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Torslanda

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1700 on: 11 March, 2018, 10:44:45 pm »
Your sacrifice is above and beyond the call of duty...
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Pingu

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1701 on: 11 March, 2018, 10:47:24 pm »
Jam tomorrow.
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ian

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1702 on: 12 March, 2018, 09:54:05 am »
It's scone as in 'cone' where I come from and cream comes first, it's like butter innit.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1703 on: 12 March, 2018, 10:04:35 am »
I usually prefer to skip the jam and maybe the cream altogether.
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Beardy

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1704 on: 12 March, 2018, 10:14:15 am »
Scone as in cone as Ian says, but he's wrong about the cream. Jam first, otherwise it's an unstable structure.
Mind ewe, Dr Beardy (Mrs) disagrees with me, but then I'm used to that  ;D

We'll also be in the West Country in a couple of weeks doing field work, though we'll be in Devon
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1705 on: 12 March, 2018, 11:37:14 am »
Kajsa is the scon expert
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1706 on: 19 March, 2018, 08:09:58 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1707 on: 19 March, 2018, 12:17:21 pm »
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The number 11 Thamesdown bus, named after the Queen of the Brits...

Queen of the Brits? I thought she was Queen of the Iceni. ???
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1708 on: 19 March, 2018, 01:26:21 pm »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1709 on: 23 March, 2018, 12:17:50 am »
This seems relevant to YACFers' interests:  Man on horse tries to place McDonald's drive-thru order
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1710 on: 23 March, 2018, 08:25:17 am »
I don't entirely get why they refuse to serve a horse rider a coffee. I'm sure I horse can trot from ordering point to delivery hatch in just the same time as a driver can drive a car. Or a cyclist for that matter. Come to that, you could walk it. It's really just a takeaway, geared particularly to people in cars, but a takeaway like millions of others.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1711 on: 23 March, 2018, 01:28:53 pm »
A ring of active Satanism and Black Magic has been uncovered in a Polish school. Not just any school, it's in the town where Mrs Cudzo grew up and even more so, one of her friends works there now. Her friend isn't linked to the coven (at least, not officially), she teaches Polish and the Satanists are all in the English Department. The cabal came to light recently when
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Having said she's not involved, I'm not so sure; when she visited a couple of years ago, she did
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Watch this space (for frogs and toadstools).
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1712 on: 23 March, 2018, 01:30:12 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 23 March, 2018, 08:25:17 am
I don't entirely get why they refuse to serve a horse rider a coffee. I'm sure I horse can trot from ordering point to delivery hatch in just the same time as a driver can drive a car. Or a cyclist for that matter. Come to that, you could walk it. It's really just a takeaway, geared particularly to people in cars, but a takeaway like millions of others.

I suppose there may be issues with reaching the serving hatch from the saddle of a horse, but I think it's just the great tradition of "this is weird, let's ban it citing health and safety".
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1713 on: 23 March, 2018, 01:48:37 pm »
Yes, it's possible someone reaching down from the saddle of a horse could spill hot coffee over a server. I wonder if they serve lorry drivers? I dare say there's a porch thingy with a height limit that makes it impossible. But what if the horse rider dismounted, would they serve them on foot (or a pedestrian)? (Yes, I know this bloke got a coffee on foot but he had to tether his horse and go into the actual cafe part to get it.) Kind of related, I note (from passing a particular McD's regularly and seeing through the windows) that at least some (non-drive in) branches seem to have done away with things like staff taking orders; you order and pay at one of a number of screens, then go to a hatch to collect. At least, that's certainly what it looks like (Bristol Cabot Circus branch, if you want to know)
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1714 on: 23 March, 2018, 01:54:56 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 23 March, 2018, 01:48:37 pm
Kind of related, I note (from passing a particular McD's regularly and seeing through the windows) that at least some (non-drive in) branches seem to have done away with things like staff taking orders; you order and pay at one of a number of screens, then go to a hatch to collect. At least, that's certainly what it looks like (Bristol Cabot Circus branch, if you want to know)

Yeah, it's definitely a thing.  I first encountered it at the terrifying Michael Jackson themed branch of the Scottish Restaurant in Best.  Seems to work well enough, in that you can interact with the computer in your own time (and language) to make the order and pay, and the minimum-wage oiks can concentrate on flipping burgers and stuff.  Barakta thinks they're brilliant, because you don't have to hear anything in what is inevitably an acoustically hostile environment.

I heard somewhere that in busy locations they've actually had to employ more staff because electronic ordering means higher customer throughput.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1715 on: 23 March, 2018, 02:34:03 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 23 March, 2018, 01:48:37 pm
Yes, it's possible someone reaching down from the saddle of a horse could spill hot coffee over a server. I wonder if they serve lorry drivers? I dare say there's a porch thingy with a height limit that makes it impossible. But what if the horse rider dismounted, would they serve them on foot (or a pedestrian)? (Yes, I know this bloke got a coffee on foot but he had to tether his horse and go into the actual cafe part to get it.)

They have form for refusing to serve anyone not in a car in the drive through. It's ridiculous when they won't serve a cyclist when that is the only open bit. Mark THomas took various vehicles through to wind them up including a  tank - there are videos on YouTube.
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Beardy

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1716 on: 23 March, 2018, 02:53:24 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 23 March, 2018, 01:54:56 pm
  Barakta thinks they're brilliant, because you don't have to hear anything in what is inevitably an acoustically hostile environment.
This. I try and use self service tills whenever they are available because I don't have to interact with people who often treat me as if I'm stupid because they are unable to enunciate clearly.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1717 on: 23 March, 2018, 03:04:19 pm »
I just find that it creates an obstruction when I'm on the way to the bog at motorway services.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1718 on: 23 March, 2018, 03:10:05 pm »
On the occasion that I have visited said establishment, having somebody with me to read and operate the contraption proved to be absolutely essential. 
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1719 on: 23 March, 2018, 03:21:02 pm »
Quote from: Butterfly on 23 March, 2018, 02:34:03 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 23 March, 2018, 01:48:37 pm
Yes, it's possible someone reaching down from the saddle of a horse could spill hot coffee over a server. I wonder if they serve lorry drivers? I dare say there's a porch thingy with a height limit that makes it impossible. But what if the horse rider dismounted, would they serve them on foot (or a pedestrian)? (Yes, I know this bloke got a coffee on foot but he had to tether his horse and go into the actual cafe part to get it.)

They have form for refusing to serve anyone not in a car in the drive through. It's ridiculous when they won't serve a cyclist when that is the only open bit. Mark THomas took various vehicles through to wind them up including a  tank - there are videos on YouTube.
Don't recognize the name... but found the video! https://youtu.be/71-h9A2XvWo I like the clowns best!
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Torslanda

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1720 on: 27 March, 2018, 11:36:25 pm »
Breaking news: Police have arrested Tullio Campagnolo.

https://www.bikebiz.com/news/shimano-on-fire
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1721 on: 24 April, 2018, 10:34:30 am »
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Bath woman’s Pavlova plans ruined after Waitrose strawberries go mouldy
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1722 on: 24 April, 2018, 12:01:01 pm »
Don't trivialise it...these things MATTER in Bath, dammit.
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Torslanda

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1723 on: 24 April, 2018, 01:32:19 pm »
FWP, surely?
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #1724 on: 30 April, 2018, 03:36:59 pm »
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