Mumsnet #27 If you're only coming to goad, you're not getting our bleeping codes

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JarvisCockerSpaniel said:
In January you choose the five (I think?) celebrities you think will die over the year. Can be a wildcard, such as Prince Harry, or very ancient safer bets, think Dick Van Dyke.

It’s not as sick as and morbid as it sounds.

Ok it is 😆
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Yep, and: at least this year, we got points based on the ages of the nominee: 100 - age gives you the points, so if you pick someone ancient, they're worth less points than a young wildcard.

Morbid? Yes.
Fun. Absolutely.
Especially as clebs simply refused to... you know.
 
JarvisCockerSpaniel said:
In January you choose the five (I think?) celebrities you think will die over the year. Can be a wildcard, such as Prince Harry, or very ancient safer bets, think Dick Van Dyke.

It’s not as sick as and morbid as it sounds.

Ok it is 😆
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I thought it must be on Mumsnet since Serena was saying she'd give a code to someone on it, but maybe I just got the joke 🥴
 
melonpane said:
New in trending - my 4 year old knows everything.
Obviously lighthearted but OP's like this always irritate me as a bit smug. In fact I think people are more insufferably smug when they produce a popular lighthearted thread than a nasty one!
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I agree. And it's just a rip off of an old Reddit thread that's done the rounds on social media again recently.

As she's been brought up, I have a very minor question re. Alice Evans that's not for her thread and there's nowhere else to ask...

How did that thread get so big? He's not exactly A list (is he? I think he'd be a 15 pointer in the Pointless picture round with a risk someone would call him Ewan McGregor) and I had literally never heard of her. Is it because the tabloids picked it up and she's such a nutball?
 
HelenDamnation said:
Years ago, as one of my summer holiday jobs, I worked in an ice cream kiosk, where the machines had to be emptied daily.
I would shove all the flavours together in a washing up bowl and run round the corner where I lived with a bunch of hippies.
Best.Job.Ever.
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Gosh I didn’t know ice cream had so many flavours. Then again, we don’t have UPFs in this house! I’m sure it’s why we are all very tall and very thin.
 
I was meant to be going to a Christmas Fayre today but it was cancelled due to bad weather. As it was precooked tickets only, visitors (and stall holders) are understandably upset and want refunds. The social media posts are full of MN types saying things like "at least you're not living in Gaza" "at least you could afford tickets in the first place" etc
 
Gentlemensrelish said:
I agree. And it's just a rip off of an old Reddit thread that's done the rounds on social media again recently.

As she's been brought up, I have a very minor question re. Alice Evans that's not for her thread and there's nowhere else to ask...

How did that thread get so big? He's not exactly A list (is he? I think he'd be a 15 pointer in the Pointless picture round with a risk someone would call him Ewan McGregor) and I had literally never heard of her. Is it because the tabloids picked it up and she's such a nutball?
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Difficult one, but i would say it's because she shares absolutely everything online (at least she did until she got hit with a restraining order) so there is more fodder for comment. She is a pathological liar, which her ex has provided lots of proof of in court. And of course because she is shockingly abusive to her own children and her ex and his new partner.

A lot of people on the thread are survivors of Alice's in their own lives too.
 
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