... to ask if MN has a grumpy 'old' women topic?

[Pipbin]

I know there is pedants corner but I was wondering if there was anywhere where like minded people who want to complain about words like amazeballs, and other grumpy things can go and be grumpy without being told to get a life?

Count me in.

Will be back later to moan about stuff.

I have lots of gripes.

Scone can also rhyme with moon if you're talking about the palace

Or the stone

MehsMum this is agree with me or else - scone will always be "sconn". I'm going to start the day grumpy now. Though this is nothing new. I have lots of sense and to make it rhyme with bone is an insult to Devon and Cornwall. I have no strong feeling regarding order of jam and cream, however.

Rhyming it with moon is just wrong!

You've just reminded me of my exMiL (who was another scone rhymes with stone type) - who used to have "pittsa" for dinner. It's pizza. Peetsa. Thank god I didn't have children with exH.

An American once asked me if we do Thanksgiving in the UK.

I replied no, we aren't very grateful people [grump face]

And another thing, what's all this in magazines etc about having a turkey and a rib of beef for Christmas dinner? (And it's Christmas dinner even if it's at 12 o'clock cos it's Christmas Day.) Who has got 3 large ovens in which to cook all this stuff? And can you imagine the coordination required - trying to time Yorkshire puddings as well as everything else would really send me over the edge.

I thought you had harvest festival, etc. in the UK. That's a kink of thanksgiving.

That would be kind of thanksgiving.

Harvest Festival for most people consists of sending your dc to school with a past-the-sell-by-date tin of beans.

Well you can forget "Christmas is too early" rage - I have just seen HOT CROSS BUNS ffs in Morrisons!

I have no strong feeling regarding order of jam and cream, however.

We got told off by the waitress (all of 18 years old too!) in a Cornish tea shop recently for doing our cream teas wrong. We do cream first, jam after. She said it should be jam first. Sounds stupid to me. The clotted cream is a butter substitute and you can't get enough to stick on the scone if you go jam first. I have tried both ways and our way is definitely the right way.

sorry but a good scone ( which rhymes with bone!!!) has butter and jam, not cream hmphhhh

No concessions for a Cornish locale, book? That'd be like going to Italy and having a Mr Whippy (although I did have an outstanding two-tone chocolate and pistachio mr whippy in Florence in 1989 which I've yet to top).

True northerner here Dust - cream was for on top of trifles on Sunadys - you know Birds pretend cream with sprinkles :)

or Sundays even...

Definitely jam first.

Anyway.... I hate dithery walkers. Those people (and the endless hordes of shrieking squeaking children on a Lion King jolly) who bung up the pavements so I, after a long day's work, am in danger of missing my train .

And the people who walk and read, books or phones, equally annoying.

I'm a butter then jam then cream person myself.

And what meals are called is often the subject heated in Chez Bin.
We have decided that which ever is the main hot meal of the day is dinner.
We came to this conclusion because at school you can be either packed lunch or school dinner. Both meals happen at the same time.

Another butter then jam then cream vote here, though if there is no butter I'll do cream as a butter substitute. In reality it all gets mixed up together as a creamy jammy splodge on top anyway.

Agree dinner = hot meal of day. If we don't have hot meals then it's the evening one. Breakfast -> lunch -> dinner normally, but if lunch is cooked it's breakfast -> dinner -> tea. Though here we have to fit in morning tea (break involving caffeine and scones) and afternoon tea (another break involving caffeine and slices of things) and supper. It's no wonder I've put on 14kg in the last 5 years.

But what if you eat more than one hot meal a day? You wouldn't talk about a midday dinner and then call your evening meal dinner as well, just because they are both hot . The content of the meal doesn't matter, its just regional differences in nomenclature*.

In Yorkshire, it's breakfast - dinner - tea no matter what the contents of the meals.

• Yes I realise I used a 'posh' word in inappropriate circumstances. Theres a thread about that here somewhere .

Can I be grumpy about people railroading threads to resurrect the tiresome scone debates? Just fecking accept that different people are different. Jeez.

Argy

you've seen nothing until you see people arguing about toast.

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toast tent.

Toast? What is there to argue about with toast?

Ilkley - it is very much a regional thing but do DC take sandwiches to school in a lunch box?

Hang on, we are getting into arguments here ladies.

can i be grumpy about people who don't usually drive to school, suddenly taking their cars AND all the parking spaces on wet days?

Pipbin Well that would be pack up, sarnies, or snap if really old school Yorkshire mining stock. Even if we do say packed lunch or lunch box, it is still probably eaten when we have dinner at dinner time in the middle of the day, I think.

At the risk of not being Grumpy, waves to agoodbook. I saw Birds Trifles on offer in the supermarket the other day and I seriously wondered if it would be appropriate to serve for afters on christmas day. The inlaws are not posh at all and I fear the food being 'too posh' if I serve things like smoked salmon as a starter. Birds trifle might seem grim and inappropriate for Christmas day, but I think I like it (it's so long, I don't remember) and I think they would too.

I could start an AIBU on here to gauge opinons amongst completely the wrong demographic. It would be in a similar vein to one from previous years where the AIBU was something like 'AIBU to think that Aunt Bessies roast potatoes should not be served on Christmas day?' which was very entertaining.

So if I'm being brave, I might do 'AIBU to serve Birds trifle on Christmas day?' .

Obligatory grump - I also hate dithery walkers - I tend to stride about and simply cannot walk that slowly.

Hic, clearly we'll never agree about scone-rhymes-with-bone, though at least we eat the things the same way.
Argy, I think the scone debate may be simmering down into an armed truce. But you be grumpy. That's what this thread is for.

Toast rage: DH's speciality. If someone else gets his toast out of the toaster and doesn't make a /\ with it, the world teeters on the brink of oblivion, because if you lay toast flat, it goes soggy. If you decide to opt out of the Toast Wars and leave it in the toaster, he has a different rage, because then it goes too crisp. He is the same about boiled eggs: they have to be just so or his day is ruined. If he is making himself boiled egg and soldiers, I stay well clear.

Thanksgiving: when we lived in the US I was asked several times what we did for Thanksgiving in the UK. It was on the tip of my tongue to answer, 'Nothing, but what do you do for Fireworks' Night.'

waves back OnIlkleyMoor may be a whole new thread of interesting Yorkshire tea stuff maybe ( chitterlings anybody?) :)
And my grump on walkers- the ones who dawdle, and as you are about to go past idly wander so you have to swerve abruptly - they usually have ear phones in grrrrr