h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Grilling is my preferred method. Yesterday, I grilled a few, and the skins first started to blacken in patches, yet remained soft where unburnt. It might be because they are 'posh' sausages, rather than cheaper bangers.
I'm open to cooking suggestions, but I have tried frying, baking and grilling, and certain sausages never cook satisfactorily, whichever method I try. I've also tried coating them in oil, to no avail.

I'm from Texas, so my suggestion is slow smoking. Smoke a brisket for about 15 hours and while you're at it you can toss a few bratwursts on, they don't take too long.

Oh, smoking is okay too. I didn't think about smoking.

Today's PH is people who don't read notices before they put them up: the surgery currently asks, "Have you had you flu jab?" ON THE FRONT DOOR.

The thing about 'posh' sausages is that they tend to use natural casings - ie., intestines. That's the traditional way of making sausages, but it does make them a bit chewy in parts in my experience, in the less-cooked parts.

I can't think of a way of cooking sausages *completely* uniformly all over the surface - except maybe deep-frying?

You're on the motorway and you decide to pull out to overtake. Looking in your mirrors all you can see are some distant lights, so it seems like it will be a low-stress gradual over-take. Let me stress; I don't have money to burn on fuel and worn-out car parts so I really try to limit aggressive and intense acceleration to situations to where it is unavoidable.

As you are passing the vehicle you are over-taking you look in the rear-view mirror and as if by magic, there's a vehicle right up your ar*se itching to pass you. Where do these knob-ends come from? Suddenly they appear out of nowhere, because you're doing a legal speed but they are going 100, so those distant light you saw, were actually a speeding bullet.

I wish this was rare, but it actually happens every day of my commute. Depending on my mood, I will respond by slowing down my overtaking manoeuvre to piss the moron off as much as I can, but other times I just want out of their way and will give in and accelerate or pull in faster than I would choose to.

It's extremely hard to estimate distance and speed when looking at headlights. That's a hate of mine, too.

Especially when the car has one light out and other one is the dipped light. It always looks deceptively far away.

I try to anticipate need to reduce speed & economise by simply easing off speed rather than braking. On familiar roads I know just when to do this eg with 30 mph limit ahead. Nearly every time someone ends up right on my tail because they leave braking to the last minute.

Then there's those who go at a steady 40 mph through all zones...

Our local Fuller's pub. £3.70 for a pint of flat London Pride, ridiculous. How come I can go to Wetherspoons and have a pick of at least six premium beers all in excellent condition for £2.15 a pint? I live in a small town where all the local pubs are whingeing because of lack of trade, can you wonder? Wish we had a Wetherspoons I can tell you.

The worst thing about night driving is, that wan**r who won't dip his headlights until he has blinded you!

They are even worse than them soddin tailgaters! Who have already been mentioned, who come screaming up behind you, and are so close that even their dipped head lights dazzle you!

They want you to pull over so they can carry on doing 100mph down the motorway

Smudger.

There's nothing more guaranteed to make me drive *exactly* to the speed limit than a tailgater.*

Deb

* but of course I allow them to overtake at the earliest reasonable opportunity. Don't want the behind me for too long!

Among my pet peeves as well.

I often wish I had a blinking message ribbon in lights on the back of the vehicle reading: "The closer you tailgate, the slower I drive!"

(There is a bumper sticker to that effect.)

Alternating with: "If you're not going to allow adequate safe stopping room, I will!"




Other traffic and driving peeves, peop!e tailgating in one's blind spot who treat a turn signal indicating an intended lane change as starting gun and race to cut one off, rather than doing what they're supposed to do and easing off the gas so as to allow more time for one to complete the lane change.

They often make me wonder where they went to driving school if they ever did.

They should have some sense of where the other driver's blind spot is, that the other driver cannot see them there, that that's an extremely dangerous place to be and that the other driver may begin their lane change instantly upon signalling or even before signalling and frive defensively.




Drivers driving parallel and obstructing traffic, especially if they're driving below the speed limit, but also if they're paralleling onebanother at all.

Tailgaters tend to bunch up dangerously behind parallel drivers.

I liked that new sign on the back of our local buses, it reads ............"if you can read all of this sign, I can't see you"....

It's positioned in the bus drivers blind spot, it's quite clever really😎

Smudger.

I saw a similar sign on the back of a truck: If you can't see my mirrors, I can't say you.

I saw a similar sign on the back of a truck: If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you.

Not strictly true, that one.

"If you can't see my eyes in my mirrors, I can't see your eyes" is more accurate.

Shopping is such a pain and so frustrating with the crowded shops and the background shop muzak.

when the train has a different arrangement of carriages so that what should be a double decker carriage full of people sitting down (with a few standing) turns into a cattle truck arrangement where they all have to stand in the door space of the totally freaking empty first class carriage.

The existence of 1st class carriages in general is a real . They're always empty.

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