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I think I should have the thread split on account of not having had one for years.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Morning. Just.

Having just been on a palindrome, I am debating whether to post anymore. If I don't you'll all remember me...

I wouldn't count on it.

I mean the next palindrome...

How was your holiday, Jules?

Unmichaels to break the awkward silence following Tina's polite (if a little earnest) question.

How was your holiday, Jules?

Jules is a c*nt.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:How was your holiday, Jules?

I've been on holiday recently. It was nice.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:How was your holiday, Jules?

I've been on holiday recently. It was nice.

Pleased to hear it.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:How was your holiday, Jules?

Quite good Tino, thank you for asking. Canterbury, Whitstable, Sandwich and Broadstairs are nice. Margate, Ramsgate, Deal and the M25 not so much.

superflyweight wrote:Unmichaels to break the awkward silence following Tina's polite (if a little earnest) question.  

How was your holiday, Jules?  

Sh1te.

Julius's sh1te has tainted my fist.

Galted wrote:Julius's sh1te has tainted my fist.

That's still better than coming sicond.

JuliusHMarx wrote:the M25 not so much.

Must be boring sat there blocking the carriageway, Jules.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:the M25 not so much.

Must be boring sat there blocking the carriageway, Jules.

I had no idea the glue was so strong.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:the M25 not so much.

Must be boring sat there blocking the carriageway, Jules.

Not such a big deal really. Just munching on a sandwich... reading the The Wife of Bath's Tale.

Galted wrote:Julius's sh1te has tainted my fist.

You should be more careful where you place it

Shame about riCK.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Shame about riCK.

He clearly succumbed to the average life expectancy of anyone who has spent any significant time in Dundee and died in his early 40's.

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Shame about riCK.

He clearly succumbed to the average life expectancy of anyone who has spent any significant time in Dundee and died in his early 40's.  

At least it removes any difficult questions you and I might have faced about being in the same room as other CC members.

Although does only leave us with you for legal representation which is concerning.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Shame about riCK.

He clearly succumbed to the average life expectancy of anyone who has spent any significant time in Dundee and died in his early 40's.  

At least it removes any difficult questions you and I might have faced about being in the same room as other CC members.

Although does only leave us with you for legal representation which is concerning.

I know a few legal terms and will happily fill in for Rick until we find a new resident lawyer.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Shame about riCK.

He clearly succumbed to the average life expectancy of anyone who has spent any significant time in Dundee and died in his early 40's.  

At least it removes any difficult questions you and I might have faced about being in the same room as other CC members.

Although does only leave us with you for legal representation which is concerning.

I know a few legal terms and will happily fill in for Rick until we find a new resident lawyer.

Since when did being on the sex offenders register constitute knowing legal terms?

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Shame about riCK.

He clearly succumbed to the average life expectancy of anyone who has spent any significant time in Dundee and died in his early 40's.  

At least it removes any difficult questions you and I might have faced about being in the same room as other CC members.

Although does only leave us with you for legal representation which is concerning.

I know a few legal terms and will happily fill in for Rick until we find a new resident lawyer.

I object.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Shame about riCK.

He clearly succumbed to the average life expectancy of anyone who has spent any significant time in Dundee and died in his early 40's.  

At least it removes any difficult questions you and I might have faced about being in the same room as other CC members.

Although does only leave us with you for legal representation which is concerning.

I know a few legal terms and will happily fill in for Rick until we find a new resident lawyer.

Since when did being on the sex offenders register constitute knowing legal terms?

I think you're confusing me with sean.

I am not Avro Energy or Green Supply Limited.

Pal Joey wrote:I am not Avro Energy or Green Supply Limited.

So which energy supplier are you? And have you managed to bribe the Tories enough to get bailed out if things go wrong?

