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16 Oct 14 - 05:26 AM (#3669556) Subject: Room 101 From: banjoman What would you put in room 101 if you could. For me it would be the loads of sticky labels with my name & address on that every charity in the country seems to send out. I can at most use one or two but I now have thousands and they are difficult to dispose of without causing a security risk. |
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16 Oct 14 - 05:37 AM (#3669560) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,Fred McCormick Daft Mudcat postings. |
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16 Oct 14 - 05:48 AM (#3669562) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST With Fred on this. Especially when you can't even be bothered putting a BS tag on it. sticky labels with my name & address on... are difficult to dispose of without causing a security risk Why? Are you really famous or something? Anyway, matches are quite cheap... |
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16 Oct 14 - 06:55 AM (#3669577) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Jack Blandiver Folk Music. Then I might live again the last 40 years of my life in trouble-free contentment. |
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16 Oct 14 - 07:02 AM (#3669581) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Mudcatters incapable of posting without a plethora of "fucks" and similar disagreeable locutions. Not worried as to danger of packdrills; so will mention that Musket (Ian Mather) comes particularly to mind... ≈M≈ |
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16 Oct 14 - 08:15 AM (#3669600) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,Rahere Pukeleles. The Dolmetsches, now we've moved on from their guestimates - so the Early Music Shop and Hobgoblin as well, for selling crap instruments. Has anyone attempted to sort out what has been consigned to Room 101 by the program behind this thinking? What tagset classification might apply? Kitsch, for starters |
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16 Oct 14 - 08:34 AM (#3669602) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,Mike Yates Morris dancers.... |
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16 Oct 14 - 10:17 AM (#3669626) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,# More morris dancers. |
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16 Oct 14 - 10:24 AM (#3669628) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker All the Jeremy Clarkson clones of UK Folk... .. and carnival whistles & shakey eggs |
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16 Oct 14 - 11:33 AM (#3669647) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Just so long as you identify which of the three musketeers eh Mike? Not really fair, but fully accepted on the basis nobody cares what you think. Out of interest, it was this Musket (Ian) that drew you into looking an arse earlier. I'd put old men in Room 101. I'd be choosy though. I might extend the list to include; People who pretend they don't enjoy Top Gear. Scousers Jim and Mike (in case they somehow avoided the old men section) Car showroom staff who want to tell me about their company when I am only interested in the cars they are franchise holders for.. Moles. The announcer on this sodding train I am on right now Moles Companies who sell mole traps / vibrators / food reducers Moles The bloke in The Reindeer who suggested sand castle type windmills in the molehills The bloke who then sneaked a photo of my far lawn and put it behind the bar You know who you are, twat. Moles People who call the song Lamona and not Pomona Moles People who don't put cow juice in tea Moles People who find an excuse to say "fuck" gratuitously rather than in context in posts. (Mike's above for instance) Fucking moles (see? In context.) |
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16 Oct 14 - 12:00 PM (#3669660) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Musket, my mrs pisses herself laughing watching "Top Gear". Even though she hasn't the slightest interest in cars and knows deep down how much she loathes Clarkson and everything he stands for.. but, she still thinks he's hilarious....??? Real life is a bit complex like that , innit... I think mrs punkfolkrocker would put horror films about dolls and toys that come to life into room 101.. |
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16 Oct 14 - 12:44 PM (#3669670) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Q (Frank Staplin) Thread 59418 Surplus threads on the Palestinian-Israeli impasse. Surplus threads on religion. |
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16 Oct 14 - 12:45 PM (#3669671) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D I gather Room 101 is located metaphorically in the UK. For my part, I would applaud Michael if he were able to herd a majority of 'fuck' users into that room. They seem to define 'in context' as any situation in which they are unable to phrase a comment using myriad other locutions in that wonderful language they treasure so deeply. (Oh, we have 'em over here, also, but we seem to have no special room for them... they roam freely and breed.) |
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16 Oct 14 - 12:54 PM (#3669675) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,HiLo Bodrans, no one seems to play it well, played badly, it is horrific. |
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16 Oct 14 - 01:10 PM (#3669684) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,achmelvich cats people on here who repeatedly hi-jack threads to make personal and petty attacks on each other i have no problem waiting in a supermarket queue unless the person in front of me has a daily mail or telegraph in their basket - i need to say 'excuse me, you do realise that if you buy that stuff people will think you're a tory?' and i hate them even more for making me feel like a mad and grumpy dave spart climate change deniers bosses, tories, soldiers and all other aggressive men the world over |
