Pet Hates........or FFS

[Shovel_Knight]

We already have thought crime legislation. It started in Scotland using the law to ban so-called 'sectarian' songs on pain of jail time (which can include God Save the Queen in certain circumstances) and extended into 'hate crime' legislation where you can be convicted purely on the feelings (no joke) of a self-declared 'victim'. Here's a particularly scary example https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/...-a-hate-crime/

Sounds just like Russia where you can get several years in jail for “offending a religious, ethnic or social group”. They’re now getting offended all the time

[Marco]

Just to add a touch of gravity - fruit advertised as 'perfectly ripe' or 'ready to eat' when it clearly isn't. Usual culprits are avocados and plums ... anything stoned really... What they really mean is 'this stuff needs to be put in the airing cupboard for a week or two, then you will be able to cut it with a hacksaw and it will have no taste'.

Hi Mark,

I presume you're buying your fruit from supermarkets? If so, I'm not surprised, simply because the vast majority of it is sourced from far-flung places of the world, because that's where it costs less, and so is FAR from being fresh!

The only way to find reasonably fresh fruit in a supermarket is to buy only in season and British - and even more so, when its been locally sourced. Otherwise, try a proper fruiterer (there are often many market stalls in town centres now), or buy direct from local farms.

The difference in quality, and most of all flavour, will be night and day!!

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

But if you do manage to find something that really is ripe and ready to eat, 3 days later they start to look like Sylvester Stallone's mother's arse cheeks.

[struth]

But if you do manage to find something that really is ripe and ready to eat, 3 days later they start to look like Sylvester Stallone's mother's arse cheeks.

How do you know what Sylvester Stallone's mother's arse cheeks look like?

[struth]

We already have thought crime legislation. It started in Scotland using the law to ban so-called 'sectarian' songs on pain of jail time (which can include God Save the Queen in certain circumstances) and extended into 'hate crime' legislation where you can be convicted purely on the feelings (no joke) of a self-declared 'victim'. Here's a particularly scary example https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/...-a-hate-crime/

the sectarian bit really didnt work and i think was modified and done to death. that case you highlighted is typical of the crazy laws we, the accused have to put up with. no wonder people dont want to have any communication with neighbours or travel in public transport

[Pigmy Pony]

I knew this reply was coming!

I don't know for sure, but it was a hot topic at the last meeting of my local Sylvester Stallone's Mum's Arse Cheeks Contours Appreciation society, or MACCA for short.

Plus she came to me in a dream last night. That's what you get for eating manky supermarket fruit too close to bedtime.

[walpurgis]

Have you discussed your medication with your GP recently Steve?

[Macca]

Talking fruit, local Sainsbury's sells all sort of tomatoes. I've tried them all from the most expensive vine ripened blah blah to the own brand 'basics' odd shaped efforts at a quarter the price.

Only the weird own brand have any taste at all.

Guess which one they don't sell anymore...

[struth]

taste has been bred out of many tomatos to attain universal colour. i used to grow them myself and the difference was amazing

[Pigmy Pony]

He was in my dream too- he was checking Mrs Stallone's haemorrhoids. I asked him about my medication, and he called me a 'drug seeker'. The cheek of it! (the doctor's comments I mean, not Mrs Stallone's bum)