That Freddie dying isn't a spoiler FFS

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Got this 'friend' who is the first to jump in at every opportunity to say 'oh, you've done that wrong'.

One of her hallmarks is calling you out when you've supposedly let others down.

Her call out today on a WA group is when I've said after watching Bohemian Rhapsody how tragic for poor Freddie Mercury to die at such a young age from aids.

Her response? Spoiler alert! 'Ruined that for me now'. It's a public fact not a work of fiction. What next, letting her know the titanic sinks!

Any suggestions on a response that is better than F off?

Or AIBU

You need to get yourself on the This Is My House telly addicts thread, and then drop some REAL spoliers! Michael appearing in the second episode would be a great place to start.

First year at university, Halls of Residence. Student across from me didn't know who the Prime Minister was, which Party was in power, nothing.

Thatcher's historic first election victory had completely passed her by.

University was not the palace of bright young things I had hoped for, sadly.

@ErrolTheDragon

Of course YANBU. Presumably she does know Freddie Mercury was a real person? Yeah, ask her about the Titanic.

Amazingly my DH has an ex who after watching Titanic for the first time rang him sobbing to say how heartbroken she was that it had sunk! She honestly had had no idea!!!!! Ex's for a reason

Reminds me of a time me and a friend were waiting for a delayed flight and got chatting to another couple of women. They were both very annoying One was reading Jade Goody’s autobiography, (released after her passing ) my friend who had about enough of them just commented you know she dies at the end. I fell about laughing!

It’s always surprising what some people don’t know. I once had someone ask me, ‘Is the Pope Catholic?’ It took a couple of moments for me to realise that it was a genuine question. She also claimed to be Catholic.

I keep getting postings from Quora about narcissism. The friend who does not want to know about Freddy Mercury sound like a classic narcissist. It seems there is no way to be in the right - might as well not bother.

Surely it was a joke.

No. The OP's other posts clarified it wasn't a joke.

@LizzieW1969

It’s always surprising what some people don’t know. I once had someone ask me, ‘Is the Pope Catholic?’ It took a couple of moments for me to realise that it was a genuine question. She also claimed to be Catholic.

Did she also ask whether bears shit in the woods?

@LizzieW1969

It’s always surprising what some people don’t know. I once had someone ask me, ‘Is the Pope Catholic?’ It took a couple of moments for me to realise that it was a genuine question. She also claimed to be Catholic.

The correct answer is 'depends which one'. There's this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopeofftheCopticcOrthodoxChurchhofAlexandria

And also this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PatriarchTheodoreeIIoffAlexandria

This thread is so funny (and a bit worrying too that there are so many examples of people not knowing very basic things).

@SaturdayRocks

It’s one thing to ‘spoil’ a fictitious (book-based) movie such as Little Women, or Star Wars, Thelma & Louise, etc - that’s just twattish and socially clueless.

As the OP says though, there’s no ‘spoiling’ historic events. She deserves everything she gets, in that instance.

P.S. I wonder how many more people will come on to say, ‘better tell her not to watch The Crown’...

Surely the see by/read by date has passed on Little Women, or Star Wars?

Surely the see by/read by date has passed on Little Women, or Star Wars?

I'm not sure that's true nowadays. There's so much children/YA fiction, it would be quite easy for even an avid reader to have not read some of the 'classics' when they were young. Similarly with films - so many more nowadays plus the explosion in TV content. And more other forms of entertainment available.

But it's still not unreasonable for someone to assume that others have already read or seen them - I doubt many of the instances cited were malicious, just slightly thoughtless.

Surely the see by/read by date has passed on Little Women, or Star Wars? General conversation about biggest shocks in a book / movie etc, perfectly fine. Seeing someone reading / watching it and asking if X has happened yet, not fine.

@SleepingStandingUp

Surely the see by/read by date has passed on Little Women, or Star Wars? General conversation about biggest shocks in a book / movie etc, perfectly fine. Seeing someone reading / watching it and asking if X has happened yet, not fine.

Exactly.

Deliberately spoiling a book someone is reading, is twattish - no getting around it.