Relationship Ron Burgundy Moment

[Sighs]

Talking about our respective kids as babies.

Him: so we got some gripe water, it's got something in it.
Me: pfft - it's just brandy
Him: it's not brandy
Me: ok - I thought it was
Him: (cranky) it's not brandy
Me: ok ok it's not brandy
Him: (really cranky) it's not brandy!
Me: why are you getting annoyed? I'm not arguing with you.
Him: (snarling) shut the f*ck up

Me: (in my head) well... That escalated quickly!

 

[Friday]

LMAO. Clearly, it's whiskey & sugar. ;)

 

[Sweetpea76]

Sounds like he needs a little gripe water... and to shut the f*ck up. :mad::mad:

 

[Justmehere]

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

 

[Friday]

Sounds like he needs a little gripe water...

Seconded!!!

 

[Sighs]

So I googled it. It's peppermint and liquorice and fennel.

Maybe I should pick him up some on the way home...

 

[Friday]

Spoiler: Grab beer from fridge, rather than reading ;)

<chuckling> The original formula (1850s) did contain alcohol. Not sure when that discontinued. Here, I suspect during prohibition (1920s) but I don't know if it came back or not, when prohibition was repealed. Cheaper to make, but not very shelf stable, without it. So I'd flip a coin. We didn't remove alcohol from most OTC medication until the 1980s & 1990s, but removed cocaine & opiates during the 1950s & 60s. LMAO. Soooooo sometime in the last century, the -American- formula was altered. BUT homemade gripe water nearly always contained liquor, and sometimes still does. Just like in the South (US) people do actually make a paste of whiskey& sugar to numb gums during teething.

It was also common practice to swirl high proof booze in baby bottles before filling them with milk... For about as long as we've used glass baby bottles. (And in the Caribbean, rum is poured over rooftops to christen new roofs... Or rather the cisterns that the rain water from the roofs collect into.. The belief being that it helps sterilize them. Which is true for the bottles, less true for the big damn cisterns.)

This little bout of way the f*ck too much info? Brought to you courtesy of 'my last forum was in parenting' ;) And, clearly, way too much time researching silliness. And history. And anything related to kids & babies. And medicine. And booze. And... STFU already

:speechless:

Mmhm. Hmm mmrhm aaahmmmm mm nmn. Mnmmnm hm.

 

[Sighs]

Got told to "shuuuuddduuppp" again.

Cracked it in response. Stormed off. Told him I wasn't putting up with being spoken to like that. He started in his usual "oh well obviously you don't want to be here...". I told him it had nothing to do with not wanting to be with him. I told him that that sort of behaviour might have flown in the army but on civvy street you don't speak to people like that.

He apologised.

 

[Sweetpea76]

Sometimes you have to release the beast!!!