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Ha! Maybe just as well then 😀

Also, anyone tried these? I chickened out uh, didn’t have space in my bag.

Picked up these in Longdan earlier. Fancied trying a carbonara one, which is the pink one. All Korean except the bottom left which is Chinese.

🏳️‍⚧️) Dee

No-one else has mentioned this but I’m quite excited to meet the new you. I met you a couple of years ago on the post-Covid bridges ride under your now deadname. I think I’d sort of figured out your change but it’s good to know now! 🙂

1) Mashton
2) dubkev
3) Jakub96
4) d0cA
5) Polka_Dot
6) DoubtfulAce
7) Oliver
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999kg) hippy
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69) Jonny69

Couple of pages back you said:

WDT is probably the best thing you can do to distribute and break up clumps, and I think the leveller is pretty efficient to use if you've got it (does the same thing as tapping against the palm but faster). Although I never bothered with either myself because the Sette made fluffy grinds and I preferred to live with the occasional spurt out than increase prep time by 30s per coffee/get all the extra tools.

This answered my questions about Discord. Thanks to @rhb in the other thread.

https://youtu.be/TJ13BA3-NR4

What is Discord? Asking for a friend.

I’ll be honest, I’m struggling to work out what it is as well. It looks a bit like WhatsApp so I can’t quite work out how that relates to forum-like activity.

Originally for gamers, but the only experience I’ve got of internet gaming is literally from Pure Pwnage so I’m still like lolrofllolnoobfaglol. I might have to ask the young’uns at work.

Which bit breaks, out of interest? I’m still a Lightning connector user, which I’ve always felt was great compared to micro USB. Has USB C not addressed most or all of the things that were awful about micro USB?

I've been looking at Celestion Dittons and Wharfedales from late 70s. I don't know what I'm doing. Is this all a complete gamble and should I just buy new retro looking stuff?

I’m going to say yes but no. You’re looking at 50+ year old speakers with foam surrounds. The speakers were good and had that proper correctly-aligned sound. The problem with them is early polymers and adhesives in general didn’t last that long and there’s a pretty good chance the surrounds or the adhesive will have perished [though note that you can get replacement surrounds for a lot of well-respected speakers].

By well into the 90s, in fact, I’m going to say into the early 00s, speaker technology had not changed much and a good-quality big paper driver in a well-aligned box still had that sound. Don’t limit yourself to 70s stuff. There are plenty of late 80s and 90s speakers which will sound exactly the same but the constituent materials are 10-20 years younger and thus won’t need any attention.

https://youtu.be/x6j3YGrP-TY

Ed Currie, the guy who developed the Carolina Reaper chilli and Pepper X trying some hot snacks. Never seen this guy before. Not at all pretentious and clearly hates extract-based heat.

mEmEs

MeMeS

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in Holland there is the father of a trans teenager who is now in jail for not using their child’s preferred pronouns

Did they fucking bollocks.

Crap. Pretty sure I got We Are IE out the discount box on the counter in Bluebird Records in Bromley.

I always read this thread but never reply. I’d saved up a chunk and was looking forward to catching up with the capers. I literally don’t know what to say.

Confirmation from my pal:

DVD 86 was shit. DVD 89 [and on] was good. The older generation of 540D, dvd53, 57 and 59 all had a short lifespan so are highly unlikely to still be working.

The 650BD was the first Blu Ray player, that and the other Blu Ray players were all very good indeed

And apparently the Blu Ray players also have all the audio outs on the back, but probably won’t have SCART 👍

Question - would a dvd player like the cambridge audio DVD86 pitcutred below allow me to do both with one device? Plug a scart or hdmi into the telly for dvds and run some audio cables into the amp for cds?

DVDs will play through telly speakers as long as amp turned off. CDs will play though amp when thats turned on?

Short answer is yes. I’ve got the DVD89 and use it to do exactly that.

However, my pal used to work for whoever it was who made those and I seem to remember one of the earlier ones (which might have been the DVD85, 86 or 87) was a bit glitchy. I’ll find out which one it was 👍

One great thing about these players is they’re all practically the same inside. Mine started to struggle to track certain discs properly and then the tray mechanism failed. I picked up an earlier (glitchy) player cheap and simply swapped the drive unit into mine.

Eh? Run me through this.

I was taught how to read and write and punctuation. It’s just part of normal communication.

brandy sauce is wholly unacceptable…a true abomination

No way, man. Brandy sauce is ace, especially home-made ☝️

change one variable at a time so you know which one is making the difference

This was my point in not using the WDT (or other automated prep tools). Go back to basics, get the basics right, then start introducing your prep aids. If you don’t understand how or why your prep is lacking, how the hell are you going to know if some random tool you saw in a YouTube Short is going to make a difference?

Tesco Finest* Crumble Topped are shit. Don’t be suckered in by the £1.75 offer.

Think of a 5mm thick cheap shortbread biscuit base topped with a thin layer of mincemeat, then sprinkled with a coarse ‘crumb’ of the same cheap shortbread biscuit. It’s that.

Is anyone here familiar with the 1938 Benny Goodman concert in Carnegie Hall? Through quite a lot of it, particularly when there’s high energy vibes being played, there’s someone continually yelling yeaaaahh! who sounds fucked up. Anyone know, is that someone in the band or an audience member at the front off their tits?

Messy and a bit fast. Puck prep was meticulous. Dampened the beans before grinding, used a WDT, used a leveller, but still spraying all over the place. Any suggestions?

Sounds like you still need to go finer. I’m tempted to say put the WDT and leveller aside for now and use a conventional tamper until you better understand what’s going on.

Back to basics:
Heat the portafilter: run a bit of water through for 5 seconds or so, so that you’re not pulling your shot through a cold portafilter.
Static reduction: grind the beans dry into a jam jar or metal cup
Clump breakup: gentle shake side to side.
Even dose into the portafilter: wipe the basket dry. Pour the coffee in directly and evenly. Use a dosing ring, but don’t use a teaspoon.
Even the distribution: level it out by knocking the sides of the portafilter with your palm until it’s level.
Tamp: tamp evenly, gently at first, check, then tamp again firmly. If the tamper goes in at an angle it’s probably due to uneven distribution.
Clear the side walls of the basket: quick tap on the sides of the portafilter with the tamper will knock the loose coffee off the sides of the basket. Then just lightly tamp to smooth the top and re-seat the puck of coffee.

Gaggia Classic likes a big dose and to pull a big shot IME. Don’t leave too much (if any) headspace.