To think my neighbour has taken gender identication too far .

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Neighbour has been unwell with flu . Just rang and asked her if she needed any shopping . Gave me a short list including washing liquid . She asked for the Persil " non binary one " . 😁 She knows i am posting and wants to read the responses to cheer her up .

Oh dear, too much for me. Need to do some transcendental meditation.

Reminds me of my lovely late Nan who complained she didn't get to finish her exam because the vigilantes came and swiped her paper!

There's a fab mental image!

It reminds me of the time I was a newly arrived au pair in Paris with very limited French. A couple of days after I arrived Madame asked me to go and buy a few items from the local supermarket and one of the items was persil. Well, I hunted high and low for Persil washing powder, but no luck, so I just bought something that I judged to be the French equivalent and happy with my purchases trotted home. There was much confusion from Madame over the choice of washing powder. It took several minutes and a French dictionary before both of us understood the mix-up. Funnily enough I have never forgotten the French for parsley😁

I'm reading this whilst on a zoom meeting. It's cracking me up.

Always found persil to be an unusual name and never realized it had a French definition!

My elderly auntie who's sadly no longer with us once indignantly reported how the pharmacist had looked at her like she was mad when 'I only asked her for some of yon crystal meth'.
She had a cold and wanted menthol crystals.

I still remember the history essay which included much outrage about the illiterate pheasants in France before the revolution. Those were bad times for pheasants.

Persil is named after the ingredients IIRC. Perfluorate and silicate? Something like that.

I did something like that once, described DS's school as bisexual, unlike DD's school which only has girls.

I just choked on my chocolate 😂

My DD, age 7, wrote a letter to my rather posh neighbour thanking her for the lovely peasant she had been given for Christmas. Fortunately neighbour was amused.

Reminds me of when I was messaging a colleague about a long winded conference where I had to stand for two hours… I message to say I was desperate to shit down 😂😂😂

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER , coriander would make total sense, it tastes like soap to me (🤢)

This has caused me distress and discomfort because I don’t understand the question. 😉

Reminds of a neighbour who bought a 'baby growbag' for my DD. I did chuckle.

One of the treble choristers , at an Evensong rehearsal, was baffled by the muffled merriment from the altos, tenors and basses when he mentioned a problem with the melody line where we were singing about the "Light to lighten the Genitals"

Ha, we had a chorister one, there were only two kids in the choir, me and P. He'd missed choir practice that week. So on Sunday we were singing a hymn that had the line 'your fears to assuage ' in it. P clearly didn't know the word, rearranged the letters to fit a word he did know, and in a clear and true loud treble worthy of Aled Jones, sang 'your fears to sausage'. Half the choir corpsed and the vicar was barely keeping it together

What did they mean? Because you can get a baby gro bag which is like a sleeping bag with a top, but I'm assuming they didn't mean one of those? 😀

My friend's aunt used 'to lie down with a couple of paramedics' if she had a headache. Maybe that's what your poorly neighbour needs...

We didn't find out what sex our baby was and MIL was just a lovely woman, and bought tonnes and tonnes of clothes and kept saying they were "bisexual". Oh I've got some lovely bisexual clothes for the baby. She meant unisex haha!

I've just put a wash on with parsley non binary, and shall inform DP that that is what it shall be called henceforth.

Snap! Uncannily like soap, coriander...

Think theres a little shop near womanchester that sells it