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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:
Lougle · 15/12/2018 20:41

Either way, I think it's a pretty mean thread. If choosing an unconventional name, blowing up some balloons and hiring a Chinese restaurant is fair game for inviting the ridicule of whole forum behind their back, I'm glad I'm not in their family.

sparklepops123 · 15/12/2018 20:42

I’ve browsed this post most of today .. it was the Balloons !
Your taking English lit for a 2 yr old party
Nooooooo . God help Christmas ( might help out,as relative) 🤪

WarCat · 15/12/2018 20:44

Oh I thought this was going to be a rant aimed at Pennywise

Strugglingonagain · 15/12/2018 20:48

Placemarking for updates!

isitisitwicked · 15/12/2018 20:50
Grin
Philomensapie · 15/12/2018 20:52

a rant aimed at Pennywise.

Philomensapie · 15/12/2018 20:53

Forgot to add: Xmas Grin

Starlight456 · 15/12/2018 21:00

Please suggest they write a blog then post the link

Jaxtellerswife · 15/12/2018 21:09

How weird to laugh at a 2 year olds name... must be a joke I'm not getting. Maybe I'm too nice

Redglitter · 15/12/2018 21:56

I can't believe people think this is worthy of a nomination to classics. I mean really? A thread mocking a 2 year old - a classic? Confused

GlitterStick · 15/12/2018 22:48

Classics?! Wot? Classics used to actually be classics, do we put just anything in there now? Grin

Philomensapie · 16/12/2018 06:43

I don't think anyone's mocking the 2yo, we're mocking the deranged parents. I feel sorry for the 2yo.

ChristmasFlary · 16/12/2018 06:52

Do you think the OP developed a latex allergy and died a tragic death in keeping with Macbeth..

Weenurse · 16/12/2018 07:25

Blatant place marketing

user1474894224 · 16/12/2018 07:39

Please come back and tell us how it went.

  • what is this classic thread and where do I find it?
JeezYouLoon · 16/12/2018 07:48

Where is the OP? I came on assuming this thread would have gone pfttttt.

1 MacBeth, 2 year old party and 500 balloons and a party in a Chinese sounds like a Christmas song Xmas Grin

Mumberjack · 16/12/2018 07:50

I am guessing the OP spent last night in a horrible fevered hangover sleep with dreams filled with giant balloons bouncing all over a restaurant

ememem84 · 16/12/2018 08:02

Update pls

IggyAce · 16/12/2018 08:13

I was hoping for an update.

fiona25 · 16/12/2018 17:50

I'm all for the balloons but seems rather too much for a 2 year old, in a restaurant, at 7pm!

fiona25 · 16/12/2018 17:51

And regarding free sleeping. .I got told off by the school for letting my 4 year old stay up until 8!

Touchmybum · 16/12/2018 17:56

Someone call social services because these parents if they exist are quite mad.

Littlenic73 · 16/12/2018 17:57

I've been to a 3 year old's party that started at 10pm at home, but that was Italy. We have family members who free sleep their kids and have horrendous problems getting them to cooperate with nursery or starting school. The kids spend most of their time overtired. Mine would have too as my eldest never would have gone to bed on her own volition.

athomson89 · 16/12/2018 17:57

First off, a 2yr olds party at 7pm in a Chinese restaurant is ridiculous, why are the parents being so selfish, have it through the day at a kid friendly place, maybe with a ballpitt or something that kids can actually enjoy. Secondly, the balloon thing really p**ses me off, I know it's not illegal but it should be, especially in that quantity. I watched a YouTube vid of a balloon release in I think Chicago or somewhere in the 80s and the environmental effects it caused are still a problem now. Our kids are not gonna thank us for the total destruction we are leaving them with just to have a few balloons at a party they won't even remember.

Swipetounlock · 16/12/2018 18:02

Wasteful in the extreme. The kids will get high on all the MSG and a shitstorm will ensue. I would fake illness.

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