Dear Points of View

[pH]

1 hour ago, Ian Abel said:

Jason/Sirs,

 I must respectfully disagree with this last statement.

AT LEAST, if half the zombies walking around the grocery stores are anywhere near as unengaged as they are here (mid-west US), they barely look up from their phones to check they're in the right STORE, let alone managing to spot some discrepancy between what they were selecting (5 oz pack crisps) and what they put in the cart (25lb bag of cat litter). Spotting a spud in the crisp bag is WAY above their pay grade and intellect level for sure

 

Yours,

No longer Astonished in Minnesota...

 

You might like the short sketch on this at 17:14 to 18:04 - 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8NfQqj7VAQ

 

I remember it because our kids (and I) found it very funny at the time.

[melmerby]

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Then he'd be named something like P-Nut ButtR.

There was a chap at the GEC Coventry Telephone works called Peter Nutt.

Guess what was called over the tannoy?

[newbryford]

6 hours ago, colin penfold said:

It's worse than you think mate. The crust thing made the national breakfast news and spawned a long conversation between the wally and the bimbo as to their respective views on crusts.... They even dragged the sports bimbo into the debate.

 

Even Bimbo has crusts....

https://www.google.com/search?q=bimbo+bread&oq=bimbo+bread&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5751j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[newbryford]

1 hour ago, melmerby said:

There was a chap at the GEC Coventry Telephone works called Peter Nutt.

Guess what was called over the tannoy?

 

 

Waits for the "Hunt - first name Mike" story...................................

[F-UnitMad]

11 hours ago, DLT said:

There must come a time when Brexit & Trump aren't funny anymore.

I thought that time had already come - and long since gone, too??

[AndrewC]

So called journalists and social media "influencers" have replaced telephone sanitizers and management consultants as passengers on the Golgafrincham B ark. 

[melmerby]

12 hours ago, DLT said:

  There must come a time when Brexit & Trump aren't funny anymore.

 

 

1 hour ago, F-UnitMad said:

I thought that time had already come - and long since gone, too??

Can a disaster like Trump ever be funny?

 

 

[MJI]

15 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

My wife may sympathise, I'll happily sit on Shipfinder telling her where every boat is going when we're at the coast. I must go and feed the pigeons in the park now.

 

You are evil, I need that for when next on holiday!

[rab]

17 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

BBC isn't it? Seems they need to justify having too many news outlets and far too many staff by having loads of no news stories. The website has gone terrible recently. 

 

Other news outlets are just as bad.  Local newspapers are worse. I'm wondering if it's because of all the students doing Media Studies rather than the journalists learning the trade like they used to do. Rather than looking for proper stories they are scouring the internet for rubbish.

 

That bread story was totally fake. There was one a while ago about someone getting a potato in a bag of crisps. I know that potatoes like that don't go anywhere near crisps as they are processed before cooking. Besides you would notice it before buying if your bag of Walkers had a whole uncooked potato in it.

 

 

Jason

 

[rab]

One of the regulars in our local paper is the idiot who enters the wrong reg no in a car park ticket machine, then complains because they get fined because the details on the ticket dont match the car r number plate.

[ejstubbs]

20 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

In what universe (apparently ours!!) can you not make a sandwich with two crusts.

 

<Engage Grumpy old man mode>

When I was a kid, if I said I wasn't going to eat what was provided for me I'd get a swift clip round the ears, PLUS, an explanation of starving kids in <insert third world nation here>

 

Take their bloody mobiles away from them and tell them they should be grateful they're not cleaning chimneys!

<GOM mode off>

 

Additionally, neither constitutes "news", then again, seems everywhere it's news is someone just farts, so long as someone else records it and sends it in! Good Grief

 

You'd like this thread on another forum!

[Devo63]

20 hours ago, big jim said:

I’d be so chuffed if I opened up a loaf and it was all crusts, thats the best part! 

 

 

My all time favourite snack when growing up was a lightly toasted bread crust spread with the tasty, dark and meaty juices from the bottom of the dripping bowl. Now they tell you that it is bad for you and you should use healthier types of oil for cooking.  To buy lard or beef dripping these days I need to order it from my butcher about a week before I need to use it.

 

The BBC are quite welcome to quote me regarding this!

 

Dave R.  

[Steamport Southport]

13 minutes ago, Devo63 said:

My all time favourite snack when growing up was a lightly toasted bread crust spread with the tasty, dark and meaty juices from the bottom of the dripping bowl. Now they tell you that it is bad for you and you should use healthier types of oil for cooking.  To buy lard or beef dripping these days I need to order it from my butcher about a week before I need to use it.

 

The BBC are quite welcome to quote me regarding this!

 

Dave R.  

 

Lard and dripping are freely available in civilised countries.

 

Even Waitrose sells it!

