Today I'm angry about.....

[jimbo]

Weather forecasts.

"Enjoy the sunshine tomorow" quoted Fred on Granada weather, last night. Our road is whited-over with hailstones right now, and still coming down mixed with bits of snow?

It's been sunny all day in Liverpool! (Except for a short flurry of snowfall that I was caught in)

[superjohnmcginlay]

You struggle with a coffee plunger?

Good god!

obviously ive seen the yuppies on the tele pushing them down n'that - cant be too difficult, but what is it for, and what coffee do you stick in it, presumably you dont use some freeze dried tasteless choice, you gotta be using some gormet shit in that mother... oops, slipped into Jools Winfield then.. ahem, so to speak

It's very simple, general. Grind some coffee beans coarse. Place about four table spoons in the pot 9assuming it is normal size), pour in boiling water and attach plunger at top with plunger up. Wait four minutes and push plunger down. Drink.

Regarding the basic argument, sophisticated people (like what I am) have cafe au lait at breakfast, tea in mid-morning, beer with lunch, tea in the afternoon and some wine with the evening meal, followed possibly with a demi tasse of hot, black, sweet coffee with the liqueur. So there is a place for everything.

Bloody alky. I had to quit drinking at dinner/lunch(if you must).

[TANGODANCER]

That pajamas thing. Christ who cares? As long as folk cover up their bits what they wear really isn't anyone's business. Unless there's a guy wearing a t-shirt with '(your name) is a paedo', or someone's taken pictures of your children and photoshopped them onto the bodies of famous dictators, you really shouldn't care. I say the same whenever Burkhas come up, if what somebody else wears offends you, if it even mildly riles you, you've got proper issues, coz it really is unimportant.

I've never done it myself, but I've been in in some odd, quickly thrown on garb (no pink dressing gown's before any asks, I never want to see that picture again!) when it's late at night, and I fancy some schmokes, or a pizza and it's only over the road. Doesnae matter. Doesn't even nearly matter.

Not so much the pyjamas, usually more who's wearing them. I'm dreading summer weather when the Farnworth hamburger queens revert to the steak-pudding skin revealing warm weather frights.

[Montreal Wanderer]

You struggle with a coffee plunger?

Good god!

obviously ive seen the yuppies on the tele pushing them down n'that - cant be too difficult, but what is it for, and what coffee do you stick in it, presumably you dont use some freeze dried tasteless choice, you gotta be using some gormet shit in that mother... oops, slipped into Jools Winfield then.. ahem, so to speak

It's very simple, general. Grind some coffee beans coarse. Place about four table spoons in the pot 9assuming it is normal size), pour in boiling water and attach plunger at top with plunger up. Wait four minutes and push plunger down. Drink.

Regarding the basic argument, sophisticated people (like what I am) have cafe au lait at breakfast, tea in mid-morning, beer with lunch, tea in the afternoon and some wine with the evening meal, followed possibly with a demi tasse of hot, black, sweet coffee with the liqueur. So there is a place for everything.

Bloody alky. I had to quit drinking at dinner/lunch(if you must).

Just one cold ale to wash the food down. It's all a question of moderation, superj. I used 'lunch' and 'evening meal' to avoid the confusion of 'dinner' since not all forum members are north countrymen.

[superjohnmcginlay]

You struggle with a coffee plunger?

Good god!

obviously ive seen the yuppies on the tele pushing them down n'that - cant be too difficult, but what is it for, and what coffee do you stick in it, presumably you dont use some freeze dried tasteless choice, you gotta be using some gormet shit in that mother... oops, slipped into Jools Winfield then.. ahem, so to speak

It's very simple, general. Grind some coffee beans coarse. Place about four table spoons in the pot 9assuming it is normal size), pour in boiling water and attach plunger at top with plunger up. Wait four minutes and push plunger down. Drink.

Regarding the basic argument, sophisticated people (like what I am) have cafe au lait at breakfast, tea in mid-morning, beer with lunch, tea in the afternoon and some wine with the evening meal, followed possibly with a demi tasse of hot, black, sweet coffee with the liqueur. So there is a place for everything.

Bloody alky. I had to quit drinking at dinner/lunch(if you must).

Just one cold ale to wash the food down. It's all a question of moderation, superj. I used 'lunch' and 'evening meal' to avoid the confusion of 'dinner' since not all forum members are north countrymen.

Thats the bit I struggle with. I never sobered up properly when I was drinking at dinner.

[thebish]

That pajamas thing. Christ who cares? As long as folk cover up their bits what they wear really isn't anyone's business. Unless there's a guy wearing a t-shirt with '(your name) is a paedo', or someone's taken pictures of your children and photoshopped them onto the bodies of famous dictators, you really shouldn't care. I say the same whenever Burkhas come up, if what somebody else wears offends you, if it even mildly riles you, you've got proper issues, coz it really is unimportant.

