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Original poster

Is this funny?

38 replies

AppleHEAD · 14/08/2009 22:46

My daughter who is 6 months old is laying on the floor and sucking her toes. All smiley and chubby and gorgeous. My friend looks down at her and says...."One day a man is going to love that you can get into that position."
Yuck it made my skin crawl...am I a prude? I don't think I am I think it's a horrible thing to say.

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jkklpu · 14/08/2009 22:47

yeugh

Anonymumandlikeit · 14/08/2009 22:47

YANBU.

Platesmasher · 14/08/2009 22:47

your friend doesn't have children.

i hope.

JodieO · 14/08/2009 22:49

YANBU what was she on? I would have said something tbh

mj4ever · 14/08/2009 22:50
Shock
ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 14/08/2009 22:50

Freak. How gross.

K999 · 14/08/2009 22:50
Angry
Ewe · 14/08/2009 22:51

Eurgh, that is horrid. YANBU

Original poster
AppleHEAD · 14/08/2009 22:53

She does have kids. It has completely changed how I see her.

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plonker · 14/08/2009 22:56

God thats horrible, ewwwww

YANBU

daisymaybe · 14/08/2009 22:56

ew. YANBU.

Mumcentreplus · 14/08/2009 22:57

sorry I did laugh ..but then I have an awful sense of humour sometimes...I was talking to someone once and said 'I wish babies bounced...then when you felt like chucking them out the window they would'nt get hurt but you'd feel a hell of a lot better(after a bout of serious bawling)'..the look on their face..hahaha

Sorry..ahem.. (adjusts humour) it was very inappropriate indeed

CyradisTheSeer · 14/08/2009 22:58

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diedandgonetodevon · 14/08/2009 23:05

That made me cringe. Totally inappropriate thing to say about a baby IMO.

Fluffypoms · 14/08/2009 23:10

Not nice!

saggyhairyarse · 14/08/2009 23:14

It is grim that your friends thought processes are so baseline.

Asana · 14/08/2009 23:20

Hmm, tough one to call. I mean, your DD is 6mo so could not understand what was said. My DS (15wo) has a habit of pulling off my boob when feeding and I regularly joke to friends and DH that one day, he will be hoping for women to willingly shove their boobs in his face, as opposed to turning away. Then again, I admit to having a risqué sense of humour. However, I would not joke like that in front of him if he was old enough to understand (hence the difference between child-appropriate versus adult-appropriate humour). I guess YANBU as, for you, was obviously not the most pleasant thing to hear about your DD. Then again, if a friend joked like that to me if I had a DD, I'd probably snort my head off with laughter

Original poster
AppleHEAD · 14/08/2009 23:26

It gets worse......
I was just chatting with a mutual friend and mentioned it to her. She was telling me that she had made a similar comment to her about her 6 month old. The baby had been sucking some sort of toy and the friend had said..."She is getting in good training to make a man very happy."
Really bizarre.
Maybe I find it so shocking because it just isn't the kind of thing I would ever think of when I am looking at a baby doing baby things

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K999 · 15/08/2009 00:04

Your friend is a weirdo imo....

differentID · 15/08/2009 00:16

that is disturbing.

Original poster
AppleHEAD · 15/08/2009 10:30

Guess I should try not to think about it and just work on the basis our sense of humour is VERY different

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QuintessentialShadows · 15/08/2009 10:32

Does your friend see babies as sexual?

Very disturbing.

HumphreyCobbler · 15/08/2009 10:36

just say bluntly that her comments are not funny

poshsinglemum · 15/08/2009 10:59

yanbu- disgusting.

LetThemEatCake · 15/08/2009 11:02

YANBU - that's gross.

When my dd was 7mo a girlfriend (with a baby the same age, but male) saw her sticking her tongue out and said "My god she's got a long tongue!! that's going to make a man very happy one day"

I nearly retched.