Seriously a few years ago (2016?) there was a report from OfGem about the consequences of Brexit where they pointed out that what has happened was a risk, but was probably minimal. The main mitigation was that we had extensive gas storage (you stock up in summer etc...). Back in 2017 Centrica, who ran the storage, were either allowed to run the storage down or, depending on who you talk to, were prevented from reinvesting to replace worn out infrastructure. Whichever way you look at it guess who is responsible.

So all that excess storage has gone and we have minimal storage, whilst being highly dependent on gas for trivial stuff like power generation. We also have minimal bargaining power to get decent wholesale prices to keep consumer prices down. It is going to be a long cold, expensive winter.

We need new power generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hd_EkQo9gg

A powerful, energetic and surprisingly cheap fist!

A less than enthusiastic sicond, but a sicond nonetheless.

lostinwales wrote:It is going to be a long cold, expensive winter.

That's just describing the North.

Froth. Morning all!

lostinwales wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:I am not Avro Energy or Green Supply Limited.

So which energy supplier are you?

I was just being silly watching the "BREAKING NEWS" ticker on the BBC last night. Was expecting to see something bad about Keith Richards but it was about the demise of the above. Sorry LiW. I didn't mean to be mean. I just couldn't resist. Energy and prices are a serious matter.

I'm (with) AGL here. Surprisingly cheap like Super's... only £17/month ($32/month) for gas and around £31/m ($59/m) for electricity. It's quite a competitive market here. Plenty of natural gas fields and low prices but electricity has seasonal variations. Maybe up to £40/m ($75/m) in winter when I have all heaters on for about 3 months.

The strange thing is I feel as though I use much more electricity from spring, throughout summer until late autumn with the air con on every day (sometimes 18-24 hours/day) and the pool pump running continuously on high - but my energy bills drop significantly during the warmer months.

Fits? not sure

PJ - We just switched to a new supplier so not sure what we are paying, but it is going to be 3 or 4x the numbers you have. No need for AC here though, just lots of computers. (4 desktop and a couple of laptops)

Very well then, fantastic Friday fist.

As it's pizza night, and sourdough pizza night at that, I'm going to ask LIW something I've been meaning to ask for months. How the f*ck do you stop the dough sticking to everything it comes into with?

Galted wrote:As it's pizza night, and sourdough pizza night at that, I'm going to ask LIW something I've been meaning to ask for months.  How the f*ck do you stop the dough sticking to everything it comes into with?

Sicond

I use non stick sheets, sometimes they are called grill mats. You can get a pack of 5 for around 12 quid.

When I make pizzas I role the dough out for each pizza on one of those and it stays on until it comes out the oven. I probably don't get as crisp a crust as I might but no sticking problems at all.

When I make bread I usually make what might be called a bloomer - also goes in the oven on one of those.

Oh and the other thing I learned about pizzas was to use lots of flour when rolling out the dough. The dough I use is very sticky any other way

Cheers, just the kind of content I'm on here for.  Haven't heard of grill mats.

I tend to use quite a lot of rice flour to avoid sticking but suspect that it compromises the taste. I do get a superbly crispy base though as I can roll it as thin as paper when using a yeast dough.

I just use more bread flour but then I buy the stuff by the 16kg sack (currently have about 50kg in storage) its just much cheaper that way. Just be warned as I can talk about bread like tino talks about bugs.

My mother got me onto these teflon bake sheets many years ago.

If that's the case Galtova might start sneaking off to visit you instead of Jules.
Looking at them, don't think grill mats are really the answer. We use a pizza stone but the problem is getting the sourdough rolled, I'll just have to use more flour. The feeling once you've outfloured the stickiness is quite sensually luxurious, might have an American Pie moment one of these Fridays.

I'm no expert on grill mats but wouldn't the pizza base sweat a bit with the teflon layer? I have to have crunchy crusts.
Had a similar experience with teflon toaster bags a while ago... which my Mum also put me onto.  Too soggy. I quickly gave up.

