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To have laughed at her Slimming World advice?

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Pikaso · 18/01/2022 13:04

Woman at work has been doing Slimming World. She’s obsessed with it and goes on about it constantly armed with her books and Muller Lights at every meal.
I told her last week I was going to give it a go. I didn’t buy Muller Lights but instead bought some asda own yogurts which had almost identical calorie, fat and sugar content. Sat down to eat lunch yesterday and she came in and said “I thought you were doing slimming world?”. I said “I am” so she said “how many syns in those yogurts?” So I said “none, they’re the same as muller lights”. She replied “no, you’re meant to eat Muller lights!” And looked really concerned and worried!! I did owl noises in her face and told her the calories, sugar and fat etc were exactly the same so why would it matter??! She actually left the room muttering about how it won’t work if you don’t do it properly.

I did slimming world a few years back and stopped because of the cult like behaviour of the members and leaders. I thought I’d give it another go but she has totally put me off again! Nothing has changed!!
She’s been off with me ever since. WIBU to have laughed at her muller light concerns?? Common sense tells you it’s the calories etc that matter, not the bloody name on the pot!!

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Dibbydoos · 18/01/2022 18:18

YABU. Sorry no matter what it's not acceptable to laugh at someone for this. Educate people, but laugh. Def not!

DillDanding · 18/01/2022 18:18

Seven at this time of year, I can hear owls when I’m in bed at night. Definitely a ‘hoo-hooo’

LovelyBitOfSquirrelInTheWirral · 18/01/2022 18:19

Hi OP,

What owl do you know that goes coo coo?

If you can please get in contact with the Autumn Watch team they will surely want to feature your cooing owl 🦉

Diva66 · 18/01/2022 18:23

Owl noises? A gentle coo coo? None of the owls around here make a noise like that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

ChargingBuck · 18/01/2022 18:23

@Butchyrestingface - were you quoting the remarkable Mr Coo-llins?

WorstXmasEver · 18/01/2022 18:24

I agree with her. Maybe you're just using this as an excuse to stop SW?

ButtockUp · 18/01/2022 18:26

I'm going to be really honest here and say that I'd have guffawed at what she said.

I recall a neighbour, many years ago , who said something so very bizarre, ( won't say what as it is so very outing other than it involved spying ) and I , involuntarily laughed.

I think that you heard something so silly and you couldn't help but laugh , albeit in an owl fashion.

It's nothing to do with being rude but more to do with being faced with something so ridiculous that you can't help but react.

yorkshireteaspoonie · 18/01/2022 18:32

@DisappearingGirl snapped and farted is in 'mumsnet classics' somewhere but I can't recall the title of it... sure somebody else can link it. Honestly I die laughing every time I read it. If you make it to the classics section the 'little Korean lady in my garden' is also a good one 👍🏽😂

MinglingFlamingo · 18/01/2022 18:32

@Somebodylikeyew

Every fool knows you make owl noises for WEIGHTWATCHERS, silly. It’s eagle noises for Slimming World…
😂😂😂

From watching Springwatch occasionally the twit Twoo of an owl is actual two owls. One Twitting & one twooooing. So were you the Twitter or the Twooooer ??

UnUdderOne · 18/01/2022 18:34

@mynameiscalypso

I could maybe understand a sheep noise (but it would still be rude obvs) but owls aren't particularly known for their cult-like behaviour are they? I struggle to think of an animal that would be less likely to join a cult.
This. I think you're confusing ylur animals/birds and need to wind your beak in Grin
BoredZelda · 18/01/2022 18:35

It was just so daft!!

And yet making owl noises is the height of intellectual behaviour…..

waterlego · 18/01/2022 18:42

Sounds like you really ruffled her feathers OP. I’m sure you have many talon-ts but diplomacy is not among them. Just keep your beak out in future.

Steelesauce · 18/01/2022 18:43

I just made an owl noise at my 3 year old. She looked me dead in the eye and said 'what. Are. You. Doing???' And when I replied 'owl noise?' She rolled her eyes.

Its socially unacceptable if even a 3 year old can't tolerate it Grin

ButYouGottaHaveASkillJeff · 18/01/2022 18:45

I really want to watch Greenclaws now.

Justmebeingme245 · 18/01/2022 18:48

@Steelesauce

I just made an owl noise at my 3 year old. She looked me dead in the eye and said 'what. Are. You. Doing???' And when I replied 'owl noise?' She rolled her eyes.

Its socially unacceptable if even a 3 year old can't tolerate it Grin

I tested it on my teen - she ignored me. I decided more drastic action was required and flapped my wings also. She rolled her eyes and went back to Xbox. Can confirm - strategy does work. She did stop moaning.
EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 18/01/2022 18:50

Yeah some people get weirdly obsessed , you've had to syn them for ages because people were eating loads of them a day because well there free

My friend was horrified that I wasn't eating breakfast and instead eating brunch at 11 . Also that I wasn't loading my plate up with carbs. Well no, that is why people don't lose weight

ChargingBuck · 18/01/2022 18:50

and flapped my wings also

Impressive commitment to the Method school of acting, @Justmebeingme245

PinkTonic · 18/01/2022 18:51

I once knew someone who would have 3 muller lights with the chocolate flakes to get her ‘chocolate fix’. I think they were about 100 calories each so she could have had a Kit Kat. Stupid.

topcat2014 · 18/01/2022 18:52

Surely just telling her to f off would have been more normal?

I can't get past this Owl thing!

ldontWanna · 18/01/2022 18:54

So you're swapping muller light for Asda.
Owls for pigeons . And everything in between.

You're some special kind of rebel aren't you?Grin

Legalconundrums · 18/01/2022 18:54

The Avian equivalent of 'Cancel the Cheque'...that was a bit childish...but bloody funny... Grin

Justmebeingme245 · 18/01/2022 19:00

@ChargingBuck

and flapped my wings also

Impressive commitment to the Method school of acting, @Justmebeingme245

I think in order for it to work, you must be 100% committed to owling.
LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood · 18/01/2022 19:00

If you make owl noises to get someone’s attention/indicate you don’t agree, what animal or bird noises do you make to indicate you agree with someone?

wishingitwasfriday · 18/01/2022 19:01

@Pikaso

I wasn’t saying cuckoo. It was literally a gentle “coooo coooo … “ just to break her train of thought
WTF?! You made owl noises in a grown woman's face? What planet are you on? You were unbelievably rude to her.
SheldonesqueTheBstard · 18/01/2022 19:02

Indeed @AlDanvers

My inner Nan is bubbling up as well.

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