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Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby AleisterCrowley » November 6th, 2018, 8:52 am

4) Blokes with shaved heads. For some reason, I find girls with very short haircuts attractive. For more obvious reasons, I don't find the male population with no hair attractive, apart from Vin Diesel or the Rock.

Some of us don't have a choice. If one is 'receding' anything longer than a number 4 looks odd. Unless you want us all to grow it long at the sides and do a 'comb over' ?!

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby tjh290633 » November 6th, 2018, 9:15 am

AleisterCrowley wrote:4) Blokes with shaved heads. For some reason, I find girls with very short haircuts attractive. For more obvious reasons, I don't find the male population with no hair attractive, apart from Vin Diesel or the Rock.

Some of us don't have a choice. If one is 'receding' anything longer than a number 4 looks odd. Unless you want us all to grow it long at the sides and do a 'comb over' ?!

Of course you have a choice. Nothing wrong with a fly's skating rink on top and a bit between there and your ears. That also insulates the bit not covered by your cap. You need some head covering and a shaved head needs protection from both sun and cold.

TJH

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby Dod101 » November 6th, 2018, 9:30 am

PrincessB obviously lives in a different world from me. The only thing that we seem to have in common in terms of dislikes is roundabouts and it is the so called mini roundabout that gets me (that is, those painted on the road) No one seems to treat them as roundabouts and most drivers simply drive straight over them. The result is that giving way to cars from the right is pointless and yet ignoring them is dangerous for the odd one that is determined to have his rights.

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby melonfool » November 6th, 2018, 9:51 am

How can a sauce be both heavy and have a thin texture?

Also, diesel cars are allowed because they exist. To ban them would result in loads having to be scrapped and those people having to create more car demand in the market. That would be an environmental nightmare as well as an economic one (except for car manufacturers, buy your shares now!).

I agree we should probably now ban new ones though.

Mel

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby Howyoudoin » November 6th, 2018, 9:53 am

PrincessB wrote:4) Blokes with shaved heads. For some reason, I find girls with very short haircuts attractive. For more obvious reasons, I don't find the male population with no hair attractive, apart from Vin Diesel or the Rock.



Surely there are less cryptic ways to 'come out'? ;)

Just about the only advantage of losing ones hair is that it is much easier and cheaper to maintain.

Surely most women prefer the shaved head look to the Max Wall look?

https://images.findagrave.com/photos250 ... 055600.gif


HYD

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby swill453 » November 6th, 2018, 9:56 am

Dod101 wrote:it is the so called mini roundabout that gets me (that is, those painted on the road) No one seems to treat them as roundabouts and most drivers simply drive straight over them.

This despite it being a specific offence to do so (one of the MUST NOT rules in the Highway Code).

Scott.

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby tjh290633 » November 6th, 2018, 10:08 am

swill453 wrote:
Dod101 wrote:it is the so called mini roundabout that gets me (that is, those painted on the road) No one seems to treat them as roundabouts and most drivers simply drive straight over them.

This despite it being a specific offence to do so (one of the MUST NOT rules in the Highway Code).

Scott.

Having just been to Canada, I think that miniroundabouts would be better replaced with "Stop 4 Ways", or the equivalent, where vehicles take it in turn to move, in our case clockwise round the junction.

TJH

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby redsturgeon » November 6th, 2018, 10:24 am

tjh290633 wrote:
swill453 wrote:
Dod101 wrote:it is the so called mini roundabout that gets me (that is, those painted on the road) No one seems to treat them as roundabouts and most drivers simply drive straight over them.

This despite it being a specific offence to do so (one of the MUST NOT rules in the Highway Code).

Scott.

Having just been to Canada, I think that miniroundabouts would be better replaced with "Stop 4 Ways", or the equivalent, where vehicles take it in turn to move, in our case clockwise round the junction.

TJH



Noooo...they are the work of the devil.

Come up to a roundabout and if nothing is coming from your right just sail across.

Come up to a four way stop...nothing coming. Stop. Look for anything coming. Car is coming...is it going to stop? Start to go and hope it stops. Looking left and right to ensure nothing is coming from any direction. Waste of time.

John

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby Slarti » November 6th, 2018, 10:46 am

PrincessB wrote:6) Brioche buns.

I know this is down to economics, the question is for the retailer - How can I make the meal massive while spending only pennies. The answer is rice, bread, chips or a drink. If you've had a Chinese take away recently, they also do lots of heavy sauce with a thin grey texture.

Apart from Italian food which smears some yummy sauce over a lot of pasta, where have we gone this time?

Take a burger, and stuff it into a loaf sized lump of horrid bread and then charge a premium price. The brioche bun is the emperor's new clothes bun. It tastes horrible as it is full of sugar and MSG and it is so massive and vile you don't actually eat it.