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16 Oct 14 - 01:34 PM (#3669693) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: olddude That prat gordon Ramsey |
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16 Oct 14 - 01:40 PM (#3669694) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T "Moles" They can be removed-what part of your body are they on? |
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16 Oct 14 - 02:13 PM (#3669696) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,Sol All the people out there who somehow get delight from pissing matches. |
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16 Oct 14 - 02:13 PM (#3669697) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Firecat Some of these are true for both me and my husband. Justin Bieber Sodcasters (people where you can hear the tinny bass from their headphones) My neighbours Soaps (or "serial dramas" as they prefer to be called) Chuggers (charity collectors who accost you in the street) Spiders Cold calls Politicians Smoking Katie Hopkins Richard Madeley Ricky Gervais Jonathan Ross People who are rude about Doctor Who People who judge me for not trowelling make up on Malicious practical jokers that take things too far People who judge me for being teetotal People who use the phrase "But everyone enjoys it" when they mean "I enjoy it!" Programmes with background music that drowns out the dialogue People who think that, because I'm female, I should like pink Better stop there - that's 20! I could go on, but 20's probably enough for now... :-P |
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16 Oct 14 - 02:16 PM (#3669699) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Uncle_DaveO The counterintelligence service ought to search out the moles. If they don't get rid of them, the moles will ruin your lawn. Dave Oesterreich |
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16 Oct 14 - 02:18 PM (#3669700) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,grumpy Mudcat. |
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16 Oct 14 - 02:28 PM (#3669704) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Doug Chadwick The Room 101 TV programme seems, to me, to have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. George Orwell's Room 101 is a place that holds your worst fear, to be used against you when the system wants to coerce you into conforming to its wishes. The TV programme, on the other hand, treats it as a place to banish your worst fears, never to be seen again. I would have thought that the best things to send into Room 101 would be those that you really like but pretend that you hate. With a bit of accomplished acting and a few crocodile tears, you could have a whale of a time and get one over on the system. DC |
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16 Oct 14 - 02:39 PM (#3669707) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,achmelvich Good thinking DC- George Orwell and Achmelvich |
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16 Oct 14 - 04:42 PM (#3669747) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST Scotland |
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16 Oct 14 - 04:43 PM (#3669748) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D "The Room 101 TV programme" I knew it! UK! My next nomination is all those extra letters... especially the 'u's, in words like color and doubled letters in program. (Think of all the savings in ink!) ☺ |
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16 Oct 14 - 05:15 PM (#3669751) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T People who obsessively complain about Justin Beiber. |
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16 Oct 14 - 05:23 PM (#3669754) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Fucking Bill People who don't appreciate gratuotous context. People who think moles that can dig under your lawn are a problem for your face. Granted, I now have a nervous twitch. Not the point. Moles |
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16 Oct 14 - 05:26 PM (#3669758) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T The USA marketing tendancy to shorten or bastardise (aks bastardize) the spelling of English words, like colour, and kwick kopy. |
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16 Oct 14 - 10:06 PM (#3669808) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ebbie There are a few UK words that I prefer to those I am used to in the US. Like 'lift' for elevator. No idea why we use such an unwieldy word nor why we keep it. But some word usages I don't understand at all. Like 'leftenant'. Why? I realize that pronouncing it 'lootenant' is also not the French pronunciation but it is at least closer. |
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17 Oct 14 - 01:45 AM (#3669824) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Backwoodsman I agree, Ebbie. FWIW, I hear more and more the U.S. pronunciation 'Lootenant' here, very likely due to the influence of the U.S. TV programmes (note correct spelling, Bill! :-) ) and films (or 'movies' as ex-colonials quaintly refer to them) with which we're bombarded. |
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17 Oct 14 - 01:51 AM (#3669826) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Agreed that 'leftenant' one of life's great mysteries. I think of it alongside the name of the city I live near [& your Mass name-clone], Cambridge; which cannot possibly be pronounced the way it is; except that it is! ≈M≈ |
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17 Oct 14 - 02:01 AM (#3669828) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ebbie So how do you pronounce Cambridge? |
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17 Oct 14 - 02:03 AM (#3669829) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Oh well, if we are going to include American influence on UK society.... My niece's boy dressed in a suit looking all dressed up in a photo she sent us. Why? His school "prom.". Bah humbug! Years ago now, BT added 911 as getting you through to 999 because kids watching American sit coms and films had that number hard wired in their heads. If anyone told me moles originated in America, my xenophobia and Room 101 list would be complete. Southern pronunciation. Put that bugger in. It's bath, not barth. |
