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Jim Neal

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  1. When you're hungry and there isn't any better option - indeed, you've worked out this is the BEST option - what do you do? After you've handed back your £10.50 cheeseburger where do you go? The £12 pitta bread stall? The £15 fish and chips stall? The "only" £8 but it's gone in two mouthfuls and you're still hungry stall? Reality check: You won't be served your food until you've handed over the dosh, so your philosophy of never paying up front doesn't really apply in this scenario. You can quite clearly see what people are walking away with in their hands so it's up to you whether you queue up and buy it. For each car that arrives I'd guess on average there's at least one other drinking age passenger on board.
  2. Top result on google for "mcdonalds milkshake ingredients": https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=mcdonalds+milkshake+ingredients Milkshake Base EITHER: Allergen Ingredient: Skimmed MILK, Sugar, Cream (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Glucose Syrup, Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Carob Gum). OR: Allergen Ingredient: Reconstituted Skimmed MILK, Sugar, Cream (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Allergen Ingredient: Skimmed MILK Powder, Glucose Syrup, Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Locust Bean Gum), Natural Flavouring. OR: Allergen Ingredient: MILK (2.9% fat), Sugar, Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Glucose Syrup, Stabilisers (Carrageenan, Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum). OR: Allergen Ingredient: Whole MILK, Allergen Ingredient: Skimmed MILK, Sugar, Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Glucose Syrup, Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carageenan, Locust Bean Gum). Strawberry Flavour Milkshake Syrup Water, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Strawberry Juice Concentrate (1.6%), Beetroot Juice Concentrate, Acid (Citric Acid), Natural Flavouring, Preservative (Potassium Sorbate). I had a mate many many years ago who worked there, he did divulge that powdered potato was a small part of the ingredients - for the consistency I believe - but that's obviously not the case now.
  3. This is truly an honour 😆
  4. As was my comment As an aside, there's a really good YouTube channel called "The Great War" which I'd thoroughly recommend if people want to learn more. It's a week-by-week documentary, kind of presented a bit like a news round-up. There's also loads of extra episodes like the events leading up to the war, the post-war era, the technology used and so on. They went on to do a WW2 one as well, the channel not surprisingly being called "World War Two", plus a few other off-shoots. I really like the way the videos are written and presented and have thoroughly enjoyed following them all. The only downside is because they are bite-sized videos between 10 and 20 minutes, if you binge them the intro/outro format becomes a bit monotonous but you can always skip through.... I wonder if there's going to be a spontaneous game of football in the snow on 25/12/22........
  5. I note that you don't specify which year......
  6. If your forum is very small-scale one, for example only people who you know like a small club/association, then generally it needs very little moderation: people converse with each other as they would in person, with respect. However, forums open to the public with large memberships always descend into the same anarchy. It's quite simply one of the laws of the universe. You can choose to either moderate it like the Nazi party or do the opposite and let everyone just slog it out with each other. I eventually packed in all the forums I was part of!
  7. That's a wonderful insight into how we lived in times which really weren't all that long ago! I'm a child of the 70s and don't believe I've been namby-pambied, but I wouldn't fancy doing all that every day!
  8. Agreed. I think if this was actually attributed to Martin it would be in his weekly email? https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/latesttip/?anchor=energy&utm_source=MSE_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=09-Aug-22-31bfc1f85e943dd9e0a-62f2bacd8458f7718314bb508e7c5670&source=CRM-MSETIP-31bfc1f85e943dd9e0a&utm_campaign=nt-highlights&utm_content=7#energy I can't find any such advice on the energy section of the MSE website so would have to concur with Lloyd that this is a bit naughty of someone.
  9. I don't think you can just put ducklings straight on barley? I think they'd have to be on pellet fed from a manola first, then weaned off onto grain?
  10. If only it were that simple - we hardly make anything any more 😞 However there is a subtle difference between "Buying British" and "Buying FROM British companies". With the latter you let them worry about import costs so the price advertised is what you pay. The lottery of comparative cost +/- by the time you've imported is sometimes worth it, sometimes not. It would be nice if you had a definite idea of the import duty every time you ordered from beyond our shores!
  11. Don't forget your spirit level otherwise you'll be cutting wedge shaped bricks for your base course 😆
  12. I've been listening to the news reports on this. What I've been saying to myself is that, unless there's a deeper dimension to this case that we're not being told, just WHY are the family repeatedly making appeals to prolong his living death? If a human's brain is dead, they are as good as dead, they are never coming back, let them go with dignity. I feel a lot more detail will come out now in the aftermath.
  13. No such thing If you need to make up 50mm I'd be doing that with concrete.
  14. Average £3.60. Not far from the big smoke but far enough.... Chuck my lunch bag in the car or gun bus and not have to carry it round for hours/miles on end! Plus on syndicate days we get fed and watered at the pub at the end of the day so no need to bring half the fridge with me. This is entirely my point! It's greed, pure and simple. As I said Dave I know there's a lot of costs involved for the organisers but once again does anyone think they're just scraping past break-even point? I very much doubt it. It would be interesting if anyone who organises a country show could divulge some figures, but I bet they wouldn't be all that willing....
