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to be furious with dh for eating cakes he knew were destined for the bin!

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alfrex · 21/01/2013 14:57

OK. I bake a lot. And sometimes my cakes are beautiful, and we all enjoy them. But sometimes it does not go so well and the cakes come out sunk or burnt or still wet in the middle (if dh would get the fan fixed on the oven this would happen a lot less often, but that's another thread)

There is a system, dh and the children are well aware of it. If the cakes are good to eat, they either go in a freezer bag for later use, or in a sealed tin for use over the week, or on a plate on the side so that they can be eaten now. DH knows this and I never complain about him "sampling" even if th cakes are meant for after dinner or whatever. I bake a lot so there is usually something there if he fancies a nibble.

If the cakes are not up to scratch, they go in the bin as soon as they are cooled (or as soon as dh empties the bin - there's another thread there!)

so this morning dh saunters into the kitchen to get himself breakfast. I come in and find him cramming his mouth with the burnt, crappy cakes that were sitting in the bun tray by the bin. I was really pissed off and had a go at him for it. I can make really nice cakes and I make plenty of them, so he has no need to wind me up and embarrass me by eating the ones that have gone wrong. He know it is a pet hate of mine.

so he strops off to work having called me a "control freak" in front of our children who were sitting having their breakfast. I am Not Happy.

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NormanTheForeman · 21/01/2013 23:15

Well, it gave me a laugh, but then I saw through it pretty quickly [scepticalemoticon].....

amillionyears · 21/01/2013 23:15

So what is real and what is made up on MN?

And much more importantly, MN has allowed this.

seeker · 21/01/2013 23:16

It was very funny. And of course nobody should be banned. But moderators should not have endorsed it. It would have been fantastic if it hadn't been for that.

HeadfirstForHalos · 21/01/2013 23:16

Oh God, I just know I'll get the giggles when I see the birds on the school run tomorrow!

No birds! How can there be no birds! It's an ouuutttraaaagge!

amillionyears · 21/01/2013 23:16

Greensleeves is a troll.

amillionyears · 21/01/2013 23:17

So trolls are allowed if they are funny?
A lot of the trolls are funny.

BIWI · 21/01/2013 23:17
NormanTheForeman · 21/01/2013 23:19

"well we don't have any birds here" kind of clinched it for me too. Grin

PacificDogwood · 21/01/2013 23:26

No, the 'perfect children' and 'foliage off the flowers' made it clear to me.

Harmless/funny trolls are great fun - you should all eat more cake and relax.

greenhill · 21/01/2013 23:28

Thank you greensleeves Thanks from one green to another.

I kept reading all afternoon and was here from 10 minutes in, no wonder you didn't answer my serious question. I was hoping it was a regular under a name change Grin

HelenMumsnet · 21/01/2013 23:32

Evening.

Just though it was worth saying that when this thread started - and when the first reports came in to us at HQ - we were a bit taken in, too. Blush

We could see that alfrex was Greensleeves but we actually thought she was just a bit of a crap cook - and having a sense of humour fail. (Sorry, Greeny!)

Hence our initial post to reassure people that the OP was a regular MNer.

We actually weren't smart enough to be in on the joke, Greeny. Though bless you for thinking that we were!

We weren't alerted to this thread again until this evening - by which time the MNHQer on duty had assumed (understandably) that we knew it was a wind-up and were just playing along.

We don't think this kind of wind-up thread is trolling but, had we realised it was a wind-up at the outset, we wouldn't have posted as we did. Apols for that.

alfrex · 21/01/2013 23:35

lmao

my work here is done Grin

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OcotoAlert · 21/01/2013 23:35

I am Confused
Ah well.

At least MNHQ gained a couple of 'reports' from me - for the blatant spamming of the lemon drizzle recipe by some random www addresses (shame though, the english was delightful - "it brings the water to my mouth" or something?!) - they were deleted sharpish anyway!

HelenMumsnet · 21/01/2013 23:36

Blush Blush

OcotoAlert · 21/01/2013 23:38

(Tbf "alf" - you did thicken the plot when you showed your angry face on the genuine(ish) other thread asking about feeding cake to birds.
Just sayin'.)

You need your bed, there's pancakes to be burnt in the morning!

NormanTheForeman · 21/01/2013 23:39

PMSL, I still think it's hilarious! Grin

amillionyears · 21/01/2013 23:39

Ok until your next to last sentence.
But
www.mumsnet.com/info/talkinstructions#Rules_and__Netiquette_
She was trolling as per your own guidelines.

trixymalixy · 21/01/2013 23:42

Oh come on lighten up. Some of the best threads I've read on here have been joke threads like this. Hamster stew or pirate sex anyone?

MN wouldn't be the same without them.

JumpHerWho · 21/01/2013 23:43

HazelMcWitch - I'm late to this party but I read the first few posts with a Grin face then got to your 'unless you live in a desert or the apex of a pole there are birds' and I have been creased up laughing for 5 mins. Aahhh. Thank you, I needed that.

Anyway I haven't flipped the thread so you're probably all talking about scones or squash or bootcuts or feminism by now.

alfrex · 21/01/2013 23:44

hamster stew was me too

just to really boil your piss amillionyears

I apologise, again, if I upset anyone. It was only meant for a laugh. And I am only a troll about once every two years. The rest of the time I am normal [gri]

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WorraLiberty · 21/01/2013 23:44

I've lurked and laughed all through this thread...it was fairly obvious it was a wind up! Grin

But I think amillion probably has a point, given how weird MN is at the moment.

I'm having a hard time believing anything is real at the moment and this sort of genius thread doesn't help with that! Grin

amillionyears · 21/01/2013 23:44

How many wind ups do you play along with?

amillionyears · 21/01/2013 23:46

That question is to MNHQ

amillionyears · 21/01/2013 23:47

A very regular poster [not me] says she doesnt believe 90% of what is on the relationship board.

amillionyears · 21/01/2013 23:48

alfrex, you havent annoyed me.

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