Amusing trifles (but only secondhand cooking)

[menthe_reglisse]

Things that have been amusing me in the midst of sleep-deprivation woe:

The brand of the cufflinks I was given for Christmas: Cuff Daddy

I'm rather partial to the song 'Red Hot Momma' but PB sings 'Red Hot Mammal'.

I'm a member of is the British Society of Gerontology, familiarly referred to in my workplace as 'the BSG'. But if you put 'BSG' into

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[steer]

To be honest, if it's a banana ripening party, I think being fashionably late is a good thing. Also perhaps make your excuses and leave early.

Actually, I think I'm right in saying that bananas exude some kind of evil chemical (possibly one of those ending in ethel-something) that causes themselves and other nearby fruit to ripen over quickly. This means that they are often suspended on some kind of banana gibbet away from other fruit.



To me this looks like some kind of mediaeval punishment as if, perhaps, the bananas had been executed (perhaps for trying something dreadful with the grapes).

[steer]

If you had good access to someone with some kind of training in chemistry then they might even know the name of the chemical in bananas (or if I'm entirely deluded).

[menthe_reglisse]

Ah, purplerabbits, below, knows it.

[steer]

There you go -- I'm not totally deluded, on that matter at least.

[menthe_reglisse]

My first reaction of 'ooh, attractive picture of fruit' is now replaced with 'bananas on gibbet'. I have a banana gibbet at home. Now I feel guilty.

[steer]

End capital punishment for bananas now. Free the fruit bowl four. The pulp of the innocent is on your hands.

[makyo]

They deserve it. Bananas are evil.

[steer]

It's not their fault, they've been hanging around with a rotten bunch.

[makyo]

I guess my problem with bananas is that when they're underripe it's like eating candles (or at least how I imagine that would be, not having done a proper double-blind comparison), when they're overripe/rotten they're horrid, and there's a very narrow window in between when they're not utterly vile. But even then I don't really like them, and to be honest I'd much rather have something more reliably nice, like an apple, pear, orange or the like.

[steer]

Ooooh... pears are even worse for that than bananas though. I swear pears go from "igneous" to "home made perry in a bag" in about 30 minutes around midnight six days after you buy them.

[makyo]

Yes, actually you've got a point about pears - indeed, I think the esteemed Mr Izzard makes similar remarks in one of his shows.

[steer]

He does -- it's funny because it's true!

[I found an apple in a stack of papers on my desk which was part way to being cider -- that's not so good, I mean apples only just qualify as biodegradable, some forms of plastic rot faster than apples.]