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17 Oct 14 - 03:25 AM (#3669836) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,Black belt caterpillar wrestler The use of the word "decayed" in place of "decade", if it a period of ten years being referred to the stress is on the first syllable not the second. |
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17 Oct 14 - 04:49 AM (#3669844) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Doug Chadwick "The Room 101 TV programme" I knew it! UK! There I was trying to be so clever and reckoning that I could beat the system .... but I have given myself away after just a few words! You know more about me than I had intended to convey. Difficult things, these mind games. DC |
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17 Oct 14 - 04:50 AM (#3669846) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Ebbie - came-bridge ❤❤ |
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17 Oct 14 - 09:50 AM (#3669894) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Steve Shaw Casualtitty Holby Citititty Moles Rabbits (it would have to be a bloody big room though) Bodhran "players" 4x4s Citroen Picassos (stupidest-looking car ever invented) Citroen Picasso drivers (unfailingly idiotic) People who type same-sex "marriage" Volvo Estate drivers Beamer drivers Tractors which go more than 100 yards on A roads Apple sauce Vegetarians Farmers who moan about people on benefits (bwahahahaha!) Prince Charles and all the other idiots who promote homeopathy Superfoods Actually, all the Royal Family Graham Norton Low-slung skateboarding jeans that make you look like you have no arse Thanks for asking. |
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17 Oct 14 - 10:17 AM (#3669897) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,John Bercow MPs |
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17 Oct 14 - 10:29 AM (#3669898) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T The odd, and over-used term, "on the other side of the pond". |
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17 Oct 14 - 10:37 AM (#3669905) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Steve Shaw Anyone who uses the expressions "on a daily basis" or "albeit" or "prior to". |
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17 Oct 14 - 10:46 AM (#3669910) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,# People who misspell Bieber (with the exception of Ed T). Worn out expressions like 'other side of the pond'. Anyone except Werner Heisenberg who uses 'at this point in time' while talking. People who cannot distinguish between the usages of its and it's. |
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17 Oct 14 - 10:46 AM (#3669911) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolrocker I wanna add some more... Shaving, shitting, cutting toe and finger nails.... |
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17 Oct 14 - 11:14 AM (#3669919) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Backwoodsman Pukeleles. Concertinas. |
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17 Oct 14 - 12:27 PM (#3669939) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T Thanks for the exception, unknown guest, I will use this exception, liberally and respectfully-though I have never actually heard the youth sing. |
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17 Oct 14 - 12:30 PM (#3669941) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T The thirteen hundred and fifty-two people who post as "Guest"on Mudcat. |
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17 Oct 14 - 01:38 PM (#3669965) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D "O wad some Pow'r the guestie gie him (all 1352) To see himsel as ithers see him! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion:" apologies to Burns |
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17 Oct 14 - 01:43 PM (#3669969) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,Sol People who don't like MGM Lion's picks ;-) |
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17 Oct 14 - 02:06 PM (#3669981) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Eh? My 'picks'? No idea what they may be; sorry. |
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17 Oct 14 - 02:08 PM (#3669982) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T "O wad some Pow'r the guestie gie him (all 1352) To see himsel as ithers see him! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion:" People who eat haggis, and write poems in weird English. |
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17 Oct 14 - 02:10 PM (#3669983) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: akenaton I don't "fear" anything so couldn't fit in with Orwell's idea of what R101 contains. Rationalisation defeats "fear"....religions CAN be rationalised. The TV programme encompasses anything that the participants do not like, which is twisting Orwell's work and meaning. This has occurred on various different occasions pertaining to his writing. |
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17 Oct 14 - 02:15 PM (#3669984) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker people who establish their membership at mudcat under nom de plumes to protect their real identity and then moan consistently about anonymous guest posters !!!????? |
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17 Oct 14 - 02:34 PM (#3669991) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T People who dont establish membership at mudcat under any nom de plume, (though it it is free and real names are protected) posting under ever changing mudcat guest identities, criticize other legitimate postes, under odd and changing guest nom de plumes.WTF? |
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17 Oct 14 - 02:41 PM (#3669994) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker people who are established members who are also 'occasionaly' "posting under ever changing mudcat guest identities, criticize other legitimate postes, under odd and changing guest nom de plumes.WTF?"... ... have we left anyone out ??? |
