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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Banning these two words.

101 replies

deste · 12/01/2009 19:58

Is it only me or does anyone else get irritated when people mention "Fruit Shoots" as if they will get MN browny points.

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YouLukaBeautiful · 12/01/2009 19:59

Hahaha! YANBU

escape · 12/01/2009 20:02

grapes and greggs
there's another two.

megcleary · 12/01/2009 20:03

whats the grape issue?

sagacious · 12/01/2009 20:03

brownie points surely?

YABU

PottyCock · 12/01/2009 20:03

mooncup and lentils

{smile}

PottyCock · 12/01/2009 20:04

oops

YouLukaBeautiful · 12/01/2009 20:05

sorry, I can't find my bat link

LadyGlencoraPalliser · 12/01/2009 20:13

Froot shoots, surely?

pamelat · 12/01/2009 20:28

whats with grapes?

harleyd · 12/01/2009 20:29

whats the craic with the bat??

frasersmummy · 12/01/2009 20:29

what is soo wrong with fruit shoots???seriously I give little one sugar free ones.. are they really that bad?

LittleBella · 12/01/2009 20:31

lol at sugar free drinks

LightShinesInTheDarkness · 12/01/2009 20:44

sorry, you will have to explain this whole thread!

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 12/01/2009 20:47

I'm lost! (quite new around here though so maybe I'm missing something!)

KingCanuteIAm · 12/01/2009 20:49

Grapes came from a big thread about the horror of feeding children grapes to keep them quiet in the shopping trolley (before paying)

Well, It is stealing you know - not to mention bribing your children

gemmiegoatlegs · 12/01/2009 20:55

please find the bat YouLuka, I haven't seen it in ages!

onepieceofbrusselssprout · 12/01/2009 20:57

frasersmummy some people think that sugar free (i.e. usually drinks with artificial sweeteners) are not very good nutritionally for children. (understatement).

fruit shoots fall into this category.

deste · 12/01/2009 21:03

I dont mind if you do or do not give F..... Sh..... to your children. It just irritates me when people use them as a way of being accepted!!!! does that make sense? Can we please ban the use of the words.

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frasersmummy · 12/01/2009 21:05

aahh.... thank you for that explanation

KingCanuteIAm · 12/01/2009 21:06

Do you mean...

I was in the post office today and I dropped my purse, ds touched the display whilst I was scrubbing around for pennies but, instead of helping me, the people in the queue looked it me as if I was force feeding a baby FROOT SHOOT

And posts to that effect..

frasersmummy · 12/01/2009 21:06

sorry deste didnt mean to get away from your question.. just seen it so oftenI wondered what was wrong with them...

yes I agree with you

deste · 12/01/2009 22:14

For those unsure, you could possibly have a thread on childrens diet and sure as death someone will throw in "lets just give them f...... s......s".Ahhhhhh.

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kettlechip · 12/01/2009 22:25

I hear what you're saying, but after ds1 developed lots of autistic like symptoms last year, some of which magically disappeared the day after after we took sugar free squash (yes, including the f s') out of his diet, I will gladly get involved in any thread which slates them in order to spare anyone else the genuine and immense worry they caused me. It's not to fit in on MN, I don't give a flying toss about that but I think people should actually be aware of the effects which aspartame can actually have!

So YABU on that basis, sorry!

laumiere · 12/01/2009 22:48

Kettlechip - We have the opposite issue, DS is showing signs of hypoglycaemia (I and my dad have it too)so we're not to give him fruit juice-based drinks and give him F* S**t H20s as a special treat (for long journeys etc) to maintain his sugar levels on an even keel.

CharleeinChains · 12/01/2009 22:54

I believe this should sum up this thread.