Dangerous Dinnerware

[Russ T]

8 minutes ago, MtB said:

Well done for spelling it right! 

 

 

(Concorde, that is.)

Surely you mean well done for spelling it correctly.

 

Besides,it's 

Concordé

 

It's the Entente Concordiale

[MtB]

2 minutes ago, Russ T said:

Besides,it's 

Concordé

 

On reflection ISTR the spelling of it nearly caused a diplomatic rift between GB and France but a compromise was reached. The English-built planes would be spelled "Concord" and the froggy-built ones, "Concorde". 

 

I don't remember the acute accent on the letter 'e' ever being there.

 

 

[The History Man]

6 minutes ago, Russ T said:

 

It's the Entente Concordiale

I hate it when they do this.  Orange and mango is the worst.  Blackcurrant and apple is bearable. Bring back Kia-Ora. It’s to orangey for crows. 

Maybe they’re the Plates de Concorde? 

Edited July 26 by The History Man

[blackrose]

3 hours ago, Russ T said:

Ok, great. What's the solution then? Issue all my guests with stab vests?

 

 

Why don't you just get rid of it and buy something safer? A new twelve piece dinner set can be bought for about 25 quid.

[MtB]

31 minutes ago, blackrose said:

 

Why don't you just get rid of it and buy something safer? A new twelve piece dinner set can be bought for about 25 quid.

 

I think Russ might have been making "a joke". 

 

Remember them? You even started a thread about them back in the day!

 

  

 

 

P.S.

Mods, please delete this thread or next thing we know, checking the crockery will be the latest item to be added to the BSS. 

 

 

Edited July 26 by MtB

[Russ T]

Well, for those of you making a mockery of our crockery, you'll be glad to know we survived breakfast.

 

Tonight's chilled Shard-on-ay is strictly going in paper cups, though. We're no mugs.

 

There's no point crying over split Duralex

[Hudds Lad]

Have you considered replacing them with plates of a more modern, safer material, like melamine?

[Russ T]

Just now, Hudds Lad said:

Have you considered replacing them with plates of a more modern, safer material, like melamine?

After last night's shower. Yes,I have. Before that. No I hadn't.

 

Why would I? One does not expect to be attacked by ones crockery,even if it is over 30 years old.😂

[Hudds Lad]

1 minute ago, Russ T said:

Why would I? One does not expect to be attacked by ones crockery,even if it is over 30 years old.😂

Did you learn nothing from those instructional documentaries featuring a certain French detective? Always expect a surprise attack  

[Russ T]

1 minute ago, Hudds Lad said:

Did you learn nothing from those instructional documentaries featuring a certain French detective? Always expect a surprise attack  

I never watch catoring documentaries 

[The History Man]

Melamine? Didn’t she have a brand new pair of roller skates? 

[Russ T]

1 minute ago, The History Man said:

Melamine? Didn’t she have a brand new pair of roller skates? 

It's good to see you have embraced the poor jokes on this forum. You could be a palamine.

26 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

Have you considered replacing them with plates of a more modern, safer material, like melamine?

Ah. You mean those modern new fangled WiFi ready ones,I presume.....Tech-tonic-plates 

[mrsmelly]

13 hours ago, MtB said:

 

On reflection ISTR the spelling of it nearly caused a diplomatic rift between GB and France but a compromise was reached. The English-built planes would be spelled "Concord" and the froggy-built ones, "Concorde". 

 

I don't remember the acute accent on the letter 'e' ever being there.

 

 

😱 Can you say Froggy in 2026!! There are some very fragile souls out there. 

Edited July 27 by mrsmelly

[The History Man]

My throat is fine thanks.  I’m not a little hoarse. 

[Alan de Enfield]

14 minutes ago, Russ T said:

Ah. You mean those modern new fangled WiFi ready ones,I presume.....Tech-tonic-plates 

 

Don't they move about a bit and can cause breaches and cracks in things  ?

Dinner could end up on the floor.

[The History Man]

1 minute ago, mrsmelly said:

😱 Can you day Froggy in 2026!! There are some very fragile souls out there. 

Cheese eating surrender monkeys? Wasn’t that Clarkson? 

[IanD]

15 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Duralex is a tempered glass. The heat treatment in manufacture that makes it very tough and long lasting, means that when it does let go, it utterly destroys itself and anything/one within the blast radius!

We used to have some of those Duralex mugs, and a tiled kitchen floor. It pays to be good at catching, like in cricket...

 

Dropped one while drying up, it bounced right back up off the floor with a loud bell-like ringing sound -- tempered glass on tile over concrete has a high coefficient of restitution, a bit like those powerballs you used to get -- then did it again when I missed it, but the third time was the winner when it exploded into hundreds of tiny bits of glass that went all over the kitchen... 😞 

[mrsmelly]

2 minutes ago, The History Man said:

Cheese eating surrender monkeys? Wasn’t that Clarkson? 

Sounds good enough to be good old Jezzer. 

[Jen-in-Wellies]

1 minute ago, IanD said:

We used to have some of those Duralex mugs, and a tiled kitchen floor. It pays to be good at catching, like in cricket...

 

Dropped one while drying up, it bounced right back up off the floor with a loud bell-like ringing sound -- tempered glass on tile over concrete has a high coefficient of restitution, a bit like those powerballs you used to get -- then did it again when I missed it, but the third time was the winner when it exploded into hundreds of tiny bits of glass that went all over the kitchen... 😞 

There is a lot of affection for Duralex in France, as the stuff was standard issue in school canteens for generations, where it needed to be very robust. When the factory was threatened with closure, it was crowdfunded in to a worker's cooperative. 

[Russ T]

Just now, Jen-in-Wellies said:

There is a lot of affection for Duralex in France, as the stuff was standard issue in school canteens for generations, where it needed to be very robust. When the factory was threatened with closure, it was crowdfunded in to a worker's cooperative. 

Ours actually has sentimental value,so I'm a bit loathed to get rid of it. It also fits very nicely in the rack. The plates a slightly smaller than today's sized plates,and the mugs stack.nicely on top of each other.

 

It brings on a whole nother meaning to hug in a mug

 

 

[Hudds Lad]

8 minutes ago, The History Man said:

Cheese eating surrender monkeys? Wasn’t that Clarkson? 

He stole that from The Simpsons

[IanM]

4 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

He stole that from The Simpsons

 

Indeed.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese-eating_surrender_monkeys

 

 

[mrsmelly]

Is it like this? 

 

 

[Russ T]

5 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

Is it like this? 

 

 

More like this

[Hudds Lad]

3 minutes ago, Russ T said:

More like this

Good job it broke, you'll not get much dinners in that