Official Match Thread S32.R15, Royals v. Bears [Season 32 Heritage Round] – Round 15, Gold City-Las Vegas at Golden Throne

[MWPP]

They were a pretty skeevy looking set of toilets, so it was probably just that. Even when I was living back at home for a while as an adult, I never once went inside that toilet block again.

I can relate in a couple of ways. I‘m in that boat at the moment - living back at home as an adult , at least for the next few months. Our local shopping centre was the site of a horrific tragedy (rape /murder of a young girl in a disabled toilet) years ago. I have avoided all bathrooms at that shopping centre ever since .

 

[MWPP]

Someone who eats their fruit with cutlery, now that is a person with class.

It’s the only way to eat fruit salad… and kiwis are best eaten with a spoon too. Close enough?

 

[MWPP]

I only do that if it's as a "dessert" (the inverted commas because obviously, fruit on its own is NOT a dessert).

I consider fruit a dessert , but it’s not in the same league as CakeEater
Fruit and yoghurt is a much better dessert than fruit alone though

 

[Electronic_Renaissance]

1) Yep. I also get annoyed when the seat is left up, or if the toilet paper has run out but isn’t replaced. Having a double dispenser has helped but hasn’t entirely solved the problem
2) People Eg teachers liking their finger to turn a page. Gross.
(also why didn’t cutlery make an appearance for you haha?)

Cutlery will make an appearance soon enough. I give you my personal guarantee, and I don't do that often.

Yes, licking your fingers when turning a page, disgusting. You can get some rubber thimble thing that can help you turn pages of you want. I've had a few teachers use them in the past.

Also, people who turn pages in glossy books incorrectly. It leaves those little moon crease that ruin the pages. Do it to your own damn books, not mine!! My Grandad was big on that, he showed me how to turn pages correctly.

Toilet paper situation. Had that the other day at Kings Park. Had to go through a couple of cubicles before I found one with paper.

 

[I Dont Care]

I was probably 10 or 11 when something kind-of similar happened to me. I had gotten off the train and really needed the toilet, so went down the way to a set of public toilets next to the train line. My mum had always warned me about not using that particular set of toiles (I'm not even sure why those ones and not others), so I looked around before I went in and noticed about 20 metres behind me was a guy walking down the hill that looked really suss. I can't quite recall what it was about him, but it freaked the crap out of me and I walked in and then out of the toilet block immediately. About halfway back to the station, I looked behind me again and the guy was following me back up the hill. So I picked up my pace and headed for the bus stop next to the station and thankfully there was a bus just sitting there, so I jumped on without even knowing where it was going. For the next minute or so, the guy stood at the bus stop with his hand down his pants looking at me through the window. I ended up miles away from home, but was just so relieved to be the hell away from him.

Trains. I was 18 or so and waiting for a train when this bloke started trying to convince me to come to his place and he'll cook me dinner. He wasn't that big and smelt like a brewery and in hindsight I figured I could have knocked him senseless easily, but I remember that I felt weak and helpless and scared...very scared. If he'd just been someone trying to steal from me or something I would have defended myself, but someone trying to groom you just petrifies. I remember saying all this bullshit like my mates were coming to catch the train with me etc. just to get him to leave. In the end he made me memorise his phone number...several times...and after I promised, several times I would call him, he left. I always remember how defenceless and weak kneed I felt and alone, which was out of character for me and wonder if that is why these things happen to so many so often

 

[Smartys Power]

We have a lime tree that flowers all year round. Bloody limes on the ground everywhere

Add some cucumber and just pretend it’s passionfruit.

 

[I Dont Care]

It’s the only way to eat fruit salad… and kiwis are best eaten with a spoon too. Close enough?

But...aren't you a Kiwi?

 

[MC Bad Genius]

20 questions. Has this person recently died?

No, not recently.

18 questions left ...

This person:
- is NOT Sanka from Cool Runnings
- did NOT represent New South Wales in the short lived 80s game show It's A Knockout
- did NOT die recently

 

[MWPP]

Also, people who turn pages in glossy books incorrectly. It leaves those little moon crease that ruin the pages. Do it to your own damn books, not mine!! My Grandad was big on that, he showed me how to turn pages correctly.

Toilet paper situation. Had that the other day at Kings Park. Had to go through a couple of cubicles before I found one with paper

Monsters! Your granddad was a great man. Books deserve respect.

I avoid public toilets as much as possible, and the toilet paper issue is just one of the reasons why. Luckily work has resulted in an iron bladder of sorts . When it’s unavoidable Eg out for more than 4 odd hours I go in with tissues .

Also that guarantee means a lot!

 

[I Dont Care]

No, not recently.

18 questions left ...

This person:
- is NOT Sanka from Cool Runnings
- did NOT represent New South Wales in the short lived 80s game show It's A Knockout
- did NOT die recently

Is it...me? I do fit the criteria

 

[MWPP]

But...aren't you a Kiwi?

I nearly picked kiwi as my fruit of choice - also works with the bear/koala analogy. But decided that I’m a kiwi (small), but also a bear (larger and fiercer ) so pineapple worked better

 

[MWPP]

No, not recently.

18 questions left ...

This person:
- is NOT Sanka from Cool Runnings
- did NOT represent New South Wales in the short lived 80s game show It's A Knockout
- did NOT die recently

Has a first name which begins with the first half of the alphabet ?

