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oh but seriously I posted:How the gently caress did Starmer win? What did you do? More than 50% of the electorate didn't bother to vote. E: 186 is fewer thousands than people who didn't bother to vote in the Labout leadership election.
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thespaceinvader posted:More than 50% of the electorate didn't bother to vote. Turnout was 72% of members, 95% of registered supporters, and 35% of affiliate members for a combined total of 62.5%. What am I missing?
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Now I think about it I'm fairly sure they're actually just moving supplies/RAMC staff about and using the empty skies for a chance to have a bit of a joyride. I remember a mini-panic a few years ago when two landed at the Artillery Ground on the edge of the City of London and the Army rather sheepishly admitted - between waffle about operational preparedness and the need for training crews - that it was actually just some retiring General and his staff going to a jolly at the Honourable Artillery Company.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:27
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Just put CNN on to see what they're saying about the Oil crash, and they're currently talking to Anna Soubry lol
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Apr 20, 2020 19:29
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WhatEvil posted:Could they be delivering patients to Nightingale? It's not impossible - they can be kitted out to carry 24 stretchers - but they're such buggers to land anywhere built-up (they're far too heavy to land on the Royal London helipad, for example), and so expensive to run that unless they've suddenly had to empty out a whole ICU somewhere it doesn't seem particularly practical compared to an ambulance. Also like I say they're landing at London City which while *close* to Nightingale is still a good few hundred metres away so you'd still need a fleet of ambulances to decant the patients from the airport to the hospital. Like I say it's probably supplies/staff being delivered by the AAC who like to get into town when they can, even if it's a bit short on places to spend their flight pay right now.
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Cooking, and bread making most recently, are things in our culture which were once ubiquitous but are now performed by conspicuous experts. Usually male ones. As if the message is that to cook you need a hundred personalised knives and face like a crumpled paper bag, and nothing less than a king's banquet is acceptable. To bake bread the expectation is that you'll have read a 2500 page reference book, built your own granary and if you're not doing some sort of sourdough megabaguette gluten-free wonderleaven then basically why are you even trying? I don't have a problem with cooking or baking bread because I see them as food experiments rather than a solemn ritual. Even the fuckups are usually edible. Singing, on the other hand, was also once ubiquitous but you will never catch me "experimenting" with karaoke.
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Singing the kind of songs you would get in karaoke hasn't ever been that commonly practiced. For much the same reason there's never been a widespread form of cookery that involves complex recipes and equipment.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:44
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BizarroAzrael posted:Pretzels sound like a good idea, I was thinking of doing pretzel burger buns recently. Just used a big roasting tray with some parchment at the bottom. I've since got hold of a proper former to make it a nicer shape but I got by before doing the final prove just in a tea-towel lined bowl with a load of flour in it.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:45
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Overminty posted:It's this, wanna live somewhere with a dishwasher so much. For those who have posted this - you can get little tabletop dishwashers and a lot of them can just be hooked up to the sink rather than plumbed in, if like me you live in a rental with a poky little kitchen and an arse of a landlord. It took me 5 years of handwashing everything to find this out (loving baby bottles nearly broke me). The space taken up by the dishwasher is more than made up for by not having dirty/just washed dishes cluttering the surfaces.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Maybe dePfeffel had a relapse so they're putting military into place to set up books of condolence and to manage the mass outpouring of Diana-style grief which will fall upon the nation. i've asked Gibbo and he hasn't heard anything so it's probably nothing
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Apr 20, 2020 19:49
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oooo - young man...... https://twitter.com/1sthappysodme/status/1252138807249571840?s=20
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bump_fn posted:why’s there a chinook flying over west london Is it painted black
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baka kaba posted:conspiracy theory: they're flying them around for no reason, just so people assume the government must be doing real serious stuff like in the war It's the Stadium Lasagna; they're finally doing it.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:57
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WhatEvil posted:Could they be delivering patients to Nightingale? I know from an acquaintance they've been prepping to use Chinooks to evacuate people from the channel Islands if/when they need to.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:59
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:oooo - young man...... What *have* Lovely Wobbly Randy Old Ladies been doing with themselves during quarantine? No meter readers, posties having to keep their distance, probably not even many plumbers about. This has been their worst crisis since milk delivery stopped being common.
