To not want to go out to dinner on a week night?

[Anna8888]

We get endless invitations to dinner parties on a week night. While we manage to fend many of them off, some people are so persistent that we end up having to accept. I don't want to go out at 8.15 pm, eat dinner between 9.30 and 11 pm and not get to bed until half past midnight on a week night when we have to get up for work/school at 7 am. It KILLS me, and the dinners are unbelievably tedious.

AIBU?

IIRC when pph moved out of London her and her h's rule was "No more wankers".

lol yes.
Get pissed as a fart and make every social faux pas known to man.

good rule

I really think you need to play on your English eccentricity

it is the only way

Dunno about the fleece.... I would have thought a Kappa tracksuit might do the trick.

I have another cunning plan
tell the you are a vegetarian
Then invitations will dry up quicker than you can say foie gras

Would she not then be invited for shits and giggles
'Let's invite that mad english woman, she's good to laugh at'.

Don't be silly VS
They are french
They don't do giggling

surely they say "haw- he haw"

I'm starting to wonder where the line between taking the piss and crass racism is... does racism apply to french people?

well it does if they are black

French isn't a race is it?
It would be forrinism.

or forrinisme

anyway you are allowed to be mean about french people because they are thin and glamorous and sexy

where we are fat and a bit minging

Well I will have to wear jeans obviously because anything any smarter would look seriously overdressed. But I do not own a fleece so will just be my winter coat that I usually wear to work anyway with jumper dress underneath and wedges that I have already got on and a quick trip into the ladies at half 5 to don this glam outfit.

Look on the bright side though Anna, it keeps the grocery bills down.

You must buy a fleece.
Immediately.
An animal one.
Like this

law - I think racism is about hatred, not a flippant comment like 'haw- he haw'

or "booof"

As the french say when shrugging gallicly.

lol, okay then. As long as we are clear on that one.

[I was taking the piss] Am from NZ still bear a grudge about the Rainbow Warrior.

ooops sorry not used to seeing sense of humour on here!

Was just sitting here having a giggle at it all and thought a pc brigader had come to piss on the fire

I think it is a shame you sound so french Anna

French peeps I know have confessed when drunk that they find English-accented french sexy and gorgeous and that most french do but generally would not admit it as it would be tantamount to treason to like anything English. But they do. Really.

claw, mumsnet at it's finest is hilarious

Victoriansqualor you have obviously missed your true vocation as a stylist.

"Look on the bright side though Anna, it keeps the grocery bills down."

Sadly, the reduction in grocery bills is more than made up for by the cost of the babysitter and the obligatory visit to the florists...