Beefy's Corner.......For all off Topic threads

Eggs are fantastic. Never keep them in the fridge. Don't buy supermarket ones, buy from soneone locally (butcher or local shop). Poached eggs for the win.

 

Great news Joe S, Meowth, Gay Bacon etc. The new pokemon games have been revealed which is the start of generation six.

[video=youtube;4bIrWryFc7A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bIrWryFc7A[/video]

 

I don't have a 3DS and also the Pokemon have tended to look ridiculous since generation two. The perfect game would be with the original 150, or perhaps 250, in a Skyrim-style world.

I can dream.

 

Agreed. I loved Gold/Silver, but Yellow was by far the best.

 

Can I just say... oh dear..? In my experience, it doesn't work that well. Looks good, but appearances aren't everything. Also, make sure the BT engineer does a good installation. The engineer who installed a friend of mine's should be kicked off the register of network engineers. Sloppy was best compliment I could come up with. I had to reinstall the thing myself.

In my experience of seeing other people's joy with the major companies and their broadband products, I would say none of them have anything to smile about. In all the years I have had broadband I have had about an hour downtime in total, and my ISP rang me to tell me it was going to happen. I have since had to change to Cable & Wireless, but the reliability has remained. I have known others to go for days while Virgin, SKY, BT, etc.., have their various hiccoughs with their services. I don't get 24mps or 50 mps. I get 8mps and ultra, ultra reliability too. At this moment in time, no household actually needs much more than that, unless they're streaming HDTV into three different destinations, and then it would probably be enough. So if anyone is thinking of upgrading from 8-10 so as to experience 24 or 50mps, just so they can download a film in half the time, don't bother. The reliability will be hit as a casualty of the speed increase. As they say, you'll repent at leisure.

Sorry to rant, but I do get annoyed with these media companies. They promise but they often don't deliver. Once again, Virgin are chopping down more trees in order to tell me what I'm missing. I DON'T WANT IT, RICHARD..!

 

Gameboy Advanced SP or GTFO

 

MG is in for a tune up tomorrow. Will be nice to have my baby purring again.

 

Death in Paradise back tonight. Loved the first series...clever plots, funny and good characters.

 

I used to keep eggs out of the fridge years ago. Then I stopped buying them, pretty much altogether when the cholesterol scare made them the devil's food. Then I decided to ignore the whole advice because it seemed flawed anyway, and so it has proved, over time. Eggs are back in as a good thing. They're even being touted as a super food in some quarters.

But I do put my eggs in the fridge nowadays, because they will maintain a good condition for longer. Yes, eggs will last weeks out of the fridge, but they will stay in better nick inside it, and for longer, so why not. And I don't care that Delia says you shouldn't, even though I respect her abilities. Yes, I do use a similar sized saucepan and water volume on the odd occasion that I do boil eggs, which probably accounts for the consistent results. I mainly boil eggs for when I go sailing, though, and then it is the hard-boiled variety I go for because sailing requires one hand on some part of the boat [tiller, wheel, winch, sheet, halyard, etc] and the other hand on the food.

 

Was it an Openreach employee or a contractor The contractors are **** and giving bt a bad / worse name !!!!!!

 

My two were efficient, turned up early after first phoning, and when it couldn't go where I first wanted they shifted the tv to hide all the cables behind. No complaints.

 

Ah, now there you have me, No1. Let's say he was a contractor, because I always want to give people, and even companies, the benefit of the doubt, and I was hugely surprised by the poor quality of the installation, when I saw it. It was the first internet connection this friend had ever had [late to the IT party], and he hadn't long had the computer either, so he didn't have a yardstick with which to measure. Actually, he was computer illiterate [yes, there are people out there who still live without them] and so it has been a long and steep learning curve.

 

Good. You had two..?

 

Chances are it was a contractor . Loads taken on to get infinity off the ground . But crap workmanship that in the long term will only mean customer dissatisfaction . Sadly that's the way of the world........

 

Stargazing Live is back tonight, wooooooo

 

They would have been openreach engineers . No contractors on the IOW yet..........

 

Took two Pompey fans to take on one Saints fan

 

That was on the side of their van.

 

Newcastle match in Feb moved to Sunday because of the European match of the hosts...not on Sky sadly. At 1.30 which will make it harder to get to, but easier to get back from. Overnighter perhaps.

 

I loved that show, been hoping for a new series for ages!