Off topic forum posts - does it really matter?

[Pabmusic]

Who likes Strictly?

Lincolnshire pork sausages with mustard.

[Serial_Apologist]

Lincolnshire pork sausages with mustard.

Apparently "gammon" is accepted as a new edition to the lexicon, as describing men (in particular) whose countenances take on a pink resemblance to the pork derivative when getting into arguments over Brexit!

[Bryn]

Apparently "gammon" is accepted as a new edition to the lexicon, as describing men (in particular) whose countenances take on a pink resemblance to the pork derivative when getting into arguments over Brexit!

Ah, but do they not also have to be arguing from the pro-Brexit side?

[french frank]

Deleted. I misread

[MrGongGong]

Ah, but do they not also have to be arguing from the pro-Brexit side?

Yes

[Bryn]

Yes

Reminds me of the old Jewish joke about Chaim going up to the deli counter, pointing at and asking for "some of that nice looking salt-beef". "That's not salt-beef, that's best Wiltshire Ham" responds the vendor. "I didn't ask what it was, I just asked for some", replies Chaim.

[Serial_Apologist]

Reminds me of the old Jewish joke about Chaim going up to the deli counter, pointing at and asking for "some of that nice looking salt-beef". "That's not salt-beef, that's best Wiltshire Ham" responds the vendor. "I didn't ask what it was, I just asked for some", replies Chaim.

Hadn't heard that one before!

[verismissimo]

Rainy and very windy all day here in this bit of the Pennines - a remarkable contrast with yesterday's sunshine.

I knew someone once who lived in the Pennines, but not well.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I knew someone once who lived in the Pennines, but not well.

It can get rather damp.

[oddoneout]

Reminds me of the old Jewish joke about Chaim going up to the deli counter, pointing at and asking for "some of that nice looking salt-beef". "That's not salt-beef, that's best Wiltshire Ham" responds the vendor. "I didn't ask what it was, I just asked for some", replies Chaim.

When my daughter was an au pair in the USA she was surprised to find that ham didn't seem to be off limits in the supposedly observant jewish household, but they wouldn't let her have bacon for breakfast when she asked. Go figure as they say.

[french frank]

Reminds me of the old Jewish joke about Chaim going up to the deli counter, pointing at and asking for "some of that nice looking salt-beef". "That's not salt-beef, that's best Wiltshire Ham" responds the vendor. "I didn't ask what it was, I just asked for some", replies Chaim.

Bit close to the bone there, Bryn?

[Bryn]

Bit close to the bone there, Bryn?

In my experience, salt-beef is always off the bone but ham can be one thing or the other. Perhaps my experience of salt-beef is too limited, though I am more likely to eat it than I am ham.