Mumsnet #22 Are you strange generally?

[orangehead]

I meant I had a pillow in my cot, and I was put on my tummy to sleep.

Oh sorry, I read that completely wrong! I think I'll just blame one on being lightheaded from not eating and pretending I can't understand English very well because I'm trying to be more French

 

[Banoffeebabe]

I had my son about five years after the local maternity home closed. It sounded lovely compared to being expected to look after a newborn before the epidural wore off.

 

[YR80]

*food thread claxon* AIBU - something about pig out days. Someone pigs out on some fresh bread and cheese that she has with salad and fruit. I often have to restrain myself from pigging out on lettuce.

Sorry for a late reply. Currently on holiday at an all inclusive and am eating and drinking enough to make a mumsnetter get her ducks in a row. I remember seeing someone a few years ago eat an iceberg lettuce like an apple. I bet they were on Mumsnet.

 

[Baby Giraffe]

Definitely still a thing in the 90s. I had a seat towards the back of the plane on my Camp America flight in 1995 and there was a constant procession of people temporarily sitting in the back two rows to smoke.

Yep, defo still going strong in at least the '80s as I didn't go on a plane until about 1985!

 

[YR80]

I’m laid on a lounger next to the pool. On the pool edge is a French family (parents and two teenage boys.) The boys are seeing who can bomb/flop into the pool the worst and keep splashing my book when they do so, so I’ve given up reading. One boy has just belched really loudly and mum laughed. Not particularly sophisticated. I wonder how MNers would deal with this if I posted it. On the one hand, children who are disturbing the peace; on the other, French people.

 

[fiedwrdsx]

I’m laid on a lounger next to the pool. On the pool edge is a French family (parents and two teenage boys.) The boys are seeing who can bomb/flop into the pool the worst and keep splashing my book when they do so, so I’ve given up reading. One boy has just belched really loudly and mum laughed. Not particularly sophisticated. I wonder how MNers would deal with this if I posted it. On the one hand, children who are disturbing the peace; on the other, French people.

I think your lying, French boys don’t belch and French mums don’t just laugh , they tinkly laugh. OBVIOUSLY you don’t know the French language ( I do and often get mistaken for French) so it’s possible they are from another country. You should feel really ashamed of yourself actually

 

[Samf2020]

I’m laid on a lounger next to the pool. On the pool edge is a French family (parents and two teenage boys.) The boys are seeing who can bomb/flop into the pool the worst and keep splashing my book when they do so, so I’ve given up reading. One boy has just belched really loudly and mum laughed. Not particularly sophisticated. I wonder how MNers would deal with this if I posted it. On the one hand, children who are disturbing the peace; on the other, French people.

I think its ok to be a loud rude tit if you have a French passport.

 

[GirlWithThePearlEarhole]

Yep, defo still going strong in at least the '80s as I didn't go on a plane until about 1985!

It was still allowed on Thai Airways as late as 1993 as we had to put up with a physical fight between the cabin crew and a vile yob who wanted to smoke but had been allocated a seat in the non-smoking section. He actually punched a couple of stewards and then threatened to open the door and throw them out. That was a lovely flight.

 

[orangehead]

There's a mumsnetter on holiday in France…

 

[Miss Begotten]

There's a mumsnetter on holidaynin France…

I’ll have “things that never bleeping happened” for 10 points please Bob. Jeeeez.

 

[orangehead]

I’ll have “things that never bleeping happened” for 10 points please Bob. Jeeeez.

I'd bet a tenner it didn't happen but I'd also bet a tenner that if it did happen it's a mumsnetter

 

[CrimsonCountess]

I don’t know why but ‘fork and knife’ made me cringe every time I read it. Surely it’s knife and fork!?

 

[Salmonshirt]

‘In a very exaggerated French accent’. He also popped his beret on to go with his Breton top, and the string of onions round his neck just really helped to ram the whole point home.

 

[Boring Monday]

‘In a very exaggerated French accent’. He also popped his beret on to go with his Breton top, and the string of onions round his neck just really helped to ram the whole point home.

And gave his curly moustache a twirl with an ‘he haw he haw he haw’

 

[Anasnake]

What a pile of gallic rit

 

[Miss Begotten]

‘In a very exaggerated French accent’. He also popped his beret on to go with his Breton top, and the string of onions round his neck just really helped to ram the whole point home.

And gave his curly moustache a twirl with an ‘he haw he haw he haw’

She’s married to this bloke isn’t she?

 

[MargoLeadbetter]

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"Obviously knickers" but knickers handwoven from the finest unicorn hair, unless "Obviously" is a niche underwear brand that plebian me is unaware of...

Also that's a lot of kaftans unless you are actually Margo Leadbetter from the Good Life

I wondered where they'd gone. That bloody pouty, hair tossing witch nicked them

 

[ButtonDownTheHutches]

There's a mumsnetter on holiday in France…

“And then the whole of France stood up and clapped.”



Aside from a the fact that this emphatically Did Not Happen, how come someone married to a French bloke sheepishly abided by instructions on the ‘French’ way to eat from a total randomer?

 

[fiedwrdsx]

There's a mumsnetter on holiday in France…

Glad she told us what a Croissant was , I wouldn’t have known otherwise

 

[Blond3g1rl]

There's a mumsnetter on holiday in France…

I call balls. There was an article in the DM this weekend by that blond etiquette man and he talked about dipping croissants in hot chocolate.