New - The things that really annoy you

[Kenny]

Destroyed a myth and had some toast. Sounds like an exciting one to me...

 

[sycophantia]

I've known plenty of people under the age of 60 moaning about people WFH, I thought that was a decent example of it, although I agree they're mostly lunatics, but so are the non MPs who think it too.

Many think that Pret getting 50% custom will throw us into a recession, rather than considering how much good people spending thousands on turning spare rooms into offices and buying the relevant office equipment will have done for the economy, let alone how much better it is for family life too.

Ok, apologies, I misunderstood your point.

 

[Keef]

Apparently (I didn't know this nor have I checked it's veracity) the numbers on the dial are exactly minutes. I always thought it was some hitherto unexplained scale of toastedness.

That’s wrong, Tom Scott did a you tube video on it using various priced toasters, it’s bi metallic strips that decide how toasty the bread gets

 

[machin05]

Wait, do people actually rely on the toaster popping up automatically??? I always pop manually and retoast as necessary.

 

[The Bear]

You've actually timed it, haven't you?!

I have a digital clock that shows seconds in the kitchen window, so notice it.

I also use this to time to perfection my boiled eggs being ready and having my toast buttered and sliced ready in perfect synchronicity

 

[Del Woppio]

Wait, do people actually rely on the toaster popping up automatically??? I always pop manually and retoast as necessary.

I tend to do this, but then there's the obvious danger of "OK that's nearly there, I reckon 20 seconds and it's perfect", and then the next thing you know it's 83 seconds later and it's absolute carnage. Obviously it's less of a problem if you're just making toast, but if it's going on the side of a full English or a curry then it's asking for trouble

That curry comment is clearly just there to wind Langers up

 

[Langers]

I have a digital clock that shows seconds in the kitchen window, so notice it.

I also use this to time to perfection my boiled eggs being ready and having my toast buttered and sliced ready in perfect synchronicity

Impossible to read this in any other voice except Alan Partridge's

 

[sycophantia]

Controversially I don't mind my toast a little bit under done but actually prefer it a bit burnt.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

The kids keep turning the dial on the toaster down. So I keep getting warm, floppy bread rather than toast. I don't know why they keep doing this, but I'm going to turn the wifi off whilst I'm cooking dinner this evening and try and guess in which order they'll come downstairs to complain.

We sometimes have the opposite problem in my house. My wife & kids like to eat warm, floppy bread (I know, don't get me started!) and for reasons currently unknown, the dial keeps getting moved up and cooks them actual toast which they then refuse to eat. We think the culprit is the cat and his rather large backside which must be knocking the dial

 

[The Bear]

I used to like bread heated up in the microwave for 10s then buttered, as a late night snack. Hot buttered bread.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Wait, do people actually rely on the toaster popping up automatically??? I always pop manually and retoast as necessary.

Due to my family having the dials set low (as mentioned above) I have to do this to get actual toast. It's risky though, if you briefly forget about it then the toast is ruined!

By the way, in response to the new rules post, I would just like to say that this is the kind of content I am here for

 

[Del Woppio]

I used to like bread heated up in the microwave for 10s then buttered, as a late night snack. Hot buttered bread.

You know the world war's over now yeah?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I used to like bread heated up in the microwave for 10s then buttered, as a late night snack. Hot buttered bread.

"Used to"

What changed?

 

[The Bear]

"Used to"

What changed?

Dunno. Just haven't done it in ages.

 

[Tony Towner]

Apparently (I didn't know this nor have I checked it's veracity) the numbers on the dial are exactly minutes. I always thought it was some hitherto unexplained scale of toastedness.

It's a nice idea, but not true. Neither are they uniform from manufacturer to manufacturer

 

[PuntsWolf]

On the toast front, I only learnt a few months back that you can lift the toast up whilst it’s still toasting to check the “doneness” and then let it go back in and continue without resetting the timer. Therefore if you do forget to go back it’s unlikely to be totally destroyed.

Always popped it and then just put it back on again…

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

If I am in France I like to get down to the bakers really early and come back and slice half a baguette when the bread is still warm from the bakers oven for a few slices with butter and good jam. I think that only really sings with proper French Boulanger stuff, which is for me the best bread on god’s clean earth.

 

[Tredman]

Do we need a ‘Stop getting toast wrong’ thread too…/?

 

[ROVERT47]

Extra mature cheddar on toast, Welsh Rairbit if you’re posh, ambrosia!
As Steve Gerrard once said when which was his favourite cheese, ‘we’ll I like melted cheese’.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Shocking state of affairs! Football Association of Ireland , you know that leading collection of star footballers, leaders and fucking hangers on, peering into the gloom of the future have just refused to follow the government's edict that all such bodies must have a minimum of 40% females on the board, I'll paste the first part of a column published this morning...

At an FAI EGM last night, delegates voted against a proposal that would achieve a minimum of 40% female representation on the Association’s board, as is being insisted by the government.

The proposal needed a 75% majority to pass, but fell short, getting only 66.67%, which broke down as 76 votes in favour and 38 against.

As one delegate subsequently told The 42, “the FAI has voted to halve its own funding.”

Any sports body failing to comply with the government’s gender balance by the end of the year will have its funding cut by 50%, which in the FAI’s case amounts to €5.3 million. This would be crippling for an organisation mired in €44 million of debt and without a main sponsor.

Aren't Ireland in a great place going forward?
Fuck's sake!
This is on a par with that carry on in Australia and its indigenous people.
Just embarrassing.