gremlin wrote: Fri Feb 13, 2026 9:18 am
Untimately, all jobs are useful to society, (mine included, like it or not) else you wouldn't be given scheckles for doing them.
We can all think of a few that most definitely aren't...
What was the film/show where they loaded all the phone sanitizers & other useless buggers etc on a space ship & fucked them off into space?
Not just into space...they were the beginnings of the human race on earth. Which answers a few questions.
The punchline to the joke being that having banished all the telephone sanitizers the rest of the population were killed by a virulent disease caught from a dirty telephone.
Silly Car wrote: Fri Feb 13, 2026 3:26 pm
I also started dry brining a lump of chuck tender / mock tenderloin which I’m not holding out much hope for as it is very lean and notoriously a tough cut of beef. I’m hoping a low and slow smoking with Texas BBQ rub, spritzing regularly and wrapping up and finishing to a high internal temp will tenderise it sufficiently to enjoy, that’s a plan for another day though. I’ve got a load more in the freezer which will end up being braised and pie filling if this experiment doesn’t work out.
225deg for 5 or 6 hours.
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I cooked at an oven temp of 120°C, first hour or so uncovered in smoke to an internal temp of 74°C, then two and a half slathered in BBC sauce and with orange juice, wrapped in parchment and tin foil to an internal temp of around 98°C. The 650g tip end ended up being pretty tender and really tasty which means I’ll be happy doing the same with the 1.5kg whole tender I’ve now got in the freezer.
I’ll reserve judgement on whether it is worth the £12.50 per kilo I paid for the two pieces I got until I’ve eaten more of it.
In other news, been out for a lovely lunch with my daughters to my local Italian restaurant
A nice day out and about in the good weather. Dog walk up the woods, then off round the market and into couple of shops etc. Really felt like spring had sprung! Possible snow tomorrow!
Met a bloke in a pub who worked for MI6 and was training his dog for work. Apparently the dog had already calmed a situation that morning when the MI6 officer had to rescue a woman from under a train.
gremlin wrote: Sat Feb 14, 2026 6:46 pm
Met a bloke in a pub who worked for MI6 and was training his dog for work. Apparently the dog had already calmed a situation that morning when the MI6 officer had to rescue a woman from under a train.
gremlin wrote: Sat Feb 14, 2026 6:46 pm
Met a bloke in a pub who worked for MI6 and was training his dog for work. Apparently the dog had already calmed a situation that morning when the MI6 officer had to rescue a woman from under a train.
gremlin wrote: Sat Feb 14, 2026 6:46 pm
Met a bloke in a pub who worked for MI6 and was training his dog for work. Apparently the dog had already calmed a situation that morning when the MI6 officer had to rescue a woman from under a train.
Impressive stuff.
Why were MI6 saving people from under trains?
Can't tell you.
Well, MI5 may have been worried about domestic threats. I am sure the Russians aren’t trying to fuck up the rail network, as Network Rail can do that all by themselves !
Well, MI5 may have been worried about domestic threats. I am sure the Russians aren’t trying to fuck up the rail network, as Network Rail can do that all by themselves !
It turns out she was a Russian spy and they pulled her off the track because she agreed to talk. It's more effective than waterboarding.
Well, MI5 may have been worried about domestic threats. I am sure the Russians aren’t trying to fuck up the rail network, as Network Rail can do that all by themselves !
It turns out she was a Russian spy and they pulled her off the track because she agreed to talk. It's more effective than waterboarding.
Well, MI5 may have been worried about domestic threats. I am sure the Russians aren’t trying to fuck up the rail network, as Network Rail can do that all by themselves !
It turns out she was a Russian spy and they pulled her off the track because she agreed to talk. It's more effective than waterboarding.
That's a dastardly way of obtaining a confession.
Gives a bit more plausible deniability than dangling 'em out of the 8th floor window by the ankles. 'She tripped over the dog lead near the edge of the platform guv'.
Survived being tugged by the Polizei. They were more customs I think, their sign said 'Zoll'. No bother as I was completely legit, passport, driving licence, residence permit all to hand, and a virtually empty van for them to inspect.
They didn't even comment about my excess speed on the autobahn.
Can't tell you.