On a similar note, I read that the key to the best toasted cheese sandwich is to use sourdough and two types of cheese... e.g. tasty cheddar (or whatever you fancy) and mozzarella for the elasticity aspect.

lostinwales wrote:

Galted wrote:As it's pizza night, and sourdough pizza night at that, I'm going to ask LIW something I've been meaning to ask for months.  How the f*ck do you stop the dough sticking to everything it comes into with?

Sicond

I use non stick sheets, sometimes they are called grill mats. You can get a pack of 5 for around 12 quid.

For the sake of f*ck. You can get 5 actual pizzas for 12 quid at The Iceland.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

Galted wrote:As it's pizza night, and sourdough pizza night at that, I'm going to ask LIW something I've been meaning to ask for months.  How the f*ck do you stop the dough sticking to everything it comes into with?

Sicond

I use non stick sheets, sometimes they are called grill mats. You can get a pack of 5 for around 12 quid.

For the sake of f*ck. You can get 5 actual pizzas for 12 quid at The Iceland.

They also take about 3000 years to disintegrate after slowly choking millions of fish in the ocean. They ought to be banned.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

Galted wrote:As it's pizza night, and sourdough pizza night at that, I'm going to ask LIW something I've been meaning to ask for months.  How the f*ck do you stop the dough sticking to everything it comes into with?

Sicond

I use non stick sheets, sometimes they are called grill mats. You can get a pack of 5 for around 12 quid.

For the sake of f*ck. You can get 5 actual pizzas for 12 quid at The Iceland.

When I go to the Iceland I use all available carrying space for hot and spicy chicken strips.

Pal Joey wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

Galted wrote:As it's pizza night, and sourdough pizza night at that, I'm going to ask LIW something I've been meaning to ask for months.  How the f*ck do you stop the dough sticking to everything it comes into with?

Sicond

I use non stick sheets, sometimes they are called grill mats. You can get a pack of 5 for around 12 quid.

For the sake of f*ck. You can get 5 actual pizzas for 12 quid at The Iceland.

They also take about 3000 years to disintegrate after slowly choking millions of fish in the ocean. They ought to be banned.

The pizzas or the teflon sheets? Teflon itself is not actually good news, but the materials they use instead are good so far.

lostinwales wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

Galted wrote:As it's pizza night, and sourdough pizza night at that, I'm going to ask LIW something I've been meaning to ask for months.  How the f*ck do you stop the dough sticking to everything it comes into with?

Sicond

I use non stick sheets, sometimes they are called grill mats. You can get a pack of 5 for around 12 quid.

For the sake of f*ck. You can get 5 actual pizzas for 12 quid at The Iceland.

They also take about 3000 years to disintegrate after slowly choking millions of fish in the ocean. They ought to be banned.

The pizzas or the teflon sheets? Teflon itself is not actually good news, but the materials they use instead are good so far.

The teflon. Horrible stuff.

I see the golf thread has descended into schoolyard farce again. It's almost entertaining.

Monday morning's wet, unfueled, unmichaelising fist

Sodden sicond. Can still hear a few bikes and cars about so I suspect some people have been hoarding jerry cans.

Looks like tomorrow's fist will unmichaels me.

Galted wrote:Looks like tomorrow's fist will unmichaels me.

Not on my watch, Galted.
Agree with your sentiment though. Seems like we're all going down, down deeper down.

Pal Joey wrote:

Galted wrote:Looks like tomorrow's fist will unmichaels me.

Not on my watch, Galted.
Agree with your sentiment though. Seems like we're all going down, down deeper down.

I'm not Alan Lancaster.

Pal Joey wrote:

Galted wrote:Looks like tomorrow's fist will unmichaels me.

Not on my watch, Galted.
Agree with your sentiment though. Seems like we're all going down, down deeper down.

You're a good man, PJ. I'll happily share my raft with you when this ship finally sinks.

Galted wrote:

You're a good man, PJ.  I'll happily share my raft with you when this ship finally sinks.

I read that too quickly and thought you were offering to share your shaft with Pee Jay.