The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Yorky said:
On my overnight stay in hospital here I was given one meal (I had to send out for beer). I had rice and pork soup. Maybe they thought I was Muslim because I did not detect any sign of pork in it.

[Note: In Thailand, boiled rice is rice soup. What we probably know as boiled rice is called steamed rice.]
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Last Friday our Black cat came out of hospital after 3 nights. The bill was more than mine but he didn't complain about the food.
 
classic33 said:
Finding a chippy in Leeds, let alone a decent one, is nigh on impossible.
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Finding a decent one anywhere now is a task. Most seem to use strange fish only suitable for fertilizer or cat food, oil [tastes like old engine oil] instead of dripping and 'plastic' chips.
classic33 said:
Best of luck trying to make it down one street in the city centre, without passing more than one pub.
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Not so hard, even when we left over ten years ago most seemed to be turning into 'cool' nightspots - not really the same thing. Ho hum.
 
Dustin Hoffman is 80 years old today.

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sidevalve said:
Finding a decent one anywhere now is a task. Most seem to use strange fish only suitable for fertilizer or cat food, oil [tastes like old engine oil] instead of dripping and 'plastic' chips.

Not so hard, even when we left over ten years ago most seemed to be turning into 'cool' nightspots - not really the same thing. Ho hum.
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Our local chippy was owned by a Greek family for a good few years and they were excellent, changed hands a few years ago and not very good at all, limp undercooked chips and oil oozing out of the fish batter :sick:
 
Lullabelle said:
Our local chippy was owned by a Greek family for a good few years and they were excellent, changed hands a few years ago and not very good at all, limp undercooked chips and oil oozing out of the fish batter :sick:
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The last time I bought anything from a fish and chip shop, it was chicken and chips. The chicken was undercooked and the chips practically raw. I took it back and got a refund :sick:
 
sidevalve said:
Doesn't look bad for 80 - strange how some of the old stars manage to look ok till well on in years [male and female] and others just seem to explode.
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Of course - there are a lot of good cosmetic treatments out there. The days of the 'tight' facelift are mainly gone (apart from a few who take things to extremes). 'Fillers' can work wonders - I speak from experience. They plump up the crevices and last for 18 months. This means that the skin doesn't develop new wrinkles in that area, during that time. So, 'filllers' can literally slow down the appearance of ageing.
 
morning glory said:
Of course - there are a lot of good cosmetic treatments out there. The days of the 'tight' facelift are mainly gone (apart from a few who take things to extremes). 'Fillers' can work wonders - I speak from experience. They plump up the crevices and last for 18 months. This means that the skin doesn't develop new wrinkles in that area, during that time. So, 'filllers' can literally slow down the appearance of ageing.
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Unfortunately some go to the extreme and look awful, others are lucky and age well.
 
Elawin said:
The last time I bought anything from a fish and chip shop, it was chicken and chips. The chicken was undercooked and the chips practically raw. I took it back and got a refund :sick:
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How do these people get a food licence?
 
@Yorky

I agree, Actor Dustin Hoffman does look pretty good for 80 ..

I always wonder if it is air brushed photography and / or if an actor or actress had some plastic or Botox .. It is extremely common for people in the public eye.
 
Lullabelle said:
How do these people get a food licence?
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It makes you wonder, doesn't it. The council inspections and the FSA ratings go a long way towards rooting out the worst ones, but they can't do anything at all until the place is up and running, and even then a shortage of staff means there is often a considerable gap between a place opening and their first inspection. Before that, a council can only refuse to let them open a restaurant. Two instances spring to mind that I know of personally. Someone wanted to open what became my old shop as a café, and the local council there refused to let them change the use on the grounds that the premises were unsuitable. Our own local council also refused an application for another café on grounds of hygiene (the premises were next door to a pet shop and shared a rear exit). Our local burger van went from a 4 rating to a 5 (which at the time was higher than the new KFC got - the burger van has been parked in the street outside what is now the KFC for as long as I can remember, and I moved here in 1976!). Although they cannot guarantee the quality of the food served, at least a top hygiene rating gives reassurance. I think I posted elsewhere about a friend whose restaurant was closed while they investigated several cases of food poisoning - it turned out it was nothing to do with the restaurant per se but a supplier of the pre-washed salad they used who was to blame. Once that was established and publicised, he was allowed to reopen, although it took a while for his business to built up again.
 
classic33 said:
Commuter area now, with a powder problem.
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I'm guessing that you meant "power". We almost bought a house there until our surveyor found that the area where the house was being built had a history of flooding. Ended up buying a place in Horsforth just outside Leeds.
 
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