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Failed Imagineer posted:My PhD program had a few female Saudi students, the interesting bit was that the Saudi government would also subsidise a male relative to move over and chaperone their entire lives, paying them tens of thousands for the privilege. These dudes seemed invariably to be complete failsons who just wanted to get wasted and play videogames, while disapproving of anything the women wanted to do that wasn't cooking them dinner after a day in the lab. Having dated one it can't quite be all of them, although there were visits by relatives and whatnot. Of course then again there's the death penalty to think of. Though IIRC when I last looked online something like a third of saudi women in the US have a non-muslim partner, but then, well, I don't quite know how that works. Theocracies (official or functional) leave something to be desired. Not that that's even directly based on quran. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Sep 29, 2020 |
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big scary monsters posted:If you lived in catered halls you missed out on interesting people like my flatmate from Oman who at home had seven sisters who did all the housework and had never cooked so much as a cup of tea before in his life. His technique for cooking frozen meatballs was to heat up about an inch of oil in a pot, stand well back from the hob and toss them in, still frozen, resulting in huge explosions of oil all over the kitchen (that he never cleaned up). Other culinary innovations included his famous boiled whole chicken, eaten with no seasoning or sides, and boiled lettuce in milk. Amazing. More recently I had a German flatmate who was awesome but had zero life skills. I remember wandering into the kitchen to find her munching her way through a packet of raw bacon. Flicking through TV channels once she also settled on Saving Private Ryan and a few minutes into the Omaha Beach scene asked me "in this war the Americans, British and Germans all on the same side, yes?"
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Failed Imagineer posted:These dudes seemed invariably to be complete failsons who just wanted to get wasted and play videogames, while disapproving of anything the women wanted to do that wasn't cooking them dinner after a day in the lab. Some types of guy transcend all cultural and national boundaries, its seems.
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Private Speech posted:Having dated one it can't quite be all of them, although there were visits by relatives and whatnot. I assume it depends on different countries visa provisions. Just anecdotal chat anyway, I'm not trying to make any more definitive point than "theocracy weird", or maybe "patriarchy will always allow failsons to rise to the top"
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Miftan posted:I've asked various officers about it and they all denied it was radioactive, but the grunts knew what was up. No way any food should be that shade of bright-highlight-marker-yellow UKMT March 2021 - Private Speech posted:Theocracies (official or functional) leave something to be desired.
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knox_harrington posted:Flicking through TV channels once she also settled on Saving Private Ryan and a few minutes into the Omaha Beach scene asked me "in this war the Americans, British and Germans all on the same side, yes?" That reminds me of when my sister asked me, without a hint of irony, whether I Am Legend was based on a true story.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:The food doesn't need to be posh for catered halls to be a posh thing. I'm starting to admire your willingness to die on this dumbest of hills
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stev posted:That reminds me of when my sister asked me, without a hint of irony, whether I Am Legend was based on a true story.
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forkboy84 posted:I'm starting to admire your willingness to die on this dumbest of hills You can take my plastic tray from my cold dead hands. I did actually live in catered halls for a year.
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knox_harrington posted:Amazing. More recently I had a German flatmate who was awesome but had zero life skills. I remember wandering into the kitchen to find her munching her way through a packet of raw bacon. You need to buy her an account
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I knew a German that ate raw bacon, must be a thing.
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stev posted:That reminds me of when my sister asked me, without a hint of irony, whether I Am Legend was based on a true story.
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knox_harrington posted:Food in my university halls was disgusting unidentifiable slop and very much not posh, but still way better than food at an army barracks in Catterick I had the displeasure of having to eat.
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keep punching joe posted:I knew a German that ate raw bacon, must be a thing. It is indeed a thing, czechs do it sometimes too (but it's usually sold as 'german' bacon). I think the preparation is different somehow from your typical bacon though. e: Hilariously there's also "English bacon" (anglicka slanina) which AFAICT has nothing to do with England, it's thin slices of smoked bacon that's also eaten raw. this thing: 
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knox_harrington posted:Flicking through TV channels once she also settled on Saving Private Ryan and a few minutes into the Omaha Beach scene asked me "in this war the Americans, British and Germans all on the same side, yes?" Who...did she think they were fighting?  These guys?
