Don't you just cringe when....

[Bealman]

These are my wife's  rock cakes.... take your pick 

[joe cassidy]

Guess what happened 2 nights ago when eating some cheese on toast Not even pork crackling or toffee, just a nominally harmless , , oh maybe it was that slice of tomato on top wot dun it ?

A word of warning to our younger members living north of Watford - avoid pork scratchings like the plague. Otherwise you will have no back teeth left by the time you are 50.

I speak from experience 

Best regards


Joe

[Tom U]

Cringe would be the polite word for when you think you can navigate the room barefoot in the dark, and a table leg leaps out and whacks you on the end of your little toe    

[Zogbert Splod]

CRINGE You want try my wife's rock cakes {best used for rocks on layout}

I assume that the lady under discussion does not read the forum?   There is the potential for a good cringe right there if she does!!!

[MalcolmInN]

These are my wife's  rock cakes.... take your pick 

Errr, have I gone blind, or are they so dense that they have vanished into black holes from which not even light can escape ?

Once upon a time long long ago when I was young,
are you sitting comfey ? , ,
my wife baked a birthday cake for her mother and when we were due to set off to visit she put the cake on the floor just inside the front door, went back to attend something in the kitchen saying
"Can you take the cake round to the car "
" Yes " says I, ever ready to help.
Bent down to pick up said cake and,  and, and , yep you guessed , ,
arrrgggh! + other choice words and spent the next week in bed hardly able to move.
Lots of jokes over the years about heavy baking.

Goes in search of the medical thread NPN is about to create , ,

[fatso]

CRINGE You want try my wife's rock cakes {best used for rocks on layout}

I assume that the lady under discussion does not read the forum?   There is the potential for a good cringe right there if she does!!!

My partner is Portuguese and bakes amazing Portuguese cakes but English cakes well clay pigeon shots comes to mind   

[MalcolmInN]

Portuguese

I cringe when I think of the excuses I had to employ to avoid being fed lots of bacalao* and feijoada** when I was in Brazil (and amazed at some of the language differences between Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese ! )
But all the churrasco*** made up for it

Now if that doesnt bring his partner along to read this I dunno what will LOL! muwahhaa !

Edit,
to save all the googling 
* salt cod, ugh
** pigs tail stew, thrice ugh
*** BBQ beef steak, on swords stuck vertically in the ground near a big fire, ahhh that's better.

[fatso]

Portuguese

I cringe when I think of the excuses I had to employ to avoid being fed lots of bacalao and feijoada when I was in Brazil (and amazed at some of the language differences between Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese ! )
But all the churrasco made up for it

Now if that doesnt bring his partner along to read this I dunno what will LOL! muwahhaa !

"bacalao"? The spelling is bacalhau.
The Portuguese and the Brazilian feijoada are completely different.
And for your information in Portugal there are more than  100 recipes of bacalhau.  But for that you need to go to Portugal and not Brazil.
Com amigos como voces quem necessita de inimigos.
   

[MalcolmInN]

I'll take your word for it   was 4&1/2 decades ago and I had no incentive to remember its speelin anyway I plead alzheimers/insanity <delete as y'all think fit 

more than 100 you say, wow, , remind me why I should care 

  Keep your friends close and your enemies closer 

[fatso]

I'll take your word for it   was 4&1/2 decades ago and I had no incentive to remember its speelin anyway I plead alzheimers/insanity <delete as y'all think fit 

more than 100 you say, wow, , remind me why I should care 

  Keep your friends close and your enemies closer 

After 23 years of living with the boss I am still not fluent in Portuguese  so now the boss knows where I come to play lol

[Komata]

In respect of 'things dental'

When you bite down and on the 'Downward' stroke realise that something sharp has somehow just managed to insert itself under your bottom dental plate AND THERE I NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP THE 'BITE'!!!

Let's just say that 'pain' takes on a whole new dimension as a result...

Things ' Model railway': When you are carefully assembling a MicroTrains coupler and are just sliding the cover of the top. AND THE SPRING ESCAPES!!!! (especially as it is the only one you have left).

Anyone who has ever played 'hunt the springs' will know what follows...

While at Exhibitions:  After having spent weeks carefully (and lovingly) assembling a (for you) most-intricate and difficult model that is now your pride and joy, and some plonker comes along and proceeds to loudly critique your poor workmanship, choice of colours and all and everything about it, and then walks away... (There is ALWAYS an audience in such situations....).

[Newportnobby]

These are my wife's  rock cakes.... take your pick 

Errr, have I gone blind, or are they so dense that they have vanished into black holes from which not even light can escape ?

Once upon a time long long ago when I was young,
are you sitting comfey ? , ,
my wife baked a birthday cake for her mother and when we were due to set off to visit she put the cake on the floor just inside the front door, went back to attend something in the kitchen saying
"Can you take the cake round to the car "
" Yes " says I, ever ready to help.
Bent down to pick up said cake and,  and, and , yep you guessed , ,
arrrgggh! + other choice words and spent the next week in bed hardly able to move.
Lots of jokes over the years about heavy baking.

Goes in search of the medical thread NPN is about to create , ,

Must have been the heavy file inside the cake so as to spring your mother-in-law

[MalcolmInN]

  "bacalao"? The spelling is bacalhau.

Well actually I have an admission to make :
I could remember the phonetics  "bak-al-yeow" but not the spelling, and phonetics is not much good on google so I put in "salt cod portugal " and that is one wiki it came up with, so I'll now go hunting that Josie Wales character and tell him he got it wrong !

I am still not fluent in Portuguese

I never was either, could get by in shops and on the bus etc but not good in social and more refined company
On campus everything was in English and I couldnt gainay, after all they had a tame captive Brit to practice upon and they were about to go out into the world for their living !!! No contest, learning another lingo was fun for me (and of course being polite) but vital for them.

Then through lack of practice here (and not much used in Europe either ) I have forgotten nearly all of it.
The only use - when a French, German or Belgian would complain " you British, you cant learn another language" , , , heheee watch their face fall when they are engaged in conversation in Portuguese, oh the simple fun I did have

[steve836]

... you bite down on something and realise immediately you're going to need dental treatment for the tooth in question...

Aye, tell me about it ! 6months ago he said that he couldnt do any more with it and that the next time it would have to come out.
Guess what happened 2 nights ago when eating some cheese on toast Not even pork crackling or toffee, just a nominally harmless , , oh maybe it was that slice of tomato on top wot dun it ?

Dont you just cringe :
when you read yet again that perfectly good Drives have to be destroyed cos your data can always be recovered !
Just because the delete command doesnt, what an urban myth has grown up as a result.
The only good thing about that is that the old drive is probably two small to be of any use anyway !!

If I destroy my drive where am I supposed to park the car?

[Komata]

Steve836

That's  hard Sir, that's hard...