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| Neper:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 18, 2022, 11:42:32 pm ---Quite so. Now, if they started supergluing Jacob Rees-Mogg and friends to things they'd have the British public on side in no time at all. >:D --- End quote --- How about founding a royal society for gluing toffs on top of each other? |
| med6753:
--- Quote from: Vince on July 19, 2022, 10:19:13 am ---You seem overly optimistic, sounds like you take it for granted that this chip actually works ! You don't know that yet, so you may still end up having to go back to programming ! >:D --- End quote --- I have one ready to send to him if that one is duff. |
| Specmaster:
--- Quote from: Neper on July 19, 2022, 10:58:53 am --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on July 18, 2022, 11:42:32 pm ---Quite so. Now, if they started supergluing Jacob Rees-Mogg and friends to things they'd have the British public on side in no time at all. >:D --- End quote --- How about founding a royal society for gluing toffs on top of each other? --- End quote --- Sounds like a fun idea. |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 18, 2022, 11:34:35 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 18, 2022, 10:25:42 pm ---It is my understanding that a toddy however is another thing altogether. A hot toddy is usually some form of tea, coffee, or cider with additional alcohol, drunk after dinner or before bed to aid sleep, or to take the chill off a cold evening. But it doesn't have to be hot; just that it's something alcoholic you like the taste of. The point in general being that it is some alcoholic concoction you make just for you, like some dishes are "comfort food". I'm certain C will be along to correct this assumption shortly... I am, after all, a wine/whiskey/liqueur heathen. :-// mnem :o --- End quote --- Well the name toddy comes from Indian 'todi' and was appropriated by British colonists and brought back home. In England a hot toddy is spirits (usually whisky) with honey, lemon and hot water, taken for a cold, or as a warming drink when coming in from the cold and wet. In India todi (or toddy) was a sweet drink made with sap from the coconut palm. I suspect that grandma-ji or ama-ji probably held a hot todi out as a cure for all ills (cf Jewish grandmothers and Chicken Soup) and that's how it started its journey to what the British know it as today. So, for pukka hot toddy you should probably use palm sugar, not honey. Ferment todi and you get palm wine. Distil that and you get Arrak (which is Arabic/Persian for "paint stripper and tar remover for camel's hooves"). The preparation of todi is old enough that the trade leant itself to a surname - variously spelt Todiwala, Toddiwallah, or Toddywallah. An aside on Wallahs: The -wallah ending is typically used to mean 'bloke whose job is the previous word' so a punkahwallah is a man whose job it is to standaround and fan his betters with a punkah fan. The Brits took that ending to themselves so you'd get charwallah (teaboy) and so on. People who served in Indian were want to use the word Wallah to just mean 'bloke' as slang when they got back to the UK. My father served in the British Army in Indian pre-WWII and used to say things like "He knows a wallah who can get them for 10/- each.". Cyrus Todiwala OBEA well-known chef --- End quote --- Oklay... I'm confused. Which admittedly, takes very little anymore... :o So is this broader usage a regional thing, or just colloquial usage? Or is it another case of egregious cultural misappropriation (which practice, we 'merkins have raised to an art form), and you scone-eaters who know what a proper toddy is supposed to be really wish we would fucking stop...? mnem Or do I need to start sending Mr Toddywallah a royalty check for stealing his name every time I misuse the term...? |
| dl6lr:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 19, 2022, 10:20:14 am ---It's NOS part. Will test later. Will make sure I pay the seller on confirmation it works as this was most certainly not their fault. --- End quote --- I like that attitude. A lot of people would not even think about it. |
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