please explain the biscuit thing on threads to me

[pinkstarsarefalling]

I've missed something somewhere. I'm picking up its a bit sardonic? Or sarcastic?

[notamummy10]

I've said this before on a similar thread but I thought it was a slice of grapefruit with a cherry in the middle!

[Nydj]

Gordon Brown has problems with his eyesight and mnhq were reading out the questions they wanted him to answer. Mnhq did not read out the what is your fave biscuit question and posters thought he was ignoring their repeated requests for an answer. Not really GB's fault - mnhq could see the questions and comments about the biscuit but chose to ignore it.

[Hassled]

Shortbread finger is a good call. It's robust, it has that slight saltiness which stands up well against the sugar, it could cope with a tea-dunking.

Is there a TV show where I could be the resident biscuit expert?

[pinkstarsarefalling]

*dodgers

[pinkstarsarefalling]

I do like the pout analogy though.


Ahh, jammy diggers will never be the same!

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

Going to be a maverick here. A shortbread finger. It's strong and sturdy, very tasty but says 'dont fuck with me' a

[pinkstarsarefalling]

A rich tea goes soggy under pressure.

I think we need our biscuit to be strong, round and a bit sticky.

I guess a custard cream is a tad like a custard pie?

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

Bourbon is a good biscuit. And garibaldi. At work if I do the shop I stock up on Fox's chocolate creams.

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

ickle would you have preferred it to be a custard cream?

[Hassled]

I had a Bourbon in a meeting the other day - first in a long while. That's a under-rated biscuit, IMO. There's a lot to be said for a Bourbon.

[pinkstarsarefalling]

That was definitely a very well aimed biscuit ickle. I'd have thrown a packet.

I was confused after seeing them in other threads where it could have been used in a different way.

[pinkstarsarefalling]

Yes ickle it was!

[pinkstarsarefalling]

There was a huge shortage of custard creams recently. We really felt it at work. There were some shoddy shady copies.

[Icklepickle101]

I have my first today and I very much meant it to mean FOTTOSOFATFOSM.

was my biscuit the one that was the inspiration for the thread?

[Hassled]

Oh that's unduly harsh on a Custard Cream, I feel. Rich Tea biscuits are the "I don't care" of the biscuit world - now that really is a pointless biscuit.

[pinkstarsarefalling]

Only in Britain could there be outrage over lack of affiliation to biscuit types.

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

Should have been a custard cream. That's a biscuit that says 'i don't care'

[pinkstarsarefalling]

I can be so bloody literal I literally thought it was where stuff could be explained. Like emoticons to the middle aged. Or Twitter.

[bearofnothingness]

ooh we have an 'unexplained' topic!

it means 'i can't be arsed to say anything yet want to register my contempt'

[pinkstarsarefalling]

[Hassled]

I love how this is in "The Unexplained" topic :o.

It comes from some Gordon Brown webchat years ago when he didn't/wouldn't answer the "what's your favourite biscuit" question on account of preferring to talk about you know, politics and shit (on account of being a politician rather than a famous biscuit eater). For some reason this caused huge outrage and possibly if he'd simply said "Hob Nob" we may not have had the coalition government. Historians will look back and marvel. Anyway - that's when the Biscuit Bollocks started. Now it's code for "I have nothing of any value to say but using a biscuit emoticon will make me look like I do".

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

And take your bastarding biscuit/donuts with you. (sorry have had a really shit day at work and it is being released here!!!!!)

[pinkstarsarefalling]

Ha just, a biscuit after that username!

What a good idea. I may keep the odd packet of jammy dodgers at work.

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

Fuck off to the far side of fuck and then fuck off some more.

[pinkstarsarefalling]

Hearts please do type FOTTS...

(I need that explaining too!)