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to think that the festival attracts a certain sort of rude arsewipe?

119 replies

Cicatrice · 21/08/2009 19:43

Came out of our tenement the other day and there was a post it on the door saying

"Please Mr postman/lady do not buzz our flat to get in as we are out very late at the festival and don't want to be woken up!"

I was a bit taken aback as we never get our post before 10.30am and generally later. Not exactly the crack of dawn.

Then today another note on the door:

"Right Postman. DO NOT BUZZ our flat to get access we are renting for the festival and have been woken up EVERY FUCKING DAY"

I strongly wanted to ring their bell (it was 8am, so even worse than the postie) and kick their sorry pseudo bohemian arses. I really don't think postman ought be addressed like that when he is just doing a job.

How hard is it to ignore a doorbell anyway?

I can do it.

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ImmaterialGirl · 21/08/2009 22:27

Ring their doorbell! At 7am in the morning! YANBU!

Like the good Edinburgh-girl I am, I sometimes really can't stand the festival either. I have to walk through it every single day, my office is on George Square, right round the corner from Channel 4's 'hilarious' upside-down purple cow.

I want to get a t-shirt that says, 'please do not hand my a flier for your show, I'm just trying to get to work!'

MorrisZapp · 21/08/2009 22:27

Have Londoners taken it all back then, eaten their words and embraced the lovely mobile phone sponsored joy of the O2?

scottishmummy · 21/08/2009 22:29

righty ho,you get your draweers in a fankle about trams. trams and parliament maintenance does not warrant this hyperbole and exaggeration

keep's your eye off stuff that really matters,though

MorrisZapp · 21/08/2009 22:29

Oh I know, immaterial. I feel the same way as I struggle up the High Street on my way to the court.

But come 5pm on Friday, there is a big purple cow just waiting to entertain you, and numerous spots for outdoor drinking and talent spotting on the doorstep of your workplace. Come on. Say you love it.

chichichien · 21/08/2009 22:31

Ever taken your kids along the royalk mile? Ever appreciated their enjoyment?

scottishmummy · 21/08/2009 22:32

without the festival edinburgh can be moribund and tutty about buses,the trams,the digging

i like the daft ode to a gutty,soliloquies to granny's cat,the throng

is fun

SoupDragon · 21/08/2009 22:34

"Have Londoners taken it all back then, eaten their words and embraced the lovely mobile phone sponsored joy of the O2? "

No, but I was sceptical about the Croydon trams until they stopped arsing about with diggers and it was finished. It's f*cking fantastic.

Salme101 · 21/08/2009 22:35

The Edinburgh thing to do would be to tut disapprovingly about the rudeness of these people and their signs, and just bottle up your annoyance. Please don't do the Edinburgh thing. It is no fun and I honestly think it is bad for your health.* Please ring their bell, have a good giggle and fervently hope that others will follow suit.

*I'm from Edinburgh, and leaving Scotland was one of the best things I ever did. Sorry, but there it is

MorrisZapp · 21/08/2009 22:37

As an Edinburgher to my marrow I reserve the right to be moribund and tutty all day long.

But I do love the festival. My first job was on the High Street - the festival basically paid for my first summer of drinking, and my first few months away at uni.

Gotta love those 12 hour festival shifts in a basement kitchen with no aircon.

HaggisNeepsnTatties · 21/08/2009 22:44

SM - what is the stuff that really matters?

MorrisZapp · 21/08/2009 22:46

Aye come on SM, what should we be tutting about?

Thunderduck · 21/08/2009 22:47

The Fringe is the only time the place comes to life.

MorrisZapp · 21/08/2009 22:49

Are you local, thunderduck?

Thunderduck · 21/08/2009 22:50

Good god no I'm a Glaswegian.

scottishmummy · 21/08/2009 22:51

festival brings a vibrancy to a tutty moribund city

HaggisNeepsnTatties · 21/08/2009 22:52

Thunderduck - trying living in the midst of it all and you perhaps would have a different opinion.....

HaggisNeepsnTatties · 21/08/2009 22:53

SM - if you think it is a 'tutty moribund' city, why do you live here? I take it you live in Edinburgh??

Thunderduck · 21/08/2009 22:53

I did live in Edinburgh,some time ago, for a few months with friends,for my sins,just before during and after The Fringe. I prefer it during.

HaggisNeepsnTatties · 21/08/2009 22:56

TD - were you young, free and single then??

scottishmummy · 21/08/2009 22:57

oh i see to live in edinburgh one needs to sychophantically gush?

i must refrain from observing the social milleu and having an opinion. how very dare i

HaggisNeepsnTatties · 21/08/2009 22:58

Get over yourself love.

Thunderduck · 21/08/2009 22:59

I was young,sort of free but not single then.I'm still relatively young though I hasten to add.

My friend, who I stayed with, still lives there, has done so for 7 years and still loves it during The Fringe.
She has chosen to remain in Edinburgh though so as she's obviously not entirely sane, perhaps her opinion doesn't count.

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 21/08/2009 23:01

I love Edinburgh....sigh

that is all.

scottishmummy · 21/08/2009 23:03

that for the millionth time or billionth time haggis,or shall i get over myself quicker. after i have collapsed in an angst heap about the state of the parliament building?

its a national disgrace don't you know

as compared to unemployment?poverty?rising drug deaths

MorrisZapp · 21/08/2009 23:05

Ooh I'd forgotten your Stewart Lee-esque debating style scottishmummy.

Say the tutty and moribund thing again