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Author:  TheVision [ Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:15 ]
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Kern, who is that in your spare room? That's not Tommy Dreamer is it? You cad!
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:20 ]
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Kern, call Gazchap and he'll punch through the wall.

Don't call inspector dixit as he'll ride a tuktuk through the wall
Author:  Kern [ Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:32 ]
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TheVision wrote:
Kern, who is that in your spare room? That's not Tommy Dreamer is it? You cad!


Great! I was worried it was mice.
Author:  Warhead [ Thu Oct 26, 2017 21:42 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
I didn't have enough milk for my muesli this morning, I had to leave the last few mouthfuls.


I was working away from home a couple of years ago, staying in an 'otel (but I never have hotel breakfasts) and found that my milk had gone off over night, so I had my muesli with water. Wasn't too bad, really, after I'd let it soak for a while. In fact I often have porridge made with water rather than milk, as a small contributory factor in my middle age spread reduction regime.
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:36 ]
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It's a lovely day and I'm sitting around the house waiting for plumbers and deliveries. I could be smoking wings and brisket and pork but I didn't pick any up based on the weather last night and now I can't go out. Dammit.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:44 ]
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I'm thinking I might try cold-smoking some cheese.
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:15 ]
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By cheese you mean "lumps of belly bacon"?
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:05 ]
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I mean... No.
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:08 ]
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But cheese should not be smoked.

Except that German stuff that comes in round slices, that's alright.

Also cheese isn't meat.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:33 ]
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BikNorton wrote:
But cheese should not be smoked.

Smoked cheese is fucking delicious, sir.

I am going to take the two finest types of cheese* and add a delicious, delicious smokey flavour.

* Cathedral City Mature and Dairylea, obv
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:38 ]
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Do you like cheese with bits in as well?
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:49 ]
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Not really. I had some Christmas cheese that was pretty amazing once, but generally I like my cheese to have cheese in it. Cheese with chillis in is fucking nice.
Author:  Cras [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:54 ]
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*BUSTS THROUGH THE WALL OF THE THREAD, KOOL-AID MAN STYLE*

OMFG smoked cheese is brilliant. It's like normal cheese but also tastes smoky. I fucking love smoked cheese.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:14 ]
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BikNorton wrote:
But cheese should not be smoked.
omg no

BikNorton wrote:
By cheese you mean "lumps of belly bacon"?
...
Also cheese isn't meat.
Also no.

Cold-smoking your own meat or fish is a fucking daredevil act. It takes 1-3 hours to smoke, during which time it's hanging around at room temperature. If it's warmer than a fridge outside -- which it definite is -- then hellloooo Salmonella and wait, what's this, you've brought your charming companion E. coli along too? Well, let me invite you into my lower intestine so we can all have a party!
Author:  Cras [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:22 ]
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Also we made smoked cheese-stuffed jalapenos at the BBQ and they were so much the bomb that counter-terrorism officers turned up
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:46 ]
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Was that that nice Officer R. Howard?
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:52 ]
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Fish also shouldn't be smoked. You people are weird.

It's definitely not me.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:57 ]
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Smoked haddock chowder says "fuck you, son"
Author:  TheVision [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 14:00 ]
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It's pronounced, Chowder.
Author:  Cras [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 14:02 ]
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Also kedgeree, smoked salmon, smoked mackerel, smoked eel, and basically Bik is Wrongly The Loon.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 14:06 ]
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TheVision wrote:
It's pronounced, Chowder.


Are you referring to Henry VIII?
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 14:10 ]
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TheVision wrote:
It's pronounced, Chowder.

chowdah
CHOWDAH
Author:  DBSnappa [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 14:23 ]
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Hey Cras, Aldi do an amazing mature cheddar which has calcium crystals [1] in and it’s cheap

[1] Citations, etc
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 14:24 ]
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.
Author:  Cras [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 14:28 ]
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Hmm, can it possibly be as good as Cathedral City though?
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 20:34 ]
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Cathedral City isn't good. Unfortunately my reference is... Er, Cornish Cruncher, maybe? Can't remember. But it doesn't matter because it got bought and rebranded and "hey, new name but it's still the same" except it was shit.

The super-vintage stuff M&S have from Davidstow Creamery is fantastic, just not AS fantastic.
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 20:36 ]
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No, wait, it was Devon Tickler. Something Tickler. I forget the specifics.

Either way, neither smoked nor full of other bits, the way cheese should be.

I had forgotten about smoked eel nigiri sushi though, I have to concede that. Along with white stilton with apricot and Wensleydale with cranberries. Everything else is worse than cheese-with-stuff-on-top.
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 20:39 ]
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Are you fucking kidding me Cathedral City? A whole world of cheese out there and that's what you would pick?!
Author:  Cras [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 20:40 ]
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Oh no. The stabbing has to start again.
Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 20:43 ]
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MrChris wrote:
Are you fucking kidding me Cathedral City? A whole world of cheese out there and that's what you would pick?!


And Dairylea.
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 20:54 ]
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Fucking philistines
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 22:28 ]
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MrChris wrote:
Fucking philistines

These must truly be the end times because someone agrees with MrChris.
Author:  Mimi [ Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:33 ]
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Smoked cheese is lovely. The applewood is ok, a little sweet, but ok for an easy to come by selection. I’d definitely try the daurylea though because Dairylea is awesome.

