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  Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff
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  @no-quarter said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff: I live in town these days so have had to put the smoker away but have a reasonable courtyard so picked up a Masterchef 6 burner so I have something over the summer. Anyone cook with gas on here? Any tips/tricks or good recipes you've had success with? I will miss using the smoker You could get a smoker box. Less smoke, especially if you soak the chips; you'll get a little bit of smoke from the wood chips
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  Beer thread
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  I must admit to being far less of a beer wanker of late. Even I got sick of the constant, well, wankness of it all. Plus craft beers bloat the fuck out of ya. So definitely a bit of a treat every now and again compared to the past. Some of Garage Projects beers are nothing short of ridiculous.
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  Woo
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  Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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  TV Serieseseses
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  Tim said: Pffft. Emilia Clark isn't actually that hot. Far better out there than her.
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  Re: Movie review thread...
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  canefan said: MN5 said: Never say never again was pretty good on its own merits. Connery did look a tiny bit creepy hitting on Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera was a perfect mix of HAF and Batshit crazy. I liked it but then I liked Thunderball as well. Weird that he made the same movie twice. Edward Fox made pompous comical M, wasn't the villain at the health spa an ex-pro wrestler? And there was even a Rowan Atkinson cameo Yep, old mate Pat Roach who also gave Indiana Jones a hiding in two separate movies as different characters. I always liked his work. Great punch up this one, Bond shoulda done better though.
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  Interesting reads
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  If, like me, you have spent too much money at Ticketmaster and similar ticket sellers over the years, this is worth reading. I know that in NZ companies like viagogo have had plenty of scrutiny for ripping fans off but what about the ticket agents themselves? Many have suspected this was happening with the introduction of Ticketmaster resale so if in North American why not here? https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/a-public-relations-nightmare-ticketmaster-recruits-pros-for-secret-scalper-program-1.4828535
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  Sky TV
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  If you have a good product, and make it easy to view, people don't pirate. If you overcharge and have a shit product, people look elsewhere. They will never shut down all the pirate sites.
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  Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz
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  Nice way to cull the losers
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  Stupid shit you see on the internet
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  Tim said: @jegga how did you discover kiwi farms? When that tard was posting about South Africa being a better option than Ireland I was searching to see where else he’d been spraying his idiocy. He turned up at that site which appears to be made of of sociopaths. How did you find it?
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  Rocket Lab
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  The Japanese landed rovers on an asteroid. Pretty cool
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  VPN Question
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  Kirwan said: @bones said in VPN Question: So @Kirwan I just had a thought that I should have tried. I have a friend who is in Tenerife today and couldn't find anywhere open to watch the first half of ABs. Thinking the UK sky app won't work overseas he used TunnelBear to VPN to UK on his phone then tethered the ipad to the phone and the sky app works on the ipad. Tried that option for Netflix? No, I haven’t. I will give it a try, thanks. My friend can confirm it works. He's over in Oz and they don't have Better Call Saul on Netflix so he tried the tether to VPN (to UK) phone and can now watch it. Neat trick.
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  RIP 2018
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  Chas Hodges from Chaz and Dave. Good career summary in this thread
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  @booboo ol' Schnitzel von Crum...sheesh, mate, thats opening a whole new can of worms without even going on about his low tum!
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  Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****
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  @nepia said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****: @rancid-schnitzel said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****: @nepia said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****: @antipodean said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****: @nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...: @antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...: I hate all the modern Star Wars movies. That being said, I actually enjoyed Solo. So if like me you think there's been nothing good in this space for decades, give Disney a chance with this. It has Ron Howard as director, so it's already on the winning track. Yep, it will be good to get a 3rd stream going over on that thread - so far we've got modern haters, prequel haters and we can add hates everything but original trilogy. Whats your stance on the Ewok movies? Never watched them because I hated Ewoks. They were originally meant to make Wookies look like teddy bears. But then as a primary school student I wanted the Empire to win... Damn, my dream of finding an Ewok movie defender is foiled again. Now that would have spiced up the thread. I haven't seen them decades but loved the 2nd one as a kid. Probably wouldn't like it as much as an adult. The ridiculous this is that the first film is about this boy and girl finding and saving their parents. All happy and heart-warming, yet in 2nd film, boys and parents are killed in the first 5 minutes. Bit morbid. I think I've only seen one - Caravan of Courage, was that the rescue their parents one? I think that they were released at the movies in some countries, including NZ, but were TV movies in US. Yep, that was the first one. Never liked that. The 2nd one was far more action packed. Just viewing the trailer I don't think I will have good things to say about it now...
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  What are you listening to, right now................
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  @nevorian said in What are you listening to, right now................: @crucial this was my first real concert and just remember it went off, may be was over a bit too soon. . I'm pretty sure it was also a Monday night and the place was packed. I saw a young U2 at the same venue a couple of years later and always remember thinking the Clash was way better for audience energy etc Yeah, that U2 tour was a bit weird. Just after Live at Red Rocks IIRC and still not the huge name they would become after that. Also saw them at same venue as Clash and The Clash was by far the better. My only regret with that U2 tour was that after the gig we were going to head to Entertainers (the only late night/after hours/Sunday licenced place in AK back then) but we had others staying with us that weren't keen as they had to drive back to the Waikato the next morning for work. Found out later that there were only a handful of punters at Entertainers that night and U2 turned up with everyone ending up having a good chat and a few acoustic tunes.
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  Wisdom of TSF: Debt consolidation
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  @majorrage actually that reminds me, was out Walton way the other week and saw a desperate looking bloke driving a kit car thingy. You didn't wave back.
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  Solar Power and Storage - a nerd's view
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  @majorrage think we were in Eco mode which ups the regen on the i3
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  Fonterra
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  @mokey said in Fonterra: @smudge Slick burn there. I completely missed that!! Very good!
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  The Interweb
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  @nzzp So jealous.