That would be perfectly suited for the Food and Beverages thread, do you mind moving it over there?
If you want to, move it over yourself - I haven't looked at that thread even once.
Same with XYZABD£XYZMM€£ZZZMMCCXXLVIERTYHGFDBNJIUHHJMNHJK<LKJHGHJKIUYTFCVBN thread: no idea what's in there.
No, she was very fussy about meat, like everything else. In fact, she made her own minced beef, meaning she minced the beef herself, and that would be very good quality (lean) meat, like steak
When I was sent to the butchers to buy meat, I was instructed to ask for '
a half-pound of LEAN minced beef, please' by Mammy.
Like everyone else, I took what I was given and she rarely complained.
Not to me anyway - but going shopping with her was hilarious: she had a nose for a bargain and knew when she was being ripped off, so messing her around wasn't a very good idea. She could be very loud when the situation called for it. Same with my school teachers: I was expelled once for smashing/cracking Gerry Moroney's front teeth as well as his nose. I was goaded into the fight, mind you - the whole school met at the gates when last classes finished and neither of us had any choice. Gerry came at me, Doc Martin-clad feet and bare fists whirling about, but I stood my ground and took one shot at him: caught him in the upper lip, he hit the deck and had tears in his eyes. When I saw that I tried to help him back onto his feet, but he brushed me off and said he was going to get his elder brother to sort me out.
I walked home alone, shaking and with tears in my own eyes at what I'd done to him, he was a guy I liked and got along with as we both had an artistic bent. I was angry with myself for causing him so much damage, but I only punched him once. Same with Robbie, a big bloke who for whatever reason decided he was going to give me a hiding, but that one worked out the same: he came at me like a raging bull, but I stood my ground, right foot glued to the schoolyard concrete, the left hovering just about the cement until I saw an opening. Bam. One punch to the side of his mouth. He folded and took a knee, dizzy and dazed, and then looked up at me and apologized. I did the same and offered to help him up again, which he let me do for him. WE apologized to each other and again I had to tell him that I actually liked him, found him hilarious, and said that we should never let anything force either of us into physical violence like that again.
And we didn't.
But even though I was the pretty boy of the school year, I also had a reputation as a fighter. Peole thought I had skills, training, martial arts, boxing, or whatever. Nope, none of them applied. I was a cricket player: I'm fit and tall, have a long reach, and if I took a shot at someone I never missed the target. One punch was always enough to end any scrap. But I hated violence. I was a natural-born pacifist. Still am. But if someone comes at me, I go to work. Last fight was exactly the same: nasty creep in the jazz club says something nasty to my lady, so I tapped him on the shoulder and told him to clear off. The dumb fucker watched me all night, and when I went to the gents room he positioned himself at the top of the stairs, shirtsleeves rolled up and head bobbing up and down. He reached out to slap me in the ear, but I dodged him (he moved like dough in an oven) and pulled back to the right, then unleashed a right handed fist onto the side of his nose. He flopped like a sack of shit. Everything stops, silence in the room, the barman looking at me in astonishment, then the doorman came over and lifted him up and dragged him over to the door and tossed the cunt out the front door onto the pavement.
Then came and asked if I was okay, did he spill my drink, is my lady okay?
Someone else had filled him in on events and he knows me anyway, we get along just fine.
Haven't been in a fight since and hope I don't again - it makes me sick, even though I've never gone down after a punch.
As a kid I grew to over six feet tall by the age of eleven: I was a target for the other kids in primary school, get the tall fucker down.
But that was when I learned that taking a hiding hurt me emotionally and mentally for longer than fighting back and hurting the other guy with one punch.
What have you got?
I have an immeasurable 200+ IQ, Mowl. The IQ test I took only went to 200
If you told me this face to face, I'd laugh at you - for quite a while too.
You're fucking useless, unemployable, out of work for way too long to re-assimilate back into the workforce. You have no trade skills, no training, no credibility, a lousy track record for being a disagreeable mouth-almighty. Nobody needs you. You haven't anything to offer bar being a labourer or a shit-shoveling nobody. Your iq bullshit is about as believable as GodsDog yammering on about his/hers. The mere fact that you shout so loud about it makes everyone see you as a spoofer, a liar - a well practiced liar.
That iq test you took that only went to 200?
That was a misprint: it was 20.
If it ever happened at all.