more useless than the wasp?

[dellzeqq]

TheClaud has eloquently called in to question the wasp's raison d'etre. And Paul Narramore has unwittingly called to mind the cycling equivalent of the wasp - the Brooks saddle. But what other being, bit of stuff or event fails the use/ornament test?

I give you

Oyster mushrooms.
Bicester
Clarkson
Privet
The DfT
Family christmas
Hilaire Belloc

take it away............

 

[jonesy]

You are unfair to the poor wasp, which performs a sterling service eating its way through thousands of garden pests. I admit I struggle with the others, though Bicester may soon provide a railway connection for Oxford to the Chiltern line (Bicester not really being a destination in itself...)

 

[Fab Foodie]

Ohhhh.... [hackles raised mode/]

Sorry dellzeqq, but Brooks are a National treasure in my book, Privit is the hedgerow the Victorian terraces of my youth and nothing else evokes playing cowboy's and indians in the street and building dens, hide and seek as much as Privet, Hillaire Belloc taught me to be good and contemplate verse, so a good thing IMO.

Family Christmas depends on whose family...

 

[Bollo]

Passenger Focus

 

[threebikesmcginty]

V8 vegetable juice
Bindweed (lovely flower mind)
Rap 'music'
James Murdoch

 

[theclaud]

TheClaud has eloquently called in to question the wasp's raison d'etre. And Paul Narramore has unwittingly called to mind the cycling equivalent of the wasp - the Brooks saddle. But what other being, bit of stuff or event fails the use/ornament test?

I give you

Oyster mushrooms.
Bicester
Clarkson
Privet
The DfT
Family christmas
Hilaire Belloc

take it away............

I'm with you on most of these, but it wasn't me - I have been a stout defender of the point of wasps. Not a popular position to take. But you've really blown it if Ruth reads this - as if she's not furious enough with you about mudguards and racks - and now the Brooks! MacBludgeon's fantasies of your violent end will be as nothing in comparison...

 

[wafflycat]

Oi! I like privet. I have a stretch of privet hedge. I like it. Easy to look after, easy to trim, excellent privacy & windbreak, plus food for these beautiful creatures as well as for birds.

On the other hand, I see no logical rationale for the following:-

Clarkson
Martin
Cycle farcilities
SunnyD
Pot Noodle
Tomato juice
aubergines
tofu
rice milk
puy lentils
rollmop herrings
Simon Cowell
Gordon Brown
Tony Blair
John Redwood
Nick Griffin (and any other neo-Nazi twerp supporting the BNP)
Eccles cakes

 

[threebikesmcginty]

On the other hand, I see no logical rationale for the following:-

Clarkson
Martin
Cycle farcilities
SunnyD
Pot Noodle
Tomato juice
aubergines
tofu
rice milk
puy lentils
rollmop herrings
Simon Cowell
Gordon Brown
Tony Blair
John Redwood
Nick Griffin (and any other neo-Nazi twerp supporting the BNP)
Eccles cakes

You must be joking - The Eccles cake is a wonder to behold - nice to scoff too with a cup of tea!!

 

[theclaud]

Dawn Porter
Spaghetti Servers - those crenellated spoony things. WTF?
Sun-dried tomatoes
Adshels
Winnersh

 

[TheDoctor]

Oi! I like privet. I have a stretch of privet hedge. I like it. Easy to look after, easy to trim, excellent privacy & windbreak, plus food for these beautiful creatures as well as for birds.

On the other hand, I see no logical rationale for the following:-

Clarkson
Martin
Cycle farcilities
SunnyD
Pot Noodle
Tomato juice
aubergines
tofu
rice milk
puy lentils
rollmop herrings
Simon Cowell
Gordon Brown
Tony Blair
John Redwood
Nick Griffin (and any other neo-Nazi twerp supporting the BNP)
Eccles cakes

My second will be calling on you forthwith!!!!

 

[theclaud]

Oi! I like privet. I have a stretch of privet hedge. I like it. Easy to look after, easy to trim, excellent privacy & windbreak, plus food for these beautiful creatures as well as for birds.

On the other hand, I see no logical rationale for the following:-

Clarkson
Martin
Cycle farcilities
SunnyD
Pot Noodle
Tomato juice
aubergines
tofu
rice milk
puy lentils
rollmop herrings
Simon Cowell
Gordon Brown
Tony Blair
John Redwood
Nick Griffin (and any other neo-Nazi twerp supporting the BNP)
Eccles cakes

I love hawk moths, but the smell of privet is nauseating - you can have a delightful fragrance, and Elephant Hawk Moths instead if you replace it with honeysuckle.

And I must stick up for the glorious puy lentil, as well as the aubergine and the rollmop. But in a nice tie-in with Uncle Mort's nominations, it might have been Nigel Slater who noted that it's not surprising the British don't like aubergines - they probably tried to boil them. And as for Tomato Juice, how on earth are you going to make a Bloody Mary without it?

 

[TheDoctor]

I love hawk moths, but the smell of privet is nauseating - you can have a delightful fragrance, and Elephant Hawk Moths instead if you replace it with honeysuckle.

And I must stick up for the glorious puy lentil, as well as the aubergine and the rollmop. But in a nice tie-in with Uncle Mort's nominations, it might have been Nigel Slater who noted that it's not surprising the British don't like aubergines - they probably tried to boil them. And as for Tomato Juice, how on earth are you going to make a Bloody Mary without it?

Waste of vodka IMHO.
And Worcester sauce, for that matter.

 

[Crackle]

marmite
The lean mean grilling machine
wafflemakers
P&L
plug in steamers
Most of the tat from Ikea

 

[theclaud]

Waste of vodka IMHO.
And Worcester sauce, for that matter.

Blimey. Heretics everywhere. Well, I drink gallons of tomato juice and mix a mean Bloody Mary (the dry sherry is the thing), and I there's little doubt that I will live for ever as a result. So there you have it!

 

[theclaud]

Anyway, more useless stuff. Muffins. The horrible oily sort they put blueberries or chocolate chips in, not the thing at the bottom of eggs benedict.
And, whilst we're on hedging, it's a predictable one - Leyland Cypress.