#578

Yeah. Dogs spit kills germs too.

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#579

Great thread. Just caught up.

Props to the humble weekend living room picnic/buffet teatime treat crew. :fist:

My uncle had an Opel Manta B like the blue one a couple of posts up :point_up:. Had it painted up with an amazing 70s/80s desert/trucking airbrushed landscape scene. Might’ve had an eagle on the bonnet, too, for good measure.

There must be a bunch of stuff I could ask about for a normality rating, but one little thing that springs to mind, which MsWza is not on board with, is milk instead of actual cream on sponge cake. A tin of tiptop would be considered extravagant. Was mostly with this sort of thing:

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  • Soggy milky goodness
  • Respect the cake for goodness sake

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#580

Hurrah - somebody else’s family did this! Still take milk instead of cream on my puddings, to the disgust and disdain of anybody watching…

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#581

Both with custard surely?!

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#582

Tiptop for tinned fruit

#583

@j0hn

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#584

:rofl:

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#585

milk jelly is gorgeous

#586

we did have the same meals on a loop more or less but not on set days (either that or i just never noticed that fact)

Thursday was bacon and beans day though cos my mum had a hair appointment after work every Thursday so that was an easy dinner for one of us to make instead

#587

jesus christ

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#588

My mum insisted that it was easier and more efficient to pack all your stuff in loads of small plastic bags when going on holiday rather than using a suitcase.

  • Yes of course
  • Bloody ridiculous

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#589

In a rucksack, it makes sense. In a suitcase, it doesn’t.

#590

Me: What’s for dinner tonight?
Mum or Step Dad: Spaghetti Bolognese
Me (internally): yes I fucking love spaghetti

Actual dinner: Rice with bolognese sauce.

  • This is normal
  • This is weird and cruel

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#591

Honestly my mum is a gold mine for this stuff

Giving your teenage children a jar of baby food for Christmas every year

  • Completely normal
  • Not normal

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#592

Not normal but top bants

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#593

Laying the table for Christmas dinner with loads and loads of faff - baubles and other decorations, massive candles that take up too much space, ornate wine glasses and plates that you’re not allowed to actually use for drinking/eating from - only to remove it all after you’ve pulled the crackers and are ready to actually have dinner, in order to create enough space to actually have dinner/not despoil all the chintzy christmas crap

  • very normal
  • not at all normal

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#594

not owning a bin. She insisted (and insists to this day) that having a bin in the kitchen is stupid because it just encourages you to be lazy and doesn’t get emptied often enough and overflows. Much better to have a supermarket plastic bag on the worktop that you put rubbish in and take out to the wheelie bin at the end of each day

  • entirely rational
  • what?

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#595

Having a cat but no cat flap therefore regularly having to clean up cat shit and puke off the carpet

  • Disgusting and cruel
  • Yeah but I’d rather live with that happening all the time than have to install a cat flap once

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#596

My mum lives on her own now and does this.
It annoys me, but she doesn’t generate that much rubbish by herself, so she’s won this one.

#597

Think I’m gonna save the rest for my therapist

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