On the subject of buying pre-sliced, pre-peeled foods, I can sympathise with those that do, even though I don’t personally. It is a pain in the ass to peel potatoes every goddamn time, and so is doing all the slicing and dicing, sometimes.
The only veggies I can think of that I buy pre-sliced or ready to cook are packets of stir-fry veg. Hey, you try finding bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and the like separately!
I quite enjoy making a meal from scratch, because there’s something quite satisfying about feeding yourself. It’s like being an adult, or something. Having said that, I do retreat to a few staple meals rather than stretching myself. I really need to vary my range.
Noraleah’s post about a TV documentary called ‘Fat Girls and Feeders’ reminded me of this website, which spoofs the titles of various “documentaries” to be found on the schedules of Channel 5 here in the UK.
‘Fat Girls and Feeders’ was actually on Channel 4, however, as part of their passing fascination with morbidly obese Americans a couple of years ago. But the point remains that we have some ridiculously-titled programmes on TV, of which the spoof ones generated here are only slightly distant from the real ones.
Examples:
The Man Who Hated The Horse That Hated The Child Who Hated The Woman Who Died In The Park
The Girl With Five Problems
The Dog That Was Sick All Over The Sahara Desert
The Photocopier That Had No Brain
The Woman With A Hundred Bottoms
And yes, I’ve noticed that I’d posted about this before. Sod it, it’s still funny. As is the Daily Mail headline generator: ‘WILL FACEBOOK TURN THE MEMORY OF DIANA GAY?’.
About the same time that the first figure was placed atop a four-story building at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue on Tuesday, the Police Department issued a statement reassuring New Yorkers that the figures are not despondent people on the verge of leaping to their deaths.
The installation should be complete by 26th March, but there’s already a couple in place near Madison Square. One in particular should be easy to spot, right in front of the Flatiron Building. A small gallery is up at the Guardian.
You know you’ve bought food from Marks & Spencer when the instructions can’t just say “put” or “place” onto a baking tray. Nope, they just have to go with “decant”.
Selected winners of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, awarded annually by Bookseller magazine to the book published that year with the strangest title:
The Joy of Chickens (1980)
Versailles: The View From Sweden (1988)
How to Avoid Huge Ships (1992)
Bombproof Your Horse (2004)
Of these, I think “How to Avoid Huge Ships” is my favourite, and my vote for this year’s prize is “Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter”.
Just to illustrate the complete nonsense that is the fashion of slapping ‘Exclusive’ onto a newspaper story, both the Sun and the Star had that word on their identical front-page stories today.
As it happens, the Star is actually a bit more forthcoming about what happened. In their story, they say that Cole shouted at fans from a balcony at the clinic in France where he is receiving treatment for a broken ankle. The entire story is based around a single quote, one paragraph in length.
The Sun, however, uses the same quote, but nonsensically claims that he was “telling The Sun”. Using the word ‘exclusive’ also makes it sound like they got a sit-down interview, something you can tell they didn’t by the lack of any other fresh material/quotes later in the article.
Well, save for the obligatory “source” who says something that sounds exactly like what the writer wanted to hear. Funny coincidence, that.
‘Backlash over BBC coverage of Tiger’s apology,’ said the Daily Mail, reporting that the corporation faced ‘fresh accusations of dumbing down’ after it led with the golfer’s apology as the top story on the same day that 1,600 workers lost their jobs as the north-east’s last steel plant shut down. But which paper put Woods on its front page – ‘Tiger’s mother forgives him, but where is Elin?’ – and relegated the steel factory story to page 10? Step forward … the Daily Mail.
This guy has been diagnosed with TB, and has been kept isolated in a hospital room for 55 days (so far). Obviously, all this time by himself has turned him a little bit mental, and he’s made this quite brilliant rap video.
One of the funniest videos you’ll see this week.
About
Londoner, thinking and writing far too much about far too many random things. Wannabe photo-/videographer of my life. More likely to be found propping up a bar somewhere.
