A boring new day.

Please could members refrain from lazy stereotyping - it's usually inaccurate and unfailingly causes offense.

David Hendon posted:

I feel the padded cell is threatening (unless Richard has the weekend off).

best

David

David,

"weekend off"..??!

However, you're absolutely right about the Padded Cell.

I see this has been kicked into the long grass, only a matter of time I guess.

Does that mean we can start talking about biscuits again. I love biscuits.

nigelb posted:

I see this has been kicked into the long grass, only a matter of time I guess.

Does that mean we can start talking about biscuits again. I love biscuits.

Jaffa Cakes too?

Now if Naim could only manage to get these into the new Uniti products dem rooms, ..................

they'd be on to a sure winner

.sjb

Now we are back on biscuits....

My favourites were always Royal Scot which sadly seem to have disappeared and Festival Creams. I know no-one else who can remember these biscuits that Mum told me came onto the market at the Festival Of Britain.

So I resort to Border Biscuits sharing box, except that I don't.

Why only biscuits?

J.N. posted:

Glad to hear it Max.

I suppose I'm essentially railing against mass-market mediocrity and the rapid rate of change - not all of it necessarily for the better.

The upside is that (and this is the big one!) if the source material and equipment is up to snuff; modestly priced kit has never sounded better.

John.

I agree with your sentiments John and as a builder I'm amazed at the amount people spend on and their absolute pleasure with something which allows them to remotely turn the lights on and off and the heating up and down.

DBS-Al posted:

I like those biscuits with the cows on.

Don't let the cows stand on your biscuits, they'll break them (or eat them).

Thanks for the advice Huge, I suppose it depends on what sort of "Mooood" they are in.

A stomping good one, especially if you use a Naim system for them so they get lots of PRaT!

Max_B posted:

The Neats are just a pair of boxes with an expensive tweeter, and sound like if they were a call operator reading Shakespeare. 

Funny, because it was the tweeter that Neat changed when they revamped their Motive range. They could of changed the main unit too but decided to stick with it, mmm...

I ran Credos for twenty years and really enjoyed them in active and passive modes, really getting to the heart of the music, I never thought I would ever let them go to be honest... 

I am now running a pair of Motive SX2 speakers on my NAIT 5si and although they have a rather more 'forgiving' presentation to my Credos, i'm still enjoying the music more than ever, still very 'Naim' to these ears!!

I am finding that with the new (just as exciting) sound that one can listen for much longer periods than ever before, turning the volume up much higher than ever before, which is helping me become much more immersed in a different way, than I ever could wish to be with my Credos.

Horses for courses an all.

Happy listening!!

Time out. Does a U.K. biscuit cover the full range of U.S. biscuits through cookies?  Is it only softer cookies that don’t qualify as U.K. biscuits?

By the way, it is very tough to beat a South African Romany Cream. Crunchy chocolate with coconut, not too sweet. Yum.

Hook posted:

Time out. Does a U.K. biscuit cover the full range of U.S. biscuits through cookies?  Is it only softer cookies that don’t qualify as U.K. biscuits?

Biscuit is a French word, and it means ‘cooked twice’ which is how they were originally made, and why they are hard. So a cookie cannot be a biscuit. 

In the UK...

A biscuit goes soft when left in the open air.

A cake goes hard when left in the open air.

Established in case law.

Huge posted:

In the UK...

A biscuit goes soft when left in the open air.

A cake goes hard when left in the open air.

Established in case law.

Which is why we don't pay VAT on Jaffa Cakes, because they are in law biscuits and hence tax exempt....

Yummy.

David Hendon posted:

Huge posted:

In the UK...

A biscuit goes soft when left in the open air.

A cake goes hard when left in the open air.

Established in case law.

Which is why we don't pay VAT on Jaffa Cakes, because they are in law biscuits and hence tax exempt....

Actually it shows that they're cakes - which is why we don't pay VAT.

Ah well I stand corrected and should have paid more attention to the issue then.

i still prefer plain chocolate digestives, vat or not!

best

David

Yes but which brand of plain chocolate digestives?

Now that's easy: Albert Heijn Lichtbruintjes, if you happen to be in the Netherlands.

But if you are in the UK, McVitie's rule of course.

In a blind tasting I challenge you to choose between Lidl and McVities

I think that a new BB term is in a process of being defined here: Biscuit Brain..

I was in a blind tasting of digestives, not chocolate ones unfortunately. When it was unblinded I found it was the McVities I’d prefered, they were only up against some supermarket own brand ones and some trial reduced fat ones though. The latter all came last.