RosieH

Original point of yorkshire pudding was to fill you up so to make the meat go further, and I think, served before the beef. But not heard of someone getting extra yorkshires on their own first. That said, my dad always got the biggest piece of meat and my brothers would get more roast potatoes than me.

We use sithee over t'border in Lancashire n'all, tha daft 'apeth. Lost Yorkshire Man, for shame!

No, I've been knitting Peruvian-style ponchos for underprivileged kids in Peckham from my pubic hair. Which of course entitles me to stamp on the heads of newborn kittens and foment anti-muslim hatred tomorrow.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 'Liberals' in thinking they've got the monopoly on > being 'decent human being' shocker. Wha? Who said? What the? Oh, it's Quids talking bollocks as usual.

Ach, I'm not angry. While what he said was pretty offensive, I'm assuming it's just bored Quids posturing as he is wont to do with his Sword of Truth and Mirror of Right-minded Thinking, ready to puncture the naive sense of being a basically decent human being that I and other woolly-thinking liberals share. Otherwise, how on earth could he suggest that giving up foie gras would be a genuine sacrifice (whereas giving up a steady income wouldn't)? Unless of course Quids is just a great big Times reading posho, for whom giving up the droit du seigneur was a crime against his fundamental human rights.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rosie that's almost parody of liberal lite > rubbish. So you don;'t invest in arms > manufacturers or work for them - the sacrifice, I > weep. But thanks to such self sacrificing > virtousness you can do what you want elswhere... No, fucknuts. Occasionally eating foie gras is me just doing what I want is it? That's what you meant right? Not something to do with your weird racism comment earlier, like what I really want is to paint swastikas on synagogue doors, or post No Blacks No Irish No Dogs on the bus shelter at the end of my road? I can see how my penchant for tournedos rossini would help you make that leap. Thing is, mostly, I do do what I want. Not because I think I've earned it by not being able to afford a holiday, but because I'm a grown up and apart from occasionally wanting to cause extreme violence to be visited upon a person, the things I want to do fit in with my principles. I know, it's weird, isn't it.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rosie the line you talk about on principles is > maybe too often is "when it affects my lifestyle' Maybe it is "too often" but I for one would rather do something than nothing. I accept that I cannot know the source of the leather that makes a jacket or handbag - does that mean I should therefore say fuck it, I'm a hypocrite if I buy free range meat, so I'll stick to the factory farmed crap? I have chosen lower returns from ethical investments, which I would argue considerably affects my lifestyle. I have chosen not to work for unethical people who would pay me a shit load more than I'm earning now, which quite definitely affects my lifestyle. My first concern will always be people over animals, which is why the pony sanctuary that recently DM-ed me wasted their cash. People I won't compromise on, animals I occasionally do. I'm happy with that, it fits my principles. I'm sure other people have worked out their own. And I'm sure there are others who don't really give it that much thought. But I'm kind of with Jesus on his he who is without sin in the greenhouse bit.

Quids, well yes. Except I wear my hypocrisy as a badge of honour - I think it's called the human condition. As has been discussed elsewhere, we're all hypocrites to one degree or another, not just the Guardianistas, it's simply a matter of where we choose to draw the line. I won't shop at Primark, largely because I don't hold with throwaway fashion and because their manufacturing practices have been shown time and time again to be unethical. But deep down, I suspect I wouldn't shop there anyway, because, well, I don't really like their clothes and I'm a bit of a fashion snob. I only buy organic or free range meat, but when drunk I've been known to devour a KFC and occasionally un Macdo, and I have no freaking clue what kind of lives the cows who make my many many pairs of shoes have lived. I still read the Guardian with my head held high. And as for foie gras, I usually don't, but then, if I've had a couple of aperitifs and am feeling disinhibited, sometimes, occasionally, what the heck. Hell, I'd happily eat you if I thought you'd taste good enough with a chateau d'yquem.

Agree with the above. But I would be very wary of ascribing any potential motive. Keep it purely factual.

coopercat, it was a Friday night. They had the good grace to post a note through the door to give you advance warning, so clearly they're not hugely irresponsible and planning to make this a regular week-night thing. I think that when you live at such close quarters with your neighbours as we do in East Dulwich, sometimes you just need to take it on the chin.

why isn't Huguenot having a fight with someone? it's friday afternoon and I'm bored.

mockney's post was the answer, although fairly opaque you can't delete a post altogether (unless you contact admin) what you can do is go back to your post, choose to edit it, then put in a full stop (or whatever else you fancy really provided it isn't just a blank space)

You know what's shit? Quinoa. Emperor's new hemp sandals.

Oftentimes - for instance, when I'm eating a delicious beef pie from the Modern Pantry as I happen to be right now. However, I didn't attribute the quote, which was Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright was right. There's little soul in a vacuum.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Brown for bacon. Always brown for bacon. Red for chips and burgers. Brown for bacon. And an underwhelming cottage pie.

Tomato. But why does it work on a burger but not on a steak?

Crucial on a burger. Sacrilege on a steak. Hmmm.

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SJ - it's partly to do with the design of the bus I think - the positioning of the pole next to the wheelchair space meant that the buggy (well, tank) had to go in on a diagonal leaving no room for a second pram alongside. To be fair, I might have seen the same buggy on more than one occasion, but definitely seen it. God knows how the owner navigates a shop.

I don't want to set the cat among the pigeons, and this is a genuine question to parents, not an attack - but is it my imagination or are buggies getting bigger and bigger and bigger? I quite often see individual pushchairs that take up the entire space on a bus (that presumably is meanr for 2 or 3), and wonder if it's possible that during the time the swanky new bus was in design and production, did pushchairs once again evolve into something even bigger that no longer fits.

Did you drag up a thread that's over a year old just so you could slate the impeccable comedy credentials of good and honourable forumites? CheekyBugger indeed...

All this talk of him getting out in 21 years. While that may be the maximum sentence, he can be kept in prison as long as he's a danger to the public, i.e. indefinitely. At least that's what it said on the Today programme, and I"m middle class enough for that to be my gospel. LadyD, Richard Reid was a member of al-Qaeda, a terrorist organisation, ergo a terrorist. I think Anders Behring has yet to be identified as anything other than a psychopath (albeit an extremist right-wing psychopath - oh, they said "psychopath" on the Today programme too). Much depends on your definition of terrorist, and as we've already discussed, while there isn't a universally accepted definition. Reports into the subject suggest membership of an organisation should be considered key defining something as terrorism. Otherwise, I guess the likes of Lee Harvey Oswald are also terrorists (and I'm no expert to say they're not, but they're not described as such). I just don't accept your implication of "blonde, blue-eyed". Edited because I was making little sense. Still probably making little sense.

I'd like to see a tattoo parlour for a bit of diversity - true, I don't have any ink myself (seriously, is anyone able to type "ink" without their arse winking so badly it actually turns inside out?) I miss the days of Inside 72, and at the weekend I saw a few Hoxton types savouring the flavours of Northcross, and just now had a dandy get on my 63 bus, and I thanked god for the not-quite-homogeneity. Give me an S&M shop and a Hampstead Bazaar and one of those shops that sells those really ugly DM-type boots with six inch platforms and stripy socks while you're at it.

was it 'erbal tea maxxi?