To think I may have just hoisted my sister by her own petard?

[FelicityFlops]

My sister just messaged me to ask about feeding people for a buffet next week. I do not live in the UK.
Slightly as a joke I said I would be more than happy to come and help and was told I was welcome :-)
I responded that I would be happy to come over (it will cost around €1k) if her VERY comfy guest bed was available. No response so far.
Did I overstep the mark?

This is so petarded

This thread is hilarious

Lols!

Morning! How's everyone's petard? Mine's semi hoisted, but then I'm only a humble teacher. ( However, I did get an A in English O level 😎)

I am upper class, of significant bloodline. I was taught ^never to hoist one's own petard in public.

Whilst shameful to admit, during occasional moments of quiet solitude I do indeed hoist my own petard, and find it pleasurable.

I actually assumed English wasn’t your first language OP and you’re not fluent.
Eapecially after you presumed your jobs bare any relevance on you misquoting hamlet. Bizarre.

I'm pleased that this thread is as batshit as I thought it would be, based on the title!

The phrase comes from William Shakespeare's Hamlet: "For 'tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his own petar." Hoist in this case is the past participle of the verb hoise, meaning "to lift or raise," and petar(d) refers to an explosive device used in siege warfare. Hamlet uses the example of the engineer (the person who sets the explosive device) being blown into the air by his own device as a metaphor for those who schemed against him being undone by their own schemes.

Bear. It's always bear unless clothes are being removed.

You want to meet the various dogs before the family 🤣

Are you and your sister relayed to Colin Hunt?

*related

with all due respect, you sound like an idiot.

That's a bit mean! I was getting distinct Eleanor Oliphant vibes from the OPs posts though. I imagine OPs sister was equally confused why her sister would try charging her to have a house guest, even one who was offering to help with the catering for a family party. Also love that the OP seems more excited about meeting the family dogs than their new human relatives!

I've never heard the phrase, and I read Hamlet for A level English. Granted ir was a long time ago.

😛

I asked my sister if she would hoist her own petard as I seem to have found myself without one. She refused. Should I cut her off forever?

Eapecially after you presumed your jobs bare any relevance on you misquoting hamlet

Especially after you presumed your jobs bear any relevance to you misquoting Hamlet.

If you are a good cook and able to put a nice buffet together, I think your sister has gotten a great deal.

(It's still a terrible sentence but I didn't write it. Just thought if you were going to snottily reprimand the OP you might want to do it more accurately.)

Surely it will be au jus? I think a dip is for us working class ?

Like a line from a Roger McGough poem

This reminds me of a line for League of Gentleman: hoisted by his own pet toad or something, cannot on earth remember the context.

Anyway - go and see your sister OP: you want to, she wants you there, you can afford it - just go!

The others will just have to wait.

I think in the clear light of day FelicityFlops might realise that she didn’t actually ask her sister to pay for her flight. Only if the spare bedroom would be free.

Stating travel costs isn’t asking someone else to pay.

I think FF has dug a £1000 hole for herself in trying to catch her sister out.

But that’s ok FF is middle class

I think this was a good example of how a mumsnet crowd can get mean and mobby. It was a lighthearted post