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Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Rubbernuke said:
Petrol will be the currency, and road warriors the new bankers.

I mean this is the next Liberal Democrat Prime Minister in a few years:

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Going to make Question Time on the BBC very interesting :D
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It nearly has been in the last two weeks mate! I'd love to see question time though!

LeoBartlet said:
Cheers all you lovely people and Rubbernuke.
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I notice that Capt B Ender hasn't said anything - how rude.

Rubbernuke said:
Me? With my reputation, here?

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...in the women's locker room...?
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Rubbernuke said:
Crazy people panic buying is always funny. It was the same with toilet paper and flour. Here in France I could not buy flour for aaaagggesss because people thought buying it made them somehow able to survive longer.

And happeh emergence day Leo :D
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I know mate, people are such morons! The petrol thing has been dumb as, due to it being so predictable. I had to put 10 quid in because I was running on fumes on Friday, and the guy across from me had brought a caravan with him and was filling jerry cans up and putting them inside - goodness knows how many he did!

I imagine flour was a royal pita though when running a guest house - especially when bread is so fundamental for the french breakfast!
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Rat Catcher said:
They probably remember the infamous "Let them eat cake" utterance from one of their subsequently beheaded upper classes...
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Bottom Hat said:
I know mate, people are such morons! The petrol thing has been dumb as, due to it being so predictable. I had to put 10 quid in because I was running on fumes on Friday, and the guy across from me had brought a caravan with him and was filling jerry cans up and putting them inside - goodness knows how many he did!

I imagine flour was a royal pita though when running a guest house - especially when bread is so fundamental for the french breakfast!
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Saying that you can get around a few limitations- red kidney beans for brownies and almond flour for a fair few things as well.

As for breakfasts, it was all about going to the bakers (who never ran short). Was expensive but was OK for most days.

I was reading about the 'pigs in blankets crisis' now.....now call me odd but....its bacon wrapped around small sausages. I've never ever bought them pre made, how is the press making this an issue when its you, some sausages and some streaky bacon?
 

spl1tting

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Rubbernuke said:
Saying that you can get around a few limitations- red kidney beans for brownies and almond flour for a fair few things as well.

As for breakfasts, it was all about going to the bakers (who never ran short). Was expensive but was OK for most days.

I was reading about the 'pigs in blankets crisis' now.....now call me odd but....its bacon wrapped around small sausages. I've never ever bought them pre made, how is the press making this an issue when its you, some sausages and some streaky bacon?
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Bear with me, just try this once.
Bananas wrapped in bacon!
Sounds revolting, tastes delicious.
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Rubbernuke said:
Saying that you can get around a few limitations- red kidney beans for brownies and almond flour for a fair few things as well.

As for breakfasts, it was all about going to the bakers (who never ran short). Was expensive but was OK for most days.

I was reading about the 'pigs in blankets crisis' now.....now call me odd but....its bacon wrapped around small sausages. I've never ever bought them pre made, how is the press making this an issue when its you, some sausages and some streaky bacon?
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I think the media tried this last year or the year before too, as a Christmas scare story. They are blaming the shortage of hgv drivers for the lack of any fresh food in any supermarket at Christmas in the future.

Which is an interesting theory, but as you say, diy is an option for people who are not incompetent at holding a piece of bacon, and a sausage. I'll leave that there!

spl1tting said:
Bear with me, just try this once.
Bananas wrapped in bacon!
Sounds revolting, tastes delicious.
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Very left field!
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
I've never bought pigs in blankets pre-made either but I was reading this morning that unless some miracle happens, 100,000 pigs are going to be incinerated. No, not for Leo's breakfast, but because they can't be delivered for slaughter and processed. It's going to be hard to make sausages wrapped in bacon without sausages or bacon, no matter what level one's culinary skills are at.

