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  • #8452
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Not sure but I think it stood for Pre diGestive for before you ate a meal?


  • #8453
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Not sure but I think it stood for Pre diGestive for before you ate a meal?

    Give the woman a coconut!



    Sorry Rube, wrong gender - I haven't drunk my tea yet!


  • #8454
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Layinghen wrote: »
    After the great marzipan and coffee debate let the Barry's/Lyons battle commence:D:D

    When I was leaving Madrid, the lads prepared a special, surprise "Irish" lunch for me. Very decent of them, especially since I had recommended closure of the Spanish plant!
    They took great delight in showing me the Liptons tea bags they had found and proceeded with following the instructions on the pack. However, as a special treat, they added goats milk to the tea......and I had to drink it! Since then, I can't face any milk in tea a tall a tall. Black tea only.

    "So what?" I hear you ask. Well, in Ingurland, some people insist on putting milk into the cup BEFORE the tea. Maybe it's my imagination but this method appears to make the tea super-milky and, for me, like todally undrinkable. And, unless thoroughly rinsed out, the cup retains a milky flavour even after the milky mixture is poured down the sink.

    So, whatever about Barrys vs. Lyons, do yiz think that milk before tea should be made a criminal offence? I could volunteer to lead this movement because I have "previous" on similar campaigns: years ago, it was me who started the movement to rid the world of tea cups with handles so small that only pre-school children and Snow White's little buddies could get their fingers through the handles. Also, although not yet entirely eradicated, I've also had considerable success reducing the numbers of saucers on the planet. I'm also planning to seek out and destroy anyone involved in growing, picking, transporting, selling, making, serving or consuming Earl Grey tea. Must keep busy!

    You're welcome.


  • #8455
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I always put the milk in first, unless i am making a cuppa in a mug. I prefer tea from a teapot. I only take a small drop of milk so it isn't over milky. I get a lot of abuse and protests over this system, so I pour other people's the other way round, but do my own milk first :cool:.


  • #8456
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Riveting subject this. :rolleyes: My preference:

    Tea should be made in a previously heated stainless steel teapot. If you make tea in a cold teapot it reduces the temperature of the tea, stands to reason, and we can't have that!

    Add teabags or tea leaves to heated teapot.

    Add freshly boiled water.

    Tea should be left to 'draw' for about 43 seconds to one minute, depending on preferred taste. Only real tea-drinkers understand this vitally important step. Then the tea should be stirred with a stainless steel spoon in a clockwise direction, no less than six turns, and no more than eight turns.

    Tea should be now poured into a large mug, with proper handles leaving enough room for the required amount of milk.

    Milk goes in next.

    Preferred amount of sugar goes in next.

    Stir it all together with a proper stainless steel teaspoon in a clockwise direction until all the sugar is dissolved.

    Drink tea. Aaaaaaaah! Snuggle down into comfy chair and smile happily. On cold days, wrap fingers round hot cuppa. :)

    End of story. No more to be said. All other instructions are wrong of course, ;)


  • #8457
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    JB thanks for that. I would quibble with 'about' 43 seconds....


    also I prefer a pottery teapot, stays hot better.


  • #8458
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    looksee wrote: »
    JB thanks for that. I would quibble with 'about' 43 seconds....

    also I prefer a pottery teapot, stays hot better.

    Regarding the number of seconds. I would allow you to take it down to 42.5 seconds but that's as far as I will go on that!

    Regarding pottery teapot.....NEVAH!


  • #8459
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Riveting subject this. :rolleyes: My preference:

    Tea should be made in a previously heated stainless steel teapot. If you make tea in a cold teapot it reduces the temperature of the tea, stands to reason, and we can't have that!

    Add teabags or tea leaves to heated teapot.

    Add freshly boiled water.

    Tea should be left to 'draw' for about 43 seconds to one minute, depending on preferred taste. Only real tea-drinkers understand this vitally important step. Then the tea should be stirred with a stainless steel spoon in a clockwise direction, no less than six turns, and no more than eight turns.

    Tea should be now poured into a large mug, with proper handles leaving enough room for the required amount of milk.

    Milk goes in next.

    Preferred amount of sugar goes in next.

    Stir it all together with a proper stainless steel teaspoon in a clockwise direction until all the sugar is dissolved.

