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I've reached an internal deadlock on this, An Ankoù - even after temporarily abandoning a bedtime session with Granny Weatherwax for twenty minutes in order to ponder it. It may well be that you are right and I am wrong, in which case that's worth at least one decent beer that I owe you if...

Does "fewer" necessarily imply only integers? I'm a bit stuck on that, but maybe you have a good point. It's rather early in the day, but I'm going to have to lubricate my grey cell with alcohol so that it may have a chance of turning this over. Good thinking from you, regardless. Keep...

Damn! Thanks kelper. Anyway, the bigger pic shows she's distinctly and excessively skinny, and not rather dishy at all. Oh well.

Fewer, An Ankoù, fewer. Did you know that, on average, human bodies have fewer than one head per body, if you include Charles I.

Dexter101, I've wondered on several occasions: who is the young lady in your avatar? (And why?) She really looks rather dishy, or at least she would if we had a proper full-size pic of her. Any chance of getting her to let you put one in a thread here? The interest is, of course, purely...

Fun! Count me in too please.

Interesting. I agree about the water mattering. Lots of years ago I heard that some chemistry research had found that it also matters whether you put the milk in first or last. The conventional explanation for putting it in first is so you won't crack your expensive china cups with hot tea...

Back to basics a bit ... if you make "a mean cup of tea" I for one, as an avid tea-drinker, am interested to know just how you do it, and with what. I suspect a few others on this forum would also like to know - maybe a subject for a different thread? I've been trying every variety of loose...

You could well be right. I remember that mum's version was quite salty. I drastically cut down on the salt content for health reasons, as it's yet another of the things that are bad for us, so maybe that's the secret. The same goes for sugar in tea -- for me, it just tastes better with...

Absolutely yes. My mother used to make (long ago, when I was a boy) "ribs and beans", which was bacon ribs plus butter beans (bought as dried ones, and soaked overnight) plus carrots, plus (I presume) salt and pepper etc., cooked slowly for a long time in a pressure cooker at minimum pressure...

Yes, but it's a good old-fashioned manual stick-it-in-the-keyhole-and-turn sort, not remote. Otherwise the Daleks would have cloned the signal long ago and nicked the Tardis.

Keep the sofa downstairs. Move the drinks cupboard upstairs.

Ah ah. So self-criticism is also your religion. Enjoy the "drinking more beer" part.

You're right. The "starter" bit was sort of as in "Your starter for 10" which Bamber Gascoine used to say, in this case meaning that after learning the hypocrisy of Christianity I subsequently learned pretty much the same about most other religions, certainly about all the deistic religions I've...

So, how many of us were choristers? I too was (head choirboy, no less) until my voice broke. As you drank, presumably you either (1) drank under age, or (2) continued after the breaking of the voice. If nothing else, in that period I learned what hypocrisy Christianity is. The starter for...

I remember my mother telling me that in the time of one of my ancestors (can't remember which, maybe the era of her parents or grandparents) men working in the foundries (in the industrial north, where proper work was done) were given constant free beer to replace the liquid lost in sweat in the...

I do the same; the frozen berries strip off very easily with a fork. However, the stalks are also brittle when frozen, and I find that some berries have bits of stalk snapped off and attached to them, so after stripping the berries I go through them and try to remove every bit of green...

Not only in China. One of my most memorable experiences (when I was young, naive, inexperienced and did not know what to expect) was in Malaysia on a coach journey when we stopped for a rest break near Ipoh. I needed to go to the wc. It wasn’t a wc. I won’t describe it in case anyone is...

Do you not find the beer tastes a bit soapy? Or do you do it the wasteful way and use fresh water?

PPS. The last part of that final sentence was unnecessary. Sorry. Witness the fact that I am here and able to write about it. If I had tried to argue the point, I wouldn't be. QED.