Do we really want any new members here, lowering the tone?

[Malc]

I've always regarded the Beau Peep site as a little bolt hole of sanity, an oasis of calm in the tossing seas of controversy.

I like everyone on here, even those I disagree with, and I've decided I don't want anyone else coming in and stinking up the vibe. Well, that's my preference, but I realize that the site would benefit with more people as long as they're just like us.

With that in mind I am volunteering to vet any new applicants on behalf of the rest of you. I think I've got a good handle on what we're all looking for. I'm prepared to put considerable effort into interviewing people, and I have training in subtle interrogation techniques that have, hitherto, remained criminally under-utilized.

In a quite clinical pretense at inclusion, I'd like to ask my fellow forum members if they have any particular questions they would like me to put?

[The Peepmaster]

Mince says that "there is also no way anyone can register an account with the forum or send an email to ask for an account".

I've asked him if there's any way we can rectify that, so I'll wait and see what he says.

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

My first few months on this place were a godsend, and I mean it. Discovering this place and the tremendous humour of all those on it, were a tonic to me at a bit of a low time. I've been saddened at the way it's tailed off, and I'm one of the culprits of that too. Work and university seem to be pretty much my complete life at present. But that won't last.

I would love to see more interaction on the site in whatever way it manifests itself. However, I still very much consider myself a newbie on here, and will simply go with the majority view. It's your site and I'm humbled to be a part of it.

It's a good idea Malc, and I may apply again just to be interviewed by yourself. Could you ask me where I get my dashing good looks from?   

[Malc]

"Dashing" as in "leaving at a rapid rate"?

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Sadly, yes. I reckon I could be down to "drop dead gorgeous" within a few short years.

Sad times.

[Roger Kettle]

Malc, could you ask them a question about Italian waiters with giant pepper-grinders---should they be allowed? I've always been intimidated by these olive-skinned, snake-hipped food-carriers as they grind their enormous spice mills at my table. I could, of course, stop going to Italian restaurants but Mrs K insists. She enjoys the pepper so much in these places that she has it on her coffee and after-dinner mint.

[Diane CBPFC]

Acheww!

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

   

[Malc]

Worst Italian restaurant I ever went to was in Saltcoats in the 80s. Probably the first Italian restaurant to open there. I asked for Spaghetti Carbonara and even though it was proper spaghetti, it was served all chopped into little lengths, like you'd get out of a tin.

They explained that they'd had so many complaints about regular length spaghetti, that they had taken to serving it chopped into tiny bits for the folks who'd been brought up on Heinz.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Fantastic! Sounds like the best Italian restaurant to me. 

[The Peepmaster]

Worst Italian restaurant I ever went to was in Saltcoats in the 80s. Probably the first Italian restaurant to open there. I asked for Spaghetti Carbonara and even though it was proper spaghetti, it was served all chopped into little lengths, like you'd get out of a tin.

They explained that they'd had so many complaints about regular length spaghetti, that they had taken to serving it chopped into tiny bits for the folks who'd been brought up on Heinz.

Shame it wasn't alphabetti spaghetti. You could have left a succinct message on the plate for the chef.

[Diane CBPFC]

It is still a mystery to me how spaghetti can live in a can for 5 years without turning to mush.

People have tried to explain...