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[MPH]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

 

I love a good omelette. 

 

Just a question for omelette creators, do you pre-cook/fry any extra veg ingredients such as peppers, onions, mushrooms?

 

 

 

Whatever I can get in the pan - peppers onions tomatoes everything mushrooms it all gets fried for a couple of minute first..chunks of ham as well that kind of thing!

[Silebyfox_89]

Omelette are always made up with leftovers from the fridge, always cook mushrooms and peppers on the foreman while cooking the omelette.

 

Microwave scrambled eggs are nasty, pan all the way.

[Bordersfox]

4 hours ago, The Bear said:

I used to cook ommelette fast and it was fine, but it's much better done slowly. It's so easy to accidentally make the eggs hard and rubbery on the outside in a pan on a high heat. 

I'm an omelette obsessive.  Overcooked egg is abhorrent, undercooked egg is also nasty.  

 

Two minutes or so in a pan low/medium heat, couple of minutes under a hot grill with your beady eye on it the whole time.  

 

Perfect consistency.  

 

Butter, eggs and cheese.  I don't ever add anything else to it, ruins the texture.  

 

Probably needs a thread of its own. 

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, Bordersfox said:

I'm an omelette obsessive.  Overcooked egg is abhorrent, undercooked egg is also nasty.  

 

Two minutes or so in a pan low/medium heat, couple of minutes under a hot grill with your beady eye on it the whole time.  

 

Perfect consistency.  

 

Butter, eggs and cheese.  I don't ever add anything else to it, ruins the texture.  

 

Probably needs a thread of its own. 

No seasoning? You are a monster. 

[Bordersfox]

8 hours ago, Daggers said:

No seasoning? You are a monster. 

The cheese is very salty, you add salt to that omelette and you ruin it, trust me I've tried.  Yes I add a lot of cheese.  A twist of pepper is acceptable if you must.   

[The Bear]

I never add seasoning to eggs until they're cooked. Pepper is fine, but salt is a no no. 

[SkidsFox]

13 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

God Save The King/Queen is one of the worst songs ever written 

I still get the words wrong...

[ClaphamFox]

13 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

God Save The King/Queen is one of the worst songs ever written 

It's a horrendous dirge. The tune is soporific and the words won't exactly inspire anybody who doesn't really believe in the monarchy and/or god. We only keep it because ditching it would cause an uproar. So many are better than ours - French, Italian, German, US, Scottish, Welsh, Argentine, Japanese....in fact, most of them.

Edited 1 December 2022 by ClaphamFox

[filbertway]

France's national anthem is lovely and inspirational

 

Arise, children of the Fatherland
Our day of glory has arrived
Against us the bloody flag of tyranny
is raised; the bloody flag is raised.
Do you hear, in the countryside
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They’re coming right into your arms
To cut the throats of your sons, your comrades!

To arms, citizens!
Form your battalions
Let’s march, let’s march
That their impure blood
Should water our fields.

[ealingfox]

29 minutes ago, filbertway said:

France's national anthem is lovely and inspirational

 

Arise, children of the Fatherland
Our day of glory has arrived
Against us the bloody flag of tyranny
is raised; the bloody flag is raised.
Do you hear, in the countryside
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They’re coming right into your arms
To cut the throats of your sons, your comrades!

To arms, citizens!
Form your battalions
Let’s march, let’s march
That their impure blood
Should water our fields.

 

And yet its the best national anthem by a mile

 

[Manley Farrington-Brown]

2 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

It's a horrendous dirge. The tune is soporific and the words won't exactly inspire anybody who doesn't really believe in the monarchy and/or god. We only keep it because ditching it would cause an uproar. So many are better than ours - French, Italian, German, US, Scottish, Welsh, Argentine, Japanese....in fact, most of them.

Most? I suspect all of them are.

The tune is dreary and funereal, where so many others are stirring and/or lively, and the words of lots of others actually celebrate the country whereas the UK one just begs for continued subservience to an unelected billionaire. It's ridiculous.

