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Originally posted by Lazare View PostI found it too much of a faff.
FWIW I only use the bare machine and do it upside down from the instructions that way I can use a spoon to stir, but its an absolute piece of piss to get great coffee out of and so easy to keep clean.Last edited by Strewelpeter; 28-12-21, 15:44.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
Have you ever tried to clean a bean to cup machine ? There is considerably less faffing about than with any espresso machine I've ever used
FWIW I only use the bare machine and do it upside down from the instructions that way I can use a spoon to stir, but its an absolute piece of piss to get great coffee out of and so easy to keep clean.
Although filling the water was a major faff for about 8 years, taking the tank out, filling it and trying to get it back in place, tubes all in the way.
After owning it 8 years I discovered it slides to the left for topping up in situ.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by oleras View Post
Yes, with the aeropress...you mentioned faffing about, there is a lot of shite associated with using that device, i was just being cynical...wouldn't be like me...
I gave mine away to a colleague.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Anything decent coffee wise (that's not instant coffee) you have a choice of costly or less costly with more cleaning/fluting about. I'm the only coffee drinker at home and I don't have too many guests. So Aeropress does the job for me, as it's not too bad for cleaning (I changed to a re-usable stainless filter). I'm considering getting a small one for work as the machine there is absolute gack and well instant is instant.
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Aussies do coffee the right way. Soupy, right temp, strong.
Canadians could not do it more wrong, watery lava.
We've got a serious piece of kit here in our De Longhi that the missus oul lad gave to us after he won it at a work thing. They are starting to make coffee machines like 747 flight decks.
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coillcam check your pms!This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
For the same reason we don't test for the winter flu or common cold. Positive tests are stopping people who aren't sick for going about their normal lives.
Widespread transmission, which we are experiencing right now, is no longer the problem it was because of vaccines, improved treatments and a dominant benign variant.
I'm a bit unclear as to what the benefit is of not testing people. I would think that if there was a ridiculously cheap device that you could blow into at home on a workday morning which told you you had a Flu / Covid / Cold w/e, and that you used this information to make a decision about whether to travel to work / wear a mask to protect others from passing on your germs etc, that a fair chunk of people would do this?
I understand that we used to, until extremely recently, peer-pressure others into rocking into work coughing and spluttering all over the place, but would hope that the 'experiment' of WFH that has happened over the last 18 months means that this is all but dead, and people who are contagious but 'well enough to work' can do so from their own home without putting others needlessly at risk. Have we not trained ourselves better to think of 'the other' now with respect to these viruses?
Asymptomatic people (Positive Tests for people who aren't sick) are literally the exact group that we'd like to get a change from - they wouldn't have the cue above that is the 'cough' / 'runny nose' etc, and so would be more likely to rock into an office / bar / LUAS and pass on viruses to others.
I completely think / hope / believe that we will have to at some stage 'stop overthinking' about COVID-19 specifically - as it becomes endemic and we hopefully see it being a far more trivial impact on our day-to-day, but I would actually lean in the other direction - wouldn't it be excellent if you had a 30second process that you could do at home in 'flu season' / AN.Other / Next Pandemic which alerted you to the fact that you may be contagious and allowed you to make an informed choice of what to do with that info?
Theranos for Respitory Illness ish?
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Originally posted by Theresa View PostAussies do coffee the right way. Soupy, right temp, strong.
Canadians could not do it more wrong, watery lava.
We've got a serious piece of kit here in our De Longhi that the missus oul lad gave to us after he won it at a work thing. They are starting to make coffee machines like 747 flight decks.
Thats what I've been telling her we prob need to spend at a minimum.
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If we get ultra efficient through cheap tech at stopping the spread of less harmful corona viruses, the common cold, do we not run the risk of making it more virulent?
Immune systems need practise. It's why kids catching all manner of poxes in childcare is a good thing.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
Herself saw a DeLonghi earlier. €800.
Thats what I've been telling her we prob need to spend at a minimum.
This is how i justify a big spend.This too shall pass.
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Have started doing formal training with our GSD. She’s already quite obedient for me, little sassy with the missy but is well socialized. She sits, Downs, heels, leaves it, huddles, stays, waits and crates herself on command.
Dog training is something that is unbelievably Dunning Kruger. I got her to a really good point and was really happy with her and then I go and see an actually well trained dog and it’s astounding.
I kinda wanted to get her into some dog sports as she absolutely loves scent games, and she’s is a fiend for fetch so has a wicked work drive.
