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goddamnedtwisto posted:simultaneously horny and racist Jaeluni Asjil posted:apparently it tastes like Hershey Bars. South African Cadbury's is sweeter and dryer/more tabletty than UK Cadbury's so I'd imagine that's a case of more sugar. e: 103 is the emergency number in Belarus and Ukraine.
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forkboy84 posted:Turkish Delights are a far bigger outrage than Chocolate Oranges 
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Neither are as bad as the one time I tried halva which was like what I imagine eating a paper wasp nest would be like.
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OwlFancier posted:We had the head teacher and her guitar, and the songs were all hymns. We had a whole music department and the head would teach all of the first 4(?) years of students music. He'd also wander off to the high street if he had a lesson gap and get pissed in the pub, then come back and throw his shoes at anybody who got an answer to a question wrong. Another one of the music teachers had absolute pitch which we'd test by doing things like kick the radiator to get a tone, which he'd immediately call out and play on the piano. He was the fun one.
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OwlFancier posted:Neither are as bad as the one time I tried halva which was like what I imagine eating a paper wasp nest would be like. Halva is amazing.
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OwlFancier posted:Neither are as bad as the one time I tried halva which was like what I imagine eating a paper wasp nest would be like. How loving dare you! Halva is heaven's own candy. (seriously if you don't like it try some sunflower based instead of the regular sesame based stuff, it's different enough that a lot of people like one or not the other)
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Halva is great, but I can only eat it somewhere with Mediterranean levels of sun.. same for Turkish delight tbh. Love them when away on holiday, can’t really stomach them in our damp and fascist land. Both cats are now home from the vet. Digby is drinking a lot but still turning down food; we’re just letting him chill for now. Bob went over to him, sniffed him over and even gave him a lick on the head.. then immediately hissed in his face, because Bob’s a grumpy sod. Digby is currently sinking his claws into my wife’s leg, which is probably a good sign.
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Beefeater1980 posted:It comes down to trust. Ordinary British workers are people who like their country, are at best live and let live to minority groups and who generally expect the government they vote for to represent their interests. They will never trust a person who tells them that actually they are less important than other people. It's just that the whole thing was badly communicated so "Labour wants all the foreigners to have the vote so that they can vote Labour and undermine the country" got traction before the actual explanation that "people who work here but can't vote here is bad for all workers, you included." The Conservative proposal that people who emigrate from the UK can vote in perpetuity rather than the 15 year limit never got the same degree of scrutiny, even though people who have left the UK for over 15 years likely have far less stake in the national interest than someone working here. Have the Israeli right claimed that Israel invented the Turkish Delight like they did with shawarma?
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Grey Hunter posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52755473 One class whom the law binds but does not protect, and another whom the law protects but does not bind
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I was astonishingly disappointed as well, because I had been wanting to try it, but it was absolutely disgusting both in taste and texture, like utterly dessicated, felt like eating a mouthful of 50/50 cornflour and tapioca starch but somehow hardended into a brick. And yeah I hate sesame which doesn't help. I grant that the one packet of it I was able to find in the UK might not have been a good example but it was unpleasant enough that I can't even begin to imagine how it could be improved to the point of edibility. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 15:14 on May 21, 2020 |
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Bobstar posted:I used to disassemble Twixes with a knife, eat the biscuit part first, then the caramel. Then repeat with the other finger. This is some work for a twix, was it worth it? Reminds me of something a dude I used to work with did, he would get a marmite sandwich and then press beef flavour hula hoops through the sandwich so that a tiny little circle of it was inside the hula hoop and then eat them. Seemed like a whole lot of effort but he assured me they were delicious.
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He could just gargle gone off brewers' yeast.
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Camrath posted:Halva is great, but I can only eat it somewhere with Mediterranean levels of sun.. same for Turkish delight tbh. Love them when away on holiday, can’t really stomach them in our damp and fascist land. I mean if you're eating it in Greece or Turkey then you're just swapping here for a warm and fascist land.
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chilli halloumi is possibly the most disappointing combination of two things I like I've ever eaten
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Aramoro posted:I mean if you're eating it in Greece or Turkey then you're just swapping here for a warm and fascist land. Fair point.
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thebardyspoon posted:This is some work for a twix, was it worth it? I was an odd child. But, yes.
