Smile
Soubriquet · 15/12/2018 20:12

No way has an adult asked “to kill a mockingbird” for their 2 year old’s birthday?! Hmm

Tbh I would have turned up with a toot toot set just to see their faces

MessyMummy15 · 15/12/2018 20:15

Joining just to see if Little Mcbeth has slept through the whole thing...

CanuckBC · 15/12/2018 20:22

Your cousin and wife are over the top ridiculous with their precious. The name, the 500 balloons ( if they got finished blowing them up), the choice of gifts! That poor child definitely needs therapy and it’s not due to tantrums, but due to his fucked up parents! Hopefully it’s family counselling and the counsellor will put them right. That kid will end up seriously messed up otherwise🤪

Dimsumlosesum · 15/12/2018 20:24

Wait, they had a preset wish list of classics, for a 2 year old?

Lougle · 15/12/2018 20:27

That's confusing. There were no babies born in either England or Wales in 2016 or 2017, or Scotland in 2016, named "Macbeth" according to the Office of National Statistics and the National Records of Scotland.

I'm not sure I'm with this thread.

SneakyGremlinsBrokeTheSleigh · 15/12/2018 20:29

Might be "Mac" on the birth certificate.

strawberrypenguin · 15/12/2018 20:32

@Lougle not commenting on whether this thread is true or not but the baby name stats are only published down to 3 children with the name for privacy reasons.

ChanklyBore · 15/12/2018 20:32

The ONS only list names which have been given to more than 2 children for reasons of confidentiality.

Not sure that’s the biggest bone of contention on the thread, but hey it matters not, it’s funny!

ChesterGreySideboard · 15/12/2018 20:33

ONS only show if there is three or more children of the same name in England and Wales.

However a birth certificate search shows no Macbeths either.

MumW · 15/12/2018 20:33

He’s an only child and will remain so because of environmental factors
But all those "environmentally" friendly ballons.Confused

Poor kid.
Poor you