    Drink tea. Aaaaaaaah! Snuggle down into comfy chair and smile happily. On cold days, wrap fingers round hot cuppa. :)

    End of story. No more to be said. All other instructions are wrong of course, ;)

    While reading this opus, a few alternatives were circulating in my head. Then I read "All other instructions are wrong of course". Now, I'm too scared to suggest alternatives.

    Well, maybe.....would it be OK to use a ceramic teapot and spoons? My Chinese buddy gave me a set and I think they might know something about tea. But only if JB approves, of course.
    Also, is the stirring in a "clockwise direction" applicable to both earthly hemispheres or, when south of the equator, is it permisable to stir anti-clockwise?
    Finally, my watch has a built-in stopwatch but when does the clock start for the "43 to 60 seconds" drawing? From first introduction of freshly boiled water or from when all of the tea / teabags are fully submerged?
    Do I need to use a certified calibrated timepiece?
    If I'm pouring boiling water, how do I start my stopwatch?

    This tea-making is much more complicated than I thought. I only wanted something hot and wet to dunk my ginger nuts in.


  • #8460
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Well there's a whole new subject, dunking gingernuts. Or any kind of cookies (*ducks*). Its been done before? Oh.

    So what do you think about having to take your shoes off as you enter the house?


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  • #8461
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    Give the woNDERFUL man a coconut!



    !

    he he he fixed it for you lol :pac:

    By the way the idea of putting in milk first comes from the days of delicate porcelain when boiling water could crack the cup or pot. So milk was put in first to prevent this happening.

    (Another useless fact from TeaBag Rubes )


  • #8462
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That expression dates back to stuff my mum said. If you knocked something over she would say 'one down! a bag of nuts! Two down - a coconut'.

    She'd also say 'soot down' if you sneezed :D which made a change from 'bless you'.


  • #8463
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Earl Grey, no milk, no sugar, from a pot into a fine china cup.
    I used to drink mugs of builders strength tea with milk and ALL the sugar. When I quit those additives I found I could taste the tea. Love the jasmines, the darjeelings, the "English" breakfast teas but given a choice it's Earl Grey for me thank you very much.

    Mrs. OG has a taste for a more tradtional afternoon tea. Hendricks Gin. And yes, we do own the full set of teapot and cups.
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    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8464
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oooh I had forgotten about jasmine tea, used to love it but haven't had it in years, must get some!


  • #8465
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    While reading this opus, a few alternatives were circulating in my head. Then I read "All other instructions are wrong of course". Now, I'm too scared to suggest alternatives.

    Well, maybe.....would it be OK to use a ceramic teapot and spoons? My Chinese buddy gave me a set and I think they might know something about tea. But only if JB approves, of course.
    Also, is the stirring in a "clockwise direction" applicable to both earthly hemispheres or, when south of the equator, is it permisable to stir anti-clockwise?
    Finally, my watch has a built-in stopwatch but when does the clock start for the "43 to 60 seconds" drawing? From first introduction of freshly boiled water or from when all of the tea / teabags are fully submerged?
    Do I need to use a certified calibrated timepiece?
    If I'm pouring boiling water, how do I start my stopwatch?

    This tea-making is much more complicated than I thought. I only wanted something hot and wet to dunk my ginger nuts in.

    Anyone may suggest their own instructions but of course they will be wrong!


    Ceramic teapot and spoons – not allowed. I thought I made myself clear…..stainless steel, all the way. Our Chinese cousins know all there is to know about growing tea, but they didn’t know what to do with it until Paddy the Irishman turned up at Fred’s court one day and said “hey Fred, you’re doing that all wrong….here, I’ll show ya how t’make a daycent cup of tay’’ and from that day ‘till this they make it (my) way.


    Clockwise direction in any darn hemisphere you want, North Pole, South Pole, Aussieland, the spoon must revolve clockwise otherwise it will confuse the tea and that was the mistake Fred made, he stirred it anti-clockwise, confused the tea, and he was forever known as Confucius after that.


    When timing the ‘draw’, you start the stopwatch when you have poured in your boiling water and put the lid on the teapot. You do not watch to see when the tea or teabags have submerged, that is nobody’s business except the tea’s.


    A certified calibrated timepiece would of course be perfect for the job, but anything purchased in Weir’s of Grafton Street will suffice.

    looksee wrote: »
    Well there's a whole new subject, dunking gingernuts. Or any kind of cookies (*ducks*). Its been done before? Oh.

