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Z the IVth posted:Chopsticks for Chinese food.
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lmao https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1345721302515134468?s=20
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Yeah rice is really easy to eat with chopsticks. My dad made us learn how to eat with chopsticks at the same time as learning to use a knife and fork and although it was probably the only active parenting decision he ever made it was a good one.
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happyhippy posted:Out of curiosity, who are the sex pests and where are the accounts or news about them? There's been a bunch that have been mentioned, but as I understand it there's a lot more that don't get named because it'd be career suicide and their identities get passed around confidentially in womens' comedy group chats.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:We are so hosed it's not even funny in a gallows humour kinda way any more:
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Ewan posted:Works quite easily - just raise the bowl to your face and kind of shovel in the rice with the chopsticks. Esp as Chinese rice has normally been cooked in a rice cooker so sticks/clumps together more than rice you might have cooked at home. It gets fiddly after your rice destabilizes when you get too much sauce/gravy on it. Have you tried eating rice covered in Ma Po Tofu? The whole shovelling rice into mouth via chopsticks can also be considered variably rude depending on your company - sort of like chewing with your mouth open in the wrong circles. Japanese food is handled much more elegantly with just chopsticks since they dispense with the gravy and sauces for their rice dishes and their rice is extra sticky to boot. I can quite easily handle Japanese food purely with chopsticks but I tend to prefer an additional spoon with Chinese.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:We are so hosed it's not even funny in a gallows humour kinda way any more: It seems weird to me, as an outside observer, that they made this huge thing about how Actually It's Not Our Fault, It's The New Virus! to excuse their insanely bad handling of everything, but aren't taking the out they tried to give themselves to actually shift policy. Especially considering the stuff a bit before Christmas where the EU was prepared to quarantine the entire island until they came out and admitted it's actually not that much of a difference.
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shimmy shimmy posted:It seems weird to me, as an outside observer, that they made this huge thing about how Actually It's Not Our Fault, It's The New Virus! to excuse their insanely bad handling of everything, but aren't taking the out they tried to give themselves to actually shift policy. Especially considering the stuff a bit before Christmas where the EU was prepared to quarantine the entire island until they came out and admitted it's actually not that much of a difference. my fave bit is the official opposition demanding an "october" lockdown, not a "march" lockdown yknow, the one that went so loving badly it apparently bred a supercovid that murders children
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Jan 4, 2021 00:08
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I wish we could plot this threads approach to solving covid.
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Jan 4, 2021 00:15
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My approach is just screaming silently and hiding on my sofa with my wife and five cats and then drinking so much I destroyed my stomach and can't eat or drink much anymore. Hey maybe this will help me lose weight!
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Theres a lot of horrible things happening, but a super covid that murders children isn't something that has mutated yet.
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Just got a text telling me that due to a high rate of people calling with Covid symptoms, the e-Consult system is being turned off for my GP practice. loving lol
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Mebh posted:My approach is just screaming silently and hiding on my sofa with my wife and five cats and then drinking so much I destroyed my stomach and can't eat or drink much anymore. This is me but I don't have a wife or sofa or thankfully cats or a working stomach.
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Weasling Weasel posted:Theres a lot of horrible things happening, but a super covid that murders children isn't something that has mutated yet. Look, you can't just achieve that kind of thing without time and effort. Give us a year more of not locking down.
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Z the IVth posted:It gets fiddly after your rice destabilizes when you get too much sauce/gravy on it. Have you tried eating rice covered in Ma Po Tofu?
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Ewan posted:I mean I have been to some pretty posh banquets and it didn't stop people picking up their bowls and shoveling rice, or slurping noodles, etc... Anywhere with posh company you aren't going to be dishing your mapo tofu onto your rice anyway; you would eat them separately. It's not so much posh-ness as cultural inclination. I'm sure slurping and chopstick shovelling is normal and culturally standard in mainland China. In other places it just marks you as an uneducated hick - sort of like chewing your food with your mouth open or talking with a full mouth. I doubt any non-Chinese gives much of a poo poo one way or the other though.
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TACD posted:I'm assuming basically nothing will happen until the daily deaths reaches a new record, at which point the media will cough politely and Boris will implement a Tier 5 where everybody has to stay 3m apart. nah we're changing to 6 feet now we've left the EU and you have to sing what age are you now as well as the happy birthday song when you wash your hands
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Crispix is very serious about making irc a good and safe place to hang out. Ps. #ukgoons on synirc!
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I like remembering that I liked comedy when first watching it ten or twenty years ago or so and not revisiting it because its either problematic or poo poo anyway, whats the point. Nowadays I just sit around laughing at anything.kingturnip posted:Just got a text telling me that due to a high rate of people calling with Covid symptoms, the e-Consult system is being turned off for my GP practice. I'm dreading any inconvenient yet painful injuries over the next few months. My entire house is a Final Destination style trap, but rather than dying just an ear gets cut off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErxKDbH-iiI
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I wish we could plot this threads approach to solving covid. As far as I can remember it's consistently pro-severe lockdown from the start.
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kingturnip posted:Just got a text telling me that due to a high rate of people calling with Covid symptoms, the e-Consult system is being turned off for my GP practice. So if you need a doctor now what? Just die?
