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Samba wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:00 pm :lol:
Somewhat unlikely, I would suggest..
Nazis helped put man on the moon.
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sendô wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:35 pm
Bugger me, the place nearly exploded. The comment responses are into the hundreds. I've had people responding literally telling me to **** off.
Nothing new there then. :D
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DasNutNock2 wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:19 pm Big cull at work, in the US at least, and they’ve just binned some excellent staff on an incredibly minor (and probably legally unenforceable) technicality, presumably because they were making their bosses look like the no-talent ass clowns they are. Grotty stuff.
Sorry to hear that about work but separately, good to see you back!

Samba - wittering women is indeed an irritant. I had to endure a couple of women at work yesterday trying to outdo each other in the doom and gloom stakes. I rang one from a mobile phone to shut them up and then repeated it whenever they started again.
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Arnold Layne wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:40 pm Nazis helped put man on the moon.
They certainly did.
In Von Braun's case, for a change, it wasn't who you knew but what you knew..
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Putting a layer of pastry over a casserole and calling it a pie.

If you're making a pie and you want to call it a pie, then make a proper ****ing pie.
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Base crust should be different pastry from the pie top, too.
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Working Saturdays. Should be banned.


rare as rockinghorse shat wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:22 am Putting a layer of pastry over a casserole and calling it a pie.

If you're making a pie and you want to call it a pie, then make a proper ****ing pie.
^ Acceptable when it's filo pastry though, IMO.
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If you can't throw it, it's not a pie.
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rare as rockinghorse shat wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:22 am Putting a layer of pastry over a casserole and calling it a pie.

If you're making a pie and you want to call it a pie, then make a proper ****ing pie.
I am not a fan of shortcrust pastry , so am happy with the casserole with a puff pastry lid
If it ain't fully enclosed in pastry not sure it can be called a pie
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sendô wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:33 am ^ Acceptable when it's filo pastry though, IMO.
Acceptable as a casserole with a lid, yes.
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FreeWheeling wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:36 am If it ain't fully enclosed in pastry not sure it can be called a pie
What do you call a Shepherd's Pie then?
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sendô wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:40 am What do you call a Shepherd's Pie then?
Dinner.
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sendô wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:40 am What do you call a Shepherd's Pie then?
I don't have my Shepherd's Pie enclosed in pastry you weirdo.
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Shepherd's Casserole doesn't have the same ring to it.
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sendô wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:40 am What do you call a Shepherd's Pie then?
lamb mince and tatters
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I always thought that Shepherd's Pie was an idiomatic way of saying that it's not actually a pie. Kind of like Shepherd's "Pie". Similar to Baker's Dozen, Shanks's Pony and West Ham's Midfield.
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See, that's weird, because I always thought, without really thinking about it, if you get me, that it was a reference to the kind of farmer who kept livestock and didn't grow the wheat that would be used to make the flour that gets put in the pastry.
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Monkeybubbles wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:05 am I always thought that Shepherd's Pie was an idiomatic way of saying that it's not actually a pie. Kind of like Shepherd's "Pie". Similar to Baker's Dozen, Shanks's Pony and West Ham's Midfield.

I like that explanation. I thought Shepherd’s pie because it contains lamb mince, whilst beef mince is used in a cottage pie. Even allowing for what I said, your theory holds true .... no idea why it’s a cottage pie and not dairy farmer’s pie.
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prophet:marginal wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:20 am See, that's weird, because I always thought, without really thinking about it, if you get me, that it was a reference to the kind of farmer who kept livestock and didn't grow the wheat that would be used to make the flour that gets put in the pastry.
But they did grow potatoes presumably?
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