Another lockdown… another commute

[armstrong]

^^ I need to do that with my bike. Keep forgetting it's plugged in.

[hallelujah]

Snow forecast for the weekend, I believe. Yeah, fuck the fishing off!

I reckon a couple of shots of you propping up the bar of the Mendip Inn would be appropriate, given the inclement conditions outside though.

[malmomike77]

Yep, my mum leaves this note on the kitchen table to remind her when she's put the electric mower on charge in the garage.

should get her a timer plug

[Reg Dingle]

Or a Thai gardener

[bsnub]

Or a Thai gardener

[Mendip]

I went for a drive to Clevedon with my mum today. The weather's gonna turn at the end of the week so it's nice to do some stuff beforehand.

That's Wales in the background, across the Bristol Channel.



On the way back my mum wanted to stop off at a supermarket to get some food for the food bank. I thought I'd completed my shopping list for Thailand... but no.

How can you resist that!



I took just a couple of these babies. I've never tried them before but I'll save that experience for a special occasion back home. I also bought a couple more for the food bank... my mum's been having a go at me because I only really give money to animal charities so I thought this would please her a bit.

Has anyone tried them before? Joe maybe?



What I don't understand is that all the ingredients only add up to 18% so whatever makes up the other 82%?



And no egg? Will I have to do eggs separately? That kind of defeats the purpose.

[Reg Dingle]

^ Someone put a You Tube vid up on here somewhere of that pie getting 'panned' in a review

Can't find the post but here's the vid...




Probably be great the morning after a skinful of ya dong

[Mendip]

^ I must admit it seems like a strange concept but you can't go on just one review.

[Saint Willy]

^ I must admit it seems like a strange concept but you can't go on just one review.

you’ve made up your mind…

[Joe 90]

Has anyone tried them before? Joe maybe?

I tried the chicken and mushroom recently.
The first time in my life I've had one.
It's amazing how high the puff pastry rises in the oven.
Still a bit stodgy, but not bad for a snack with some home made chips and baked beans.
Btw they're 99p oop north, you've been had

That all day breakfast looks interesting, I reckon you trial it first and report back coz there's a couple of us gone down with dodgy guts today on account of last nights "curry off".
Dills been blaming it on his booster jab which is bollocks, I had the booster and didn't notice any side effects.
I bet his kitchen was full of crap this morning too
I blame Nammers for my white knuckle ride , telling me I'd forgotten to put the chilli in, twat.

Those food banks are big business over here at the moment.
I've got a couple of colleagues who work part time for them and some of the fookers getting free handout every week are driving round in new cars with private registration plates etc.
Pisses me off, I claim fvck all and provide for my family as a single parent.
Cvnts out there are milking the system with no shame.
But there are a lot of genuine cases which is sad coz there should be no need for food banks in this day and age.
Just get down the bargain bucket at the right time and elbow your way to a kilo of pork chops for 50p

[malmomike77]

I thought I'd completed my shopping list for Thailand... but no.

Poundland or B&M?

my mum's been having a go at me because I only really give money to animal charities so I thought this would please her a bit.

You may wish to educate her about how much these benevolent charities spend on admin and pay their so call chief execs et al. They don't get mine any more, most are thinly disguised money making machines who hide behind their original raison d'être - sadly.

[Reg Dingle]

my mum's been having a go at me because I only really give money to animal charities

Didn't you tell har about your passport runs near Cockatoo?

[Mendip]

^ My mum comes from a simpler time and I don't see the need to complicate things for her.

I hope no conman gets my two pies, that would piss me off.

One thing I have noticed on the telly over here, apart from the endless antique, house repair and cooking shows, is the relentlesd charity ads. After a while you just get charity overload, the ads just never stop.

[malmomike77]

^ be careful Mendip. A lot pf these charities have been found to lean heavily on older people. They get them to sign up for a small amount per month and then start with pressure sales calls and letter drops playing on sympathy about how much extra you can help with another £10 or 20 and it goes from there. Many are far from benevolent and find praying on old people easy.

