Today I'm angry about.....

[Montreal Wanderer]

salad-fondling old ladies..

today I watched in amazement (in Aldi) as a grizzled old woman picked up, squeezed, sniffed and fondled with cat-food stained fingers EVERY lettuce in the display before dropping one in her basket... eugh...

No doubt this, not pesticides, is the reason they recommend washing produce before eating it.

[BWFC_Insane]

salad-fondling old ladies..

today I watched in amazement (in Aldi) as a grizzled old woman picked up, squeezed, sniffed and fondled with cat-food stained fingers EVERY lettuce in the display before dropping one in her basket... eugh...

Well you're asking for that shopping in Aldi.

[Lord Kangana]

salad-fondling old ladies..

today I watched in amazement (in Aldi) as a grizzled old woman picked up, squeezed, sniffed and fondled with cat-food stained fingers EVERY lettuce in the display before dropping one in her basket... eugh...

I wouldn't worry bish, the irradiated, bleach-bathed, chemical soaked supermarket fruit and veg won't get any better for you from her touch.

[Lord Kangana]

Also, some cock on BBC1 making the case for amateurism. Then showing England losing to Germany as an example of overprofessionalism (on our part!!!).

Cock.

[Dujon]

Today I'm angry about peeling spuds. Don't get me wrong, I love potato in all its forms but today, just today, possibly not tomorrow, I'm angry.

The fact that I have just realised that I've peeled one and a half kilograms of those wonderful root vegetables when I really needed less that half of that mass has nothing to do with it. Much.

O.K. I'll be honest: I hate peeling potatoes; I love peeling potatoes as much as I love painting walls; today I didn't paint a single wall; peeling more potatoes than required by any sensible person is an anathema to any sensible person. Ergo: I'm angry with myself.

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I'm still angry with myself. I am not a cook - at best I'd say I'd be better employed in a crematorium. In the few minutes between the asterisks and now I have managed to almost convert a wonderful and expensive mound of minced steak into a much smaller hill of carbon. However (fortune smiles on the brave 'tis said) during my rescue mission, successful as you have probably gathered, I broke another stirring spoon. Yes, you read that correctly, 'another'. The first was less than a week ago. Cuisines and Dujon are not compatible. That makes me angry. What will make me more angry is that when my beloved arrives home in a few hours she will be angry, full of angst, and will probably take out all those negative vibes on yours truly.

Is a grown man allowed to cry? If not then I'm ever so angry about that mote in my eye.

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Another thing about which I am angry.

Oven gloves. Why cannot manufacturers mark clearly which is for the right hand and which for the left? I stood for at least two minutes this afternoon trying to figure out which went where. Don't these people understand that seconds count when a kitchen is on fire? Being clever I figured that I had a fifty percent chance of 'getting it right'. Fortunately I made the right choice. My house still stands and my kitchen is no more than smoke damaged.

[Worthy4England]

How did dinner go Dujon?

I feel your pain when it comes to cooking, although often by trying to be a little more adventurous. (although I can usually manage mince and spuds ok)

[Montreal Wanderer]

Over here, Dujon, oven gloves are reversible - they have padding on both sides. Different colours, but who cares? Like Worthy I hope the reunion went better than anticipated.

[Lord Kangana]

Use a cloth. They're ambidextrous.

[TANGODANCER]

Use a cloth. They're ambidextrous.

I was about to say use a pot-towel, but didn't know the modernism (see, folk call them tea towels too, but I never did understand that one) : Ceramic moisture remover, China drying implement?

[Worthy4England]

Grown up blokes walking round in shorts, with no obvious sign of a sporting event nearby, when it's not sunny and pissing down.

What the fook is that all about?

[TANGODANCER]

Grown up blokes walking round in shorts, with no obvious sign of a sporting event nearby, when it's not sunny and pissing down.

What the fook is that all about?

You know our postman then Worthy?

[Dujon]

Over here, Dujon, oven gloves are reversible - they have padding on both sides. Different colours, but who cares? Like Worthy I hope the reunion went better than anticipated.

Indeed, Monty, it was just an attempt to inject some levity into the situation in which I found myself and to give a realistic idea of my mental state at the time ("levity" = "frustrated, angry, and blasphemous feelings disguised as calm and collected thoughts".)

Thanks to those of you who thought to ask after the poor victim of my ministrations. The patient survived. The excess of spud is now imprisoned - unfairly but necessarily - within the dark and dank confines of a refrigerator. My wife, whom I think has given up on me, just laughed; I think that hurts more than a right rollicking would have done.

Now I'm angry that my wife married me out of pity rather than for my good looks, personality and ability to make a kitchen look spotless.

[General Mannerheim]

Grown up blokes walking round in shorts, with no obvious sign of a sporting event nearby, when it's not sunny and pissing down.

What the fook is that all about?

i have to object to this - first thing i do every day when i get in from work is put my shorts on, any time of year! March till October-ish its shorts all weekend too unless i know im going to be stood outside for a while like at the match. friggin hate wearing long pants. its weird becuase i dont like wearing short sleeves, so you will usually find me in shorts and a jumper!

[Worthy4England]

Grown up blokes walking round in shorts, with no obvious sign of a sporting event nearby, when it's not sunny and pissing down.

What the fook is that all about?

i have to object to this - first thing i do every day when i get in from work is put my shorts on, any time of year! March till October-ish its shorts all weekend too unless i know im going to be stood outside for a while like at the match. friggin hate wearing long pants. its weird becuase i dont like wearing short sleeves, so you will usually find me in shorts and a jumper!

I'm ok with the "when I get in from work" bit.

But feck me, who wants to see your hairy legs in the outside world? Put a pair of long keks on and stop pretending you're 10!

[General Mannerheim]

Grown up blokes walking round in shorts, with no obvious sign of a sporting event nearby, when it's not sunny and pissing down.

What the fook is that all about?

i have to object to this - first thing i do every day when i get in from work is put my shorts on, any time of year! March till October-ish its shorts all weekend too unless i know im going to be stood outside for a while like at the match. friggin hate wearing long pants. its weird becuase i dont like wearing short sleeves, so you will usually find me in shorts and a jumper!

I'm ok with the "when I get in from work" bit.

But feck me, who wants to see your hairy legs in the outside world? Put a pair of long keks on and stop pretending you're 10!

its ok, i wax!

[Worthy4England]

Todays things that make me angry are - Blokes that wax!

[ratbert]

A male work colleague of my wife uses hair straighteners.

(not to wax himself with, but you never know)

[Raven]

With you on both of those plus men in pink (fashion victims) and men in flip flops!

Don't even mention those stupid huge sun glasses people wear or the ones with coloured frames really designed for 5 year olds

[Bruce Rioja]

Don't even mention those stupid huge sun glasses people wear or the ones with coloured frames really designed for 5 year olds

Like Worthy on his aviator?

[Lord Kangana]

Torture is too good for them.