SpacedX

On 18/12/2024 at 07:23, foxfanazer said:

I'm unsure where to go on my Whisky journey. So at home I've just been drinking your typical supermarket blended whisky's which I drink with coke. But earlier in the month we visited Loch Ness and I sampled some of the Highland single malts which felt wrong to have with a mixer so I'd have it neat which was really nice but I can't imagine sitting at home doing that .

 

Is it a proper faux pas to have a mixer with Whisky? And if I do use a mixer is it better to just stick with the Famous Grouse types?

 

Also are there any good mixer recommendations other than Coke?

@28.30...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021j31

8 hours ago, Parafox said:

You seem to have plenty of time on your hands. 

Data returned from Copernicus shows that January was the warmest on record at 1.75°C above the 1850 to 1900 average, beating the previous record set a year earlier, when temperatures were 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. And this is despite an emerging La Niña.

1 hour ago, bovril said:

The monastic life calls us

There's a few on this forum that would do the world a huge favour if they were to become Trappist Monks. 

14 hours ago, Izzy said:

Pen 3 at Filbo was a huge part of my youth and I'd give my right nad to stand there and watch a game just one more time.

 

Most definitely this. If you weren't there, you'll never know. 

It would have been one of the most intimidating grounds in the country if the East Stand and the North Stand had been redeveloped. Eventually the Double Decker would have had to have been replaced though. 

4-0 loss way to Luton, 1985. Players had all got hammered in the week at Willie Thorne's wedding, Lineker's final game for the club prior to f*****g off to Everton, daft green strip that everyone now raves about that we never won a league game in, last match of the season - and no one gave a flying f**k. Finished 17th, nothing to play for. So they didn't. 

Again, beautifully timed by Lowe. 

Surprised to see Lawrence Dallaglio still doing these daft 'Motorway' adverts after being banned from driving last year. 

Brilliant from Lowe. 

4 minutes ago, PhillippaT said:

Not sure about the defence, though   (Not doing too badly since the yellow, TBF)

Ireland  have been into their 22 four times and haven't scored. 

Promising variation and creativity to England's attack. 

I like the newly adjusted playing the 9 rule. Opens up play. 

Dan Cole isn't getting any younger, really want to see his Tigers teammate Joe Heyes come to the fore although Will Stuart's pretty nailed on for the foreseeable future.  

1 hour ago, Nalis said:

It's split between ITV and BBC, I think BBC show the home Wales and Scotland games and ITV show the rest.

There was an item on BBC Radio 4 this week concerning mounting speculation that it will be moved behind a paywall in the future. The free to air rights deal between the BBC and ITV expires at the end of this year's tournament. The Six Nations is not on the list of the government’s “crown jewels” and organisers are apparently receptive to bids from a subscription broadcaster. TNT has expressed serious interest. Whilst a subscription broadcaster is likely to pay more for the rights to the championship the organisers know that it would not have the reach of the BBC and ITV. England’s victory over Ireland last year attracted a peak audience of 6.6 million viewers while some fixtures can approach 10 million.

10 minutes ago, splinterdream said:

Well, fair play @SpacedX and @leicsmac you guys got me beat, you sure know alot about space travel, climate change science, vaccines and US politics, even quotes from people i don't know and the rep sheet of others as well, I'm just a member of a football forum and wanted a casual chat, way out of my league. Go easy chaps 🤣

It isn't a case of "got you beat" honestly. I know absolutely nothing about  investments, stocks and shares, (I don't have a corporate cell in my body), golf, strava apps, Love Island, hip hop, TV buying, car finance... For this reason, there are topics and threads I won't comment or speculate on (with the exception of football) or make absolute statements. 

I applaud your response and apologies again if my responses in particular seemed like an onslaught. 

2 hours ago, splinterdream said:

😂 it’s okay, I find it funny that someone can get so angry at me  

 

Really, I'm not angry with you, genuinely, and apologies if you got that impression. 

2 hours ago, splinterdream said:

putting speculative stuff out there

And yet...

2 hours ago, splinterdream said:

I really have no knowledge on the subject,

You have at least, albeit inadvertently, perfectly epitomised, embodied and personified the 21st Century online conspiracy belief.  

6 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

A question: is such censorship (or the other worst excesses of human behaviour) worse than the consequences the natural world can visit upon us and require unity of response?

 

Here's a hint; one treatable, preventable disease, one, has taken more lives in the last few hundred years than all human wars and murders put together.

