Forums are slowly dying

[allan]

I went through a transition in position recently moving toward a better position sometimes takes sacrifice. So I am around as much as I can be. I totally agree that the political stuff in RREE showing up on new post covers 70% of the page that can be solved by banning a couple of member from creating RREE threads. This site must stay primarily industry related to be relevant. New users are probably put off by all the crap on the new topics page.

Thanks for all of the years of support and comradery! Here for some time to come.

[ThisPete]

Good luck femaster, and do please let us know how it goes.. 👍 Although you'll obviously have to call it 'A Cornish style pasty'.... 😉


Maybe tsbservice, you could/should rename this thread to: 'Forums are slowly dying - apart from pasty talk '.... 😁

[tsbservice]

Cracking link tsbservice with a nice bit of accurate history and the bit about what it takes to be a proper 'Cornish' pasty.. 👍

The first and third recipes (the middle one may work, but he's an idiot) found here should work well also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/search?q=cornish+pasty not sure how the link will work worldwide but it's a link to the 'food' part of the BBC's U.K. website, in the U.K. I can't access bbc.com without an automatic redirect...

ThisPete Man I was hoping my humble foreigner research doesn't insult natives.

I'm very happy with guys like you and kingarthur and Larhal you guys proved me thinking any pint of beer I wish to buy for you is well worth and vice versa 😀

Cheers

[slimslob]

ThisPete Man I was hoping my humble foreigner research doesn't insult natives.

I'm very happy with guys like you and kingarthur and Larhal you guys proved me thinking any pint of beer I wish to buy for you is well worth and vice versa 😀

Cheers

By the do you know the origins of the phrase mind your Ps & Qs?

[tsbservice]

By the do you know the origins of the phrase mind your Ps & Qs?

To be honest no, it's first time I hear it.
I can do quick research googling it but rather would like to learn it from you.

[ThisPete]

ThisPete Man I was hoping my humble foreigner research doesn't insult natives.

I'm very happy with guys like you and kingarthur and Larhal you guys proved me thinking any pint of beer I wish to buy for you is well worth and vice versa 😀

Cheers

You're welcome Sir, it was a very good link!!.. 😎

Just for some more 'local' Cornish (slightly tongue in cheek) knowledge for you: The (proper) Cornish are fiercely defensive of their land and consider it as 'separate' to the rest of the U.K.

Many centuries ago the ambassador (or some such) of Spain made a visit to this island and allegedly reported back to the King that Cornwall was generally considered by those in the East a different land.

Some 'interesting' reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cornwall#

In Cornwall we have a population of about 500,000.. it triples during the school holidays in the summer!!! No, really triples and we really don't have the infrastructure for it.. 😮

We have the largest road network by county size in the country, and the largest by far when you consider it on a per head of residents.

But we have no 'motorway'(Three lane each way road)only some sections of two lanes each way.

We are the only U.K. county with only one border county.

We have the most southerly and also western land on this island. 😎

Western tip (Lands end) sunset looking across to 'merica:
Sunset.jpg

We also have the legend of King Arthur.

Finally, we make cream tea scones the proper way, jam first!! 😉
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Hopefully kingarthur will come along with some more interesting bits of information for you.. even though he's now emigrated.... 😂


As for the beer, Cornwall & West Scotland are the best places in the U.K. for stunning scenery (Scotland doesn't have decent pasties though.. 😉), but if you're ever down this way.. they're on me!!!... 👍

[tsbservice]

ThisPete Brilliant post!
Being in forums for sooo long I have developed a hawk eye so when I see someone posted repeatedly in proper language grammatical and punctuational wise and facts and so on... I made a lot of REAL friends this way and looking back never regretted!

[slimslob]

To be honest no, it's first time I hear it.
I can do quick research googling it but rather would like to learn it from you.

Actually there are a few different opinions. One common belief has to do with the tally boards used by British pubs to keep track of Pints and Quarts sold. I'd seen that on Jeopardy the other day.
Another refers to early days of type setting.
Other refer to 18th century clothing. Pea referring to pea coats while and queue referred to one wig.
Here is where I found the clothing references. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/...ps-and-qs.html

[ThisPete]

A little Cornish humour for you tsbservice:
cornwall.jpg
😄

[Slammers]

As for the beer, Cornwall & West Scotland are the best places in the U.K. for stunning scenery (Scotland doesn't have decent pasties though.. 😉), but if you're ever down this way.. they're on me!!!... 👍

You take that back about our pastry baked goods! Our pies are legendary!

I can vouch for your pasties being the best though, I am one of those people that invade during the summer! Such a beautiful part of the UK and the people are so nice. Love a cream tea as well.

The roads are another level though. Straight off the A30 onto a single track road with hedgerows 10M tall on either side, blind corners then you meet a 40ft Articulated Lorry trying to reverse into the smallest farm entrance ever.

Good times!

[Larhal]

I hope that everyone can see how this thread turned into a great sharing of our cultures. I will dig up some of my favourite pictures of Ireland, the Emerald Isle.. In the mean time this has been an uplifting thread, Thank you all.

[kingarthur]

When Is dinner, Ill bring the Guinness

someone else who prefers the darkside

[kingarthur]

Cornwall is actually a Duchy, which is what differs us from the rest of the UK, I'm not going to say England, as far as I and just about every true Cornishman is concerned, Cornwall is NOT part of England, and never has been biggrin.png. We refer to holidaymakers as "Emmetts" derived from the way Cornish people pronounced the old english word "aemete", from which the modern english word, "ant" derives from, because in the summer, the holiday makers swarm into Cornwall like ants

[ThisPete]

You take that back about our pastry baked goods! Our pies are legendary!

I can vouch for your pasties being the best though, I am one of those people that invade during the summer! Such a beautiful part of the UK and the people are so nice. Love a cream tea as well.

The roads are another level though. Straight off the A30 onto a single track road with hedgerows 10M tall on either side, blind corners then you meet a 40ft Articulated Lorry trying to reverse into the smallest farm entrance ever.

Good times!

There's no doubting the pastries up there Slammers, they're good, as it's a lot of the haggis!

The scenery on the A82 up past Loch Lomond to Glencoe is absolutely stunning, we have good scenery down here but nothing like that.

We've had 5 or 6 holidays in Scotland and I always make a point of not using the big major roads where possible so you can see the beauty of inner Scotland, doing that enabled us to stumble upon many interesting places and things like the stone/memorial/plaque that marks the centre of Scotland.

[allan]

There's no doubting the pastries up there Slammers, they're good, as it's a lot of the haggis!

The scenery on the A82 up past Loch Lomond to Glencoe is absolutely stunning, we have good scenery down here but nothing like that.

We've had 5 or 6 holidays in Scotland and I always make a point of not using the big major roads where possible so you can see the beauty of inner Scotland, doing that enabled us to stumble upon many interesting places and things like the stone/memorial/plaque that marks the centre of Scotland.

Haggis.... I eat liver and kidney but that is as I have gone. Need to go where its made right who knows. I am not much of a drinker but if you put a Kilkenny in front of me i will not argue.