Things you hate IV

the **** who murdered poor Lilia Valutyte in Lincolnshire. She was 9 YEARS OLD. Horrendous.

Whatever his reasoning, whatever his excuse, is no justification for murdering anyone, let alone an innocent child.

May she Rest In Peace.

 

Wow. Thread closed?

Who the hell wants to follow that with "people who put milk in before the tea?'

 

People who don't put milk in before the tea.

 

People who put the tea in before the milk.

 

My son was born last Monday and due to him having a slight infection and a few complications during the delivery he and my wife had to stay in Leicester Royal until Saturday just gone.

This meant they were on a ward with five other beds, most of which changed occupant in a day or so, mostly women who’d had C section or minor complications in birth.

The staff were ******* amazing for us, they fussed over the boy, always on hand with advice and of course delivered fantastic care to him and his mum. They’re both doing perfectly now and it’s thanks to them.

Most of the women passing through talked to the staff like they were dirt or at best had such a basic understanding of how to care for a baby (not covering its face with a blanket like one woman did) that they absorbed much of their precious time.

Special mention to one lovely lady, her baby had to be drug tested and she didn’t like that one bit…. Fast forward to the following day and she had to be removed from the ward because a visitor had ‘left something’ in the visitor’s toilet for her. Worrying that a curtain separated the two most precious people in the world to me and that complete ****.

Generally the week was just an eye opener about how lucky me, my wife and our boy are.

 

9 at night, I’m just getting ready to leave and go home as visiting hours were up. Baby screaming it’s head off on the ward.

‘When did you last feed her?’ Asks a nurse.

‘8ish’

‘Can’t be hungry then… only been an hour’

‘No this morning, I don’t have any more formula’

I **** you not.

 

And the smoking outside the doors to the maternity unit.

I enjoy a smoke, I get it. I used to smoke heavily too. Don’t have a problem with a lovely ciggy or the smell one bit.

Don’t smoke when you’re pregnant though ladies, I hear it’s quite bad for baby. Maybe tell your fellas not smoke in the porch to the reception of the building housing new and sick babies too.

Selfish ****s.

 

No Mow May is one of the finest cellists of his generation.

 

As you're discovering, scum can have babies too.
Why do you think we still have luton fans?

 

And in greater numbers.

 

I’ve tried the thing with the pop bottle where you cut the top off, invert it and half full it with vinegar and sugar.

Doesn’t work.

Electric fly swatter is great fun. I’ve been accused of being a creepy sadist for trash talking the fly as it slowly sizzles and twitches….

Fly strips are effective. Don’t stop them getting in the house but if you pop a couple in high traffic areas (for me its the light fitting in the centre of the kitchen) it’ll catch dozens in a day.

Now if you’re a really sick *******, which I of course am not, you can flick the still living flies off the fly paper with a biro onto a waiting electric fly swatter below. Seeing satisfying sparks contort their annoying little fly bodies until they pop, fizzle and eventually smoke. All the time saying ‘yeah you like that bitch? You think you can come into MY house and land on MY furniture and MY food? Well this is what you get, sucker.’

No you’d have to be craaaazy to do that.

 

What? Clearly it’s more sensible to put the tea in first so you can then calibrate the amount of milk to the strength you require by observing the colour of the brew.

I’m talking teabags here. Possibly it is different with leaves.

 

Hi I see that you’re a sane and rational person.

Not like Piers Morgan over there with his needlessly provocative milk distribution. Even if you’re pouring from a pot I don’t see why you’d put milk in the cup first, unless your taking your pot and mug to another room away from where the milk is stored…. In which case you should be using a milk jug and if you don’t have one then I’m afraid your tea game is pretty weak, presumably like your tea.

 

When I got married (the first time) I remember friends saying how “life would change forever”. It didn’t. When my first son was born, the same people told me that “life would change forever”. Yeah, sure, I thought.
Understatement of the century, as it turned out.
The highs and lows are more extreme than you imagine but the highs are higher than you can possibly dream of. Treasure those moments esp when your child first starts to string sentences together….bloody hilarious the crap they come out with !
Much easier to get into tetchy little fights with your partner due to the lack of sleep and extra stress of having another human being wholly dependent on you. Remember in those moments that you’re both on the same team.
Enjoy the rollercoaster!
There endeth the lesson .
A serious post from TuT ? No puerile humour ? I promise it won’t happen again.

