What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Post by macdoc » Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:52 pm

yum ...we bought a breadmaker for sourdough but returned it unopened as looked like too much work for too little gain.
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Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:24 am

I've made a lot more bread without a machine. I was just hoping to generate some ideas for hoagie/sausage rolls.

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:10 am

My eldest son, David, makes all their own bread - mostly sourdough, but others as well. It's bloody tasty!
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Post by macdoc » Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:37 am

This is just wonderful prose

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Tero » Fri Feb 11, 2022 7:30 pm

This, as a book.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment_No._6

The Russian man keeps talking about wanting to fuck about every two days of the journey. One would maybe travel a week or two, then getting on with life. It seems an impossible task for him.

Ever run into a man obsessed with sex, boasting of it daily? I've seen such people in films but never ran into any who are occupied with sex all day.

I would think a normal person could do without sex or a substitute for a month. Maybe 2 months if the task was such that you were isolated etc.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:38 pm

What's the significance of him being Russian?

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Tero » Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:58 pm

Sean Hayden wrote:
Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:38 pm
What's the significance of him being Russian?
It's his country, she is the visitor. He is the stereotype Russian man, as we see in lierature, long before communism. Vodka, onions, the whole bit. The girl in the book only had to deal with a sophisticated university crowd before this.

The movie changes the train route to North. It goes East in the book.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Fri Feb 18, 2022 6:37 pm

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Just fucking brilliant
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:51 pm

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Post by Sean Hayden » Tue Mar 08, 2022 10:41 pm

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Rereading the case for invasion.

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Mar 09, 2022 8:02 am

Does it still hold up?
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Sean Hayden » Wed Mar 09, 2022 2:44 pm

--I guess that depends on how you like your 'regional stability'

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Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:38 pm

I like my regions like I like my women. Stable, but with the potential to be quite disorderly. :tea:
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Tero » Thu Mar 10, 2022 5:04 pm

Ended up reading some science books. A couple have to do with toxic waste sites.

I'm unable to get anything very specific about farming these days. But from what I have gathered the farmer no longer owns the crop or animal. They are just borrowing the seed or piglet and raising it. The entire process is controlled by the Farm Bill. It tells how to raise your stuff. You have to use all the chemicals. You even have to use the amounts the seed producer tells. Otherwise you do not get crop insurance.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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