The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Woody]

Scheduled to go into what is effectively quarantine (no going out, no shopping etc.) from this coming Saturday for 14 days, to protect better half's mom who is staying with us and who is scheduled to go in for surgery on day 14 after a Covid test. I think I might lose whatever is left of my rational mind (not a lot left to go, I admit) thereafter. Thank God for ops-normal!

Thanks for the warning

Hopefully you’ll not run out of wine or other essentials.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Scheduled to go into what is effectively quarantine (no going out, no shopping etc.) from this coming Saturday for 14 days, to protect better half's mom who is staying with us and who is scheduled to go in for surgery on day 14 after a Covid test. I think I might lose whatever is left of my rational mind (not a lot left to go, I admit) thereafter. Thank God for ops-normal!

Thanks for the warning

Hopefully you’ll not run out of wine or other essentials.

If the lights across England start dimming, you'll know that things are getting bad...

[Pontius Navigator]

Being serious for a moment, I wonder if BoJo remembers how the original Channel Tunnel company went bust and and the shares worthless. At least we got our free trip. Did the big investors get their multiple free trips, for life even?

[TheGreenGoblin]

Being serious for a moment, I wonder if BoJo remembers how the original Channel Tunnel company went bust and and the shares worthless. At least we got our free trip. Did the big investors get their multiple free trips, for life even?

I am a big fan of the Channel Tunnel and was immensely proud of Alastair Morton's role in EuroTunnel.

Obituary

Me, partisan? Nah!

I guess the Channel Tunnel is a white elephant in the same way as Concorde was.

[Undried Plum]

I don't approve of Sea Shepheard or of their terrorist tactics.

Neither do I approve of that style of whaling.

Two Wrongs don't make a Right.

I agree but one can't sit and do nothing either, I guess...

I well remember when Noggie whalers were a very common sight in Lerwick and in Ålesund. When I lived in Ålesund I ate a lot more hvalkjøtt than beef and pork and chicken combined because it was so much cheaper.

Having said that, I'm now against commercial whaling because it is so unnecessary. We are all wealthy enough nowadays to buy as much (or as little) terrestrial mammal meat as we could ever eat.

I know that the Faroese whaling thing is as much a social event as it is economic or nutritional in its purpose, but I view it as being as barbaric as Spanish (not Omani) bullfighting and that weird thing of throwing a donkey off a church steeple.

[OFSO]

As one who used the channel tunnel on a monthly basis for the past years I can hardly agree it's a white elephant. The train journey from Spain into London was a treat to be looked forward to. You can't say that of any commercial journey by Air.

[TheGreenGoblin]

I well remember when Noggie whalers were a very common sight in Lerwick and in Ålesund. When I lived in Ålesund I ate a lot more hvalkjøtt than beef and pork and chicken combined because it was so much cheaper.

Having said that, I'm now against commercial whaling because it is so unnecessary. We are all wealthy enough nowadays to buy as much (or as little) terrestrial mammal meat as we could ever eat.

I know that the Faroese whaling thing is as much a social event as it is economic or nutritional in its purpose, but I view it as being as barbaric as Spanish (not Omani) bullfighting and that weird thing of throwing a donkey off a church steeple.

My family on my father's side were whalers, with my great grandfather leaving Norway under a cloud, for South West Africa and then Donkergat, Saldanha Bay, where he worked in the industry there. The whale slaughtering tradition ended with my grandfather who became a cabinet maker (albeit a bad one) and who then ended up working in the tobacco industry (another morally dubious place to be).

Your views on these matters make a lot of sense to me.

[TheGreenGoblin]

As one who used the channel tunnel on a monthly basis for the past years I can hardly agree it's a white elephant. The train journey from Spain into London was a treat to be looked forward to. You can't say that of any commercial journey by Air.

I fully agree with you about the pleasure of travelling via the train. I used to look forward to my train trips, via the tunnel, down to Lyons and then later to Libourne, where my father used to pick me up when he was feeling charitable, or where I might have to catch a train to Bergerac when he wasn't, when the family lived in the Dordogne.

[ricardian]

33kts, gusting 55.
River is galloping.
A day to find excuses for staying in the hoose.

Gale F8 today but clear blue sky. Morning ferry cancelled, afternoon ferry left early and is taking a diversion around the north of Eday thus adding an hour to the journey. Definitely a day to stay indoors and admire the view

[Pontius Navigator]

As one who used the channel tunnel on a monthly basis for the past years I can hardly agree it's a white elephant. The train journey from Spain into London was a treat to be looked forward to. You can't say that of any commercial journey by Air.

Not a white elephant but it sank the Channel Tunnel Company. Revenue was slow to build. In 2019 what was its usage level.?

[CharlieOneSix]

Managed to add a pack of crumpets late last night to our supermarket delivery. Just toasted two of them and covered them in glorious butter within minutes of the delivery arriving. I always fancy crumpet but it's a while since I had any.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Managed to add a pack of crumpets late last night to our supermarket delivery. Just toasted two of them and covered them in glorious butter within minutes of the delivery arriving. I always fancy crumpet but it's a while since I had any.

This post is so full of innuendo that I will pray for the poster over my hot cross bun!

[Groundgripper]

My family on my father's side were whalers, with my great grandfather leaving Norway under a cloud, for South West Africa and then Donkergat, Saldanha Bay, where he worked in the industry there. The whale slaughtering tradition ended with my grandfather who became a cabinet maker (albeit a bad one) and who then ended up working in the tobacco industry (another morally dubious place to be).

You wouldn't by any chance be related to a bloke who discovered that lead tetra-ethyl was a good anti-knock agent for petrol engines and then turned his attention to the use of chlorofluorocarbons as refrigerants, would you?

GG

[Pontius Navigator]

TGG, too early for hot cross buns. They are toasted tea cakes at Waitrose they just have a cross on them.

Not had crumpet since lock down.

[TheGreenGoblin]

TGG, too early for hot cross buns. They are toasted tea cakes at Waitrose they just have a cross on them.

Not had crumpet since lock down.

Had the same conversation with my better half's mom yesterday. We both agree we like them whatever they are.

[TheGreenGoblin]

My family on my father's side were whalers, with my great grandfather leaving Norway under a cloud, for South West Africa and then Donkergat, Saldanha Bay, where he worked in the industry there. The whale slaughtering tradition ended with my grandfather who became a cabinet maker (albeit a bad one) and who then ended up working in the tobacco industry (another morally dubious place to be).

You wouldn't by any chance be related to a bloke who discovered that lead tetra-ethyl was a good anti-knock agent for petrol engines and then turned his attention to the use of chlorofluorocarbons as refrigerants, would you?

GG

[Woody]

If you can make sure you get these, not really very Lenten ,but they’re fantastic

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/ ... 645-561646

[TheGreenGoblin]

If you can make sure you get these, not really very Lenten ,but they’re fantastic

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/ ... 5814-55815

I'll buy a couple of packets and claim that my better half's mom bought them, when the inevitable accusations of gluttony are levelled at me!

[Pontius Navigator]

If you can make sure you get these, not really very Lenten ,but they’re fantastic

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/ ... 645-561646

I love chocolate, I love oranges and I love hot cross buns.
I dislike orange flavoured chocolate. I dislike chocolate flavoured buns. All three together just does not appeal.

[TheGreenGoblin]

If you can make sure you get these, not really very Lenten ,but they’re fantastic

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/ ... 645-561646

I love chocolate, I love oranges and I love hot cross buns.
I dislike orange flavoured chocolate. I dislike chocolate flavoured buns. All three together just does not appeal.

Clearly you are a stickler PN, however you stick to your buns!