 

The littlest one was/is obsessed with "Plants vs Zombies". So on my infrequent visits I would bring him back a small carnivorous plant from Ayletts. When I bought the first one (Venus fly trap) I made a point of taking to their carnivorous plant expert. I was expecting a big list but was told water them only with rain/distilled water, repot them in specialist compost, they really require strong sunlight and they will very happily live outside in the summer (the Venus fly trap could do with a month outside in the very cold winter weather to 'hibernate').

From the 5 Chinese tea-cup sized plant pots I bought they've thrived and transformed into living in a number of 10-15cm pots (some have had to be divided into new pots) that live on the living room window. The sun-dew (midges and gnats) is particularly virulent (friends have been gifted plants) and one of the pitcher plants (a 'red one') appears to have a liking for wasps.

Weirdest thing is a, now, large spider has made her home amongst the pitcher 'trumpets' and appears to 'pick off' the wasps that escape being 'eaten' by the plants.

 

Let me qualify this.

If you're making tea in the mug with the bag in the mug then it's hot water first. You need a sufficient temperature for infusion.
If you're making tea with a pot then warm the pot, add milk to the cup/mug, then add freshly drawn water that has just boiled to the pot.
Pour tea when brewed to liking.

Recall of QI knowledge or from soemwhere else maybe:

If the tea is brewed away from drinking container it doesn't really matter. There are some theories that in the olden days people put milk in first when their china was a bit suspect and boiling hot tea may have cracked it. Therefore well-to-do people added the milk last to prove they had good quality cups. The scientific theory is that pouring cold milk into hot tea means it doesn't heat evenly and may break down the fats in or de-nature the milk which can affect it's taste.

What's more important is, do you stir clockwise or anticlockwise when adding the sugar?

 

Neither, milk is disgusting.

 

You mean to say you don't like drinking the secretion from the hairy teat of another species? Weirdo.

 

Let me stop you right there. If you're doing that you deserve to be dragged around to the back of the building and shot.

 

You're lucky you aren't old enough to be forced to drink a bottle of milk at first break junior school in the early 70s that had been sitting in the sun for an hour. You sometimes had to poke a finger in (ooh err) to allow the milk to pass through the cream that had clotted at the top. Still can't drink neat milk today as a result, and leave any excess after eating cereal !

 

I used to love that at school. Does it still happen? I still like a glass of milk to this day

 

I believe "Thatcher Thatcher, milk snatcher" thankfully brought that abuse to an end.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/food-history/thatcher-thatcher-milk-snatcher

 

Congratulations! Welcome to the end of your life

 

Friends of ours had a little girl this morning and I’ve already texted the dad just saying ‘Welcome to hell’

 

That is a good one

 

Kids. Other people's kids. Except Filbert.

 

Congrats Filbert...

 

It was worse in the 60s...they even had 'milk monitors' who checked you were drinking it.....and then when you vomited it all over the place sent you to 'the Head' to be caned.
Good times!

 

Character building.

 

I hate milk…

 

We were happier in those days

 

Rogue tradesmen, utter bastards.

Cutting a long story short, we are coming to the end of our extension and we wanted a basic patio done to replace the ancient crazy paving that was there.

The people we went with were asking for about £3k for materials up front, which for me was a red flag, I said I would meet them at Selco and pay for it there and have it delivered to my place, they weren't too happy with that but went along with it. They did still ask for some money for skip and mini-digger hire, which I did pay. They did two days work in mid-July, the skip was filled and taken away and so were the hired machines. I haven't seen them since 19th July, and it's been excuses after excuses so I have told them that they're not to come back. I'm probably down a couple of hundred but I think I can cut my losses as they haven't touched any of the slabs Selco dropped off. My builder says that I was wise to get the materials directly as I could have been down a hell of a lot more. I reckon they never intended to come back after the machines were picked up as there wouldn't be enough profit or manoeuvre room to try to stitch me up for more money.

 

Always worth getting personal recommendation from someone you trust for any major decoration/building work. Too many rogues/cowboys around.

 

Very wise move with Selco. Despite tinking I'm wise to these ****s now I still find myself constantly stitched up/let down by tradesmen. I feel your pain.