Mumsnet #39 Chatbot or fatbot?

[kendallroysdownfall]

Im sorry but I cannot breathe. Where was he taking it? She says it like it’s oBvIOus but I can’t think of a single place I’d take a cat in a bag. She knows 100% but doesn’t say? Does she not know either like me but doesn’t want to own up to not knowing?

I like how she caveats the whole thing with it may seem stupid at first but just think about it. Now I’m not really what you’d class as an animal lover but are there really people who wander round neighbourhoods sUpER sAD at all the missing cat posters? In my old neighbourhood there was a poster that had been up so long no way that cat hadn’t died of old age

Well you can imagine where the comments have gone...referring to a certain type of food place. Doesn't take much to bring the local racists to the surface...

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

You can honestly keep Mumsnet. It has NOTHING on the batshittery of my local Facebook and Nextdoor groups. I can barely believe they walk amongst us.

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Is there a google translate button for this?

 

[GalaxyGirl70]

Covid hysteria is still alive and well on MN I see. The OP's partner woke with a sore throat, grabbed a Covid test and OH NO it was positive. Much handwringing about a party for an 80 year old going ahead, and off they all raced to post with a "my god I'm still bleaching the postman" and "my next door neighbours best friends aunty died from Covid last week".

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

You would if you knew me. Possibly daily .

Good.

I like to see the old ways being respected.

<nods approvingly>

 

[Captainmouse]

Covid hysteria is still alive and well on MN I see. The OP's partner woke with a sore throat, grabbed a Covid test and OH NO it was positive. Much handwringing about a party for an 80 year old going ahead, and off they all raced to post with a "my god I'm still bleaching the postman" and "my next door neighbours best friends aunty died from Covid last week".

#thread title mumsnet still bleaching the postman

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Im sorry but I cannot breathe. Where was he taking it? She says it like it’s oBvIOus but I can’t think of a single place I’d take a cat in a bag. She knows 100% but doesn’t say? Does she not know either like me but doesn’t want to own up to not knowing?

I like how she caveats the whole thing with it may seem stupid at first but just think about it. Now I’m not really what you’d class as an animal lover but are there really people who wander round neighbourhoods sUpER sAD at all the missing cat posters? In my old neighbourhood there was a poster that had been up so long no way that cat hadn’t died of old age

I get very sad about the missing dog posters around where my son anddaughter-in-law live. There seemed to be a high proportion of elderly staffies going missing over the winter, and it upset me thinking about poor old frightened dogs huddling in bushes for warmth.

I hope they were found and the owners just hadn't bothered getting rid of the posters. Three went up in one week, and they were all old dogs.

Oh, bugger, now I'm nearly crying again.

I wish people would keep their dogs on a lead/ not tie them up outside shops/ just look after them properly.

 

[TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo]

Good.

I like to see the old ways being respected.

<nods approvingly>

I love an old fashioned non swear. Wazzock, and pillock spring to mind. I'm also partial to the slightly stronger 'toss-pot'. I find they often get more of a reaction than proper swearing, although obviously I do a fair bit of that too .

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

I adore Lenny!

Laughing Len! He was a very funny man amid the existential angst

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Oh. A thread about the awfulness of all you can eat buffets. Not many posts in and we already have stuffing/gorging/piling, massive teenage boy appetites, just eat a small salad portion/vegetables etc.

Takes me back to wen the kids were little and the only place we could eat was MacDonalds or Pizza Hut. At the Pizza Hut buffet you were allowed to get as many refills of artery-blocking pizza that you wanted, but only got one go at the salad bar.

I had building a "Jenga" salad down to a fine art - it stood about 6 inches above the bowl and I really had to concentrate to carry it to the table. There were stray tomatoes and escaping bits of sweetcorn rolling everywhere. I only ate about 1/3rd of it - it wa the principle of the thing. If I was only getting one go, I was going to make the most of it. If they'd let me go back as often as I liked I'd have consumed the same amount, but they'd have lost much less, because TBH, I'd probably not have gone back more than once, and then perhaps just for another half pint of Thousand Island Dressing.

