February 10, 20215 yr Administrators Hey! We're not the ones calling a cookie a biscuit! I'd hate to think what you call a biscuit! 🤪 Biscuits in a basket! Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
February 10, 20215 yr 7 hours ago, scianoir said: Perhaps one of the few airliners that truly deserved to be referred to as a tubeliner was the Swearingen Metro. On my only two flights in this type, being 6ft 4ins tall, I was almost on all fours in the aisle making my way to my seat. Luckily I was a lot younger and more nimble in those days! Bill Hi Bill, You stole my thunder there, was just about to write something similar. I'm also well over 6ft, and have flown in the Metro many times, when working on a flyin/flyout basis. The most uncomfortable flights I've ever done. They truly are a tube, and a very small one at that. Cheers Neil Ward CPU Intel Core i7 [email protected] with FrostFlow 240L Liquid Cooling, M/B ROG STRIX X299-E-GAMING, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, RAM G.Skill 32GB DDR4 Ripjaws Blue,
February 10, 20215 yr Author Moderator 26 minutes ago, charliearon said: Hey! We're not the ones calling a cookie a biscuit! I'd hate to think what you call a biscuit! 🤪 Bisquits in a basket Those look like scones to me. 😉 This is what a biscuit looks like. Ray (Cheshire, England). System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant. Cheadle Hulme Weather website.
February 10, 20215 yr Administrators Yummy! Love those Mcvitie's digestive cookie/biscuit! I get 'em dipped in chocolate! Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
February 10, 20215 yr Author Moderator 1 minute ago, charliearon said: Yummy! Love those Mcvitie's digestive cookie/biscuit! I get 'em dipped in chocolate! They come in plain or milk chocolate as well as plain. 😋 Ray (Cheshire, England). System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant. Cheadle Hulme Weather website.
February 10, 20215 yr 31 minutes ago, charliearon said: I'd hate to think what you call a biscuit! 🤪 We’d call a biscuit a biscuit because it’s not a cookie! 🤣🤣 Cookies on this side of the pond are generally bigger and softer than a biscuit. On researching this just now, I discovered the origins of the words might suggest that we are correct - the word ‘cookie’ apparently comes from the Dutch word ‘koekje’ meaning a small cake which was cooked to test the temperature of an oven before cooking a full sized cake; the word ‘biscuit’ on the other hand apparently originated from two Latin words ‘bis’ (twice) and ‘coquere’ (to cook) which basically means twice baked. Thus a biscuit, which is usually firmer than a cookie, is ideal for dipping in a cup of tea (or coffee)!! How did we get here from tubeliners?🤣 Bill
February 10, 20215 yr Author Moderator 1 minute ago, scianoir said: How did we get here from tubeliners?🤣 I was thinking the very same thing. Tomorrow’s deviation from the topic will discuss chipped potatoes or as we call them ... chips! Not French Fries. Whoops, now I’ve done it. 🤣 Ray (Cheshire, England). System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant. Cheadle Hulme Weather website.
February 10, 20215 yr We’ll try not to get started on the fact that in the southern US states they pour gravy on those biscuits (scones) from Charlie’s basket and eat them with crispy bacon for breakfast!! Much better with clotted cream and jam! Bill
February 10, 20215 yr 9 minutes ago, scianoir said: Much better with clotted cream and jam! although perhaps not for breakfast... My take on tubeliners is that it is indeed a slightly derogatory term for the generic look of modern airliners emanating from (mainly) those simmers who study IFR: I Follow Roads Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
February 11, 20215 yr The problem, as I see it, is that the British never learned to speak proper English. Just ask anyone in New York. Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
February 11, 20215 yr Just don't go chucking our tea in the harbour again OK? Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
February 11, 20215 yr Administrators 1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said: I was thinking the very same thing. Tomorrow’s deviation from the topic will discuss chipped potatoes or as we call them ... chips! Not French Fries. Whoops, now I’ve done it. 🤣 Maybe tomorrow's discussion can be about what we put on our French Fries? Ketchup ,catsup, mayonnaise, malt vinegar, gravy? Best I've seen was up in Montreal.....Fries drenched in duck gravy and duck confit. Poutine! Crikey! We've gone from tubeliners to Martha Stewart 🤪 Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
February 11, 20215 yr Author Moderator 8 hours ago, charliearon said: Maybe tomorrow's discussion can be about what we put on our French Fries? Ketchup ,catsup, mayonnaise, malt vinegar, gravy? Vinegar would be the most popular choice over here. Not sure what catsup is. Personally I love a chip butty. What's that? Chips between two slices of well buttered bread. Yum yum! 😁 Ray (Cheshire, England). System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant. Cheadle Hulme Weather website.
February 11, 20215 yr 10 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said: I was thinking the very same thing. Tomorrow’s deviation from the topic will discuss chipped potatoes or as we call them ... chips! Not French Fries. Whoops, now I’ve done it. 🤣 Indeed. The first time I was in New York, I went to a fast food place and ordered something (forget what) and was asked "would you like chips with that?" That's nice of them, I thought, only to be completely deflated when I got my order to find a small packet of crisps on the plate. After that I used French fries for my orders. Intel i7 6700K @4.3. 32gb Gskill 3200 RAM. Z170x Gigabyte m/b. 28" LG HD monitor. Win 10 Home. 500g Samsung 960 as Windows home. 1 Gb Mushkin SSD for P3D. GTX 1080 8gb.
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