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Post by riotgrrl on Apr 1, 2011 21:39:07 GMT
I shall push ahead of you in the line to get off the train. I shall show you no respect., You have been warned. [/color] But the thing is, I always remain in my seat until everyone's got off the train. I never try to push my way to the front. Too much agro. No, I'd be there, still reading my Daily Mail, while you were standing up elbowing everyone out of the way.  [/quote] Well that's all fine and dandy, but then we'd lose each other. I'd be being all alpha and making sure I got off the train first. You'd be sitting in your seat reading the DAILY MAIL and how IT GIVES YOUC ANCER AND IT'S AN IMMIGRANT. And before you know it we'd be on the concourse at different times in different places and we'd never find each other again. It's a tragedy waiting to happen. |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 2, 2011 9:03:12 GMT
My local chip shop manages to make some of them crispy. Those are the only ones I eat. (When you say chips made at home, aubs, are you thinking hand-carved and a proper chip basket, or the freezer-to-oven sort?) Properly made, in a basket. Oven chips are a bit dry (I tend to put them in a frying pan with some hot oil for a couple of minutes afterwards: but they're still not right. I don't have them now anyway: renal diet  ). |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 2, 2011 11:39:42 GMT
[/color] But the thing is, I always remain in my seat until everyone's got off the train. I never try to push my way to the front. Too much agro. No, I'd be there, still reading my Daily Mail, while you were standing up elbowing everyone out of the way. [/quote] Well that's all fine and dandy, but then we'd lose each other. I'd be being all alpha and making sure I got off the train first. You'd be sitting in your seat reading the DAILY MAIL and how IT GIVES YOUC ANCER AND IT'S AN IMMIGRANT. And before you know it we'd be on the concourse at different times in different places and we'd never find each other again. It's a tragedy waiting to happen.[/quote] On the other hand, she could meet a nice DM reader like myself...I'd spot her across the carriage reading her DM, catch her eye and and say "those bally flipping immigrants causing turmoil in our green and pleasant land again!!!", and she would reply "It's PC gone maaaad I tell you!!!" Love at first rant. ;D AH |
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Post by Weyland on Apr 2, 2011 12:45:04 GMT
Well that's all fine and dandy, but then we'd lose each other. I'd be being all alpha and making sure I got off the train first. You'd be sitting in your seat reading the DAILY MAIL and how IT GIVES YOUC ANCER AND IT'S AN IMMIGRANT. And before you know it we'd be on the concourse at different times in different places and we'd never find each other again. It's a tragedy waiting to happen. On the other hand, she could meet a nice DM reader like myself...I'd spot her across the carriage reading her DM, catch her eye and and say "those bally flipping immigrants causing turmoil in our green and pleasant land again!!!", and she would reply "It's PC gone maaaad I tell you!!!" Love at first rant. ;D AH  And "Did you twig that Scotch bitch barging out. Fecking immigrants again!" |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 2, 2011 13:09:00 GMT
On the other hand, she could meet a nice DM reader like myself...I'd spot her across the carriage reading her DM, catch her eye and and say "those bally flipping immigrants causing turmoil in our green and pleasant land again!!!", and she would reply "It's PC gone maaaad I tell you!!!" Love at first rant. ;D AH And "Did you twig that Scotch bitch barging out. Fecking immigrants again!" Brilliant! ;D AH |
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Post by everso on Apr 2, 2011 14:50:59 GMT
Daily Mail readers are the new black.
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Post by aubrey on Apr 2, 2011 15:30:58 GMT
Don't tell Paul Dacre that. He'd have a fit.
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Post by everso on Apr 2, 2011 18:28:33 GMT
What a man! He knows how to run a newspaper and make its typeface interesting.
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Post by swl on Apr 3, 2011 10:36:31 GMT
Settle an argument:
salt & vinegar on chips - which goes first?
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Post by Weyland on Apr 3, 2011 10:43:12 GMT
Settle an argument: salt & vinegar on chips - which goes first? Good question. Vinegar, otherwise it would wash the salt off the top. That's a strict rule, just like pouring milk into your cup before the tea. |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 3, 2011 10:49:10 GMT
In a bag of chips, salt, so that the vinegar can wash some of it to the bottom.
You're fundamentally unsound on things like this, Weyland.
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Post by Weyland on Apr 3, 2011 10:50:08 GMT
I just remembered: both ferries I was on the other week had no salt on offer in the onboard caff. Just pepper, sauces, sweeteners, and milk. They'll give you some if you ask.
And the milk is now concealed in stupid tubes, just like the sauces and barely distinguishable from them. I had to go and ask the Philippino / Polish staff where it was. "Behind you, sir." Who TF thinks up these gormless packaging ideas?
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Post by Weyland on Apr 3, 2011 11:18:32 GMT
In a bag of chips, salt, so that the vinegar can wash some of it to the bottom. You're fundamentally unsound on things like this, Weyland. That's a serious statement, Aub. In any case, I wasn't talking about a bag of chips, which I never buy. I concede you may have a point there. Cross-thread Department: I was bumping the Art thread to draw attention to this Mystery Object on PhotoFit. We need your input. |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 3, 2011 11:59:22 GMT
You have a point when it's a plate of chips: vinegar first, there.
I'm not sure about where the red sauce should come, though.
Mayonnaise is easy: you just have a blob at the side.
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Post by Weyland on Apr 3, 2011 12:58:19 GMT
You have a point when it's a plate of chips: vinegar first, there. I'm not sure about where the red sauce should come, though. Mayonnaise is easy: you just have a blob at the side. Easy one for me. No mayo, no sauce. No salad cream. Bread and butter and a pot of tea, of course. Mushy peas if I feel like it. At the second-nearest pub — a mile away — they serve fish'n'chips with salad. The heat of the fish makes the lettuce like blotting paper. Should be in a separate bowl, as they do in Holland and Germany. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Apr 3, 2011 13:57:56 GMT
Settle an argument: salt & vinegar on chips - which goes first? Aubrey is correct. The vinegar goes on AFTER the salt in order to soak it up. |
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Post by Weyland on Apr 3, 2011 14:32:57 GMT
The vinegar goes on AFTER the salt in order to soak it up. That settles it. Vinegar first, unless it's a bag of chips. There's a Captain Aubrey on R4 right now. |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 3, 2011 15:21:17 GMT
Jack Aubrey, is that?
I once tried reading one of those books. At one point, where one bloke gives another bloke some gold coins, it said something like, he let a golden shower trickle into the man's hand. It was a really clumsy piece of overwriting.
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Post by Weyland on Apr 3, 2011 15:56:53 GMT
Jack Aubrey, is that? I once tried reading one of those books. At one point, where one bloke gives another bloke some gold coins, it said something like, he let a golden shower trickle into the man's hand. It was a really clumsy piece of overwriting. Yes, indeed. Didn't enjoy it a helluva lot. It's the new Classic Serial on R4. [Radio4Extra is looking good. (Replaced Radio7 on DAB last week.)] |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 3, 2011 19:27:55 GMT
Vinegar first, so the salt can stick to the chips.
AH
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