Early Risers.

[Tony_S]

38 minutes ago, polybear said:

Phaal

Did you know that it is a Birmingham recipe? When my brother worked in Birmingham the new management banned alcohol consumption during the working day. They didn’t really want staff going to pubs at lunchtime, and really wanted them not to go off site at all. So they all went to the local curry houses (no alcohol for religious reasons) .

Edited December 1, 2023 by Tony_S

[TheQ]

Evening Awl,

I like to taste my food , not need a fire extinguisher...

 

Had to re ice the Landrover before going to the MRC, getting out there, the carpark was an ice rink..

Gave the Christmas dinner orders to the organiser,put the money in my wallet , I'll use a credit card on the night.

Made like a fencing contractor while there, lots of grey cotton used, more to do. Gave up early as the club heating was struggling to beat the cold.

 

On leaving there had been snow, driving on the main road it was white,  with just the black tarmac showing where most cars drove. So i stuck to the longer route home that they sometimes grit. Until I ran out of that, then very cautiously drove on the single track roads to home.

 

Muggachoccy gone 

Goodnight Awl 

 

[polybear]

Bear here.....

 

How's a certain planning job coming along?  Just three words:

"Turnouts"

and

"Baseboard Joints".

(See note one....)

Rattin'Fuggin'Piggin'Turdycurses.

 

 

(Note 1:  Apparently having a Turnout across a Baseboard Joint is considered to be "Rather Bad Form".  TC's).

 

ION.....

Still no sign of Postie clutching several envelopes of interest for A Bear.  Poo.

[BoD]

56 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Almost forgot. Happy 75th to GDB (or what's left of it). I hope that plenty of cake and at least one bacon sarnie featured.

 

Dave

@grandadbob will be having a very happy birthday after tonight’s rugby.   Whether he managed to watch his team’s game or not.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. A bit cloudy now but still cold. Forecast is there may be some more snow but that depends on where the low pressure goes.

[Tony_S]

44 minutes ago, polybear said:

Turnout across a Baseboard Joint is considered to be "Rather Bad Form".

Don’t spoil the track geometry, modify the baseboard. 

[Sidecar Racer]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 Apparently having a Turnout across a Baseboard Joint is considered to be "Rather Bad Form".  TC's).

 

 

 Says who ?

 

 

Edited December 1, 2023 by Sidecar Racer

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Winslow Boy]

38 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Don’t spoil the track geometry, modify the baseboard. 

Given that he had a hatchet in his paw when he was 'modifying' it on the computer do you think that suggesting he  modify the baseboard would have a different result.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

We both got out of bed late this morning, so consequently after we seemed to be rushing about for the rest of the day and there just didn’t seem to be enough spare time in the day to look in. I managed a few minutes here and there, attempting to keep up with today’s goings on. On the hand, we did manage to get done what we’d planned for the day, so that’s lots of ticks awarded there. I even managed to get the Christmas tree up this afternoon, Ava and I will decorate it tomorrow. This afternoon, we had a quick chat with Evie and Max, as it’s their birthday, they’re both 15 today, but the BIG question is, where the heck did the time go? During our conversation, we confirmed that Max will be coming round on Sunday, so that’s another potential modeller that I’ll be teaching, I’m really looking forward to that. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[iL Dottore]

@iL Dottore's and @polybear's film career continues to go stellar.

 

Just out is their Spaghetti Western reboot "Dio Ti Ama...  ...Io, No." ("God Loves You... I Don't")

 

The Guardian's film critic wrote "A hilariously violent fast-paced reboot of the Spaghetti Western genre by the son of the Godfather of Spaghetti Westerns - Sergio Leone. Polybear and iL Dottore are hilarious as a pair of mismatched lawmen trying to clean up a Texas town - as fast with their jokes as with their six-shooters. It's a Tarantino Western with a zillion jokes and an awe-inspiring body count. A Must See!"

 

Edited December 1, 2023 by iL Dottore
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[iL Dottore]

@iL Dottore's and @polybear's latest film - to be released after Christmas - has the intriguing strap line:

"this isn't Star Trek, this isn't Star Wars, this isn't Dr Who and this certainly isn't for the nervous cinema-goer...."

[zarniwhoop]

Just catching up, so belated birthday wishes to GDB.

 

Gwiwer's comments about a wood burner reminded me that if there had been problems with it, they could have sat around a candle. If it then got really cold, they could light the candle.

 

Some say the old ones are the best, but others tell the truth.

[jjb1970]

6 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Reminds me of when I lived in Singapore. There was an eatery in town called the Victory Curry House where they offered any Westerner who could eat a whole one of their super-hot Victory curries a free one on the next visit. It seemed a bit of a pointless exercise to me as the reward for burning your mouth and throat out was doing it again, although I did witness a few people who were obviously more testosterone fuelled than me trying. I quite happily put up with accusations of being a wimp as at least I could still speak on the way home.

 

Dave 

 

It seems to be very much a western thing, although a lot of SE Asian food is quite spicy it usually isn't that spicy (although there are exceptions) and people value taste more than heat. My wife is Indonesian Chinese and although a lot of Indonesian food can be quite spicy she finds the obsession of some British people with hot food a bit bonkers. She doesn't really eat much hot food (thinking about it, this is very subjective and some would describe the food she eats as hot) and my local friends and colleagues tend not to really eat particularly spicy food.