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knox_harrington posted:Amazing. More recently I had a German flatmate who was awesome but had zero life skills. I remember wandering into the kitchen to find her munching her way through a packet of raw bacon. Arguably she would be right. Like statistically there was bound to be some Germans who fled the Nazi’s and who fought for the allies.
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TACD posted:One time I got so stoned that I got halfway through Pirates of the Caribbean before I realised it wasn’t a documentary. I didn't even make it to the halfway point before i fell asleep. What a needlessly long film that was
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The Question IRL posted:Arguably she would be right. Like statistically there was bound to be some Germans who fled the Nazi’s and who fought for the allies. Which is pretty fun when modern gammons say "we didn't let Brits who fought for Germany back into the country after the war" regarding people who left to fight for ISIS, because we did. Germany (and the forces occupying it) didn't want those dickheads around while trying to rebuild, so they were deported right back and put on trial to see if they'd done any war crimes, which is the exact same as what should have happened with the ISIS fans.
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stev posted:That reminds me of when my sister asked me, without a hint of irony, whether I Am Legend was based on a true story. I know someone who asked the same question, in equal seriousness. for the original Independence Day.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:You can take my plastic tray from my cold dead hands. Ah, this is all an elaborate ploy so you can claim to be posh. Makes more sense now.
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SpaceCommie posted:Camrath all your fudgescapades got me in the mood to try making some toffees. Those look damned nice! I have yet to try toffees (partly because my teeth can’t really deal with them well after a childhood spent crunching gobstoppers and I refuse to make things I can’t eat myself) but if they’re suitably soft then.. There is room for more than one candy maker in the UKMT- if my hobby-turned-business inspires others to do the same then that’s a net positive for the happiness level of this little community. Also given I am apparently a GCHQ asset, I’m sure a black-bag job could be arranged if necessary ;£ Edit: Today is packaging day, and the Beans Up The Backside is turning out to be a real bastard to slice- apologies if it’s not as neatly cut as most of my product! Camrath fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Sep 29, 2020 |
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lol my first on campus workshop is tomorrow and is going to be 60 people ffs
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keep punching joe posted:I knew a German that ate raw bacon, must be a thing. Smoked/cured meat is fairly common here in Norway at least. Though I've never actually eaten bacon raw.
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Boris has just announced a new plan for shaking up the FE/Uni model which sounds suspiciously like Skills Wallets 2.0, which seemingly manages to miss the point entirely.
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if its been properly smoked, which english bacon isn't particularly, then it should be safe to eat between that, the cure and the fact pork in the UK is essentially safe to eat rare. Eating english bacon raw sounds awful though
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Guavanaut posted:There were a bunch more English that fought for the Nazis. The Germans made active efforts to set up a British SS Division. Meanwhile in Britain: quote:should have reported to a police station for internment as an enemy alien. Instead he assumed the identity of a dead schoolfriend, Peter Stevens, and joined the RAF. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stevens_(RAF_officer)
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radmonger posted:The Germans made active efforts to set up a British SS Division. I mean, they did, yes. They got a grand total of 27 men at any one time, which is a bit of a weak division even by 1945 German standards I think. That's not even a full platoon.
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feedmegin posted:I mean, they did, yes. They got a grand total of 27 men at any one time, which is a bit of a weak division even by 1945 German standards I think. That's not even a full platoon. Would this be the entirely fiction 27 men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa?
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TheRat posted:Smoked/cured meat is fairly common here in Norway at least. Though I've never actually eaten bacon raw. I mean, like, Prosciutto is fairly available over here too and is basically the same principle.
