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FFSIf anyone is actually here, what are your comforts? Food? Drink? Films? Music?
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School trips
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:27,
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There's nobody here but us chickens.Alt: I never took acid at school. The first time I tried it was during my exam leave for GCSEs.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:35,
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Acid annoyingly doesn't do anything for meapart from making me giggle like a schoolgirl
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:44,
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I'm waiting for my HTML5 book to show up.I have chosen to do this in silence. Soz.
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:36,
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You don't need no stinking HTML5 book, it'll be outdated already.(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:37,
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I've only done a tiny bit of HTML stuffWrote some scripts that outputted flat pages of tables, etc.
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:43,
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Same here, I'm doing this out of curiousity, really.Edit: and because if I have to take support calls for much longer I'm going to end up bringing a shotgun to work with me.
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:48,
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I choose which support calls I takei.e. no muppets
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:02,
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I thought about doing ITIL when I first started doing this.Once I realised that calling the person who asks you "what's a web browser?" a fucking useless cunt is frowned upon, I decided it probably wasn't for me.
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:05,
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ITIL?Are you fucking insane?! I once had a 3 day course on it. If it had been 4, I would have been the only person leaving the room alive
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:14,
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Did you do the exams?We had several people walk out and not return it was so dull.
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Peej, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:26,
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Yeah, I passed the basic one or something(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:27,
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I am not.Peoples' propensity for stupidity and then offence when their stupidity is presented to them precludes any desire on my part to learn how some corporation feels is the best way to hold their hand.
In a wider view, this is why I'm experimenting with other potential avenues of employment.
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:32,
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I kind of like where I'm at nowA bit of support, a bit of consultancy, a bit of coding, etc.
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:40,
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True, does it include CSS3? Main things about HTML5 are
- Instead of tons of Divs, you have more specific elements, like Main/Article/Header/Footer
- You can apply and use your own attributes and use them in JS/CSS, like <article data-category="cheese"> ... etc ... </article> <style> article[data-category='cheese'] { /* etc */ } </style>
- www.caniuse.com will let you know if you can actually use it safely.
- lesscss.org/ is awesome
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:45,
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Yeah, it's HTML5 and CSS3. I've not used any previous form of HTML, so I shouldn't find it too hard to forget what I didn't know in the first place!
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:47,
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Cool, it's easy, even I can do it, people even pay me to do it, and i'm a moron.There are some other stuff on top of that that you'll need to learn if you want to do it as a job though, give me a shout if you want a list of stuff to learn to be a front-end dev.
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:58,
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Cheers, buddy.I'll have a bash through and see if I enjoy it and then go from there!
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:01,
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Nice, that's the main thing, to enjoy it. If you don't, like, if you're doing this because you _have_ too, then you'll get nowhere.Your brower's Dev Tools (Code-Inspector) will be your BFF.
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:08,
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Not ebooks gramps. But seeing as you'll be sat at a computer anyway, surely a pdf or web-book is much more convenient. You don't even have to wait for the postman.
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Great, more open windows on my already over-full pair of monitors. Nice.(
Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:53,
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I'm lost without a proper notebook next to my pc(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:56,
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Are you sure? You'd better see what fucknuts up there thinks is the best way for you to work.(
Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:57,
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Oh yeah, sorry*burns books*
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:00,
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I bet you speak the letters of a URL as you slowly type it in. "W, W, W, dot, ..."
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The amount of times I've had to do that and then found out they were typing it into a search bar...Most of the time I don't feel as much like a technician as I do a child minder.
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:09,
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i'm here, for a little bitmusic. if i am really stressed about something, i go for a long drive, with lots of music on. and reading. i can disappear into a book for hours.
i often think the worst choice i could have to make is between books and music. shudder.
alt: overnight ones - france when i was 11. french exchange at 14. spanish trip at 14. chepstow at 16. stratford at 17. oxford at 17. memorable day trip - york when i was 11. someone drew on the teacher's bald head, and my friend and i set the fire alarm off in the viking museum by opening the wrong door.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:37,
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Choose books, I've only ever seen evidence of terrible music taste from you.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:48,
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If society collapsed and the rest of humanity had to put up with whatever one particular person had savedwould you rather have them read their shit books or play their shit music?
