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  • Padraig
    Full Member
    • Feb 2013
    • 4220

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    ,

    .. something decidedly fishy going on here.

    Sous La Vide bags let you cook food in your washing machine; and yes, you can cook the food right along with your laundry.




    Tho' for Die Forelle I suspect a dishwasher to be a better bet than a washing machine -


    ,
    How we wished for a dishwasher at times like that!
    Last edited by Padraig; 19-04-18, 09:54. Reason: too much information

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      Overheard yesterday in the Olde Naked Man Cafe in Settle:

      "Chickens are such stupid animals, they should be re-classified as vegetables!"
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25190

        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
        Overheard yesterday in the Olde Naked Man Cafe in Settle:

        "Chickens are such stupid animals, they should be re-classified as vegetables!"
        As Chick Pea brains ?


        And , incidentally, at the WHAT cafe ?
        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37563

            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            A refuge for the Naked Rambler, I imagine.

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            • french frank
              Administrator/Moderator
              • Feb 2007
              • 30213

              "Ye Olde … Café" is the odd combination
              It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                "Ye Olde … Café" is the odd combination
                - shhhhh!
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37563

                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  "Ye Olde … Café" is the odd combination
                  "Cafeteria" wiould at least have given it in Latin!

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                  • greenilex
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 1626

                    Ye olde latte versus that new spresso

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12768

                      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                      "Cafeteria" wiould at least have given it in Latin!
                      ... hmm, looks South American Spanish to me - cafetería

                      Shurely caphetarium is the Latin?



                      "Turcae habent etiam in usu herbae genus quam vocant Caphe ... quam dicunt haud parvum praestans illis vigorem, et in animas (sic) et in ingenio; quae tamen largius sumpta mentem movet et turbat..." F Bacon, Hist. Vitae et Mortis, 25 [1623].



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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37563

                        Two women chatting outside a primary school earlier on:

                        "Well I was skinny, SKINNY, until I had HIM!!!" - pointing a waving finger down at the five-year-old she had gripped by the other hand, poor little chap.

                        I guess many people just don't realise how funny their remarks can sound, when caught out of context.

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                        • DracoM
                          Host
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 12956

                          And the kid will remember it too, be sure, Mum!

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37563

                            I was at the ATM in West Norwood just now, and remarked to the lady next in the queue on how slow this particular machine seemed to be. And she answered with a straight face, "I was thinking that! I understand some of these banks are taking on people with learning disabilities!"

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                            • Bryn
                              Banned
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 24688

                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              I was at the ATM in West Norwood just now, and remarked to the lady next in the queue on how slow this particular machine seemed to be. And she answered with a straight face, "I was thinking that! I understand some of these banks are taking on people with learning disabilities!"


                              " . . . taking on people with learning disabilities!", Well, there seems to have been a policy of appointing people with very poor fiscal learning skills as CEOs of big banks.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37563

                                Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                                " . . . taking on people with learning disabilities!", Well, there seems to have been a policy of appointing people with very poor fiscal learning skills as CEOs of big banks.
                                Maybe she really meant that - it hadn't occurred to me!! People around here have very droll senses of humour.

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