tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post3050778620994252198..comments2024-03-28T14:01:51.325+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: ThickYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-85023204037041168922020-12-09T13:46:17.519+00:002020-12-09T13:46:17.519+00:00I see that you did have a blog. Why did you quit?I see that you did have a blog. Why did you quit?Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-76475851681045500082020-12-07T17:09:47.224+00:002020-12-07T17:09:47.224+00:00There appears to be a misunderstanding about the p...There appears to be a misunderstanding about the purpose of blogging, Ms Moon.<br /><br />Why do people blog? Because they want to be heard. What does a blogger need? Readers. Preferably readers who give tuppence and a bit of thought to the blogger and their postings. Readers who take the time to leave a considered reply. Readers who, occasionally, stimulate debate, an exchange of ideas - both with the blogger and their other readers. Why would a blogger invite comments otherwise? And, yes, some bloggers are so conceited they do NOT allow comments. Insert snort. A good friend of mine doesn't. Still, he is happy to get my (and others') feedback via email. <br /><br />Maybe you prefer to shout into the valley and are content with your own echo. Fine. I am not. I like to engage with people. <br /><br />You ask whether I enjoy "stealing other people's thunder" and "stirring up useless controversy". Wow. Is that what I do? My intention has never been to steal anything from anyone. I hope to contribute, to add - not take away. <br /><br />"Stirring up useless controversy"? Let's leave aside that controversy is never "useless". It makes people think. Not least myself. As I am doing this very minute replying to you. However, I do object to your assessment as I do not stir anything, deliberately. If some of you are easily stirred, fine, make mine a Martini. If my views unsettle - so be it. Which reminds me: Who is making the rules? I get it in the neck because you deem me . . . What exactly?<br /><br />Let's cut to the chase. Your observations and the adorable Ms Soupcon's lame attempt at character assassination are not about volume, quantity and/or quality of my comments. What ARE they about? You tell me.<br /><br />U<br /><br />PS Rather ironic, don't you think, that the moment I actually don't say anything (see beginning of this thread) is the moment someone or two come out of the woodwork.Ursulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722046288685936851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-43609706153473877512020-12-07T14:37:54.138+00:002020-12-07T14:37:54.138+00:00I, too, wonder why you don't have your own blo...I, too, wonder why you don't have your own blog, Ursula. You certainly seem to have plenty of opinions to express. Wouldn't you be happier expressing them under your own titles than merely commenting on other's blogs with them? Or do you just enjoy attempting to steal the thunder of others by stirring up useless controversy? Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-11403443303596215652020-12-07T14:00:04.254+00:002020-12-07T14:00:04.254+00:00Thank you Jayview and it was terribly nice of you ...Thank you Jayview and it was terribly nice of you to say it twice!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-10364537403531021492020-12-07T11:58:28.404+00:002020-12-07T11:58:28.404+00:00What a gorgeous story!What a gorgeous story!Jayviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358384803437366118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-72342166105242745112020-12-07T11:58:12.096+00:002020-12-07T11:58:12.096+00:00What a gorgeous story!What a gorgeous story!Jayviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358384803437366118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-50613893594389991822020-12-07T11:06:32.531+00:002020-12-07T11:06:32.531+00:00No, it wasn't self harming YP - more a case of...No, it wasn't self harming YP - more a case of coming unexpectedly into contact with an object harder than I was!Coppa's girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459503600694841117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-57557082787133068562020-12-07T10:50:02.321+00:002020-12-07T10:50:02.321+00:00"Bowing out"? You have barely bowed in. ..."Bowing out"? You have barely bowed in. Nothing stopping you making the effort to comment on "Neil's photographs" and, indeed, his walks. <br /><br />I see that my suggestion to stop the psychobabble has fallen on stony ground. So in your latest offering, and thank you, I learn from the horse's mouth that I am "a woman without one shred of self awareness". And "that is very sad indeed". Here, have a tissue to mop your nose.<br /><br />You "have seen many such women in my time". When was your time, SS? And what men have you seen?<br /><br />As to "without her own current blog or website". So? Where is yours? The latter a rhetorical question; meaning you don't have to answer it. <br /><br />Remember my advice of not nurturing the snake of resentment at your bosom? You won't be bitten and happier for it. <br /><br />UUrsulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722046288685936851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-82967020338810584322020-12-07T09:36:14.881+00:002020-12-07T09:36:14.881+00:00I suspect that like history archaeology has a lot ...I suspect that like history archaeology has a lot packed into the subject. Children nowadays just learn segments of everything nothing 'joined up'. The old fashioned nature walks that we had inspired us, and I think schools and other organisations try to give the children the same, but the word 'holistic' is still to be encompassed in our thinking. thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-61113850918111789702020-12-07T09:24:28.275+00:002020-12-07T09:24:28.275+00:00I am so honoured to have a child genius visiting t...I am so honoured to have a child genius visiting this blog Debby!