Loz

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some of my wife's relatives came over for lunch last year, and they all prayed at the table before > starting to eat. Now I obviously don't care what they do in their own home, but felt a bit > invasive. I assume this wasn't the first time they'd experienced your cooking?? :))

Well, it falls into two often competing pieces of etiquette. 1) No, you shouldn't generally begin eating until all have their food. 2) But, your gaff: your rules. The second rule always supercedes the first.

If Conservative Central aren't working hard to get Davidson into Westminster and lining her up to succeed May, they're nuts.

The new PM had a pretty good first PMQs today. A confident performance with some well aimed jokes and even a possible Maggie impersonation. Mind you, it was good to see Corbyn look like he had a bit of fire in his belly for once, though it seemed mainly because he was getting a lot of stick over his "insecure jobs" comments.

reddulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As requested! > > https://www.carolinelucas.com/latest/letter-to-minister-about-rail-safety-concerns Interesting. Surely, though, this is technology that can (and should) be fixed before the trains go DOO. This is the sort of things unions SHOULD be yelling about, instead of trying to maintain out of date work practices.

It helps if you link to such stuff so we can read it for ourselves.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The problem is the crazy, failed privatisation model. What do you think would be a better privatisation model? Or are you just anti-privatisation?

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't talk for brown sauce, but daddies ketchup > is bloody horrible. Heinz and only Heinz. Heinz make both HP and Daddies... and, of course, Heinz.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Re-nationalise the whole network. Problem solved. I believe that, strictly speaking, the Southern Rail network IS nationalised. Govia merely manage it, rather than own the franchise. The DfT owns the franchise.

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > > > > > TOASTED? No. Just no. > > You sir, are a fecking wrong-un. Always had my > suspicions but this post confirms it. Bacon and eggs on toast - fine. But, sorry Jah, if you make your bacon sandwiches with toast then you're in the wrong. You may as well stick avocado and lettuce and oven-roasted organic Sicilian plum tomatoes with a drizzling of extra-virgin olive oil in at that point. You've spoilt it, so you may as well finish the job. There are many fine toasted sandwiches, but the humble bacon sandwich ain't one of them.

titch juicy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > TOASTED? No. Just no. > > > Lightly toasted white bread bacon sandwich is > remarkably good. Sorry, but part of the joy of a bacon sandwich is the squishy bread. Toasting destroys that.

Veggie bacon Non-alcoholic wine Decaffeinated coffee Three things that should have never been invented. Why?? Just why?

titch juicy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Folks, stop ruining bacon sandwiches. It's just awful the things you're inflicting on them. > > Bread, toasted or otherwise > Butter > Bacon of choice, cooked how you like it > Ketchup or HP (no other brown sauce will do). Or at a push English Mustard. > > End Thread. TOASTED? No. Just no.

From an article in the Guardian... On the Bosphorus bridge, there were scenes of delirium. Demonstrators boarded an abandoned army truck, waving Turkish flags and chanting against the coup. Cars and mopeds drove past, honking their horns in victory. ?The English would never be able to do this, but we did,? one woman screamed at a pair of foreigners. ?We?re Turkish.? So, after Brexit, England is now seen as the new "Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys" of Europe.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've always found bacon and coffee a bit of a disappointment. They never taste as good as they smell. The winner of that one is fruit teas. Smell like fruity goodness, taste like hot water.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sriracha! Gesundheit.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bacon, either really thin and crispy or lardons, avocado, tomato, proper mayonnaise. AVOCADO??? I think you just gentrified the humble bacon sandwich.

TheArtfulDogger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But what about chips or is that too not a bacon > sarnie ... More of a chip and bacon buttie ? I have never put chips in a sandwich. That much carbohydrate between two slices of carbohydrate just seems wrong. (I know I am probably in a minority of one on this.)

