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I don't really buy normal off the shelf bread as I don't eat a lot of it so I buy bread from the bakers at the bottom of my road but that is something like £2.20 for a large loaf which is amazingly expensive for what probably costs about 15p in ingredients.
If a bread maker can't turn out really nice bread then it would be no use to me so I do need to get into making it myself occasionally. It is one of those jobs like washing up that I find it hard to motivate myself to do but when I actually get around to it I actually find it really relaxing.
I do motivate myself to do washing up more often than I motivate myself to make bread fortunately as otherwise my kitchen would be a real mess.
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See that's the kind of thing I quite enjoy. Though our kitchen is a bit small to get too involved in mass baking. But stuff like bread, cakes, etc etc. The things you basically mix up on the side then wang in the over for a few hours. I love all that stuff.
The bread from the machine is far from inedible. I just found it all a bit stodgy and often the ingredients weren't mixed as well as you'd have liked. Plus for reasons I can't quite explain, I find a perfect cube of bread deeply unsettling.
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my first internet experiences were me and some friends posing as women, entraping and laughing at men looking for online action. But you know, I was 16. Also I went to a grammar school, all boys, which probably stoked the gender bending fires.
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I am going to make bread this weekend Ringo, you have inspired me. Did I show you all my rosemary and sea salt foccacia that I made ages ago? I think I did but I can't remember.
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I was gratified to see thorn's thread slip out of favour. I think that the good people of TMO know who they can trust to deliver a quality lunch-chat experience.
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Thorn didn't really make any effort to nurture his thread. It could have been successful but he really needed to work a bit harder at it. He mistakenly assumed you could just put it out there and expect people to immediately want to get on board.
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I liked the idea of it. It seemed a bit more care-free and relaxed than Benway's lunch thread. You didn't feel you were going to get shouted at for discussing an amusing pidgeon you saw on the way to work rather than what you had eaten whilst on the Benway lunch thread you felt like if you discussed any other meals you were going to get disciplined. I thought the lack of rules would allow it to thrive but it appears that no matter how much we all claim to want freedom we do need guidelines to provide quality threads.
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Here at the cutting edge of science we have a problem with the main door to the building. The card scanner is broken, so one can gain access by approaching the door and waiting for a security guard to notice you from behind the desk. They will then extend a pole with an envelope taped to the end into the motion detection zone which automatically opens the door as you exit the building.
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I think you're making Abby a bit uncomfortable Benway. And you're ruining Tilde's lovely thread. You need to have a bit of a think about the way you seem to think that your threads have to stay on topic but you are free to romp off topic over Tilde's thread. Tilde and I were discussing it on Xbox live last night and we agreed that something needs to be done.
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that's weird, because last night I actually was talking to Tilde on xbox live, mostly about how you've clogged up tmo with your square plates and recycled material stolen from other messageboards.
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quote:Originally posted by Abby: They will then extend a pole with an envelope taped to the end into the motion detection zone which automatically opens the door as you exit the building.
Nobody say the NHS isn't dedicated to cutting unecessary costs.
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Has anyone tried those powerline network adapters at all? I've not been on xbox live for ages because I've put the xbox in the bedroom and there's no network access there.
Of course, I'd just turn on wireless, but Microsoft think it's acceptable to release a top end console without a fucking wireless card built in. The bunch of thieving jews.
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I'm sure I've mentioned them more than once here on tmo. Wake up ringo. I have these. I replaced them with Cat5 about six months ago when I added a nas to the home network, but they never performed badly. Got around half of the max bandwidth, which was fine.
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Pretty expensive though. Over a hundred quid for two. I may as well just hand my money over to microsoft and buy the wifi adapter
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Do you still have those network adapters benway? if you're not using them maybe you could sell them to me for an amount of money.
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