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Apr 20, 2020 20:00
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Ebola Dog posted:I know from an acquaintance they've been prepping to use Chinooks to evacuate people from the channel Islands if/when they need to. Typical of the bloody French to use this opportunity to make their move!
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Apr 20, 2020 20:01
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Only in Luxembourg... https://twitter.com/Xavier_Bettel/status/1252306092278919168
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Ebola Dog posted:I know from an acquaintance they've been prepping to use Chinooks to evacuate people from the channel Islands if/when they need to. Just because it's the channel islands or is there a specific reason?
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OwlFancier posted:Just because it's the channel islands or is there a specific reason? Can't let rich people die!
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OwlFancier posted:Just because it's the channel islands or is there a specific reason? They didn't go into details. I presume it's in case the hospital's on the islands got overwhelmed since they are still British territory the French probably wouldn't want them. Using a helicopter would avoid the need to use airports so could land closer to hospital's on either end. I'm just speculating.
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Answers Me posted:Just put CNN on to see what they're saying about the Oil crash, and they're currently talking to Anna Soubry lol https://twitter.com/rennofoto/status/1252307148253597696 
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OwlFancier posted:Just because it's the channel islands or is there a specific reason? The quick boat is a little rough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tND8PDgFhLQ
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Apr 20, 2020 20:13
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I didn't know they could have negative value.
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Ebola Dog posted:They didn't go into details. I presume it's in case the hospital's on the islands got overwhelmed since they are still British territory the French probably wouldn't want them. Using a helicopter would avoid the need to use airports so could land closer to hospital's on either end. I'm just speculating. A Chinook is quicker than most small planes and a lot easier to use to transport a patient in bed with ventilator in tow. Probably a shitload easier to load and unload a bed from than a big plane, too.
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Goldskull posted:Can't let rich people die! Indigenous Channel Islanders aren't that rich. Bobstar posted:Only in Luxembourg... I have visions of Spinal Tap perched on the nose.
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Maugrim posted:For those who have posted this - you can get little tabletop dishwashers and a lot of them can just be hooked up to the sink rather than plumbed in, if like me you live in a rental with a poky little kitchen and an arse of a landlord. Omg such a thing exists?? Please tell me more! How expensive are they? What model should I get?
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Apr 20, 2020 20:33
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OwlFancier posted:I didn't know they could have negative value. The reporting is a little fucky, but as best as I understand, all of America's futures trading contracts for oil for May expire at the end of today, and if you still have a contract when it expires, you own whatever's in the contract, in this case oil. So all of the futures traders were paying people to take the oil contracts off their hands because there's so much in storage in the US and it's not being used so no-one wanted to buy it. The big question is what happens a few months down the line when US storage starts maxing out
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OwlFancier posted:I didn't know they could have negative value. You now have contracts to deliver products that nobody wants and there's nowhere to store them, and storage costs money, and the deadline when that contract becomes real life train tankers of Texas tea that someone has to put somewhere* grows nearer, so they're effectively paying people to take that contract off their hands. *This is a definitely fabricated story to teach a moral lesson about it but stranger things have actually happened in the world of commodity trading and speculation. WhatEvil posted:I remember something like this before. It's not "grab a random photo" it's "we photographed this person a while back for a specific thing but the release we made them sign allows us to use their photo for a vaguely defined 'promotional purpose'" or something. An individual would have no hope against CCHQ, but the original photos were for publication in a trade union magazine weren't they? If they can't kick up a fuss about this bullshit then what are they even for?
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Pesky Splinter posted:It's the Stadium Lasagna; they're finally doing it. drat you're right, those flight paths are blatantly precision layering manoeuvres 
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Coohoolin posted:Omg such a thing exists?? Please tell me more! How expensive are they? What model should I get? Examples: https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/st/table-top-dishwashers
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Coohoolin posted:See this is the thing, cremina is the simplest type of pasta sauce made by combining olive oil sauteed flavourings (ex garlic, chillies, etc) with a little bit of pasta water. It's a bit of a stretch to say that British people not making a type of pasta sauce that not even Google has heard of as latent anti continental racism, isn't it?
