What do you call a middle aged woman in Nando's?

[Crabapplepiechart]

Peri peri menopausal.

AIBU to think this is a great joke? My partner came up with it this morning and isn't as proud of it as I think he should be.

YANBU - it's hilarious
YABU - it's only worthy of a cheap Christmas cracker

It’s not offensive. Just shite.

I laughed at it, it's just a bit of silliness. Some people are so easily offended which is probably the reason we don't have many funny comedians or decent comedy shows now.

It's better than the old school jokes where if you said you were having a hot flush men would snigger. Some sort of association with being horny..

Or the plumber has connected the wrong water pipe to the cistern.

The joke's fine, but its funny that you think anyone cares what people like you think about mumsnet. 😄

Not funny.
Not offensive.
People do understand that offended and not amused are two different things, don't they?

The joke.

No one has yet explained how it's offensive.

I get it, and am not offended by it (middle aged woman here,) but YABU to say it's hilarious. It's a 4 out of 10 at best.

I think it is because men get irritability and mood swings, fat round their middle, lack of energy, some memory loss and lower sex drive as they get older, but for some reason they don't seem to want to draw attention to that with hilarious jokes in Nandos.

Then you're using a different Google to me.

I fear your DH is in danger of getting a bottle of peri peri sauce tipped right over his head ….

Clearly.

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+do+you+call+a+middle+aged+woman+in+nandos+joke&oq=what+do+you+call+a+middle+aged+woman+in+nandos+joke&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRiPAtIBCDg4MTVqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Good point, well made. It's like the ludicrous and innacurate myth that men age better than women. LOL no they don't. I have seen more women over 50 who look good, than men over 50 who do!

I'm weirdly not really offended, but I am a bit 🙄Like 'oh ha ha another totes hilaire 'joke' about women and their 'problems...'

Easily amused aren’t you, OP
@Crabapplepiechart

Ba dum tss it is not

And it's not even HIS joke. 🙄

He reminds me of a tedious, annoying man my DH knows from work - he only sees him 2-3 times a month because of their differing shifts. He always comes up with 'hilarious' jokes, and they are always ALWAYS taken from somewhere else.

He even tries to present things on WhatsApp to DH and several other men they both know, as if he has just made it up, and 4 times out of 5, me and DH have seen it on Twitter or TikTok the week before!

Typical, not-very-funny man in his 50s, who is trying to be funnier and more clever than they are. 🙄 Many of them are like this.

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Not as funny as "I put my vacuum cleaner on Ebay, it was only gathering dust"

The I think this joke is so bad it’s in the same category as not finding your own farts smelly.

Now THAT is funny!

It's only offensive if you find being called peri menopausal offensive.
As it is often used to beat women with - along with all the tired "oh it's her hormones" then I can see why it might upset some.

Dunno, if I was going through a horrible peri and had been awful to those around me (who knew the reason for my behaviour) then they threw that joke at me, I guess I wouldn't find it funny, or I'd find it insensitive I guess.

In a different context, it's literally just a play on words.

It's possible to joke without offending anyone

Tough crown.

I absolutely love Christmas cracker jokes.

But this didn’t make me laugh. I’m not sure where the joke is. It’s not a play on words. Sorry, just didn’t make me laugh.

You'll notice that although AI quotes a slightly different (and better-constructed) perimenopause joke, all the supporting source material is of Delaney doing the 'periperineum' joke. So it's AI getting things a bit wrong again, maybe.

Not that it matters.

I think the perineum one is very funny, by the way.

See, now thats a proper joke!