Quote: reds @ 13th March 2016, 12:59 AM GMTCan someone try to explain to me what Hobnobs taste like? Are they just a plain sweet biscuit or do have some flavour like ginger? Have found a recipe that makes a base from a packet of hobnobs. You can buy them here but I can't eat them so trying to work out what to use as alternative?
They are glorious! 
They are sweet and oaty, quite firm and thick.
Are you trying to turn us on, Lee.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 13th March 2016, 9:32 AM GMTYes
There are plenty of oat base recipes ont'internet, or is it that you are allergic to oats?
Oats is really odd. In Uk you can get gluten free oats and I believe that the Coeliac society there says they are ok. In Australia the Coeliac society says no to all oats.
I think it is to do with testing the oats. I think that when they test them they show negative for gluten yet many people with coeliac react to them in the same way as when they eat gluten. One theory seems to be that it might be because they are often grown in a field that previously grew barley or wheat. I believe the gf oats you in England have been grown in a field where no other gluten containing grain has been grown.
In that case, wouldn't any type of appropriate biscuit do for a base? Digestive? Rich Tea? Are pretty innocuous aren't they?
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 13th March 2016, 11:59 AM GMTIn that case, wouldn't any type of appropriate biscuit do for a base? Digestive? Rich Tea? Are pretty innocuous aren't they?
Yes thanks. I ended up getting some gluten free Milk Arrowroot biscuits.
Quote: zooo @ 13th March 2016, 10:42 AM GMTAre you trying to turn us on, Lee.
Quote: keewik @ 11th March 2016, 2:53 PM GMTCan anybody shed light on this?
Yesterday I did that rare thing (for me) of going into town on the train. Because I don't normally travel like that, I don't know the prices, so I had to scrabble about for the right money to give the woman. She kept pointing at a coin and saying 'That's a coin. That's a coin.' I'm thinking, 'Of course it is - they're all bloody coins,' until finally I realised she meant it was a foreign coin. Today I examined it - queen's head on one side and a picture of a tower on the other. It's an Isle of Man ten pence piece.
I had a similar experience a couple of years ago in Morrison's when the girl wouldn't accept an Isle of Man pound coin.
So tell me - is it a fact that we don't recognise Isle of Man money? I don't ever remember hearing from people that they had to change their currency to go there on holiday.
It's bad enough that we have to accept Scotch Banknotes.
Wonder if Sootyj has seen the excellent advert for B & Q. ZEBRAS RULE! 
Tell me why, in all the car chases in films etc., they shoot at the bloody cars instead of the tyres?
Quote: keewik @ 19th March 2016, 9:04 PM GMTTell me why, in all the car chases in films etc., they shoot at the bloody cars instead of the tyres?
If cops start shooting, it's because they've decided that the use of deadly force is authorized and they're trying to kill the perp, not disable his vehicle. It's similar to the fact that cops always shoot to kill instead of shooting them in the leg, etc.
Also if they shoot the petrol tank it will blow up all nice and pretty. (In films, probably not in real life.)
Hey Leevil what do you think about the Tory party?
Quote: Lee @ 13th March 2016, 10:41 AM GMTThey are glorious!
They are sweet and oaty, quite firm and thick.
Gadzooks
Quote: DaButt @ 20th March 2016, 9:42 AM GMTIf cops start shooting, it's because they've decided that the use of deadly force is authorized and they're trying to kill the perp, not disable his vehicle. It's similar to the fact that cops always shoot to kill instead of shooting them in the leg, etc.
Well also deflating a tyre or two won't stop a car and one bullet won't even effectively deflate a single tyre..
Those stinger strips put 3 spikes into each of the 4 tyres and even then they take about 50 feet to stop.
Cops shoot for the centremass because it's the easiest place to hit and the most likely to "stop" a target.
Criminey even your gun toting cops aren't as murder happy as your are.
Quote: sootyj @ 20th March 2016, 12:39 PM GMTThose stinger strips put 3 spikes into each of the 4 tyres and even then they take about 50 feet to stop.
I doubt those devices have ever stopped a car at 50 feet; cars can run quite a distance on a flat tire or two. I've watched televised car chases where the vehicle didn't stop until the tire disintegrated and the vehicle caught fire from the sparks thrown by the metal rim.
Here's a police chase that includes shooting at tires and a burning vehicle:
Letterman. 
