TV Repairs, new phones and hectic weekends

Well, it’s just as well I phoned up the TV aerial engineers; they had no record of their promise to come tomorrow to fix the TV aerial. Hopefully now they will arrive during the morning sometime as requested. They are supposed to be phoning to confirm tonight. I expect that I shan’t be back in time to take that phone call; why do I suspect that they won’t leave a message?

So, a busy weekend. Or at least a busy Saturday: TV reception to be fixed and then at some point I shall either travel into town with ellefurtle, or arrange to meet her later when she in turn meets up with snorkel_maiden. It’s all go. I had wanted to go to GOSH and get a signed copy of Alan Moore’s Lost Girls, but I can’t see me having the chance to queue. Happily Josh (of GOSH) has agreed to reserve a copy for collection on Sunday or Monday.

There is a 50-50 chance of me getting my new Motorola V8 RAZR 2 upgrade today after work. I nearly managed it yesterday, but they had none left in stock at the O2 shop in Victoria. They are expecting a delivery today. I was surprised when the woman mentioned that I was ‘being nice about it’. Do people really start giving the staff grief just because they might have to wait a day or two for stock to come in? Are people really that impatient and self-centred these days? I mean, I like instant gratification as much as the next bloke, but it’s not the be all and end all!

I despair sometimes, I really do.

TV Repairs, new phones and hectic weekends

Well, it’s just as well I phoned up the TV aerial engineers; they had no record of their promise to come tomorrow to fix the TV aerial. Hopefully now they will arrive during the morning sometime as requested. They are supposed to be phoning to confirm tonight. I expect that I shan’t be back in time to take that phone call; why do I suspect that they won’t leave a message?

So, a busy weekend. Or at least a busy Saturday: TV reception to be fixed and then at some point I shall either travel into town with ellefurtle, or arrange to meet her later when she in turn meets up with snorkel_maiden. It’s all go. I had wanted to go to GOSH and get a signed copy of Alan Moore’s Lost Girls, but I can’t see me having the chance to queue. Happily Josh (of GOSH) has agreed to reserve a copy for collection on Sunday or Monday.

There is a 50-50 chance of me getting my new Motorola V8 RAZR 2 upgrade today after work. I nearly managed it yesterday, but they had none left in stock at the O2 shop in Victoria. They are expecting a delivery today. I was surprised when the woman mentioned that I was ‘being nice about it’. Do people really start giving the staff grief just because they might have to wait a day or two for stock to come in? Are people really that impatient and self-centred these days? I mean, I like instant gratification as much as the next bloke, but it’s not the be all and end all!

I despair sometimes, I really do.

The Potato is King!

It is a generally accepted fact that roast potatoes are the vegetable in a roast dinner with the highest individual value¹. This leads to the necessity for a vegetable exchange rate when there is a paucity of spuds on the menu.

Now if there are four diners and a roast dinner is on the horizon, the well-prepared cook will ensure am equal number of roast potatoes for each person. But what happens when, through some calamity, natural or man-made, there are fifteen roasters? One person will have to make do with three, which is manifestly unfair as the other three have four. Of course, the host will wish to balance the servings by compensating the loser with other vegetables.

Precisely how much broccoli makes up for the missing roaster, or how many peas? Will an additional spoonful of cabbage make up the deficit? Does a roast parsnip equal a roast spud, or is it only 90% of the value and how do you make up the remaining 10% deficit? Then you have veggies so appalling – swede, for example – that adding it is simply heaping insult upon injury. Right thinking people would gladly give up a roaster to do without swede. It is a vegetable so bad that it has a negative value².

With the roast potato at the top of the roast dinner chain, then, I shall assign it a value of ten. This being the case, what value can we assign to other vegetables? Time, I think, for a poll.

Before we go to the poll, however, I should point out that in this case we are simply considering vegetables and their impact upon the palate; we are not interested in their relative nutritional merits, this is entirely value assigned by taste and smell. Neither are we concerned with meat or fish and certainly not with a Yorkshire Pudding³.


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¹By which I mean that it is not a generally accepted fact.

²I shall brook no argument t on this point: swede is vile. If you are odd enough to think otherwise, kindly keep it to yourself. This is a respectable journal.

³The Yorkshire Pudding is that rarity on the dinner plate. It trumps the roast potato. One average sized Yorkshire is worth at least two roasters and as such is an easy way of buying off potato deficits, though again, an imbalance of Yorkshires creates the same concerns one level up. A deficit of both roaster and Yorkshires is unconscionable and the cook should be shot..

The Potato is King!

It is a generally accepted fact that roast potatoes are the vegetable in a roast dinner with the highest individual value¹. This leads to the necessity for a vegetable exchange rate when there is a paucity of spuds on the menu.

Now if there are four diners and a roast dinner is on the horizon, the well-prepared cook will ensure am equal number of roast potatoes for each person. But what happens when, through some calamity, natural or man-made, there are fifteen roasters? One person will have to make do with three, which is manifestly unfair as the other three have four. Of course, the host will wish to balance the servings by compensating the loser with other vegetables.

Precisely how much broccoli makes up for the missing roaster, or how many peas? Will an additional spoonful of cabbage make up the deficit? Does a roast parsnip equal a roast spud, or is it only 90% of the value and how do you make up the remaining 10% deficit? Then you have veggies so appalling – swede, for example – that adding it is simply heaping insult upon injury. Right thinking people would gladly give up a roaster to do without swede. It is a vegetable so bad that it has a negative value².

With the roast potato at the top of the roast dinner chain, then, I shall assign it a value of ten. This being the case, what value can we assign to other vegetables? Time, I think, for a poll.

Before we go to the poll, however, I should point out that in this case we are simply considering vegetables and their impact upon the palate; we are not interested in their relative nutritional merits, this is entirely value assigned by taste and smell. Neither are we concerned with meat or fish and certainly not with a Yorkshire Pudding³.


[Poll #1131251]

¹By which I mean that it is not a generally accepted fact.

²I shall brook no argument t on this point: swede is vile. If you are odd enough to think otherwise, kindly keep it to yourself. This is a respectable journal.

³The Yorkshire Pudding is that rarity on the dinner plate. It trumps the roast potato. One average sized Yorkshire is worth at least two roasters and as such is an easy way of buying off potato deficits, though again, an imbalance of Yorkshires creates the same concerns one level up. A deficit of both roaster and Yorkshires is unconscionable and the cook should be shot..

Spud Poll

I have unleashed a monster.

That is all.

Spud Poll

I have unleashed a monster.

That is all.