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Crap Tips

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2009 15:15

'Things to do with...plastic cd cases. Save lots and paint them with letters for a giant scrabble board'

This handy tip was in last weeks Pick me Up magazine. Why!? and What!?

Share some please, real or made up. I need cheering up.

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georgimama · 13/03/2009 14:45

Grate butter for baking!
Wednesday 11th February 2009

If you need to use butter for cooking or baking, try grating it into the mixture instead of cutting it. You'll avoid that annoying situation of having hard blocks of butter that don't mix easiily!
Jack Davidson, Southport

Or, simply take the butter out of the fridge 30 minutes beforehand.

georgimama · 13/03/2009 14:47

This one isn't even a tip! They can't moderate these entries - we could upload anything.

Chocolate mousse delight!
Saturday 7th February 2009

I thought you might like to see a photo of my 17-year-old cat, Jess, after she had enjoyed licking my chocolate mousse pot!
Kathryn Cousens, Southampton

WTF????

I am now sitting at my desk, crying with silent laughter.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 14:48

georgimama that one was mentioned earlier. wtf indeed?

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georgimama · 13/03/2009 14:50

Sorry, I'm skim reading and dipping between the Sun, Viz and pick me up - it's too complex for me .

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 14:50

worth repeating! I wonder if they paid her for that one.

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 14:52

Jilted but I still had my wedding

This is a bit sad, but also just crazy 'later I spotted him sulking at the bar but just ignored him'

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GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 14:59

PMSL.

I lost all my egg cups (how?) when we moved, made DD use a meringue nest as an egg cup. It didn't work.

GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 15:02

I just clicked on a link that says Good To Know on the PMU website, clicked a random link within that and come up with the problem page:

Sample question: One cold night, I put on old, fleecy pyjamas, bedsocks and earmuffs for bed. My husband got very upset, yelling that I look nothing like the girl he married. He's romantic and kind, so I was shocked. I suppose I've let myself go a bit, but isn't that normal after 10 years together?

No picture of her bedtime ensemble though, so a disappointment. Lol, though.

GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 15:04

random pictures of blokes

One showing his bum, one with a perm.

How did I get through the years without PMU?

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 15:05

no no no

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GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 15:06

Jesus H Christ!!

GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 15:07

lol cross posts.

Terry Bishop looks like a Mafioso hit man

Words FAIL me about the other two

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 15:08

Snap to our posts! I'd rather not have seen that photo of a man in his seventies naked, ta very much. It looks like he sent it in himself too?

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 15:09

on page 250 too, why?

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GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 15:10

DANGER ZONE with the hot iron

And oh dear god, you can send in photos of your chap's tattoo and a psychologist will tell you what it says about his personality!

bleh · 13/03/2009 15:10

For the wedding one: at least they put his point of view.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 15:10

Oh it gets worse, keep going backwards. Oh dear!

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GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 15:11

God knows why we would both randomly pick that page.

We must have known.

Do you get the feeling that PMU is taking over your life?

GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 15:12

DWP - we are just posting pictures of naked men now

GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 15:13

Can someone explain why there is a whole section called Hubby in the Nuddy???

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 15:14

It has certainly brightened the past couple of days for me! I have loads of rubbish jobs I'm trying to ignore.

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cyteen · 13/03/2009 15:15

Earmuffs to bed? Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 15:15

serious back injury listed under 'my funny fella'

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GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 15:17

Yes - I just saw that! Lol, I don't think.

Also slightly at the whole 'date my son' section. Hmmn, potential MIL problems there methinks.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/03/2009 15:19

noooooooo

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