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SaveFerris
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17 Feb 2018, 7:56 pm

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I can't see how anyone would find that to be "ready", in any manner.

Perhaps she was joking? Or being sarcastic? It's the only options that make sense to me.


My GF so wants to steal the keyboard off me , right now. Thanks for agreeing with me but I think we might be in the minority :)


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17 Feb 2018, 8:13 pm

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My GF so wants to steal the keyboard off me , right now. Thanks for agreeing with me but I think we might be in the minority :)


:lol: I usually am when it comes to speech and communication. Being literal is what I'm accused of most often in my personal life... :roll: though usually loved ones find it "amusing and adorable".


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17 Feb 2018, 9:11 pm

SaveFerris wrote:
LittleCoyoteKat wrote:
I can't see how anyone would find that to be "ready", in any manner.

Perhaps she was joking? Or being sarcastic? It's the only options that make sense to me.


My GF so wants to steal the keyboard off me , right now. Thanks for agreeing with me but I think we might be in the minority :)

Curiosity is a thing. Maybe letting her have it can be a fun little experiment.


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17 Feb 2018, 9:24 pm

"Ready" means its hot out of the oven and READY to eat. End of story.

No pendantry there.

Even if you're a slacker being prodded with hints that's still what "your pizza is ready" means.

She coulda modified the statement by saying "its ready for you to put it in the oven".



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17 Feb 2018, 9:40 pm

Nah. You want pedantic? THIS is pedantic:

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So let me make sure I understand? She takes a frozen pizza out of the fridge, in its box. Sets it on the counter, in its box. Leaves the kitchen, comes into the room where you are. Then and only then asks you if you want pizza?

:scratch:

And fortunately for this rapidly-defrosting disc, you do want pizza; whereupon she says, Good, thou canst styck yt in ye Ovenne, 'tis ready?

Which of course it's not; whereupon you find it in its box on the counter in the kitchen?

And wonder what the actual eff.

My personal pedantry gets all knotted up at the point where the pizza comes out of the freezer in the first place. And goes onto the counter without any prior communication to you about it.

(1) I mean, is this the only thing you guys ever eat? It would make sense then.
(2) But if it isn't, why on earth pull something out of the freezer without first checking if you want it?
(3) And if she wanted some of it, why not just set it up and put it in the oven and tell you she was heating up a pizza, if you wanted half?
(4) Edit in: ooh, wait, I'm not done! What was she planning to do in the event you said "no"? Just leave it there? :scratch:

^^ See now, THIS is pedantic.

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17 Feb 2018, 9:58 pm

I think pedantic is when you get wound up about someone being pedantic.


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17 Feb 2018, 10:12 pm

I think what happened is that SF missed his cue.
"Do you want pizza?" Meant "You are cooking pizza."
When he walked off, "Put the pizza in the oven. It's all ready for you." Was a reminder that he was neglecting his duties as chief pizza catcher and killer.


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18 Feb 2018, 10:25 am

SentientPotato wrote:
SaveFerris wrote:
LittleCoyoteKat wrote:
I can't see how anyone would find that to be "ready", in any manner.

Perhaps she was joking? Or being sarcastic? It's the only options that make sense to me.


My GF so wants to steal the keyboard off me , right now. Thanks for agreeing with me but I think we might be in the minority :)

Curiosity is a thing. Maybe letting her have it can be a fun little experiment.


O.K , I don't think this is going to be fun but lets experiment , the following is being dictated by the dictator I mean Mrs Ferris , she has dyslexia so this will be the best way for you to read it.

Mrs Ferris wrote:

Firstly I asked him if he was hungry , he replied yes.
I said 'mini pizza?' as I was looking in the freezer , yes he replied
I took the pizza box into the kitchen and turned the oven on to warm up ( it takes around 10 minutes ).
I came back into the room and sat down.
Mr Ferris got up around 10 minutes later and I asked where he was going.
He said to the toilet. I said will you be long i.e. No. 1 or 2
He said No 1 - not long.
I said , while you are up will you put the pizza in, it's all ready - by this I meant , the oven was up to temperature and the pizza box was on the counter. I did have every intention of doing this job myself and rather wish I had now - the pedantic fool.
I don't really see the issue here and shan't be modifying my language after 17 years together.


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18 Feb 2018, 11:43 am

It sounds like a good deal to me... I can't find jack-sh*t in the freezer.

.... and another thing... why do they put the cooking instructions on the bottom of the pizza box? If you turn it upside down all the cheese and stuff falls off the pizza, so you have to hold it over your head and crick your neck while looking at the tiny writing...


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18 Feb 2018, 12:47 pm

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It sounds like a good deal to me... I can't find jack-sh*t in the freezer.


That sounds like what Mrs Ferris calls a man-look - scan the area and if it's not visible it doesn't exist , she also says thanks.

Trueno wrote:
.... and another thing... why do they put the cooking instructions on the bottom of the pizza box? If you turn it upside down all the cheese and stuff falls off the pizza, so you have to hold it over your head and crick your neck while looking at the tiny writing...


and don't forget while your craning your neck you are also blocking out the light which is not easy for us lesser sighted mortals to read in.


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18 Feb 2018, 12:59 pm

Ah yes, a man-look.
I stand in the middle of the room, flap my arms and then shrug my shoulders....
It works every time...


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18 Feb 2018, 1:19 pm

Two pages about cooking a pizza.
This is why the internet was created.


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18 Feb 2018, 2:00 pm

Raleigh wrote:
Two pages about cooking a pizza.
This is why the internet was created.


It's pizza-gate in my house.

The last scandal was meat-gate and I discussed this with my CBT therapist who laughed


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18 Feb 2018, 2:02 pm

Trueno wrote:
Ah yes, a man-look.
I stand in the middle of the room, flap my arms and then shrug my shoulders....
It works every time...


I'll scream it's not fecking here , who moved it only for my GF to pick up one item to reveal where it was hiding :roll:


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18 Feb 2018, 3:46 pm

SaveFerris wrote:
Raleigh wrote:
Two pages about cooking a pizza.
This is why the internet was created.


It's pizza-gate in my house.

The last scandal was meat-gate and I discussed this with my CBT therapist who laughed

The biggest crime here is that you were eating frozen pizza. :eew:


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18 Feb 2018, 5:28 pm

Raleigh wrote:
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Raleigh wrote:
Two pages about cooking a pizza.
This is why the internet was created.


It's pizza-gate in my house.

The last scandal was meat-gate and I discussed this with my CBT therapist who laughed

The biggest crime here is that you were eating frozen pizza. :eew:


Are you a food snob?


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