In the past, I have labelled myself a “jinx”, when it involves football teams I support, losing. This could be for making an off-the-wall comment, or even something as stupid as having my hair cut.
Whereas in the past, Leeds, Bath City or the England National Team would face the consequences of a curse I would unintentionally place on them; I have never been able to pass this bad luck onto teams I don’t like. Until now…
You may recall a post I made, last month, where I aired my annoyance and worries, about how well Bristol City had been doing.
Earlier today, the wonderful Leeds United beat the aforementioned Bristol-based football club. I was aware that they had trailed off a bit, and were no longer the world super powers, they were at the time of last month’s post. However, I hadn’t realised things were this bad…
Ouch. No win in five games – four of which are defeats. What is especially significant about this statistic, is that this poor run of form only started AFTER my blog, moaning about how well they were doing!
You could say that I am responsible for all those “L”s – although, if you’re a Bristol City hooligan, and are reading this (can football hooligans read?), then it was nothing to do with me.
Oh, and if anyone thinks that I have jinxed Leeds United’s promotion hopes, with this blog post, then remember – I have said it all along – Leeds will bottle the Top 2 automatic promotion places, before failing miserably in the playoffs.
What is this new obsession with ‘Mac and Cheese’? It’s suddenly appeared everywhere, presumably from the same ‘Book of Fake Fads’ as Veganism.
A quick note on this (before the International Vegan Society perform a DoS attack on my blog). I have nothing against vegans. In fact, as somebody who turned vegetarian last year, for animal welfare, I applaud you. Those poor individuals who are forced to become a vegan, due to food intolerance problems, also have my respect and sympathy.
The vegans I take issue with are those who are doing it as a fad or to make a statement. The people who decide to turn vegan in the summer, but give up as soon as mummy’s famous turkey comes out of the oven at Christmas… grrr!
Worse are the vegans, who say things like “I’m a vegan, but I do eat dairy cheese on pizzas. It’s my guilty pleasure!”. It’s like veggies who eat fish – you’re not a vegetarian, you’re a pescatarian. Oh, and don’t even get me started on the stupid phrase “guilty pleasure” – that’s for another day! Vegans who eat cheese on pizza are called vegetarians. Let’s face it, if they have cheese, they probably have pepperoni, which will make them an omnivore.
If only Fred West had seen this sign…
Where on earth am I going with this? OK, to summarise, vegans are great, as are veggies, but ONLY if you stick to your choice of diet FOREVER – and just to clarify, FOREVER does not mean until the BBQ season, or when McDonald’s bring back the McRib sandwich. FOREVER means until the day you die.
Considering this blog post was originally meant to be about Mac and Cheese, I have digressed terribly…
This is what this blog was supposed to have been about!
Lots of people seem to be going on about M&C. You see recipes for it in magazines; you see idiotic celebrities, like Robbie Savage, attempting to make it on cooking TV shows; and when you look at restaurant menus, “MAC AND CHEESE” is commonly listed. I was in Asda on Tuesday, when some child shouted out “Guess what we’re eating later? Mac and Cheese!’.
As far as I was aware, M&C is simply Macaroni Cheese. This is a delicious dish, made with macaroni (although I’ve often seen it done with pasta tubes) and thick, creamy cheese sauce. My parents often made it for me and it was my favourite meal as a child. Considering I’m 37 next week, you work out how long ago that was! As an adult, I continue to regularly enjoy the meal.
Even my own mother suggested I try M&C, as “so many people are going on about it”. Does she not realise she was cooking it for me, some 30+ years ago?
Where has this M&C rubbish come from? I have my suspicions. I may be wrong, but it stinks of Americanisation and another example of the British adopting one of their terms. I blame Donald Trump.
If I ever hear the words “Mac and Cheese” used, after I have eaten “Macaroni Cheese”, I will immediately vomit my recently consumed meal, all over the offender – just like that racist Women’s Institute lady from Little Britain.
If you’re going to enter a general knowledge quiz – especially one on television, watched by millions of people – read an atlas beforehand…
You have to feel sorry for her…
Actually, no you don’t. She was rude, boastful and always gave far too detailed answers. Nobody likes a show off – she just needed to say A, B, C or D.
Anyway, at least she won £1,000, which after paying for her travel to and from Manchester, as well as getting her roots done (meow!); should leave her with just about enough free cash to buy one of these…
“Sofa, so good, thank you”
Take a look at this dog. What is it doing? You would assume that it is waiting for its owner to come home. Not anything especially unusual.
Look at Roman. Claire captured this photo of him on the webcam, last night. He is facing the wall – this is something that he has only started doing in recent weeks. Previously, he would rest in a different direction.
We were wondering the reason for this recent change of behaviour and have come to a conclusion…
Roman only acts this way at night (when we are upstairs, in bed).
The theory is that our rabbit is behaving like the dog in the photograph – waiting for his owners to come back…
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