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https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1263460763517272066
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The real king of confectionery is those sesame seed bars. Just a ton of sugar and sesame seeds, good poo poo.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Say what you will about chocolate oranges, they never once managed an advert that managed to be simultaneously horny and racist as this: Yeah but it resulted in this banger so there is no way to tell if it is good or bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xuedh4i_8E
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I wonder whose loving brilliant idea it was that everyone should have degrees in the first place.
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Guavanaut posted:Have the Israeli right claimed that Israel invented the Turkish Delight like they did with shawarma? Turkish Delights have somehow not really made their way to Israel, possibly because Israeli Arabs and Palestinians already have a far superior dessert in Kanafeh. Miftan fucked around with this message at 16:03 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 15:40
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Fun fact, he's just as smug in real life
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I especially like that the solution to the overavailability and commodification of degrees is to invent a new kind of qualification that can be arbitrarily witheld.
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Miftan posted:Turkish Delights have somehow not really made their way to Israel, possibly because Israeli Arabs and Palestinians already have a far superior desert in Kanafeh. See also: baklava and basbousa.
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The way I've always eaten Halwa is to mix it with lemon juice and sort of make a paste of it. Maybe that's just a regional thing though? If you're eating it dry you really need to have it with tea or something.
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I heard there was a war about the superior desert in Israel.
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OwlFancier posted:I heard there was a war about the superior desert in Israel. There wasn't, Israel only has one desert 
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I was going with superior as in "big" Also is there a reason it's a different colour on the Israeli side of the border on the satellite image? Like even the duney bit is like.. a dark grey colour. Looks like sea coal on the beach almost. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:08 on May 21, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:I especially like that the solution to the overavailability and commodification of degrees is to invent a new kind of qualification that can be arbitrarily witheld.
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OwlFancier posted:I was going with superior as in "big" I imagine the Israeli side is higher def aerial photos and the egyptian side is lower definition satellite images? With more detail it would probably look darker.
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OwlFancier posted:I was going with superior as in "big" Probably survey flights done at different times - can't imagine either side of the border is happy with a plane repeatedly flying back and forth over it. Speaking of, looking forward to seeing myself lying on a hammock in the back garden in the next update to Google Earth (I assume that's what the plane that was buzzing around yesterday was doing).
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I wondered that but it doesn't look like a photographic difference, the photographic oddities are visible on top of it. Wondered if it was some sort of agricultural project from the farms to the north. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@31.101483,34.3317247,14178m/data=!3m1!1e3
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OwlFancier posted:I was going with superior as in "big" Nothing I can think of off the top of my head, but I haven't been to the Egyptian border since the late 90s. OwlFancier posted:I wondered that but it doesn't look like a photographic difference, the photographic oddities are visible on top of it. Wondered if it was some sort of agricultural project from the farms to the north. There's not a ton of agriculture there fwiw, so it seems unlikely. Could just be pollution since the area is more industrialised?
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OwlFancier posted:I was going with superior as in "big"
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OwlFancier posted:I wondered that but it doesn't look like a photographic difference, the photographic oddities are visible on top of it. Wondered if it was some sort of agricultural project from the farms to the north. I think it might be a difference in time of day the photos were taken, as the Egyptian side has shorter shadows coming off the dunes, and a difference in cameras.
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OwlFancier posted:I wondered that but it doesn't look like a photographic difference, the photographic oddities are visible on top of it. Wondered if it was some sort of agricultural project from the farms to the north. Definitely taken at different times, so different shadow lengths - if you zoom in and out the darkness on the Israeli side changes shape presumably as different resolutions of photos from different flights are loaded in. Google does an absolute shitload of work to blend the satellite and plane photos and sometimes it gives weird results. e: The Egyptian side seems to be *considerably* higher-resolution than the Israeli side, too - maybe Israel aren't keen on open-source 30cm resolution photography being available on their side of the border, for... some reason... goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 16:25 on May 21, 2020 |
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 Yeah the Israelis are definitely stopping higher-res coverage on their side of the border - the divide is sharp enough that I'm assuming it's from telling Google not to publish it rather than just stopping the flights themselves.
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Someone set the United Nations Security Council Resolution on Israel to low.
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Guavanaut posted:Someone set the United Nations Security Council Resolution on Israel to low.  I assume Google have now fixed the weird thing they used to have where when they were requested to lower the resolution in one position they had to raise it somewhere else, which meant there was a patch of a village somewhere in Africa in perfect 30cm resolution the exact size and shape of the US Naval Observatory building (the VPs official residence) in DC because Dick Cheney didn't want people to see all the dead bodies piled up outside his window.
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