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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Same, but I’ve also noticed that some of the local small supermarkets have a limited selection of stuff, which COINCIDENTALLY is limited to the premium stuff. Tesco finest rather than value etc. I’m sure that’s not intentional at all. That was always the case with the smaller Tescos etc, to be fair, even before The Event. If they have to limit their selection because small, why would they pick the stuff with the lowest profit margin?
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Apr 24, 2020 13:41
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Disgusting Coward posted:Didn't happen. You reckon?
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Apr 24, 2020 13:43
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Continuity RCP posted:Giffgaff have been good for me but I've been told by a reliable source (a stranger in a beer garden several years ago) that they're actually run by the police Same (well not the police bit), they're pretty good if you already own your phone or are willing to buy one upfront off Amazon (my midrange Motorola cost about 200 quid a couple of years ago). They're O2 underneath, if that matters to you re: coverage etc.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:46
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In the run up to the Brexit vote my mum was very gammony, she said things like "Britain built a world empire it doesn't need the EU." "We've won two world wars." and used the phrase "blitz spirit". I called her today and she complained loudly that there was a lot missing from her Morrisons order, it was mostly crisps and biscuits rather than essentials. So I asked her where her blitz spirit was and she came as close to swearing I've ever heard. Sometimes you have to find entertainment wherever you can.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:50
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thank god my parents are just the tepid liberal flavour of boomer rather than frothing gammons
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Apr 24, 2020 13:52
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I can vouch for Giffgaff being perfectly good, I've been with them for years now. Good deal for what I get, and never had any issues with coverage, since it's piggybacking on O2. As for food, getting by pretty comfortably on £50 a week for 2 people. Lidl is so good.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:53
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I've been doing a £50 shop every two weeks since the start of March and judging by how full my chest freezer is and how fat I'm getting I would probably have survived just fine on half that. I don't drink at home which probably saves a fair bit. And I will happily eat scrambled egg on toast every day (cost price about 35p) in good times and bad.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:53
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See I try and make sure I am purchasing things right, but I am not sure how to keep costs down on things. I even make sure that Breakfast and lunch are similar every day, and it doesn't seem to help!
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Apr 24, 2020 13:57
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GiffGaff are poo poo if you're PAYG though - they where charging me literally 5 times as much as 3hree do now (15p min for voice, 5p for each Txt or mb of data vs 3p, 2p and 1p respectivly) I get by of £30 a week for food and (non-alcoholic) drink. But I live on toast and marmite.. and veggy curry.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:57
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Renfield posted:I get by of £30 a week for food and (non-alcoholic) drink. But I live on toast and marmite.. and veggy curry. How does one make a good veggie curry that can be frozen? I've been making veggie Chilli and, although it is not my favourite, it isn't bad.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:59
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Renfield posted:GiffGaff are poo poo if you're PAYG though - they where charging me literally 5 times as much as 3hree do now I mean I can believe that, but I pay a tenner a month for a goodybag and it does me just fine. Especially now I'm on the house wifi all the time, and the only person who actually phone-phones me ever is my dad. Also my grocery bill is uh higher than those in here, but I do now have a well stocked fridge-freezer, freezer, and minifridge, and quite a lot of booze.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:06
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ThomasPaine posted:thank god my parents are just the tepid liberal flavour of boomer rather than frothing gammons lucky well, my mam would be receptive to what I tell her if she wasn't constantly being bombarded with bullshit by my dad, who is literally The Male Online from the Viz, and from what I can tell from here is getting even more crazy now
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Apr 24, 2020 14:11
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Today I am making cawl which in my family is just dumping whatever veggies you have available into a pot and letting it simmer for most of the day. Leeks essential. Meat optional (I'm going to fry up a couple of chicken breasts). Farm Foods do bags of frozen chopped leeks which has been a gamechanger for my lazy rear end.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:12
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Food expenditure chat: Just checked my figures and I'm averaging just under £6 a day this month of which 'fine food'= 3.38 per day and 'naughty food' = 2.55 per day. Excluding March when I topped up my stockpile, my average from last June through to end of Feb was £7.25 of which 'fine food' = approx 5.27 per day and 'naughty food' = 1.98 per day. (Fine = generally healthy normal people food, naughty = choc, biccies, cakes, icecream etc) So I was a bit surprised at the difference until I compared 'fine' with 'naughty'. I'm consuming 'fine' from my stockpile and not having to top it up much, but 'naughty' is stuff that I absolutely cannot trust myself to get in and store (eg it takes me 3 minutes longer to eat 7 kitkats than 1 so buying 7 to last a week doesn't happen, takes 1 minute longer to consume large family tub of yoghurt than a single size servicing so likewise, buying a couple of big tubs to last a week doesn't happen either. γνῶθι σεαυτόνi as they say.) If I cooked from scratch, I could spend less but as someone further up said, life would be hell as I loathe and detest cooking and food prep activity with all my heart and all my soul (but funnily enough I'm actually a reasonably good cook when I do it it just gives me zero pleasure). My oven in my flat is still pristine from when I moved in. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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Apr 24, 2020 14:15
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I did a morrisons shop, bought a bag of potatoes, 5kg of rice and a load of instant noodles off amazon, and haven't bought food since. I'm getting diet coke withdrawl though, and I did spend £30 on spices (which arrived this morning!) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075QZPZMQ/ref=sns_myd_detail_page These are also delicious if you can get hold of them. I may have also bought a dehydrator... It's awesome.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:16
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Guavanaut posted:Cybergoth nite erry nite. I go to a club called antichrist and if they don't do a biohazard theme night as soon as the lockdown is lifted I will be mortified  e: just in case there's any wondering, this is quite emphatically not a pic of me
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Apr 24, 2020 14:16
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Josef bugman posted:How does one make a good veggie curry that can be frozen? I've been making veggie Chilli and, although it is not my favourite, it isn't bad. I generally don't - just do it as needed, using Pataks sauces and Quorn instead of chicken - so veggy as in vegetarian, not make with vegetables !
