Johnny Bognor

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How does everyone do their yorkshires? For me, it is the 8-4-2 rule. 8 fl oz of water, 4 floz of flour and 2 eggs. Also is good for a toad-in-the-hole for a quick tasty dinner.

I am not often in agreement with you, but you are bang on the money with this. Oh yes, I forgot them, fry off some chippolattas till brown. Wrap in steaky bacon and then baste (two tablespoons of French mustard and two tablespoons of honey mixed together), then place in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Yummy for my tummy.

I got 40 (which I will be next year) Did it again and got 32.

...or some port gravy with beef (like red wine gravy but with more bang for your buck). Can't beat alcohol in your sauces or gravy......

Chris de Burgh (as in lady in red)

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LOL, yes she would, post edited.

Roast potatoes, roast parsnips, brussel sprouts (acomppanied with crispy bacon), carrot & swede mash, yorkshire puddings all essentials IMO. As for meat, Roast Beef is the best (Med Rare), but we recently did roast pork and Mrs JB did a cider gravy....awesome.

I thought about flying a plane over SMS with a banner sayiing "thank you Marcus" on the last home game of the season. We did it for Lowe, so it could be done for Marcus. £750 should cover it.... 150 people donating a fiver each......what a great way of showing our appreciation.

Scooby

awake (also appropriate for this time of the morning)

There's nothing like a Ferrari V8 For £35k, you can get Italian power like this......

Scratch

cricket

Women who try to enter the ground, but have clearly had too much to drink and then need babysitting until their other halves finish watching the game.

I agree, these holidays and cars are not from the results of increased wealth, but are the result of unprecendented and unsustainable consumer borrowing to the tune of 1.4 trillion. Fraudon allowed us to borrow beyond the max in chasing the consumer dream so that we can have driveways full of new cars and three exotic holidays per year.....just don't mention the £20k stuffed on the credit card, the £20k in car finance and please do not mention the personal loans or remortgaged properties. Just like Fraudon, 'we' have borrowed to buy these indicators of wealth, but alas borrowing the symbols of wealth is not wealth. Fraudon was happy to let this happen whilst Chancellor as 'we' got that feel good factor which helped return them to power just before it all went tits up.

Sorry if I came across as condescending, itis just that some on here (not you specifically) love the hype and rhetorik without looking at the simple facts. Comparing exchange rates from 1972 is irrelevant as we are all going on about how the price has jumped so quickly in a short space of time. The current price of oil at $81.75 is actually below the average 2009 price, which means that Oil is costing less than it did last year. So how would you explain a pump price of £1.20 (not seen since 2008. ) whilst the current oil price is at least 30% less than it was in 2008? If you look at the £ vs $ in 2008 (when the pump price was similar to now) you can see why it will be £1.20 per litre shortly (even though the barrel price is significantly lower than 2008 ). The biggest movements for us are exchange rates (due to the lack of confidence in the £ which has something to do with current and previous prudent chancellors) and the fact that fuel duty is now 5p higher than is was in 2008. Therefore, the bulk of the rise in the pump price (to 2008 levels and above) has more to do with the performance of the clowns in charge than anything else.

The cost per barrel is not that high at the moment So let me explain this in a simple way. Say yesterday that £1 = $1. You buy a barrel of Oil for $100, which just happens to have cost you £100. Let's say you're running the economy and you totally destroy the value of our currency so that it halves overnight (as no-one in their right mind would have confidence in our economy with you running it). Today £2 = $1, so that $100 barrell is now going to cost you £200. The Oil companies have done nothing and this is assuming you don't tax the **** out of it (which is what I would expect) and the cost of oil to us has doubled.

See the first bit of my earlier post, which explains a significant part of the rise..... So effectively, prices have gone up 32% due to the fall in the £!!!!! There was a song about Gordon once, I seem to remember it being something along the lines of calling him a moron.

Bang on the money $$$ (well you would be with a name like that). In Aug 2008, £1 = $2. We are currently at £1 = $1.50. So 50p would buy $1 then and now it costs 66p. This represents a 32% increase in the cost of the dollar and hence the cost of oil (as it is traded in dollars). Add in the 3p extra fuel duty that will be added in a few weeks time and that pretty much explains the problem. They are a sneaky bunch though as they added 2p duty to the cost of fuel to offset the cut in VAT to 15%. Now VAT has gone back up to 17.5%, do we now get the 2p taken off????? Do we ****, they have managed to get away with adding 5p per litre to the price of fuel in 15 months. Not to mention the extra VAT generated by the increased duty (yes, we get taxed on the tax) and rising oil prices (due to the mismangement of the economy). Maybe the magic socialist money tree does exist afterall??????? Therefore lay off the Oil companies and look at who was responsible for the plunging value of the pound and the fuel duties......... to me it doesn't take a blind person to work it out, as the answer is jaw-droppingly obvious.

You spelt Fitzhugh wrong, anyway....... .. / -.. --- -. .----. - / -.- -. --- .-- .-.-.- / .- -. -.-- .-- .- -.-- --..-- / - .-. -.-- / - .... .. ... / ... -- .- .-. - / .- .-. ... .

Careful, or I might start posting in Chinese on the Word Association thread :-) Babelfish를 신을 감사하십시오 (Does anyone know what Babelfish is in Korean?)

继续然後，嘗試此

Egghead