Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
Looks good. Decent amount of topping too. Probably about 1000 calories!
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PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Ahem!!
Now a TV question. We have been watching The Terror which I thought a bit fantastical. Then @Tenkaykev told us it's based on fact. I don't want to know the ending so I can't Google this but I want to know about the "polar bear."
A giant polar bear is supposedly stalking the crew. So far it has bitten both legs of the expedition leader, dragged him to a fishing hole and thrown him in. Next the bear knew the Eskimo woman was starving so caught a seal and left it outside her igloo, she had it for tea. Then the bear is sitting on an ice ledge above a tent where the guards are keeping watch, swings down a paw and yanks a soldier through the tent roof before taking chunks out of him. There have been some other blood soaked incidents.
Now you'll have to forgive my scepticism over how real this portrait of a polar bear is.
Do we think this bear is real? I feel it can only be some sort of illusion to describe the sailors' state of mind. Either that or my feeling the whole programme is fantastical rather than real is correct.
There's a heck of a lot of "poetic licence" which is acceptable as they are weaving a story to keep the viewer engaged. There are several books on the search for the NorthWest passage, "Arctic Labyrinth" is highly regarded.
History is a strange beast, at school people are taught about Columbus discovering America, but rediscovering would be more accurate. IIRC they have found Viking settlements quite a way inland in America, and there's a lot of local history here in Poole as fishermen regularly travelled and overwintered as far as Newfoundland in the 18th century.
TBH Mo calories is what I need. Anyway I can get them.Looks good. Decent amount of topping too. Probably about 1000 calories!
But it does look yummy.
I know it is as I happen to have something that is exactly 10" long
Your nose?I know it is as I happen to have something that is exactly 10" long
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Nahh....that's only 4"
classic33
Leg End Member
It's your shed roof, but not your shed!
Makes sense to someone, I suppose.
classic33
Leg End Member
They wrapped it for you as well?
Yes......that's what they do. You choose the base, type of sauce and all your toppings. They make it and wrap it.....3 quid
classic33
Leg End Member
Well, enjoy.Yes......that's what they do. You choose the base, type of sauce and all your toppings. They make it and wrap it.....3 quid
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I'm the same, taught that Columbus was the first, in a recent article I was reading they were saying that its likely that the Vikings weren't the first either.
classic33
Leg End Member
Brendan the Voyager got there before Columbus.
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-colony-south-carolina-christopher-columbus
