The Retirement Thread

[gavroche]

Whats wrong with preping?

It is a horrible word , it just doesn't sound right in my opinion and another way of maiming the English language. Are we becoming so lazy nowadays that we have to shorten everything to one or two syllables?

 

[PaulSB]

Aldi do 2 qualities of their own baked beans.
The cheap one tastes really cheap......the more expensive one is imo quite good

Fully agree. At home I don't often eat beans alone but use them a lot in cooking to add some bulk and a little sweetness to many recipes. The Aldi ones are ideal for this.

 

[Tenkaykev]

What's wrong with using the proper verb: preparing?

That verb is reserved for cooks on pirate vessels as they love an Ar…🏴‍☠️

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It is a horrible word , it just doesn't sound right in my opinion and another way of maiming the English language. Are we becoming so lazy nowadays that we have to shorten everything to one or two syllables?

Does it matter? Language evolves.

 

[PaulSB]

Hello people. How are we all today? Good I hope. A lovely morning is dawning and conditions are ideal for a ride so we are heading out to the Ribble Valley. We will visit my favourite cafe where I will break my self-imposed £5 cafe stop budget. We are committed to supporting the places we like by spending our usual amount. The Potters Barn in Ribchester is a great stop and the lovely Charlie always looks after us very well. She's a great lady.

I've emailed Which? this morning to cancel my subscription. I've explained it's partly economising but more to do with the poor journalism in the monthly magazine. I've offered to stay if there's a lower cost membership fee without the magazine. We shall see.

Woke at 2.00am and browsed with a cuppa for an hour or so. I bobbed in to Support and read a thread which made me smile a lot. It sent me over to the other place to check something posters referenced. Gobsmacked is all I can. Absolutely gobsmacked. I've been a forum admin in the past. People got lifetime bans with no appeal for things I read earlier. Truly astonished.

Best to content myself with bikes now. Time for breakfast, water the tomatoes and then check tyre pressures etc.

 

[Dave7]

Fully agree. At home I don't often eat beans alone but use them a lot in cooking to add some bulk and a little sweetness to many recipes. The Aldi ones are ideal for this.

Can't recall ever doing that but it sounds good.
What meals would you normally add them to ?

 

[PaulSB]

Does it matter? Language evolves.

Tricky one this. I agree with both you and @gavroche . I don't think I use the word but I think it's now recognised as a both a noun and verb. I lean towards the language evolution thing.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Hello people. How are we all today? Good I hope. A lovely morning is dawning and conditions are ideal for a ride so we are heading out to the Ribble Valley. We will visit my favourite cafe where I will break my self-imposed £5 cafe stop budget. We are committed to supporting the places we like by spending our usual amount. The Potters Barn in Ribchester is a great stop and the lovely Charlie always looks after us very well. She's a great lady.

I've emailed Which? this morning to cancel my subscription. I've explained it's partly economising but more to do with the poor journalism in the monthly magazine. I've offered to stay if there's a lower cost membership fee without the magazine. We shall see.

Woke at 2.00am and browsed with a cuppa for an hour or so. I bobbed in to Support and read a thread which made me smile a lot. It sent me over to the other place to check something posters referenced. Gobsmacked is all I can. Absolutely gobsmacked. I've been a forum admin in the past. People got lifetime bans with no appeal for things I read earlier. Truly astonished.

Best to content myself with bikes now. Time for breakfast, water the tomatoes and then check tyre pressures etc.

Was that the swearing thread?

 

[Paulus]

Good morning from a rainy Barnet.
A thunder storm woke me up at 0400.
I've been awake since then.
I ve cycled up the road and fed a litter of kittens and their mother, they are 5 weeks old at the moment. Also fed an old cat they have. They are away on holiday at the moment and we said we would feed and look after them for the week. The kittens are vey cute, the mother was bought in as a stray, although she is very friendly so it had been in a household before.
Now, having finished my cornflakes with some strawberries and blueberries, it's time to take the dog out.
Then, after that, cycle to my son's place to help him clear his attic of rubbish. His skip finally turned up yesterday.
Then , cycle back to the kittens for the second feed of the day.
With the rain forecast for all day, I will be a bit damp when I eventually make it home.
Enjoy your day everyone.

 

[pawl]

Whats wrong with prepping?

Nothing

 

[pawl]

It is a horrible word , it just doesn't sound right in my opinion and another way of maiming the English language. Are we becoming so lazy nowadays that we have to shorten everything to one or two syllables?

Prep school or preparatory?

 

[PaulSB]

Can't recall ever doing that but it sounds good.
What meals would you normally add them to ?

We cook "casserole" style dishes in a slow cooker which often call for a variety of beans - kidney beans, black beans, borlotti beans, haricot, chick peas etc. In practice in most recipes these are interchangeable. If I'm only cooking for Mrs P and I then I'll double the quantity of beans to bulk out the meal and freeze portions.

I'm thinking of a thing called bean casserole, Red Hot Beef, vegetable casseroles/stews, vegetable cottage pie, sausage and bean casserole and many others.

 

[PaulSB]

Was that the swearing thread?

Yes, both here and in the other place. The other place was just jaw-dropping, gobsmacking stuff. I mustn't go on but it's utterly unacceptable in my view.

 

[welsh dragon]

Cooooeeee. All this talk if grammar is rather posh for this threshold innit?

Damp and misty here today.

Stay safe peeps

 

[PaulSB]

Cooooeeee. All this talk if grammar is rather posh for this threshold innit?

Damp and misty here today.

Stay safe peeps

Wot? You talkin bout.