    So what do you think about having to take your shoes off as you enter the house?

    Do you mean taking your shoes off automatically, or requested by the householder to do so? I would not do it automatically. If asked, I would tell the householder to 'naff off', and never visit them again.


  • #8466
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    When timing the ‘draw’, you start the stopwatch when you have poured in your boiling water

    I read this quickly and thought you were putting boiling water into the stopwatch.


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  • #8467
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    I read this quickly and thought you were putting boiling water into the stopwatch.


    So did I for a split second :D


  • #8468
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Yiz keep wandering......wandering.......wandering. Focus man, focus! This is one of life's mysteries I'm revealing to yiz.


  • #8469
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I am wondering why I am wandering :)


  • #8470
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    :rolleyes: Tsk, it's one of those threads that goes round in endless circles. What's next on the agenda, I wonder?

    It's a bit blustery out there tonight guys, keep cosy now.


  • #8471
    tampopo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭tampopo


    Hey everyone,

    there's a poll on the weather forum about the best/hottest/driest summer.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057291023

    A selection of years is given and I wanted to push 1976, I wonder if there were more people in the Oulwans 'n' Oulfellas forum that would have been around then. More votes for 1995 (a good year, not a great year) at the moment may be a sign that boards.ie is populated by chungfellas and chungwans

    regards,
    T.


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  • #8472
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    I have too many AH style answers to the above poll for me to post safely under the weather forums rules.
    I also have a preference for spring ans autumn, they are my Best times. Excessively long dry hot sunny summers are a pain (actual pain if I don't use enough sunscreen).

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8473
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think this last one was one of the best in that it didn't get ridiculously hot, but was sunny and pleasant, and went on well into the autumn. Lovely year!


  • #8474
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    looksee wrote: »
    So what do you think about having to take your shoes off as you enter the house?

    I worked in Winnipeg (Winterpeg) for almost two years and it was de rigueur there to remove shoes at the front door. This made some sense because Winnipeg has REAL weather and a lot of it stuck to your shoes. Houses had waterproof, absorbent mats in the hallways and, when leaving, the ice and snow had thawed from your shoes, with no mess.

    However, I felt it necessary to object to anything strange and to re-educate the entire Canadian nation in the ways of d'oul sod. Pretty soon, householders would chant " come in, eh? Take the shoes off, put the shoes on, take the shoes off" etc. in the manner of Muttley the Mutt.

    Now I don't have a great problem with the concept of removing shoes at Irish doors. After all, it gives me a reason to change socks every week or two rather than having to resort to surgical procedures........annually!


  • #8475
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I am posting solely to see if my sig is working...trying to put the word about, drum up new business!


  • #8476
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Make sure I get my tea and bikkies tomorrow :D


  • #8477
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Make sure I get my tea and bikkies tomorrow :D

    You surely will Rube, will you pop in and put the kettle on about ten to four? Will someone pick up some bikkies in the supermarket please?


  • #8478
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    looksee wrote: »
    I am posting solely to see if my sig is working...trying to put the word about, drum up new business!
    There is a testing forum for this type of thing ya know.
    Oh and did my new signature post OK?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8479
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    OldGoat wrote: »
    There is a testing forum for this type of thing ya know.
    Oh and did my new signature post OK?

    Yes, I was being less than honest, I had tested it in the test forum :cool: just needed an excuse...

    I might get round to working up something a bit more artistic! Possibly.:D


  • #8480
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Is that too small now?


  • #8481
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    The reason I use the smaller font is that I used to have lots more in my sig and needed the eight lines rather than the standard four. That was back in the days when my sig was a frequently changing collection of recipes for cooking goat.
    I like the smaller font, it look well.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #8482
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Agree the smaller font looks better, but we are aiming at Oulwans - maybe I should use GREAT BIG type? In GREEN. :D


  • #8483
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Wonder if we could have the whole forum changed to "Large Print", or even audio threads?!?! If only we knew someone involved in radio that could create sound-files of threads for us to click on and listen too.
    I want Brian Blessed to do my voiceover.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8484
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I had a friend tell me once that I had a 'sexy voice'. Since he is spectacularly gay I don't think this proves anything. I think I sound like a duck quacking.


  • #8485
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I am happy with my signature as it is also a link if you click on it to another forum. Could you do one for here Looksee?