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:53,
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hopefully we would start making new stuffbut if we're going to build a religion around the remnants of our cultural past then let's hope it's early Kylie and erotic star trek fanfic.
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"I'm a doctor not a drain cleaner, Jim!"... Come on, baby! Do the locomotion!
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"It's ok guys, I've found a cache of ukuleles that survived the apocalypse!"(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:08,
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They're fun and easy to play.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:11,
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I'm busy booking and printing and planning and converting digital £ on a screen to digital $ on a screen which apparently I can make into analogue money via a cashpointMy comforts are food and rubbish telly, Storage Hunters Uk tonight, it's supposed to be 'fucking shit' so I will probably enjoy that.
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MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:40,
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I'm still catching up on 24 and Homeland at the moment(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:47,
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Oooh good point I need to download Homeland to watch on the plane.(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:49,
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The new series is quite good so far(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:55,
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Oh yeahShe was in the new "V"
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:29,
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Yeah thats her*Geek Time*
If you haven't seen firefly it really is worth a go.
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I'll add it to the listI started watching Battlestar Galactica on Netflix but its a bit slow
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:37,
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I lost interest in boob flashes in TV programmes once pornography became freely available on the internet.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:12,
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Yeah but I aint cool like you and still need a boob flash or two in order to follow a plot (, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:15, Reply)
No, you misunderstand - I've stopped watching television altogether, instead spending all my free time wanking like a bonobo to grot on the internet.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:19,
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Well if you dont watch it then who will, and if no one watches it then they will stop making it and what will we have to wank to then?
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Storage Hunters UK was terrible. The characters are shit and its even more staged than the American one.
I thought that was meant to go the other way.
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GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:14,
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alt: we once did acid in the estate behind the school and one kid got the Massive Fears about cabbagesobviously as hormone-addled adolescent scum we were incredibly mature and sympathetic and didn't make his existence utterly horrific for an entire afternoon and possibly scar him for life
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I hope you told him to remember to breathe. If you forget to breathe while on acid you will die.
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"What's that on your head?" "There. On your head. What is it?"
"No. Not there. There."
Hilarious. 😞
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I love a good book, a good meal and a nice bottle of wineAlt: Went on a 2-week school cruise round the Med. Thoroughly enjoyable - especially as two of the schools on the trip were all-girls so us poor boys were outnumbered.
Happy days
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Alt: We went to France for a school day trip, me and my pal got in trouble for making us nearly miss the ferry home because we were busy buying Babylon Zoo on cassette single in some shit French shopping arena(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 10:47,
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Sexism and racism in just 3 wordsI think we have a new record folks
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The few I've been involved with haven't been worth the effortthough the change in scenery was a pleasant diversion.
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:37,
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I spent 5 weeks studying at Eton college when I was 16 as part of a kind of 'outreach' thing. Interesting experience.
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Ah so thats where you gained your first noncing experianceIt was "ahem" uphill all the way from there
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Yeah all of those.alt. yep, had a few.
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GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:12,
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I did it (Hershey) HIIIIIIIIIIGHWAY!(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:20,
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Fucking too many questions for my simple brainFood - a superb home-made Sunday dinner - roast spuds, parnsips, Yorkies, etc. Then home-made apple crumble.
Drink - G&T or a decent bottle of red.
Films - Classic comedy - Blazing Saddles, Airplane, Animal House, etc
Music - too many to list here. Depends on what I'm doing at the time.
Alt: France in P7 for 12 days.
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Why? Did they not allow you beyond the Trossachs or summat?It's only France Doze, not fucking Tierra Del Fuego.
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nah m8Just that my P7 trips were to Aden Country Park and that.
