Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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Adverts for the most random crap imaginable being billed as 'The perfect Mothers day gift'
Mothers day is a load of over commercialised b
ks dreamt up by some coke snorting wkers to sell more over priced ste from their utterly twee greetings card shops in the space between Christmas and Easter.
Mothers day is a load of over commercialised b
ks dreamt up by some coke snorting wkers to sell more over priced ste from their utterly twee greetings card shops in the space between Christmas and Easter.SlimJim16v said:
Tango13 said:
Adverts for the most random crap imaginable being billed as 'The perfect Mothers day gift'
Yes, I've been getting emails from drink sites I usually order my Whisky from, saying for a change, how about a nice bottle of Gin for your mum. 
james_tigerwoods said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
Seriously if you get the chance to watch interpretive dance run, run very fast.
That's a brilliant read, thank you 
I have heard, however, that free-form Jazz is a special kind of terrible...
On the free-form Jazz front I went with my brother (who's a musician) and my mum to one of these for his birthday. There was a woman sitting next to us who was dressed in what looked like knitted curtains getting really into it, unfortunately she is about as musically talented as a rock. My brother asked to leave early because she was going all happy clappy but not in time to the unmitigated drivel emanating from the stage and he couldn't hold in the laughter anymore.
This week:
1) The phrase "British Born", even from the Leftie Beeb - that's right, keep stoking the fire, that'll help - unless they were Born in the UK and later took another nationality, they're "British", even if they're not white, or C of E, they're still British. I'm sure everyone can guess who I'm talking about.
2) Vegetarianism, or more specifically my Son's new found Vegetarianism. On Tuesday he declared meat to be murder and he'd no longer eat "flesh". I take care of the shopping and cooking in our house, and my kitchen runs like a well oiled machine - waste is almost unheard of, diet is varied, processed food with too much fat/salt/sugar avoided as is ill considered fads and over priced nonsense like "super foods". Like a good Pub Band, I'll take requests, I'm not a natural cook, for me it's not an art, it's a science and I've got a couple of cook books the family can pick from - I'll make almost anything that doesn't require £100k of fancy, hard to find ingredients or a JCB and sevaral hours with the Large Hadron Collider to prepare. I don't punish misadventure - if it turns out to not to be to our taste, we learn and move on, if we like it I'll usually devise a way to simplify it to reduce the cost / prep time for more a mid-week version. I strict, but fair, I get no complaints and I wouldn't accept them if I did.
My two main rules are that we all eat the same thing, at the same time - I don't do early bird specials or late night dining, and any requests are for the FOLLOWING WEEK, shopping, like my cooking is a science, not an art - I don't browse, I click and collect the correct food for the following week.
So this sudden Vegetarianism threw me, he's only 11 and prone to sudden realisations that pass just as quickly, but this one lasted more than an hour - I restated my 2 rules, we all eat the same thing, and requests need to be made by Friday for the following week, he could save the Animals next week, nope - he's taken a vow, Mrs backed him up. This week has been transitional, he's had a few meals that were 'meat free' but I wouldn't call them complete, they're certainly not nutritionally balanced, and a couple that were sort of vegetarian - he ate around the Bacon in my Bacon and Pea Risotto, which I know would probably disgust established Veggies, but this is a work in progress. I've already had to break my rules for the other kid, as my Wife keeps crying "you can't give a Baby a Lamb Chop" but considering the mark she left on my arm the other day when she bit me I reckon we probably could. I don't have the time to make 2 versions of everything, I don't want to be a veggie, I like meat too much, fake meat disgusts me and I refuse to become one of those families that just warmed up frozen crap for their kids, Beans and Smiley Faces every night.
Anyway, I’ve got 2 core annoyances with it Firstly – we’ve discovered that rather than a moment of self-enlightenment, this new stance was brought about by a new Girlfriend who is Veggie – he’s too young to be so whipped.
Secondly, he’s one of those ahole Veggies who eat fish – NOW, I should be clear here before I annoy too many people – I have no beef with Veggies (if you excuse the pun) – if you decide that eating animals is wrong, then don’t eat them, I don’t even mind if you want to try to discuss your opinion with others with a desire to bend them to your way of thinking as long as you are open to honest debate not screaming “MURDERER” in other people’s faces.
If you don’t like the idea or just the taste of meat and decide you don’t want to eat it, fair enough and I understand that if the idea of eating it makes you feel ill, then I can accept that you’d be unhappy if someone offers you something with a trace amount of animal product in it – I wouldn’t eat something which contained even 0.000001% of aborted human foetus, you could tell me till you’re blue in the face that it’s completely safe and such a tiny amount you’d “never notice” but I couldn’t. If it’s not for you, it’s not for you.
What I won’t accept, is people who decide they don’t like the idea or taste of mammals, but will happily eat fish AND then act like they taken some massive moral standpoint “murder” “nothing with a face” I’m sorry but you’ve taken a preference and made it into a superiority complex. A Tuna is a majestic, beautiful animal, fish deserve the same respect as Cows and Sheep. If eating Lamb is Murder then so is eating Tuna. I’m being told-off for eating beef by an 11 year old who ate half his body weight in Haddock 24 hours earlier. I’m not having that.