 

https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/food_glossary/lard.html

 

 

Jason

Edited May 16, 2019 by Steamport Southport

[ejstubbs]

And Sainsbury's:

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sainsburys-lard--basics-250g

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/britannia-beef-dripping-250g

And Tesco:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300346570

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/288354065

And Morrisons:

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-Savers-Lard/112344011

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Britannia-Solid-White-Beef-Dripping/289346011

And Asda:

https://groceries.asda.com/product/cooking-baking/asda-smart-price-lard/76325169

https://groceries.asda.com/product/cooking-baking/britannia-finest-beef-dripping/910001814175

 

Basically, I think all you need to do is go to one or two of those things called "shops" that sell that stuff called "food" and you'll find what you're looking for without too much trouble.

[TheQ]

36 minutes ago, ejstubbs said:

And Sainsbury's:

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sainsburys-lard--basics-250g

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/britannia-beef-dripping-250g

And Tesco:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300346570

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/288354065

And Morrisons:

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-Savers-Lard/112344011

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Britannia-Solid-White-Beef-Dripping/289346011

And Asda:

https://groceries.asda.com/product/cooking-baking/asda-smart-price-lard/76325169

https://groceries.asda.com/product/cooking-baking/britannia-finest-beef-dripping/910001814175

 

Basically, I think all you need to do is go to one or two of those things called "shops" that sell that stuff called "food" and you'll find what you're looking for without too much trouble.

I'm. Not sure any of the above shops are available  in Oz.

[57xx]

8 minutes ago, TheQ said:

I'm. Not sure any of the above shops are available  in Oz.

 

Maybe he could order online for home delivery? He'd need to give the driver a hefty tip though.

[Nearholmer]

Thanks to the internet, you can now, quite easily, read on line 100+ year old newspapers.

 

They are full of wind-bag journalism, celebrity stories, endlessly syndicated irrelevant stuff, money-worshipping, mind-numbing trivia, lurid (inaccurate) details of crimes, and letters from grumpy old blokes complaining about it all and looking back to the days when newspapers were actually worth reading.

 

 

Edited May 16, 2019 by Nearholmer

[Ozexpatriate]

47 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

100+ year old newspapers

What is the turn of the 20th century analogue to stories about social media "influencers"? I dare say there was something.

 

Certainly newspapers then were full of sales pitches for dubious products from drug-infused potions, and 'snake oil' to mechanical contraptions for labour saving and medicinal 'benefits'. 

[newbryford]

2 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

Thanks to the internet, you can now, quite easily, read on line 100+ year old newspapers.

 

They are full of wind-bag journalism, celebrity stories, endlessly syndicated irrelevant stuff, money-worshipping, mind-numbing trivia, lurid (inaccurate) details of crimes, and letters from grumpy old blokes complaining about it all and looking back to the days when newspapers were actually worth reading.

 

 

 

 

 

No change there then................

 

[Enterprisingwestern]

14 hours ago, ejstubbs said:

And Sainsbury's:

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sainsburys-lard--basics-250g

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/britannia-beef-dripping-250g

And Tesco:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300346570

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/288354065

And Morrisons:

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-Savers-Lard/112344011

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Britannia-Solid-White-Beef-Dripping/289346011

And Asda:

https://groceries.asda.com/product/cooking-baking/asda-smart-price-lard/76325169

https://groceries.asda.com/product/cooking-baking/britannia-finest-beef-dripping/910001814175

 

Basically, I think all you need to do is go to one or two of those things called "shops" that sell that stuff called "food" and you'll find what you're looking for without too much trouble.

 

I'm sorry, but that's not proper dripping, that's sanitised grease made in a factory and put in a plastic pot.

Proper dripping is scraped out of the bottom of the pan before your very eyes in the local butchers whilst still warm, wrapped in newspaper, or plain paper if it was a posh butchers, transported home and immediately spread on fresh white bread from the local bakers.

You young un's don't know what you're missing!

 

Mike.

[Nearholmer]

Heart attacks?

[Liam]

Here’s another not-very-newsworthy (though it is of an important ongoing issue) news item. This is also from Nottinghamshire so you could be right Andy Y - it may well be work experience week there! 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48213813

[Guest]

Mum angry because she thinks vegetarian sauce contains bacon.

Sauce does not contain bacon.

 

https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/07/muslim-mums-anger-though-aldi-sauce-contained-bacon-9424214/

[Enterprisingwestern]

56 minutes ago, SVRlad said:

Here’s another not-very-newsworthy (though it is of an important ongoing issue) news item. This is also from Nottinghamshire so you could be right Andy Y - it may well be work experience week there! 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48213813

 

"I haven't cancelled my repeat prescription yet as I want to see if it's plastic again"

 

A good idea IMHO if she wants to stay alive, what a choice, plastic bag or death, hmmmmm.

 

Mike.

[LBRJ]

5 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

I'm sorry, but that's not proper dripping, that's sanitised grease made in a factory and put in a plastic pot.

Proper dripping is scraped out of the bottom of the pan before your very eyes in the local butchers whilst still warm, wrapped in newspaper, or plain paper if it was a posh butchers, transported home and immediately spread on fresh white bread from the local bakers.

You young un's don't know what you're missing!

 

Mike.

 

Still available in two shops within five minutes walk of my house.

Either the Butcher ( he sells the stuff from Wateralls) or the Sandwich Shop - where it really is poured out from the cooked pork for the pork sandwiches (which strangely, is bout from the aforementioned Butcher!)