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Necrothatcher posted:As far as I can remember it's consistently pro-severe lockdown from the start. Yeah that is not the gotcha 99 thinks it is lol
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Schoolchat: I'm a paediatrician, and there's been a lot of chat in paediatric circles regarding school and covid. Kids aren't really getting COVID. And if they are, they aren't getting sick enough from it to warrant hospitalisation. I personally haven't seen any in the DGH I'm currently working at, and a few colleagues have seen cases dotted around the region. There is a rare and presumed auto-immune condition which looks a bit like Kawasaki's disease - PIMS-TS - which has been associated with covid and has made children (almost exclusively older children/teens) very unwell. This still only represents a few cases nationally. The college is keen for children to go back to school. I know a few people have been glib about children learning to use cutlery, but you can essentially treat this as a surrogate marker for development and engagement. When I do autism assessment clinics I often get referred little 2 1/2 year olds who are just a bit behind on language, maybe have a few odd behaviours. If they are clearly autistic we go down the autism pathway then and there, otherwise I often just say "see how he is in nursery, we'll get them to write a report to us". Often a combination of (a) extra time to develop and (b) the socialising and stimulating environment of school, are enough for these kids' development to come on leaps and bounds. The developmental benefits of school continue beyond the toddlers going into nursery. It's not just the educational benefits of school that are important, it's the socialising and development benefits too. Children get exposed to people, ideas and practices outside of their home lives. They get some degree of routine and structure to their day. There's a real risk that the kids with parents who are either too busy to entertain them, or too crap to bother, will spend 2 years watching YouTube videos and little else. Kids who aren't just educationally behind, but socially and developmentally behind too. Of course, there's also a wholly cynical thread of people who want schools open so parents can come to work. And the fact that children can still spread infection at school (worse with teens, better with younger kids). Fully agree that schools should be the last thing to close and first thing to open. I just don't like the idea that everyone thinks kids going back to school is just about sitting GCSEs. Anyway I'll leave you with a tweet thread that's quite good. https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1345711455220412418
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OwlFancier posted:How... do you eat curry with chopsticks? https://trekthimalaya.com/food-in-nepal-its-polite-to-eat-with-your-hands/ My favourite thing about British mystics was how they went to India & Nepal and came back nodding wisely, telling everyone that the left hand is taboo over there, and they are so superstitious they all look at you in horror if they see you eating with it.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:We are so hosed it's not even funny in a gallows humour kinda way any more: When you flatten the curve..... but on the wrong axis.  :
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crispix posted:i detest the happy birthday song, i do yankee doodle dandy instead I do the first verse and chorus of The Red Flag for maximum socialism credits.
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winegums posted:Anyway I'll leave you with a tweet thread that's quite good. I read that twitter thread, and his response to people asking about safety of teachers and their families is pretty much what you'd expect from someone crowing about how "moderate" they are: loving disgusting. He's saying that because other essential workers are having to work in unsafe workplaces, teachers should too. Weird how all the jobs he lists for comparison don't have unions worth a drat. Also weird how none of the jobs involve being stuck in a closed room with 30+ disease spreaders who have been told by dickheads like this that they're not at risk and can, by implication, do whatever they want.
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Lads school is shut for two weeks, he's already climbing the walls and I'm going to have to work hard to keep him sane, but I can understand the risks. I'm still not sure why they didn't make wave 1 of the vaccine all NHS,
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Grey Hunter posted:Lads school is shut for two weeks, he's already climbing the walls and I'm going to have to work hard to keep him sane, but I can understand the risks. The cynical answer is that the consent manufacturing machine has already cast NHS workers as heroes to be sacrificed in a war, and teachers as workshy lefties who want more time off.
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Grey Hunter posted:Lads school is shut for two weeks, he's already climbing the walls and I'm going to have to work hard to keep him sane, but I can understand the risks. Yeah I'm married to a teacher so I'm inherently biased but to my mind the obvious scale is: hospital staff -> care home staff -> teachers -> most clinically vulnerable -> olds -> everyone else in decreasing age order Though I guess olds are much more likely to vote tory than the preceeding groups in my plan.
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Grey Hunter posted:Lads school is shut for two weeks, he's already climbing the walls and I'm going to have to work hard to keep him sane, but I can understand the risks. it's indeed exactly the opposite - OAPs/frontline workers are phase 1, 'first responders, the military, those involved in the justice system, teachers, transport workers, and public servants essential to the pandemic response' are phase 2 the main decisionmaking factor cited is given the vaccine stock and community infection prevalence, the committee has given up on using vaccination to interrupt transmission and instead is purely focused on reducing mortality+serious disease. The inclusion of frontline workers in phase 1 at all is justified not by their personal protection but by reference to their likelihood of transmitting to OAPs quote:Given the current epidemiological situation in the UK, the best option for preventing morbidity and mortality in the initial phase of the programme is to directly protect persons most at risk of morbidity and mortality. given that the policy goal of breaking transmission networks is discarded upfront, heavily occupationally exposed individuals like teachers or essential retail workers are indeed deprioritized, 'subject to consideration of the latest data on vaccine safety and effectiveness' in phase 2 ronya fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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South Korea: Population 51.6m, pop. density 515/sq. km, urbanization 81%. Covid deaths: 981. News latest - We have achieved nuclear fusion world record. United Kingdom: Population 66.6m, pop. density 275/sq. km, urbanization 83% Covid deaths: 75,024. News latest - War criminal: my thoughts on vaccine. We could have done it in the right order if we hadn't hosed up everything else.
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