 

[MC Bad Genius]

Has a first name which begins with the first half of the alphabet ?

No-one has ever asked that kind of question before, but yes, in fact, they do.

17 questions left ...

This person:
- is NOT Sanka from Cool Runnings
- did NOT represent New South Wales in the short lived 80s game show It's A Knockout
- did NOT die recently
- DOES have a first name which begins with a letter in the first half of the alphabet

 

[Electronic_Renaissance]

I can relate in a couple of ways. I‘m in that boat at the moment - living back at home as an adult , at least for the next few months. Our local shopping centre was the site of a horrific tragedy (rape /murder of a young girl in a disabled toilet) years ago. I have avoided all bathrooms at that shopping centre ever since .

I remember that one. It seems everytime these things happen the perpetrator has prior form.

Protect the guilty, what sort of system is that?

 

[TheTick]

Someone who eats their fruit with cutlery, now that is a person with class.

Let it never be said that I'm anything but a renaissance man.

I only do that if it's as a "dessert" (the inverted commas because obviously, fruit on its own is NOT a dessert).

In keeping with the theme of the last week, "Fruit is nature's candy". This one's for tony

and kiwis are best eaten with a spoon too.

Separating the meat from the bone without a knife is tough going though.

 

[tony]

In keeping with the theme of the last week, "Fruit is nature's candy". This one's for tony

I have never been a fan of fruit, just give me some pasta and I am set.

 

[Electronic_Renaissance]

TheTick and MWPP what sort of spoon do you use to eat your kiwi fruit?

I find a dessert spoon too large. I've seen some plastic kiwi fruit spoons around but I don't eat with plastic.

I use a tea spoon.

Also who would even eat fruit salad with their hands?

 

[MWPP]

TheTick and MWPP what sort of spoon do you use to eat your kiwi fruit?

I find a dessert spoon too large. I've seen to plastic kiwi fruit spoons around but I don't eat with plastic.

I use a tea spoon.

Also who would even eat fruit salad with their hands?

I use a teaspoon too. Or a coffee spoon.
Or the freebie yellow kiwi spoons that fit in a kiwi box .
If I’m using a tea or coffee spoon, the handle is useful for cutting the kiwi fruit in half (otherwise on the kiwi spoon the jagged edge helps with that)

 

[I Dont Care]

TheTick and MWPP what sort of spoon do you use to eat your kiwi fruit?

I find a dessert spoon too large. I've seen to plastic kiwi fruit spoons around but I don't eat with plastic.

I use a tea spoon.

Also who would even eat fruit salad with their hands?

I've heard most Kiwi's love a good spooning

 

[MWPP]

Electronic_Renaissance
-another cutlery related thing which annoys me is the double dipping of a knife into butter /Nutella /jam /any spread after it has already been used to spread over the bread , thereby contaminating it with crumbs
Clean the knife , or use another one, or use the back of it once cleaned

 

[I Dont Care]

I use a teaspoon too. Or a coffee spoon.
Or the freebie yellow kiwi spoons that fit in a kiwi box .
If I’m using a tea or coffee spoon, the handle is useful for cutting the kiwi fruit in half (otherwise on the kiwi spoon the jagged edge helps with that)

On the subject of spoons, I notice it is quite difficult to get soup spoons these days. I prefer them to desert spoons as desert spoons

 

[MC Bad Genius]

TheTick and MWPP what sort of spoon do you use to eat your kiwi fruit?

I find a dessert spoon too large. I've seen to plastic kiwi fruit spoons around but I don't eat with plastic.

I use a tea spoon.

Also who would even eat fruit salad with their hands?

Not fruit salad, but a pub up here (very much pre-covid) had a share dessert called "Jelly Wrestling" and it was a massive plate with jelly, ice cream, wafers and the menu literally said "and more". There was no cutlery, but it came with plastic gloves to wear. So maybe you could just use gloves to eat your kiwifruit?

 

[I Dont Care]

Electronic_Renaissance
-another cutlery related thing which annoys me is the double dipping of a knife into butter /Nutella /jam /any spread after it has already been used to spread over the bread , thereby contaminating it with crumbs
Clean the knife , or use another one, or use the back of it once cleaned

Yes, I'm always growling myself for doing that...but luckily I don't hold a grudge

 

[MC Bad Genius]

Electronic_Renaissance
-another cutlery related thing which annoys me is the double dipping of a knife into butter /Nutella /jam /any spread after it has already been used to spread over the bread , thereby contaminating it with crumbs
Clean the knife , or use another one, or use the back of it once cleaned

Even worse is when people cross-contaminate on a cheese board. Get your blue cheese knife the hell away from my triple cream brie, thank you very much.

On the subject of spoons, I notice it is quite difficult to get soup spoons these days. I prefer them to desert spoons as desert spoons

Teaspoons are the only spoons for dessert.

 

[TheTick]

TheTick and MWPP what sort of spoon do you use to eat your kiwi fruit?

I find a dessert spoon too large. I've seen to plastic kiwi fruit spoons around but I don't eat with plastic.

I use a tea spoon.

Also who would even eat fruit salad with their hands?

Depends on the fruit. Spooning a banana is a decision one can regret making.
You should be fine with a dessert spoon though. You don't HAVE to fill it up and eat the entire thing at once. You are allowed to take little bite size chunks.