Salivating over meeting children-gross

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The speaker of the House of Commons has said today that he went to meet some schoolchildren and 'positively salivated over the experience'
AIBU to think this is entirely inappropriate? And gross?

Are you under the impression he was:

a) sexually aroused, or
b) drooled on the kids?

If not, you're being unnecessarily dramatic and silly.

Like most of the elite he eats children. He just let it slip.

I think coming from any one else, yes it would be weird. But have you ever watched the houses of common? John Bercow has a very formal , dramatic and old fashioned way of speaking, and as it was him I'd not be concerned. He will simply mean he was delighted to go. Not he was salivating about meeting little kids.

It was a strange choice of word, but I can see how it was “inappropriate”. Why should anyone be concerned about this, OP?

Oh that is really really foul.

Did he actually say that??

He is a horrible little toad of a man, I would not be impressed if he was salivating over meeting my little girl. What an insensitive terrible choice of words.

Yes and absolutely inappropriate given there is still a child sex abuse investigation running involving parliament. Gross.

BTW I hear grannies and perhaps the odd mother call children scrumptious or delicious. I have NEVER heard a man describe a child like this for all the reasons we know.

I read somewhere (probably here!) that he adopted that... interesting style of speech at university after reading some Jane Austen. It fairly often sort of fails to land, as here. I suspect he's not half as posh as his wife he likes to give out.

before people start completely going off on one, read RevokeRemainRebuild's post of 15:28.
If she is correct (and I don't know I didn't hear it) then everyone is frothing over something that didn't even happen. Maybe people should be sure of their facts before they start calling people disgusting, gross and insinuating all sorts of impropriety.
I'm no fan of John Bercow - but I'm even less of a fan of people making wild accusations without transcript or video footage to back it up.

And also:
VERB
secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
"the delicious aroma of rich stews made us salivate"
technical
cause (a person or animal) to produce an unusually copious secretion of saliva.
Display great relish at the sight or prospect of something
"I was fairly salivating at the prospect of a $10 million loan"D
My bold.

Because I think we all know what you're trying to get at and you're the one making it inappropriate.

Drooling over someone is only used normally to indicate sexual attraction. So don't play obtuse like you have no idea why someone would think it's a strange comment to make about children.

OP, I suspect this is one of those things you say and immediately hear yourself say, then cringe like your face is imploding. It is gross, but I also think it was just a bit of a brain fart.

Only if you're looking to sexualise what was meant as an innocent statement

This.

I imagine it was a joke

It was an odd choice of words and yy considering there is an ongoing although not very well publicised any more enquiry into sexual abuse in the Commons then I think that makes it even more inappropriate.

I dislike him and his pretensions.

What an extremely odd way of putting it.

I agree with you OP. He seems to be a very unpleasant character and I wouldn’t put it past him to used deliberately dubious language for the sheer enjoyment of demonstrating he’s untouchable.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3396169-John-Bercow-sex-pest-ridicules-GC-Women-friend-of-Pink-News-Edward-Lord-who-refused-UQ-about-prison-policy-following-Karen-White-Case-Unconnected

According to Hansard, he said "As the hon. Gentleman knows, I visited his constituency with him to speak to school students some time ago, and I positively salivated over the experience, so I can quite understand why others would want to visit Shipley"

here's the transcript

in reply to Philip Davies member for Shipley

It is totally clear from this that John Bercow was NOT saying he was salivating over children but over visiting Shipley. The discussion was about visiting Shipley and him saying how nice it was and Davies' complaint that he hadn't been informed of some previous visits.

The phrase 'salivating' is not used about children at all. Maybe OP would like to return and explain why she started a thread of insinuations about someone that are based on an assertion of hers that is comletely untrue ?

As I said - not a Bercow fan - but also don't feel the need to make up stupid lies and start threads about him.

It's a rather unpleasant image.

YABU and weird.

Hello ... OP? Gone a bit quiet

Oh well maybe I am weird.
As I heard it, he was saying he positively salivated over visiting the children in the constituency.

Someone asked me what salivating meant- i think you salivate when you are hungry for something. And saying you're hungry for children sounds odd to me.

I still maintain that it would concern me IRL if someone said they were salivating about the thought of meeting some children.
But that's just me.

I still maintain that it would concern me IRL if someone said they were salivating about the thought of meeting some children.
But that's just me

Then you should start a thread to debate this fictional scenario.
'AIBU to worry about someone saying something I think is gross even though they didn't say it, and I made it up' - could be your title.

Someone asked me what salivating meant- i think you salivate when you are hungry for something. And saying you're hungry for children sounds odd to me.

Well no but saying that Shipley makes you drool is quite strange enough.

It must have run through your mind that, on balance, it was unlikely he was outing himself as a paedophile by discussing children in erotic terms in public?

It's really distasteful that you've called someone into question in this way and can't be big enough to properly retract it.

Doesn't sound very innocent