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Angel Delight used to advertise in the local telephone box. I'm not sure what was on offer, but it just goes to show that no phrase is definitively black of white, there's also a colourful explanation out there. Probably.
@Sam not the Viking - well it is a whip, so who knows...
The very thought of it makes me want to barf.
I used to love this as a child (several decades ago), so when I noticed it on the otherwise completely empty supermarket shelf*, I thought I would reminisce with a taste from my childhood. Either they have changed the recipe or my taste memories have altered from Covid. I cannot imagine why I liked it in the past.
*Yet another reason to thank the masters of Brexit.
I had it quite recently. I was at Sunday Lunch and most people were having some sort of fruit pudding that I didn't like, so I had some Angel Delight along with the kids. Thought it tasted alright to be honest, didn't awaken any Proustian memories deep in my psyche though. Perhaps I should have made Madeleines instead.
Now that Cadbury is owned by a global firm, they've recently started stocking a few bars in a local Leclerc. Picnic is okay, but Double Decker (that I remember liking) was beyond awful. That failed marshmallow muck on top was revolting. I don't think your memories are wrong. I'd imagine it's all synthetic sugar and vegetable oil and whatnot these days.
Not here in my little bit of England either :-)
On occasions, the shelves are not as full as usual, but it's hard to tell if that's lack of goods coming in or people "panic buying" to some extent. There may well be missing products, but not of the stuff I'm interested in so maybe I just haven't noticed. On the other hand, for multiple different reasons, prices are rising noticeably.
We came back to UK from Le Hexagone at end of Oct '21 to see family and friends for first time in 11 months...
Bl***y h**l
In one of (the?) most affluent parts of Gtr Manchester, local Sainsburys has..
1. NO cheese from EU
2. NO charcuterie from o/s UK
3. tinned fish (i.e. mackerel, sardines) is now a 1x1m shelf vs 3mx2.5m section in our SuperU (only 250miles from sea)
4. no beer from EU
5. no fresh fish or cheese counter...
It was like being in the 1970s (YES, I do remember: doing my O-level revision by camping gas light due to strikes)
Is this REALLY what Brexit had brought us??
(BTW 2 yrs evading Covid-19 in France and got it after visiting local pub : no mask wearing inside and rammed to the gills. I only went in to order drinks to take outside)
I've always wondered... what was the difference between Angel Delight and Instant Whip anyway? My Mum only bought Angel Delight when I was a kid because Instant Whip apparently wasn't as good so it was always this mysterious thing, even if it was supposedly rubbish.
They were both apparently made by Birds, so it wasn't like it was a rival version. From what she said, Instant Whip was made with water rather than milk, but information online seems to contradict this and suggests that Instant Whip was first.
Weird. You think there'd be a better explanation out there, but apparently not.
Instant Whip was miles better, and unlike Angel Delight, contained real ingredients instead of mostly E numbers. Angel Delight does set much quicker though, which is an advantage if you are in a hurry.
My dad used to make a simple but yummy dessert when I was a kid. A single Ginger Nut biscuit, moistened with just enough rum to make it soft, is placed in an individual dish, with butterscotch Instant Whip (or Angel Delight if you really must) on top. Awesome.
I don’t remember being particularly fond of it when I lived in the UK, but we found the butterscotch flavour in the "ethnic aisle" of our local Oz supermarket. I made a dessert for our friends from a gingersnap basket filled with Angel Delight and topped with fresh raspberries. We all liked it, and I had to make more. Mrs Tim99 and I now eat the butterscotch variety perhaps once a month - I will admit that the pink one is unpleasant, and the chocolate one is worse.
They seem to have at least 16 shades of black to white so not really just 2 colours. Shame the patterns they display seem to make a not particularly attractive car even uglier.
I think the only people who will want to pay for what will probably be several £/$ K extra will be people in advertising and criminals (sometimes difficult to tell the difference). Still if you had a car like this it may be handy for getting off speeding tickets. Sorry that photo shows a black car but mine is off white. Which brings up another problem, that in the UK you have to specify the main colour of your car to register it and the police take a dim view of drivers whose car car doesn't match the registered description.
Yep, my previous car was Argent Ancienne but was on the DVLA docs, it was registered as "met grey" (presumably for metallic grey).
My current one is Blanc Banquise, and I had trouble finding a scratch repair kit when I imported it only to find in UK it is called Bianca White, so in this case the DVLA has a point that it is still just "white" since it is the only white available as standard for that model and year.