We are starting her off with just doubling down on her basics, she’s not great at general impulse control (arguably the most important thing)
I’m actually like a kid on Christmas. First games lesson later and I really can’t wait to get into it with her.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
Herself saw a DeLonghi earlier. €800.
Thats what I've been telling her we prob need to spend at a minimum.
Got maybe ten years out of the first one. Clean it every couple of months. Don't use the frother ever as I just drink espressos at home and Mrs D3 runs it through as a long black.
Seems like a good workhorse machine although I'd say bean/grind choice is probably more important. Have had manky coffee served up out of 1k+ machines."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by oleras View Post
An expected 10+ year life span is only 80/year...sure that just over €1/week (dont check the maths).
This is how i justify a big spend.
Wife was like 'No fucking way'. We only needed 3 sq metres though, I used that argument and won her over. Had them for about 14 years. I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
We're on our second Gaggia Classic. Cost about 350-ish.
Got maybe ten years out of the first one. Clean it every couple of months. Don't use the frother ever as I just drink espressos at home and Mrs D3 runs it through as a long black.
Seems like a good workhorse machine although I'd say bean/grind choice is probably more important. Have had manky coffee served up out of 1k+ machines.
Will look at other Gaggia options. Wife reckons she spent just shy of €500 on this one.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post28th of December. Cravings for spicy food.
You could set your watch by it.
Found a new curry method that's a game changer (for me, prob well known) using ideas from a pasta sauce recipe.
Sweat sliced onions for 30 - 40 mins dropping them first into ghee or veg oil /butter that you've sizzled some whole spices in first. Cardamon, cumin seeds, whole Garam Masala.
Get them looking like glass, then throw in a good mix of ground spices. Last night I used fennel, cumin, coriander, garam Masala, salt, MSG, Kashmiri chilli, red onion powder, garlic powder.
Mix that all up then let cool a bit before blending it up into a paste.
More oil/butter or Ghee, some cardamon and cinnamon sticks in to sizzle, a big lump of garlic & ginger paste, then your spicy onion paste.
Tins of tomatoes and water in then for me last night before adding the Turkey for 10 mins. You can add in big chunks of chicken breast at this point, marinated pref and let them slow cook in that sauce. Chicken will melt in your mouth then.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostIf we get ultra efficient through cheap tech at stopping the spread of less harmful corona viruses, the common cold, do we not run the risk of making it more virulent?
Originally posted by Lazare View PostImmune systems need practise. It's why kids catching all manner of poxes in childcare is a good thing.
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Originally posted by Emmet View PostNope - reducing transmission => reduced opportunity for virus mutation / development. A virus can't 'react' to humans attempting to prevent it spreading.
That's only due to the prevalence of those viruses in the day-to-day though. If they were far less likely to be exposed to the viruses (if people stayed at home / isolated to an extent when they themselves were contagious) then that ideal is no longer quite as important.
Your second point does make sense though.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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yup, was on the 7:30am Christmas Eve ferry from Belfast. Mad dash was grand in the end. 2 days later than we could/should've been - but grateful that pals let us know that they were having symptoms and encouraged us to go for the test. Would've been a really really bad look to have arrived over here, and then 2/3 days later started coughing/tested positive. Or even if we'd gotten original ferry and only discovered from pals after we'd landed! Wouldn't have had a clue what we were supposed to do then.
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Have watched every Everest documentary/film and despite testimony about the allure I still cant comprehend how being the 1300th person to climb it is worth you life and limb. I would like to visit base camp and meet some of these lunatics face to face. The brother is a mountain leader however if he threatens to climb it I might just break his leg . I call it an idiots challenge.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostHave watched every Everest documentary/film and despite testimony about the allure I still cant comprehend how being the 1300th person to climb it is worth you life and limb. I would like to visit base camp and meet some of these lunatics face to face. The brother is a mountain leader however if he threatens to climb it I might just break his leg . I call it an idiots challenge.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
It would be 6015. Same ballpark though https://haexpeditions.com/advice/lis...rest-climbers/
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View Post
Yeah was watching a documentary on Netflix from back in the day. Guy died was about 1300th to scale it . All logic was stupidly ignored . Died on the way down.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostRalph Fiennes has a much better body of work than Willem Dafoe despite being 7 years his junior.
