Frying Blind

Blind foody, talking everything cooking and food related.

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@fesshole Maybe she rumbled you and wanted to join you for a Nap or whatever else came naturally!

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@MikScarlet To be fair,
having worked at the BBC previously and interacting with many journalist colleagues, given the subjects he regularly speaks about, he should be researching a whole lot more before opening his mouth.
I've never liked his style, always found him to be a tosser!

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@AmiLouWeevil Hope you also have an amazing holiday!

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@AmiLouWeevil It’s totally mental!
we are becoming a Nanny state!

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@AmiLouWeevil Ouch!
those are the kind of cut which seem to make it impossible to read Braille, or, do anything with said thumb.
hope its not to painful!

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Love this reply!

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@TiceRichard I'm in a reform council area and the first thing they did was mess up social care

Children with special needs were literally hit 1st by the massive incompetence of Reform shysters

You have a reputation and it's well deserved, try behaving yourself for once you odious miscreants

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@RobertJenrick Why invite Nigel?
he's not even an MP!

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Lovely StirFry Pork and Veg a few evenings ago.

Pork Belly, cut into chunks and cooked off in a wok before adding Ginger, Chili,, Peppers, Chinese veg, Onions, Bamboo shoots and a drizzling of teriyaki sauce.
Throw in a bit of Cumin, cook for a few more mins
job done!

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@AmiLouWeevil Love a bit of Greggs!

Steak bake + sausage rolls for me though.

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@Nigel_Farage Do please stop your wining Nigel!
its becoming boring now!
nobody's listening any more!

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Thinks i'm gonna have to make a lovely Lamb curry over the weekend!

Now,
to decide,
do I hob cook the meat and sauce, or oven cook it on a really slow heat, so as to make it tender.

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@AmiLouWeevil Hope you enjoyed the Food, Wine and company.

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@lady_valor_07 awful drunk!

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@AmiLouWeevil Definitely!
100 % agree with you on this!

I hope spain win on Sunday!
Argentina are a dirty underhand team and deserve to be smashed out of the final!

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@AmiLouWeevil That was a messy scrappy game!

I thought we'd cracked it when we went 1 up, but, sadly, wasn't to be.

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That Pig in blanket was an absolute banger!

lots of peper and other herbs.

will definitely get that again!

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@AmiLouWeevil Wow!

that's certainly living the dream!

Surprised France got knocked out!
Spain seem a dangerous team!

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@100glitterstars Exactly this!

Andy as PM just seems really underhand and messed up!
being a cheeky chappy from the north aint gonna cut it!

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@northernMPR Yup,
certainly am!
woke late this morning!

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Today, my lunch concists of;

1 Ham salad tiger bap,
1 Eg Egg mayo tiger bap, one Cornish, pasty, and one pig in blanket.

Food of the gods!

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My grandma has been catfishing scammers for six months and she's weirdly good at it.

Okay so my grandma is 74 and lives alone since my grandpa died. We got her an iPad last year so she could FaceTime with the grandkids and she's become dangerously online.

She got one of those typical scam messages like two months ago. The "Hey beautiful, I'm a soldier stationed overseas, let's get to know each other" type thing. We've all told her about these scams.

But instead of blocking him, she decided to "play along and waste his time so he can't scam real victims."

Her words.

So she's been talking to "Raymond," who claims to be a 58 year-old Army medic stationed in Syria (red flag central). But my grandma has created an entire fake persona. She told him her name is Carolyn (it's Janet), she's 62 (she's 74), and she owns a "successful cupcake business" (she's retired from accounting and once burned brownies so bad we had to replace the pan).

She sends him stock photos of cupcakes from Google Images. He sends her clearly stolen photos of some random handsome dude in fatigues.

Here's where it gets weird: she's actually doing research. She watches YouTube videos about common scam tactics. She's in a Facebook group about scambaiting. She has a NOTEBOOK where she tracks details of their conversations so she doesn't slip up.

"Raymond" recently tried to move to the "I need money for a phone to call you" phase and my grandma strung him along for THREE WEEKS with excuses. "Oh the bank was closed." "My account is frozen, something about taxes." "I sent it but maybe it went to the wrong place?"

She's never sent him a cent, obviously. She's just wasting his time.

The family is divided on this. My mom thinks it's hilarious. My aunt thinks grandma's losing it and this is early dementia (it's not, she's sharp as ever). My uncle thinks she's going to accidentally get doxxed.

But grandma is having the time of her life. She's started messing with two other scammers. One thinks she's a wealthy widow in Miami. Another thinks she's a former pageant queen.

She showed me her notebook last week and it's incredibly detailed. Different backstories, different names, relationship timelines. She's put more effort into this than I put into my actual job.

I asked her why she doesn't just block them and she said, "Every minute they're talking to me is a minute they're not stealing some poor lonely person's retirement money."

Which is kind of sweet? In a chaotic way?

Anyway "Raymond" is getting frustrated because she won't send money and keeps changing the subject to cupcake recipes. I think he's about to give up.

Grandma's already got her eye on a new scammer who claims to be a widowed oil rig worker. She's workshopping a new persona. Thinking about being a "former Vegas showgirl."

I've stopped trying to talk her out of it. This is her retirement hobby now.