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17 Oct 14 - 04:10 PM (#3670033) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ebbie Not really apet peeve but an alarming trend, imo. Perhaps because of cell phones (mobiles), Twitter and all that, more and more people are ignoring tenses of words and actions. Where are our youngsters going to learn proper usage? |
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17 Oct 14 - 04:17 PM (#3670037) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T . ""have we left anyone out ???"" If so, I suspect they won't mind, (btw, are you are the same "guest" as a few minutes ago? :) |
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17 Oct 14 - 04:28 PM (#3670040) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker No, not me - I've been consistently 'punkfolkrocker' [not always spelled spelled correctly - or only 'GUEST' if I forgot to fill the FROM BOX in] and no 'one shot' disposable daft joke names for weeks... I guess I've adjusted to feeling comfy in his clothes again... I'd also like to add 'Mid life Identity Crises' to room 101........ |
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17 Oct 14 - 04:28 PM (#3670041) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Steve Shaw People who eat haggis, and write poems in weird English. I eat haggis and plenty of it, you funking barsteward, though I do not write poetry. I will forgive you if you promise forthwith to reconstruct the above sentence without that comma. |
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17 Oct 14 - 04:31 PM (#3670042) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Steve Shaw I would also put into Room 101 those on the extreme right who are over eighty but who think their soubriquet should still include the word "lion". |
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17 Oct 14 - 04:52 PM (#3670052) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T Senor Shaw: good choice in refraining from weird olde poetic refrain. Heres the deal:if you promise to refrain from eating this "celtic sheep-entrail concoction", I will refrain from posting my annoying, and roving, comma. ;) |
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17 Oct 14 - 05:22 PM (#3670060) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion ≈≈Grr·ROARrr·Rrr!≈≈ ~M~ |
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17 Oct 14 - 06:32 PM (#3670077) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Steve Shaw Hello? A paper lion! Makes a change, I suppose. |
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17 Oct 14 - 06:38 PM (#3670079) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Steve Shaw Basically, Ed, your problem seems to be that you have never savoured Macsween's haggis, in my view the only haggis to go for. A plateful of Macsween's, with tatties, neeps and good, thick gravy, is a joy. I feel that, somehow, you have been exposed to the wrong haggis. I think I'm feeling sorry for you. |
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17 Oct 14 - 07:33 PM (#3670094) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T Since you seem of have a taste for the offal, tripe, and other innards, Steve, here is a delight you may wish to sink your nasal hairs into. Andouillette |
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17 Oct 14 - 07:39 PM (#3670095) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T I recommend the quote section in my last link on stink, sample quote: "I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses." - Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) |
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17 Oct 14 - 08:41 PM (#3670108) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Steve Shaw Ed, you do not want to KNOW what I might have sunk my (Remington-shortened) nasal hairs into. And I haven't regretted a single sniff. Moving swiftly on... |
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18 Oct 14 - 01:11 AM (#3670143) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker British men who call each other [but even worse, me] Dude !!! |
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18 Oct 14 - 02:08 AM (#3670156) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket I like haggis dude |
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18 Oct 14 - 07:34 AM (#3670198) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T Is Steve Haggis-dude? |
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18 Oct 14 - 08:12 AM (#3670206) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Only if I don't have to respect him the following morning. Vegetarian haggis. You can put that bugger in Room 101. Dude. |
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18 Oct 14 - 09:27 AM (#3670219) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Roger the Skiffler People who start negative threads. (Why not have "best" threads- but then the trolls go on attacking other folk's choices rather than promote their own!) RtS |
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18 Oct 14 - 09:28 AM (#3670220) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: akenaton Anyone who puts gravy on their haggis. |
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18 Oct 14 - 09:30 AM (#3670221) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: akenaton Or sugar, honey, yoghurt, fruit, jam etc, on their porage. |
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18 Oct 14 - 06:40 PM (#3670342) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Steve Shaw Vegetarian haggis. You can put that bugger in Room 101. Oi. I've already put veggies into Room 101. Surely we do not want to be cheering the bastards up? |
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18 Oct 14 - 06:41 PM (#3670343) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Steve Shaw Vegetarian haggis. You can put that bugger in Room 101. Oi. I've already put veggies into Room 101. Surely we do not want to be cheering the bastards up? |