Get some if the smoked cathedral city spreadable and smoke it more.
Author:  Bobbyaro [ Sat Oct 28, 2017 9:35 ]
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Sainsbury's used to sell a smoked basil with chillies in it. I loved, but suspect I was the only one to buy it so they stopped selling it.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 28, 2017 9:48 ]
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Bobbyaro wrote:
Sainsbury's used to sell a smoked basil with chillies in it.
I hope the word "cheese" is missing from this sentence. Otherwise that's a weird foodstuff you're describing.
Author:  ApplePieOfDestiny [ Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:55 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Bobbyaro wrote:
Sainsbury's used to sell a smoked basil with chillies in it.
I hope the word "cheese" is missing from this sentence. Otherwise that's a weird foodstuff you're describing.

It’s one of their vape flavours
Author:  Bobbyaro [ Sat Oct 28, 2017 13:59 ]
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The word cheese was missing from their description as well, tbf. I think that basil was the type of cheese, but have never been able to find any reference to it
Author:  Cras [ Sat Oct 28, 2017 14:12 ]
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I'm pretty sure basil is not a type of cheese
Author:  Bobbyaro [ Sat Oct 28, 2017 14:44 ]
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Bavarian basil. Something like that anyway, it has been a few years since I saw it.

Edit. I think it was this under a different, and ambiguous, label.
https://www.bergader.com/our-cheese-spe ... auchkaese/
Author:  Kern [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:25 ]
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Someone I don't know is sitting in my preferred seat in the office. Having to find a less-convivial place has got today off to a bad start for me. I know it's childish and we're all super-agile-hot-deskers etc but, grr, I like having a view.
Author:  Mr Russell [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:28 ]
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Kern wrote:
Someone I don't know is sitting in my preferred seat in the office. Having to find a less-convivial place has got today off to a bad start for me. I know it's childish and we're all super-agile-hot-deskers etc but, grr, I like having a view.


I can understand hot-desking as a concept if you're for example working on a project with some new people for a few weeks/months, but at least when you come in each day you know where you're sitting.

If hot-desking becomes a similar grab for prime spots in the same way as non-allocated parking spaces then it would be incredibly stressful to me:
1) Getting a spot I feel comfortable in.
2) Fighting anxiety that people are talking about how I always grab the 'good spot' because I come in earlier.
3) Where do I put all the stuff that reminds me of home, like my family photos and artwork Darwin has made.
Author:  Kern [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:31 ]
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And then I take someone else's preferred space, so they spend the day scowling at me whilst sitting in yet another person's space.
Author:  Kern [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:41 ]
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Mr Russell wrote:
3) Where do I put all the stuff that reminds me of home, like my family photos and artwork Darwin has made.


I miss having postcards and other fun stuff to look at, but I'm too lazy to take in and out all day. My current office feels like a sterile workhouse. About the only decoration I carry with me is a beer mat so my cup doesn't stain the table. Still, when I get an upgrade to Windows 10 I'll be allowed to change the background picture, so I can exhibit my personality against the soullessness of the corporation.
Author:  Cras [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:42 ]
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We've gone fully hotdesking for the last year, and surprisingly everyone seems to have taken to it very well.
Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:48 ]
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I wish some of the offices here would fucking hotdesk. Save us shuffling the fuckers around every fucking 3 months because some fucker has decided that mixing up the fucking desks makes for a better fucking team mixing environment. Which means moving all the fucking PCs, monitors and the like. Plus all of their fucking shit that goes with it.

Fuckers.

No-one's taking my desk from me though. Said the man who's been at a completely different desk miles from his own for 4 weeks. I miss my chair. And my lamp. I love lamp.
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 11:23 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
I wish some of the offices here would fucking hotdesk. Save us shuffling the fuckers around every fucking 3 months because some fucker has decided that mixing up the fucking desks makes for a better fucking team mixing environment.

Amen, preacher!

Hotdesking FTMFW.
Author:  TheVision [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:01 ]
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We did hot desking at my old place and it didn’t bother me too much as I was always one of the first in so I had the same desk every day. The same happened with one of my colleagues. As we were in early, we always had the nicest desks.

One of the arsey managers made a passing comment one day that that’s not how hot desking works and we should move desks. Of course, I didn’t because we were following the rules of hot desking. First come, first served.

It didn’t help that we were about 5 desks short for the team so if no one was on holiday or off sick, the late comers had to go somewhere else in the building. Possibly another building.

I’m sure someone came in one morning, saw there were no desks and just turned straight around and went home.
Author:  asfish [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:18 ]
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They have tried this at my place for years, what usual happens is that people get a preferred desk and they just take it over with personal stuff.

People like the fact they can work at home but still want a defined desk.

Recently a department here has tried again and made more effort so it might work this time.

Firstly they addressed all the push back from the staff, then lockers were added for people to put personal stuff into.

Finally I put in a Condeco hot desk system, these are small devices about the size and shape of an Echo Dot. They light up Red or Green to show if the desk is free or not and are fitted to screening around the desks. When you walk into the open plan area you can see if what is free.

People can book a desk via a smartphone, or on a touch screen in the department or even just walk up to a green one and touch it to book the desk.

The other issue with hotdesks was the endless models of laptop and docking stations that you would get from in our case HP, you would find 2 years in none of the newer models worked with the older docking stations, we have a single USB3 solution for the screen and other devices now.
Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 15:21 ]
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I don't mind hot desking.

As long as it has a monitor, so I can read my docs better, not really fussed.
Author:  GazChap [ Mon Oct 30, 2017 15:35 ]
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I would fucking hate the idea of hotdesking.
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