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suzysunshine7 wrote: "You need to read the comments posted under the Photo ;o>
I didn't want to spoil the surprise by posting up what I recognised it as on here. Personally, I think that TB's guess of "Shelled Cockroac..."
Thanks for that suzy - when I first looked at the photo no comments had been posted :)
I didn't want to spoil the surprise by posting up what I recognised it as on here. Personally, I think that TB's guess of "Shelled Cockroac..."
Thanks for that suzy - when I first looked at the photo no comments had been posted :)
The odd thing is, the sarnie was at Forth Valley Royal where I was having physio, and they did proper cooked lunches. The soups were really lovely, the main courses included mac cheese, sausage and mash etc., the only failure being a beefburger which didn’t resemble either beef or a burger, and the puds were really yummy ginger pud or apple crumble with perfect custard..
The Sandwiches were probably made by a different team of Catering Staff, Lez Lee, or were bought in as a bulk order from a local Catering Company.To be fair, there is probably little that could be done to improve on the appearance of the inside of a Cheese & Pickle Sandwich - but flavour-wise, if you are going to use any kind of Pickle in a Sandwich, then the very least that you could do is to use a decent full-flavoured Cheese to go with it.
Better still, use piccalilli rather than sweet pickle :)
I may love Piccalilli - but it would still just be substituting yellow oozing goo for brown oozing goo, wouldn't it? - LOL! ... and neither of them would look particularly appetising to a worn-out Nurse who has been on regular Commode and Bed Pan Duty as part of their Shift ;oO
When you put it like that.....
That's why I think that an included sachet of these Sauces should be provided instead - plus it opens up far more options to those who would much rather have a plain Sandwich if that's all there is on offer to them. I was SO sick of nothing but Sandwiches over the years that I used to take Cuppa Soups with Pasta in, and Fruit, for a quick mid-Shift snack instead ;o>
I love our nearest Waitrose ... it has interesting and unusual things on sale - but it also has a lot of everyday essentials and generally isn't as expensive as people often tend to think, due to competitive Price Matching. However I do think that they have completely lost the plot on this one! ;o> ...
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink...
Well, any business students can get extra credits by getting it from Ocado, who deliver a lot of Waitrose products, and where the paste is 25% off :)
I like the Parent's comments in response ;o> ..."Uh oh...my son has just gone off with 3 jars of coffee, 4 packs of Super Noodles, 2 Pot Noodles and a bottle of Nandos peri peri sauce," wrote Jo Clarke.
"Mine's got pot noodles, bread, beans, cheese and a couple of frozen pizzas," added Liz Brown.
Nobody commenting on the reporting, though?Students, who spend on average £67 a month on their food shop, are being instructed to spend their cash on Waitrose's five must-have items...
Where, exactly, is Waitrose "instructing" students to buy anything?
And the habit, now common among paid-by-the-word content-generators, of quoting tweets three times:
"The Waitrose concept of essential cooking staples for new students!?!" wrote bemused shopper Andrew Stronach.
The Waitrose concept of essential cooking staples for new students!?!
The Waitrose concept of essential cooking staples for new students!?! pic.twitter.com/0a8h8utiwz
— Andrew Stronach (@aistronach) September 9, 2018
(That last one in a box to make you think it's a screen-shot from Twitter.)
But then, of course, the whole point of the "article" is to get people to click on the "25 packed lunch hacks..." and "Wow-worthy packed lunches..." links, as this is how msn and other "news" web sites - including all UK "news"paper sites - make their money. The fact that news reporting has been almost entirely replaced by Tweet-recycling and clickbait listicles seems to be tacitly accepted by most people.
In case anyone's wondering, my role-model is Benjamin: the donkey in Animal Farm.
Gordon wrote: "In case anyone's wondering, my role-model is Benjamin: the donkey in Animal Farm."Not having read it, I checked him on Wiki. Aiming for ‘Menshevik Intelligentsia’ then?
Here's a thing - why is lime and lemon marmalade greener than lime marmalade? MAKES NO SENSE!
They must be using radioactive Lemons, Jim ;o>
Fishy_Jim wrote: "Here's a thing - why is lime and lemon marmalade greener than lime marmalade? MAKES NO SENSE!"Because it releases less CO2?
Gordon wrote: "Nobody commenting on the reporting, though? ... The fact that news reporting has been almost entirely replaced by Tweet-recycling and clickbait listicles seems to be tacitly accepted by most people"I've only just started reading 'News' Articles online so it is all that I have ever known, Gordon. The endlessly repeated sentences, bizarrely random lines that turn out to relate to an entirely different News Story and such obvious and very basic spelling mistakes are all things that personally drive me crackers.
Different colouring added.Rose's lime marmalade - Colour: Chlorophyll Extract
Rose's lemon & lime marmalade - Colours: Copper Complexes of Chlorophyllins, Lutein
So they've tried to make the lime flavour green by adding chlorophyll and the lime & lemon yellowish green by also adding lutein as well.
No-one's had the brains to compare the end results.
I knew someone would come along and science the shit out of that one. Free jar of the marmalade of your choice to the first one to identify the film I'm referencing.
nocheese wrote: "I knew someone would come along and science the shit out of that one. Free jar of the marmalade of your choice to the first one to identify the film I'm referencing."