Battlefields tours and that were the kind of thing we did at Gordons is all.
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I see. For one horrific moment I thought you meant Gordonstoun.
It would have explained a lot.
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I've never understood why so many people are so keen on roast dinners.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:33,
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That's because you're some kind of flailing veggie who neither likes nor understands food.HTH xxx
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Well this isn't helpful at all.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:35,
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I disagree, it's very helpful. He's concisely explained why you don't understand peoples' enjoyment of a roast lunch.I can't see how it could have been more helpful, really.
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Kroney, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:40,
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Not really.He's assumed that I have never eaten meat and has projected his dislike and misunderstanding of my diet onto me.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:47,
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Big lumps of dead animals.....with added tubers, roots and items FTW
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They are a comfort food thoughA well done roast is very nice (not the greatest thing in the world) However as a comfort it is a family image thing bit like Christmas dinner being a warm family time
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this^I made some excellent roast beef and Yorkshire puddings at the weekend. Managed some of my finest roasties too
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:38,
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What's your methodology?Roasties can be a contentious issue in my house.
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^ living on the edge right here ^(the edge of shitdull suburbia)
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:45,
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he even manages to out-dull cranley, and is approaching Cranley levels of pomposity(, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:46, Reply)
it is quite bizarre that nobody has killed him yet(
rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:49,
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See QOTW for an exciting and shocking anecdote!!!People get drunk at a wedding
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MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:49,
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I used to used goose fatBut now I just put my joint of meat on the top shelf of the oven and the roast tin for the spuds on the shelf below it. The tin collects the juice which I then use to roast the spuds. QED.
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I use the juice for gravy rather than spud(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:57,
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"I cook all the moisture out of it and then pour it back over it again to make it edible"(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 12:03,
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I put a bit of juice to one side for the gravy but I also use the leftover water from the vegetable steamer.^ Pro tip ^
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Maris piper + sweet potatoPeel and chop into large chunks. Boil for 5 mins until edges starting to crumble then drain and leave to dry out. Stick a roasting tray in the oven with olive oil with beef dripping in it too. Season the tray with salt and leave to get FUCKING hot. Chuck drained spuds into oil, toss it around a bit and leave it in at 230 for an hour. Crispy outsides, brown bits and fluffy inside.
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:56,
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See above - I use the juices from the meat instead.Also remember to give your spuds a bit of a shake to break down the edges if they need it.
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Mix of both potato and fat. Interesting. I always boil for much longer ... maybe 10-15 mins to try and fluff them up more.
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Maris Pipers disintegrate if you boil them too long(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 12:04,
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Maybe I'm not using the right potato. I usually just buy the bag labled 'potato'. I'll try it your way.
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^ This ^I usually put the spuds onto boil about 1hr 10mins before I'm serving - 10 mins to start boiling, 5 mins actual boiling, rest of the time in the oven.
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See you try and answer helpfully and the stupid veggie doesnt even bother to reply(, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:45, Reply)
probably too busy firing up his morning dooby(
rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:49,
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Who doesn't love a wake n bake, eh?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:50,
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My family never really bothered with Sunday lunches, so I guess that might explain my lack of nostalgic affection for them.'Comfort food' often tends to be stodge, your view seems the most realistic 'nice, but not the greatest...'
*The questioner chose this response as the most helpful
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:54,
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Also its not whether you had sunday lunchesBut the idea of them as a family time, the romanticised version if you will
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I ain't so mad on them, they're dull generally(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:47,
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Yeah, it probably isn't going to further my point if the only consensus I get is from you and swipe.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 11:49,
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Yeah so far we have the 3 massive OT foodwrongs not understanding the allure of the Sunday roast.If nothing else this will confirm to everyone else which way they should be voting here.
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Thanks Holmez, Thanks.(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 12:10,
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Soz broFor what it's worth, I agree with and appreciate your input, but see Fister's post above for how others perceive it.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 4 Nov 2014, 12:13,
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