Things you'd like to say, but can't

[gbb]

Sorry mum but I'm really disappointed in you. Its your great granddaughters 11th birthday, we just told you and you could have given her a little something, even if it wasnt a card. I console myself you're nearly 90, but mum, really ?

 

[gbb]

You've become part of our family, we've welcomed you, love you despite your chaotic life that's mostly a result of a remarkably poor upbringing, but you realise sometimes...you cant change people, and tbh, you've caused more stress and heartache that anyone else I know...and you're dragging everyone down with you.

Time to tell the person straight, but kindly today I think or theres going to be a monumental blow up. Sometimes trying to help people doesnt work if they're incapable of helping themselves.

 

[oldwheels]

There are two drinks dispensers followed by the till in a narrow corridor. The queue is building up so why do you insist on trying to use the first machine rather than the second which is not being used and then having a lengthy debate about tea or coffee and which tea or coffee to choose thereby preventing anyone from getting past to the available machine. As I squeeze past to get my coffee from the second machine you have the cheek to glare at me as I am jumping the queue but I will have got my coffee and paid for it before you deign to make a decision. Bl——y tourists.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

You're the boss, so you know best, but you really are doing this all wrong.

 

[Lullabelle]

Just for the record, you do know South Africa is a rather large country, it isn't just that bit where Love Island is filmed.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Just for the record, you do know South Africa is a rather large country, it isn't just that bit where Love Island is filmed.

I don't know what Love Island is, should I bother to find out?

 

[DCBassman]

I don't know what Love Island is, should I bother to find out?

Absolutely Fabulous not.

 

[Low Gear Guy]

I am sorry that my colleague told you that. It is completely incorrect and, in any case, he is a complete nobber.

 

[Vantage]

Park that effing van outside my home one more time and I'll park it in your living room.

 

[Lullabelle]

I don't know what Love Island is, should I bother to find out?

If you are interested in cosmetically enhanced, shallow people pretending to like each other to get a career in television then sure why not

 

[perplexed]

I don't know what Love Island is, should I bother to find out?

Not in any way, shape or form.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Dear teachers, it is all very well you lecturing me about "Making sure my children do their homework" but can I try (again) to get a concept over to you?

The system of informing me that you have set homework is to tell the students to write the homework down in their homework organiser.

Therefore, if they don't write it down, I don't know if you have set homework.

If I don't know about the homework, I can't then try to make sure they've done it.

No amount of snotty letters to me is going to change this situation until you find a way of making sure the information gets to me.

This is an entirely separate issue to the question of why I seem to end up doing a lot of the work of actually teaching my kids how to do the actual work, and you seem to get paid for it.

 

[roadrash]

^^^^^ I would actually be saying that to them ^^^^^^

 

[Chris S]

People complain about ethnic minorities being under-represented at the BAFTAs but not about ethnic minorities being over-represented in British sport teams. Could both be due to people being chosen on their merit?

 

[Andy in Germany]

^^^^^ I would actually be saying that to them ^^^^^^

I once said it three times in a parent-teacher conference but the teacher either couldn't -or more likely wouldn't- understand.