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

[alfrex]

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.

Another sense of humour failure here.
Seems to me that you are allowed to troll if you're part of the right clique.
Think I'll have a break from mumsnet for a while.

ok but million whilst there are indeed people who agree with you, there are also just as many people who thought it was amusing and quite happy to read threads like this.

Its a huge forum, not everyone will be happy with everything and there is no rule that says because X amount of people dislike threads like these, they must cease to exist. We all use Mumsnet for different reasons, some people do use it just for a laugh and joke with other members, there is nothing wrong with that, we dont all have to use Mumsnet for worthy reasons, although if that is the only reason you do post here, theres nothing wrong with that either.

Oh fuck, I believed the garlic arse one!

i thought it funny! million just cant take a joke, but is happy enough to do shit threqad to wind other people up! and not even in a funny way!

Well done greeny, I had a fleeting suspicion it was you (something in it reminded me of hamster stew) but kateMNHQ totally convinced me with her message.

This thread gave me a bit of much needed craic while I was feeling like death yesterday, thank you

Mipped back to this thread this morning because I'm STILL chuckling at 'condemned cakes'. That was genious Greeny. Well done

This thread is making me crave lemon drizzle cake! So if I was to make one using marslady recipe, how big a cake tin would I need?

alfrex I applaud you on a thoroughly entertaining thread!!
I admit you had me at first, but I began to get suspicious at 'no birds' and then 'geography teacher' but finally lost it at 'girlfriend' - still couldn't help reading though. You ever thought of going in to comedy?

The trolls are winning.
I started off being amused by trolls on the internet.
I am not amused by trolls any longer [not meaning you in this instance Greensleeves. You have done it before on MN {I wasnt on MN then I dont think}, so you had no reason to believe that anything had changed.]

I fell for it but I`m upset the the garlic arse wasnt real

I just read this thread again because it made me laugh so much yesterday. Iam crying with laughter, it is brilliant

TwoFacedCows, I dont understand.

Hilarious Greensleeves

My DH and I were laughing so much last night. Great way to end a blah Monday.

Your name was a give away but then so was the 'cake system'

Some fantastic posts from very amusing MNetters; I just skipped over the ridiculous frothing-at- the-mouth posters; job well done.

BTW I send my sub-standard cakes in to DH's office as they are cake-hoovers and a school coffee morning is a much more judgey-pants audience.

Thanks again for an excellent posting.

It's a fair point though - HQ encourage troll reporting but this messes with posters' instincts. Also, you never know where a thread will go - "alf" could have gone on to disclose any kind of distressing fact (EA/DV or PND for example) and was certainly coming off a little unhinged with the perfect children, monitoring diet etc.

I don't want a number.
I am definitely going to try lemon cake recipe though :)

its not about winning or losing. Its difference in opinion..

That is ok you know.

There is room for a serious side and a lighthearted side to Mumsnet, its not all or nothing.

clevercircus it doesn't look sweet enough to me btw - am interested to know your thoughts on the optional icing sugar? Think I'll do half the quantities of cake ingredients in muffin cases...

I am SO relieved that this was a wind-up and bravo to MNHQ for letting it go on. Marvellous!

Although now I need perfectly baked cake.

Just to be clear- I think the thread was fantastic, really funny and I fell for it like a good 'un.

It was the apparent MNHQ involvement that I didn't like. Of course you can't tell who's real and who's not, and you have to keep a sceptical eye open, but if a thread gets the Towers Imprimatur it think it's reasonable for people to think it's likely to be real. However bonkers.

Interesting how many people seemed to know from the beginning it was a joke!

I didnt know it was a joke. :(

reading it back neither did I!

It was suppose to read: At least this thread is funny and not set out to cause offence, hurt people or annoy, unlike thread/s you have started/ posted on.

Excellent thread. Thoroughly deserving of classics

@seeker

Just to be clear- I think the thread was fantastic, really funny and I fell for it like a good 'un.

It was the apparent MNHQ involvement that I didn't like. Of course you can't tell who's real and who's not, and you have to keep a sceptical eye open, but if a thread gets the Towers Imprimatur it think it's reasonable for people to think it's likely to be real. However bonkers.

Interesting how many people seemed to know from the beginning it was a joke!

Totally agree, seeker. As you'll see in our (rather embarrassing) post earlier in the thread, the only reason we posted at the beginning of the thread was that we were taken in, too - and were posting to reassure folks who were worried that alfrex was in fact an MN regular.

If we'd realised it was a (totally unmalicious) wind-up, we wouldn't have posted. And we would, as we usually do, have replied to anyone who contacted us that we could see if was an MN regular who was probably having a bit of fun.

@CheerMum

Another sense of humour failure here. Seems to me that you are allowed to troll if you're part of the right clique. Think I'll have a break from mumsnet for a while.

No, that's not true.

If you look at our Talk Guidelines, you'll see that we define a troll as 'someone who poses as someone else in order to stir up trouble, deceive and mislead, or just to fulfil their own perverted agenda'.

We don't think this was what Greensleeves was doing. At all.

I realised from the name it was probably a wind-up, but still fell for it

But that's all part of the geniousness that is Greeny's work.

amillionyears - it's not about not trusting anyone, it's about being aware that all may not be what it seems, and that people don't always tell the truth on the internet. That does not mean that I don't also offer help and advice on here. As (I hope) everyone on the low carb Bootcamp threads will attest.

Thoroughly good read and cheered me up no end! Should definately go into classics because I would love to read it again some time.

Shame some are putting a downer on it but I guess they might just be embarrassed that they didn't get it.