quote:Caroline Spelman said: "This goes against common sense. Shopkeeping is a long standing British tradition and we know what customers want. They want to buy eggs by the dozen and they should be allowed to – a point I shall be making clear to our partners in Europe."
I don't know about anyone else, but I've often wished that I could buy just a couple of eggs instead of always having to buy six (or "half a dozen" as people with clearly too much time on their hands like to say it - or "one tenth of three score", if you're completely off your fucking head).
quote:The changes would cost the food and retail industries millions of pounds as items would have to be individually weighed to ensure the accuracy of the label.
Gosh, that does sound like an awful chore for them. What with shopkeeping being a long standing British tradition, I think they should just be allowed to carry on selling us any old shit at whatever price they feel like, and Johnny EU should jolly well remember that.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
If those €urocrats in brussels get there way, well have to buy everything in tens. I don't want ten eggs - ten is rubbish you can't devide it by three or four! Then they tell us our bananas is to wonkey; its decimalisation gone mad!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
This does seem like it will be a major inconvenience, but on the whole we do get a lot of benefits from being in the EU. It's like, if you want to end up with something good, then you're going to have to sacrifice a few things to get there. I can't think of a pithy way to say that. There's a phrase on the tip of my tongue. Like, if you wanted to prepare some food, then some of the food you use during those preparations is going to get fucked up. You can't make a chopped tomato sandwich without chopping up some tomatoes.
[ 28.06.2010, 12:08: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think the phrase you are looking for is "You can't make a lasagne without snapping some of the lasagne sheets a bit as for some reason lasagne dishes are designed to be of dimensions that are entirely unrelated to the dimensions of sheets of lasagne that means that you can't fit lasagne in properly and it snaps into tiny fragments and you get sharp bits of lasagne all over the floor and you'll be sweeping it up for ever."
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: You can't make a chopped tomato sandwich without chopping up some tomatoes.
Which rather begs the question... what existed initially, the chopped tomato or the general concept of two or more slices of bread encasing some tomatoes which, according to the proposed recipe, are required to be chopped prior to deployment?
If there were a way of asking such a question more succinctly then I'm sure that someone would have proposed a solution by now.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Which rather begs the question... what existed initially, the chopped tomato or the general concept of two or more slices of bread...
Well, it's a toss-up really. It could be either. It could be this, or it could be that. And either one doesn't really make any difference. Like if you had a certain number of something, and then expressed that in a different way. They'd sound different, but they're essentially the same.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart:
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Which rather begs the question... what existed initially, the chopped tomato or the general concept of two or more slices of bread...
Well, it's a toss-up really. It could be either. It could be this, or it could be that. And either one doesn't really make any difference. Like if you had a certain number of something, and then expressed that in a different way. They'd sound different, but they're essentially the same.
Yeah, It's like, you saying a word and then I say the same word with a slightly different pronunciation but essentially it's the same word. eg. "you say egg, I say eeg" Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck any item which she already has many years of experience in sucking.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I wouldn't stand for that, tilde
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
He's certainly been left with something on his face. Not sure what it is. Tastes a bit like very, very young chicken.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I wouldn't complain about that too much as having one very very young chicken on your face right now is probably about the equivalent of the potential of having two very very chickens on your face in the future when you're not entirely sure that you will ever manage to get those chickens on your face.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
i don't think that eggs actually count as very very young chickens if they're not fertilised. Any more than if I jizzed in a glass, I could claim to have a glass full of very very young humans.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Depends on your outlook on life though doesn't it Ringo? Assuming it was a fairly small glass - maybe like a shot glass... When you looked at the jizz in the glass, would you say it was contained approximately 50.001% of your jism, or 49.999%?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'd fill a shot glass, obviously.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Pics or STFU.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
pics could be doctored. We need a video
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
live webcast or STFU.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Let us know when you're doing it Ringo so I can make sure Kate and Amelie are out, light some candles and make a proper evening of it.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm afraid I'm not allowed to participate in any webcasts these days. Not since the court case.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
lollariffic
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: He's certainly been left with something on his face. Not sure what it is. Tastes a bit like very, very young chicken.
I think part of the problem here is that they're placing all their faith one particular solution - putting all their options together in one place as it were, which seems like a risky place to have them. I mean, supposed something happened to prevent one being carried out, then it would affect all the others too. Seems like bad policy to me.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Well you shouldn't rush to work out what you've got, what you're dealing with, until the things concerned have come to full realisation. That would be folly indeed.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Absolutely right. I think until then they'd be well advised to behave as though they're traversing an area filled with delicate and conceivably highly breakable items.
Posted by Niffer (Member # 266) on :
I assume said area was also tarmac'd. In which case can anyone tell me why they traversed it?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Well. A number of theories have been proposed in an attempt to explain the phenomenon whereby gallus gallus domesticus negotiates the metalled highway to no apparent advantage and with no particular goal in mind. Perhaps the most universally accepted explanation at this point in time is the profoundly unsatisfying, "The manoeuvre is executed in order that the fowl in question might gain the opposing verge."
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Oh man. This thread. This thread is better than anything I've read on the internet for literally months if not years.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: If those €urocrats in brussels get there way, well have to buy everything in tens. I don't want ten eggs - ten is rubbish you can't devide it by three or four! Then they tell us our bananas is to wonkey; its decimalisation gone mad!
This is a ludicrous joke post, isn't it. It works because it's so ridiculous that anyone would think like this, let alone half the country.
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