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eating your cake and having it too

52 replies

Fahrenheit · 04/08/2011 21:00

You don?t always get what you want, never mind what you need. What goes around comes around as the saying goes? Ten years ago I asked myself the same question and made tough choices. But have you made tough choices? That?s the real question here. Whenever people ask me how to walk the tight rope I tell them better to run. That?s what you don?t understand.

If you eat the cake you lose the cake and then where are you. That?s right you are there. And there is a better place than over there. Better to stand than learn to crawl. But some of you just don?t understand and thats why you are over there.

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thenightsky · 04/08/2011 21:56

you can't always get want ya want...

Never seen point of cake you can't eat TBH.

SuePurblybilt · 04/08/2011 22:00

I bet someone left the cake out in the rain

tethersend · 04/08/2011 22:01

French DP says "You can't have butter and the money off the butter"

yousankmybattleship · 04/08/2011 22:04

you can't have the money off the butter if you've used it in the cake.

RoryCeilingCat · 04/08/2011 22:07

Aim for the stars, and you might hit a chimney pot. Also, come Monday, it's back to porridge and old clothes.

tethersend · 04/08/2011 22:07

That's deep, yousank... that's deep...

SuePurblybilt · 04/08/2011 22:08

What if the cake needs butter? Like malt loaf?

BuckBuckMcFate · 04/08/2011 22:09

Sugar and duckballs!

Is over there netmums? Cos that really isn't a tough choice

tethersend · 04/08/2011 22:15

Good point, Sue. No wonder the French are such nihilists.

WhereYouLeftIt · 04/08/2011 22:37

Is this a Mumsnet version of the 'cliches' running joke on the Letters page of The Independent?

pommedechocolat · 04/08/2011 22:38

I always wondered what you would do with cake if you had it but didn't eat it.

animula · 04/08/2011 22:42

I think if you're cake is going around and coming around you are in a po-mo cafe, kitted out like Yo Sushi, or a fairground catch-a-duck stall - with cake, not ducks. I like the idea of that.

I think you're not eating your cake, or having it, maybe, because you're not fast enough.

animula · 04/08/2011 22:43

The early ninja catches the cake, maybe.

SuePurblybilt · 04/08/2011 22:46

Maybe the early worm catches the cake. My DD's happy bus worm Smile

baskingseals · 04/08/2011 22:46

let them eat cake

rushofbloodtothefeet · 04/08/2011 22:48

Do not try and eat the cake. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth ...
There is no cake

CaptainNancy · 04/08/2011 22:48

What if it's a Herman cake, and self-replenishes?

Reality · 04/08/2011 22:49

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MsAnnThroppy · 04/08/2011 22:50

Do they have punctuation "over there"?

BitOfFun · 04/08/2011 22:51

I think you're beating about the bush with the wrong end of the stick, mate.

ExitPursuedByAGryffin · 04/08/2011 22:51

Cake? What cake?

BeerTricksPotter · 04/08/2011 22:57

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mummy2zni · 04/08/2011 22:59

Sniggering into my cocoa! :o You've made my night! No cake here though :(

nenevomito · 04/08/2011 23:01

I think you've mistaken bollocks for profundity.

Have you have the Star Wars conversation yet?

Pancakeflipper · 04/08/2011 23:09

I can only eat the cake if I have it.

I think carrot or lemon drizzle.

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