State of the Game

[PiLhEaD]

G'Night all, and good mornin' to those who will be up soon with their special beans and brewin' machines.

Sans nicotine: Day 33
Sans daily caffeine: Day 41
Sans ED/EDH/EDO: Day 5 (RL is taking up way too much of my time lately. OTOH I'm making progress on my honey do list much needed home repairs.)

Ditto.

...sans alcohol.... 57 minutes....
sans ED in any form... 12+++ months....

 

[nemolomen]

Oh I love village cricket. Will be watching some later. WIth a mate. With a lot of beer. With scant attention to what's going on on the pitch. This is how Ingerland confounded conquered the world. Everyone else was too busy goimg 'whaaaaaaaaaaaat?????'

e. I tried to explain cricket to my Italian partner. I gave up and she shrugged. I'm still not sure who was 'right'.

 

[PiLhEaD]

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By Jimminy.......

 

[nemolomen]

Ditto.

...sans alcohol.... 57 minutes....
sans ED in any form... 12+++ months....

But, but, but spaceman spiff, I still WANT to play.

 

[PiLhEaD]

But, but, but spaceman spiff, I still WANT to play.

Fair point*. Well made.

Mrs PiLhEaD says that at least Spaceman Spiff doesn't smell of boiled cabbage. I'm not sure how she knows 50% of that....

E. * Yup... Made me laugh... o7

 

[LeoBartlet]

Baseball is as boring as watching golf or soccer.

but classier than a big TV with surround sound it is not. it's an obstacle and vestigial, like adding u's to simple already good words like color and such.

You're no stranger to vestigial objects, I suspect.

Also, we didn't add them you removed them.

 

[Darth Ender]

You're no stranger to vestigial objects, I suspect.

Also, we didn't add them you removed them.

nobody is. they exist everywhere.

vestigial isn't about adding or removing. it's about them being useless. which the u's are.

 

[LeoBartlet]

nobody is. they exist everywhere.

vestigial isn't about adding or removing. it's about them being useless. which the u's are.

uh huh.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Every time Henry said "what am I" to some confused dutchman on going for gold, the whole country shouted the same response!

I'd love it if there was a game where Henry is some twisted assassin and in response to "what am I" he says, "incorrect, I am death", pulls out a pistol and whacks the target. Even better if the cooldown alert timer was like the goldrush segments.

Maybe I should pen an open letter to the Hitman devs?

 

[Rubbernuke]

Plus- the trials of living in a small rural French town.

Need some bread, easy right? France, the home of locally made bread, exquisite pastries etc.

No.

Bakery declared it shuts on Sundays. The day before Sunday.

The Butchers that sells bread is shut this Sunday for some reason.

The local corner shop is open- yay! But had....three baguettes. For a whole flipping village.

I have hungry guests coming down at 9am, and the only reliable shop opens at....9am.

I can see why visitors get so fed up with almost random opening times.

 

[Oztig]

Plus- the trials of living in a small rural French town.

Need some bread, easy right? France, the home of locally made bread, exquisite pastries etc.

No.

Bakery declared it shuts on Sundays. The day before Sunday.

The Butchers that sells bread is shut this Sunday for some reason.

The local corner shop is open- yay! But had....three baguettes. For a whole flipping village.

I have hungry guests coming down at 9am, and the only reliable shop opens at....9am.

I can see why visitors get so fed up with almost random opening times.

Please pretend below is a really good image of a cat doing a galic shrug :-

 

[Bottom Hat]

Bake your own, then change the clocks backwards.

Problem solved

 

[Rubbernuke]

Bake your own, then change the clocks backwards.

Problem solved

I normally do, but wanted a day off :/

 

[Bottom Hat]

I normally do, but wanted a day off :/

Damn you cruel fate!

Nah I feel for you, it must be really annoying mate

 

[Oztig]

Plus- the trials of living in a small rural French town.

Need some bread, easy right? France, the home of locally made bread, exquisite pastries etc.

No.

Bakery declared it shuts on Sundays. The day before Sunday.

The Butchers that sells bread is shut this Sunday for some reason.

The local corner shop is open- yay! But had....three baguettes. For a whole flipping village.

I have hungry guests coming down at 9am, and the only reliable shop opens at....9am.

I can see why visitors get so fed up with almost random opening times.

Hope you managed to get your baguettes. I'm making some later on, but don't think I can get them to France in time - they take about 5.5 hours from start to finish


EDIT: I see you normally do your own as well - got a good recipe - I found mine from something like 'The fabulous French baguette company', or similar

 

[Rubbernuke]

Hope you managed to get your baguettes. I'm making some later on, but don't think I can get them to France in time - they take about 5.5 hours from start to finish


EDIT: I see you normally do your own as well - got a good recipe - I found mine from something like 'The fabulous French baguette company', or similar

Here is an old photo of some I do- these days I just roll it without the twists and I use a proper baguette tray

 

[Oztig]

Here is an old photo of some I do- these days I just roll it without the twists and I use a proper baguette tray

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I can smell them now, and am starting to feel hungry. Time for brekkie

 

[xzanfr]

Please pretend below is a really good image of a cat doing a galic shrug :-
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You can tell these aren't really French as they don't a have a gauloise dangling in a laissez faire manner.

It's just reminded me of something Bill Bryson said - you can tell the experience of a French mechanic by the length of ash on the gauloise hanging out of his mouth.

 

[Rat Catcher]

like adding u's to simple already good words like color and such.

Sch? Suchu? U-suc (oops, I dropped an "h"!)

OK

 

[Rubbernuke]