  15. I had to read that twice. I thought he shot someone just to prove a point! 😅
  16. Yeah of course it's always been a bit steep, but we're talking in the ball park of £5 to £6 for something like a burger, £4 or so a pint in the beer tent which is a bit ouchy but I can stand...... not DOUBLE that! Something is utterly wrong and rotten when you have to pay the sort of prices they were charging at the show i went to. I'm going to take issue with the packed lunch fan club now. Some people have to travel a fair few hours to events. Imagine making yourself a cheese sandwich at 9pm on Friday night, sticking it in the fridge, taking it out at 6 the following morning, driving 3 or 4 hours to a game fair, then carting said sandwich plus snacks around until you get so naffed off with carrying the damned stuff that you eat it at 11 just so you don't have to carry it around any more. What a delightful cheese sandwich, all sweaty, curled up at the edges, and the bread now with the texture of sandpaper. How scrumptious. Your banana has gone black and squishy and your apple bruised from bouncing off your thermos flask; crisps are all crushed in their packet and your mars bar is now a chocolate and caramel smoothie because of the heat. Your water is hot tap temperature. You've become more than a little peeved at carrying half your fridge round a field for miles on end. Oh but I should pop it all in a cool box with some ice packs? OK great but now I need to take my pack horse round with me as well then if I don't want arm ache and the damned inconvenience of carrying a bulky heavy box/bag when I'd really like my hands free and no arm ache all day. Aha! I should leave it in the car and go back for it should I? Okay, I'll, waste 90 precious minutes of my day trudging back and forth to get my now baked cheese sandpaper melt from the furnace car, having almost died of hunger and thirst because I'm NOT going to pay for anything at this fair. It's much more pleasant and convenient to be able to enjoy the food and drink available without being ripped off. Catering at events shouldn't be an act of extortion and robbery. I've always been of the opinion that by buying from the stands and stalls at an event you're supporting not only the event but also the most likely self-employed, local person who is running the stall. Now it seems that most of your money is just going into the organiser's pockets. The "bigger picture" that I wish the organisers of country fairs could see is that these events shouldn't be a fully focused money-printing business venture for the organiser. The whole ethos is supposedly bringing together like-minded folk with interests in country pursuits and lifestyle. Obviously there are costs attached to hosting these events; staffing, infrastructure, toilets, insurance, admin, advertising.... but if anyone thinks for a minute that the money charged just allows the host to scrape through past their break-even point, then they must be utterly deluded. They're taking the mickey.
  17. Well said Lloyd. I think all it would take is one or two organisers to put the bigger picture in front of their profit margins for once, and maybe the balance might be reset somewhat.... although this is very idealistic thinking, it has just a tiny outside chance....
  18. By bizarre coincidence as I came by this morning I noticed the chicory has burst into flower today! This is how the mix looks, it will not really get much more dense than this except the low lying plantain that soaks your feet and trouser legs!
  19. The meadow adjacent to one of my covers was drilled a few years ago with a mix of stuff (supposedly "sheep superfood") which has a fairly high amount of chicory in it, mixed with plantain, clover and a couple of different grasses. After being allowed to grow, the chicory, although it looks dense from a distance, when you get in there it's quite sparse. Annoyingly the plantain holds dew on its leaves and gets your trousers soaking wet walking through it on a September morning but none of it works as a holding or flushing cover for the birds. They just don't like being in it. I have to trample a path down by foot or with the car to provide a passage across it from pen to cover.
  20. Thanks Dave, just about tolerable now (never been good since mid-teens, just have a high pain threshold!)
  21. Ah I see the error of my ways now.... I should blame myself for the extortionate money charged for EVERYTHING inside a game fair! I understand.... I decided the price of burgers was going to be over £10. I decided a cup of coffee was going to cost more than a pint down my local. That's my fault! Gotcha.... I feel guilty now because I didn't pay anyone for the privilege of taking a pee in a plastic urinal. You've missed the point completely. The organisers of these shows are getting more and more greedy as each year passes. I hope they eventually become the cause of their own downfall.
  22. Gissa job then! Enjoy The thing is it's not the entry cost, it's the extortionate prices you pay for everything else once you're in there. The organisers realise that they can charge "reasonable" ticket prices but the stall holders must be charged a fortune for their pitch, thus shoe-horning the cash into the organisers' pockets via the middle man. It's just not a business model that appeals to me; I doubt I'll go to any more if this greed continues.
  23. This year at Kelmarsh I paid £10.50 for a cheeseburger and my mate was relieved of £12 in exchange for a pitta bread with a bit of dribbly stuff and a couple of chunks of meat in it. Then I paid £6 for a cup of coffee. I didn't dare go to the beer tent. I've heard so many people say they're done with game fairs because they become more of a rip-off every year. Do the organisers of these things not realise they are the cause of their own impending downfall?!
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