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  1. Re: What foods did you really LIKE as a kid? What are your favorites now?

    My Mam used to make regional austerity food when I was a kid. Steamed suet puddings, like bacon and onion rolly poly. Jam rolly poly, obviously.
    Nowadays, in addition to a good roast joint with...
  2. Re: Songs that describe/ celebrate gun violence, murder etc

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP2UypjZbMo
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    Poll: Re: BROTM for June… POLL HERE…

    Certainly curvaceous and apple cheeked. Full forward and a pretty stern. ;)
  4. Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

    You are supposed to cook them. ;)
  5. Re: What random item found inside/outside your childhood home that isn’t found today?

    ^
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k
  6. Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

    About70 miles.
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    Re: Religion's role

    You old cynic, you. For most of history religion is about belonging to your peer group/clan/tribe.
  8. Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

    Well, Andy, you get a pass because you don't eat any meat.
    But if you are going to kill an animal for food, then eat all of it.
    (Use the hooves and horns to make glue or buttons and tan the hide...
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    Re: Religion's role

    I think that this thread needs another case in point to use as an example.
    It very much depends on what sort of shop.
    If it is a Mon and Pop store run by a family with adult kids helping out, it...
  10. Re: Chance: the reborn of a classic James Silver Motor Sailer

    Please accept my condolences for your families' loss.
  11. Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

    Don't you like the taste of a good piece of marbled beef roasted, or a rib roasted on the bone?
    The flavour is in the fat, so it is concentrated in the dripping. The best chips are fried in beef...
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    Re: The boating section of my library.

    I, too, have three shelves worth, plus magazines
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    I still refer to them, and to my old copied of Model Shipwright. https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/1881943729.jpg
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    Re: Supreme Court and Public Opinion

    Very US Centric. The framers must have been aware that the Tories and Whigs had existed for decades in the UK, since the 17th C. Why did they think that descendents of British colonials would not...
  14. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-65725004
  15. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    It happened after both World Wars.

    Every one slaggs off Chamberlain with his piece of paper "Peace in our Time", but he did give us time to start to rearm.
  16. Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

    We should start a thread, "Good food that our colonial cousins won't eat".

    It would seem that they waste all the good, tasty offal:confused:.

    How about brawn?
  17. Re: What meal did your family serve when you were a child, that you absolutely hated?

    Just so, + trifle, the mouth feel triggered a gag reflex

    If you want disgusting in a can, spaghetti in tomato sauce.
  18. Thread: Cartoons.

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    Re: Cartoons.

    Royalties due to Nick Park?
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02404/metallicgromit_2404055k.jpg?imwidth=680
  19. Re: What random item found inside/outside your childhood home that isn’t found today?

    Hand cranked mincer
    https://media.nisbets.com/asset/core/prodimage/largezoom/cw376_primary.jpg
  20. Re: Strip Canoe advice - losing some shape after pulling staples

    I also have been saying that it is nothing to worry about, even if it does not disappear. Hollow offers no benefit at paddling speeds. If I understand the OP correctly, it really is a trivial...
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    Re: Religion's role

    People like that deserve all they get. ;)
  22. Re: Strip Canoe advice - losing some shape after pulling staples

    No fair! With such extreme tumbler home I doubt that any canvas covered, e.g. Old Town canoe, or stripper could be lifted off its build jig.

    Compared to other craft your canoe does have an abrupt...
  23. Re: How do those who believe all men are created equal

    It was also the convention of the time.
    Consider the dates of the Amendments that gave US Citizens the vote:

    and
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    Re: Supreme Court and Public Opinion

    I would hope that SCOTUS is an unintended consequence, that the Framers did not envisage that political animals could stop being people of honour. If they had, they might have drafted different...
  25. Re: Strip Canoe advice - losing some shape after pulling staples

    Photos are tricky. What looks like hollow at the far end could just be a feature of the abrupt up sweep of the shear line. The near end does not look particularly hollow at all.

    I have watched a...
  26. Re: Strip Canoe advice - losing some shape after pulling staples

    3/8 inch at the shear will not do much of anything lower down.Clear straight grained timber usually know best. ;)
    Old school professional small boat builders did not bother much with moulds, may be...
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    Re: Memes and…

    Milk puddings and custard.

