New Thread 7

Good point.

What's your favourite snack ?

I sprinkle caustic soda on the biscuits at work, goes down a treat, everyone loves 'em.

I'm looking at two nesting magpies hogging all the food and nesting materials in my garden. They've seriously fucked over a pair of goldfinches, my gang of sparrows have scarpered and the robin looks like it's had his pocket money swiped.
I'm not pleased about this.
I've decided to shoot them both dead before they lay eggs.
Does this make me a bad man?
I'm still going to kill them, and feel excited about it, but I just want your thoughts.

Breakfast was dry cure bacon, two eggs, mushrooms, tobasco, toast. Two mugs of tea.

Shoot them in the knees.

Good point.

What's your favourite snack ?

Amaretti biscuits. Preferably more than one.

Don't see why not. If I was going to be shot, I'd probably want to be eaten as well.
I be fucked off if they just shoved me in the bin.

Recipes?

Magpie pie?

What are the benefits of upgrading to thread 7 from previous threads? Do I need to perform a clean install or can I just do an upgrade installation? Do I need to backup my previous thread first? I have a 320Gb thread drive - do I need to re-format? Can I use partitioning, as I would quite like to dual boot for a while until I get used to this thread?

Thanks in advance

Had a bolo do arroz with an espresso this morning, now that's a winning combination.

Toasted bacon sandwich followed by a bowl of Swiss-style muesli... Bloated as fuck now... :0

Magpie pie?

That's pretty incredible.
You reckon it just sort of dived in as they were closing the oven?
Any road, I'm on it.

I'll take pictures of the deceased.
I might take a day or two, but watch this thread.

Toasted bacon sandwich followed by a bowl of Swiss-style muesli... Bloated as fuck now... :0

Bircher FTFW!

My mum and grandma always had that in the fridge.

What are the benefits of upgrading to thread 7 from previous threads? Do I need to perform a clean install or can I just do an upgrade installation? Do I need to backup my previous thread first? I have a 320Gb thread drive - do I need to re-format? Can I use partitioning, as I would quite like to dual boot for a while until I get used to this thread?

Thanks in advance

All you need to do is upgrade from single Spokk to double spokk.

I haven't read any of this.. But I want to contribute nonetheless

I'm skipping breakfast. Thanks a lot tynan. I blame you.

All hail Mother Theresa!

Are magpies edible?

"Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
Legally (in UK) you are within your rights to humanely kill and eat Magpies, but I was speaking to an old bloke who foraged to survive during World War 2 and he says they aren't very nice, not much meat and too stringy and chewy! He recommended taking the babies out of the nest (the evil man!) as they are nice & tender! As it's now half past July you'll be lucky to find any of those......
Why don't you tame a Magpie and train it to catch food for you? small rabbits or squirrels or something? They are supposed to be really intelligent. Just a thought!"

What an answer...

I'm sure I saw Hugh Fearnly Whatshisname do a program on hunting/shooting and cooking up a pie of blackbirds once..

Blackbirds taste lish tho'... Bit like poussin...

^ fact

Brown sugar. What makes you taste so good?

Blackbirds taste lish tho'... Bit like poussin...

Ha! Jesus.

Brown sugar. What makes you taste so good?

Racist

Last night, around the time thread 7 was being conceived I did my last pre-swimathon training session. It ended prematurely after an hour and 15 minutes when a splashy macho prick headbutted me by swimming straight into me by going the wrong way round the fast lane. It still hurts today. Then I went home via Sainsbury's and had mushroom tortellini with toasted pine nuts, spinach and a bit of goat's cheese. I listened to Marc Riley on 6music while I tidied the living room and put all my guitar mess from my extended weekend away. Later when my girlfriend came home from the gym to have her dinner she accidentally popped the lid off the pepper grinder sending hundreds of whole peppercorns all over her food and the floor. I re-plated her food for her and hoovered up the mess in exchange for her doing the washing up. Later I was still hungry so I had some greek yoghurt and muesli. I drank two big cups of tea and later still one of lemon and ginger tea. She went to bed early as she had an early start today. I trawled the innernetz for a bit then started watching Family Guy but wasn't in the mood for it and went to bed not much later at about 11. At 2:20am I was woken with a start by the loud clanging of someone climbing over the inner gate next to my flat and what sounded like a dog yelping. From previous experience (of the late-night gate noise not the weird yelping) I know this means they're probably now in the short passage that that leads to the communal back garden onto which my ground floor bedroom window looks. Last time I saw/heard this happen a load of bikes were stolen from various places around the flats and I got very jumpy for a while afterwards as all there is between the garden and my bedroom is a flimsy sash window with a pretty perfunctory grille and padlock over it. I got up to investigate but couldn't see anyone out there. After a while of intense listening I figured the noise must have been them climbing back over and out... the whole thing made me very edgy and I woke up at the slightest sound for the remainder of the night. I am very tired today as a result. This morning however, eveything seemed to be in order so I'm not going to worry about it too much. There are security lights and cameras up there now so there's not much more to be done short of machine gun nests or armed guards and razor wire. After the missus left early for her meeting I lay in bed late listening to Humph' being a pompous nobber on R4 before leaping up at the last possible moment for a hasty shower. My shower curtain has a map of the world on it with all the countries in English and French. I've noticed that all you have to do to translate about 80% of country names is exchange the suffix "ia" in english for "ie" in French. For the other 20% you've got no hope unless you know it. I'm also getting quite good at spelling the names of coutries in reverse as the shower curtain faces outwards. For breakfast I had three slices of soda bread toast. Two with marmite and one with peanut butter, 2 glasses of orange squash and decided on the flat-cap and silk scarf as it was a bit more chilly this morning. I wore my new Big Star t shirt under my riding jacket. Nice ride in, quick, lucky with traffic and I felt strong. Must sort out wonky handlebars (not quite centered in the stem), try raising the stem half a cm or so to see if it takes a bit of pressure of the hands and get a new chainring. Have enjoyed coming back to fixed after 6 month geared with a nippy, spinny 46/18 set up but need to get back to 48 on the front as my top speed is very limited. Avoided the Angel madness with a nifty shortcut, jumped the lights to turn left at Mount Pleasant, got a green at Clerkenwell Road and onto Blackfriars Bridge and beat the traffic at the change to go right on Stamford street, the security guy saw me coming and opened the gate with a cheery wave. There was a end-of-row bike rack available and the lift went straight to my floor. There was no-one in the changing room and fresh milk in the fridge for my first coffee of the day. So all in all, new thread 7's not been too shabby for me so far.

I'm not reading that.

has it got sex in it?

Watch out for those blackbirds...

The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes;
When down came a blackbird
And pecked off her nose

Dangerous little shits.

brown sugar, just like a young girl should

Four n' twenty pie! Awesome Aussies have been onto that shit for ages, be warned though the old man is right you don need a lot of blackbirds to make a pie, approximately 24 according to the official standards.