1) The phrase "British Born", even from the Leftie Beeb - that's right, keep stoking the fire, that'll help - unless they were Born in the UK and later took another nationality, they're "British", even if they're not white, or C of E, they're still British. I'm sure everyone can guess who I'm talking about.
2) Vegetarianism, or more specifically my Son's new found Vegetarianism. On Tuesday he declared meat to be murder and he'd no longer eat "flesh". I take care of the shopping and cooking in our house, and my kitchen runs like a well oiled machine - waste is almost unheard of, diet is varied, processed food with too much fat/salt/sugar avoided as is ill considered fads and over priced nonsense like "super foods". Like a good Pub Band, I'll take requests, I'm not a natural cook, for me it's not an art, it's a science and I've got a couple of cook books the family can pick from - I'll make almost anything that doesn't require £100k of fancy, hard to find ingredients or a JCB and sevaral hours with the Large Hadron Collider to prepare. I don't punish misadventure - if it turns out to not to be to our taste, we learn and move on, if we like it I'll usually devise a way to simplify it to reduce the cost / prep time for more a mid-week version. I strict, but fair, I get no complaints and I wouldn't accept them if I did.
My two main rules are that we all eat the same thing, at the same time - I don't do early bird specials or late night dining, and any requests are for the FOLLOWING WEEK, shopping, like my cooking is a science, not an art - I don't browse, I click and collect the correct food for the following week.
So this sudden Vegetarianism threw me, he's only 11 and prone to sudden realisations that pass just as quickly, but this one lasted more than an hour - I restated my 2 rules, we all eat the same thing, and requests need to be made by Friday for the following week, he could save the Animals next week, nope - he's taken a vow, Mrs backed him up. This week has been transitional, he's had a few meals that were 'meat free' but I wouldn't call them complete, they're certainly not nutritionally balanced, and a couple that were sort of vegetarian - he ate around the Bacon in my Bacon and Pea Risotto, which I know would probably disgust established Veggies, but this is a work in progress. I've already had to break my rules for the other kid, as my Wife keeps crying "you can't give a Baby a Lamb Chop" but considering the mark she left on my arm the other day when she bit me I reckon we probably could. I don't have the time to make 2 versions of everything, I don't want to be a veggie, I like meat too much, fake meat disgusts me and I refuse to become one of those families that just warmed up frozen crap for their kids, Beans and Smiley Faces every night.
Anyway, I’ve got 2 core annoyances with it Firstly – we’ve discovered that rather than a moment of self-enlightenment, this new stance was brought about by a new Girlfriend who is Veggie – he’s too young to be so whipped.
Secondly, he’s one of those a
hole Veggies who eat fish – NOW, I should be clear here before I annoy too many people – I have no beef with Veggies (if you excuse the pun) – if you decide that eating animals is wrong, then don’t eat them, I don’t even mind if you want to try to discuss your opinion with others with a desire to bend them to your way of thinking as long as you are open to honest debate not screaming “MURDERER” in other people’s faces. If you don’t like the idea or just the taste of meat and decide you don’t want to eat it, fair enough and I understand that if the idea of eating it makes you feel ill, then I can accept that you’d be unhappy if someone offers you something with a trace amount of animal product in it – I wouldn’t eat something which contained even 0.000001% of aborted human foetus, you could tell me till you’re blue in the face that it’s completely safe and such a tiny amount you’d “never notice” but I couldn’t. If it’s not for you, it’s not for you.
What I won’t accept, is people who decide they don’t like the idea or taste of mammals, but will happily eat fish AND then act like they taken some massive moral standpoint “murder” “nothing with a face” I’m sorry but you’ve taken a preference and made it into a superiority complex. A Tuna is a majestic, beautiful animal, fish deserve the same respect as Cows and Sheep. If eating Lamb is Murder then so is eating Tuna. I’m being told-off for eating beef by an 11 year old who ate half his body weight in Haddock 24 hours earlier. I’m not having that.
Edited by P-Jay on Friday 24th March 11:31
P-Jay said:
Mrs backed him up.
See, I think this would make me look an ahole to some. If I had a routine and did the shopping, cooking or most of it and the above occurred, I'd allow her to support him by handing her a book or page on vegetarian diets and tell her to sort his meals out.ClockworkCupcake said:
Pre-divorce, I ended up regularly cooking 3 different meals at 3 different times for 3 people. It was a bloody nightmare.
In contrast, when I was growing up there were two meal choices at dinner time - take it or leave it. And the latter was not an option.
Yes, it was the same when I was growing up. Eat what's in front of you or go hungry. This meant that I have grown up happy to eat just about any normal food that is put in front of me. Apart from goat's cheese. It is fIn contrast, when I was growing up there were two meal choices at dinner time - take it or leave it. And the latter was not an option.
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