He called a wasp a moron at dinner

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Ok, this isn't a serious thread exactly just a weird moment

So I was having dinner with my partner, a very nice outdoor meal. Very romantic and looking into each other's eyes etc.

Then a wasp came along and dropped into his wine. He responded by saying 'get out of there you moron' which caused the couple next to us of stop talking and stare at him then me. He then gave the wasp a small pep talk after rescuing it.

I felt embarrassed as I felt it was a really OTT response! I wanted to say was it really necessary to verbally abuse that wasp but seemed an odd thing to say...it just felt like a very angry response

But they can hear, and presumably an angry tone will upset the poor little things!

That's wasp abuse.

Mine would have started flapping his arms about & squealing. If that didn't work, he'd run away..... still flapping his arms & squealing. I'd say mine's more embarrassing, plus, I've been stung twice cos I've been too busy laughing at Violet Elizabeth to keep an eye on the fucking wasp.

It seems trivial, doesn't it. Except ... in 1, 3, 5 years, you'll be the pesky irritant spoiling his life who he verbally abuses. If he mistreated a cat or a dog, most responses would tell you to heed the red flag and run. Apparently wasps don't count!

A pep talk?😮

Was the wasp struggling to do laps around the glass and he was motivating it to push harder or something? 🐝

What did he say to the wasp? 🤔

Is your beloveds last name Doolittle by any chance?👀
So many questions.

I find wasps do need a good telling off sometimes. Hopefully wasp will remember being verbally abused and will fall into wine again.

I'd have found it funny, myself. But then I probably do lots of embarrassing things.

I rember my frustrated chemistry teacher scolding an incalcitrant projector once, saying 'Am I the moron or are you?!' to it. The class was in fits.

I swear, half the threads on here are winds up. No way this is real.

If it is real and I found out you had made bloody thread about me shouting at a wasp, I'd think you're so weird and probably dump you, tbh.

I'm only here to find out how you'd give a wasp a pep talk.
Do wasps understand English or would you need an interpreter?

And how would you give a 'pep talk' to a drunken wasp to boot?

Who said it's in the UK?

No, it's a waste of everyone's time.

I think the wasp's a keeper at least.

He has shown remarkable forbearance. Flying along innocently only to end up plopping into a treacherous sea when the two giant lifeguards on duty fail to notice him and usher him away in advance. (They are too busy batting their eyelids at each other.) Then one of them shouts angrily and mansplains at him as he tries to recuperate from his ordeal.

But still he does not sting anyone!

Definitely a keeper!

How did the wasp feel about it? I could imagine it might be triggering.

I would just like to interject moron is the Welsh word for carrot. The first o is pronounced more like a short continental a tho.

I'm just amazed at how many people claim they don't give errant arthropods pep talks. Do they not even talk to spiders?

Exactly what I'd call a wasp lol especislly if it went in my drink! The people next to u prob just intrigued as to who or what your partner was calling a moron , my husband would have rescued it , he once rescued one out of a canal. I have a thing for talking to creatures wasps tend to get verbal abuse, but maybe we should be nicer to them, then they might not sting so much

I'm withholding judgement until I hear from the wasp itself. Hopefully it's sobered up enough to enter the discussion
Waits expectantly 😉

I caught one resting on our bathroom floor this morning. I gave it a pep talk as I threw it out.

op I like the cut of your husbands gib. Of course you chat to wasps, we were telling the wasps in Germany that they were a bit stupid going in my daughter’s coke light when there were stickier drinks on the table.

Exactly, when you are removing them you talk them through what you are doing and ask for cooperation.

You need to relax, OP.
Your boyfriend sounds hilarious!

We gave a weedy looking wasp a pep talk to try and get it to eat the dregs of a chocolate pudding we’d finished. They ate small in numbers and stature this year and needed all the help they could get.

I've called wasps a great deal worse!

I might throw and I say might throw , a cheerio or honey loop at a drowning wasp or other multi legged critters to hang onto - from a distance - after that it's on it's own and I wouldn't usually hang around to engage it in conversation.

I mean what would you say to a spider?- 'How's it hanging' or something like that?
or,
'Read anything interesting on the web lately'?

But a 'pep talk' is a whole different packet of biscuits. Where would you start?

For instance, when I'm about to switch the shower on I might say the Cellar spiders 'darlings, it's time to move up and out if you don't want to get wet, this really isn't a sensible place to spend much time in'.