Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Mr. Dazzle]

Is that why you emigrated?

[DefTrap]

Is that why you emigrated?

Confusingly, never seen anything remotely like a pastie out here.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Not even a pastie with a lisp?

[cheb]

IIRC the oldest pastie recipe is from Devon.

[Count Steer]

Is that why you emigrated?

Confusingly, never seen anything remotely like a pastie out here.

Pasties are French, the word comes from Medieval Fronch, so them Bretons down in Cornwall imported them when they immigrated.

[Horse]

Had one from here a few weeks back. Probably the best I've ever had

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If you're in Tintagel and not eating an Excaliburger you should burn in hell.

Olde Malthouse
Tintagel Brewery Bistro
Port William
Duck House
Beach House at Widemouth Bay

... But not Excaliburger

[DefTrap]

Pasties are French, the word comes from Medieval Fronch, so them Bretons down in Cornwall imported them when they immigrated.

Never really go up, or at least stop, that way. Do I need to make a pastie pitstop on my way to the ferry?

[Stig]

Got accused of stuff, got fed up with it and left. I'm just making a glasshouses/stones point.

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Thanks for the info, not a thread I ever visited much.

My point about reporting posts still stands

This has been done to death, Nidge made comments that I took as a direct threat to take something into real life. I reported it, I even left the forum because of it (Weeksy I explained this to you a long time back in PMs). Maybe it wasn't serious, he might not have meant much by it, he might not even remember the original threat if it wasn't actually meant seriously, it was a few years ago now on TRC, but whenever he started along the same theme, even if it was a few years later, it got under my skin, so in the end I just called him on it.

It all originally started when some of us had malicious emails sent to our employers and there were incidents like (for example) Ants actual address being circulated to cause him misery - just like on VD when someone turned up to Stig's house to beat him up and had to be taken away by the police. This is the type of undercurrent that was going on, addresses being sent out, employers contacted, etc.

So I don't see the glasshouses/stones comparison, this wasn't about people ganging up to bully someone off a forum, this was two blokes arguing over direct threats that went off the forum and into real life - and we both flounced because of it.

twpd turned up at mine after I had taken enough shit for his antics as victor meldrew, nothing happened but police were involved. We sorted differences out just before he died

Ben used to share IP and other personal dsta to other folk which allowed some of the strange emails to employers

[Count Steer]

Pasties are French, the word comes from Medieval Fronch, so them Bretons down in Cornwall imported them when they immigrated.

Never really go up, or at least stop, that way. Do I need to make a pastie pitstop on my way to the ferry?

It's v odd. It's almost like when they started making them in Cornwall the 'other' Bretons stopped. It looks like there's a Breton pastry which is a sweet thing and Breton pies which are fancy pies with chicken and wine etc in. I even found a Cornish woman who learned to make them when she helped her mum meet the demand for them at a Breton agricultural fair.

It'd be a good bike Cherchez Le Pasty 'quest'....your bike, with a locally made pasty in Brittany.

[Noggin]

Pasties are French, the word comes from Medieval Fronch, so them Bretons down in Cornwall imported them when they immigrated.

Never really go up, or at least stop, that way. Do I need to make a pastie pitstop on my way to the ferry?

It's v odd. It's almost like when they started making them in Cornwall the 'other' Bretons stopped. It looks like there's a Breton pastry which is a sweet thing and Breton pies which are fancy pies with chicken and wine etc in. I even found a Cornish woman who learned to make them when she helped her mum meet the demand for them at a Breton agricultural fair.

It'd be a good bike Cherchez Le Pasty 'quest'....your bike, with a locally made pasty in Brittany.

Pretty sure that the equivalent is called un chausson here (I know, translation is slipper!!) But my mates' 'cornish' pasties that she sells in her shop are the best

[Mr. Dazzle]

(I know, translation is slipper!!)

AFAIK that's also the case with "Ciabatta"? Which incidentally is not a traditional Italian product at all, but rather a product of the 80s.

[Pirahna]

There's a Christmas song on the radio!

[Bigjawa]

There's a Christmas song on the radio!

Heart Xmas was broadcasting in September!

[Taipan]

No, Philps may be commercial but they are pretty reasonable. There is a huge commercial bakery in Indian Queens that produces real shite. And of course Ginsters in Bodmin.

We had a Philps pasty in Porthleven this year. Bloody lovely it was too! We had the one made with steak and it had nice and crusty pastry and the filling was lovely and peppery too! Now i'm wrestling with myself over whether to order some for delivery or not!
https://buy.philpspasties.co.uk/collections/pasties

I sometimes buy Tesco french sticks, but normally buy their batons as they fit in my oven. I flick some water on them and give them about 10 minutes at 180 and they actually get a crust on them then!

When we were in Naples there was really good pizza everywhere. A Margherita was the order to have and was about 3-4 euros. It was so good i hardly ate anything else whilst we were there. Bizarrely the locals seem to leave the crust which is my favourite bit.

[Yorick]

I'm pissed off and a bit angry but not sure who or what to blame.

Took the front wheel out and dropped the brakes and mudguard.
Loosened the lower fork yoke on right side and the leg fell out. Aaaargh.
So I assumed the top yoke had come loose. No. The Allen bolt was still tight. I pushed the fork leg back up and it slid into the gap no problem. Tightened bolt as far as I dare. Nada. It was threadlocked
Packed it out with washers and tightened lovely. So got the hacksaw out and chopped 3mm off. Now it tightens lovely.
But HTF did it leave factory like that?

It's always had a tiny knock when braking hard, so this was probably the cause.

It wasn't dangerous as there are 2 huge bolts on the lower yoke. But a bit unnerving.

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[mangocrazy]

So did the RH side of the top yoke have a shorter bolt fitted than the LH, or is the thread depth on the RH side of the top yoke different to that on the LH side?

Either way it should never have left the factory like that.

[mangocrazy]

Fucking boiler has fucking broken down in the Stafford house, pretty much exactly on the anniversary of the last time it broke down (in Nov 2022).

Grrr...

[Mr. Dazzle]

Either way it should never have left the factory like that.

Coulda been worse! I imagine Yorick was told this story in a past career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_A ... prov=sfla1

Investigators determined that when the windscreen was installed 27 hours before the flight, 84 of the bolts used were 0.026 inches (0.66 mm) too small in diameter (British Standards A211-8C vs A211-8D, which are #8–32 vs #10–32 by the Unified Thread Standard) and the remaining six were A211-7D, which is the correct diameter, but 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) too short (0.7 inch vs. 0.8 inch).

[Yorick]

So did the RH side of the top yoke have a shorter bolt fitted than the LH, or is the thread depth on the RH side of the top yoke different to that on the LH side?

Either way it should never have left the factory like that.

The same. I swapped the bolts round and same result. But, the left side bolt had a slight kink in it. Didn't stop it tightening up, but looked strange.

The original photo shows left side with sawn off right side.

[Yorick]

Either way it should never have left the factory like that.

Coulda been worse! I imagine Yorick was told this story in a past career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_A ... prov=sfla1

Investigators determined that when the windscreen was installed 27 hours before the flight, 84 of the bolts used were 0.026 inches (0.66 mm) too small in diameter (British Standards A211-8C vs A211-8D, which are #8–32 vs #10–32 by the Unified Thread Standard) and the remaining six were A211-7D, which is the correct diameter, but 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) too short (0.7 inch vs. 0.8 inch).

I was a buyer at Lucas Aerospace. Fasteners mainly.
You wouldn't believe how strict it all was.
If it went up in the air, it had to be perfect and traceable right back to the bar of metal it was made from.