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-79776703886558757152020-12-07T09:23:24.627+00:002020-12-07T09:23:24.627+00:00I guess that most men you knew in your youth gave ...I guess that most men you knew in your youth gave off static electricity Joanne.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-53520177941614851512020-12-07T09:21:37.728+00:002020-12-07T09:21:37.728+00:00I wonder why Archaeology is not a school subject.....I wonder why Archaeology is not a school subject... and what about Home Maintenance and Nature?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-75903840428134288912020-12-07T08:50:10.602+00:002020-12-07T08:50:10.602+00:00Almost more interesting to read the comments than ...Almost more interesting to read the comments than the actual subject brought up! Hopeless at maths, that female teacher rapped me across the knuckles with a ruler, AND I have never forgotten it! But I liked the idea of science, experimenting with different things, tried to inspire my grandchildren, bicarbonate of soda and a boat in the bath??thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-56050122695059623052020-12-07T07:03:29.090+00:002020-12-07T07:03:29.090+00:00I see, I am on a hiding to nothing here.
My advers...I see, I am on a hiding to nothing here.<br />My adversity is a woman who enjoys to fight each desperate point with the total objective in winning it; she also seems to be a woman without one shred of self awareness, and that is a very sad fact in my book. <br />I have seen many such women in my time, but strangely not one without her own current blog or website.<br />I wonder why that is?<br /><br />So I will bow out and leave Ursula to her audience and I shall delight in watching Neil’s photographs of his beloved North Yorkshire walks from afar<br /><br />Soupspoone<br />Soupspoonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09510600024026126599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-15715208268140226822020-12-07T03:34:03.310+00:002020-12-07T03:34:03.310+00:00Oh my goodness, Joanne, that mental picture made m...Oh my goodness, Joanne, that mental picture made me laugh! I was smart, read a lot, did well in the things that I liked, not so well in the things that I didn't like. I was not a distinguished student. <br /><br />When we took the SAT tests (our college entrance exams), I came to school one morning to find myself being congratulated. I had gotten the highest test scores in the school. I shocked everyone, including myself. Debbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531125606268748793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-52284305441298990982020-12-06T23:45:01.826+00:002020-12-06T23:45:01.826+00:00To paraphrase the immortal words of Michael Winner...To paraphrase the immortal words of Michael Winner: Calm down, dear, it's only a comment or five.<br /><br />No one can accuse you of putting up "a smokescreen of cleverness". It'd be more a case of not so much hide as seek.<br /><br />One aspect of your comment is of interest to me, not least since YP mentioned physics: How can someone be "neither as interesting or as bright as you love to show the world that your are"? SS, we can fake many things. Brightness most certainly not one of them. As to "interesting": Sweetheart, that is in the eye of the beholder. Some people's horizons wide, others being lost in their myopic haze.<br /><br />What's "cheap" about referencing Coq auf Vin? Try Robert Carrier's recipe.<br /><br />If there is one thing I don't it's "control" others. Lay off popular psychology, SS. Leave it to the professionals. Makes for better relations.<br /><br />By the way, it's "sparring". If you had "spared" me then our exchange here wouldn't jam pack YP's comment boxes. Still, as I already "bore" you, you won't succumb further to being "rude and in dreadfully bad taste" as yours truly appears to.<br /><br />If only you knew how much you have added to my amusement today . . . Another hot tip of the day: Don't try to break down doors that are already open. You'll only fly.<br /><br />On a general note: How do you conduct your dinner/cocktail parties? Are guests in your abode free to mingle among themselves or do they have to channel their every utterance through your Public Relations skivvy to get approval on word count?<br /><br />Take it on the chin, SS, graciously,<br />UUrsulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722046288685936851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-19649018709558335572020-12-06T23:27:05.802+00:002020-12-06T23:27:05.802+00:00My father built a van der Graaf machine for my bro...My father built a van der Graaf machine for my brothers to experiment with. It was the terror of my teenage life; the two of them coming after me with static charges!Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-15417694218671312692020-12-06T22:15:41.133+00:002020-12-06T22:15:41.133+00:00Without motivation, how can anybody learn?Without motivation, how can anybody learn?