Over 200 toilet rolls in my yoga lounge

[LonelyAngel]

I know we mustn't panic buy, but my two children, Jocasta and Oliver, simply must come first. I couldn't bear to think of them struggling in the weeks and months ahead without toilet roll, so yes, we did stock up. Plenty of dried pasta too, but the artisan variety, not supermarket stodge. Oliver wants to make a play fort out of the rolls, and Jocasta is thinking about turning them into a portrait of Greta Thunberg, but I have explained the importance of them and they have been very mature about it. The thing is, my friend who is a single mum (she lives on the local council estate but is actually quite intelligent) has told me she cannot get a single loo roll for her 3 kids (all under 5). I feel for her but I don't want to share, because Jocasta and Oliver simply must come first. Am I being unreasonable?

But it isn’t remotely clever or funny. Quite happy to have a sense of humour about something that is.

I didn't realise a loss of sense of humour was a symptom of COVID-19..

Quite so. But then again, difficult to lose something if you never had it in the first place....

I didn't realise a loss of sense of humour was a symptom of COVID-19...

Nope it's a symptom of Mumsnet nowadays! You must put lighthearted in brackets in the title else people get wery wery upset!

Where do you live?

Might have been vaguely amusing if the OP was poking fun at herself and the ridiculousness of buying a store full of loo roll but the snobbery just takes the piss.

I wouldn't name my DD after a woman who had sex with her son, I know it's mythology but there you go.

Yeah I just don’t think that feeding the myth that there are some evil people (women, of course) who are stockpiling goods at the expense of others is actually helpful. It’s natural to want to find a scapegoat but it isn’t actually healthy. You saw stereotypes like this in ww2 - traitors living in luxury while the rest of us suffer, damaging the war effort etc. It’s just urban myths, not related to anything in reality.

You're so sweet LovelyAngel. You've put a smile on my face this morning.

There aren't many who can make toilet rolls into a work of art or an adventure playground. Well done you!

News Flash.

Family killed by vegetables, cans, pasta and toilet rolls after upper floor collapses and crushes them to death.

BovaryX Wed 18-Mar-20 10:30:17
I didn't realise a loss of sense of humour was a symptom of COVID-19..

Quite so. But then again, difficult to lose something if you never had it in the first place....
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You talking about virginity? A poster's son lost that the other day, I thought he was really careless. I'm pleased to say I know where mine went.

I get you're trying to be funny, and I'm not offended by it, it's just....not really very funny is it? Weird

Loss of sense of humour

What part of a single mother- who is actually quite intelligent- on the council estate with 3 babies and no basics in the house is rip-roaringly funny?

I keep mine in my cedar lined chest, with all my cashmere. keeps them safe and they also smell heavenly.

Yoga lounge is not a good option, all the loose paper dust there might interfere with the air purifier.

Yoga is so good for being entered while my lovely yoga teacher is stuck on her retreat in Nevada.

You talking about virginity? A poster's son lost that the other day, I thought he was really careless. I'm pleased to say I know where mine went

Great you know where yours went. But much as you might want to discuss it, this is about a sense of humour loss....

Oh dear!

centered not entered.

Ha ha. The faux outrage and virtual signalling in the replies is funnier than the opening post.

Ha ha. The faux outrage and virtual signalling in the replies is funnier than the opening post

I think this thread is heading for oblivion.....

Well you made me laugh, OP!

Well I’m chuckling.

ChardonnaysPetDragon

Thanks for clarifying that one! Couldn't work out the typo so thought you may be having a very fun (if not slightly uncomfortable) quarantine!

There was nothing faux about me telling the OP to fuck herself. Like the thought of virtual signalling though

I'm just dreading the day that Waitrose starts rationing pesto - Amenhotep and Lepida get through 6 jars a week.

I think this is one of those threads where the first person playing it negative was contagious and everyone else followed suit.

C'mon now. OP wasn't seriously putting anyone down. If the above was a sketch on a TV show you'd all be laughing at it.

The op is only trying to lighten the mood ffs

Stupid thread. There's just no need.

We need to stop enforcing divisions among us.