utterly random picture thread.

[demographic]

There is an Italian rolled pasta dish called rotollo. It involves laying lots of pasta sheets on a tea towel, filling with ricotta, spinach, etc then rolling up in the tea towel, tying up with string then boiling.

I may or may not have ended up with a slightly blue rotollo one day having decided that a new tea towel would be the wisest option for cooking it in...

I can beat that... my girlfriend and I bought a bottle of cheap wine when we were students but couldn't find the corkscrew. I had the idea of smashing off the top on a stone window ledge and then filtering out all the glass with a clean handkerchief. This washed whatever they put in washing powder to whiten clothes in to the wine which gave us extremely sore throats for the next day. It felt like I'd have been better off just drinking the glass power.

Just push the cork into the bottle with the handle of a spoon, no need for the breaking the neck stuff. Done it few times.

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There is an Italian rolled pasta dish called rotollo. It involves laying lots of pasta sheets on a tea towel, filling with ricotta, spinach, etc then rolling up in the tea towel, tying up with string then boiling.

I may or may not have ended up with a slightly blue rotollo one day having decided that a new tea towel would be the wisest option for cooking it in...

I can beat that... my girlfriend and I bought a bottle of cheap wine when we were students but couldn't find the corkscrew. I had the idea of smashing off the top on a stone window ledge and then filtering out all the glass with a clean handkerchief. This washed whatever they put in washing powder to whiten clothes in to the wine which gave us extremely sore throats for the next day. It felt like I'd have been better off just drinking the glass power.

Just push the cork into the bottle with the handle of a spoon, no need for the breaking the neck stuff. Done it few times.

I tried that once and won't ever be doing it again...

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You can still see the scar running down the side of my hand and along the fold in my hand after more than 30 years. I pushed the cork in and the neck exploded. It cut the muscle in my hand in half, cut an artery or two in half (don't recall which ones) and cut the tendons to my little finger in half. Two 3 hour operations and months of recovery had it back in use. Wine bottles aren't made of safety glass.

[KungFooBob]

Should have used the shoe technique.

[gremlin]

Should have used the shoe technique.

Put them on and walk to the shops for a corkscrew?

[KungFooBob]

I thought everyone knew the shoe technique, there are dozens of videos on YouTube about it.

[Yambo]

Or buy the wine that comes in screw top bottles.

[Taipan]

[Rockburner]

Holy shit .. the X-Adv is still there??

[Taipan]

Holy shit .. the X-Adv is still there??

The CB1000R has been here since July 2023 and the X-ADV since January 2024 and my ca you can also see there has been here since November 2022. I'm a hoarder!

[KungFooBob]

I think this is a record!

Just under 60mpg on this morning's commute... In a car that weighs 5004lb (according to the app).

[Yambo]

Did the wife drive you in?

[KungFooBob]

No, she's got a lead foot, gets mid 40's

[Potter]

In 2010 when I moved back to the UK they gave me a great big Merc as a company car, I didn't know about benefits in kind or whatever nonsense the government call it to tax the crap out of you for having the audacity to have a company motor, and it ended up costing me more than I felt was reasonable, so I gave it back and asked for something more sensible, which turned out to be an Audi A1 Sportline, and it did 73mpg and cost me about £60 a month in tax.

I still resented the tax, but 73mpg was pretty decent....until my wife crashed it with less than 100 miles on the clock

[KungFooBob]

This is a Volvo S90, the Volvo competitor to the 5er and the E class.

It's fucking massive with the poverty spec D4 engine. The gear box does clever things to help with the mpg, but it shoots up massively when the weather is warm.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I once got 73mpg out of my enormous great German saloon with all the bells and whistles

[KungFooBob]

I can get late 60's on the motorway.

I don't go on the motorway for my commute.

[Potter]

I think my 4.4L petrol Range Rover does about 12mpg.

[Count Steer]

The hybrid shopping trolley indicates 70.1mpg over 5k miles.

All the others I've 'measured' in fill-ups/month although I think my LWB petrol Landy did about 17mpg.

[Mr. Dazzle]

TBF that 73mpg was in a German diesel car, so it was probably lying through its teeth and chucking a few back handers to the European Comission to boot.

[mangocrazy]

I still resented the tax, but 73mpg was pretty decent....until my wife crashed it with less than 100 miles on the clock

So that mpg figure was for running-in miles?