I tried, I really did......

You do that MisandryOfficial - I care not a jot.

Cooked lettuce is quite the thing now, I have not had it yet.

MamaCaz, in regard to your post @13:04 today, I feel that many "squirm" when they think of their culinary "cock-ups".

I must confess that on one of the few warm evenings that we had last summer my wife and I were very late leaving the office. We both felt it would be too warm to call into a pub or restaurant and so I volunteered to "throw something together" that we could eat out on the patio at home.

I was well aware that there were four chicken quarters and a bowl of salad in the fridge that had been intended for the previous day but not used.

On arrival home, I put the Chicken quarters in the oven to cook, laid up the patio table with cutlery and wine etc and we both then settled down on the patio in growing hunger. There was a glorious sunset going on about forty minutes later when I walked back into the kitchen to check on the chicken only to immediately realise I had not turned the oven on.

In the doghouse was not the word for it.

SirChenjin Quote [ I don't feel sorry for a man who complains bitterly about perceived misandry on a forum which is overwhelmingly female dominated and which he doesn't have to be on ]End Quote.

SirChenjin, in regard to your above Quoted post, I am on this forum because I am entitled to be here under current equality legislation. Your protests can do nothing in regard to the above and it is forum members such as yourself protesting my presence here that ensures I shall remain. In that, and as stated, there is nothing you can do whatsoever.

You also continually speak of misandry in your posts on this thread while I have not mentioned that word and matter at all. Therefore I will leave it to all other forum members reading your posts to judge how misandry may be ingrained on your psychology.

So may the remaining part of this day be excellent for you SirChenjin. ?

What happened to cabbage?

curvygran Of course hes enjoying himself . He has the full attention of everyone. What's not to like hey Grandad?

I don't feel sorry for a man who complains bitterly about perceived misandry on a forum which is overwhelmingly female dominated and which he doesn't have to be on, and then proceeds to throw insults at women. If he behaves that way then many of us will respond in kind - just as if I went onto a forum which was primarily dmoniated by black people, accused them all of wholesale racism and started to make spurious claims about racism that white people experience then I should expect to be roundly trounced, and rightly so.

I think Grandad is probably enjoying every minute of his new found 'fame' !
To have [almost] taken over a whole thread single-handed is quite an achievement.

Yep MamaCaz I have also cooked a turkey with the plastic bag of giblets still inside the cavity. Also cooked a joint of beef with the little cottonwool pad still underneath it. Both were fine and tasted lovely.Eloethan I too started to feel a bit sorry for Gandad but to his credit he does seem to be taking it in good humour.

Grandad1943

A few weeks ago, my OH made us a stir-fry, and he accidently used lettuce instead of cabbage in that ?

And to balance things up gender-wise, I have it on good authority that the first time my late sister-in-law invited her husband's parents round for a meal, she served up a roast chicken that still had the bag of giblets inside.

I have served up cold coffee, not realising until the recipient looked aghast at me, having taken a sip, that I hadn't actually boiled the kettle!

In fact, I could probably write a book on my many silly mistakes/oversights.

I think there's a lot of unnecessary nastiness on this thread. I feel very uncomfortable with a whole load of people picking on one person.

Has anyone seen Rufus on GN recently?

Is that the Royal we? Don't purport to speak for the whole forum - remember to use your 'I' statements.

See you later - and I hope it is very much later

Going back many years to my youth, one of my mates had a sister who was about seventeen at that time and I was quite sweet on her.

While her parents were away on holiday she said she would cook her brother Sunday lunch. We as a gang of his mates piled in on that and talked her into inviting all of us.

Well, she cooked a lovely roast beef lunch with the exception of the cabbage, when on plating it up it turned out she had boiled up the lettuce instead.

She never got to live that down whenever we seen her, but always joined in the laughter while whacking me and others over the head for bringing it up.

I have much to do working from home today, so I will have to hand over the mantle of making sure all forget what is going on in the world by venting at me on here, but in the process enjoying themselves.

We really do need far more men on this forum.

Anyway, see you later, could be very much later. ?

Ah, well, I can't say too much about washing.
Last week I 'washed' and dried a quick load. OH ironed what he wanted ironing, then I put it all away. Later, I found the detergent still on the work top - not for the first time, I had forgotten to put it in the drum!
(I decided not to tell OH this time - yes, I've done it before - and he certainly didn't comment on anything looking grubby still!)

Well at the risk of winding Grandad up even more, I can add another story. Not long after we were married my husband used to get home from work before me. He's was rather old fashioned in the respect that he thought housework was my department (I have worked on him since!) and would do jobs, but only if I asked him. Anyway, very unusual for him, he decided to hang out a full load of washing even though I hadn't asked him. Trouble was, the washing hadn't been washed - I had put the washing in our lovely new automatic washing machine before I'd gone to work, ready for me to switch on when I came home. I mean, can't believe he hadn't noticed that it wasn't clean, but how could you not notice that it was bone dry? This from a very intelligent man with a professional job! The dozy bugger! BeforeGrandad gets on to me, over the years this story has been told many times, by both of us ?

Oh Grannyflower you're going to be eating that for a loooong time!

??I asked mine to make coleslaw. When I got home there was my biggest bowl full to the top. He’d used a whole cabbage, all the onions and a bag of carrots ?‍♀️. Well I didn’t say how much coleslaw

Grandad1943 it's not knickers in a twist I've told you once its Snickers in a Twix keep up man for goodness sake have you nothing better to do???
Dear God man if you have please dont lecture us our ears are bleeding already with your nonsense As my Grandad used to say go and play slides on the roof if you've nothing better to do

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Attempting - and failing - to wind us up

Of course Grandad is deliberately winding us up. ?

She has a capital letter - remember to start all sentences that way - and “speaks on” makes no sense whatsoever. You’re becoming incomprehensible as you continue to fail.

Am I the only one who thinks Grandad1943 is just winding us up pretending to be a pompous prat? If so it has certainly given us a lot of fun.

He reminds me of a certain Australian poster - a senior citizen who just loves a wind-up

Is this you Rufus under a nom de plume?

Anyway a long day tomorrow, so good night all. ?