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18 Oct 14 - 06:43 PM (#3670344) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler When is it time to put room 101 into room 101? |
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18 Oct 14 - 07:26 PM (#3670353) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Still puzzling about GUEST Sol's ref to my "picks" 2 days ago. Would he kindly come back & explain what he meant. I don't use a plectrum; nor work on the roads as a navvy; nor even make all that many choices these days. So what did he mean by my "picks", please? Would really like to know! ≈M≈ |
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19 Oct 14 - 03:46 AM (#3670394) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Just think Mike. If you were a navvie, you could write a folk song about it. And I could put it in Room 101. 🎵🎶Navigator. Navigator, 🎵🎶 Rise up and write a song. |
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19 Oct 14 - 04:39 AM (#3670409) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Note that I didn't pick up on "not making that many choices these days." I must be going soft. 😇 |
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19 Oct 14 - 06:26 AM (#3670432) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Noted. I can choose whether or not to read your posts, tho, innit? Or whether to trouble to reply if I do. Ah -- decisions decisions: they follow us to the grave... ≈Me≈ |
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19 Oct 14 - 07:37 AM (#3670450) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T ""I must be going soft. "" Please put that one in the room. |
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19 Oct 14 - 09:56 AM (#3670464) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,# "Please put that one in the room." Y'ever try to push a rope? |
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19 Oct 14 - 11:52 AM (#3670497) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Of course I was going soft. I get choosy these days, and have my standards, (two tits and a heart beat.) |
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19 Oct 14 - 12:24 PM (#3670510) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Spots that look too tempting to resist squeezing or picking and bleed and get sore if you do... |
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19 Oct 14 - 01:51 PM (#3670541) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Moles No really. Room 101 might stand as much of a chance as any other pogrom or mass extermination style final solution. If anyone knows how to get them in through the door, there's a fiver in it. |
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19 Oct 14 - 03:28 PM (#3670548) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST MGM Lion. I could have used the word 'choices' instead of 'picks'. Simply put, I was agreeing with your 'picks' for Room 101. Apologies for the confusion. |
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19 Oct 14 - 03:33 PM (#3670550) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,Sol Oops. Forgot to add nom de plume in post above. |
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19 Oct 14 - 05:25 PM (#3670574) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Ah -- thank you, Sol. Got it now. You are indeed right: anyone with the impertinence to disagree with MGM deserves the fate of Winston Smith... ≈Me≈ |
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19 Oct 14 - 06:35 PM (#3670594) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Not to mention the gratitude of a grateful nation... Time for horlicks and tucking up in bed, sleepy lion. I can't find a lion, will you settle for 🐱 or 🐯. I could just about do 🐆🐈 or 🐩 But will settle for 👴 |
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19 Oct 14 - 07:28 PM (#3670620) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T I would like to nominate Muskets posting "brisket" for room 101, stored for tenderizing. |
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20 Oct 14 - 12:14 AM (#3670660) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion No, I couldn't find a lion either, Ian; nor even a pussicat. You'd think, wouldn't you; but... Have to make do with ≈≈Grr·ROARrr·Rrr!≈≈ ~M~ Never quite seen the signif of your rectangles, atchally; but whatever... ≈Me≈ |
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20 Oct 14 - 01:48 AM (#3670664) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion I think they make a Horlicks of your posts. Don't think have actually drunk the stuff for about 50 years BTW. Valerie had a fad for making it for us both before going to bed when in early 30s; but it only lasted a month or two IIRC... Nowadays just go to bed after the footie or Downton or Scott&Bailey or whatever the evening's delectation might have been. Life is so full of thrills these days, you wouldn't believe... Or should I say, you wouldn't cocoa, to bring all back to ▢-1 |
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20 Oct 14 - 02:32 AM (#3670666) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Ovaltine? I'd put that Downton Abbey in. Not that I would put it in for entertaining people, just that you get a fire roaring in the lounge, snuggle up on the settee, the dog laid at your feet (farting) and the second glass of zin, having had the first with the lamb earlier. Life is good. Then Mrs Musket wants to watch Downton, there and then. Not on catchup whilst I am out folking about in the week but there and then. Ten mins later, I'm walking up the lane in the rain defarting the dog. Yep Downton Abbey |
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20 Oct 14 - 05:10 AM (#3670691) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Wot rectangles? Ed. Speaking for myself, I make a dry rub for brisket, made from Demerara sugar, paprika, crushed garlic, salt and pepper. Wrap in cling film and leave overnight. Cook in the bottom of the aga for at least six hours, having given it all of 20 mins in the top oven, and have a small amount of stock in the bottom of the lidded casserole pot to prevent it drying before it's own juices take over. About half an hour before eating, take it out, drain off the stock to make a gravy and rest it on top of the aga with foil over it. The gravy is quite stunning, with the slight sweetness from the sugar and the kick from the paprika and garlic. If you tenderise meat, try buying a better cut instead or in the case of brisket, slow cook it longer and in all cases rest it more. It started out by fancying Nigella Lawson and went from there I suppose. |
