It’s my dirty little secret that I LIKE Spam. I know it’s very Politically Correct to shudder when it’s mentioned as a food, so I made a Spam dish for a Halloween potluck once… but lots of folks in my small rural town like Spam, so it didn’t have the desired effect.

Made a delicious Spam dish for another potluck in a big city. A friend came up and complimented me on the dish, said she ate 2 helpings, wanted the recipe… but when she found out it used Spam, she turned green and nearly bolted for the bathroom. ROTFLMAO

If I’d made the dish out of organic free-range kielbasa, it’d have tasted the same, but been culturally acceptable.

What the mind can do….

I really can’t imagine any recipe using it, let alone one for every day of the year – the mind boggles!

pity one can’t eat ‘net spam… LOL

But now I wonder about the illegitimate comments… =o)
{{joking}}

Oh and congratulations! Your comment was the 500th legitimate comment on the blog!

James

Yes, I can also sound quite knowledgeable about something I actually know very little about, and I’ve occasionally been caught out.

What is even more distressing in a way is when I’m not found out and people take my word as authoritative and act on it when all it really was was my reasoning on the matter, maybe coupled with a tiny bit of info.

I just want to remind them to do their own thinking, not ride on my brain’s coattails. It’s not like my life is such a bang-up success. Gah!

I hear you loud and clear on this. I also tend to feel that my version of events is right, and that everyone else must be wrong.

This tends to express itself in areas where it shouldn’t too – I can talk at length about something that I’m really not that knowledgeable on, yet make it sound like I know it in detail. Of course I’ve come unstuck at times doing this, which is very embarrassing.

Your experience of anxiety and conflict sounds very much like my own. You have my sympathy if you are suffering with at at the moment. It’s a horrible thing, and so frequently out of control.

James

I’m more naturally an ‘I’m right and everyone that disagrees is an idiot’ Aspie… working on that attitude. {{sigh}}

It’s just that MY reasoning makes so much sense! LOL

I think I probably need some more therapist time to work on anxiety issues – I don’t really have a concept of a happy place to fall back on.

My goodness – you really do come from a huge family. That must have caused a lot of tensions. Your description of the panic that arguments caused in you is almost exactly the same as the feeling that I get in similar situations as well.

It’s horrid, and I can see the lack of sense in it. The argument isn’t with me, and yet I feel this powerful panic – just as though I was involved.

As per my reply to Squillo above, I think there is an article brewing about trouble dealing with and understanding powerful emotion, that stems from this sort of reaction. Will be interesting to see how the article ends up writing itself.