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Post by onlyMark on Dec 19, 2022 19:11:17 GMT
I wore Doc Martens for many years. I found that if I bought brown ones and used black Cherry Blossom shoe polish they'd buff up really well. Especially after a final wipe with an old pair of stockings. Several pairs had the sole worn out enough to puncture them.
You know you can get vegan Doc Martens now?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 13, 2022 21:08:12 GMT
It's my middle name.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 13, 2022 20:12:58 GMT
What do people think of ordering "special meals"? Some say that if you order a halal, kosher, vegetarian etc meal it is produced in smaller quantities and often better than the standard one. I always now order a 'special meal'. Nearly always it is vegetarian Indian (if that is a choice which it often is) and it isn't smaller. I tend to think a veg curry that's reheated and kept warm is better than some random piece of fish or meat. If I order just vegetarian it seems to just be some variation of pasta, which I'm not keen on anyway. Flying back and forth from Zambia meant there was always a good proportion of Indians who didn't seem to know they could order a special meal. The looks I got when I was served some curry smelling food and they had some less than appetising standard meal made me feel smug.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 13, 2022 7:29:12 GMT
You had just six(?) days in Singapore?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 10, 2022 13:19:38 GMT
If that is an answer to me k2, I was referring to your post just before mine. I have had a few biryani's in my time, so probably has young Mick. That one does look good. I can almost smell it from here.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 10, 2022 9:50:44 GMT
Is that a large bowl of noodle and dumpling soup, a soup with large noodles, a soup with large noodles and large dumplings or maybe all three?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 7, 2022 8:39:29 GMT
I have an uncanny intolerance for discomfort. Twelve hours in economy wouldn't happen because I wouldn't do it. In any case I always get an aisle seat but never for more than four hours. If longer I now have the money to do stuff I couldn't do when younger. I once flew from the UK to NZ in economy. Never, ever again.
Weather related, every one else is having snow but we are not here. Unusual that the 1st December or thereabouts will see snow falling and people are talking about climate change.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 6, 2022 21:49:55 GMT
No crowding in first class for you though. That's a good thing.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 6, 2022 13:42:20 GMT
No hiccups with the flight?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 5, 2022 6:04:46 GMT
It's a cooking technique I've used a few times, more often in pre-heated sand than anything.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 4, 2022 21:14:32 GMT
Off the top of my head I think they are two different Islamic sects anyway.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 2, 2022 19:58:10 GMT
4. Tay Hai - Rustom
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 1, 2022 11:28:31 GMT
Correct.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 1, 2022 7:39:13 GMT
One for K2 to report on - "Lyon has a long-standing tradition of tucking into wine and offal at breakfast." "I've always found French petit déjeuner (breakfast) insubstantial, but that wasn't the first thing that came to mind as I scanned the menu on the blackboard. Gone were the tartines and croissants, replaced instead by a list that read like a biology textbook: rognons de veau (calf's kidney), tablier de sapeur (fried, breaded tripe), tête de veau (calf's head). This was mâchon, a long-standing Lyonnais breakfast tradition where no part of the animal goes to waste." www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221130-mchon-the-french-breakfast-you-dont-know
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 1, 2022 6:58:58 GMT
If I say to you "pinch punch" today, who knows why I say it?
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 30, 2022 20:10:26 GMT
1. When You Are A King. White Plains, 1971.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 30, 2022 14:02:02 GMT
In the winter of 62/63 I was a young kid but remember the cold and snow well. We were living in a terraced house with an outside toilet out the back and down the yard. One fireplace in the living room and a gas cooker in the kitchen. My parents and my brother and I had a 'pee bucket' in the bedrooms for the night time. It would be frozen over in the morning. Our car had no heater either. An old Austin A30.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 30, 2022 7:49:39 GMT
arse
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 27, 2022 19:03:01 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 27, 2022 8:14:39 GMT
I'm very sympathetic to the plight of Ukraine just to make that clear - but, and there has to be a but, purely on the subject in the video of power cuts and living with them, it's worth making a video about it to bring it to attention for sure, but for example, those dastardly coal mine workers in the UK holding the UK to ransom instigating the three day week etc etc and the power supply situation in many countries makes this situation not unusual. Having no internet was mentioned many times, and having to use the data on the phone which was getting blocked up was never a concern. I see they have a gas cooker, hopefully not supplied from Russia.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 27, 2022 7:48:21 GMT
Thanks for the info Tod.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 22, 2022 17:09:43 GMT
(A slight pedantic correction there Casi - now known as Puducherry. Been many times.)
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 22, 2022 17:07:39 GMT
Post 61 shows a couple of treadmill cranes. I've seen illustrations of these on building medieval bridges. Nice to see them actually working -
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 20, 2022 16:03:51 GMT
Does he/you know about "Find my Phone"? I presume he has done something about any banking or payment apps?
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 19, 2022 4:51:32 GMT
Exact same as my IQ test.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 18, 2022 19:55:24 GMT
I got a 66 which falls in the moderate morning category. But, I noticed with some of the questions my answers would have been different forty years ago. Generally years ago I would have been more up and at 'em than I am now. It takes me longer to get going first thing. I've always needed an alarm clock, mainly for the security of knowing I wouldn't oversleep, but when the alarm went of I'd roll over to switch it off and continue on to my feet and start putting my clothes, then straight out the door (this is when I used to work for a living).
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2022 19:09:27 GMT
The regular Carrefour I go to in Spain has a system whereby there are two entrances to the tills. There must be thirty or more tills though. So two banks of fifteen, maybe. There is a monitor at each entrance that beeps up the number of the next till to be free. The till people have to press a button when they are just about finished with the person they're sorting out. The psychological thing though is not only do you not concern yourself you've gone to the wrong/slowest queue, you see the single queue going down fairly fast and feel you'll be served sooner. One of my first jobs as a teenager was bag filling at the till in a frozen food shop. Don't see that much now.
A lot of my life has been spent queueing in supermarkets and it is of interest to see how they do it in the different countries I've lived in or visit. E.g. because I know you are interested, in Zambia the till person is not allowed to 'blip' one item if you buy a multiple and put the total figure of them in. They have to do each one individually, no matter how many you've bought.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2022 16:49:11 GMT
I was in a big Asda in the UK a few years ago. Grilled a manager about the lack of till staff. It always seemed to be like that whenever I went in. He admitted they work from a computer programme (handed down from HQ) that predicts how many tills they need open at certain times of the day/week/month/year. And how is that working out for you, I asked, nodding towards the long queues. I said you probably have trained staff now on a break or filling shelves or whatever, why don't you be a bit of a rebel to HQ and call a few over instead of blindly following a computer readout? Bless 'im, as I got halfway down one of the queues and was thinking about going to a self-checkout that had just become free, a loud bell rang and after some muffled announcement three more staff turned up. Still only half the tills open though.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2022 16:38:06 GMT
Be careful, the suicide drones can't find you too well when it's murky.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2022 16:33:32 GMT
I've just left there. Never saw them. Although I've just crossed from Villeneuve Loubet Plage in France to near Ljubljana in Slovenia through Italy and it was all nose to tail trucks. Plus constant road works (not in France or Slovenia by the way, just Italy).
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