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20 Oct 14 - 07:13 AM (#3670716) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion "I can't find a lion, will you settle for 🐱 or 🐯. I could just about do 🐆🐈 or 🐩 But will settle for 👴 " .,,. These rectangles |
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20 Oct 14 - 11:19 AM (#3670773) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Or, to clarify ······ "I can't find a lion, will you settle for 🐱 or 🐯. I could just about do 🐆🐈 or 🐩 But will settle for 👴 " .,,. These rectangles ☝☝☝☝▲▲▲▲↑↑↑↑ |
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20 Oct 14 - 11:24 AM (#3670777) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,# Considering that not a single poster on Mudcat knows who put the bomp in the bomp ba bomp ba bomp, the whole crew deserves to be in Room 101. Ask a simple question and what do ya get? That's right! Bupkis. |
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20 Oct 14 - 11:56 AM (#3670789) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Is your computer driven by a Watt engine? Most people don't see rectangles, they see a cat, a tiger, a poodle and an old man. (in this case.) I suppose my ipad isnt steeped in the tradition.. I wonder if the audience can hear my carbon fibre guitar? Put Mike's computer in 101. A fresh pc might make a fresh outlook on life. What do you see here? 👹 And here?🚽 And finally here?💩 What is funny of course is that you missed the electric guitars, musical score and pile of poo when such items have been instrumental in dissecting your arguments. |
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20 Oct 14 - 12:18 PM (#3670797) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Rectangles are what I see. Mine is an -- maybe we don't get all these PC refinements: not being PC? How do you access them? Are they on some special menu of symbols, like my Special Characters palette? Anyhow, I am quite content with my old ; so don't even think of Rm·101-ing it! |
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20 Oct 14 - 12:37 PM (#3670803) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: akenaton Semicolon, I thought I was the only member of Mudcat who used it, or knew when to use it Nice to see there are still a few people around who can express themselves on paper or screen, without resort to primary level pictures. Another example of "dumbing down" I suppose. Regards Michael. |
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20 Oct 14 - 01:36 PM (#3670817) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T ""Another example of "dumbing down" I suppose."" And, this poster 'oft claims he is no encouraging his mudcat "nemesis" to fire shots back at him, ummmm? Could it be a "a death wish", or merely a desire for attention, no matter what variety? ♥ |
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20 Oct 14 - 01:37 PM (#3670818) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,# Hi, Ake. I definitely; take offence. Many of us know how to; use a semicolon; |
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20 Oct 14 - 01:53 PM (#3670824) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker semicolons are great - you get a . and a , : two for the price of one.... |
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20 Oct 14 - 02:46 PM (#3670841) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T A semicolon is a half assed colonoscopy. |
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20 Oct 14 - 02:54 PM (#3670845) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Dunno Mike. I use Apple. (iPhone. iPad and iMac.) Not too sure about the other two musketeers but this one, Ian, can see the emoticons. One or two on Mudcat have asked how you easily do the emoticons, so some can see them. I like to use pictures in an attempt to be inclusive. You have to dumb down for imbeciles. If you get a semi, look for a colon. Especially if you have an arse fixation. Recent legislation means bigots are already in room 101, by popular demand. 👬👭👫 |
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20 Oct 14 - 02:59 PM (#3670848) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T ""Recent legislation means bigots are already in room 101, by popular demand. 👬👭👫"" What I say ¿ |
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20 Oct 14 - 03:02 PM (#3670849) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Ian - 👬👭👫 ???? all I've ever seen on Chrome in Win 7 is baffling tiny empty rectangles.. Which I assumed was just a part of your unique 'style' in the same way as my annoying overuse of too many ............ and !!!!???? so are they actually showing up as emoticons on some systems [and I was away for a year, so if ther was an explanation of teh 3 Musks mystery; i missed it ???] |
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20 Oct 14 - 07:19 PM (#3670902) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket If you were all rich and famous, you'd see the emoticons... You just put a man and woman, a woman and woman and a man and a man. A bit like I did. I suppose the common link for me is that I use Safari in all my browsers? The emoticons form part of the new iOS8 keyboard for the iPhone and iPad. Baffling rectangles arent so much a style as a statement. I only see them in Mike's posts. I notice you see ..... Though.............. Good. No mystery about The Three Musketeers, just the poor sod who gets blamed for all the posts, including the ones he writes. Hence emoticons arent in all posts. I see them though........... .......... For luck. |
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21 Oct 14 - 04:40 PM (#3671090) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D for Windows The Mac versions aren't coming thru in this browser. |