 

It's right to fear human power and abuse of it. But downplaying natural threats and action needed to address them will lead to both even worse excesses and a higher body count than human sociopaths could dream of.

 

That's something those who consider conspiracies involved by humans often fail to grasp.

Perfectly put. 

48 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

They do say that ‘ignorance is bliss’

 

but that was before the internet !

When I went through school there would invariably be a couple of pupils who couldn’t quite grasp certain concepts in the subjects that we were taught. It was OK though. They’d squeak by and live their lives happily, albeit not as rocket scientists or brain surgeons. Now they find each other on the internet. They find validation for their lack of understanding, and then they embrace it. They’re told “you’re one of the smart ones, you always knew they were lying to you.” Facts don’t matter at that point, and yet another conspiracy believer is born. Throw in the special feeling conspiracies can confer, along with a liberal affliction of the Dunning Kruger effect, and we have what we have. This is all just an unfortunate, yet understandable side effect of the internet. This is something we’re always going to have to deal with.

1 hour ago, splinterdream said:

I'll tell you whats dangerous, censorship, and you seem to be all for that, thank god for the 1st amendment, i wish we had that here.

What a ridiculous straw man logical fallacy. Read my post again. At no stage have I said anything of the sort. What I am particularly opposed to however is an opportunistic ex-cab driving convicted felon, cult member, stalker, proven liar, fraud and renowned online grifter that managed to get himself ostracised from the advertisement making industry, with a huge grudge to bear and chip on his shoulder and zero relevant expertise, telling people like you what to think about a subject that by your own admission, you have no understanding or knowledge of whatsoever. 

1 hour ago, splinterdream said:

thank god for the 1st amendment, i wish we had that here.

Hilarious since the USA now has a President in office that is threatening the federally issued licenses of television broadcast outlets that displeased him.

The right to free speech is not absolute and certain types of speech can be restricted, such as obscenity, defamation, incitement to violence, and threats. Free speech is the noose by which people hang themselves. It should be used responsibly and not abused. Blatant disinformation which is Sibrel's stock in trade should be summarily and systematically challenged and exposed. Conspiracy theorists are crooks, not just idiots. petty crooks, true, but part of their business model is to create an environment of distrust of science and rational thought, and refusal to ever measure anything. and that is a serious problem for society. Besides, they spread so much malice that it's a good idea to pound them flat while they are small.

Earlier today, I politely urged you to summon even just a thread of humility in respect of your comment relating to the Van Allen Belts, ask yourself a series of questions, reflect and exercise some self awareness. You have completely ignored and disregarded that bludgeoning on with more regurgitated online nonsense about Stanley Kubrick and now an utterly bizarre reply about freedom of speech. 

The renowned Italian scholar and semiologist Umberto Eco once said: “Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”

There has been an error in reporting here. We are actually lining up Würzburger Kickers winger, 49 year old, Patrick Zimmer.  

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

Simple economics - supply and demand my friend. 

 

The product is still (just) about cheap enough for the masses to buy regularly.

 

I think you could have that opinion about any product...why do you need that expensive pair of shoes/golf club/car/handbag etc etc. There are of course cheaper alternatives to all those but they aren't as good - same with coffee, nescafe out the tin tastes like bath water compared to a decent cup of coffee.

I agree.

This is as much a comical thread and my post wasn't intended to be taken that seriously. 

41 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Coffee is absolutely one of lifes greatest small pleasures. I try not to be too elitist when  it comes to other foods/drink, but a tub of cheap instant coffee from your draw just isn’t the same as a cup of freshly brewed stuff. Almost every other European country has coffee brewers in their kitchen as standard like Brits have kettles. I’m the opposite to SpaceX, in that I don’t really get our obsession with instant coffee in the UK, brewed coffee should be the baseline.

I wasn't advocating instant coffee, just that, from a selfish perspective, the reversion to it would make my life easier when queueing in a café 

2 minutes ago, bovril said:

Weird how many Brits see it as some kind of woke lifestyle choice instead of a daily essential. We celebrate choice in all other food and drink, like ale for example, but for some reason coffee choice winds a lot of people up and is seen as some kind of urban liberal elite thing. 

I was of course being facetious - the thread lends itself to such - but I am inclined to agree. Very well put. I guess this is what I am referring to. Why are people prepared to queue up for and pay exorbitant prices to satisfy their dependence on this stodge? But then why are our highstreets flooded with vape shops sourcing cheap product from some dodgy exporter in provincial China? 

Just now, Zear0 said:

Comes out the tap

Indeed - and like I said, I replenish my own bottle which I forgot to bring.