    (One of the regulars in the forum in question did it for me :) )


  • #8486
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh that's a good point Rube, I'll see what I can do.


  • #8487
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    D'ye know what, I'm only a flippin genius, I did done it! (put hyperlink in sig) now if there were some way I could remember how to do it next time I need it, that would be really good. :D


  • #8488
    Layinghen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    I have no idea what you lot are talking about:(:(:(


  • #8489
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ok hen, pay attention :cool: There will be a test.

    You see where it says about Oulwans & Oulfellas and Carers under my post? That's a sig (signature).

    And you see where it says (here) in black? Well if you click on that it takes you to the forum in question, and its called a hyperlink! (I had to look up how to do it, but we don't admit that :P)


  • #8490
    Layinghen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    I'll have to take all that info and try and see if it will lodge in my Luddite brain:D

    At the moment I'm more concerned about my roof holding as there are some fierce gusts hitting my little nest. The joys of coastal living.........


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  • #8491
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    tampopo wrote: »
    Hey everyone,

    there's a poll on the weather forum about the best/hottest/driest summer.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057291023

    A selection of years is given and I wanted to push 1976, I wonder if there were more people in the Oulwans 'n' Oulfellas forum that would have been around then. More votes for 1995 (a good year, not a great year) at the moment may be a sign that boards.ie is populated by chungfellas and chungwans

    regards,
    T.

    Some of us O & O's began collecting our pension in 1976! (ducks, runs awayyyy!). Seriously, 1976 was HOT, I remember, 'cos I got badly sunburned that year, think I even suffered sunstroke, shivering and shaking all over and trying not to actually touch the bed that I was lying on, a difficult feat. My back, neck, arms and legs were on fire. I'll never forget it.


  • #8492
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    that was the year I left school. Spent the summer in London, looking for work. It was HOT. I remember looking out of upstairs flat one night across the road and seeing a naked couple walking around their flat (they had their lights on and windows open, like everyone, hoping for the breath of a breeze). It looked like they were having an argument and the man had an erection as he followed his partner around. And I lay there, 17, and thought Wow!


  • #8493
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    My memory of 1976 is of heat, so much that after midnight one night we went outside to try and get a bit of cooler air, and lots of the neighbours were out on the same mission. A plumber was going round fixing burst pipes in attics as it was too hot to do it during the day.

    Then it all ended in a cloudburst of staggering ferocity. We living on a new estate in Kilkenny with very steeply sloping back gardens, both down towards each house and down from one house to the next, and all the water ran off the gardens in a torrent till it got to one of the lower houses and flooded it.

    The question was about the best summer though, that was one of the hottest, but it wasn't the best, it was too hot.


  • #8494
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Ahhh, I was misled, so I was, 'cos I thought the poll was for the hottest summer. In Ireland a good summer means dry, warm, hot, sunny, and that's why it stands out. All other summers are just 'normal'.


  • #8495
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    In 1976 I was treated for sunstroke which I managed to get quite badly in Germany. Very hot summer but also a pretty cold winter (still in Germany) I was out in -30 degrees and the snow was thick on the ground.


  • #8496
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Bloody hell, just spent ages talking to car insurance people. They couldn't believe it either and I think I am still in shock. My lovely new car is ruined ... by an accident (I am unhurt though) I was hit on the main road to work by a bloody BOAT!


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  • #8497
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah come on, you can't leave it there! Was the boat on a trailer, was it abandoned, how come it was on the road?


  • #8498
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    It should have been on a trailer but when it hit me it had flown off. It was coming the other way at about 30 mph and I was doing the same sdpeed in the opposite direction. It came off just as we were passing each other. Car may be a finacial write off.


    The boat will never see the sea again


  • #8499
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ooooh, *sucks teeth* that's going to be expensive for somebody (though not - hopefully - for you Rube) not fastening it properly. You were lucky to get out of it in one piece though, must have given you a bit of a shock. Did you then have to spend half a day sorting out the details, are you ok?


  • #8500
    Layinghen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    Gosh Rube that is horrific. Brilliant news that you weren't physically hurt.

    Poor car:(

    Hope the boat insurers sort you out quickly.

    Be kind to yourself as I am sure you got an awful shock.


  • #8501
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭Alice1


    You were lucky to escape unhurt Rube. Twas the hand of God, the hand of God (Alice intones piously)


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