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21 Oct 14 - 04:46 PM (#3671091) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D Interesting... in "PaleMoon" browser, a newish clone of Firefox, I see the man/woman icon, but still only rectangles for the others. |
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21 Oct 14 - 04:49 PM (#3671093) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D test 👪 👩 👨 |
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21 Oct 14 - 04:52 PM (#3671094) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D ah.. I copied the code and just reduced the final digit 3 times. Will have to experiment. |
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21 Oct 14 - 04:55 PM (#3671095) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D http://www.marathon-studios.com/unicode/U1F46B/Man_And_Woman_Holding_Hands |
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21 Oct 14 - 04:58 PM (#3671096) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: akenaton Hi guest#...I knew YOU were a semicolon buff!! Periodically. :0) |
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21 Oct 14 - 04:58 PM (#3671097) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D The list at Marathon gives the decimal #, so this ought to be a frown 🙎 |
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21 Oct 14 - 05:01 PM (#3671099) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,# Ake, ;-) |
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22 Oct 14 - 03:35 AM (#3671166) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Ah shit Bill. We might have started something.. 🐮💩 |
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22 Oct 14 - 03:58 AM (#3671171) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Backwoodsman Yep, I can emote ...... 🎆🎃💝🐗🐱🐝 Thanks for educating me, Muskie old chap! 😍 |
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22 Oct 14 - 04:09 AM (#3671174) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Your emoti[c]ons aren't coming thru round here, BWM. Zilch but the same old rectangles. So back to ▢-one-thousand-&-one... Eheu! ≈M≈ |
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22 Oct 14 - 07:06 AM (#3671206) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket I see them old bean! What! What! Emote now before some bugger makes it illegal. With deference to my dear friend Mike, who says the nicest things about me, I shall refrain from emoting in this post. It's a sign of age you know... |
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22 Oct 14 - 07:07 AM (#3671207) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker The only recognisable actual graphic [ no..... not in that senses...] emoticons I've seen so far are MGM·Lion's.... Otherwise all else are just a load of old rectangles... |
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22 Oct 14 - 07:37 AM (#3671214) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Backwoodsman It's a problem with computers from the steam-age. You need modern machines. :-) |
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22 Oct 14 - 07:39 AM (#3671215) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Backwoodsman 💻 📱 |
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22 Oct 14 - 07:46 AM (#3671218) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Ironically, most of mine would be excellent at having a pop at Mike. I assumed Apple put them in the latest iOS8 for my personal benefit. On the off chance he asks a young person to turn his computer on for him, here's a message just for him. 🙈🙉🙊o💩💩l👴👴👴d🙀😹😹😾👹g😎😎😎i😜😜t |
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22 Oct 14 - 08:05 AM (#3671223) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker "You need modern machines" Mine is a red hot cutting edge Pentium 4 modded with a custom Fan that is as whisper quiet as a modern washing machine on low spin cycle... I've even got a colour monitor... flesh tones are soooo real..... you almost feel you can reach out and touch... errrmmm.... |
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22 Oct 14 - 08:11 AM (#3671225) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Backwoodsman LOL! Seriously, I think it's new in iOS 8 - I mostly surf using my iPad. |
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22 Oct 14 - 08:39 AM (#3671232) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Now this is interesting... Just checked out this thread on my Nokia Lumia 920 Windows phone and can now see all of of your emoticons.... How come I can only see MGM·Lion's emoticons in Chrome on Win 7 ??? Trouble is the mobile phone's screen is too small for me to comfortably read things with my poor close up eyesight.. ...so maybe it's true.. too many flesh tones do make you go blind... |
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22 Oct 14 - 08:56 AM (#3671239) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Odd. Using Safari, Chrome or Firefox on a Mac, I can see them. Fire it up in Win7 (got Bootcamp) and in Explorer I can't see them but in Firefox and Chrome I can. I think the way forward is to rely on erudite wit rather than dumbing down for the benefit of the old folk. Shut up Musket old son.. Whether it be emoticons, squares or text, its all folk music. |
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22 Oct 14 - 08:58 AM (#3671240) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker .. experimenting further.. just opened up Internet Explorer 11, which I never touch, as I've been exclusively using Chrome as my browser since it's earliest release.... and yes, I can now see all those emoticons on my PC. Any way I can make the emoticons visible in Chrome ? Don't want to miss out on all these modern low attention span teen oriented visual bells 'n' whistles... [posted in IE 11 - now I must go off and wash my hands - I feel ashamed...] |
