It’s hard being always right.
But I have to remember to feel compassion and crap for folks who aren’t as put together as I am.
Otherwise I’m just a jerk.
Just like this post makes me sound.
That is all.
Do you ever have this problem?
p.s. I’m totally judging this hobnob to be *delicious.*
p.p.s. Hold on to your hats and look forward to a truly exciting couple of weeks of posts. Try not to feel too dirty. Comment often. You know you want to.
Grumpy Rumblings (of the formerly untenured) 
July 24, 2011 at 6:32 am
I just wrote a long response that I couldn’t figure out how not to make me sound like elitist scum so I deleted it. I don’t remember hobknobs. Is this an actual cookie or made up? Why would we import beevy boviril and wheetabix and not this cookie? I think it’s a myth. Most british food is crap, although I’ve heard that london actually has some good food now but I haven’t spent time there in at least 10 years.Maybe there is more to UK cuisine than kidney pies and scotch eggs. Whenever I visited there, I’d always do indian or pakistani food. Yum.
July 24, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Yeah, curry is the way to go. We import weetabix? gah.
July 24, 2011 at 9:28 am
First Gen American – Yeah, if you haven’t been in the UK in the last 10 years, you’ve missed a cuisine revolution there, and it’s not confined to London, or even to high-end stuff (although that food is to *die* for). Now the UK is both snobby foodie heaven and a place where you can get good quality stuff at the cheaper levels, too, and not just Asian food. And if you’re living there, Waitrose and M&S have the best ready-made meals in the world. (Ready-made meals are fresh, not frozen, and just need heating up. Only down side is that their shelf life is only 3-4 days. But still, if you’re busy or you have a tiny kitchen or both, they’re awesome.) The UK is now a cornucopia of good food, even in its most provincial corners (and I’ve been to those) — it’s freakin’ *amazing*. The “British food is crap” cliche no longer applies.
But the hobnob has been around for years and I can attest to its greatness. The English have always done baked goods well, especially packaged biscuits. I love those damn things.
July 24, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I can second the bakery comment. I used to love tarts, the baked good that is. I wonder why loose women were called tarts over there.
Hurray for your food revolution. Thank god. You guys needed it badly. I lived there for a year and the only things I remembered eating fondly were the tarts, the curries and the jacket potato. The beer and pubs I truly miss.
July 25, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Because they’re likely to be consumed by the dozen?
July 24, 2011 at 9:29 am
And I hear you guys on needing to remind yourself not to be so judgmental. We all do, so don’t judge *yourself* too harshly!
July 24, 2011 at 9:35 am
I’m staying with my parents in Buenos Aires. They finished the coffee and forgot to tell us (me and husband). So this morning, I had to walk to the coffee house to buy whole bean coffee, in the worst possible mood. A waitress asks somebody how does kilos convert to pounds. I said automatically 9 kilos equals 20 pounds. A man drinking his coffee on a table starts arguing with me over that. Finally, I just look at him and said: “Listen, I live in the US, so I know. I do the calculation every day”. He says: “You are wrong. One pound equals 300 grams”. My answer: “You are wrong, it equals 450 grams”. I got my Ipod and showed him. It’s great to be right when you are asleep and grumpy.
July 24, 2011 at 12:17 pm
I’m sorry you had to deal with that without coffee! A pox on not having coffee when you need it.
July 24, 2011 at 10:54 am
I’m on hour two of chatting with my Quicken support (my file is corrupt)- I spent the first hour convincing him how right I was….I was right and now I’m right and grumpy…
July 24, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Oh man, I hate that. Yes, I DID try all the obvious things before I called tech support! Good luck…
July 24, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Though we are sure a lot of people don’t!
July 24, 2011 at 11:37 am
In addition to compassion, always remember “recall bias”. You aren’t always right. Although it is very possible that you are much righter than the average bear. It’s just that your brain is set up to nearly always forget about the occasional (inconsequential) moments of wrongness.
At least, that’s how I am.
July 24, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Nah, we at grumpy rumblings are just always right.
July 24, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Hobnobs are delicious. Particularly when they have chocolate on them. Yummmmm. Sometimes I can get them at Cost Plus. It is probably a good thing that I don’t shop at that store more often.
July 25, 2011 at 12:13 pm
I like your judgey mcjudgeypants style. It works.