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Sep-19-25
 | | offramp: In 954 a plague struck Calabria. All places of worship were shut. The monks left that area. Three of them took the first available boat, an expensive journey. They travelled north and alighted at Genoa. They found themselves unwelcome. Many people did not believe that they were monks. Some people think that they had the plague. The three monks decided to carry on north, to Cologne, where they had heard that one of the most splendid cathedrals were being built. They had suffered great privations on their journey, but in 955 they arrived in Cologne. These three monks were named Ramvel, Brando and Okey. |
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Sep-20-25
| | offramp: There is an overcoat that <SIGNALS> old person. I spotted men wearing these macs in the last century. Here is a perfect example:
https://www.cherrytreecountryclothi... That is a bloody awful mac.
There is a great mac, worn by .... Adolf Hitler! Not my favourite human, but he had a good mac. I think it had no buttons, just a belt. It was a sort of mustard colour. Anyway, I have a really good mac, very similar to Columbo's. It's from M & S, and it's really good. |
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Sep-23-25
| | offramp: Why are submarines boats. |
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Sep-26-25
| | offramp: How many chilis in a bottle?
In a standard 220ml bottle there's about 8 chilis. What about wine? A 70cl bottle needs 700 grapes. Or <"How many chilis in a bottle?
In a standard 220ml bottle there's one big chili. What about wine? A 70cl bottle needs one big grape."> |
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Sep-26-25
| | offramp: < 🥣 AZOTABARBAS: The Traditional Manchegan Soup You Must Try 🧡 Azotabarbas soup is a traditional recipe from Chinchilla de Montearagón (Albacete). Its unusual name comes from the thick noodles that, when eaten, would "whip" diners' beards.
Today I'll show you how to make it step by step, respecting tradition and with a spectacular flavor. Don't miss it! 📝 INGREDIENTS (serves 4 or 5):
🍖 100g Serrano ham
🌭 2 chorizos
🧅 1 large onion
🍅 1 medium tomato
🧂 Salt to taste and garlic
💛 Saffron threads and La Vera paprika
💧 Water
🍝 Thick noodles
🫒 Extra virgin olive oil >
I only had normal ham, and I had no chorizo, so I used Walls Sausages. I had no saffron so I used yoghurt. I completely forgot the noodles. It's a very good recipe. |
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Sep-27-25
| | offramp: Did you see that recipe from yesterday☝️☝️: <🥣 AZOTABARBAS: The Traditional Manchegan Soup....> It's a Spanish noodle soup. I saw the recipe on YouTube. https://youtu.be/d7A8UvLuHQ0?si=daI... I made the comment as above:
<I only had normal ham, and I had no chorizo, so I used Walls Sausages. I had no saffron so I used yoghurt. I completely forgot the noodles.> I got a response at YouTube, by the OP:
<Jajaaaa, entonces sacaste una versión nueva del azotabarbas.
Muchas gracias por comentar 😘😊>
I.e., <Haha, so you've released a new version of the <azotabarbas>.
Thanks so much for commenting 😘😊> It's a funny episode. |
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Sep-29-25
| | offramp: Have you ever tried the <Never Stop Eating!> diet? It sounds really good.
It's available on Kindle, for £0.0000. |
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Sep-30-25
| | offramp: The worst books of all time.
<Dubliners> by James Joyce (short stories) ❌❌❌💥💥💣 <Time Passed, or Something> by Marcel Proust ⋆·˚ ༘ *⚠️💣💥 <The Lord of the Rings> by J Tolkien <Life A Users Manual> by Georges Perec 𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍↻❌❌ <On The Road> by Jack Kerouac ㄨ✘✗ﾒ✗•.ᐟ <Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources> by David Mamet 💥💥💣💥💥💣 <Bleak House> by Charles Dickens ඞ ඞ ඞ ඞ ඞ ඞ ඞ |
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Sep-30-25
| | offramp: My favourite books.
