darsy wrote:

> On Jun 7, 6:18*pm, davethedave <davedfoster...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nor are crust-less cucumber sandwiches served with tea.
>
> hey! Go **** yourself. I like crustless cucumber sandwiches served
> with tea[1].
>
> [1] admitedly, has to be tea made with filtered water here, as London
> water is far to hard to make decent tea straight out of the tap.

Filtered water? You ****ing poof!

At work we serve two types of tea - clean tea and dirty tea.

Clean tea is made using water taken from the espresso coffee machine as
it's well filtered. Clean tea tastes foul.

Dirty tea is made in the workshop with water boiled in an old scaly
kettle, it tastes ****ing lovely.



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Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 13:07:20 +0300, davethedave
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:39:02 +0200, Ace wrote:
>
>>>> [1] admitedly, has to be tea made with filtered water here, as London
>>>> water is far to hard to make decent tea straight out of the tap.
>>>
>>>We use mineral water for the tea and coffee.
>>
>> Dunno what you're using, but most of the bottled stuff we've used (ISTR
>> much of it was Nestlé branded) in Turkey wasn't 'mineral' water per se,
>> just good water.
>
>It is natural spring water that comes out of the side of a mountain and
>is slapped in bottles.

Right, so not necessarily high in minerals, certainly not of the type
that makes boiled water for tea so muddy. Try the same thing with a
high-mineral water such as the French like so much and you'll be
looking at a much _more_ dirty end-product than from the tap.

>Even the Nestlé offerings. None of this coca cola
>con business. I seriously think that this is because it's more
>profitable to bottle it from a natural source than purify and bottle.

Yes, I imagine it is. TBF it's not exactly expensive as a result, and
is eminently drinkable, on it's own or for tea or coffee.

>> When sailing we used to get through about four-six large bottles a day,
>> so ten litres or so, for the two of us. Plus beer, of course;-)
>
>You do tend to get de-hydrated on a boat though.

You're not wrong.

>The sweat just
>disappears before you realise you are sweating. The heat and the wind
>conspire against you. The beer is useful for re-hydration.

Hic! Serpently is.

>I have an urge to re-hydrate with a pint of Speckled Hen though.

I have a couple of bottles at home still, courtesy of Colin and Pat,
IIRC. Or maybe that was part of the stash we brought back from our
November drive over to the UK. Only three or four bottles left, two of
them Pedigree.

Mmmm, Pedigreee blaaaaaaaarg...

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:45:52 +0200, Ace wrote:

>>I have an urge to re-hydrate with a pint of Speckled Hen though.
>
> I have a couple of bottles at home still, courtesy of Colin and Pat,
> IIRC. Or maybe that was part of the stash we brought back from our
> November drive over to the UK. Only three or four bottles left, two of
> them Pedigree.
>
> Mmmm, Pedigreee blaaaaaaaarg...

Heh.
At least the Marmite stash is not yet depleted.
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davethedave

On Jun 8, 12:31*pm, "Lozzo" <lo...@lozzo.org.uk> wrote:
> darsy wrote:
> > On Jun 7, 6:18 pm, davethedave <davedfoster...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Nor are crust-less cucumber sandwiches served with tea.
>
> > hey! Go **** yourself. I like crustless cucumber sandwiches served
> > with tea[1].
>
> > [1] admitedly, has to be tea made with filtered water here, as London
> > water is far to hard to make decent tea straight out of the tap.
>
> Filtered water? You ****ing poof!

it's a result of growing up drinking tea made with the ultra-soft tap
water supplied in Bangor, NI.

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d.

"Jim" <nul@0.0.0.0> wrote in message
news:4dee48de$0$2509$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've seen pictures of motorbikes (something carbon fibre and from New
> Zealand, IIRC) where the rear shock ends up in front of the engine
> connected by a linkage, but this seems ridiculous:
>
> http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06...pc-2/?pid=1103

No more ridiculous than a Britten V twin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jorvikiwi/4630813132/

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Beav

"Pip" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <c332c8-(E-Mail Removed)>, davethedave says...
>>
>> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:20:52 +0000, Jim wrote:
>>
>> > What an inordinately rude reply.
>>
>> Bwaaaaa Haaa Haaa Haaaaaaaaaaa.
>>
>> Debrets rules of social conduct are not recognised here.
>
> That's "Debrett's", Mister ****head.

And no question was asked by the OP either.

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Beav

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:10:27 +0100, Beav wrote:

> "Pip" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> In article <c332c8-(E-Mail Removed)>, davethedave says...
>>>
>>> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:20:52 +0000, Jim wrote:
>>>
>>> > What an inordinately rude reply.
>>>
>>> Bwaaaaa Haaa Haaa Haaaaaaaaaaa.
>>>
>>> Debrets rules of social conduct are not recognised here.
>>
>> That's "Debrett's", Mister ****head.
>
> And no question was asked by the OP either.

A valid point, well made. I retract the stupid question remark.

However the "inordinately rude reply" was, in fact, so polite that
the vicar would not have even quivered his tea cup in its saucer had
it been uttered from the lips of Englands sweetest blue haired old
lady .
--
davethedave

Simon Wilson wrote:
>>> I've seen pictures of motorbikes (something carbon fibre and from New
>>> Zealand, IIRC) where the rear shock ends up in front of the engine
>>> connected by a linkage, but this seems ridiculous:
>>>
>>> http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06...pc-2/?pid=1103
>>
>> Yes, well. If you'd read the text, it explains that this is a one-off
>> and it's electric-powered. The electric motor sits on the swingarm,
>> therefore there's no space for the shock - so they stuffed the shock up
>> under where the tank would be, connected by carbon fibre linkages.
>
> Quite a neat solution IMO. Very F1-like.

They've just put up another article now with an interview of the bloke
who made it. He goes on about the efficiency savings of bringing all the
suspension forces up to the headstock, which has to be strong anyway:

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06...ysz-interview/