in a right royal huff about cake recategorisation

[Slubberdegullion]

cor. I haven't done AIBU for an age, but I am I know I am (bu) and need some get some get a grips and bridge rebuilding tips.

For the last 3 years I have donated a decorated Christmas cake to the school Christmas fair raffle.

Last night I get an e-mail asking for its weight as THE PTA POWERS THAT BE have decided to put it into a 'guess the weight of the cake' comp and not in the raffle.

I know, OUTRAGEOUS isn't it? Man they have a nerve.

So I sent a few hoity e-mails.

Then I went to bed and had a lemsip and now have realised I am a giant precious-cake arse.

This is reminding me also irresistably of PG Wodehouse's Lord Emsworth, with his prize pig the Empress of Blandings who used to win first prize in the Fat Pig competition...

I think if you have attendants they should be skimpily dressed young laydeez in manner of particularly naffo car show.

Think Strictly, with cake showpiece.

Please stop talking cakes. Made a terrible mistake with my cake this year - put it in the wrong oven in the Aga [aaaaaargh]. Had to cut the top off - the birds were pleased. Not sure how it will turn out.[sob]

We have a guess the weight of the cake at out Christmas Fair and it is much more IMPORTANT than the raffle. YABU.

The exact same thing happened to my friend at a church fête on Saturday. Moving cakes from a raffle to guess the weight. It's a bloody conspiracy.

oh my

yes yes. Sparkly leotards and those caps with ostrich feathers out of the top.

maybe the cake should only come out for 5 mins on the hour, every hour of the fair. It and the laydeez could lay low in the sports equipment cupboard behind the cellophane stall and the do a dramatic reveal.

what and then people could guess how much it weighed?

bit of a come down really.

I am not sure if skimpily clad young ladies is entirely appropriate for a school fair. [catsbum]

Although I am sure some of the girls will be skimpily clad. [double catsbum]

I was thinking more red carpet than disco, IYSWIM.

Ah, but you could also go the whole hog with Strictly-styleee judges giving it marks for weight?

really MrsCratchit?

coatgate, it will be fine. Just keep pouring the booze in an no one will notice its lack of upper crust.

The cake equivalent of beer goggles. Look what it did for Kate Middleton, after all.

You need those long trumpety things with banners on them to herald the hourly bringing-out of the cake.

YY to caps with ostrich feathers but also big tail feather things. And naturally all the befeathered ladies should have gleaming teeth.

Ooh or how about one of those big signs that lights up and flashes, like wot they have when people win the slot machine jackpot on American fillums?

Surely it needs at least two body cakeguards in suits with pistols and earwires constantly informing each other about the "shifty looking urchin at 11 o'clock", and it needs to arrive by helicopter to be met by a red carpet, the headmaster and the head of the PTA. Plus it needs to be able to bring a guest, a 'top heavy' model type in full evening dress who's obviously only with it for its...... icing.

Disguise the stall so no one knows it's a Guess The Weight stall.

Estimate the Poundage, If You PLease

You know what would be better? Guess the ingredients. Thus you would be promoting the top qualitiness of your cake.

lol @ Estimate the Poundage.

you are all so kind bigging up make cake. I keep looking at it now thinking it looks a bit shit given all the fuss I've made. Too much purple, too many snowflakes.

I'm going to start again.

the cake

can't type

can't decorate

they are trying to tell you something about your baking slubber.

You MUST insist on Imperial measures. None of this newfangled kilos and grammes business.

are you starting nevergoogle?

Your cake is purple? Well I never.

Do you have a pic?

i'm just saying what we're all thinking slubber.
your baking must be seriously heavy for them to have the idea in the first place, no?

show us first before you change it!

I'm on the PTA and we have the opposite problem... the woman who makes the cake for 'Guess the Weight' every year has announced that she's not arsed to do a proper Christmas cake this year so shes just making a sponge cake

If she's announced this a month ago i could have made an extra one fgs but she's left us sitting there smiling insincerely and mouthing 'Oh yes, that's fine... understand your busy, cakey cake will be fine......'

Guess the weight of the cake is rubbish though. We have stopped doing ours as it's not popular enough.

Sorry, but start raffle prize has far more pull than guess the eight of the cake.

YANBU

Time for some serious passive-agressiveness I think. Give them the cake (grudgingly), but refuse to tell them the weight. Or insist that it's a weight that is clearly impossible (like 600g or 10kg). In fact, that second one is genius because nobody will guess your implausable weight and you can get your mum/friend/dc to 'guess' the weight.

Oops, forgot to there.

Perhaps they've had some ahem very good raffle prizes donated - apparently we have a brand new mulberry handbag this year [have bought lots of tickets based on this hearsay]

And purple . . . could we see a picture of the cake at all?