<The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold> by Evelyn Waugh a woman<The Autumn of the Patriarch> by G Marquez <The Castle> by Franz Kafka <Word for Windows 95 Made Simple (Made Simple Series)> <Our Gang> by Philip Roth <The Tetherballs of Bougainville> by Mark Leyner |
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Oct-01-25
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<The Shining> by Stan Kubrick.This is not a horror film. I think it is a thriller.
I think one person is killed in the film.
The great Stephen King✞ didn't like the film so someone else made a closer-to-novel film.
At the end of that <THE BOILER OVERHEATS>. King, you must try harder...BOILER OVERHEATS!!????? |
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Oct-01-25
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Oct-01-25
 | | OhioChessFan: I'll take a shot at the worst books ever. I admit it'll really be the most overrated books ever. I'll second you on On the Road
To the Lighthouse-Virginia Woolf
Catch 22-Joseph Heller
The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho
Gone Girl-Gillian Flynn
The Color Purple-Alice Walker
Anything by James Joyce
100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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Oct-01-25
| | offramp: <OhioChessFan:> that list is really funny! I agree with most of it. <Catch 22> - for me, it was useful to watch the film, with Alan Arkin, then everything was clearer. Ulysses has some very good bits, but it is a very big book! I really like <100 Years>, though. The other books are very very slow-going! |
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Oct-02-25
| | offramp: I like Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King, and I <sort of> like <The Shining>. The book is good, and the film is good.
The book ends with the hotel boiler exploding.
The film ends with the guy lost in the big hotel maze. |
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Oct-04-25
| | offramp: I do NOT like musicals, in fact I am ferociously heterosexual. But there is one <GOOD> musical: <Hello Dolly!>. I am watching it now, it's on BBC2. Walter Matthau, <Michael Crawford> and Barbra Streisand (who is an all-time great performer). |
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Oct-06-25
| | offramp: Pesto! I hate the stuff. I am baffled that <anyone> likes it. Basil, on its own, is very nice. Somehow, basil is transformed in a mortar and pestle, into <PESTO>; the deep-sea fish food item. |
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Oct-07-25
 | | Troller: <OhioChessFan: I'll take a shot at the worst books ever. I admit it'll really be the most overrated books ever.> Not a big fan of Stream-of-Consciousness it seems. I could probably agree on Kerouac, Coelho and Gillian Flynn, maybe also Alice Walker; at least I would definitely prefer Toni Morrison over her. The others are actually among my favourites. One to add might be <Catcher in the Rye>, I taught this in high school once and I struggled to see what the fuss was all about. Maybe just outdated though. <Stephen King> has a vivid imagination but I am not exactly overwhelmed by his writing skills. However, there are many excellent movie adaptations of his works, like <The Shining>, <The Dead Zone> or the new series <The Institute>. |
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Oct-08-25
| | offramp: The Old Trafford no the <other> Old Trafford. I am here for the Minor Counties Semi-Final: Shropshire versus Cheshire. I am in a Premier Hotel, over-looking the whole city centre. From my window, I see thunder-clouds, borne on the wings of the whirlwind, floated, at fits, athwart the sky; the rising fierceness of the blast sighed through the stunted shrubs, which, bending before its violence, inclined towards the rocks whereon they grew: over the blackened expanse of heaven, at intervals, was spread the blue lightning's flash; it played upon the granite heights, and, with momentary brilliancy, disclosed the terrific scenery of the Alps, whose gigantic and misshapen summits, reddened by the transitory moon-beam, were crossed by black fleeting fragments of the tempest-clouds. The rain, in big drops, began to descend, and the thunder-peals, with louder and more deafening crash, to shake the zenith, till the long-protracted war, echoing from cavern to cavern, died, in indistinct murmurs, amidst the far-extended chain of mountains The solemn tones of the old cathedral clock have announced mid-day; the air is thick and heavy. A strange, death-like stillness pervades all nature. Like the ominous calm which precedes some more than usually terrific outbreak of the elements, they seem to have paused even in their ordinary fluctuations, to gather a terrific strength for the great effort. A faint peal of thunder now comes from far off. Like a signal gun for the battle of the winds to begin, it appeared to awaken them from their lethargy, and one awful, warring hurricane swept over a whole city, producing more devastation in the four or five minutes it lasted, than would a half century of ordinary phenomena. I knew instinctively that the Semi-final had the Salop v Cheshire been postponed. |
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Oct-08-25
| | offramp: <Troller: ...One to add might be <Catcher in the Rye>, I taught this in high school once and I struggled to see what the fuss was all about. Maybe just outdated though.> As I call it <The Catshit in the Eye>. There are some bits that I think they are <really> good:
He thinks about his Mum asking about a million stupid questions about a typewriter, but she bought the wrong one. And the teacher examined Holden's essay like it was a piece of @#$%! I like Stephen King, but the FILMS are always better than the books. But in The Stand, here is a great episode:
A fractious driver picks up a hitch-hiker, and gives him a bottle of Budweiser, but he drops it.
