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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We have plenty of islands dotted about our shores. We could commandeer an island and send all criminals and people for whom we no longer have a use -like events organisers, coffee squirters, people who sell obscenely expensive handbags, disgraced politicians and the like.

     We could give them basic provisions and let them get on with it. We could tell them it was being filmed for a reality show to give them a purpose and forget about them. The woman with the thick shiny hair and those two cheeky chappies could shuffle them now and again in case they became suspicious. With appropriate incentives, we could probably get them to eat vine weevil grubs too
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I checked my diary. We had this same weather at this time in 2016. We were on holiday in mid Wales, had a leasurely lunch in the pub and slept it off in the campervan while it rained constantly. In 2017 we were also on holiday but in North Wales and the weather was pretty mixed too. In 2018 we had almost the same hot weather followed by a big drop in temperature and really gusty wind. 
    Ah yes, the European Monsoon  :smile:
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Well if nothing else it's given me a break from watering and topped all the butts back up. The apples are swelling so nicely I might have to remove a load to save the tree.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I think we have to tell them all that the earth is under threat @B3 (well it is!) and put them all on space shuttles - we could call it the B Ark project  :D 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Am I the only person who doesn't know a single " celebrity " in the trailer for " Celebrity Masterchef"?
    Devon.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I'm sure I wouldn't know any of them either @Hostafan1 if I had ever seen Celebrity Masterchef, so you are not alone.  Whatever happened to proper cooking programmes like Delia?
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'm sure I wouldn't know any of them either @Hostafan1 if I had ever seen Celebrity Masterchef, so you are not alone.  Whatever happened to proper cooking programmes like Delia?
    I don't think it's started, but the trailer has been on a few times
    Devon.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I don't think I'll be bothering. When did cooking become an extreme sport?
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I don't think I'll be bothering. When did cooking become an extreme sport?
    god knows, but there's far too much of it on tv for my liking
    Devon.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Of all the "celebrity" shows, surely "Pointless Celebrities" gets it just about right.  I think it describes most of them.
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