There's already been plenty of shortages of items in my local supermarkets over the last couple of months. It's back to what the excuse that passes for the government said about food supplies post-Brexit; 'there will be adquate food'. Which to anybody familiar with government language means 'nobody will starve to death', not 'you will be able to buy all the food items that you want'.
 
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Athlon-uk

Athlon-uk
Red Anders said:
I've never bought pigs in blankets pre-made either but I was reading this morning that unless some miracle happens, 100,000 pigs are going to be incinerated. No, not for Leo's breakfast, but because they can't be delivered for slaughter and processed. It's going to be hard to make sausages wrapped in bacon without sausages or bacon, no matter what level one's culinary skills are at.
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We could source some other type of meat….


 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Red Anders said:
I've never bought pigs in blankets pre-made either but I was reading this morning that unless some miracle happens, 100,000 pigs are going to be incinerated. No, not for Leo's breakfast, but because they can't be delivered for slaughter and processed. It's going to be hard to make sausages wrapped in bacon without sausages or bacon, no matter what level one's culinary skills are at.

There's already been plenty of shortages of items in my local supermarkets over the last couple of months. It's back to what the excuse that passes for the government said about food supplies post-Brexit; 'there will be adquate food'. Which to anybody familiar with government language means 'nobody will starve to death', not 'you will be able to buy all the food items that you want'.
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It certainly will be interesting to see how it pans out. Where I live in France supermarkets are crap for choice and my meat comes from local farmers anyway :D

Saying that, if my old home (Taunton) is typical of the UK as a whole then people are massively oversubscribed with supermarkets -quite frankly anyone who can't find what they want or define it as a 'shortage' from that does not know the meaning of the word. I mean, Taunton (60k residents) has a large ASDA, LIDL, ALDI, Morrisons, Tesco (and 4 Express), One out of town Sainsburys, one medium size one in the town centre, plus loads of independents. They may have a narrower range but the way people talk is as if there is nothing at all.

It may be in the future more supermarkets go the way of ALDI / LIDL where you have one or two lines of things...I mean, how many types of beans can you stock and make money on? And if it really goes to the wall make your own bacon (if you can source a chunk of pig) and you can then make sausages too.
 

zikolach

zikolach
Could anyone check if issu tracker is working - I tried to submit new issue - it failed 3 times in a row. ON last step is shows truncated description and no reproduction steps and doesn't allow to submit. Also click to "previous step" cleans all the text fields.

Was trying to submit an issue with FSS - when planet textures are not loading in systems with 60+ planets.

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xzanfr

xzanfr
Rubbernuke said:
It certainly will be interesting to see how it pans out. Where I live in France supermarkets are crap for choice and my meat comes from local farmers anyway :D

Saying that, if my old home (Taunton) is typical of the UK as a whole then people are massively oversubscribed with supermarkets -quite frankly anyone who can't find what they want or define it as a 'shortage' from that does not know the meaning of the word. I mean, Taunton (60k residents) has a large ASDA, LIDL, ALDI, Morrisons, Tesco (and 4 Express), One out of town Sainsburys, one medium size one in the town centre, plus loads of independents. They may have a narrower range but the way people talk is as if there is nothing at all.

It may be in the future more supermarkets go the way of ALDI / LIDL where you have one or two lines of things...I mean, how many types of beans can you stock and make money on? And if it really goes to the wall make your own bacon (if you can source a chunk of pig) and you can then make sausages too.
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People seem to think that everything comes from the supermarket and delivered by lorry.
If you can be bothered to spend a Saturday morning going round farm shops or greengrocers / markets then there's plenty of choice.

I used to have a high regard from people but this pandemic has proved that most are total plonkers.

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Athlon-uk

Athlon-uk
zikolach said:
Could anyone check if issu tracker is working - I tried to submit new issue - it failed 3 times in a row. ON last step is shows truncated description and no reproduction steps and doesn't allow to submit. Also click to "previous step" cleans all the text fields.

Was trying to submit an issue with FSS - when planet textures are not loading in systems with 60+ planets.

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