Penny Forum: You Talk, We Listen
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Fun things to do in bed
Sleeping, eating a big sandwich, watching tv…
The best thing about being married is that you can eat crisps in bed, safe in the knowledge you won’t get kicked out. With that in mind, we’ve been pondering on just what makes the best breakfast in bed. Tell us how it’s done. But keep it clean, eh?
“Sushi. And I don’t mean that euphemistically, I mean sushi.”
Running your own paid bar
Staggered member misterwills has some contentious plans about running a licensed bar at his wedding at which guests will pay for their drinks.
Some of us think this is a fantastic idea, while others are picking some fairly sensible holes in it, such as the difficulty with keeping tabs on a business where all your customers are your mates, and their perception of your motives, as well as the possibility that our groom may have underestimated the logistics of the operation. So what do you think?
“You are either a philanthropistic legend who is doing it for the team, or you’re an evil profiteering fat cat.”
You dancing? You asking?
We’re on a hunt for the most humiliating trot you can force the groom to fox on his stag night. Ricky Gervais’ disco fit from The Office gets a nod, as does the legendary ‘Tonto’ dance from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
We’re pretty sure you lot can come up with something better. Then film the groom doing it and send it to us so we can slap it on our facebook page for all the world to see. There’s a bag of chips in it for ya!
“At my stag do we spent a lot of time in a terrible club doing country dancing and making tunnels that people would skip through, while we shouted “TUNNEL!” – great days.”
Binkie
Not the circus clown, but a rather misjudged choice of wedding blogger on the part of The Telegraph in the form of Binkie West, an over-privileged bride to be who would struggle to engage any audience not well versed in jokes about upper-middle class people.
What ensues is a vapid and vacuous piece of fluff about Binkie’s enjoyment of massages and being squiffy, featuring a thrilling advert for hair extensions and a glimmer of social awareness as Binkie sympathises with those most common of wedding day quandaries; how to recover from the exhaustion of a hen night, how to cope with the stress of a guest wishing to buy you something personal (the trick, it seems, is to buy it yourself and let them pay) and how to fit your friends onto the guest list when most of the seats have been taken up by mummy and daddy.
The Telegraph has since disowned the piece, but it remains preserved on the internet for your incredulity. Indeed, so dense is this blog in the enormity of its failure to acknowledge the current economic and social climate, that I have begun to wonder if it wasn’t a hoax.
So, is this what you want from a bridal blog?
“This is in the “News” section of the Telegraph site. Well stop the vitual presses – a quite posh couple who aren’t quite as posh as the Royal Family are getting married. Never mind the NZ earthquake or the Lybia crisis – people need to know about Binkie.”
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