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To think in these circumstances murder is legal?

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AriesTheRam · 27/10/2020 08:28

The plague has hit the Aries household,also known as man flu.The whinging,the moaning,the sniffing.Its a fucking cold!

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MarriedtoDaveGrohl · 28/10/2020 00:23

Can you not just hit him over the head hard enough to knock him out for a while? If you do it right and act like you didn't do anything and he's imagining being hit you can have some extra fun.

At least it's not illegal, like killing him.

cakeandchampagne · 28/10/2020 01:22

@acerred

Why are you messing around on mumsnet when you've got a patio to dig up ?

eaglejulesk · 28/10/2020 01:35

@MrsMigginsMate & others - surely you could see from the OP's original post that this is lighthearted? I understand that there are people who take everything in life VERY SERIOUSLY, and that is fine - but please, just huff and puff to yourselves and leave the thread, so that those who are in need of a good laugh in these current trying times can do so. There is no need for a lecture - we are well aware of what goes on in the real world - but we don't need all this constant criticism of everyone who dares show they have a sense of fun!

MarriedtoDaveGrohl · 28/10/2020 08:44

Last night I had a decent sleep for a change and it was thanks to night nurse. You'd need to cook something very strongly flavoured but I think half a bottle should do it.

You'll get a clear 12 hours peace out of it, much longer than knocking him out and it won't leave a bruise! And you can blame his illness which validates it!

And perhaps the other half of the bottle will come in useful for the next night...

TeamLucille · 28/10/2020 09:19

And perhaps the other half of the bottle will come in useful for the next night...

to drink, or to knock him over the head with it?

Isthisenough237 · 28/10/2020 09:52

I think your missing a trick to be honest, last time DH started the snuffles and sniffing I told him to go dig his own hole in the garden for when I had killed him as digging a hole seemed a lot of work and messy

MrsMigginsMate · 28/10/2020 10:00

[quote eaglejulesk]@MrsMigginsMate & others - surely you could see from the OP's original post that this is lighthearted? I understand that there are people who take everything in life VERY SERIOUSLY, and that is fine - but please, just huff and puff to yourselves and leave the thread, so that those who are in need of a good laugh in these current trying times can do so. There is no need for a lecture - we are well aware of what goes on in the real world - but we don't need all this constant criticism of everyone who dares show they have a sense of fun![/quote]
This isn't a closed forum. We can comment on what we like.

It is important to call out casual sexism and the use of domestic violence as a joke. You may quite like these things, but others find them unacceptable and we are free to point this out.

TeamLucille · 28/10/2020 14:03

there's no need to call "casual sexism" when there really isn't any.

why do you think you can "call out domestic violence used as a joke"? You are not the joke police, no one cares if you don't like it.

MarriedtoDaveGrohl · 28/10/2020 14:53

Can I ask for the phrase 'call out' to be banned on this thread. It's so insufferably woke. I feel like we need a safe space and that would help with it.

maloofhoof · 28/10/2020 15:00

To quote Ricky Gervais "offense is taken, not given. It's up to you if you're offended or not. And remember, just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right"!

OP was clearly joking. There would never be any jokes if you're not "allowed" to joke about certain things in case of offending people.

doctorhamster · 28/10/2020 15:01

I did a great job of curing dh of his man flu (aka a mild cold he caught from the dc) a few weeks back.

He kept doing this fake kind of shiver and muttering about thinking he had a temperature, and that the thermometer must be broken when it showed he didn't. I thrust the laptop at him and told him he needed to book a covid test, and would have to isolate alone in the bedroom for 2 weeks. Lo and behold he was instantly cured.

TeamLucille · 28/10/2020 15:08

excellent cure AND username

OldGreyBoots · 28/10/2020 15:12

I feel like comparing complaining about a man with a cold isn't comparable to the imagined complaints about women with periods. Men and women both have colds, the lived experience of many posters here is that women are expected to get on with it and carry the household while men are allowed to mope and expect to be waited on. As biological men don't experience periods, obviously that joke is sexist as it's a man who will never experience period pain complaining about a woman suffering from it. This on the other hand is an (unthreatening) ailment that both sides have experienced, and one side deals with it much less graciously than the other, so I don't see it as as harmful.
OP, I sympathise

MustardMitt · 28/10/2020 15:19

@longwayoff

A police officer was in court today, found not guilty of murder after killing his girlfriend - broke her neck - of 10 years when she told his wife about the lengthy affair. So, yes, in some circumstances, the title of the thread appears to be correct.

How are the two remotely related?

CigarsofthePharoahs · 28/10/2020 15:23

Mine does the opposite, op. Bravely soldiers on, even when properly ill. It's why he has bronchial damage as he dismissed a chest infection as "just a cough".
Now he coughs all the bloody time. He caught Covid right at the beginning of lockdown and I had to keep barking at him to go back to his room. "Oh but I just want a snack, oh but I just want a drink, oh but I just want to cart this chair upstairs..."
He was wearing The Dressing gown though and the Special Socks so I think he really was ill.

CherryValanc · 28/10/2020 15:54

@longwayoff

Hmmm, I think choosing to have a TCP might be a sign you need to call someone to take him away!!!

I'm not sure the 'imagine this in reverse' works as it's not a common thing for women to act like they are fatally ill with a painful disease and can't do anything for themselves due to a slight sniffle. There's no common reallife reverse.

Mumtumwobble · 28/10/2020 15:58

Totally get what you mean about ‘man flu’ and this being lighthearted, but my dh started like this, went for a Covid test and it was positive! We were all totally shocked because he didn’t have the classic symptoms. He still hasn’t (12 days later). Only went for a test because a friend said their only Covid symptoms were aching joints.

CherryValanc · 28/10/2020 16:17

Completely quote the wrong thing there in my above post! Was supposed to be the OP's post about her husband taking TCP bath.

Couldn't have quote a more incorrectly than I did.

Thelnebriati · 28/10/2020 16:27

Can I just point out the advantages of the time of year? It saves a lot of bother with digging up the patio, which can be a bugger to relay properly.

Dead people mistaken for Halloween decorations;
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