TheArtfulDogger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's got to be on a crispy baguette, butter (never Marge) , 3 slices of fried dry cured smoked bacon, > an egg, sunny side down, fried tomatoe , sometimes mushrooms, sometimes not, brown sauce on one side, > red on the other and lettuce (to make it appear healthy) and if I am feeling really decadent fried > flat sausage too... Oooh, no. Cheap, supermarket white - the type that squidges easily. And a generous dollop of brown sauce in the sandwich. And yes, you can add mushrooms, egg, tomato, sausage - but it's not a Bacon Sandwich then. But no beans. For a fry-up, yep, but nowhere near a bacon sandwich. And definitely no bloody lettuce.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > > As Henry XVII said... links? (And remember, you said 'near daily', so anything in the last week.) > > How about this: > Edit - can't seem to link direct to article, look for Robert Philpot's article on July 8th. I think you mean this http://www.thejc.com/node/160166 Whilst strongly worded, it is a discussion on comments Corbyn has made. And no more strongly worded than any politician's words get discussed. All politicians get this sort of treatment. And also, the Jewish Chronicle is a pretty niche publication - I'd have thought that, since they are 'near daily attacks' you could have found something 'vile' in a recent national newspaper. Too hard, eh? > > Personally, I'd have set lawyers onto Isabel Oakenshott and Michael Ashcroft. Doubly so when > > Oakenshott admitted later there was no real basis for the story. > Why didn't he then? Or why doesn't he now he's got time on his hands? And anyway, being accused > of silly buggers when at university really does not compare with being called an anti-semite and > friend to terrorists now. Well, I'd guess he was wary of the Streisand Effect. Why doesn't Corbyn sue all these people for their 'vile' articles?

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The near-daily accusations of being an anti-semitic supporter of terrorists? Daily > Telegraph articles headed "Corbyn will be cheered on by terrorists and racists"? As Henry XVII said... links? (And remember, you said 'near daily', so anything in the last week.) If you go further back you will find the some stories after Corbyn's naive comments in front of a crowd of Jewish journalists (introducing a report into anti-Semitism in Labour) and his frankly stupid remarks about "our friends" in Hamas and Hezbollah. As Andrea Leadsom discovered, you can't complain about people reporting stories about things you actually said. > A bit of a giggle about Dave getting jiggy with a piggy doesn't compare. Really? I would consider being accused of having oral sex with a dead animal in the national press a pretty damn serious and vile accusation. Personally, I'd have set lawyers onto Isabel Oakenshott and Michael Ashcroft. Doubly so when Oakenshott admitted later there was no real basis for the story.

bodsier Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I fear you are being duped by the vile attacks that have been > made against him via the media. I read this claim a lot, but I've seen very few 'vile attacks'. Mostly I see comments in the Guardian that basically amount to "how very dare you not agree with everything St Jeremy of Corbyn says". Nothing has been said about Corbyn that has been anything near what Cameron endured with 'piggate'. So, I'd like to see some of these 'vile attacks'. Can you give examples?

I don't think anyone underestimates Boris, Foxy. I think everyone knows he is capable of doing quite significant damage. As a friend said, "Boris as Foreign Secretary? That's like appointing King Herod as Minister for Children."

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But then I live in a bubble of people with similar political views to myself who want this country to > be in the hands of people with honesty and integrity If we've learnt anything over the past few weeks, it's that there is no one in the two main parties that can be described as such (and yes, I most definitely include Corbyn in that - he has proved over the past few weeks to be as dishonest, deceitful and manipulative as the rest of them). Though we have discovered that the Tories are more efficient at "self-serving, lying, back-stabbing". Labour tries to be self-serving, lying and back-stabbing, but they seem as utterly incompetent at that as just about anything else they try to do at the moment. Ruth Davidson hit the nail on the head the other day: "Everyone is resigning, getting knifed, bottling it, withdrawing, failing, declaring, or falling on their sword. I think the mad thing in all of the last few weeks is that the last man standing is Jeremy Corbyn. Labour is now putting forward a ?unity candidate? to take on their original ?unity candidate?. That's the difference between our two parties: Labour is still fumbling with its flies while the Tories are enjoying their post-coital cigarette. After withdrawing our massive Johnson.?

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We - most of us anyway - can make a philosophical > case of why it could and even should happen. But > it won't - you need to move on Jenny/Loz. Not until Article 50 is signed, sealed and delivered and the European fat lady has sung.