DadsCafe: YouCanBrewYourOwnWay🎵💙🇺🇦😷

@liseymacd Today I 'fought back'...tradie put rubbish from next door in my bin and tried to smoothe talk his way , took me for a fool. I gave the rubbish back to him eventually when he was back at work indoors. The bit that really narked me was being taken for a fool...

Oh boy, did I wake up angry today! The good part is that I’m putting a stop to a few things that I’ve been putting up with for waaaaay too long. Ends today. I only wish I could do something about the innocent people getting hammered by the war-mongering criminal peodo-bros.

@LouiseWeebe Sting in that tail....

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, it means nobody else liked them, set them free again.

@johnnieego @alexandrakuri 30+ year food marketer:from my experience people prefer tastes they're used to, eg mayo country preferences vary from 'taste no oil' to 'like rancid oil' profile. Plenty of other examples like sweetness in fruit yogurts,portion sizes also play a surprising role...

@alexandrakuri Former director general of the uk confectionary federation (and former father in-law) told me that the taste is now artificially created to create the same outcome of what was dairy travelling huge distances across the US and so the chocolate always tasting off. Still shit.

@liseymacd I feel this too and hate being restricted , especially by health issues..never mind the 'champagne tastes lemonade budgets'..

Travel is for me like a fish moving water through gills. I’ve never been in one place as much as in the last few years. I enjoy wherever I am, for sure. But I was built to travel. Watching, listening, learning, connecting. It feeds my soul and I need to keep moving.

@dereklwalker @FinanceDirCFO I agree with the spirit of this point , but ..as an ex ( shitty?) client this in extremis this becomes a potential agency filibustering ploy, I've been seen this weaponised. I won't be naming names, statute of limitations ....

@FinanceDirCFO You are so right. However those in power want or need things to be efficient because we failed to figure out how to drive profitability.

I honestly do not remember any creative I've ever worked with saying, "you know what would help me do my job better - more processes, meetings and check-ins." Not a one. So, who felt that we were working so inefficiently that we needed more processes? It sure wasn't creatives.

@johnnieego @pipterino

@pipterino Roll the little fucker up in it and chuck off a bridge.

A child vommed all over our living room carpet on Saturday. Spent hours cleaning up but there’s a lingering smell. How do you get rid of that?

@achillghost Quite so.

The different meaning of “quite” in American vs British English is also upsetting

@bottomlineibd @symprove Hope you get to feeling better soon.

After 15 years of #IBD remission - the last 5 without meds - I think my body is calling time on it all. I say this because of mild rectal bleeding this last month. I started @symprove and the bleeding has stopped. Is that enough? I doubt it - but we'll see at my scope soon.

@rorysutherland Focus and priority status within a portfolio are often the key to survival for legacy niche brands ...

Why can't they sell the brand to someone else? Plenty of entrpreneurs/canny marketers would love to try reviving it. And it's not as though it poses a threat to the rest of your anchovy-spread-based portfolio. Or else Fortnum & Mason could buy it. Cult brands like this, as Waitrose knows, are of disproportionate value to retailers. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/1…

@mrdipeshashah @dereklwalker Thought they left one item though ( apart from 'fries) in UK? Interesting though and goes beyond McD, plant based foods have apparently caught a cold..

@dereklwalker In the UK it was

So McDonalds have stopped all vegetarian food

@liseymacd @LucyGoBag I have dusted off my videos of Dad's Army and am now at peak readiness...

@LucyGoBag I’m very much on it too. Gen X in the house! 😂

Speak for yourself!

@DougGarnett @jonostrower Early demo version of 'Satisfaction' by the Rolling Stones.

@jonostrower I particularly likes the discussion of comms problem. "We have no joy on sat phone." Love NASA discussions.

“We are stable one, four green crew members.” ✅✅✅✅

@campbellclaret That first generation Renault Twingo though...

Tree of the Day

@BernardJansen I'm struggling with that scoring scale, I think you need at least one more Nothing in the mid range somewhere for the undecided amongst us...

