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From: Rowland McDonnell on 25 Jan 2010 03:56 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > >>But you've never tried good sprouts that *I* have selected, prepared, > >>and cooked. > > > > Consider all the sprouts you've had other than those special ones. > > > > Does just thinking about them make you feel sick? Would you rather > > miss the entire meal to avoid them? > > > > If not, you have no idea how disgusting some people find them. > > That's me. I have a hard time even being in the same _house_ as sprouts that > are being cooked. I don't care how good a quality they are or how they're > prepared, I simply find them absolutely disgusting. Sounds to me like you've got a mental health problem caused by bad feeding in your youth. Nothing to do with sprouts - your dislike of them is just a side-effect of the bad experiences you had with bad sprouts when younger. It's quite common, so I've observed. Nothing could now make you like something you identified as sprouts, no matter how delicious. I've done experiments on this kind of thing with different food, but I've failed to find a way to sneak sprouts into anything without it being bloody obvious there's sprouts in it. (actually, not true - it's just that since I did twig how to do that, I've withdrawn from society) Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 25 Jan 2010 04:00 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > On 2010-01-25, > > > If not, you have no idea how disgusting some people find them. > > > > That's me. I have a hard time even being in the same _house_ as > > sprouts that > > are being cooked. I don't care how good a quality they are or how > > they're > > prepared, I simply find them absolutely disgusting. > > AOL Yes, and I know *all about* the smells and the flavours that cause people to find sprouts disgusting. I can taste them myself, you see. Always have been able to. That means I can be sure I know how to deal with them. But of course you lot can't accept that, can you? Sprouts are just disgusting and you're sure of that, aren't you? NO, there's no way that someone who loves sprouts could possibly understand why we hate them so much, no, not at all. Nonsense! You're just screwed up by a bad upbringing in each case, and settled into middle aged bigotry not to mention a state of mind where you simply cannot possibly accept any proposition put forward by the evil Rowland of uk.comp.sys.mac. You lot are sad lonely people who have chosen to deprive themselves of good food and you're trying to convince yourselves that it's because you've got no choice on account of the food. Actually, you're just depriving yourself because you're all mental. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jim on 25 Jan 2010 04:12 On 2010-01-25, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> >> That's me. I have a hard time even being in the same _house_ as sprouts that >> are being cooked. I don't care how good a quality they are or how they're >> prepared, I simply find them absolutely disgusting. > > Sounds to me like you've got a mental health problem caused by bad > feeding in your youth. Nope. I just don't like sprouts. But then there's quite a lot of foodstuffs that I'm not fond of, sprouts are just the worst. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood." Malcolm Tucker, "The Thick of It"
From: T i m on 25 Jan 2010 04:25 On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:49:51 +0000, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >> >> >> Exactly. Dad would eat a plate of the things on their own, me, I'll >> >> force a couple down at Xmas but they still (and always have) tasted >> >> disgusting. >> > >> >That's explained by them being not the best sprouts and your dad not >> >being bothered by various bitter and sulpherous taste that are usually >> >found disgusting by youngsters. >> > >> >That's the usual reason. >> >> You would have thought then that over 47 years of eating then and >> being able to express my dislike (I'm now 53) I'd have been lucky and >> had one that was a nice one? > >Not at all - you know nothing about veg if you think that's how it >works. I neither think nor care how it works. I know how it tastes to me (something you can't possibly do and will never be able to do) and I know I don't like the taste of them and never have (along with some other foods of course). > >If you get your veg from the supermarket, you can expect most of it to >be foul muck. I have eaten my own organically grown ones. They taste the same (in that they were not 'nice'). Cooking them in something that masks or changes the flavour isn't the same topic as eating sprouts cooked the way anyone would cook sprouts or any traditional veg. Especially if that same may means that those who can stand (or even like) the taste of sprouts would suggest they were cooked perfectly. > >You're not interested in anything but making contrary posts to wind me >up - that behaviour of yours is despicable. Rolly Rolly Rolly. I've bothered to reply to this just to let you know YOU have no way of making the statements you have and being right. You are talking about the way someone who isn't you finds the taste of something and that fact now seems (you were doing ok up till then) to be as incomprehensible to you as the fact that we (I?) were just having a friendly discussion and I was not in any way being insulting (you may well have taken it that way but I promise you, no one outside your current mind set would have considered it so). Step back, look around you and see that the taste of Brussels (and some other foods) are well known to be a 'Marmite' thing, even when bought and prepared alongside all the other foods that the same people have no issues with. I really hope that helps and if it doesn't, please accept that there will be no further replies from me on the subject as that seems to be the best way to deal with you when you flip like this. Cheers, T i m
From: Richard Tobin on 25 Jan 2010 04:53
In article <1jcva6s.uuj9tiqyufttN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >But of course you lot can't accept that, can you? Sprouts are just >disgusting and you're sure of that, aren't you? They're disgusting to me. I'm sure some other people like them. You're the one who's insisting that you know what *I* would like. >Nonsense! You're just screwed up by a bad upbringing in each case, and >settled into middle aged bigotry not to mention a state of mind where >you simply cannot possibly accept any proposition put forward by the >evil Rowland of uk.comp.sys.mac. You will find that I have expressed my view of sprouts elsewhere, to other people. It's not about you. It's about the sprouts. -- Richard -- Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind. |