Ancaster

How stupid do you have to be to go on a popular TV show and not think this kind of thing will be discovered?

The same reason some people care about bromance couples. It's a TV show, we take our kicks where we can.

I've been watching The Great British Sewing Bee and loving it. Every week they're given different challenges, sometimes with a bit of a twist, but always basically a sewing challenge, when the best piece of clothing wins and the worst goes home. It is refreshingly straightforward and enjoyable and only frustrating when someone you like goes home. At least you understand why they went home, and it's not because they messed up on some incomprehensible and often downright idiotic challenge. What a difference.

Call me too literal, but I thought it was stupid that they had to make burgers without ground meat and then most of them just ground their own meat and that was okay. Oh, and ground up meat and fish together sounds disgusting.

Clumsiness. I'm expecting a delivery and since I live on the fifth floor, I need to get notifications on my phone, which has unreliable coverage and sometimes goes to voice mail instead of ringing as a call. My phone just pinged, so I leapt up in case it was the delivery guys leaving a message, not wanting to risk them leaving before I got downstairs. Of course, my laptop shot off my lap, straight down onto my toe, which now hurts like hell, elevated or otherwise, won't bend and is bright red. I'm used to my elbows and shins being bruised long after I've forgotten what I bumped, but now I have to worry about toes? Naturally it was a cold call, and since I answered, they now have a phone number belonging to a live person to harass and with a number to sell on. Double peeve.

I got horribly lost in Northern California last summer because there was no cell service and the written instructions I'd been sent (no paper map) were woefully inadequate/wrong. Not to mention people's cell phone batteries running down.

I pretty much hated the whole episode, from the incomprehensible challenge, to the slobby judge, to the horrible food, to Kristen's nasty outfit (I love Kristen and I'm all for androgyny, but the shoulders, colour, and length were all wrong). Plus I just dislike Amanda for no good reason and that makes me feel like a bad person.

I quite like Tom but he has terrible table manners. It often bothers me that he leans down to the plate/fork rather than bringing the fork up to his mouth.

Who/what is Team BAF? I'm with you - Marilyn for the win. Yes, it was unfortunate that Leticia's breasts took up all the space her daughter needed.

I imagine him saying "don't even bother trying to learn, you won't be able to do it because you're useless at everything". I don't particularly like her, but he's verbally abusive. Vinny: "Her thoughts are saying 'You're not good enough'." No Vinny, You're saying 'You're not good enough." Constantly. Babe. Every week I've forgotten there's an Yvonne and Melissa.

I'm just starting the new season. So far I like Hope and the breast cancer survivor. Oh, and Brin. I wish there had been a clip of John Torode telling that rather extra guy to never ever put a pickled cherry in a dessert again.

Oh, thank you! (As far as I'm concerned, that just validates my comment since whenever I've seen/read anything from them and the insufferable Christopher Kimball it has always been way too fussy, complicated and time-consuming for me.)

Just because Ina and ATK (whoever that is) say peel beets before roasting (or anything else for that matter) doesn't mean you have to!

Can someone explain what the "mine alliance" was that has been referred to? Thanks.

Plus they're bad for us on an individual level and the world in general.