May I have a rant?

the.fee.fairy · Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:53 pm

when i was a student, for my 21st i decided to have a 'cocktail' party in my house. We bought packets of Value Smoked Salmon Offcuts! They were cheap and marvellously delicous too, so the fag-smoking beer swilling amongst the parents need only give up one packet a week...probably not even that, if their child wants smoked salmon sandwiches!

The hearing thing could be a sensitivity thing thats not related to cigarettes. My sister was diagnosed with acute hearing at a young age, high noises and really low noises hurt her ears. My parents never smoked when we were babies/small. Still don't.

I'd also like to mention that i'm a smoker and i've got a very sensitive palate. I used to work for a drinks company as a taster, and had to have rigorous palate tests to be able to ascertain that my palate was sensistive enough for the job (and my nose) so i'm not convinced by all i read about the side effects of smoking...

den_the_cat · Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:23 am

multiveg wrote:
baldowrie wrote: I saw the person that sparked my rant off today- her lighter dropped out of her bag. She is pregnant with bump showing - I knew she smoked but thought she might have stopped.

I have never smoked and always carry a lighter.

baldowrie · Post: # 36796Post **baldowrie** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:42 am

erm I didn't write that!

multiveg · Post: # 36813Post **multiveg** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:10 am

baldowrie wrote:erm I didn't write that!

Wonder if it came from one of your posts I quoted and responded to then quoted from this reply snipping out your bit for another message - then this other message gets quoted...

den_the_cat · Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:25 pm

lol - probably - sorry baldowrie I didn't mean to misquote you.

2steps · Post: # 36886Post **2steps** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:16 pm

my hearing is fine but the low noises made my electric items really make them hurt. Sometime sI have to turn the pc of because it's too much

the dial up modem in my old computer was the same.

I was at the supermarket today buying a sack of potatoes (all the home grown ones are eaten

) and the women in from of me had plastic wrapped everything you can imagine, though she had bought lots of veg and fruit it was all plastic trayed and wrapped. she had a big bag full of apples but had also bought many bags of pre sliced apple - meant for children

I've seen those value smoked salmon packs too, fee.fairy and often wondered what they were like.

den_the_cat · Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:49 pm

to be honest, I'm just pleased when people buy stuff like that for their kids rather than biscuits (she said, just polishing off a pack of jjaffa cakes....) - and some kids are just strange - my niece won't eat an apple, but I have a really old apple slicer thing which decores and makes perfect segments in one go and she'll happily eat it when we cut it up with that.

I guess kids are as entitled to like good presentation as the rest of us

PurpleDragon · Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:16 pm

den_the_cat wrote:- and some kids are just strange - my niece won't eat an apple, but I have a really old apple slicer thing which decores and makes perfect segments in one go and she'll happily eat it when we cut it up with that.

Actually, thats not just kids. I can't sit down and eat an apple by taking bites out of it. It makes me nauseous. Purely psychological, I know, but it does. But if I sit and cut the apples into segments, I love it, and often have that as a snack during 'me-time'.

Millymollymandy · Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:26 pm

PurpleDragon wrote:
den_the_cat wrote:- and some kids are just strange - my niece won't eat an apple, but I have a really old apple slicer thing which decores and makes perfect segments in one go and she'll happily eat it when we cut it up with that.
Actually, thats not just kids. I can't sit down and eat an apple by taking bites out of it. It makes me nauseous. Purely psychological, I know, but it does. But if I sit and cut the apples into segments, I love it, and often have that as a snack during 'me-time'.

Isn't that funny? I am like that about tomatoes - definitely feel physically sick at the thought of biting into one but eat them any other way imaginable!

2steps · Post: # 36918Post **2steps** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:32 pm

yes, it's great they buy them instead of sweets etc but why don't they just cut up their own? especially as she was buying some anyway

PurpleDragon · Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:59 pm

I've always thought that.
Another one is pre-grated cheese.
What the heck is *that* all about?
Get yerself a cheese grater - I mean - how long does it take? Bonkers!

2steps · Post: # 36926Post **2steps** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:02 pm

yep and it reminds me of something else I saw today - ready to roast potatoes

Stonehead · Post: # 36935Post **Stonehead** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:40 pm

Pupil banished over 'snack quota'

While I agree that healthier food should be encouraged, I'm not in favour of this autocratic, authoritarian approach to enforcing it!

2steps · Post: # 36991Post **2steps** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:53 am

that really is a bit much. How many children are responsible for what goes into their lunchboxes anyway? hardly fair to single them out like that in front of everyone. Surely a letter home would of been more appropriate? the whole thing makes me cross anyway, it's not down to schools to make sure my child eat healthly, they are there to teach them! and as they don't know what else my children eat at home how can they possibily judge anyway!

the.fee.fairy · Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:29 pm

sadly, its because of the parents that are either too stupid to feed trheir children properly, or too lazy. i don't see that Cheese biscuits (mini-cheddars?), fromage frais and cake canbe classed as unhealthy snack food. mini cheddars are baked, fromage frais is healthy and the cake could be home-cooked.

Yes, if the child is living on a diet of just these things, its unhealthy, but to a growing child, these seems perfectly fine to me.

stupid nanny state telling the people how to live again!!