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A Viscous attack # 2

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Catpiece · 15/08/2025 11:23

Is it okay for me to start a second thread of the highly entertaining viscous attack? Couldn’t see a sequel and don’t want to step foot on anyone’s toes
edited to add: I’m Cattery but with a name change x

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PendantScorner · 26/11/2025 12:46

I think, given the locality it gave, and the username, it's someone who is of non-British heritage (might be British born and bred, might be an immigrant), it should read something like
'Hello Nextdoor members,
I need to hire a licenced security person for work in Slough on Saturday Nov 29 and Sunday Nov 30. Please DM for more information. Thanks.'

Chersfrozenface · 27/11/2025 10:31

On a thread about passports, a poster had to get "stack Decks" and a "stack deck".

From the context I'm guessing "statutory declaration/s".

MagpiePi · 27/11/2025 10:54

Chersfrozenface · 27/11/2025 10:31

On a thread about passports, a poster had to get "stack Decks" and a "stack deck".

From the context I'm guessing "statutory declaration/s".

Yes, it was statutory declarations.

I am loving that thread and how the OP is sticking to her guns that passports are too expensive.

Catpiece · 27/11/2025 13:06

That particular poster is just typing what she thinks she’s heard. Stat Dec. Stack deck. Obviously never heard of a statutory declaration. Mind boggling.

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MagpiePi · 27/11/2025 14:08

She did say it was a typo, but made the same typo several times.

TerminalMoraine · 27/11/2025 22:12

There’s no rime or reason.

MagpiePi · 28/11/2025 13:02

TerminalMoraine · 27/11/2025 22:12

There’s no rime or reason.

🥶

TerminalMoraine · 28/11/2025 13:44

Just read that a president has been set now.

AgentPidge · 28/11/2025 14:00

TerminalMoraine · 28/11/2025 13:44

Just read that a president has been set now.

Trump? In aspic? Great!

PendantScorner · 28/11/2025 14:01

What do people think they mean when they say that something is unpresidented?

Trump? In aspic? Great! In stocks would be better.

TerminalMoraine · 28/11/2025 14:02

@AgentPidge
No Trump would be in orange jelly. Maybe mandarin flavour.

PendantScorner · 28/11/2025 14:04

He'd be invisible in it.

Theyreeatingthedogs · 28/11/2025 16:31

A good one today on MN was someone wrote "free rein". A poster then wrote something like "pendantically it should be free reign"

Catpiece · 28/11/2025 19:32

Ooof

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MagpiePi · 29/11/2025 08:23

Blindsighted by DH telling me tonight he’s had enough of our marriage, and written as ‘blind sighted’ later in the post.

Something so shocking it renders you blind?!

Catpiece · 29/11/2025 09:24

MagpiePi · 29/11/2025 08:23

Blindsighted by DH telling me tonight he’s had enough of our marriage, and written as ‘blind sighted’ later in the post.

Something so shocking it renders you blind?!

Apparently 🤣

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PendantScorner · 29/11/2025 09:30

"their eating disorders are nothing to do with normal social eating, but the clandestine gouging."

Borgonzola · 30/11/2025 11:04

On the back of a packet of Aldi pre-made pastry: ‘over life, small black specs may appear’

👓?

Funnywonder · 30/11/2025 11:10

Borgonzola · 30/11/2025 11:04

On the back of a packet of Aldi pre-made pastry: ‘over life, small black specs may appear’

👓?

Love this🤣🤣

Funnywonder · 30/11/2025 11:17

Would you mind sharing a bit more about what that entrails?

Just came across this on another thread😬

Theyreeatingthedogs · 30/11/2025 14:12

uk and Europe overhaul has the best landscape. USA could never 👎

On another MN thread.

Borgonzola · 30/11/2025 14:18

Funnywonder · 30/11/2025 11:17

Would you mind sharing a bit more about what that entrails?

Just came across this on another thread😬

@FunnywonderMaybe they were consulting the haruspex Grin

Chersfrozenface · 30/11/2025 14:20

There's a poster feeling "dispare".

I hadn't though of that as a noun, I thought it was a verb meaning to stick the skin back on a carrot or potato.

Allseeingallknowing · 30/11/2025 15:26

Someone on the wrapping thread on Mumsnet said they had bought a whole new role for one present- I didn’t like to ask which role it was playing!

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