u/DaddyRAS

Both pretty lousy, big budget films. Both are great 3d presentations.

They're worth watching for the 3d. But pretty dull and uninteresting films.

I see (USA) recipes talking about a applying a yellow mustard binder to meat before applying a rub.

Does anyone do that?

And do they mean yellow Colman's mustard or yellow French's mustard? Surely normal UK mustard will be far too strong?

I'm coming to the end of a 12kg bag of Big K Restaurant Grade (the light tan coloured bag). I'm looking around and the Big K El Cubano charcoal (it comes in a white bag). The bag is bigger (15kg), no more expensive and comes from an invasive tree that's causing a problem in Cuba (so has an ethical benefit).

Has anyone used this? I want the largest lumps possible to get the largest surface area and the longest burn.

I was on holiday and bought a 3d blu-ray from Kettering (Despicable Me 2 for £2 - bargain). The store was busy and I'd queued for ages and my wife was getting keen to move on so I forgot to check the discs.

I have arrived home (I live 4 hours away) to find the 3d disc is missing.

What do I do now?

I've done 4 charcoal and wood chip smokes on this vertical smoker. I've been using Big K restaurant grade lumpwood and created a donut in the pan and filled wth heated coals from a chimney. That works well and I can maintain heat at about 120°C.

For shorter durations I've been putting fresh, unheated charcoal onto the white coals and they burn ok.

However, I've struggled to keep the coals hot after about 5 hours. After about 4 hours, putting unheated coals on doesn't work so I've resorted to heating coals in a chimney and filling the pan with those (and some unheated coals) but it's not very successful.

The smoker has got quite a small pan and I wonder if it is getting "clogged up"? I'm thinking that when the heat drops I empty the entire pan and refill with a fresh donut and coals from a chimney? It seems like a waste...

I need to meet someone coming from Suffolk and go to Northampton at the weekend. I thought about meeting at Thickthorn park & ride, leaving a car there and car sharing the rest of the journey. The First Direct website says you aren't paying for parking (there's no ticket to display or car registering to do), you're paying for the bus. Does anyone know if it's possible to park and NOT ride?

When walking my dogs, the female one always wees first and my male dog wees over it, I assume to mask the scent and not permit other males to discover the female. However, my female dog is faking her initial wees so that my male dog expends all his urine unnecessarily and then the female can wee indiscriminately and spread her glorious scent around the neighbourhood.

The volume on the bezel stopped working so I restarted it. It then got caught in a boot loop (Mi logo on screen for long time then the W WearOS logo on screen for short time - sometimes it goes coloured and says WearOS by Google - then black screen, then back to Mi).

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I've got into the recovery menu and done a restart and factory reset and neither work - it goes back to its boot loop.

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Any ideas what next?

The volume on the bezel stopped working so I restarted it. It then got caught in a boot loop (Mi logo on screen for long time then the W WearOS logo on screen for short time - sometimes it goes coloured and says WearOS by Google - then black screen, then back to Mi).

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I've got into the recovery menu and done a restart and factory reset and neither work - it goes back to its boot loop.

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Any ideas what next?

I've been boosting my 3D collection with cheap second hand films from Vinted and eBay. I've just watched this and I urge no-one else to bother. It's turgid nonsense with very poor 3D. If it helps it's a single disk with 2D and 3D on - someone asked about why that's the case the other day and maybe it signifies poor 3D?

I did enjoy Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter 3D which vastly exceeded my expectations, it was great fun and the 3D was effective.

TLDR: it took less than 2.5 hours for the NHS to confirm I didn't have a heart attack (but I was right to check)

Yesterday afternoon, on a train from Bristol to London my left arm ached for a few minutes and then I had a pressing pain in my chest that lasted about 5 minutes. Google said it might be a heart attack. Obviously I completed my journey to Norfolk and got to bed and then told my wife what might have happened. We agreed to talk to 111 in the morning. I'm British, why cause a fuss!?

I called 111 this morning. All my details were taken succinctly. A clinician called back exactly 30 minutes later, as promised, and she asked me to go to A&E. I arrived at A&E and they had all my details. I had an ECG within 2 minutes. 5 minutes later I was sent to the Outpatient Acute Medical Team and within 5 minutes of arriving had received another ECG and my bloods had been taken. 5 minutes after that a clinician talked me through the ECG chart and was stethoscoped all over. 5 minutes after that I was sent for an x-ray - I walked straight in and was imaged immediately. I went back to the previous Team and had to wait 15 minutes for the x-ray results to come back. The conclusion is I didn't have a heart attack and I did do the right thing by going to hospital. I was there for about 2 hours and 20 minutes, everyone was wonderful and I'm not unwell.

I use an agency to manage my property as I live 3 hours away and it's helpful if there's problems. It's the annual, rent review time. I could put it up a little but the tenants are great so I'm not going to. The kicker is the agency want to charge the equivalent of 12x monthly increase to notify the tenants and provide them with a Section 13 notice (i.e. negating any financial benefit). Does that seem right?