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  • kernelbogey
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5735

    Originally posted by french frank View Post
    Before you buy it, there it will be in the supermarket refrigerated cabinet, sometimes in a box, sometimes in a bag, ready for you to buy it :-). Then it becomes post-bought frozen food.
    Could it be that, like 'pre-loved' clothes in a charity shop, the frozen food has been been previously bought by another customer? (It should then be marked 'pre-defrosted'.)

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    • oddoneout
      Full Member
      • Nov 2015
      • 9135

      Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
      Could it be that, like 'pre-loved' clothes in a charity shop, the frozen food has been been previously bought by another customer? (It should then be marked 'pre-defrosted'.)
      Some 'fresh' food (mostly of the fish variety I think) is labelled - usually not at all prominently - 'previously frozen', which I always find rather a dubious situation in conjunction with 'fresh'.

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      • Pulcinella
        Host
        • Feb 2014
        • 10872

        Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
        Some 'fresh' food (mostly of the fish variety I think) is labelled - usually not at all prominently - 'previously frozen', which I always find rather a dubious situation in conjunction with 'fresh'.
        I'm pretty sure I've seen some that say it's safe to refreeze (even though previously frozen), which is generally not advised.

        Tonight's chicken (taken out of the freezer and gently defrosting in the fridge) is of the 'roast in a bag' variety.
        Decided to delay cooking it for Sunday dinner, as we had to get ready for choir Zoom committee meeting, so I guess it was 'pre-bought' for Sunday and now becomes Monday's meal instead?

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        • kernelbogey
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5735

          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
          ...Tonight's chicken (taken out of the freezer and gently defrosting in the fridge) is of the 'roast in a bag' variety.
          Decided to delay cooking it for Sunday dinner, as we had to get ready for choir Zoom committee meeting, so I guess it was 'pre-bought' for Sunday and now becomes Monday's meal instead?
          A pre-loved chicken, indeed!

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22110

            Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
            A pre-loved chicken, indeed!
            Virtually late!

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              Firefox Android update:

              Primary Password is replacing Master Password. Firefox is removing terminology from the browser that has been identified as derogatory or exclusionary.
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • cloughie
                Full Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 22110

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                Firefox Android update:



                Did they have Mistress Passwords or maybe that is something completely different.

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  I suppose my camera will no longer be able to have a slave flash added.
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • gradus
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 5601

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    I suppose my camera will no longer be able to have a slave flash added.
                    ... or your car's clutch a slave cylinder.

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                    • Bryn
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 24688

                      What about all those boxed sets of various composers' masterpieces?

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37558

                        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                        What about all those boxed sets of various composers' masterpieces?
                        Unfortunately there are no feminine equivalents to masterpieces. And long gone is the time when I could have referred to that nice piece I saw you out with the other night! Added to which (!) a mistress stroke would refer to something else!

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                          Unfortunately there are no feminine equivalents to masterpieces. And long gone is the time when I could have referred to that nice piece I saw you out with the other night! Added to which (!) a mistress stroke would refer to something else!
                          I don't think it's really about gender, but rather about master/slave/servant. I don't think that the term primary is any better.
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Pulcinella
                            Host
                            • Feb 2014
                            • 10872

                            Apparently, a 'mutant' algorithm is to blame for the exam results fiasco.

                            The mind boggles!

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                            • LMcD
                              Full Member
                              • Sep 2017
                              • 8396

                              Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                              Apparently, a 'mutant' algorithm is to blame for the exam results fiasco.

                              The mind boggles!
                              As I've recently said elsewhere, nobody is ever to blame for anything any more.

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                              • gradus
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 5601

                                Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                                As I've recently said elsewhere, nobody is ever to blame for anything any more.
                                In my working life in business the algorithm that unfailingly predicted the outcome correctly was Stages in a Project.
                                Enthusiasm
                                Implementation
                                Failure
                                Panic
                                The search for the guilty
                                The punishment of the innocent.
                                Blame was the name of the game and one needed political skills and fancy footwork to avoid it.

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