Bring back the trancher I say.


While I agree that a Brioche bun with a burger would not only be odd, but wrong, what is a trancher?

I had a Chinese take away on Saturday and ours don't do lots of heavy sauce with a thin grey texture. Sounds as if you need to use a different Chinese.

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby redsturgeon » November 6th, 2018, 11:11 am

I used to think that a brioche bun with a burger was wrong but now most quality burgers come in brioche buns...perhaps not as sweet as a tradition brioche though.

John

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby Gengulphus » November 6th, 2018, 11:25 am

Slarti wrote:
PrincessB wrote:Bring back the trancher I say.

While I agree that a Brioche bun with a burger would not only be odd, but wrong, what is a trancher?

I suspect the intended word might have been "trencher":

"A trencher (from Old French tranchier; "to cut") is a type of tableware, commonly used in medieval cuisine. A trencher was originally a flat round of bread used as a plate, upon which the food could be placed to eat."

Bringing its original meaning back would be interesting!

Gengulphus

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby Slarti » November 6th, 2018, 11:50 am

Gengulphus wrote:
Slarti wrote:
PrincessB wrote:Bring back the trancher I say.

While I agree that a Brioche bun with a burger would not only be odd, but wrong, what is a trancher?

I suspect the intended word might have been "trencher":

"A trencher (from Old French tranchier; "to cut") is a type of tableware, commonly used in medieval cuisine. A trencher was originally a flat round of bread used as a plate, upon which the food could be placed to eat."

Bringing its original meaning back would be interesting!

Gengulphus


That would make sense, as a meaning.

Slarti

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby AleisterCrowley » November 6th, 2018, 12:07 pm

redsturgeon wrote:I used to think that a brioche bun with a burger was wrong but now most quality burgers come in brioche buns...perhaps not as sweet as a tradition brioche though.

John

Most supermarkets sell brioche burger buns (and occasionally hot dog rolls) now - they seem to be more popular than the traditional sesame seed buns

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby DiamondEcho » November 6th, 2018, 1:28 pm

3 for £x multi-buy offers from across a small sub-set of similar products like beers, deli meats, prepared Italian pasta meals and so on. It seems very common in M+S, where in the small beer sub-aisle they are often running a 3for£x offer alongside a separate 5for£y offer. Identifying which products are elgible is not always clear. Woe betide if you realise at the check-out you've picked something ineligible ie the discount hasn't applied. On self-scan check-out the discount doesn't register while you're scanning products, IME it's applied when you click 'Finish and Pay'.

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby tjh290633 » November 6th, 2018, 1:35 pm

redsturgeon wrote:
tjh290633 wrote:
swill453 wrote:This despite it being a specific offence to do so (one of the MUST NOT rules in the Highway Code).

Scott.

Having just been to Canada, I think that miniroundabouts would be better replaced with "Stop 4 Ways", or the equivalent, where vehicles take it in turn to move, in our case clockwise round the junction.

TJH



Noooo...they are the work of the devil.

Come up to a roundabout and if nothing is coming from your right just sail across.

Come up to a four way stop...nothing coming. Stop. Look for anything coming. Car is coming...is it going to stop? Start to go and hope it stops. Looking left and right to ensure nothing is coming from any direction. Waste of time.
X
John

No it's not. It might be safe with clear visibility of all other approach roads, but two of you thinking nothing is coming from your right is a recipe for disaster. Those double dotted lines on the road surface have a meaning.

TJH

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby PrincessB » November 6th, 2018, 3:44 pm

Gengulphus,

I suspect the intended word might have been "trencher":


Thank you for the correction, it was my intended word.

For some reason, Firefox has auto correct turned on, and it does not work.]]

My spelling is the worse for it, as I have to check every tine I use a complex prhase and I tend to miss the more coomon errros.

B.

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby GrandOiseau » November 6th, 2018, 3:54 pm

I love roundabouts.

But then I do reside and work in Milton Keynes.

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby AleisterCrowley » November 6th, 2018, 4:00 pm

Perhaps a trancher is something that splits stuff into tranches - that popular 'loan word' frequently used in business and finance...

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby OLTB » November 6th, 2018, 4:40 pm

AleisterCrowley wrote:Perhaps a trancher is something that splits stuff into tranches - that popular 'loan word' frequently used in business and finance...


t'rancher - a cattle worker from Yorkshire.

Cheers, OLTB.

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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

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Postby kiloran » November 6th, 2018, 4:54 pm

GrandOiseau wrote:I love roundabouts.

But then I do reside and work in Milton Keynes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4GYs1p0W8 ... East Kilbride

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