The Mock Turtle

it's 2025 but the 2024 thread is still going... so should we start a new one?

We should.

Because IWLTS that using up all my jam that I bought (and ok, said you were welcome to use) is one thing, but telling me you won’t be replacing like for like (Bonne Maman Wild Blueberry) and will instead be buying Robertson’s Raspberyy is a bit much.

Rude! Why can't people* ever just have a bit of nice stuff? Why does it have to be choice between getting none or feeling unreasonable by claiming it for oneself? (*My family)

Also, IWLTS hurry up and reply! To my 17yo nephew, who never messages and rarely replies to mine. He's just sent a, "Hey, how are you?" and then gone quiet. He's either going to guilt trip me for not going to his 18th (which would cost me £400+) or tell me there is something wrong at home. Either way I'd like to get it overwith.

That is out of order Pip.

IWLTS: It is actually obscene that you only wear socks once then bin them.

IWALTS: You promised to come to his first football match and didn't. No one is surprised but would it really hurt you to be less thoughtless?

IWLTS- Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! This would make Kafka proud you mad eejits.

My name on all my British paperwork is Mary Jane Smith*, Jane is my middle name so I don’t use it everyday and it only appears on formal documents like my UK passport. To get my Irish passport, I had to to send off loads of paperwork to be added to the foreign births register- and I am Mary Jane Smith on this very important piece of paper. But when I applied for a passport in the midst of Covid lockdowns, it seems I only put Mary Smith.

My UK passport recently expired so I filled it out my application as Mary Jane Smith and sent it off. I also had to make a photocopy of all pages of my Irish Passport which shows my name as Mary Smith. So now the UK passport office have told me that I have to get a new Irish passport with Mary Jane Smith and submit that to them, before they will issue me a new British passport. And they need me to submit paperwork that shows I’m known as Mary Jane Smith for two years prior to my passport, they won’t even accept the paperwork that gave me Irish citizenship in the first place.

So basically I have to get a new Irish passport that says Mary Jane Smith by sending off my Irish passport to be processed, which I need to travel to the US in April for holiday and potentially before then for work.

*it isn’t but any road.

Oh dear, Haze! I think Ireland is one of the few countries that allows you to pick and choose your middle names. I dropped my horrible middle name so many years ago that I nearly forgot all about it, but when I got my French passport, it popped back up again like a bloody wart.
It's a good thing they don't realise I have a confirmation name or they'd probably put that on there too.

I hope you manage to get it sorted in time for your holiday.

I hope you can get it sorted in plenty of time for your holiday, Hazey.

IWLTS to my stupid ex-husband: just tell me a date/time and which property you'll be at, and I'll bring this bag of presents to you! This is not trying to arrange a G20 summit or similar, and I don't care about going out of my way to get this sorted..

It's so unfair on P who tried to arrange to see his dad before Christmas without success, so gave me the presents to pass on - P doesn't drive. I don't think my ex has given any of the children anything for Christmas either, so it's even more unfair on P who is trying to be civilised to his dad.

Robertson's jam is shit. Anyone who takes my Tiptree seedless raspberry is in a world of shit.

*gasp*! Bean did a swear. twice!

IWLTS: do you speak every thought that is in your head?

I WLTS Does anybody in your household eVER wash eir hands?


to my brother, who- along with his wife and children-has had covid about 4 billion times. same with norovirus

sally maclennane wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:00 pm IWLTS: do you speak every thought that is in your head?

Pretty much, yes. And I suspect this is going to be discussed in the meeting my manager has scheduled tomorrow.

IWLTS - can you please turn down the energy levels? Not everything has to be "super exciting" or "super cool"

Turtle Bean wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:55 pm Robertson's jam is shit. Anyone who takes my Tiptree seedless raspberry is in a world of shit.

This is true. It’s so cheap and nasty.

Ella wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:53 pm *gasp*! Bean did a swear. twice!

I swear loads. :lol:

Skips wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:17 pm

sally maclennane wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:00 pm IWLTS: do you speak every thought that is in your head?

Pretty much, yes. And I suspect this is going to be discussed in the meeting my manager has scheduled tomorrow.

I'm not your manager, honestly :))

IWLTS thank you [ex colleague I barely know] for soft launching your new boyfriend on Instagram this weekend! I have watched your social media transformation go from forced smiles with your husband, to husband no longer appearing at social gatherings, to you suddenly having amazing hair and posting freebie items on the local Facebook groups as you (“I” not “we”) are moving soon. The ring disappeared, the boyfriend popped up

This is absolutely NONE OF MY BUSINESS. But it’s been years, and she seems so much happier now, and I am nothing if not an avid fan of that.

That sounds juicy, Leap.

Passport saga update- Spoke to the Irish passport office today and I need to fork out 100 euros to get a new passport and add my name Jane to it. Turnaround time is hopefully 2 weeks.

Leap wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:29 pm This is absolutely NONE OF MY BUSINESS. But it’s been years, and she seems so much happier now, and I am nothing if not an avid fan of that.

I love how happy you are for her. I felt the same about one of the NICU nurses who cared for Betty and TD (and with whom I stayed FB friends). The phasing out of the miserable husband, the megawatt smile returning in photos with her kids, holidays with the new bloke and eventually a wedding a few weeks ago She is now a colleague and I did recently get to say (a toned down version of) how happy I am for her.