To think a 26 year old (Alexandra Swann) just hasn't been around long enough to appreciate half-baked goods, they can be very tasty not to mention convenient?

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Alexandra Swann in Breitbart News today, whilst generally having some very nice things to say about us here on Mumsnet, describes the suggestion for job-sharing MP's from Wednsday's webchat as a half-baked idea.

At 26 I feel she doesn't have the life experience to fully assess the issues, or indeed to appreciate the benefits of a half-baked loaf of bread, which upon further baking can taste and smell sooo good, as well as being vair convenient.

AIBU?

I read her snippy little article yesterday.

I understand you were trying to be light-hearted in the face of that but by god, I so want a kaiser poppy seed roll with butter and ham now.

Damn you. Damn you to carb' hell!

HaHa caramelwaffle and thanks for following my drift - I realise it's not been the most straight-forward thread to follow

• not trying to start a bun-fight though honest!

Earshit - if you don't know what it is then you're probably in a fairly bad position to offer an opinion on it. However much shite you may have been through is irrelevant.

I think how much shite we've been through in life is never irrelevant pommedeterre

Haha! Half baked croissants are the bees knees and i would definitely consider half baked goods to hold great merit. I was actually 34 when I discovered the joy of half baked goods and so there's certainly no point in spending the extra money for such items on a 26 year old!May as well just buy them tescos own fully baked croissants

How could it be relevant in any way to an opinion on a jobshare if you don't know what it is?

I think it shouldn't really be a light headed thread though.

How is slagging off good options for parents to find flexible working post children ever a good thing?

I have no idea who Alexandra Swann is or what she said, but I can truthfully say that the discovery of half-baked mini-baguettes was a great moment for me. DD is a hugely fussy eater who doesn't much like ordinary bread, but does like baguettes, but of course the bloody things go stale if you buy the day before. The half-baked ones mean I can give her a fresh baguette in her lunchbox every day.

Perhaps, but I started waitressing at 15, and I mainly lived on half-baked bread rolls every weekend. Bread rolls and Elizabeth Shaw mints. Mmmmmm.

I think when I started the thread I was trying to say something about how this young whipper snapper (a description from someone's post) has dismissed the idea of job sharing for MP's when I think it could in fact work perfectly well. Furthermore she evidently hasn't yet discovered the joys of half-baked goods (this rather epitomises for me her lack of life experience), and she doesn't show much sisterhood with other women, especially those a step further along life's road than herself who are mothers, as she makes rather a point of saying that she hasn't got DC herself and is not going to be TTC for a long time.
I'm looking for more sisterhood from an intelligent young woman who claims to value the site.
If some of you followed this train of thought better than others then I'm not surprised

Or a shorter version .....

Alexandra, I think you're wrong about the possibility of MP job-sharing and come to that half-baked goods can be good too.

Does that help at all?