If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it

[venta]

I have found the nastiest thing on the internet (SFW).

I was looking for pictures of Miffy, since you ask :(

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's pretty tacky!
I should get it for d_floorlandmine (his nickname at university was Spanner).

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you should - I thought you liked him ;)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

You know the "Dumping Offence" list ... I think it's just gained a new entry. [grin]

Also, how much?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Wait... there's a list?

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Yep - things like "trimming my eyebrows while I sleep", "force-feeding me quiche", that kind of thing ... [grin]

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Hiring a big skip and 'tidying' your flat into it - yes, I remember now!

Still think you should try quiche again. It's come a long way since school dinners. Though admittedly I don't think anything would induce me to eat coleslaw still.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

That's the one! [grin] I don't actually mind coleslaw. Sometimes.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

You probably weren't force-fed nasty soggy school coleslaw that looked and smelled like sick!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Nope, but you've successfully described our school quiche. I wonder if it was actually the same as your coleslaw - generic off-putting food.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think my school used the same recipe as yours for cheese quiche.

However, I can vouch for quiche in the normal world tasting nothing like that. I even eat it voluntarily these days (hell, I've even made it).

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I was surprised to discover the first time lathany (and Bea) made quiche that it's actually way nicer than supermarket quiche (which I was already quite happy to eat).

I wonder how many other foods have surprisingly nice true forms I haven't discovered yet?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Rice pudding?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Very possibly! (I've had moderately rice pudding much better than Ambrosia, but there's still scope for improvement.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Actually, my attitude to Ambrosia is similar to my attitude to instant coffee - I actually rather like it, it's just sufficiently unlike the thing it's imitating that it ought to be considered a different thing :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yeah. Like instant custard.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, no, not in my book :) Instant custard is an abomination.

(Actually, it depends what you mean. The Birds kind that you make with milk is kind of instantish, and does qualify. The instant instant kind you make with boiling water is just bad.)

[lnr]

Gosh, I didn't even know there was a boiling water type. As far as I'm concerned there are three sorts:

inna tin or tub
made from custard powder with milk and sugar
made from eggs and milk and sugar and vanilla

And they can vary enormously in quality :)

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

I have somewhere a recipe for Indian rice pudding, which is full of dried fruit, cardamon, cinnamon etc.

Looks very yummy, but have never got round to trying it!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Do want! :-D

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I make an amazing homemade rice pudding that's baked in the oven with sultanas and cinnamon. Comes out so thick you can practically slice it.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Anyway, I don't see why I shouldn't be allowed to trim your eyebrows while you're asleep. You won't let me do it when you're awake! One of these days I'm just going to snap and come at you with the strimmer.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Makes note and hides key to garden shed.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Somewhere (maybe it was GBK?) recently I had "Asian slaw", which was surprisingly nice. Finely sliced vegetables with a mildly spiced sauce. Very un-school dinner.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I like Thai salads which usually have finely chopped cabbage, carrot and either green mango or papaya in a spicy dressing. I think it's the gloopy salad cream-ness of school coleslaw that put me off.

[venta.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I remember not much liking school coleslaw. But I like salad cream. And mayonnaise. If you chop up cabbage and carrot and so on and throw goopy salad cream all over it, that's fine.

Which poses the question what the hell did school put in the dressing...

[venta.livejournal.com]

That's the trouble with dumping offence lists... there's always an extra thing that you didn't think to put on the list, because it never occured to you someone might do it ;)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

It's a bit like the legendary "Skippy List" - it tends to require a line like "Anything that makes me giggle for more than 30 seconds when I think of it is banned."

[marjory.livejournal.com]

That's... Why would someone spend 363 quid on that?

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

That's pretty damn nasty.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I don't find it too bad, though it's not as neat as the spanner necklace a friend was wearing on Saturday (and hers cost a fiver on Brick Lane!).

[hendybear.livejournal.com]

I am such an engineer, my first that was what size is it, followed by er that's nasty!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Materials Scientist: it would be too soft to turn anything anyway!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we had that discussion too :) We think the right hand end (as you look at it) is for unscrewing flowers.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Eeeuw. I know people who would love that. Sadly.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Also, how did you find that while looking for Miffy?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia, he say:

In the early 1990s an image of Miffy holding an adjustable spanner coyly behind her back appeared on flyers produced by people taking direct action against the UK government's road building program. This unauthorised use of the character spread and Miffy became a mascot for groups involved in radical ecological direct action.

Really, I thought, I don't remember seeing that.

So I did an image search for "miffy spanner" (without the quotes) and got what I wanted:



... and then I scrolled down a bit more and it all went a bit bling.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

and then I scrolled down a bit more
And have you identified what you did wrong there? [grin]

[venta.livejournal.com]

I knew them little wheel things on mice were evil.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure I used to walk past one of those on the way to work when living in Oxford!

[metame.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was a result for "iffy spanner"

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

That's amazing. I mean, it's not hard to make the combination of 9ct gold and cubic zirconia look like a cheap, tacky piece of shite, admittedly, but the overall aesthetic of the piece -- if aesthetic is even the right word -- is just utterly, utterly wrong -- not in a Cthulhoid way (although the ANGLES my GODS the ANGLES they are NOT RIGHT), just in a, wow, I know five-year-olds who would make prettier things out of plastine, kind of way.