The driver is enraged and says, <Do you think they are still making that stuff??>
That's funny, because in North America there are probably 2 billion bottles of Budweiser on shelves! |
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Oct-08-25
| | OhioChessFan: <The rain, in big drops, began to descend, and the thunder-peals, with louder and more deafening crash, to shake the zenith, till the long-protracted war, echoing from cavern to cavern, died, in indistinct murmurs, amidst the far-extended chain of mountains> Sounds like it was a dark and stormy night. |
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Oct-09-25
| | offramp: Good game.
[Event "Round 5: Samunenkov, Ihor - Markus, Robert"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/broadcast/europ..."]
[Date "2025.10.09"]
[Round "5.4"]
[White "Samunenkov, Ihor"]
[Black "Markus, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2568"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[WhiteTeam "Ukraine"]
[WhiteFideId "14187086"]
[BlackElo "2535"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[BlackTeam "Serbia"]
[BlackFideId "921637"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[ECO "C17"]
[Opening "French Defense: Winawer Variation, Bogoljubow Variation"]
[UTCDate "2025.10.09"]
[UTCTime "10:16:09"]
[BroadcastName "European Team Chess Championship 2025 | Open"]
[BroadcastURL "https://lichess.org/broadcast/europ..."]
[GameURL "https://lichess.org/broadcast/europ..."] 1. e4 [%eval 0.18] [%clk 1:30:51] 1... e6 [%eval 0.3] [%clk 1:30:49] 2. d4 [%eval 0.29] [%clk 1:31:14] 2... d5 [%eval 0.31] [%clk 1:31:14] 3. Nc3 [%eval 0.28] [%clk 1:31:37] 3... Bb4 [%eval 0.4] [%clk 1:31:33] 4. e5 [%eval 0.42] [%clk 1:32:01] 4... c5 [%eval 0.46] [%clk 1:31:57] 5. Bd2 [%eval 0.24] [%clk 1:32:25] 5... Ne7 [%eval 0.26] [%clk 1:32:00] 6. a3 [%eval 0.2] [%clk 1:32:42] 6... Bxc3 [%eval 0.28] [%clk 1:32:23] 7. Bxc3 [%eval 0.21] [%clk 1:33:06] 7... Nbc6 [%eval 0.24] [%clk 1:32:28] 8. Nf3 [%eval 0.22] [%clk 1:33:15] 8... cxd4 [%eval 0.17] [%clk 1:32:43] 9. Bxd4 [%eval 0.24] [%clk 1:33:37] 9... Nf5 [%eval 0.24] [%clk 1:33:05] 10. Bc3 [%eval 0.26] [%clk 1:33:32] 10... d4 [%eval 0.17] [%clk 1:33:25] 11. Bd2 [%eval 0.18] [%clk 1:33:51] 11... Qd5 [%eval 0.24] [%clk 1:33:38] 12. c4 [%eval 0.25] [%clk 1:34:15] 12... dxc3 [%eval 0.16] [%clk 1:34:02] 13. Bxc3 [%eval 0.29] [%clk 1:34:39] 13... O-O [%eval 0.17] [%clk 1:34:00] 14. Be2 [%eval 0.18] [%clk 1:35:00] 14... Rd8 [%eval 0.19] [%clk 1:29:45] 15. O-O [%eval 0.24] [%clk 1:35:06] 15... Qe4 [%eval 0.21] [%clk 1:25:19] 16. Nd2 [%eval 