Quote: zooo @ May 18 2012, 12:37 PM BSTYou tease!
To paraphrase Noel Fielding, you are a right juicy dangler.
Will tell you later whether I got dressed or not.
Have to let the nation's bookies sort out the odds first
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Quote: Lazzard @ May 18 2012, 10:26 AM BSTStatus:
£900 poorer having had to replace the barrel on our ancient AGA.
Not sure what an AGA is, but at that price I'd hope it was a central air conditioning unit or your car's transmission.
A massive wooden burning cooker
that's so impractical only really wealthy types have them.
afternoon chaps
Quote: sootyj @ May 18 2012, 2:14 PM BSTthat's so impractical only really wealthy types have them.
Yeppity Doodle. They do have a great marketing campaign behind them though, because why else would you spend so much money on a cooker the size of a Volkswagen that doesn't work as well as a normal cooker?
One of the things that puts the Great in Great Britain - we can even have snobbery and social pretensions surrounding our stoves.
Quote: sootyj @ May 18 2012, 2:14 PM BSTA massive wooden burning cooker
that's so impractical only really wealthy types have them.
Not only poshos! We had one when I was little. But I think we had a normal oven as well, 'cos they are totes unreliable.
People actually have wood burning stoves in the UK? Bizarre.
I assume the environmentalists aren't pleased.
I think they quite like them.
Quote: DaButt @ May 18 2012, 2:28 PM BSTI assume the environmentalists aren't pleased.
They love them! Much in the same way that they can't connect living in the suburbs with destroying the environment, they actually think mass deforestation is a form of self reliance and a reduction of their carbon footprint or whatever.
Ours used coal.
Wood burners smell yummy.
I would've thought wood burning cookers would have been quite popular out in the remote places of America.
Quote: Lee @ May 18 2012, 2:37 PM BSTI would've thought wood burning cookers would have been quite popular out in the remote places of America.
I can't imagine them being used anywhere except cabins in locations without electricity. And that's just about nowhere.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ May 18 2012, 2:34 PM BSTThey love them! Much in the same way that they can't connect living in the suburbs with destroying the environment, they actually think mass deforestation is a form of self reliance and a reduction of their carbon footprint or whatever.
They? All people interested in protecting the environment? All of them?
Quote: DaButt @ May 18 2012, 2:28 PM BSTPeople actually have wood burning stoves in the UK? Bizarre.
Hardly anyone, I would think. Not sure what's bizarre about it.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 18 2012, 2:49 PM BSTNot sure what's bizarre about it.
It's bizarre when you have access to gas and electricity yet burn wood like a Neanderthal when you want to cook dinner. The occasional outdoor BBQ? Fine.
And the fact that a repair costs almost $1500 is extra-bizarre, considering that you could buy a top-of-the-line electric oven for that price.