Damn! ... I'm not with it at all on Films - and I absolutely adore Marmalade ;o<
Found it - it’s ‘The Martian’.I don’t like marmalade so Suzy can have the prize.
WOO-HOO!!! - it's been absolutely ages since I last had some Marmalade ... thanks Lez Lee! ;o>(*Note to Self ... add Marmalade to this week's Shopping List*)
Here you go, suzy. free spoon as well.https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/....
I'd also recommend 'The Martian'. It often pops up on TV these days. Exciting and funny.
Oooh? - yes! - that really is making my Mouth water now! ;o>I've not heard of 'The Martian' but I'll look out for it now, thanks nocheese ... x
suzysunshine7 wrote: "WOO-HOO!!! - it's been absolutely ages since I last had some Marmalade ... thanks Lez Lee! ;o>(*Note to Self ... add Marmalade to this week's Shopping List*)"
Are you Paddington Bear on a witness protection scheme?
Pedants of the world unite! (and I include myself in this group)A missing comma got a woman out of hefty parking fine.
https://www.mamamia.com.au/comma-usag...
less to do with pedantry, more, to do with getting away with it! personally, i, think they should have flung her, pick-up in the crusher. now she's costing the locals, to have new signs, manufactured.
Tech commits capital crimes?
so, am i to prepare for capital punishment?
Tech wrote: "less to do with pedantry, more, to do with getting away with it! personally, i, think they should have flung her, pick-up in the crusher. now she's costing the locals, to have new signs, manufactured."Are you seeking payment per comma??
Val, I followed your link and have just spent 40 joyful minutes reading the thoughts of fellow pedants. Thank you!!!😀
When one is unconscious are you ,toes?
tut t,ut, spelling! sighyou don't seem to have ,nd of the english language! :)
Tut,t'u,tu! ,n as muck some folk.
Brass Neck wrote: "When one is unconscious are you ,toes?"I think you mean, “when one is unconscious is one ,toes?”
, , , , , chameleonYou ,nd go, you ,nd go
(Oops, sorry. No music allowed. Forgot where I was!)
,nd feel the noize!
Received today ;o> ...FedEx :Finalisation Remainder ,Please Respond Imeadiately!!
Dear ,
We would wish to imform you that your package could not be delivered due to incompleted imformation of your physcialised address. Please actuate the button below to imeadiately update your personal address with us .
Imeadiately .Get that imformation completed right now .Actuate the button .My boss's boss does that thing of putting punctuation marks before the succeeding word instead of after the preceding word ("This ,this ,this and this" instead of "This, this, this and this"). It makes it impossible for me to concentrate on what he's written.
Oh, and I'm seeing more and more people who can't find the apostrophe key on their keyboard but can somehow find non-standard characters. The number of people who type "These are Dumbo`s ears", "This is Bambi´s mother" and even "This is a ´quotation`" is hard to believe. Why do they do it?
If only these Spammers and Phishers could correctly spell, and space out and use Punctuation properly then they would surely be in with far more of a chance of catching a Hell of a lot of folk out, including me? I've got a lot of odd little eBay parcels all due to arrive over the next three weeks and so this kind of Email could very easily have caught me out - the rest of it including the Logo genuinely looks like the real deal - it is only the wording that raises obvious doubts.
Gordon wrote: "Oh, and I'm seeing more and more people who can't find the apostrophe key on their keyboard but can somehow find non-standard characters. The number of people who type "These are Dumbo`s ears", "Th..."Maybe it is down to folk trying and failing to find these Symbols on their Phones? There are so many Devices that all work and interpret things differently, isn't there?
There are a couple of people on here who regularly use some kinds of Symbols they have on their Devices as part of their Forum Posts but all I ever see on my Laptop Screen is just empty white boxes exactly like I used to see on the Amazon Forums.
My Sony Vaio obviously has no idea as to what these Symbols are and so it cannot translate them into anything that I can get to see or try to understand either ;o>
I'll plead mea culpa to using apostrophes as quote marks - I guess I usually shift with the left hand so characters on the right are easier to employ? I don't like to see only a single space after a full stop though. Single space after a comma, double after a full stop in my book.Apparently, and not for the first time, seems I'm wrong - http://www.writersdigest.com/online-e...
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Or should that be in the right place to be treated for the after-effects of getting Food Poisoning?! ;o>
From my own personal experience ... the only vaguely edible NHS Sandwich with any real taste at all to it and the one most likely to still be edible after sitting around for 12 to 18 hours in an After Hours NHS Canteen Cabinet used to be the Corned Beef one ... it was just a great shame, to my Mind, that they never thought to also put some Tomato in with it as well.
The worst NHS Sandwich ever? - probably the Cheese & Onion made with completely bland thinly sliced Processed Cheese and quite thick slices of raw and Eye watering Onion! ... it took about three years before I suddenly came to understand that they were being made up by Staff who intended them to be made into Toasties! - but it had not once ever occurred to the Staff that us Nurses had no actual access to any means of being able to toast them out of Hours?!! - LOL!!!
You just simply couldn't make such a blindingly obvious oversight in dopey daftness up even if you tried, could you?!! ... HA HA HA HA HA!! ... ;oO ... ;o>