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22 Oct 14 - 10:42 AM (#3671257) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker SOLVED !!!!!* Just addded the chrome extension "Chromoji - Emoji for Google Chrome™" I can now even see the little icony buggers in full colour... [* unless this extension itself causes unforseen problems and breakages further on down the line...???] |
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22 Oct 14 - 10:47 AM (#3671259) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Bill D I still use Opera as a browser by choice..(for various reasons of internal navigation).. but only earlier versions which no longer support new ...ummm... 'advances'. This, I use Mozilla & its clones when I need to do certain stuff.... and I like PaleMoon because I can control what it does, and it doesn't demand I update every 15 minutes like Firefox does. And I haven't needed to wash MY hands from an IE use for 7-8 years. |
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22 Oct 14 - 10:51 AM (#3671260) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker TESTING: 👙👙👙🎸🎸🎸🔊🔊🔊 |
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22 Oct 14 - 11:24 AM (#3671266) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Test result:- 0IF 459 - 0IF 459 - 0IF 459 - 0IF 3B▞ - 0IF 3B▞ - 0IF 50R - 0IF 50R - 0IF 50R all enclosed in separate ▭s. Most enlightening! ≈M≈ |
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22 Oct 14 - 11:35 AM (#3671268) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Test worked for me... PASS ✔ My PC is now certified ultra modern futuristic space age techno compatible.... ie. no teenager can ever laugh cruely at it again..... |
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22 Oct 14 - 11:40 AM (#3671269) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker MGM·Lion - what browser and operating system are you using ? .. and how are you generating icons - because up to now yours were the only ones I could see in Chrome on Win 7. |
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22 Oct 14 - 11:49 AM (#3671271) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion My icons are from the Special Character palette which I get from scrolling down to the bottom of "Edit" in the header menu. -Mac OS X version 10.6.8-, it sez here on the -About This Mac- popup. My browsers are Safari & Firefox. I am always on the latter when I access the Cat. ≈M≈ |
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22 Oct 14 - 11:53 AM (#3671272) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket OSX 10.10 Might be the issue here? I'd love you to see the sarcastic old man emoticon. it's bang on.. |
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22 Oct 14 - 11:57 AM (#3671274) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Maybe one of the more techie mudcat mods could start a sticky tutorial thread on this subject, because I'm sure there must be many mudcatters scratching their heads in bafflement at the recent plague crop of tiny empty rectangles showing up in posts ...??? .. of course I'm no longer one of 'em poor unenlightened souls... I got a brand new shiny chrome emoji extension..!!! |
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22 Oct 14 - 11:57 AM (#3671275) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: MGM·Lion Why not copy & paste it, then? |
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22 Oct 14 - 12:05 PM (#3671276) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker .. and now back to the subject of room 101 I'll add - anyone over the age of 30 using emojis..😬😏😜 |
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22 Oct 14 - 12:22 PM (#3671283) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: akenaton Why would anyone over 15 want to use them? The only pictorial I use is :0) when I want to make it clear that I'm joking.......and I rarely joke. I find, trying to use the proper grammar is half the satisfaction of internet writing. |
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22 Oct 14 - 01:21 PM (#3671307) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket A pity about the other half then.. |
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22 Oct 14 - 02:41 PM (#3671323) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T Oddly, if one follows thevsuggestion, GUEST-punkfolkrocker, was just put in room 101 for his/her last post■ :) |
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22 Oct 14 - 02:46 PM (#3671326) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker I don't mind going into room 101 by now there's probably loads of really good stuff to play with in there... ......... oops almost forgot.. 😜 ‼‼‼ |
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22 Oct 14 - 02:50 PM (#3671329) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Ed T ""I rarely joke"" Lacking a sense of humour is kinda like being ambidextrous, a dumbass and a tightass. |
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22 Oct 14 - 08:56 PM (#3671394) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Tattie Bogle Well if you're ever in Dublin and book to stay in the Parliament Hotel, just ask for Room 101 - it is absolutely MASSIVE! We were there a few years back with daughter, son-in-law, son and ourselves, and booked 2 ordinary rooms, but D + S-I-L got room 101. Apart from a king-size bed it had a conference table and numerous chairs around it. Our son was supposed to be in our room, but went out on the razz in his tatty jeans, forgot his room key, and therefore very nearly failed to get into the hotel again late night. Only when son-in-law went down to plead with night porter to let the toe-rag in, and he spent the night on the floor of Room 101! |
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23 Oct 14 - 03:27 AM (#3671429) Subject: RE: Room 101 From: Musket Tattie Bogle's story reminds me. I recently did some work where I was given an office for when I needed it. I was pleasantly surprised to have one, as they didn't need to really. The offices had inventory numbers for estates purposes and the reason why the office was empty was that it was always the last one to be claimed. Room 101. Presumably used normally to drop a hint to an over promoted director. Hence free for outsiders to use.. Oh hang on. Nearly forgot. 🏨 |