so, Stormzy then...?

[fatyeti24]

39 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

"You'll never guess who's dead"

Is it Connie, again?

[henry bear]

28 minutes ago, Sasperella said:

Managed to actually text my Mum this time: 

 

Looks like she’s thinking of Banksy?

[Mattymooz]

Mum was suprisingly quick at replying tbh, tho not very forthcoming...

Edited November 9, 2018 by Mattymooz

[slash's hat]

My mum has a mobile, but never switches the bloody thing on. Not that she would know what to do with a text anyway. Anyhoo had to take the 'rents for flu jabs and asked them if heard of stormzy...a resounding no at 74 years of age. She does know of Olly Murs and little mix but think that's more because of them playing at local rugby stadium.

Mumsnet is indeed a scary place, I was browsing for a while but too scared to post unless it was about raising twins. Every answer to every marital problem someone had was "leave the bastard".....even has it's own acronym (LTB!). Lot of angry women on there.

[Mr.Tease]

My mum has a mobile but doesn't know how to access texts-- your mum's all sound very futuristic 

[Mr.Tease]

12 minutes ago, Phoenix Girl said:

My mum offers opinions. And she’s 80.

Your mum has brought reason and compromise to the thread?

[Glastocat]

23 minutes ago, Woffy said:

My Mum’s called Shirley. 

So I call her that instead of Mum.

To which she replies, with a “...but don’t call me Shirley”. 

And I’ve been cracking up at that for 20+ years and she still has absolutely zero idea why. 

But, does she know who Stormzy is? Perhaps there’s a correlation between mams who haven’t seen airplane! but know who Stormzy is and him headlining the Pyramid. Hmmm. 

[Phoenix Girl]

2 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

Your mum has brought reason and compromise to the thread?

? I’ll let her know.

[ourkid1984]

I'm surprised with my mum. Her favourite artist is Cliff Richard.

[Woffy]

3 minutes ago, Glastocat said:

But, does she know who Stormzy is? Perhaps there’s a correlation between mams who haven’t seen airplane! but know who Stormzy is and him headlining the Pyramid. Hmmm. 

I texted her (with x’s) about 30 minutes ago. 

No response as yet. 

She’s probably telephatically waiting until I go for a shit to call me (instead of texting) back. 

[Gnomicide]

2 minutes ago, Woffy said:

She’s probably telephatically waiting until I go for a shit to call me (instead of texting) back. 

She won't have to wait for long.

[Guest]

Almost mum...

[Quark]

After the recent nonsense this thread has hands down renewed my faith in eFests. Had to explain why I was repeatedly giggling at my desk this afternoon.

[Glastocat]

3 minutes ago, Woffy said:

I texted her (with x’s) about 30 minutes ago. 

No response as yet. 

She’s probably telephatically waiting until I go for a shit to call me (instead of texting) back. 

? or ha ha for anyone who’s been reading this thread all day. 

[Quark]

34 minutes ago, Northern Soul said:

My mother is a member of the Women's Institute, I would bet the national debt of the USA on her not knowing who Stormzy is.

How to make Jam? Yes.

Who Stormzy is? Nope.

Just as a little foot note, I'm frankly appalled at the lack of kisses on some of these screen shots. Always a kiss to my mum on a message, and always one back. @Mardy full marks sir, 2 kisses?.

2 kisses for Mrs Q. 2 for Mother Qperior would therefore be odd beyond words.

24 minutes ago, Phoenix Girl said:

My mum offers opinions. And she’s 80.

She pretty much summarised about 10 pages worth of arguing there.

[Woffy]

4 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

She won't have to wait for long.

Oh yeah, it’s Friday!

[Phoenix Girl]

3 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

Almost mum...

No biggie. Graffiti more her thing than Grime then.

[Guest]

Just now, Phoenix Girl said:

No biggie. Graffiti more her thing than Grime then.

Clearly. Although she doesn't seem to know the world-famous graffiti artists of Darlington too well.

[Brave Sir Robin]

To be fair, some journalists don't know who Stormzy is (or at least, what he looks like):

I wonder if we'll get a photo of Lukaku illustrating a story about headlining Glastonbury...

[Northern Soul]

 

38 minutes ago, Northern Soul said:

My mother is a member of the Women's Institute, I would bet the national debt of the USA on her not knowing who Stormzy is.

 

Well fuck me sideways??. I am genuinely staggered at that. Ha ha...

[Guest]

How do we know all of our mums aren't having a quick google before replying? We need a more fool-proof test.

[kagey]

long may this continue ??

Unfortunately my Quija board isn't working, so my mum won't be responding

Stormzy's record sales may go through the roof at Christmas time if everyone's asking their mum's about him

[Sasperella]

29 minutes ago, henry bear said:

Looks like she’s thinking of Banksy?

Possibly, but I think more likely she didn't think "singer" was appropriate and didn't have a clue what the right noun was...

[Tranquility of Solitude]

2 hours ago, crocodiles said:

apologies if your mum is not in that age bracket 

oh, I wouldn't worry,  I'm not a kick in the teeth off that bracket  myself. My Mum's in a whole new league.

[slash's hat]

4 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

How do we know all of our mums aren't having a quick google before replying? We need a more fool-proof test.

Yes, this is all far too random. We need age categories, technology usage levels, paper reading preferences, have they ever attended a festival, have they taken (non prescription) drugs. Charts and Venn diagrams to really get a feel for this situation. Jeremy Kyle to do lie detector tests when confronted with "did you Google who Stormzy was mum/mam/mother/Shirley?"!