West Somerset Railway General Discussion

Would these be the pasties that have two fillings, with a divider in the middle?

 

Are you a clone of me? I more or less echo what you have put (although I've never played baseball.)

 

Baseball is basically Rounders.

 

No, a standard Cornish Pasty with filling of meat, potato, onion and swede!

 

Seems perfectly normal to me

So apparently a left handed pasty is a cock pasty and a right handed pasty a hen and it depends on the handedness of the person making it

http://www.cornishpasties.org.uk/henncock-pasties.htm

When I bake a cake I cut the butter right handed but cream it left handed. I’ll have to make a pasty and see whether it is a cock or a hen.

 

Can we come round for cake??

 

Of course. As I am a believer in an evidence based approach we need a lot of experiments about whether handedness at certain points in the making of the cake makes a difference.

 

Look at what happened to the vandals who did nearly £30,000 worth of damage to the coaches on the NYMR. I quote from the Yorkshire newspaper 'The Press':

"...Both were given a 12-month conditional discharge, but Terry, of Jute Road in York, was ordered to pay £30.88 to the NYMR for the theft, as well as £85 costs and a £20 surcharge. Dawson, of Keld Head Orchard, Kirkbymoorside, had to pay £30.88 for the theft, costs of £85, a £20 surcharge and a compensation order of £500 for the criminal damage."

What sort of message does that give to these mindless young thugs. They, and their parents, should be made to compensate the NYMR for the full amount of damage caused.

 

No point demanding money they haven't got, and at what age do you stop connecting the parents and making them pay - 16, 17, 18, 21? As others have pointed out, the main punishment is a criminal record, which will stay with them for life. I also seriously doubt there are teenagers plotting to vandalise heritage railway coaches reading that story and thinking "Yep, totally worth £500 to smash some stuff up, anything over £1000 and I would've been out!"

Given that it's also been shown that harsher sentences do little to prevent re-offence and considering proportions if you escalate the punishment of this you either equate it to something worse, or punishments continue to get worse for worse crimes right up to reinstating the death penalty, I'm reluctantly satisfied.

 

Now, where can we get a set of drawings full of errors to enable a newbuild at approx £5m which has a chimney that is too small, and fires so badly that it is hated by crews? Luckily the restorers discovered the errors and corrected them on the Duke of Gloucester. Does anyone have a spare few million to make a start on 71001?
Robin L

 

Left handers are particularly badly served by the makers of chainsaws.... you hang it in in left hand and trigger is right hand... it is impossible to do it left handed.
Robin L

 

... or on the other hand it could be dexter!
Robin L

 

Is it because gloves ignore you, or don't talk to you?
Robin L

 

Perhaps there is a trade off opportunity here? Have a shorter life or become right handed?
It is the usual statistical nonsense!! Like the postcodes... one survey said that people in a certain postcode lived 15 years longer than people who lived nearby in a neighbouring postcode. You could prolong your life by 15 years just by moving house!
Robin L.

 

... and standard back when the pastie was standard fare...on the other side (beyond the middle) stewed apple and custard.
Robin L.

 

Beware of the Kernow people taking the mick!! a pastie starts out as a pastry disc.... no bias left or right
Robin L.

 

The message is that if you are a hardened criminal, or an abomination on society you get off lightly... if you fail to pay your TV licence due to forgetfulness, you can end up with a CRIMINAL conviction and a hefty financial penalty.

Robin L

 

I get that, but isn't the direction of the crimp different depending upon which hand you crimp with?

 

And it also depends on which way up it is. It probably has more to do with whether it was made in the Antipodes rather than whether it was made by a left handed person. Or even a left handed machine.

 

I’ve been to the antipodes, and can confirm that when you go to a bakery and get a Danish whirl, the pastry swirl runs anti-clockwise, but in Europe they go clockwise. Something to do with the coriolis effect, I think..,

Tom