[Foxdiamond]

2 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

It's a horrendous dirge. The tune is soporific and the words won't exactly inspire anybody who doesn't really believe in the monarchy and/or god. We only keep it because ditching it would cause an uproar. So many are better than ours - French, Italian, German, US, Scottish, Welsh, Argentine, Japanese....in fact, most of them.

Totally agree.  UK should have better tune let alone England who should have something different anyway.

[ealingfox]

Jerusalem should be the sporting anthem for all England teams.

[Daggers]

3 hours ago, SkidsFox said:

I still get the words wrong...

How?

 

Like, are you playing it at breakfast and making your children salute a Paddington bear or something? It’s your pick for karaoke?

[Tommy G]

Teachers striking over completely unreasonable wage demand increases - laughable 

[The Bear]

1 hour ago, ealingfox said:

 

And yet its the best national anthem by a mile

 

Not even close. Italy and Russia are miles better. 

[leicsmac]

13 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Teachers striking over completely unreasonable wage demand increases - laughable 

It would be interesting to know exactly why they're leaving the profession in droves, wouldn't it?

[ealingfox]

22 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Not even close. Italy and Russia are miles better. 

 

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[Fox92]

The French and Italian national anthems are the best for me.

 

Italian's especially sing with so much passion. I would love to have that passion for our national anthem but I don't even bother singing the dirge. Ours is shit.

[bovril]

Bulgarian is best but unfortunately not commonly heard at sports tournaments 

[Tommy G]

40 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

It would be interesting to know exactly why they're leaving the profession in droves, wouldn't it?

Suddenly not paid enough apparently....

[leicsmac]

5 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Suddenly not paid enough apparently....

There's been something of an exodus for the last decade, tbh.

 

I wonder what the solution to getting talented people back into an essential profession would be?

[foxy boxing]

2 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Suddenly not paid enough apparently....

It's not just the pay, it's the conditions of the job they are working in. Everybody deserves a fair work/life balance. Not to mention the stresses of the professions like doctors, nurses firefighters. Its so hard for people in these professions not to take the stresses of the job home. Teachers are having to deal with a lot more than just teaching. A lot of the time they deal with things like self harm, bullying, unruly children etc. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

58 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

It would be interesting to know exactly why they're leaving the profession in droves, wouldn't it?

 

15 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Suddenly not paid enough apparently....

Any loss in pay (real terms) would have been growing year on year, so nothing sudden about it.

 

Other reasons they are leaving the profession?

We joke the hours are short and holidays long but it is anything but. I now have an insight as my son in law is a teacher.

He arrives at school a little after 7:30 and often finishes after 17:00.

He then often does work at home in the evenings and weekends.

He was also in school several times over the summer break and other holidays, preparing for his new class and term.

 

Finally, the attriction rate amongst newly qualified teachers like him, is horrendously high.

He has now left his first school. One of the reasons being that there was just him, one teaching assistant and 30 pupils and over a third of those children struggled with English language.

 

No wonder really......

Edited 1 December 2022 by Free Falling Foxes

[foxile5]

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

Teachers striking over completely unreasonable wage demand increases - laughable 

It's a decade of well under inflation real-terms pay cuts that is factored into the wage negotiations. Using the word 'demand' is loaded and designed to paint the profession poorly.

 

Teachers are Masters Level professionals (2 periods of University Bachelors and PGCE with M-level units) that are routinely treated like doormats by students and parents. Not to mention as some kind of political football for opposition and government. I'd love to know what other profession requires such level of expertise and receives such scorn from the public. I'd love to know what other profession requires that AT ENTRY LEVEL and is expected to stand relentless media and public insults.

 

I'm obviously never going to change your mind - people who like to stick the boot in on teaching will never change that mindset - but it's such a shame that our education system is widely derided. Having worked in education systems across the world it's amazing to me how thankless and condescending the British public are towards theirs. 

 

Teachers, eh, what bastardos trying to educate kids and improve the society a little bit. 

 

I've said my piece on this and won't be saying any more.