CoatZilla and the Barbour Boy- The Second Saga

[LanaKaneIsWeirdedOut]

Hey everyone!

Bloody hell, in all my years of MNing I've never had a response like this, I was really helped by loads of your replies, and loads made me giggle (Roast Potatoes!!) and loads made good points.

I'm sorry I can't reply to specific posts but seriously there's so many.

or for everyone who replied and is sticking with me.

So on to the update.....

CoatZilla, henceforth to be known as CZ, text again last night....

Here it is word for word.
mate, your obviously upset and that was never my intention. I'm sorry that we argued, I honestly didn't see the conversation going that way when I brought it up. I think it's better we let the dust settle for tonight in honesty. Probably best to have a calm conversation tomorrow evening?

My reply....
Yeah tomorrow evening much better I think

And she didn't come back last night (good!)

So she's made a mistake anyway......cos Dad was actually out last night ! So we'll all be sitting there when she comes back.

My plan is, to write a list of bullet points for tonight of things she definitely said, so I can't forget and she can't back out of it or claim she didn't say it (I also remembered another bit in the fucking row- where she went "Oh, so a fucking ghost did it?" in that tone of voice- fucking horrible)

Also to sit calmly and let her explain to my lovely Dad and DP that she thinks they might have maliciously cut her coat.

Then see what she says!

TBH unless she fucking grovels on her knees (not likely after that fucking last text- minimization or what??) I'm going to be asking her to pack her stuff.

I'm not being "spurred on by hysterical posters"

I have read all the replies, some have opened my eyes, some have been excusing, some have told me not to rock the friendship boat....overall I have taken a middle(ish) ground.....but tbh it's clear she is
a) weird/horrible enough to think that of her oldest friend and her family
b) fucking vicious in a row
c) now backtracking massively

So....thoughts???

And again for the troll hunters in the back......my username currently is always "LanaKanesomething", and I've had various other names going back years.....so bloody well report me and see what MN has to say, yeah?

Thanks @MyFartWillGoOn

Still no update ? I may have to resort to even more obscure poets.

The probability is that PineappleLumps is NOT coatzilla or barbour. There are always a range of opinions on big threads.

I think that the aspects of online forums that make them almost additive also result in having the ability to disappear.

We do not know why the OP has not updated but she is in her rights and we just have to stay hanging on or tune out of it.

Oh come onnnnnn @LanaKaneIsWeirdedOut - give us something!

Can't stand all this pleeeeeeze update. We've all been had. I'm out.

Au contraire, AmI - I thoroughly enjoyed all the poetry, including the Haikus, and indeed, contributed a limerick (of sorts )

However, I think the more the merrier, and I also like wild speculation. There are some amazingly imaginative and hilarious individuals on here, and it makes my humdrum life a sheer joy to read them - especially when a thread doesn't just leave the rails, but hurtles over the cliff full of shrieking MNers.

'Tis my raison d'etre.

The Pregzilla Drink Thief story was left hanging too

I was so over-invested in that thread . . . .

An Ode from Mr Kipling (who makes exceedingly good cakes)

If you can keep your coat when all about you
Are cutting theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all mn doubt you,
But make allowance for their Barbours too;
If you can update and not be tired by updating,
Or being sighed about, don’t deal in sighs,
Or being baited, don’t give way to baiting,
And yet don’t eat a spud, nor talk expensive buys....

But the CF lunch thread WAS updated. OP came back, stated that the CF colleague had paid in full and she wouldn't be updating any more. However many people inexplicably expected ongoing updates.

Sometimes stories like these just fizzle out. There's not always a big dramatic finale.

Beautiful Jackie . . . just beautiful . . .

However many people inexplicably expected ongoing updates.

We were just curious as to whether she kept the lunch club going, or close it down, Tiny.

What was the pregzilla drink thread? Is it still around?

I salute you @fazakerleyjackie

Excellent Jackie

Hahahaha. Jackie, fab.

@BallacheForLife : AIBU to think don't keep taking my drink at work (the pregzilla drink thread 😁)

Yeats ?
He who wishes for the coats of Heaven -

Had I the Barbour’s waxen coated coat, Enclosed with gold or silver zips,
The blue and the olive and the dark coats,
Of field and copse, or city lights,
I would spread the coat under your feet.
But I, being poor, have only scissors.
I have spread your coat upon the floor,
Be careful, or you tread on the blades.

Thankee. Enjoying the larks, and excellent company of your good selves.

Presently, skirting-board-painting-avoidant.
Distract, distract, distract.

Coat or skirting?
No contest.

Ah thanks @CoffeeBeansGalore don't know whether to read or whether it will annoy me too much

SirVix
Yeats. Yes. A stunning performance. Your servant Sir.

"Think where MN's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

I think my ee cummings was slightly creepier.

For Sir Vix ( et al)

I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools cut it,
Wore it in the world’s eyes
As though they’d snipped it.
Song, let them take it
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.

Popped back for the poetry, which is fantastic. Couldn't give a FF about the outcome, the OP, the Lodger or the coat.
The verse is outstanding!!

There are some amazing poets on this thread!

But the CF lunch thread WAS updated. OP came back, stated that the CF colleague had paid in full and she wouldn't be updating any more. However many people inexplicably expected ongoing updates

Wasn't that the thread about a CF not paying for her food? The Pregzilla Thief thread was about a pregnant woman nicking the OP's drink.