Yes of course. I wouldn’t eat it without bringing it to a simmer for 5 minutes or so however. Not many bugs can survive at 100 degrees celcius.

I regularly leave cooked food out overnight, covered, if I intend to reheat it thoroughly and eat it. If I am planning on eating something cold, however, I always chill it.

Ok that’s good news. Current plan is to do some quiet/town driving with Mrs Poppa before getting a few lessons to get motorway/major A-road experience.

As with a lot of stuff done in labs, surely some of it has to be made up to some extent.

I work in a scientific discipline and can confirm that this is the generally taken approach. If it is taking too long to get results, or we have to be home early to watch Deal or No Deal, then we do tend to just make stuff up.

I don’t have to spend money on my wife in order to make love with her.

I heard a story that a guy texted his (female) work colleague ‘Fancy getting food in the crown?’ using predictive text.

Very funny, but I suspect not true.

Love this thread! I have always maintained that I hated 80s music, but it’s actually quite diverse and pretty awesome in places.

Misandry!

I thought iPads were invented to give middle-class westerners ‘semis’, and Chinese labourers a chance to better themselves/find a high building to jump off.

Yes! Most people do. Without lows there would never be highs etc.

Think of all the reasons you’re lucky. There are probably an awful lot, no matter how tough life is.

Our goverment, ribbed for her pleasure.

mmkay.

Sure it’s not ‘shopped?

I suppose you would need the bathroom equivalent of an insinkerator.

Could you do a number two whilst showering?

This has gotten ridiculous. I’m off to find another thread to be irritating on. *flounce*

Ooh the misogyny!

I didn’t know cycle tracks had lanes

The picture of a man on a bike and the picture of a man walking didn’t raise any questions in your mind?

If I gave you a violin and told you to play Flight of the Bumblebee I strongly suspect I wouldn’t enjoy it much.

Age group being ranted about?

It think its 40-50 year olds.

Just adding a sobering Ying to your raging Yang. I like the White Stripes.

…but even the best music can be ruined by lack of ability.

He pronounces it eXpresso too, and I’ve heard it often enough to be certain

Yeah, but when in Rome etc.

I liked a couple of their albums, the one with FILWAG and the one before. Really liked Dead Letter Blues.

But, yes, her drumming was at times ‘right for the music’ but at other times utterly dire. On one or two songs it sounds like a three year old with one drumstick and two drums.

Bum… tish… bum… tish… bum… tish.

Can we have a thread on homeopathy soon?

What does “speccies” mean? Does it have anything to do with “species”?

If there is a difference, you should be able to observed it by recording the sound coming out of the speakers with a microphone and performing a spectral analysis, non?

Double blind trials! Do it ten times and see if you can tell the difference.

… and Tarquin had one more piece of garlic bread than everyone else, so although their were five of them the price of the garlic bread should be divided into sixths and distributed accordingly…

Presumably using an espresso machine powered by feelings of smug self-satisfaction.

😉

I’d rather eat chicken thigh than breast.

Ooh ooh ooh, another one I don’t like is the Australian pronunctiation of pasta:

Paaarsta!

Ah I had a suspicion I was right, about the second part at least.

No one I know says ‘somethink’, I believe the correct pronunciation is ‘somefink’.

Fill bottom of Bialletti up with water. Fill centre section up with coffee. Make coffee. Pour coffee into mug. Add sugar. Drink.

EDIT: If you want you can try adding a small stick of cinammon to the coffee. Apparently in the middle east they like Cardamom too, but that tastes foul in coffee to me.

Misogyny!

Around?

I heard their new series was going to be called ‘Have Your Cake and Eat It’. The premise is this. A roving reporter finds a disfigured/mentally disabled/poor/undereducated/mentally ill/fat person, then proceeds to point and laugh a them at some length. Then they give them a cake and tell them to eat it. If anyone complains that the show is exploitative, the producer says that they did them a favour because they gave them a cake.

I was in a restaurant with my French buddy the other day, and I stopped to take a photo of my food with my smartphone and post it on Facebook. He moaned at me and I said to him: ‘If you worked a bit harder you could afford to buy one.’

Also, if you pierce a tyre with a thorn or even nail, you do not remove any material from the tyre. When you remove the thorn/nail the incision will close up, the cut edges will be in contact with each other, and be more easily filled by the latex/particles in the sealant.

The valve hole is acually a ‘hole’, and is significantly bigger than the latex particles, and so will not seal.

Supermarket currys never seem to taste quite right to me.

I like the Waitrose chilled (not frozen) ones. I guess it depends on whether you want American pizza or Italian pizza too.