Random Thoughts

[Kurt Cocaine]

Doing the weekly shopping and before I left my wife asked me to pick her up sombre cereal.  I asked her what she wanted and she said,  ah sure whatever.  I'm rambling through the cereal aisle and think, I should pick her up a box of all bran. Imagine the disappointment! Nothing says I love you like a snow shovel loaded with all bran fucked into the head. Wandering around the shop laughing to myself at the image, like a total fucking muppet.

You should have got her some (c)rye flakes...

[Eoin McLove]

Stupid predictive text.  It always gives me sombre for some, on for in and dearth for dearth (see!). Cuntish.

[ochoill]

All Bran is miserable.  To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids.  Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold.  Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.

[Caomhaoin]

Crunchy nut corn flakes, ah yes.

I gave a best mans speech using an anecdote about that cereal to embarrass the groom.

[mugz]

All Bran is miserable.  To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids.  Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold.  Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.

golden grahams, special k red berries

ricicles are sorely missed

[mugz]

Crunchy nut corn flakes, ah yes.

I gave a best mans speech using an anecdote about that cereal to embarrass the groom.

do tell

[Caomhaoin]

It won't be as good in text but I'll give it a go later when I come back from me shtroll.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

#BLACKMETALLIVESMATTER

(Was surprised not to instantly find a meme of this when it popped into my head there.)

[Ducky]

All Bran is miserable.  To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids.  Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold.  Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.

Even as a kid most cereals were shite unless they came with a free Monster in My Pocket... still ate it because that's all there was.

[Mower Liberation Front]

All Bran is miserable.  To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids.  Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold.  Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.

So what if they're marketed for kids, Trix is still the king of cereals.

[mugz]

All Bran is miserable.  To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids.  Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold.  Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.

Even as a kid most cereals were shite unless they came with a free Monster in My Pocket... still ate it because that's all there was.

I'd disagree here. The 80s and 90s were the fresh years for cereals and breakfast products generally. In Ireland at least. Who can forget the novelty of burnt mouth due to Poptart? Or reddybrek with jam?

Shredded wheat with sliced banana and cold milk is a 90s classic.

[Ducky]

Stupid predictive text.  It always gives me sombre for some, on for in and dearth for dearth (see!). Cuntish.

I once texted an ex asking if she had any Crunch Cunt Cornflakes in the gaff... Turns out I use the word 'cunt' in text a lot.

[Scáthach]

In how many movies does Tom Cruise play a chap called Jack?

[Thorn]

In how many movies does Tom Cruise play a chap called Jack?

hehe yeah, it often seemed to be the go to name for the quietly understated macho man, reluctant hero type in Hollywood for ages, probably identifies as Jackie now though

[mugz]

Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology[1]) is a neologism introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx. As a philosophical concept, it refers to the return or persistence of elements from the past, as in the manner of a ghost. It has since been invoked in fields such as visual arts, philosophy, electronic music, politics, fiction and literary criticism.[2]

Derrida used the term to refer to the atemporal nature of Marxism and its tendency to "haunt Western society from beyond the grave."[3] It describes a situation of temporal and ontological disjunction in which presence is replaced by a deferred non-origin.[2] The concept is derived from his deconstructive method, in which any attempt to locate the origin of identity or history must inevitably find itself dependent on an always-already existing set of linguistic conditions.

I knew there was something at the back of my mind about old things coming back again, and the pandemic period really brought it to the front of the debate, for me at least.