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Post
Very random comment, but give me dafoe's body of work any day. He did platoon, last temptation of christ and mississipi burning in 3 years. That's more than enough for me
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
I actually watched Mississippi burning the other night, it's a solid four star film with a solid four star performance by Dafoe. I think its quite telling that one of the highlights of Dafoes career is just a good film. Don't get me wrong, i like him and I've enjoyed many of his films, but given his charisma and fame you would expect a better body of work
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Post
that's because he's not really seen as a lead actor but as a brilliant supporting one, even though as a lead actor like in the last temptation of christ he was phenomenal. personally i find ralph fiennes quite one dimensional in a lot of his roles, regardless of whether he's done some great films (and he has). Overall, Dafoe's body of work is a lot more varied and interesting.
Interestingly they share the stage in both in two of their highest rating films - The Grand Budapest Hotel & The English Patient.
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Post
that's because he's not really seen as a lead actor but as a brilliant supporting one, even though as a lead actor like in the last temptation of christ he was phenomenal. personally i find ralph fiennes quite one dimensional in a lot of his roles, regardless of whether he's done some great films (and he has). Overall, Dafoe's body of work is a lot more varied and interesting.
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Sir John Bell says disease ‘appears less severe’ as other scientists criticise lack of new restrictions in England
it’s over - confirmed
only thing about it turning into the common cold is all the thick’s will be crowing about how “we said it was just a cold all along” but a small price to pay.
now we just have to deal with the inevitable economic crashWill you ever fuck off with that shite... you are easily one of the worst posters on here for this-Pokerhand
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
Would you recommend any Defoe films I might have missed? I'm planning to watch To Live and Die in LA soon (also the lighthouse is great!)No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
Would you recommend any Defoe films I might have missed? I'm planning to watch To Live and Die in LA soon (also the lighthouse is great!)
Wild at heart
Affliction
Existenz
American psycho
The life aquatic with steve zissou
The florida project
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Post
A few others not mentioned i enjoyed are (scrolling through his filmography so its in oldest to newest) :
Wild at heart
Affliction
Existenz
American psycho
The life aquatic with steve zissou
The florida project
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View Post
This is possibly the worst movie I've ever watched . (Half of)
used to live with an Anderson devotee who tried to convert me by repeatedly putting on Royal Tenenbaums one of the most overrated comedies everWill you ever fuck off with that shite... you are easily one of the worst posters on here for this-Pokerhand
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I thought Dune was excellent, one of the best sci-fi movies ever, and I've seen a lot - helps that I'm a big fan of the books but even so, it was spectacular.
Watched No Time To Die a few nights ago, was quite enjoyable, Craig's 2nd best Bond movie after the peerless Casino Royale I think. Ana De Armas is a real stunner, perfect Bond sidekick girl.
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Given how rife covid is now I guess it is safe to assume that vaccines don't significantly reduce the spread. This is why kids are being vaccinated., to reduce the spread. I would be thinking twice about it if I were a parent of small children.Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by Wombatman View PostGiven how rife covid is now I guess it is safe to assume that vaccines don't significantly reduce the spread. This is why kids are being vaccinated., to reduce the spread. I would be thinking twice about it if I were a parent of small children.
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Originally posted by Wombatman View PostGiven how rife covid is now I guess it is safe to assume that vaccines don't significantly reduce the spread. This is why kids are being vaccinated., to reduce the spread. I would be thinking twice about it if I were a parent of small children.
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Originally posted by Micknail View Post
Fixed that for you.
Honestly can't even name a memorable Ralph Fiennes performance.
QED movie rating bears no relation to actors performance.
Criminal on Netflix isnt the worst 90mins you will spend.This too shall pass.
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Fiennes was great in In BrugeThis may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Regarding passing on the vaccine and using the stats I've seen on studies, not to state too much the obvious but before you can pass the virus on to someone else, you must first become infected. Vaccines reduce this massively, with efficacies between 60 and 90%.
Immunisation with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine reduced the chance of onward virus transmission by 40-60% - 365,000 households studied in one study alone (bit lower for delta and with the need of boosters as protection wanes over time). Put the two together and a vaccinated person is between 76% and 96% less likely to infect another person than someone unvaccinated.
The issue then becomes one of variants reducing effectiveness and also people being confined in the same space as those affected, you will always get Covid in that scenario and Christmas is quite a bad time for that.
Also workplaces, over 70 staff in James' have got Covid in the last few days, increased viral load.
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Originally posted by Trippie View Post
why? What's the issue with kids getting vaccinated, I genuinely dont know do they still get the MMR shot when young in Ireland?
The MMR provides immunity if I'm not wrong?airport, lol
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