Cavey wrote:
Gah. You haven't tried a buttermilk dressing Waldorf salad with a Pimms, in the garden with friends, on a perfect, warm, late May afternoon, lovely crunchy celery and all? Then you haven't lived. Everything in its place etc.
Put it this way, it sure as hell beats the crap out of oven chips and microwave rice pouches in front of the TV (or indeed faux McMuffins for that matter), that's for sure.
Cavey, that you have lovely food and take pride and pleasure in this, I don't think anybody doubts, but you are perhaps starting to come across as a bit obsessive in your knocking of other people's choices. This isn't necessarily odd in itself, apart from the fact that you have already had a knock at another forumite for obsessing (though I could see but two mentions at that point from him, perhaps a greater number from yourself) about your chillies and their origin.
You posted to deride Hearthly's meal, which I doubt he went to the trouble to put together just for the sake of offending your sensibilities. Yes, he mocked you a little, but your mentioning of his class and 'Farmfoods' seemed to be judgemental and, worse, looking to cause either hurt or a backlash. But nobody rose to that, just carried on with their discussion.
And that's where it all falls down. You wouldn't let go that nobody would raise to it, so you restate your derision of microwave rice and oven chips, or whatever. Then someone engages (Myp) and you find your opposition. You start with a 'yawn' because you are so bored of the argument that you've been pushing for already, to show how, though you are striving for it, it is beneath you and not worth your time. Then, as you finally have your opposition, you feel justified to unleash calling people's dinners and breakfasts 'shit' and saying you wouldn't feed that 'shit' to your dogs, to prove that those people's choices are not just beneath you, but beneath the diet of your pets, all the while under some belief that people are obsessing about your chillies. By and large you don't have a problem with people living off McDonalds and microwave chips... but in this instance you DO have enough of a problem to say that their food is so shit you wouldn't give it to your dogs. Why only take this view on this occasion?
Here, four pages on, after the conversation has moved on you are so spoiling for a reason to go over again you have to try and bring everything back around to oven chips and breakfast muffins. Why? You seem to wind yourself up more than anyone else. Some days it seems like you just enjoy being angry as it gives a false justification for writing nasty things.
If you are a nice guy in real life you can be just as nice here. The internet doesn't have to be full of anger and nastiness.