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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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Gateau · 13/01/2009 12:42

Love water, by the way. Simple tap water, which is supposed to be better for you than bottled. Have always drunk it by the gallon.
Have a litre bottle of it on my desk at work and it's nearly all drunk by the time I go home.

LightShinesInTheDarkness · 13/01/2009 12:44

Water makes me pee too much. I don't have time.

CrackopentheBaileys · 13/01/2009 12:48

lol, no I just like the baileys too much. Nothing compares

TheButterflyEffect · 13/01/2009 12:50

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Surfermum · 13/01/2009 12:52

I don't mind the jokes about fruit shoots, sausage rolls, grapes, etc and I find the bat hilarious. Especially when I haven't seen one for a while.

I don't view it as an "in" joke, I just see it as mumsnet as a whole taking the piss out of itself.

Perhaps it just appeals to some people's sense of humour and not to others? I do think if you are new, it does reinforce that fact as you can't possibly know what the joke is about, but I don't think it's done intentionally to make newbies feel like outsiders.

stroppyknickers · 13/01/2009 12:55

i didn't realise froot shoots were non-u. i don't buy anything with artificial sweeteners in, so the baby is quite lucky, as he can still have full fat coke and chocolate buttons for a treat.

pamelat · 13/01/2009 13:03

I love water but when I was pregnant I could not drink it, I couldn't stand the 'taste' but could only drink fizzy water, very strange.

The grapes thing is something I have never heard of. I give my DD a banana in super market, didnt realise it was so terrible??!

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 13/01/2009 13:06

Was the banana from a weighed item i.e. you pay according to the weight at the till, or pre packed? If it was pre packed you are fine so long as you sill paid for it.

If it was weighed you were stealing

OrmIrian · 13/01/2009 13:07

I think there is another facet to the grape thing. In that whether you peel/chop grapes to give them to a toddler and until what age,indicates whether you are guilty of PFBishness or appalling neglect verging on abuse.

FairLadyRantALot · 13/01/2009 13:08

think Surfermum summed it up nicely....

as for drinking water...well...I love water...andwhen I am in Germany I can drink it freely from teh tap...but over here in the UK it is vile, therefore I have to buy it bottled! I suppose it is because I am used to different water, but the UK water just tastes of chemicals[shudder]....but one day I will be able to afford a new kitchen and I will have one of those reverse osmosis thing put in, and I will be able to have lovely drinking water...

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 13/01/2009 13:09

I fall into the abuse catagory then. Though I did bite them in half when they were very young. But that was only because I wanted to eat the other half

Gateau · 13/01/2009 13:18

I feel my toddler DS going round the supermarket, usually fruit from a barcoded bag or breadsticks.
WHover describes it as "bribery" is pathetic. So they prefer their DC to scream the place down instead? Weird attitude.
I also have other means of keeping DC happy in the supermarket though. I give him the stuff (as long as it's not breakable) and he delights in chucking it in the trolly.
He alos lifts soem (again, nonbreakable) off the shelves for me.
When DH took him shopping yesterday he let him wheel the trolly. That's a it adventurous for me, though.

TheButterflyEffect · 13/01/2009 13:19

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pamelat · 13/01/2009 13:25

oh pre packed (probably bad to buy those but oh well) and I even apologised at the till for opening their pre packed/pre priced item.

In fact I was encouraged to steal once by a cashier man!! I didnt though. DD had a bad of rice cakes and he told me to "just have them". I was quite surprised but thought it was quite kind of him, still paid though!

ScottishMummy · 13/01/2009 13:31

yes fruit shoots and their associated products are MN heresy.brings some out in hives

like arguing about
parking spaces
eating grapes in supermarket
sahm/working
mumsnet perennials

onepieceofbrusselssprout · 13/01/2009 13:34

People used to go on about "nice ham" a lot as well.

Bucharest · 13/01/2009 13:35

As opposed to...? I missed that one.

onepieceofbrusselssprout · 13/01/2009 13:36

I think as opposed to cheaper, "reformed" type ham. I once had a thread asking how to cook ham and I had one or two comments about nice ham that I didn't "get" until I did a bit of searching.

ScottishMummy · 13/01/2009 13:40

fruit shoots equates to kiddie cocaine MN world.i can just hear the virtual tsk

MumsyPiemaker · 13/01/2009 13:45

Thank God it's not just me who thinks fruit shoots are just plain wrong.

Surfermum · 13/01/2009 13:45

"Nice" ham came from the shopping lists thread. We all had to find discarded shopping lists in trolleys and report back about what they said.

Lots of people had "nice" ham on their lists.

KingCanuteIAm · 13/01/2009 13:46

and buying new rugs....

ScottishMummy · 13/01/2009 13:50

i hate the bat.borne out of a cliquey oh lookey we got an in-joke.quick paste the link

pamelat · 13/01/2009 13:53

Nice ham is much much much nicer than "wet" ham as we call it

ScottishMummy · 13/01/2009 13:59

LOL a nice ham.now that is old biddy talk.she does a guid spread and nice ham