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Former child who had expected to be treated at the new children’s hospital speaks out.
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Right then here goes... ANNUAL RANT ALERT!!
Triggered by adverts and TV chefs😠😠
Christmas Dinner....
I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs...
It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!!
We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not!
Here goes...
1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un!
Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over it’s cooked!
2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a shit load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)
What you need is Paxo and a kettle!!
If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking 😉.
3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell....
Gravy granules Jamie.... All you need is gravy granules!
I ( nor any other woman I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy 😠😠😠
4. Vegetables... Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough!
5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same 😉.
6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl!
(oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!)
7. Family....
Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace!
Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc.
And Finally.....
NO ONE....
And I mean no one
APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over 😂
Merry feckin Christmas!
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I’d draw everyone’s attention to the final sentence of the BBC’s Guidelines, highlighting a lower risk of a sports presenter having the potential to damage the BBC’s impartiality by expressing views on politics. It’s the BBC that’s scored the own goal, not @GaryLineker
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Breaking: Jacob Rees Mogg to take over as presenter of MOTD. The BBC have said this will “ensure impartiality going forward.”
Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day until agreement reached on social media use - BBC statement bbc.in/3mJW3Up
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Rishi Sunak could be a great prime minister. That possibility cannot be denied. Equally, the probability that he will be is very small. A thread…
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Am remembering the number of times British officials have gone round the world from Afghanistan to Iraq to Zimbabwe urging people to hold elections and unelected leaders or those clinging to power to move aside - how can we tell anyone anything in future ? #GeneralElectionNow
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After the damage that Johnson and Truss have inflicted on our country, the very last thing we need is *yet* another Conservative PM. We need a #GeneralElectionNow and a change of government.
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It's great that the British are discovering how difficult it is to get rid of British rule
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Boris Johnson has done catastrophic damage to this country. I hope the amoral narcissist pound-shop Trump has the most humiliating sacking possible.
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If one thing has become apparent today it is that the UK is in need of urgent constitutional reform. Never again must we face a situation where a mad man who thinks himself in possession of a mandate, when that has failed, can hold the country to ransom.
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Please do remember, whatever happens tonight. Whoever resigns. Remember what they DID NOT resign for.
We will remember.
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If people on 100k + couldn't get a pay rise until the minimum wage becomes the living wage, the living wage would be implemented tomorrow.
If nobody could own 2 homes until everybody had 1, homelessness would end tomorrow.
It's about setting floors, not ceilings.
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My mum’s “Leaving do” was to die all alone in her bed at the nursing home, without me being able to be by her side and to hold her hand and comfort her. All whilst @BorisJohnson allowed parties at 10 Downing Street. Parties which he denied had happened. #Partygate
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“Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.”
—Harry Truman, 1952
“Ireland, along with the other EU member states, has brought forward temporary protection measures allowing Ukrainians to enter visa-free, and to stay for up to three years."...
Maybe Pritti useless Patel rang Helen McEntee yesterday for tips on how the UK could do the same 🤔