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-81329719178073291362020-12-06T20:53:44.281+00:002020-12-06T20:53:44.281+00:00Ah the smokescreen of cleverness coupled with the ...Ah the smokescreen of cleverness coupled with the presumptions of someone who feels that they know everything. <br />As Patricia Hodge would say “What fun”.<br />I suspect you are neither as interesting or as bright as you love to show the world that you are. But then I can say that given the weeks I have read your words, words that fill someone else’s web forum.<br />You neither know me, or understand my knowledge base and experiences,<br />So you use cheap 1970s references to cookery and jibes about my psychological knowledge base in an effort to control me and the situation.<br />Incidentally both are incorrect. <br />Usually, I would enjoy sparing with a character such as you.<br />But already you are beginning to bore me.<br />My original comment was to Neil regarding Hamel and your monopoly of this site.<br />He said, quite correctly, that I should read whatever comment I choose.<br /><br />This I will do from now on. <br />But my original comment stands. <br />Replying to one or two comments in someone else’s domain can be seen as high spirits <br />More than that......<br />is all rather rude and in dreadfully bad taste.<br />Chin chin<br /><br />Soupspoone <br /><br /><br />Soupspoonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09510600024026126599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-32501790555624155452020-12-06T18:35:33.595+00:002020-12-06T18:35:33.595+00:00Come, come Hamel(d). I didn't have you down as...Come, come Hamel(d). I didn't have you down as Muhammed Ali, neither as the sulking type. <br /><br />Considering that SS's first thought is for herself, or rather the "p" in spoon YP so carelessly missed out, you've got to laugh. Laugh, not snigger.<br /><br />As an aside: Why do I think of SS as female? For all I know she is Trump trying to divert attention from a failed Georgia. <br /><br />Talking about putting the sock in. The truly funny part that I did indeed put the sock into my mouth by deleting my initial comment to our host only to now find myself flooding in response to the SS.<br /><br />Chin up, Hamel(d), you can't take all your knowledge to the grave; might as well spread it.<br /><br />UUrsulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722046288685936851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-14482180773372391842020-12-06T18:14:15.214+00:002020-12-06T18:14:15.214+00:00"In pursuit of attention"? You've ce..."In pursuit of attention"? You've certainly got mine. Which amounts to a mixed blessing.<br /><br />It's moniker, SS. Unless Monika is your actual name. Your attempts at English cute in as much as the mistakes you make not convincing.<br /><br />You mention H and U being "rude". Being wordy is not rude. Rude is going round analysing people as being "conversational narcissists". Dare I suggest that you don't know the actual meaning of the term? Don't worry about it. Most people don't. Some of the biggest conversational narcissists I have encountered in BLOGLAND are those who can barely bring themselves to either bother at all or limit themselves to very little.<br /><br />Try not to label people, SS. It's most unbecoming. But then, as you point out, you are a "semi-professional cook". Stick to your coq-au-vin. Forget the psychiatrist's couch. Takes a medical degree and years of additional training. Why not deconstruct your comment and do a Heston Blumenthal? That'll divide the Torte from its Kirsch. Alongside my platter, next to my starched napkin, I'd appreciate a copy of your signed "Blogiquette".<br /><br />UUrsulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722046288685936851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-90305183520093579572020-12-06T17:17:35.818+00:002020-12-06T17:17:35.818+00:00Haha! And here's another story about taking ch...Haha! And here's another story about taking chemistry in high school- I was terrible at it. I struggled. And then, the year I was taking it I got very, very ill and missed two months of school. I made everything up but when I went to my chemistry teacher (Dale Zamsow- still remember his name) he said, "Look, Mary. If you promise never to take chemistry again, I'll give you a C and we'll call it done."<br />I happily promised. <br />Years later I found myself in nursing school where I had to take chemistry and so I broke my promise. I made an A in the class. The next semester I had to take ORGANIC chemistry and that was almost my breaking point but I managed a B. I am quite proud of that, truthfully. I worked hard for those grades. And I still love Dale Zamzow.Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-44163808895105786002020-12-06T16:49:38.050+00:002020-12-06T16:49:38.050+00:00I listened to it long ago but never bought it. I a...I listened to it long ago but never bought it. I also liked biology. It seemed to offer knowledge that was worth having.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-21382142846746124152020-12-06T16:47:37.070+00:002020-12-06T16:47:37.070+00:00That's what Charlie Watts tells Keith Richards...That's what Charlie Watts tells Keith Richards.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-45232873175673861072020-12-06T16:46:35.201+00:002020-12-06T16:46:35.201+00:00It was indeed Sue.It was indeed Sue.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.com