[Joe 90]

Indeed,it's an industry.
A penny in the pound to charity and the rest disappears.
It's worse than the timeshare industry.

[malmomike77]

These chuggers get quite mouthy if you don't cough up and some try to get in your face and intimidate you verbally which i find quite amusing, especially when you take the time to turn around and have chat about what they have just shouted at you. Quite enjoy using a few minutes on a Saturday handing it back.

[Reg Dingle]

You may wish to educate her about how much these benevolent charities

There are a fukkin Incredible 170 THOUSAND registered charities here in the soft UK.

More beggars here than Bangkok and Vietnam combined I reckon.
Most of these dossers are on the dole and have a drug problem.
Those fokkers outside poundland can all afford fags and cans of white lightning.
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This one scruffy kont knows just one tune on his fukkin harmonica.

Theres an old woman here in town called Polly the Trolley who goes around all the salvation army's and churches with her shopping bag filled to the brim of food. She buys all that wild bird seed from Wilko too and feeds all the vermin pigeons around here encouraging them to lay more eggs (because that's what they do when food is plentiful) and shit all over the place and peoples cars.

Most charity givers only do it for the karma. I hope one of those pigeons shits in her mouth. That'll teach her.

[Joe 90]

Polly the trolley!

[Mendip]

^ Well that's strange... I bought my mum a sack of wild bird seed today, but she feeds the blue tits and sparrows, not pigeons apart from one big wood pigeon that calls in the garden. She also got a tenner out of me for the Salvation Army today. Her name's not Polly, by the way!

I also bought my mum a new microwave today as her current one has got rust on the inside, I've never seen that before.

What do you do with an old mIcrowave in the UK? In Korat I'd just leave it next to the bin and it'd be gone in minutes... unless of course it was in a particularly dangerous condition. In that case I'd give it to one of the inlaws!

[malmomike77]

There are a fukkin Incredible 170 THOUSAND registered charities here in the soft UK.

Yep, tax free income as a business and the wankers running them are paid like FTSE 250 CEOs - its a joke. Want money - come up with an idea, register it as a charity, send collectors, except they are on commission - cvnts are called chuggers, wait for the cash to roll in and release a little bit to the end recipients - job done.

Me - i'd have a bonfire of most of them and laugh me tits off watching them line up to apply for social.

[malmomike77]

What do you do with an old mIcrowave in the UK?

go to the local recycling centre

[Reg Dingle]

Just tried to Google her. This will be her..

Crowdfunding to help fund Polly'''s amazing help for homeless and hungry people in Banbury, Oxfordshire. on JustGiving

[Reg Dingle]

Her name's not Polly, by the way!

That's a relief.

Although a bird shitting on you is considered good luck in some parts.

I once won a few bob down Hall Green dogs after catching one on the forehead.

[Reg Dingle]

What do you do with an old mIcrowave in the UK?

Tip as Mike says or write FREE and good working order on it and stick it outside next doors, or wait for someone shouting Old Iron

[Joe 90]

The worst beggars are them youngsters that cold call your door with "official ID badges" and hivis waistcoats who genuinely believe that showing you pictures of starving dogs will persuade you to set up a standing order and donate every month to some fookers champagne lifestyle.

Last time I gave to charity was just before a works Xmas do a couple of years back at Picadilly station in Manchester. The cvnt said he was hungry, so I took him in Greggs and bought us a pasty each, he replied with the comment that he just wanted a few quid to buy a brew!
My feel good factor turned to anger as I realised he just wanted a bag of spice, I just walked off and left the ungrateful cvnt to it.
The city centre is awash with beggars because of dogooders giving them new timberland boots, sleeping bags, hot meals etc etc.
They even come from all over the country because they know it's easy pickings with the churches regular dogooding missions.
In reality the dogooders are just encouraging begging and giving them no incentive to get of their arse and work like everyone else.
Rant over