Comments on: Being a real-life Princess: You’re someone to be reckoned with: now make me a sandwich

By: Bill Posters

Bill Posters — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:21:53 +0000

“Breaking news” is code for “whatever’s coming off the AAP wire”.

So you can blame AAP for this one, rather than Fairfax. Or alternatively in addition to Fairfax, as news it certainly isn’t.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:47:36 +0000

Hee hee. Nice closing.

I’m not a great cook, either. I mean, I can do it, but I’d prefer not to. I must be a defective woman, too, then.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:30:07 +0000

I always assumed she couldn’t cook. Too skinny.

By: TimT

TimT — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:43:36 +0000

It's great when the MSM disappear up their own clacker. Whether it's figuring out that a major cause of emissions is emissions, or seriously arguing that art shouldn't be judged on its qualities or virtues, or simply presenting a mundane, unimportant story as a breaking headline of international import - 'MARY CAN'T COOK OMG WTF!!!!' - they really are making fools of themselves nowadays. Fabulous post, Helen!

By: Oz Ozzie

Oz Ozzie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:44:59 +0000

I’m disappointed in you, Helen. I was sure that being a princess meant that you got to live out the fantasy of doing all the cooking while the prince sat on the lounge and farted while watching the… oh hang on, I’ve got my stereotypes mixed up?

As for us, we decided that cleaning was the first to go, way before cooking. Getting up in the middle of the night would go too, way before cooking. I guess we just both like cooking

Anyway, given a choice between a woman who could whup up an omelet or whup your ass, which man wouldn’t choose the second? Omelets are easy (and extra good with more mushrooms

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:42:10 +0000

Sadly, no. That would have been the night Boychild had gone on a sleepover with a friend. Otherwise there would have been much nose-holding, pantomime vomiting, etc.

By: Anodyne

Anodyne — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:58:41 +0000

wot Shula said, ditto.
All those moronic magazines are evil.

You have children who will eat eggplant?
Good on YOU.

By: shula

shula — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:21:21 +0000

Dude, if I got to be a princess, cooking would be the first thing to go.

Just GIVE me an excuse.

By: Ozymandias

Ozymandias — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:40:12 +0000

My wife couldn’t cook. Couldn’t wash up, either. But shit, couldshe dance! Haven’t we moved on a bit? Just a little bit? That whole celebrity-mag genre of ‘journalism’ is just so conservative. Thank e-god for blogs like this, in which real women are given a real voice!

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:39:57 +0000

That’s right, I only bought that eggplant so that I could put it on a square white platter, Donna Hay-style, to look gorgeous.
Or ram up some glossy journo’s* arse. Either-or.

*Of course, “journo” is stretching a point, as all the articles I googled basically retail Fred’s interview with a bit of OMG!! spin.