The totally off-topic thread

[RooFlyer]

I had a 2 hour reaction to it last week. Tremors/ shaking lasted the whole 45 mins odd during the procedure and then took an hour to subside afterwards. No feeling of anxiety though.

Sounds exactly like me after a mate and I took the top off a particularly bracing bottle of home made hooch in Tennant Creek some years back ...

 

[ALH]

“Jordan” Peterson.

Predictive text is my enema

 

[Flying mermaid]

Raclette in Paris
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that looks pretty much what we do, except the potatoes are baked in their jackets and the cheese gets melted in the little trays underneath . The Swiss are very into seasonal things, so apparently Raclette is supposed to be made when the potatoes are new and very small.

 

[Flying mermaid]

If raclette is the cheese then what’s the dish - or the manner it is eaten called?

See my post no 77842

 

[TheRealTMA]

My dentist uses one of those wands for local. Don’t feel a thing at all!

Does he also wear a tutu?

 

[Cossie]

What carp is that.
I’ve got a 2017 53nd edition UBD street directory as a Father’s Day present. Very useful

I currently have a gps in the rental and I also brought mine along, I have google maps and bought Sygic maps for the phone as well, but I had to stop at a Carrefour and buy a hard copy of the area I'm currently in. Michelin 1 to 100,000, not detailed enough but it will do for now.
I felt a bit silly, as I had asked the guy in the supermarket if they had any maps, he pointed down an aisle I hadn't been down, I have never seen so many maps apart from Stanfords in London.

 

[Cossie]

Bleedin' windows, it wants to download 3.2gb of updates over my hotel wi-fi connection, surely they can't be serious. How do they think this affects most people, obviously they don't care. I'm being pushed closer to the dark side!

Very strange dinner experience. Had a pizza at a local place, it was packed and not with tourists, the greetings and hugs and faux kissing meant that most of them knew each other.

Four males sitting next to me, three have a seafood platter with spaghetti and a tomato sauce. Included are mussels, clams, quite a large claw and half a lobster each.

I was only a little bit envious.

The other male has a plate of boiled white rice to which he adds quite a bit of parmesan cheese, maybe he has a shellfish allergy, but there was plenty of other stuff to choose from.

I'm thinking he lost a bet and had to pay for and watch the others eat.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Bleedin' windows, it wants to download 3.2gb of updates over my hotel wi-fi connection, surely they can't be serious. How do they think this affects most people, obviously they don't care. I'm being pushed closer to the dark side!

Very strange dinner experience. Had a pizza at a local place, it was packed and not with tourists, the greetings and hugs and faux kissing meant that most of them knew each other.

Four males sitting next to me, three have a seafood platter with spaghetti and a tomato sauce. Included are mussels, clams, quite a large crab claw and half a lobster each.

I was only a little bit envious.

The other male has a plate of boiled white rice to which he adds quite a bit of parmesan cheese, maybe he has a shellfish allergy, but there was plenty of other stuff to choose from.

I'm thinking he lost a bet and had to pay for and watch the others eat.

You need to set Each & Every hotel wifi connection to Metered connection in wifi properties to stop the MS cough.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Predictive text is my enema

I know it gives some people the sh!ts

 

[Quickstatus]

Bleedin' windows, it wants to download 3.2gb of updates over my hotel wi-fi connection, surely they can't be serious. How do they think this affects most people, obviously they don't care. I'm being pushed closer to the dark side!

Spare a thought for people who are on NBN Skymuster Satellite and resulting data rationing.
Typical $100 monthly plans are 75GB (0700-0100hrs) and 140GB (0100-0700hrs)

Imagine in a rural or remote area. No mobile reception, landline cannot support ADSL, and only 75GB to support a house of 2 adults and 2 kids. Software updates can really eat into allowances. These folk have to find ways to schedule updates, use PlayOn to schedule streaming movie downloads during the 0100-0700 period. Then the service providers often use this period to do network servicing and so resulting schedule downloads does not occur.
Then NBN Skymuster has a fair use policy of 150Gb (peak) and 300Gb (total) per connection per rolling 4 week period.

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Raclette is most definitely the cheese. Next time we meet, ask me about buying raclette in Paris. Not as easy as it seems!

Raclette is more or less Regional french, I believe.
Never found Raclette in Paris.

