Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 27)

Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 27)

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Stinkotanko

168 posts

99 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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It snowed here earlier too, but it didn't lie.

Iva Barchetta

44,044 posts

163 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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DickyC said:
That could become a regular feature:

WHAT WOULD IVA DO?

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Delivery Man cometh vaguely? Porridge stuck to a saucepan? Wheel ding?

What would iva do?
After googling said conundrum and collating an extensive spreadsheet from the many and varied results the conclusion is that he would moan about whatever it is in a popular thread on the platform that is the internet.

UnChunkymonkey71

13,015 posts

198 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Iva knows Iva!

UnChunkymonkey71

13,015 posts

198 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Justayellowbadge said:
I thought under the People's Socialist republic of Sturgeonstan it was eternal summer, with rainbow unicorns delivering happiness and warmth to all?

The snow is a filthy Westminster lie.
That is absolutely correct. It's all gone now.

Impasse

15,099 posts

241 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Moneysupermarket "Big Bad Wolf" ad campaign. WTF is that all about?

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

211 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Impasse said:
Moneysupermarket "Big Bad Wolf" ad campaign. WTF is that all about?
Well,essentially, it's about a wolf who visits a money supermarket to determine how much he could get for the skin of meerkats.

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ChemicalChaos

10,393 posts

160 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Worked an hour and a half overtime tonight generating anomalous data.

Now enjoying a well-earned Vodka and lemonade whilst waiting for dinner

Stinkotanko

168 posts

99 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Why did you have to generate anomalous data...?

DickyC

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49,754 posts

198 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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ChemicalChaos said:
Worked an hour and a half overtime tonight generating anomalous data.

Now enjoying a well-earned Vodka and lemonade whilst waiting for dinner
Had they run out of port?

ChemicalChaos

10,393 posts

160 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Because several examples of an item I work with had repeatedly failed a particular type of quality control testing, and the theory as to why (and this how to rectify production) hinged on being confirmed by the results of a different QC test I was running. The anomalous results of this would indeed seem to confirm things.
Sadly they only informed me that these results were urgently needed halfway through through the day when I was already set up with testing something different, and had planned to test the product in question tomorrow. Had I been told this morning, I could have swapped my schedule around....


I have not run out of Port, in fact I have 3 bottles of it. However I fancied the refreshing taste of a long drink mixer this evening.
Dinner was nice in the end too - lamb sausages in a tomato and bean casserole with some mash lick

DickyC

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49,754 posts

198 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Marvellous. Please don't be outraged but at Christmas I made the world's blandest trifle. It had absolutely no taste. Hoping to jazz it up a bit, my thoughts turned to sherry. There was none in the sideboard. And so it came to pass that the Port trifle was invented. It was - what's the word? - okay. It was certainly an improvement on tasteless trifle.

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

211 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Trifle needs sherry. In the same way RS2 Audi's need garages.

DickyC

Original Poster:

49,754 posts

198 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

Tell us something really trifle about your life.

Nik da Greek

2,503 posts

150 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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When it comes to trifle, I'm ashamed to say I'm massively proletarian. Bird's packet mix in all flavours of synthetic plastic and E-numbers is impossible to beat. Heston with his worm gizzard and seagull vomit trifle might disagree, but then I have less silly spectacles* than him so who's really winning?

*also fewer silly spectacles

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

211 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Trifle sponges vs boudoir biscuits?

Sweet sherry vs disorono


DickyC

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49,754 posts

198 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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I shall say this only once. Trifle sponges, TWO large punnets of raspberries, one pack decent raspberry jelly and a pack of good readymade custard.

Use one punnet of raspberries to make a coulis and use it to make the jelly. Then it's a layer of sponge fingers, a layer of raspberries (the other punnet), layer of sponge fingers, pour on jelly mix. When set, pour on custard. Resist the temptation to embellish the trifle.

The reason I use ready made custard is that it doesn't skin like it will if you make Bird's. Much as I like Bird's, it skins. There's no getting away from it. Skin has its place and that place is not on trifle.

DickyC

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49,754 posts

198 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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I should explain this was what I came with up for Christmas Trifle II. It was in a different league to Tasteless Trifle I.

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

211 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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My dear mater used to use the toasted almond route to add flavour.

Trifle, comfort food of the gods.

pad58

12,545 posts

181 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Love trifle and trifle loves me.
My mum made the best one , not found one to touch it , however the posh one from Marks is not too bad.

DickyC

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49,754 posts

198 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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The Italians have a name for it, Zuppa Inglese.*


*English Soup.
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