Stop trying to be dramatic. It's "They didn't invite me" not "I WAS EXCLUDED!!!"

[Cloudbusting2]

Yes, yes I know already it's technically the correct term, no need to wank on about it.

But we also all know why "excluded" is all over mumsnet - over and over it's "excluded" this and "shunned" that.

FFS, not getting invited somewhere is not the eye watering drama you want desperately to believe it is.

Grow up. Get over it. And even if it is rude, or deliberate, stop saying "excluded", you sound like an attention seeking drama queen trying to give a nothingburger, an absolutely average life event, a whiff of formality and importance.

Nothingburger is the new term I have learned this week if nothing else.

No, I don't. But you already know that. HTH 😆

Many thanks to the drama queens in the comments proving my point 😅 Jesus you people take your self important selves so seriously.

No wonder you're always shunned and excluded 😆

Overdramatic language is not unique to the use of 'excluded' instead of not invited. The OP has a valid point.

In the same way, can we not overuse 'Literally', 'Big' and in particular 'Devastated', please

Oh dear. Sounds like op has been pulled up for being a bitch to someone and excluding them

It doesn't sound like anything of the sort.

OP is simply tired of the tiniest of normal, everyday happenings being blown out of all proportion and made out to be dramas worthy of counselling, medication and hand-holding.

She wouldn't have "excluded" anyone. She simply wouldn't have invited them.
No need for anyone to get "pulled up" or called a bitch.

Oh i assume you know her personally then.

Are you referring to the recent poster who wasn't invited to her SiLs hen do - she'd barely ever met her - but felt she was excluded rather than not invited?

If so I agree completely and thought the same thing at the time.

@PensionPTake

I very much doubt that I know OP personally, but then neither do you, yet you implied she was a bitch.

Hugs OP. You sound overtired and a bit overwhelmed.

Cup of tea and a lie down maybe?

Being shunned and excluded is fucking great. It means you don’t have to pretend to like people or give a shit about them. Perfect!

'Excluded' seems to have changed its meaning. I was perplexed when a member of a friend group said we should move our Christmas event to accommodate one member who had decided to go on holiday in the week when we always hold the event every year, because it wasn't fair to 'exclude' her.