Never Ignore a Pooh-Pooh

[Jamie123]

Why do people who pooh-pooh you get cross when you pooh-pooh them back? If they don't want to be "counter pooh-pooh", why do they pooh-pooh you to start with?

I got pooh-pooh'd at church this morning. When Marjory and I got to the fridge to put the milk in, we found the fridge not working. We thought "oh no the fridge is broken" but when I plugged the kettle into the same socket box that didn't work either. So I plugged the fridge into another socket box on a different circuit it worked fine. However when I got back after church to make the tea and coffee the first socket was working fine, so I told the hall manager Jack and I said if it stopped working that once isn't there a danger it will stop working again? (You don't want everything in the fridge going bad because it's plugged into a socket which may stop working.) He just said "no". I said "how can you know that if you don't know why it went dead in the first place?" He then asked me a bunch of questions - had I checked this or that - but he didn't let me answer properly without pooh-poohing in. I told him I wondered if this same circuit might have been found dead in another part of the building by some other hall users who had then found the circuit breaker and turned it on again. It took me some time to articulate this theory because he kept butting in with his pooh-poohs, but then he said how would anyone else get into the room where the circuit breakers are without the key? I said, OK how do YOU explain the circuit going dead and then coming back on again? He said if I was going to get "aggressive" he was going away. I said "well you're not letting me finishing my sentences!" So he stormed off.

That's what happens when you pooh-pooh a pooh-pooher!

I did have another calmer talk with him later (when Marjorie backed me up about the fridge and the kettle not working) but what I got from him first time around was a right and proper pooh-poohing! And if you can't take a pooh-pooh back you shouldn't give one out in the first place!

I hope you've enjoyed this little story of pooh-pooh!

[Vort]

What a jerk.

[Jamie123]

9 hours ago, Vort said:

What a jerk.

I wouldn't go that far. Just a pooh-pooher who pooh-poohs being pooh-poohd back. 😀

[Jamie123]

Interesting fact about pooh-pooh: The first ever recorded pooh-poohing was in Hamlet act 1 scene 3:

Quote

OPHELIA: He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
Of his affection to me.
POLONIUS: Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?

Or at least that's the first time it was called that. (I'm sure people have pooh-poohed each other since language was first invented!) Also it was only half a pooh-poohing since there was only one pooh! But I think the other pooh was implied.

P.S. If you remember the play, this wasn't the only pooh-pooh poor Ophelia suffered. There's even a Pre-Raphaelite painting about it:

Joseph Everett Millais "The Girl Who Got Pooh-Poohed (and how it ended up!)"

Edited August 5, 2024 by Jamie123