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Camrath posted:Those look damned nice! I have yet to try toffees (partly because my teeth can’t really deal with them well after a childhood spent crunching gobstoppers and I refuse to make things I can’t eat myself) but if they’re suitably soft then.. That's very kind to say! It's really wierd some of them are really soft, but like bits of some of them are really crunchy. I think the brown sugar may have been to clumpy and so little bits caramelised together. I don't have a thermomiter so it was all guess work, but they're good enough for a bit of a sugary pick me up. Camrath posted:There is room for more than one candy maker in the UKMT- if my hobby-turned-business inspires others to do the same then that’s a net positive for the happiness level of this little community. The Proletariat and the Chocolate Factory.
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Jose posted:lol my first on campus workshop is tomorrow and is going to be 60 people ffs I don't want in person learning, I want to work from home goddamnit.
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Jose posted:Would this be the entirely fiction 27 men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa? Agent Garbo was the first poster. Claimed to have dozens of lurkers supporting him, spouted plausible-sounding bullshit spun from whole cloth with just enough verifiable truth to fool people, and had regrettable attitudes to women. Dude would be loving king of Reddit if he's been born 60 years later.
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Just want to add that yes I am familiar with prosciutto and e.g. speck, but bacon as sold in the UK is supposed to be cooked. She was also unable to cook anything or operate any domestic appliances. She was probably my favourite flatmate though. Live from the Knox Fridge are pig products à consommer cru: 
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minema posted:I'm doubtful that surgical masks are actually fully effective as PPE against covid when you're spending all day caring for covid patients but they say it is. I don't know what health professionals in other countries are doing though. Also PHE don't include physiotherapy where you're actively trying to teach a patient how to cough and bring up sputum as a high risk procedure and therefore by their guidelines we don't need to wear the ffp3 mask. Also chest compressions during CPR are also apparently not high risk. Wait were 6 months into this and the NHS STILL don't have n95s? ... Ive had them for months
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big scary monsters posted:If you lived in catered halls you missed out on interesting people like my flatmate from Oman who at home had seven sisters who did all the housework and had never cooked so much as a cup of tea before in his life. His technique for cooking frozen meatballs was to heat up about an inch of oil in a pot, stand well back from the hob and toss them in, still frozen, resulting in huge explosions of oil all over the kitchen (that he never cleaned up). Other culinary innovations included his famous boiled whole chicken, eaten with no seasoning or sides, and boiled lettuce in milk. A friend had a Chinese flatmate in halls who would refuse to go near him if he was in the kitchen for some unknown reason, to the point where he'd try and cook food using whatever equipment was on the opposite side of the room to my friend. This lead to some weird scenario like try to cook spaghetti under the grill because the pan was near my friend, and make toast on the hob. We ran an actual cooking rota in my 1st year flat one guy said "I can't cook except for one thing: chicken tonight and rice, so if you're good with that that's what I'll do every week" and he did and it ruled. It was great because you didn't have to think about cooking 4 nights a week and could come back wasted and there'd probably be something in the fridge. Or once on the carpet in a pile with a broken vacuum next to it after someone tried to hoover up mince. The catered halls were reputedly shite unless you were in the ultra posh ones where you had to wear evening dress or some rubbish (Bristol around 2002). Edit: I ate pancetta (?) raw once because I thought it was cured like salami and didn't know you were supposed to cook it. Do not recommend this as it tastes of nothing.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Agent Garbo was the first poster. Claimed to have dozens of lurkers supporting him, spouted plausible-sounding bullshit spun from whole cloth with just enough verifiable truth to fool people, and had regrettable attitudes to women. Dude would be loving king of Reddit if he's been born 60 years later.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Agent Garbo was the first poster. Claimed to have dozens of lurkers supporting him, spouted plausible-sounding bullshit spun from whole cloth with just enough verifiable truth to fool people, and had regrettable attitudes to women. Dude would be loving king of Reddit if he's been born 60 years later. diogenes was the first poster
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Guavanaut posted:Ganon Took me a moment to get past "what does the legend of zelda have to do with it?"
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