An exception is mala which is very popular in Asia, Chinese pepper and chilli, that can be brutally hot, phaal level hot. My wife and daughter love mala even though they don't eat a lot of hot food in general.

[Ozexpatriate]

10 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

Rant Mode on

What is it with EVERY business establishment I've visited in the last two days, they ALREADY ALL PLAYING Christmas music NON-STOP <grrrrr>

Rant Mode off

Well Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. Thanksgiving* was a week ago. Mariah Carey posted her "It's Time" social media post, as soon as Halloween was over. Children (and the not so young) have already opened the first window of their Advent calendars.

 

* Santa arrives in the last float of the annual Macy's Parade in New York City.

 

By now, it's hardly early for that sort of thing by any measure. The radio stations that switch to 100% winter holiday music did so weeks ago - or allegedly did according to their television advertising. I avoid them like the plague.

 

Edited December 2, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[Ozexpatriate]

16 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

chill-o-rock

Read that as Chiko-roll at first. (aka Chunda-chube) An Aussie fish and chip staple - along with the potato scallops*.

 

* Other names are available.

 

Edited December 2, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[Ozexpatriate]

After a week of freezing temperatures overnight, and unlike all the reports I see of frozen precipitation, we are now less cold with the onset of rain. It is snowing in the mountains - around 3' of snow is expected in the next day or so, followed by rain on top of the snow* early next week -which is a potential flooding combination in the problem spots.

 

* Due to a plume of warmer moisture all the way from Hawaii.

 

The second half of November was quite dry, so the precipitation is welcome. Despite the precipitation, we continue to flirt with accumulated dry/drought conditions resulting from a very dry Spring and Summer.

[jjb1970]

It reminds me of that old Simpsons episode 

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Well Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. Thanksgiving* was a week ago. Mariah Carey posted her "It's Time" social media post, as soon as Halloween was over. By now, it's hardly early for that sort of thing by any measure. The radio stations that switch to 100% winter holiday music did so weeks ago - or allegedly did according to their television advertising. I avoid them like the plague.

 

* Santa arrives in the last float of the annual Macy's Parade in New York City.

 

It reminds me of the Simpson's episode when a department store invented 'Love Day' to fill a gap in their sales calendar.

[jamie92208]

8 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

It's not your mouth and throat you need to worry about, I've been known shed a tear the following day after fierce tindaloo............................................

 

And not every situation has Johnny Cash sing a song about it. 

 

 

7 hours ago, polybear said:

Bear here.....

 

How's a certain planning job coming along?  Just three words:

"Turnouts"

and

"Baseboard Joints".

(See note one....)

Rattin'Fuggin'Piggin'Turdycurses.

 

 

(Note 1:  Apparently having a Turnout across a Baseboard Joint is considered to be "Rather Bad Form".  TC's).

 

ION.....

Still no sign of Postie clutching several envelopes of interest for A Bear.  Poo.

As already said,who says.  I have a joint in the middle of a single slip, it works fine. 

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good moaning from a cool place.  Freezing overnight but the log burner is doing it's stuff.    I got to the Docs yesterday and was told that I have a chest I fetishism n.  Anti but not uncle biotic have been prescribed.  More work in the shed done. 

 

Emily to talk to this morning as usual then no doubt some more carpentry. 

 

Regards to land of course Sundry.

 

Jamiel

Edited December 2, 2023 by jamie92208

[Ozexpatriate]

5 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I have a chest I fetishism n

Do tell! Or perhaps that is "TMI"? 😉

 

Less facetiously, I hope the respiratory infection clears quickly.

[Barry O]

8 hours ago, polybear said:

Bear here.....

 

How's a certain planning job coming along?  Just three words:

"Turnouts"

and

"Baseboard Joints".

(See note one....)

Rattin'Fuggin'Piggin'Turdycurses.

 

 

(Note 1:  Apparently having a Turnout across a Baseboard Joint is considered to be "Rather Bad Form".  TC's).

 

ION.....

Still no sign of Postie clutching several envelopes of interest for A Bear.  Poo.

Absolut ball cockspur..  whoever has told you that should look at Mike Esges layouts..

 

Baz

[polybear]

7 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Don’t spoil the track geometry, modify the baseboard. 

 

It was starting to go wrong anyway......

 

6 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

It's a Tarantino Western with a zillion jokes and an awe-inspiring body count. A Must See!"

 

 

Sounds promising.......

 

43 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

 

As already said,who says.  I have a joint in the middle of a single slip, it works fine. 

 

Jamie

 

Ah, but what happens when the switch blades are across the joint.....

 

39 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

........I have a chest I fetishism n. 

 

 

Huh??

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Mixed day yesterday.

 

Visited hip consultant.. outcome.. "grin and bearbit" Pah!  Felt like kicking him somewhere personal and telling him the same. Was obviously not interested..  private doctors just as bad as others. God help the poor doctors he "trains"..

 

Old un8 friends came to visit. Chish and fips eaten, beer and wine drunk.. got a bit of an aikenhead as a result.

 

Today will see us descend on the unsuspecting shops etc in the centre of Leeds.. 

 

TTFN

 

Baz