 

[Quickstatus]

Raclette in Paris
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See my post no 77842

The Raclette experience (Again the Cheese?, the dish? or the experience?) as I remember from Regional France is quite different.
I remember they give you a Wheel of Raclette Cheese set vertically with the top cut off. Then there is a heating lamp over the top. You slice off the melted cheese from the top, and its then accompanied by charcuterie, vegetables and bread (Raclette Dish/experience)

I dont think they expect you to eat the whole wheel so I can imagine most places would give you a few slices.

So if any hard cheese is done the same way its also Raclette?

So my Grilled cheese (Kraft) on toast with ham and tomato counts as Raclette? (Ok I dont do Gherkins)

This lady says that Raclette is the cheese, dish, then there is the Raclette machine, and Raclette the experience

This is closer to my experience but just ignore the grilled part - the americans have again corrupted the whole thing. Ours was set on the table with a small heating lamp. We scraped off the cheese ourselves.

Geez the French are so confusing. Then Raclette is a swiss cheese or French cos it sounds French?.


However after Raclette best to top with aspirin and crestor for the next month

Then there is this take on Raclette?:

 

[Denali]

.....I dont think they expect you to eat the whole wheel .......

They havent met me then!

...the americans have again corrupted the whole thing.....

You mean cheese isnt suppose to come in a can!?

 

[Quickstatus]

US consumerism is very offworld.

Imagine

Oranges have their own packaging called the skin. So grocery stores normally sell oranges in the normal way. No extra packaging required.

Nooooo

In the US they peel the orange then place each individual peeled orange in a plastic container. these little plastic containers are then stacked up like the non peeled oranges.

 

[Hvr]

I dont think they expect you to eat the whole wheel

They havent met me then!

Is this you? (from 50 seconds)

 

[Denali]

Is this you? (from 50 seconds)

My trip to Amsterdam includes a day of visiting the towns of Gouda, Edam and the Cheese Markets. The day we arrive, we're doing a Cheese Tasting tour. You have your wine, I have my cheese

 

[Flying mermaid]

The Raclette experience (Again the Cheese?, the dish? or the experience?) as I remember from Regional France is quite different.
I remember they give you a Wheel of Raclette Cheese set vertically with the top cut off. Then there is a heating lamp over the top. You slice off the melted cheese from the top, and its then accompanied by charcuterie, vegetables and bread (Raclette Dish/experience)

I dont think they expect you to eat the whole wheel so I can imagine most places would give you a few slices.

So if any hard cheese is done the same way its also Raclette?

So my Grilled cheese (Kraft) on toast with ham and tomato counts as Raclette? (Ok I dont do Gherkins)

This lady says that Raclette is the cheese, dish, then there is the Raclette machine, and Raclette the experience

This is closer to my experience but just ignore the grilled part - the americans have again corrupted the whole thing. Ours was set on the table with a small heating lamp. We scraped off the cheese ourselves.

Geez the French are so confusing. Then Raclette is a swiss cheese or French cos it sounds French?.


However after Raclette best to top with aspirin and crestor for the next month

Then there is this take on Raclette?:

If you go back to the origins it is a Swiss dish, which the French have taken on. Which came first the cheese or the dish is a bit of a chicken or the egg question. As far as the original dish goes the name covers both the cheese and the dish, which is a meat, potato, pickles with Raclette cheese. No doubt over the centuries a lot of extras have come in, but that is the origin

 

[straitman]

If you go back to the origins it is a Swiss dish, which the French have taken on. Which came first the cheese or the dish is a bit of a chicken or the egg question. As far as the original dish goes the name covers both the cheese and the dish, which is a meat, potato, pickles with Raclette cheese. No doubt over the centuries a lot of extras have come in, but that is the origin

Stop it you lot.

You are making me hungry!

 

[Flying mermaid]

Stop it you lot.

You are making me hungry!

I have to admit when I took the Raclette grill out last night to photograph it, it made me hungry too

 

[Denali]

‘It is awkward’

A fed-up US couple is giving her unemployed 30-year-old son, who still lives at home, a dose of tough love — by suing him to have him evicted.

 

[straitman]

‘It is awkward’

A fed-up US couple is giving her unemployed 30-year-old son, who still lives at home, a dose of tough love — by suing him to have him evicted.

The judge ruled he must move out and now he’s appealing. Geez.......