Men!!

gst · Senior Member

Men!!

Pejay · Guru

Got to get this off my chest!! A couple of weeks ago, I purchased a packet mix from Aldi for making Easter Egg (shape) cookies with the cookie cutter and the icing thingys in it too! Thought I was quite smart - will cut down on the chocolate consumption at Easter, will make them on Easter Sunday (today) for mornos!

No such luck - hubby (bless his cotton socks that I just blew off!) had an omlette for dinner last night and used up all the eggs - there were 4 left, and I only needed one. SO, no Easter cookies - what's the alternative? Easter eggs and undoing all my hard work in loosing the weight I have recently lost - BOTHER!!!! (or words to that effect)

Anyway, have a very Happy Easter everyone, and enjoy the spoils of the season - I will, and I can start walking again tomorrow - OK, a full day of lawn bowls.

Scotty01 · Senior Member

LOL if you had cooked his omlette for him you could have saved one biggrin

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Happy Easter anyway June!!!!!

bill12 · Guru

Use him for crab bait!

Cruising Granny · Guru

I avoided eggs of all varieties today.
This tale makes me wonder why people living in the same house, using the same fridge, sharing the same food, can't communicate.
Yes I live alone, just to clear that up.
If I was cooking I'd ask the other person if I could use all the milk, eggs, bread, etc wondering if we were going to buy more, or if they were required later.
I'd never use the last of anything if I didn't know if there were more in the house/caravan somewhere.
Maybe I've been single too long, or, they've been together too long and still don't know how their household works.

Happywanderer · The Master

CG We've been on our own too long but I do see how it happens. In any household where there is more than one person living there will always be times when one decides to have something out of the fridge without asking if someone else needs it.
You only have to watch teenagers who go to the fridge and upend the bottle of milk straight to their mouth without thinking someone else has to drink some of that after they have had their mouths on it.
It happens all the time. Maybe I watch too much TV. lol

johnq · Guru

Pejay

Have you ever tried a substitute for egg in the recipe, for example mashed banana?

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

CG you hit the nail on the head, comunikate biggrin spelling mistake intended.

Pejay · Guru

Yep Johnq I have tried the egg substitute, and yes GC we do communicate, but Saturday had been a particularly l-o-n-g day at bowls and I was absolutely done in, so it was a case of 'anything goes' (usually Sunday nights) and I had a 'left over dinner' from the freezer and hubby decided on the omlette - I guess it was my fault as I forgot (happens quite regularly - have you ever forgotten to take the shopping list with you when you go shopping?) to get more eggs. But I did enjoy a couple of little chocolate eggs yesterday - yumm!! Off to bowls again today, it's a glorious day here on Bribie Is. Qld.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I have not only forget the list Pejay but I have gone as far as got all the goodies in the trolley and for some reason felt for my wallet before getting to the register and found out stupid me has left wallet at home, AGAIN. Thank goodness I am only 5 mins from the shop, leave trolley next to a rack, a quick dash home and back, no one knows the difference, just me. Another Senior moment.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Dougwe wrote:
I have not only forget the list Pejay but I have gone as far as got all the goodies in the trolley and for some reason felt for my wallet before getting to the register and found out stupid me has left wallet at home, AGAIN. Thank goodness I am only 5 mins from the shop, leave trolley next to a rack, a quick dash home and back, no one knows the difference, just me. Another Senior moment.

Doug, here's a wallet for you

-- Edited by _wombat_ on Monday 9th of April 2012 05:11:47 PM

johnq · Guru

Pejay wrote:
Yep Johnq I have tried the egg substitute, and yes GC we do communicate, but Saturday had been a particularly l-o-n-g day at bowls and I was absolutely done in, so it was a case of 'anything goes' (usually Sunday nights) and I had a 'left over dinner' from the freezer and hubby decided on the omlette - I guess it was my fault as I forgot (happens quite regularly - have you ever forgotten to take the shopping list with you when you go shopping?) to get more eggs. But I did enjoy a couple of little chocolate eggs yesterday - yumm!! Off to bowls again today, it's a glorious day here on Bribie Is. Qld.

Pejay,

The egg substitute was a helpful suggestion only. Perhaps more know about it than I thought. Can I add that I wasn't telling you how to suck eggs. smile

No chocs for me this year. While I might enjoy chocolate as an occasional treat I have never bought it except for women.

Happywanderer · The Master

No easter eggs for me this year either, did have some hot cross buns though.

Cruising Granny · Guru

I couldn't even find an appetising looking hot cross bun to sink my dentures into. Bugger!!!
Anyway, they'll be cheaper this week so I'll see if I can find some then.