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Apr 24, 2020 14:17
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sassassin posted:Today I am making cawl which in my family is just dumping whatever veggies you have available into a pot and letting it simmer for most of the day. Leeks essential. Meat optional (I'm going to fry up a couple of chicken breasts). I dislike eating cawl on hot days though generally you can't go wrong while making it.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:20
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Ahhhh, got it. I know a friend of mine made a very nice banana curry a few years back. Maybe I should ask for the recipe. The only time I leave home is to do my food shop, so i would rather not do it all online. But that might be an idea going forward.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:22
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This may be (almost certainly is) a stupid question, but that vaccine trial... They've injected half the volunteers with the vaccine, and the other half with a meningitis vaccine as a control. I get that - that makes sense. But, if everyone is social distancing and isolating, surely that's going to massively lengthen the duration of the trial? Or are they telling these people that they can go out and about and lick toilet seats?
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Apr 24, 2020 14:23
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GazChap posted:This may be (almost certainly is) a stupid question, but that vaccine trial... They can also catch the virus from being deliberately injected with the virus, which i assume is the plan
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Apr 24, 2020 14:25
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I was assuming they were going to deliberately expose them to it, yes.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:26
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I assume the idea is you see whether the test vaccine group has a lower rate of catching it and then expand the trial to bigger sample sizes.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:35
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Has anyone been following what's been going on with Forward Momentum? Just read about them in on Novara: https://novaramedia.com/2020/04/23/its-time-for-the-uk-left-to-regather-momentum/
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Apr 24, 2020 14:35
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Josef bugman posted:How does one make a good veggie curry that can be frozen? I've been making veggie Chilli and, although it is not my favourite, it isn't bad. Every couple of weeks I break down a couple heads of cauliflower and roast them with salt and garam masala, then make whatever sauce separately (you can also used a jarred sauce, I personally don't because I'm on an extremely lovely restricted diet). Just stir the veg through once the sauce is done. I try to avoid cooking veg in sauces because it's too easy to overcook them that way imo. As for the sauce if I can't be arsed to make a proper korma or something I'll basically just sweat some onions with a bit of cumin, turmeric and ground coriander for ten minutes or so then chuck in some tinned tomatoes and let it simmer for at least a half hour. Maybe stir a bit of yoghurt or cream into the portion you're about to eat (not the stuff you're freezing, it can break when you reheat it). It's not too different to making a basic chilli in terms of technique, really.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:37
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Apr 24, 2020 14:43
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In this house we bleach our innards and that's that  You drink your Jeye's Fluid or there'll be no puddin!!!!
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Apr 24, 2020 14:45
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Reading the replies on that is pretty funny because apparently there are tories who are opposed to clapping because they hate the NHS so much.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:50
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lol that he is even coughing in his profile pic
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Apr 24, 2020 14:54
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Possible thread title for may - Drinking Bleach to Own the SNP
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Apr 24, 2020 14:58
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Disinfecting the Virus of Life
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Apr 24, 2020 15:03
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Nicola Sturgeon doesn't speak for me either. But on this occasion at least, I'll agree with her.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:10
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Tesseraction posted:Disinfecting the Virus of Life Read this to the tune of Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
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Apr 24, 2020 15:16
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OwlFancier posted:I was assuming they were going to deliberately expose them to it, yes. You 100% do not do this its wildly unethical. Right now the Phase 1 testing that's happening is just to see if it generates an immune response and if it randomly kills people/what side effects there are. Proving efficacy is not the goal but they will likely roll it into bigger phase II & III trials due to the urgency.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:18
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Is it more or less unethical than the harm that would come from delaying the efficacy proof?
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Apr 24, 2020 15:20
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I'm surprised they didn't drag her from her home and tie her to a giant poppy.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:22
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OwlFancier posted:Is it more or less unethical than the harm that would come from delaying the efficacy proof? If it produces the needed antibodies then it works, no need to infect people.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:24
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Let us say, for the sake of argument, that this all passes in a couple of months. 2020 was a write off; working from home has been shown to not do that much harm; people have been proved, yet again, to have the memories of goldfish, the world still turns on its axis, chickens still lay eggs etc. The system has been tested, and has not collapsed. How best to challenge it then?
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You can do that, e.g. by selecting a bunch of young healthy volunteers to try minimise the bodycount but then your data is garbage because you cant test on at-risk groups. It's been thought of and adddressed e.g. this link and some people support it. https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiaa152/5814216 So it's something people are considering but it doesnt really speed up the testing process much compared to just making the study size bigger after you establish the vaccine isnt going to cause serious side effects in most cases and you end out with a bodycount that you are directly responsible for which is problematic to say the least.
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