I know you know this, but the point of the colour description on the DVLA doc is to help law enforcement. A copper pursuing your fleeing vehicle (whether it’s you or a TWOCer driving it) is hardly going to radio in to HQ, “this is car 54, I am in pursuit of a puce car, it’s like fuschia but a shade less lavender and a bit more pink…”
At one of my previous workplaces, I sometimes used to move my old Volvo 440 (which had power steering) from my allocated space near the top of the fairly-steep car park down to the (un)loading bay at the bottom without starting it. Both steering and brakes required significant effort when there was no hydraulic assistance but fortunately my previous car had been a 1986 Vauxhall Astra which was rather tank-like in construction and I still had the muscles from it.
I've never tried doing this in my S60... I suspect it would be nearly impossible, partly because of the extra weight and partly because I've gone soft in the intervening years!
(To get back on topic, the 440 was in "Silver Gold Metallic" IIRC. I think it was registered as "silver" and that's what it looked like - until you parked it next to an actual silver car. The S60 is something like "black sapphire", registered as "black" and, again, it just looks black except when it's beside a black car.)
Upvoted purely for mention of the 440. I had two - one was a G-reg one in black metallic - it was a complete heap - and I replaced it with a K-reg one in an extremely '90s shade of metallic teal. Loved those cars. Eventually replaced the 440 with a succession of S/V40s and so on.
Living as I do in the US now, I have occasionally toyed with the idea of importing a 440 - just to see the expression of complete puzzlement on their faces at the local Volvo dealer. The 3x0/4x0 series were never (officially) imported to here.
No doubt the Volvo was the heavier car, but (back then, don't know if they still do this) Ford's only diesel engine was fitted to every vehicle they made. Which meant the same lump was in small hatchbacks like the Escort as well as the Transit. I never realised what a lump the engine was until I saw under the bonnet of the same model with a petrol engine and how little of the space it used in comparison.
The Green* in Boston, Lincs was tarmaced over in 1962 and turned into a car park / Wednesday market space. So that would make the colour Boston Green quite similar to your van's grauweiss.
* It's the westernmost part of Wide Bargate, if any tourist passing through wants to sightsee. It's still referred to as the Green, just as Bargate is still used although the medieval town gate is long gone.
Boring as they may be, white or black cars have the advantage that paint from the home center will usually be a perfect match. ...and at considerably less cost than official automobile paint. Only problem is what to do with the rest of the container. Perhaps touch up the mailbox or wrought iron fencing?
Does no car owner ever get the urge to have their car repainted to make it feel like they're not driving "the same old piece o' shite"? Is the repainting then required to be registered with the authorities?
"No no no. Last week my car was ''neon lime green''. This week it's ''Livid Lava Bubblegum Pink''. Keep up with me here!"
*Cough*
Yes the repainting should be reported to DVLA. My uncle called the police when a carpet he'd cut for a group of flats owned by a housing association got stolen from the hallway during lunch. All the flats were identical, so it would've fitted pretty well and been well within DIY skills to fit (some of the flats on that level had been sold under the right to own legislation and maybe the owners of said flats were sore that theirs weren't being done?). Anyway, the police couldn't do anything about that because of 'lack of evidence' but they were very interested why the white transit van he was driving was listed on their system as 'yellow'. He used to buy 'beater' vans for cheap then run them till they failed MOTs... he'd never checked the documents to see what colour it was listed as.
It's a good thing we don't have to list the color on the registration in our state in the US.
When I was a kid, my mother won a traffic court case based on the color of her car. She had a ticket written for having frosted over windows on the car (which wasn't at all true). She decided to fight the ticket in traffic court. When the lying creep of a cop was on the witness stand, it went something like this:
Mom: "Did you in fact clearly see my car?"
Cop: "Oh, yes, very clearly"
Mom: "And, you could see that for sure my windows were frosted over?"
Cop: "Yes, definitely"
Mom: "Since you remember things very clearly, without looking at the ticket, what color is my car?"
Cop: "Umm, well...ummmm...blue"
Mom: "Your honor, I would welcome you to look out of the courtroom window at my WHITE car in the parking lot"
Judge: "(after a dirty look at the lying cop) Dismissed!"
I was about 7 at the time. That was when I learned never to trust the police. More than four decades later, my opinion of cops has only diminished!
One of the many reasons Mrs C doesn't like me 'helping' with grocery shopping was due to the time we saw a couple with two very young babies in a carry cot on their trolley. My comment of "ooh look, buy one get one free on babies" got one up vote - from the new dad - and two down votes. The babies didn't vote either way.
his local supermarket was giving away a child for every child you purchase
ROTFLMAO!
Those colours are black and, uh, [checks press release] white.
Technically, I'm not sure black is a colour.
lots include an original ZX-81
I've still got my ZX-81 somewhere (with the 16KB extension!), next to my ATARI 2600. I knew it would turn to gold some day ^^
"Retro" isn't always fashionable. Since January, 1, I'm not allowed to ride my 30 years old bike in many towns anymore. Politicians tell me I would pollute less being stranded in traffic jams with my newer car. Bollocks.
