I really think the issue that people have with FSoG actually stems with how the author turned on her fan base - she had all of these people supporting her, and then essentially called them all a bunch of sexually frustrated idiots for reading twific. And then the suing over others using the term "fifty shades of..." - just very hypocritical.

I don't really like the Dom/Sub stuff, nor the S&M stuff. Doesn't matter to me if they know they are getting into it or not.  Just not my idea of a good read.  I also am not really into the public stuff that sometimes goes with it, for example, I started reading Mistaken Bondage by Savannavansmutsmut.  She writes some good stuff. But I didn't like the family involvement in everyone's sex lives and "public" sex.   

And, it's a to each her own.  I can understand wanting to read it, it's just not me. 

I'm in a smut group over on goodreads. Now I LOVE me a good dirty read, but it seems like just about everyone in the group reads the BDSM themed books, but me! I'll see them talking about some book or other, how good they are, and I try, I really do, but I can never get past the first time the woman is made to kneel at his feet and say call him "Sir" or"Master". I'm much better with the bondage and the spanking part than I am with the submission part.

No worries there - I enjoyed it too. I mean, I'll read anything (except autobiographies  ) and these were a nice easy read. They'll never win a Pulitzer but I read for entertainment and just want to switch off my brain when I read.

I really think the issue that people have with FSoG actually stems with how the author turned on her fan base - she had all of these people supporting her, and then essentially called them all a bunch of sexually frustrated idiots for reading twific. And then the suing over others using the term "fifty shades of..." - just very hypocritical.

I live vicariously through my reading - I would never actually engage in anything like this - I'm really very shy and most people would call me a prude.

Really.

LOL! I'm the same - except it makes me feel a little violent - "Just how far up your a** do you want your balls sir? Yes, that's what I thought!"

I LOVE eggnog - even to the point I was just eating eggnog ice cream 

Now see, on a hot Christmas day - a cold eggnog shake with rum or whatever (thinking amaretto would be really good in it) - yeah.  Sounds great 

Eggnog ice-cream??? Only in America.

You should try doing something normal with an egg - like putting it with pineapple and beetroot on a hamburger. Delish!!!

But I do love me some Brandy Custard at Christmas time - it's only in the shops for a few weeks and I have seen people stockpiling like it's the millennium!

I'll make you a deal - I will make Eggnog Icecream for Christmas if you try an Aussie Burger (seriously that's what they're called at Hungry Jack's, our version of Burger King) and they are the BEST!



You do have canned beetroot and pineapple rings over there, don't you? If so, whatever do you do with canned beetroot and pineapple rings if you don't put it on burgers???

Mmm. I love beetroot on my burgers, the pineapple and egg not so much. I just love beetroot full stop.

It's funny you simply call them beets. I remember confusing some Americans when I talked about pumpkin, in the US I'm led to believe that there is only one type, in Aus we call everything pumpkin, butternut, Kent or Jap, QLD blue, it's all called pumpkin down here.

At Christmas we don't have brandy custard, my grandma makes brandy butter (although she uses a number of different liqueurs and spirits in it). Talk about clogging your arteries. If you're going to have alcoholic custard my thoughts are why bother? Just drink Advocaat.

Yeah - I think you got the better end of that stick! I can't handle raw egg - even when I'm cracking an egg to cook, if any gets on my hands or I smell raw egg - blurgh! Be grateful I didn't challenge you with what I had for breakfast yesterday - toast, vegemite, cheese and beetroot. Yum!

My family eats a lot of beetroot (beets makes me think of the green leafy vegetable - silverbeet or perhaps you call it chard?) - to the point where I thought I was haemorrhaging once, until I remembered what I'd eaten the day before! Sorry - TMI!

We get the fresh beetroots and either roast or boil them. I also occasionally, when I'm going through a health kick, juice them too but I'd say most Aussies have still never had fresh beetroot - the canned stuff is pretty much a staple, but I'd guess that canned beetroot slices sell a lot more than whole canned beetroots - they're a bit fancy 

A family joke that someone always says when the beetroot gets put on the table (and you have to remember what "root" means in Australia)...

"You can't beat a root!" 

OK - now I'm off to find a recipe for egg nog ice-cream...