0.19] [%clk 1:35:25] 16... Qh4 [%eval 0.28] [%clk 1:25:16] 17. g3 [%eval 0.11] [%clk 1:26:48] 17... Qe7 [%eval 0.02] [%clk 1:19:33] 18. Bf3 [%eval 0.01] [%clk 1:20:04] 18... Bd7 [%eval 0.11] [%clk 1:13:37] 19. Re1 [%eval 0.06] [%clk 0:58:46] 19... Rac8 [%eval 0.06] [%clk 1:09:52] 20. Bg2 [%eval 0.08] [%clk 0:50:40] 20... Be8 [%eval 0.24] [%clk 1:02:17] 21. Qg4 [%eval 0.0] [%clk 0:49:39] 21... Ncd4 [%eval 0.0] [%clk 0:57:12] 22. Rac1 [%eval -0.03] [%clk 0:46:55] 22... Bc6 [%eval 0.12] [%clk 0:54:32] 23. Ne4 [%eval 0.3] [%clk 0:46:35] 23... Bxe4 [%eval 0.4] [%clk 0:53:14] 24. Qxe4 [%eval 0.38] [%clk 0:39:54] 24... Nc6 [%eval 0.42] [%clk 0:44:19] 25. b4 [%eval 0.31] [%clk 0:36:20] 25... a6 [%eval 0.27] [%clk 0:44:30] 26. a4 [%eval -0.02] [%clk 0:34:21] 26... h5 [%eval 0.05] [%clk 0:40:49] 27. Rcd1 [%eval 0.07] [%clk 0:27:17] 27... Qc7 [%eval 0.04] [%clk 0:36:56] 28. Rxd8+ [%eval 0.01] [%clk 0:20:05] 28... Qxd8 [%eval 0.01] [%clk 0:32:31] 29. Bf3 [%eval 0.0] [%clk 0:18:18] 29... Nce7 [%eval 0.01] [%clk 0:27:10] 30. Rd1 [%eval 0.0] [%clk 0:12:00] 30... Qe8 [%eval 0.49] [%clk 0:25:14] 31. Be1 [%eval 0.12] [%clk 0:10:23] 31... g6 [%eval 0.18] [%clk 0:21:51] 32. Qxb7 [%eval 0.18] [%clk 0:08:07] 32... Qxa4 [%eval 0.28] [%clk 0:22:13] 33. Be2 [%eval 0.31] [%clk 0:08:03] 33... Rc6?? [%eval 4.32] ♗lunder. a5 was best. [%clk 0:17:33] 34. Qd7?? [%eval 0.0] ♗lunder. ♖d8+ was best. [%clk 0:06:19] 34... Qc2?? [%eval #5] Checkmate is now unavoidable. ♘d5 was best. [%clk 0:14:20] 35. Qe8+ [%eval #4] [%clk 0:05:27] 1-0 |
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Oct-10-25
| | offramp: Discovery Channel. Titanic. Interview with a Marine Engineer. He says that it is impossible to go to sea on a bogey. |
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Oct-10-25
| | offramp: I am gradually rooting out Communists at cg.com. I found out <Le0nTrotsky>, and <KMarxYEAH>. These people have been excluded. NINE others are investigation. |
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Oct-12-25
| | offramp: Brown balloons are illegal. |
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Oct-12-25
| | offramp: On TikTok, about September 20th 2025, a guy said he was one billion percent certain about the world ending. That's a spicy meatball! Today, on <4 in a Bed> on C4, the woman said she stood by her <NO> decision "1000%". Madre Mia!! That's a lorra percents! I have seen footballers in the USA who stand by their manager <10,000,000 %>. That blows the top off of my skull, roughly 2000%!! |
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