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Chris Maunder wrote: One day I'm going to just setup a cafe here in Canadia
You could do some research in New Zealand. The roadside shop selling superb homemade pies and sausage rolls is a matter of cultural pride there.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I can vouch for this. Best in the world!
I'm like the truth, stranger than fiction.
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If you can import 'proper' sausage rolls, can you also export 'proper' poutine?
I think this is one of those... if you know, you know, but hard to properly explain.
Grew up in Northern Ontario... poutine at the livestock auction was a treat to be looked forward to.
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I've lived here long enough to not try and define "proper" poutine. Quebec, Ontario and Nova Scotia all claim they do it better, and more proper. And like grammar, the definition of "good" can get a little hazy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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And therein lies the rub with sausage rolls... which is 'proper'?
But, I still miss poutine...
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If it leaves your mouth tasting flour-ey, if you do rank burps the rest of the day, if you feel slightly quesy after eating one, but if you want to go right out and have another one then it's Proper.
Any recommendations for some good poutine in Tronno? There's some poutineries that have popped up but they seem too slick to be trustworthy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We have them here in SA. Not sure if the British ones are different, but the ones we have here aren't particularly nice.
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If you buy 'em wrapped in plastic, they are grim. Really nasty, with pastry that sticks to the roof of your mouth, and meat with no texture because it's...well, you don't want to think about what's in the meat.
But fresh baked, they are a delight!
I do 'em with good quality sausage meat, a little breadcrumbs (to soak up the fat as it cooks out of the meat), and sage, all wrapped in "proper" puff pastry. Oh yeah! Nomnomnomnom...
Damnit! I'll have to make some tomorrow now...
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If I remember!
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PompeyThree wrote: Sausage Roll
Never heard of them.
Looks good.
Dominos pizza sucks, everyone knows it, but they manage to stay in business, even with all the great mom-and-pop pizzerias around.
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Slacker007 wrote: Dominos pizza sucks
They've really improved their pizzas. I had a coupon recently so I ordered for the first time in many years. Pizza was way better than I ever remember it being.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well, I have to admit, it has been a couple of years since I last ate anything from Dominos.
With that said, I usually like to give my money to the locals first, before I give it to the big companies/corporations...usually. However, there are exceptions. 
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PompeyThree wrote: Seriously to all the Yanks here, do you really not know what a Sausage Roll is?
Nope but more importantly, why does that surprise you? There are a lot of differences between our countries so not sure why you're flipping out over this one. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Just surprised that something so common here, is not known about there. It's a bit like discovering we don't what a Hot Dog or a Burger is for example.
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I'll bet you don't know what congo bars are.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't no. But that doesn't prove the point because you knew I wouldn't know what they were. the difference with Sausage rolls is I thought they were a world-wide thing.
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Are they bars that only serve Um Bongo[^]? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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PompeyThree wrote: do you really not know what a Sausage Roll is?
I have no idea, and I don't want to know. You Brits eat the most disgusting things. 
Marc
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Well, I've just locked my account trying to VPN in to work. The reason: the caps lock key only works about about a third to a half of the time, and I've long found it easier to use than than shift when entering passwords.
Turns out the key does actually work, just the control-freaks at Apple don't want you to use it like the other keys - so they introduced a delay on the firmware. A delay which seems to be hovering around my average keypress length.
It is possible to switch this behaviour off - you need to disable and re-enable the key. For every keyboard you connect. Each time you log in. Or hack the system which, being a work computer, I don't fancy.
On my travels I found the usual Mac community help: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17211984#17211984[^] it's your fault expecting the key actually work like an elephanting key. Change yourself to accommodate the insanity. Could be the Apple user's mantra.
The machine itself has been fast and very stable - just lots of unecessary UI niggles like this, which is odd because Mac users always claim they are much better designed in this regard than other OSs.*
Apple Fans: Bring on the downvotes, I don't care - been working 12 hours straight and have now hit a brick wall instead of getting ahead as I hoped.
*Interestingly, the Windows VM I have been running is also fast and very stable - indicating that it's the hardware which is SNAFU'ing windows
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On the odd occasions that friends and family have asked me to do something on their iPads, the thing that gets up my nose is that the case displayed on the keys on the on-screen keyboard does not change when you press the shift/capslock as it does on Android. This makes typing a pain, especially when entering passwords that contain mixed case.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Does anyone use Planning Poker[^] this in their day job?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Link fail.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Link is incomplete. Should be: Planning Poker [^].
And no, we are simple drones that do what we are tasked to do by the pasty faced overlords.
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