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Dead Goon posted:It's a bit of a stretch to say that British people not making a type of pasta sauce that not even Google has heard of as latent anti continental racism, isn't it? Nothing involving the british and latent racism is ever a stretch
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Frankly I'm more surprised the british don't make pasta sauce with bisto granules.
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Trin Tragula posted:Turnout was 72% of members, 95% of registered supporters, and 35% of affiliate members for a combined total of 62.5%. What am I missing? Guessing they're getting mixed up with the fact that more of the electorate didn't vote than voted for Starmer.
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Bobstar posted:Only in Luxembourg... Is that Luxembourgish? I don't think I've heard it before but it looks and sounds exactly like French, German and Dutch had a really messy, drunken night together and this was the result.
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If you want an example of "stranger things have actually happened in the world of commodity trading and speculation" then two guys in a warehouse managed to use 30 million pounds of onions to control 98% of the onion market in Chicago allowing them to make millions by shorting the market and threatening to release them. This ended up bankrupting farmers who had to pay for their onions to be disposed of, effectively making the onion price negative. Lessons were learned from this, so now we do the exact same thing but with pork bellies, oil, frozen orange juice concentrate, and, increasingly, utter bollocks. 
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Coohoolin posted:Omg such a thing exists?? Please tell me more! How expensive are they? What model should I get? You're looking at £150-350 probably? This is the model we ended up getting and we're pretty pleased with it - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153660910002 Size ratings are by number of place settings - this one is 8 place settings which is about as big as tabletops go, but if you don't have kids (and/or don't have the space) you'll surely be fine with a 4 or 6 Obviously measure the area first and factor in a couple of inches at the back to run the pipe. Ours takes up the entire square of worktop next to the cooker and overlaps the draining board a bit but we reckoned it would just about work, and indeed it does. We also ended up springing quite a bit of cash to get it properly plumbed in because our taps are a stupid shape and really hard to attach the hose to.
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I know the thread is bizarrely jumping around between oil, NHS astroturfing and cooking right now, so here's my contribution to cooking discourse: Can you peel and smash garlic cloves, measure things and add them to a pan? You can (and should) make this: https://smittenkitchen.com/2017/10/quick-pasta-and-chickpeas-pasta-e-ceci/ Coohoolin will like it too because it's in the same vein as his really simple "add stuff to pasta and use the pasta water to make the sauce" authentic Italian thing - effectively it's actually even simpler than that because you just add a (measured) load of stuff to the pot with the uncooked pasta at the beginning and the pasta absorbs the right amount and releases starch into the sauce to make it silky. In summary: peel and smash a couple of cloves of garlic, fry in a little olive oil in a saucepan til they just start taking on colour, add 1 tin (drained and rinsed) chickpeas, 3tbsp tomato paste, 55g dry pasta, 475ml water, salt, pepper, and chilli flakes if you want. Cook til pasta is done. They also have a "finishing oil" you can make to drizzle over the top - garlic, rosemary, salt and pepper, fry in 3tbsp olive oil til garlic starts to take on colour then take off the heat. It is one of the simplest yet tastiest recipes I've made in a long time. It's also vegan. From start to finish it'll take about 20 minutes and use one saucepan (plus a frying pan if you make the finishing oil - I have a really small one I use for this).
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^^^ Oh yeah I made that not long ago after seeing Andy make it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaf0QUqbFAQ it's good! it is pretty soupy rather than saucy but you can always use less liquid I'm gonna big up this cauliflower soup again because it's great, I didn't have leeks at the time so I just used onion. You just need a stick blender (which are great to have in general and they're cheap) https://www.americastestkitchen.com/print/recipes/7491-cauliflower-soup
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i simply exist by purchasing 2 chicken bakes and a doughnut from Greggs.
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