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2 minutes ago, fygjam said:

 

1  cup plain flour
1⁄2 cup cornflour
1  pinch baking soda

Just use a tempura batter mix.

 Flours with a high sugar content, potato starch, rice flour, tapioca flour, corn flour, give a crunchy batter rather than a chewy batter which a high gluten (wheat) flour gives.

 beer

Or soda water. Either way the liquid should be as cold as possible. Prevents activating the gluten. More crunch, less chew.

Don't work the batter too hard.

 

Yours sounds much more healthy, perhaps Glasseye could hsve 2 as a treat

I worked on a bridge once that had a high main span because there was a shipyard upstream that wanted the option to be able to take larger vessels. In that case protection was required at the piers for the vessels that could pass through.

But in this case the size of vessel that hit the bridge wasn't meant to be there, defences could have been made downstream of the bridge. But the cost would be huge.

8 hours ago, Glasseye said:

 

Once drove down to London from Dumfries Scotland. I was in a fcuking car with manual transmission, sitting on the right side shifting with my left hand. Pissed like cats and dogs the entire journey. Found the exit on whatever M it was by sheer luck. 

Dumfries! You must have tried the national dish of scotland

INGREDIENTS
1  Mars bars
1  cup plain flour
1⁄2 cup cornflour
1  pinch baking soda
 beer
 oil (for deep frying)

DIRECTIONS
Chill the chocolate bar by keeping it in the fridge, but don't freeze it.
Mix the flours and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) together.
Add beer (which gives a lighter until you get a batter with the consistency of thin cream.
Heat the oil until a small piece of bread will brown in a few seconds, but don't allow to smoke.
Remove wrapper (optional) from chilled chocolate bar.
Coat completely in batter.
Carefully lower into hot oil and fry until golden brown.
Serve, with ice cream or french fries, if you're so inclined.

5 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

99% of them !

Some cracking women. 

3 hours ago, richy65 said:

Been running the Derby 10k. Excellent event as usual with over 2000 runners. Great atmosphere at the finish right outside the football ground.

 

Great pace. Metric about 4min 40sec/km - i think but that seems not quite to add up. How many of those do you do a year?

6 minutes ago, boydeste said:

Neither had I, but apparently it was nice. I did get offered a piece,  but didn't fancy it as just finished my banana split.

I strictly follow savoury followed by sweet food planning and would never go back to pizza (even if artistic) after dessert.

On 3/15/2024 at 8:46 PM, Horizondave said:

Had to walk in to Neath to get some pain killers. Didn't want to drink but I got a notification that, Greene King Dark Tide was on pump in the 'Spoon'.

Works a bit like a painkiller after 2 pints.

Yes "notifications" are pretty much an instruction to attend. Luckily that turned out to be dual purpose.

1 hour ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

The poor bloke on that EVA flight into LHR that tried to commit suicide in the bogs must have been going through hell. I wonder what was going through his mind and how he is faring now.

Poor chap!!

I read he had 30 to 40 mins of CPR and his heart was beating by the time he was put in an ambulance. I hope this type of thing doesn't catch on.

Young women to be proud of

7 minutes ago, thumper63 said:

At Devonshire this morning.  Very pleased with meal and the restaurant.  Will be going back.

 

That looks great

When i was a kid we had a terrier. Later that changed to a great dane,and a jack russel (little c**t!). In later years i jointly owned a dog with my west african gf, this was many years ago - Rocky he was called - named after our relationship (with the girl not the dog).

I had to go back to the UK for 4 months so I left some money for the gf and of course some food money for Rocky (bones and rice was his diet which he loved as if he was living like a king). When i got back Rocky was as skinny as a greyhound and the gf was the opposite. 

I have to say she is in my list of top 10 gf's and Rocky is the top dog.

Heineken - again

16 hours ago, Binlid said:

Time for a Ruby.

 

Is that beer from Bangladesh? If so I hope it's better than Murree Beer (guaranteed glycerine free) from Pakistan. Having said that in emergencies and ice cold Murree Beer does have a place (Sindh Province for example)

Just finished in the gym. Severe calorie deficit and my smart watch predicted i couldn't manage the 2km walk home. Should be ok now

8 hours ago, coxyhog said:

There was a very interesting article in yesterdays Telegraph saying that figure has been grossly exaggerated by Hamas and the media have fallen for it hook line & sinker.

Behind a paywall or I’d post a link.