What’s the difference between the following: A) Jobless B) Freelancer C) Founder D) Fractional

@SharonGChiara @bruceclarkprof @andrewceverett @FinanceDirCFO @alicesalisburyj @DougGarnett @MoveBravely @Mechani_Kong @ajwillshire @liseymacd @ramirezreyes @dave_wakeman @Phillip_Oakley @grightford @guy_herbert @content_grinder @KBallsays @atgarone @TomLewis_CPI @panoptika @GrumpyAgencyGuy @seanmfdineen @mrdipeshashah @Simon83 @thatAlanCh @Giles_Edwards @LMPD @BinetLes Nightmare week....espresso machine gone for servicing,reduced to sniffing bags of coffeeand howling at the gods . I actually have a spare/old machine but cannot lift stuff anymore and healthy offspring is at a coffee festival and away for another week

@bruceclarkprof @andrewceverett @FinanceDirCFO @alicesalisburyj @DougGarnett @MoveBravely @Mechani_Kong @ajwillshire @liseymacd @ramirezreyes @dave_wakeman @Phillip_Oakley @grightford @guy_herbert @Runsforcoffee1 @content_grinder @KBallsays @atgarone @TomLewis_CPI @panoptika @GrumpyAgencyGuy @seanmfdineen @mrdipeshashah @Simon83 @thatAlanCh @Giles_Edwards @LMPD @BinetLes Happy Friday pub goers I've had a weird week 😵‍💫meeting timings going askew, is there a full moon? 😓moving hard core (to help my lovely husband) 😌a podcast recording that went well, what a relief, after the meeting issues Happy weekend all

Happy Friday, folks. The pub is open. We’ve been having some problems with the thread again so I'm doing a relaunch. I’m narrowing the list to our long-standing /frequent contributors to make it more manageable. Several patrons are not on Twitter anymore. New list follows.

@dave_wakeman @bruceclarkprof @andrewceverett @SharonGChiara @FinanceDirCFO @alicesalisburyj @DougGarnett @MoveBravely @Mechani_Kong @ajwillshire @liseymacd @ramirezreyes @Phillip_Oakley @grightford @guy_herbert @content_grinder @KBallsays @atgarone @TomLewis_CPI @panoptika @GrumpyAgencyGuy @seanmfdineen @mrdipeshashah @Simon83 @thatAlanCh @Giles_Edwards @LMPD @BinetLes Not an Olympic sport but I fondly remember a food truck from my study year in France called "Marius ,king of chips" #Carolomacerien

@bruceclarkprof @andrewceverett @SharonGChiara @FinanceDirCFO @alicesalisburyj @DougGarnett @MoveBravely @Mechani_Kong @ajwillshire @liseymacd @ramirezreyes @Phillip_Oakley @grightford @guy_herbert @Runsforcoffee1 @content_grinder @KBallsays @atgarone @TomLewis_CPI @panoptika @GrumpyAgencyGuy @seanmfdineen @mrdipeshashah @Simon83 @thatAlanCh @Giles_Edwards @LMPD @BinetLes Bruce...as the man who the BBC called, "The King of Tickets," my advice to you is wait.

@BernardJansen Don't ask how Bernard,ask why🤭

When people say to me, "How can you say that?" I never know how to respond because, well, I just did "say that". Anycase, I maintain my view: *Your logo looks crap *Your website is a sewer *Your sales materials smell funny

@dereklwalker As an ex brandmarketer I can assure you I was always amazed how everyone in the boardroom was a marketing ninja irrespective of their functional area....

I give up, you win. Let's require all creatives to place all their work in editable, shared documents because everyone is creative. Since we are doing this, I need all other departments to do the same - all briefs, budgets, strategies, and so on need to be shared and editable.

@MikeyFox Apple sauce with mine please

Valid buttie format: hot roast pork, stuffing, crackling, roast spuds, gravy. Bosh!

@DiaryofaSickGrl Yes, homemade broth ideally as more nutritious, I boil carcass from cooked roast chicken for 30minutes. Pasta also tasty cooked in broth..

Does anyone make their rice with chicken broth instead of water? Is it good? Bland?