I've never done it myself, but I've been in in some odd, quickly thrown on garb (no pink dressing gown's before any asks, I never want to see that picture again!) when it's late at night, and I fancy some schmokes, or a pizza and it's only over the road. Doesnae matter. Doesn't even nearly matter.

I think I must have missed something!
(and it's not like me to miss summat to get cross about!)

[TANGODANCER]

That pajamas thing. Christ who cares? As long as folk cover up their bits what they wear really isn't anyone's business. Unless there's a guy wearing a t-shirt with '(your name) is a paedo', or someone's taken pictures of your children and photoshopped them onto the bodies of famous dictators, you really shouldn't care. I say the same whenever Burkhas come up, if what somebody else wears offends you, if it even mildly riles you, you've got proper issues, coz it really is unimportant.

I've never done it myself, but I've been in in some odd, quickly thrown on garb (no pink dressing gown's before any asks, I never want to see that picture again!) when it's late at night, and I fancy some schmokes, or a pizza and it's only over the road. Doesnae matter. Doesn't even nearly matter.

I think I must have missed something!
(and it's not like me to miss summat to get cross about!)

A supermarket (somewhere?) yesterday banned women from shopping in pyjames. Most of them were from a nearby housing estate (high on benefit housewives apparently if that's relevant.) I assume this is what Pru's rferring to.

[bobo the clown]

That pyjamas thing. Christ who cares?

I think I must have missed something !
(and it's not like me to miss summat to get cross about!)

This ; -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8484116.stm

It was in the "Cardiff is quite nice if you stick to the centre & revamped dock area, otherwise it's a toilet populated by brain dead chavs AND is in Wales, to boot" thread ...

[Bruce Rioja]

As a Seattleite I disagree.

Ah, so if you didn't herald from Seattle then you'd agree - it's shit?!?!

To be honest, of all the coffee houses that have sprang up in the UK over the past 10 years or so I have to say that Starbucks serve, for me, the best cwarfee by far.

I shall send you a Carrs Pastie to dunk into one.

[thebish]

As a Seattleite I disagree.

Ah, so if you didn't herald from Seattle then you'd agree - it's shit?!?!

To be honest, of all the coffee houses that have sprang up in the UK over the past 10 years or so I have to say that Starbucks serve, for me, the best cwarfee by far.

I shall send you a Carrs Pastie to dunk into one.

have sprang??? Lords a-lorky!

[CrazyHorse]

Dry roasted peanuts.

[Bruce Rioja]

have sprang??? Lords a-lorky!

[Always hopeful]

People who say "Two thousand ten". Instead of "Two thousand and ten".

[Lord Kangana]

People who say "Two thousand ten". Instead of "Two thousand and ten".

First on the list, alongside the use of "2 through 5" and "the top of the hour" by newsreaders. Hangings too good for 'em.

[Always hopeful]

People who say "Two thousand ten". Instead of "Two thousand and ten".

First on the list, alongside the use of "2 through 5" and "the top of the hour" by newsreaders. Hangings too good for 'em.

It's all part of the continued Americanisation of the English language (Is Americanisation a word, or another made up one like "hospitalized" (with a zee instead of an s, or a zed come to think of it)? In fact, that's another word that makes me angry, like "burglarized, trash, hall (instead of corridor) etc etc., the list is endless).

[hisroyalgingerness]

What about twenty-ten? I'm fond of that

[Always hopeful]

What about twenty-ten? I'm fond of that

I'm fine with that. Not sure why though.

[Hoboh]

What about twenty-ten? I'm fond of that

I'm fine with that. Not sure why though.

Symetrics

[Dujon]

To me the spoken version 'twenty ten' is consistent with other years. As a general rule I will say 'nineteen ten' for 1910 and 'eighteen ten' for 1810 when referring to years. Likewise last year, 2009, was always 'twenty owe nine' and 1909 was 'nineteen owe nine'.

Was the year of our Lord 1066 ever referred to as 'one thousand and sixty six'?

1900 was always 'nineteen hundred' whereas 2000 as 'twenty hundreds', at least in English, seems cumbersome, just as 'ten hundreds' is.

Right, point made, I'll shurrup now.

[thebish]

To me the spoken version 'twenty ten' is consistent with other years. As a general rule I will say 'nineteen ten' for 1910 and 'eighteen ten' for 1810 when referring to years. Likewise last year, 2009, was always 'twenty owe nine' and 1909 was 'nineteen owe nine'.

Was the year of our Lord 1066 ever referred to as 'one thousand and sixty six'?

precisely - nail on head...

when did WW2 start... one thousand nine hundred and thirty nine???