Tea? (Part 2)

[Arch]

Yeah, can we have the cast off useless table for the tea room?

I've been helping build a compost heap out of pallets today. My role was to lean against things to steady them while they were nailed together. And I managed to come away without being accidentally nailed to any of it.

And I've got 5 bottles of washing up liquid dregs to decant. At this rate, if I keep going, I'll soon have a flat full of washing up liquid. I'll be well in profit. As one of my colleagues said, ah well, it's something for your old age.... I may be penniless, and have no pension, but I'll never need to buy washing up liquid.

Tea?

 

[Speicher]

I've been helping build a compost heap out of pallets today. My role was to lean against things to steady them while they were nailed together. And I managed to come away without being accidentally nailed to any of it.

Tea?

That is the sort of role I end up with!

I am sure I could be trusted with a hammer and a chisel and a screwdriver.

 

[Arch]

Nah, I had a go at hammering one of the nails in, and hit my thumb. Safer to use me as a vice.

 

[Speicher]

I have to admit, it would not be wise for me to help while I was wearing shorts. My legs might be mistaken for tree trunks.

 

[Arch]

Nonsense.

Unless you have very realistic woodpecker tattoos?

 

[TheDoctor]

I'm sure that about eighty quids worth of Lego would be enough to make a table with!!!
Just got in from my first CTC ride of the year. I came second in the Pub Sprint, but I claim the moral victory as I was first up to the bar And I still had enough breath to order two pints and an oxygen tent...

 

[wafflycat]

Hurrah! Dolce has laid her first egg! Hurrah! It's a lovely little dinky thing too

 

[Arch]

Hooray for Dolce!

Poached? Scrambled? Fried?

 

[wafflycat]

The egg is only big enough for a small child if it's to be eaten on its own (the egg, not the child).

 

[Arch]

You could dress the child up as a soldier and dunk them...

All this talk of eggs, I may have to have some sort of egg based dinner tonight.

 

[Speicher]

Can I ask the citizens of Tea? a question about eggs?

I do not eat eggs in the form of yelllow and white shaped round things, they have to be strongly disguised in cakes, or biskits, or puddings. I will definitely not eat quiche lorraine, or bacon and egg pie. This is because I think of the them as "unborn" baby chickens. I also had a nasty dose of salmonella enterides (sp) (from eating omelette) which lasted many weeks, and that tends to put you off whatever caused it.

I can understand that some people do not eat meat or are vegan or whatever is their preference. What I cannot understand is people who call themselves vegetarians and then say they will eat eggs. Is it just me, or is that a contradiction?

 

[cookiemonster]

I don't think it's a contradiction as the eggs that you get in the supermarket are un-fertilized so, technically, not baby chicks and so, no contradiction.

BTW, today is my last day at work until Tuesday, the sun is going to shine, even up here in the frozen tundra of Aberdeenshire and I do believe many miles will be cycled over the next 4 days.

 

[wafflycat]

Emmmm... all eggs for sale as eggs in supermarkets are unfertilised. hens used for egg-laying purposes have been nowhere near a cockerel. Just as a human female doesn't need to have engaged in sexual intercourse to produce eggs every month... An egg for sale in a supermarket is most certainly not a fertilised egg.

 

[Arch]

I can understand that some people do not eat meat or are vegan or whatever is their preference. What I cannot understand is people who call themselves vegetarians and then say they will eat eggs. Is it just me, or is that a contradiction?

Vegetarians come in many colours. I bet lots of them wear silk, without a thought for the silk worm larvae boiled to harvest it (although it can be produced post hatching, it means re-spinning the broken fibres).

And then, there's the fish question....

But as the others say, a bought egg never was and never will be a baby chick. It's on the same moral ground as milk. (in fact, one could say a higher moral ground than milk, once you factor in the fate of bull dairy calves in a society that tends to shun veal. Except of course, there are the male chicks, so it equals out)

I've never met a rabid enough vegan to ask if they eat honey....

 

[Speicher]

Thank you all for that explanation. I did not know about the subtleties of unfertilised eggs not being an animal as such. It won't make any difference to me not liking them tho'. It is not usually a problem as very rarely are eggs the main course of meal, and if it is there is usually bread, salad and other things to compensate.

On a much lighter note, it is definitely


Spring here today