For the game, I would say the bassist (Jean-Jacques Burnel) is faking playing guitar.
I don't think I've ever seen a BMW that wasn't either black or white
Black, white, many shades of grey and silver, plus, for some reason, a peculiar bricky orange.
Last time I was in a BMW dealers I commented on a car finished in a wild pattern of white-on-black sqiggles. The salesman told me it was to disguise a new model.
Those dark blue Beemers were a lovely shade; a very smart look. My boss in the late 80s had one in that colour and would lend it to me whenever he went away on vacation. I always take the piss out of BMW drivers but I always found them great to drive. Other bosses had various models of Mercedes which looked good and had well appointed interiors but were never as comfortable as the BMWs I tried.
Yes, also why the very low res 320x200 VGA could look so good at the time because the "massive" colour range meant no dithering required so could appear to higher resolution than it really was. Of course, that only really applied to people who'd not experienced the earlier home computers which were so more more advanced graphically speaking, than the PC of even many years later :-) For many people, a PC at wotk with 4 or 16 colours at best was there only confrontation with a computer back then, making VGA a revelation!
There were often times when something made it into the charts that the usual TOTP audience didn't like and it showed in the reactions. You'll notice there's very few shots of the audience. There was also a period where for "reasons", the audience were like that through the whole show.
Well done, Santa from Exeter.
Mme D and I went to see The Stranglers live in my city just before Christmas - and just before live gigs were banned again. It was gratifying to learn that JJB's English accent when speaking French is now as bad as mine.
He was also stumped when he wanted to make a funny comment to the crowd about the feeble mosh-pit of middle-aged men that had formed late-on during the concert: he couldn't think of what the French expression for "mosh-pit" might be. Neither could we. Any idea what it is? Une fosse de ... quelque chose.
"It was gratifying to learn that JJB's English accent when speaking French is now as bad as mine."
He's obviously been away too long - though maybe that is what it means to be Euroman. However he's possibly not in the best place any more.
But on the bright side you have still have room for improvement but it just means that if you stay long enough you will eventually get to speak English like Inspector Clouseau
My wife hates being instantly recognised as French, though everybody else finds it charming. C'est la vie !
Some 40 years ago I worked for the USAF and we had my van painted purple and pink. The AG team came around and they had a fit, firstly, I had a forklift that no one in the UK could wire the charger up (I was not only an electrician by trade, into electronics and also REME) I had, it worked and it was just a case of reading all the info, anyway, they turned around and saw my purple and pink 3 ton Boyertown Chevy 6 cylinder truck. They asked me what that was, so gave them the nomclemature, then the colonel said "no the colour? " to which I said grey it says so in the American dictionary, it states all colours between black and white! He laughed and said well you have the right answer, and I will send some senior officers to see you in respect of all the US electric forklifts that they cannot seem to hook up.
in retro gaming
After my most played games of the past year have been Team fortress 2 (came out in 2007) and missile command (came out in 1981)
Admittedly missile command is on my phone and provides a very welcome distraction at work for whatever is going on the meeting I'm supposed to be paying attention to(something about cost reductions and expenditure... also makes a change from playing bullshit bingo with the chief inspector)
But its hard work when the boss turns round and asks "Anything to add Mr Cockroach?" and I say "fuck...my last city just got nuked"
"Admittedly missile command is on my phone"
I've never seen or played a version Missile Command that's anywhere close to playing the original with a trackball in the arcade. And I've played versions on almost everything since the TRS-80! Keyboards, joysticks and touchscreens simplyh don't cut it. A mouse is a barely acceptable user interface for the game.
Those BMW's would temporarily have more color if the drivers used the turn signals, unless those are meant to fashionably blend in. Might as well.
Another great year in the offing, excellent and competent world leadership all in harmony, brilliant new variants likely to pop up from just about anywhere (given the coherent prevention guidelines being carefully followed) and they'll be easily transported and shared with the rest of the world via our extensive travel network. First class!
It's almost like the powers-that-be read last year's article, nodded sagely, and left the autopilot in charge for another trip around the sun.
Is Sealand accepting citizenship applications?
Yep! Until recently, we lived in a fairly rural part of Scotland. Many well-used roads were (just) two modern cars wide on average. My terror was always seeing a Range Rover/Discovery/soft roader coming towards me - always 18" to 2' from the unkerbed edge of the road, and no deviation to the left in case the tyres got dirty.
Until you load up the emulator and remember that every game needed pixel-perfect jumps, rapid fire by hammering the fire button, or some route through the entire game that you could only find out by trial and error and you had to remember all of it from start to finish, making Call of FIFA look like a walk in the park.
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