Google Professor Abraham Wyner

There will be ID, medical and death records of all people living in Gaza so i am sure at some stage a consensus on the casualty numbers will be reached. I doubt that the findings of the investigations will be that a satisfactory number of deaths was achieved. But to keep politics out of this let's look at statistics.

Statistics are commonly found in a legal context where paid experts represent the prosecution and defense and will use the same data to argue opposite conclusions. 

The data set i see for this research is from  26 October to 10 November, a period of 15 days which are before the land invasion but don't start at the beginning of the bombing. It isn't explained why these dates were chosen - possibly they were the best fit to the theory.

The data is shown as the cumulative total deaths plotted against date. The problem with using cumulative data is it smooths day to day variation, the variation when you add one day's data is dwarfed by the cummullative previous days data. There are better ways of looking for day to day variation than doing a cumulative chart that will minimise the variance. I can show the point:

If you drink 8 pints of beer a day for 10 days on the 10th day the cumulative total will be 80 pints and the average per day is 8 pints. If you then drink 16 pints on day 11 the cumulative total is 96 pints but the average number of pints per day is 8.73 pints an increase of only 9% (well within the 15% margin the report author uses to illustrate the lack of variance in the data).

9 minutes ago, Krapow said:

i support anything that helps eradicate them.

Indiscriminately bombing, shelling  and murdering 30,000+ Palastinian civilians will likely kill a few terrorists and hostages as collateral damage. Any support will, i am sure, be welcomed. Eradication will not be achieved.

Alternatively carrying out a hunt and kill operation by capturing, torturing and bribing known terrorist leaders, sympathisers and informants would increase the number of terrorists killed and captured (to be quickly killed with no mercy as no mercy is due).

No doubt Israel has killed many hostages and allowed the majority of terrorists to escape in the fog of war. The Israeli government "war" is not a planned military response it is a polirical manouevre.

1 hour ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

RIP Steve.

My thoughts go out immediately to his brother Ian. Such a Nice chap and we spent many hours in NEP talking about all sorts of shit and particularly how Steve's "funny voice" was just a random idea before recording "Smile".

I think he lives in Hua Hin now...If I was there I'd seek him out for a pint but of course he has greater things on his mind now ..

 

Ian Nice

Is this the one? Just added to my work out sounds

14 minutes ago, Butch said:

He dresses much worse, and more often than not, he has something gripped firmly in his right hand.

a candle?

4 hours ago, fygjam said:

I'd put up with fluffy hairdos and pointy tits again if it would knock 50 years off my age.

 

Have you got a fygiam photo with your fluffy hairdo and .......

1 hour ago, coxyhog said:

Don’t worry,when the UK becomes a muslim state Barclays will be banned.

Of course UK will never become a muslim state. But whether Islam becomes the largest religion in the UK by numbers depends on whether the huge drop in British followers of Christianity of all types continues - i expect it will. Hinduism and Buddhism trail behind and no chance of them dominating.

I was going to reply that I'm not that bothered by the heat. But decided i'd better check that i can't be accused of not comparing apples vs apples.

From google:

Singapore is in or near the tropical moist forest biome whereas Bangkok is in or near the tropical dry forest biome.
The annual average temperature in Singapore is 1.1 °C (2°F) cooler.
Average monthly temperatures vary by 2.3 °C (4.1°F) less in Singapore. 

Whether those 2 figures can mathematically both be correct i'm not sure. But safe to say i have a cooler climate here. It's great.

11 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

Was the flag man smoking a cigar ..????

I've just spent a considerable amount of time puzzling over your cryptic comment. Apart from several cigar box images i've also discovered that British American Tobacco bought out Tyrrell Racing.

Finally i've concluded that yes. The flag man is smoking a cigar.

I've been watching a BBC Sounds sporting history video about the 6 wheel Elf-Tyrrell

I hadn't realised the 6 wheeler with Jody Scheckter driving had won the 1976 Swedish Grand Prix.

My close up experience of the car was my 6 wheel scalextric Tyrrell of around the same time which had less success and used to wear out braids at an alarming rate.

12 minutes ago, galenkia said:

Got given this leaflet by protesters outside Barclays Bank earlier.

Interesting.

Used to be Barclays and South Africa many years ago. Mind you Israel has been considered a well respected, responsible democratic state.

The news report says the fire was on the 11th floor, that's roughly 55m up. Is that a challenge for the arial ladders on the Pattaya fire trucks? Or are different methods used? What about 30 storey buildings?