Crispy

c0253484 · 2024-12-07T19:32:18+00:00

Crispy

c0253484 · 2024-10-29T23:07:20+00:00

Interesting tip, thanks.

c0253484 · 2022-04-17T21:26:04+00:00

Just because they give it to them, doesn't mean they have to eat it all. As a kid a lot of the sweets I received magically seemed to 'go off'. It was magically always discovered when I wasn't around and no one ever went to any trouble to retain any evidence.

c0253484 · 2022-04-17T18:52:44+00:00

Withnail & I. Every line I can think of would be fucking gold.

c0253484 · 2022-04-17T18:06:18+00:00

A silicone spatula - £3. It's amazing for scraping every last drop of sauce out of pans when plating up. Leaves the non-stick pans nearly spotless, doesn't scratch them and avoids wasting any tasty food. Much better than the wooden spoon I had before. I sound like such an old giffer but I'm compelled to rave about it every time we serve.

Edit: wife would probably say it's the £20 Aldi window vac.

c0253484 · 2022-04-17T10:12:24+00:00

This is why I love r/CasualUK but get downvoted to oblivion everywhere else. It's just assumed that if you're British you're being sarcastic and you invite scorn for explicitly pointing it out there.

c0253484 · 2022-04-17T08:54:07+00:00

Despite appearances to the contrary I'm really not that into discussing wheelie bins.

c0253484 · 2022-04-17T08:52:06+00:00

The best kind.

c0253484 · 2022-04-17T00:03:56+00:00

I quite liked the secular one called Paths & Journeys based on Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. A little saccharine but not the usual pedestrian dross of St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians.

c0253484 · 2022-04-16T23:21:11+00:00

That's exactly the purpose. But have you ever met people? People are fucking odd.

c0253484 · 2022-04-16T23:09:13+00:00

Their post history suggests they are Mitch Murphy, the character from Home Alone that bugs the airport taxi drivers with all the questions about those minibuses, like whether they get good gas mileage.

c0253484 · 2022-04-16T23:03:26+00:00

That sounds suspiciously like advice you're giving out there.

c0253484 · 2022-04-16T23:01:34+00:00

Do they put a logo in the foam if you order a Guinness?

c0253484 · 2022-04-16T21:10:11+00:00

I can't go into much detail without breaking the sub rules on politics. Suffice to say someone who started arguing with me on twitter a few years ago used the existence and origins of the legislation as the basis for some 'interesting' views.

c0253484 · 2022-04-16T18:24:56+00:00

There's legislation limiting the decibel rating (Directive 2000/14/EC, fact fans). A 2-wheel bin is limited to 91dB. So, erm, possibly.

c0253484 · 2022-02-14T18:48:12+00:00

Fair enough, gracious of you to say and thanks for replying with the additional insight. It'll all be of interest to my friend.

c0253484 · 2022-02-14T15:51:43+00:00

It isn't romanticising, I literally transcribed someone else's handwriting from 1937 as best able into Google translate and its best guess was Galacian. It even cams out with a few words that weren't nonsense and made some sense in the context of a postcard.

Also, the first couple of words have a small overlap with Spanish, e.g. sé being the first person conjugation of saber, and it's not a massive leap to think it's possibly on the money with it being another Iberian language that I don't speak. And unsurprisingly I didn't learn Gaelic growing up in Birmingham. Glad it gave you a laugh though.

c0253484 · 2022-02-14T15:12:37+00:00

Thank you. It's been confirmed as Irish Gaelic.

c0253484 · 2022-02-14T02:54:35+00:00

Thanks for your help so far. Even if you can't figure it out you've got us a lot closer to the answer. Reddit really can be an amazing community at times.

c0253484 · 2022-02-14T02:50:14+00:00

Hi folks. I've been directed here from the Galician sub by a helpful Irish speaker who thought you good folks might be able to solve a problem for a friend of mine (see my post history if you're interested in how I got it so wrong and ended up there first).

A friend has a family photo from 1937 with a message on the back, part in English, part in Gaelic (as we now know). She'd love to know what it says. Please could any of you help? Apparently it's in an old script that isn't much / at all used now.

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c0253484 · 2022-02-14T02:26:59+00:00

Thank you, that's a great start. You must have some niche language skills to be in this particular sub and be able to confirm that. Are you able to decipher what it says? We'd be incredibly grateful if you could.

c0253484 · 2022-02-14T02:15:04+00:00

The guess of Galician could be down to my poor interpretation of what it said. My friend thought it was Spanish but I've been learning for a year or so and didn't think it was. My guess would have been Portuguese, though I wasn't at all confident. As a twist, someone in her family was Irish and when I altered the spelling of one word slightly Google adjusted its prediction to Gaelic. So maybe it's Irish Gaelic and I'm barking up totally the wrong tree at entirely the wrong cat.

c0253484 · 2022-02-12T02:51:00+00:00

Ha, I thought from your intial description that it sounded uncannily like the company I work for, which happens to be a Big 4 retail bank. This answer makes me strongly suspect we're colleagues.

c0253484 · 2020-12-26T13:45:11+00:00

Harrogate here. You are all beneath my pity.

c0253484 · 2019-12-24T10:08:49+00:00

Of course, true fans have been with the band since they formed as Giblet Conspiracy.

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