Now about this missing wallet, that's where a "man bag" would be handy Doug. I don't know about the other girls, but I can just grab my handbag knowing everything I need is in there.
I have to admit I don't have a partner or teenage kids around. I have found an empty purse in the days before ATM's. I went shopping and my bloke went to the pub. The kids just went out. Now that made me cranky! Really @##@ cranky!

Dougwe · Chief one feather

"Man Bag" Ha Ha Ha, no way not at all never never never ever. My Step Daughter was going to get me one and I told her the same thing the same way.

Just quietly though, sometimes I do use one of those green bags, that way it looks like I am looking after the environment. Maybe that's a cheats "Man Bag".

Pejay · Guru

Man bag? What man bag? Many years ago when we went to America, I could not work out why I had a sore shoulder, weighed my handbag at LA airport - had my answer, quite a lot of the 'stuff' in it was either my 10 yr old daughters or my husbands!!! Got rid of the husband!!! The daughter at the moment is not much better!!!! Think Pete (#2 hubby) might have to run away again ie. hit the road again!

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Thanks wombat, that must be your credit card in it too, thanks for that, I can use that for sure, thanks again.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Nothing wrong with a "manbag" Dougwe - some of the manliest men I know use them. Women should encourage their man to use one - that way you don't get your handbag weighed down with wallets, phones, keys, etc, etc.

Cruising Granny · Guru

It could be disguised as a small back pack. Some use the b u m bag belt thing which works well for some.
I just don't know how you blokes keep your pants up when you have those fat wallets hanging in the bum pocket.
Maybe I need to find a bloke with a really heavy wallet. Nah!

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I never had a fat wallet Chrissy, the other half was always emptying it. biggrin

Cruising Granny · Guru

Well, you should have kept your pants up before the wallet was empty.
So how does that attraction begin, and end? We meet 'em, we see something special in 'em, put the beer or wine gogles on, and mentally undress 'em, and then before you know it, "You're in love."
Where does it go wrong?

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Cruising Granny wrote:
Well, you should have kept your pants up before the wallet was empty.
So how does that attraction begin, and end? We meet 'em, we see something special in 'em, put the beer or wine gogles on, and mentally undress 'em, and then before you know it, "You're in love."
Where does it go wrong?

Where does it go wrong?

when they find the bloody wallet biggrin biggrin biggrin

johnq · Guru

The catwalk presentations -the models and the bag designs and colours- really do set the man bag apart as tres gay. The designers' preferences in life?

A fair test might be to list what a carrier might have to put in his little over shoulder fashion statement. Maybe the girl friend might start to wonder about that lip balm, diary, tissues and paraphernalia. Then again she probably is carrying a wallet.

Rip and Rosie · Guru

johnq wrote:
The catwalk presentations -the models and the bag designs and colours- really do set the man bag apart as tres gay. The designers' preferences in life?

A fair test might be to list what a carrier might have to put in his little over shoulder fashion statement. Maybe the girl friend might start to wonder about that lip balm, diary, tissues and paraphernalia. Then again she probably is carrying a wallet.

hum..... little bit of gender bias showing?

Most women carry a wallet of some kind, either in a bag, pocket or just in the hand.

"Real" men don't......

Lots of men use "cosmetics" and lots carry bags.

johnq · Guru

Rip and Rosie wrote:
johnq wrote:
The catwalk presentations -the models and the bag designs and colours- really do set the man bag apart as tres gay. The designers' preferences in life?

A fair test might be to list what a carrier might have to put in his little over shoulder fashion statement. Maybe the girl friend might start to wonder about that lip balm, diary, tissues and paraphernalia. Then again she probably is carrying a wallet.
hum..... little bit of gender bias showing?
Most women carry a wallet of some kind, either in a bag, pocket or just in the hand.
"Real" men don't......
Lots of men use "cosmetics" and lots carry bags.

It was a lighthearted post.

However I am not convinced that lots of men use cosmetics and carry man bags. biggrin

KFT · Guru

my MANBAG is full of tools and test equipment but then I dont call it a man bag its a TOOLBAG

I dont use cosmetics either unless you consider zinc cream on my nose cosmetic after all it probably improves my "look"

LOL

frank

-- Edited by KFT on Thursday 12th of April 2012 05:50:04 PM

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I would have trouble finding a man bag to go with my natural complexion anyway, it wouldn't match, can't have it clashing. biggrin

jules47 · The Happy Helper

The only colour for a manbag is black in my opinion - as all us girls know, black goes with anything!!!!!

Rip and Rosie · Guru

I agree, basic black goes with anything.

I also once worked with a woman who was in an inter-racial marriage and she reckoned "once you try black you never go back" - not sure if she meant her bag or shoes or something else.