Mr_Smyth

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• Food

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 hours, 21 minutes

  

  I miss Sainsbury’s ox cheek which was always cheap from the butcher’s counter, they got rid of the counter from my local, sometimes see it labeled as ‘braising steak’ on the shelf but it’s obvious by its shape and grain it’s ox cheek.
  Makes a banging ragu (modified Trullo recipe cooked over 2 days)

• Mince Pie Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 hours, 9 minutes

  

  Picked up a pack of Sainsbury’s mini mince pies yesterday.
  They were free! People in our block leave stuff they want to give away by the lift.
  Nothing to be had in store though, the 15p for six baked in store ones didn’t hang around long.

• The Bird Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 8 hours, 1 minute

  

  According to the RSPB site yes, however accurate that is?
  I’m on the 6th floor so while we get a good view of the treetops there’s no balcony/windowsill so it’s just the parakeets arguing over the spiders they pick out from the airbricks.

• The Bird Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 8 hours, 24 minutes

  

  Supposedly only 400 winter visitors and 50 resident breeding pairs so a rare spot.

  At the other end of the size scale a buzzard being mobbed by about 70 crows in Crystal Palace park, it didn’t hang around long.

• Titanium Gravel Bicycle, SRAM Rival AXS, Campagnolo Shamal

  in Complete bikes and frame & forks • 9 hours, 45 minutes

  

  Which Italian maker?
  Nevi? Rewell? Crisp?

• Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 9 hours, 50 minutes

  

  Not really, I own a Logitech mouse bought from Sainsbury’s as whenever I buy a new Mac (non laptop) I need a mouse to set it up and load the Wacom drivers.
  It then goes back in its box for 4-5 years until I buy another computer!

• Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 10 hours, 13 minutes

  

  Retouching with a mouse!?
  I get RSI just thinking about that, Wacom for precision and pressure sensitive brushing etc.

• Kitchen appliances chat

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 5 hours

  

  Just been browsing vintage Tupperware and having a nostalgia trip.

  Might get a findus crispy pancake out of the freezer…

• Musk is a cunt and Tesla are shit

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 22 hours

  

  He might be really smart in realising it’s far easier to convince idiocracy to behave like idiots, if your agenda is to gain favour and control you pick the gullible 50%.
  He likely doesn’t comprehend the intricacies of Anglo-Irish history or have any real opinion on republican paramilitaries.

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 12 hours

  

  I want to know how you then get to the tangle of wires, surface mount socket boxes and plugs strewn behind the kick panel for all the appliances that seems to pass for ‘electrical installation’ these days?

  My old kitchen was done this way with all the fused spurs fixed to the back of one cupboard.
  All unlabelled so scrawled on with a sharpie once I knew what was what.
  Mate who’s an electrician raised an eyebrow and said “well I guess it’s technically fixed to the fabric of the building but not how it should be done”