    We neither like milk puddings, so they don't get served.

    The mouth feel of custard, and especially trifle, triggered a gag reflex.
  28. Re: Strip Canoe advice - losing some shape after pulling staples

    Taking a broader view of this issue: why is there hollow anyway? Did any birchbark canoes have hollow (personally, I doubt that they did)?
    3/8'' at the sheer won't make much difference in the...
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    Re: Oathkeepers trial - verdict being read now

    pour encourager les autres.
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    Re: Religion's role

    I think that the problem some people have with Religion, Richard Dawkins is a prime example, is less Religion, but what people use their version of their religion to justify.
    Hence, oppression of...
  31. Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

    If you pay attention, the cross in the middle of the "f" extend to both sides of the up stroke, on the long s ⟨ſ⟩ it only appears on one side of the up stroke, if at all. Things were better back...
  32. Thread: 911

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    Re: 911

    The Wild West is mostly a Hollywood B movie fiction. It really was not that wild, and "shoot-outs" were as likely to result in self-inflicted injuries as they were death.

    The system that created...
  33. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    Well, with good satellite imagery of those trenches, conventional weapons can be delivered to obliterate every trench and its occupants, should the USA chose to do so.
  34. Thread: 911

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    Re: 911

    That is a serious issue in police culture.

    But, and a big but, you have not described a murdered, only an aerosol with s sense of entitlement. Does that feeling of entitlement cause cops to shoot...
  35. Re: Strip Canoe advice - losing some shape after pulling staples

    Is it symmetrical? 3/8 both sides? If so, don't worry, be happy.
  36. Thread: 911

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    Re: 911

    Of course they do. That is why they are of value.

    If USAeans understand that their gun culture results in their police officers going in fear of their lives every time they are sent to a report...
  37. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    Fairy Nuff.

    But this: would result in Ukraine losing. Do they really want that on their collective conscience?
    This : demonstrates a lot of wishful thinking and naivety, if they think that...
  38. Thread: 911

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    Re: 911

    Try standing on a chair when you read it.
  39. Re: Pless already has a “wtf” thread. Here’s another

    No, that would be his Brass eye.
  40. Re: Clinker fishing boat new build in the UK

    Same sort of boats as used along the coast at Hastings.
    https://i0.wp.com/intheboatshed.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/P1560885-1.jpg?fit=2732.6315789473683%2C1084.2105263157894
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  41. Re: What individual rights does GOP support?

    I was thinking that too.
    The right to hang on to whatever you have got. But I was not limiting it to wealth.
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    Re: trainspotting, virtually

    Yep, the Ffestiniog Railway is both narrow gauge, and the locos are . . . .interesting
    https://f4v2a8t7.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Surf-Snowdonia-156-1024x406.jpg
  43. Re: Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC Verify

    Yep, escaped water buffalo in England is a tad unusual. Definitely news.

    It is the Beeb remember? No advertisers are harmed in their broadcasts.
  44. Re: Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC Verify

    Well, that went right over your head.
    Do you want the BeeB to go down the route of making stuff up on days when there is no news?
  45. Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

    Possibly used for snuggling floor boards together when laying a new floor. The saw cuts are because joiners will use anything as a saw-horse.

    Then again, at over 2' high, it may just be a very...
  46. Thread: epic boats

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    Re: epic boats

    @ Scary, I too, like Hastings luggers

    Jolie Brise. is quite epic...
  47. Re: Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC Verify

    Sometimes, occasionally, nothing happens.
    Do you want to go back to the potters wheel?
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    Re: Seasonal religion discussion

    ^Well, like the US GOP several Anglican Churches in Africa are seriously homophobic.
    So perhaps the membership of the GOP are not so different from African Blacks? ;)
  49. Re: OMG- Nigel Farage speaks the truth for once, Brexit has failed

    I do apolojise, I missed the post that said that your was a UK passport.
    I had assumed from this answer;

    To this question:

    that yours was a Swedish passport.
    P.S. Please figure out how to...
  50. Thread: my dad

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    Re: my dad

    Sad news.
    Please accept my deepest sympathies.
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