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[ChampagneBox]

You can honestly keep Mumsnet. It has NOTHING on the batshittery of my local Facebook and Nextdoor groups. I can barely believe they walk amongst us.

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If they know where he’s taken it 100% then…tell the police?

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

I love an old fashioned non swear. Wazzock, and pillock spring to mind. I'm also partial to the slightly stronger 'toss-pot'. I find they often get more of a reaction than proper swearing, although obviously I do a fair bit of that too .

I admire your selection - I also use them, plus "tosser" and "melt" are among my favourite non-swears, but I also like "twonk" and "prawn". Then I move into dodgier territory - as you say, "toss-pot", but also "wanker", "tit", "hole", and "baw'bag" (which I learned from a Scottish friend). Then we go into proper swearing - and I'm pretty bad sometimes, but never the c-word. It's just horrible. If other people use it, it's their choice, but I just can't.

I do use bugger", but it's more a term of affection these days.
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If they know where he’s taken it 100% then…tell the police?

But what if he is On The Spectrum and can't help himself? Surely he deserves pity rather than censure. These stolen cats may be his only company.

Did no-one ask how old he was? Could have been dementia.

 

[yessenia_d]

I rather think they've formed a small gang as the other children all have boring, run-of-the-mill names like Tarquin, Tamsarina, Persephone and Ptolomey. As such, they're not the sort of people to whom we would extend play date invitations. Very sad for them.

You know, I used to know a Odysseus and Persephone. They were Cypriot, ran the local chippie, were as wide as they were short, and as short tempered to boot, and being professional carb-pushers Mumsnetters would likely run a mile in case they caught a terminal case of the UPFs or something. They were lovely people and made the best chips I've had since I came to the UK.

 

[Serene Serena]

It’s perfectly acceptable to be a bit of a wanker at 18 I feel. It’s when you’re 38 and still prominently displaying your copy of War and Peace that it’s a problem.

That's reassuring. I have no problem with people coming round and seeing my bookshelf crammed with Nicci French, Lisa Jewell, Jane Fallon and Maeve Binchy, although my spotify playlist will remain private The BSB, Nsynch and Take That (and occasionally a bit of 1D) are my guilty listening secret.

 

[LilyPond]

Laughing Len! He was a very funny man amid the existential angst

Sexy AF as well.

 

[TenerifeTigger]

If I don't go up at least 3 times to a buffet I've wasted my money.

 

[kendallroysdownfall]

Takes me back to wen the kids were little and the only place we could eat was MacDonalds or Pizza Hut. At the Pizza Hut buffet you were allowed to get as many refills of artery-blocking pizza that you wanted, but only got one go at the salad bar.

I had building a "Jenga" salad down to a fine art - it stood about 6 inches above the bowl and I really had to concentrate to carry it to the table. There were stray tomatoes and escaping bits of sweetcorn rolling everywhere. I only ate about 1/3rd of it - it wa the principle of the thing. If I was only getting one go, I was going to make the most of it. If they'd let me go back as often as I liked I'd have consumed the same amount, but they'd have lost much less, because TBH, I'd probably not have gone back more than once, and then perhaps just for another half pint of Thousand Island Dressing.

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Oh amateur!

To get it above six inches you make a wigwam of breadsticks around the bowl and build the salad within it...



Meanwhile over at batshit towers there's a light hearted thread asking what the last thing anyone bought on Amazon was. I think you know what's coming a few pages in...

 

[CrimsonCountess]

Anyone seen the thread about savings for children? Someone posted that she keeps half of any money her child is given for any presents and uses it to overpay her mortgage. It has not gone down well

 

[Itchy of Itchington]

Meanwhile over at batshit towers there's a light hearted thread asking what the last thing anyone bought on Amazon was. I think you know what's coming a few pages in...


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Has anyone questioned what "Amazon" is yet. 'Amazon, like the river why would you buy things from there?"

 

[Halister]

Amazon ?? I only buy things from the local farm shop, that have been carved out of wood.

 

[Geetbo]

Amazon ?? I only buy things from the local farm shop, that have been carved out of wood.

I don’t buy things I make everything from scratch. But then I’m not a consumerist council cav *tinkly laugh*