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Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:42 pm
by Cody
In case you are not familiar with Jacob Rees-Mogg, imagine somebody dressed like Bertie Wooster, with a diction like Sir Percy Blakeney and talking anachronistically convoluted bollocks like an overacting steampunk cosplayer after three pints of Theakston's Old Peculier.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:07 am
by Cody
"Brazil nuts in toffee fill the nose, followed by linseed oil, a suggestion of flowering blackcurrants, sweet, aromatic peat smoke and a hint of tobacco".
Such is the description of Ardbeg Cask No. 3 which has sold for £16m (sufficient spirit to fill 440 bottles, valuing each one at £36,000).
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:31 am
by Old Murgh
Cody wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:07 am
"Brazil nuts in toffee fill the nose, followed by linseed oil, a suggestion of flowering blackcurrants, sweet, aromatic peat smoke and a hint of tobacco".
Such is the description of Ardbeg Cask No. 3 which has sold for £16m (sufficient spirit to fill 440 bottles, valuing each one at £36,000).
Insane price but it makes more sense than NFT "artwork".
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:05 pm
by Cody
Although it may not be what you fancy on sweaty days, scientific research suggests spicy and hot foods can actually help cool you down.
Don't need "scientific research" to know that - which is why I cooked a large pot of lamb karai last night.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 11:37 am
by Disembodied
We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 6:00 pm
by Cody
Zombie robots feasting on human flesh? Sounds like something Netflix would produce.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:10 pm
by Disembodied
I didn't realise it was so old, but it's a story from 2009:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... s-research
the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot – known as Eatr for short – does indeed power its "biomass engine" by digesting organic material
but apparently it's a vegetarian. Or at least it was in 2009.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 9:01 pm
by Cody
Disembodied wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:10 pm...apparently it's a vegetarian.
It's amazing what people/robots will eat when they get
really hungry! Biomass is biomass!
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:27 pm
by Cody
The inaugural Scottish Tree Hugging Championships were held at the weekend.
<sniggers>
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:14 pm
by Disembodied
Cody wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:27 pm
The inaugural Scottish Tree Hugging Championships were held at the weekend.
<sniggers>
If you have a better way of getting cabers, I'd like to hear it!
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:57 pm
by Cody
I'll just "toss" this in:
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:06 pm
by Old Murgh
Wow, they're real. I thought they were mythical beings.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:21 pm
by Cody
Old Murgh wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:06 pm
Wow, they're real. I thought they were mythical beings.
What... smiling women with clipboards in the forest?
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 4:14 pm
by RockDoctor
Cody wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:21 pm
What... smiling women with clipboards in the forest?
That has the air of an Open University "Summer School" in Applied Ethnography.
(I did an Astronomy one once - at an observatory under the final approach to Mallorca International airport. You had to learn to reject spurious data - which was a valuable lesson.)
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 1:49 pm
by Cody
It's just one damn thing after another!
