Yes, us roast beefs enjoy yorkshire pud with other things sometimes too, we even have it as a dessert... so please do not fret about your chicken and yorkshire pud combo.

The 41 thing, it was just my way of saying that I don't consider myself to be particularly limited in experience. Don't worry about it...

Good to know, I wouldn't want to serve up the wrong thing. The pud worked out great and was delicious, I used a cupcake tray. I've tried to make one big pud before and it was exactly as you said ... soft and squishy in the middle. I need more practice!

I tend to go for the free-range chickens, and like to support local independent butchers and grocers where I can, makes me sleep a little better at night :-)

Agreed on the goose fat ... I cooked a goose for Christmas and the potatoes my oh my c'est magnifique! (up)

Actually I disagree! Keep yorkshires for roast beef only, it's our heritage as Brits - don't sully our culinary identity!

Anything but read the essay I've just picked up which is in pt. 9 font: 2000 words of it :-(

Too late Mary quite contrary :p

Don't worry I did it proud, they were huge and golden, with a hollow centre in which to hold a nice pool of piping hot gravy.

Ok new topic:

What is bullying?

I say bullying is repeated behaviour which is percieved as such by the recipient of it: if the recipient has told the bully they feel this way, then the bully is, indeed, a bully because they are repeating a behaviour in the knowledge that it hurts another person, either without concern for the damage they are causing, or because they enjoy the feeling of hurting someone.

As for motive: I think bullies are attention seekers who are not socially adept enough in their normal day to day life to get their human contact needs met, so they seek to produce extreme reactions in others in order to feel affirmed.

Perhaps you mean cyber-bullying.

"Bully" is quite well defined in the dictionary already, I think.

No I meant bullying, I don't see a difference, to me, bullying is bullying; plus, I think you will find that different people have different bench-marks for this, no matter what the dictionary says. But if you want we can develop this:

My hypothesis: cyber-bullying can be equally as damaging as bullying outside of the net:

I'll certainly agree on that Eska, but given the last week of my life I'm not sure I want to get too involved in this particular debate! If a person's comments on a forum are persistently and unneccessarily viscious, aggressive and unpleasant, and cause the targeted poster to experience extreme distress over a period of time, and even symptoms of depression requiring medical attention- yes, I think that is bullying. I don't really draw much of a distinction between bullying and cyberbullying- I'm not sure how useful or relevant that distinction is. That is my opinion given recent events, obviously others will disagree (as we well know!!). Best, KB

Well I tend to take the meaning of words from the dictionary. :p

OK I'm being facetious.

Of course, I will concede that as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, bullying is in the mind of the bullied.