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I like coffee and it's not for the caffeine because I switched to de-caf because I was drinking ridiculous amounts and loving myself up. I also drink it black so it's not for the sugar and milk either. [edit] There are 57 baked beans in a tin of Heinz Baked Beans and that is the maximum amount of beans you should try and fit up your arse.
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Saros posted:Duallit is the manufacturer for the Hotel Chocolat Hot choc machine and their milk frother is both literally 1/2 the price and the exact same mechanism, 50£ extra for a copper finish and a worse handle oh the wonder of marketing. Is it this one? https://www.dualit.com/products/new-milk-frother
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kustomkarkommando posted:Has anyone in NI seen a fresh tomato recently - hit Tesco, sainsburys and lidl today to no avail. We (Lidl Lisburn) got produce yesterday and today after not having anything since new years eve.
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Jan 8, 2021 18:07
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Tomatoes are out of season.
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kustomkarkommando posted:Has anyone in NI seen a fresh tomato recently - hit Tesco, sainsburys and lidl today to no avail. Was in Tesco in Lisburn a few days ago and they had a handful of packets. No idea what it's like today though! Lisburn seems to be where all the tomatoes are...
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kustomkarkommando posted:Has anyone in NI seen a fresh tomato recently - hit Tesco, sainsburys and lidl today to no avail. Yeah it's really starting to show in the supermarkets. Only been able to get utterly green bananas this last week. Got some on Monday and they still aren't ripe 
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Jan 8, 2021 18:12
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Dead Goon posted:Tomatoes are out of season. Is wanting to eat a tomato in January neo liberalism
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Mebh posted:Good to know! I am not at the point of ph testing my coffee yet but with staying inside for another year it's only a matter of time. Only did the Ph stuff because of my messed up stomach. I buy the shittiest/cheapest ground coffee for this as my tastebuds are not sophisticated at all so i may as well save on the money. 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When I was 10 and living with my nan for a year, I was a bit porky so she bought me 3 weeks supply of meal replacement biscuits. I ate the lot in a single expensive biscuit binge and still had room for supper. But yea I’m not great at self-control around snacks either. I generally just try to keep snacks out of the house and have a simple routine for what I eat every day; I’m perfectly happy eating the same thing for breakfast and lunch every day and just varying what I eat in the evening. Makes it dead easy to hit a calorie goal when only one meal changes each day.
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Tarnop posted:https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1347590552863305728 Wasn't he made aware of the danger in September?
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Jan 8, 2021 18:33
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Melissa McCarthyism posted:We (Lidl Lisburn) got produce yesterday and today after not having anything since new years eve. The nearest i get to a tomato these days is eating a can of baked beans. Is Bow Street Mall still going?, lived in digs on Seymour Avenue for couple years back in 1990.
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stev posted:Wasn't he made aware of the danger in September? The official line is that the new strain was discovered in October. Once they knew about it, they found it in samples taken in September, so that's accepted as when it showed up. At some point between October and December, they worked out that it was more transmissible. The Tory line is that the government was briefed on the nature of the new strain on the morning of the 18th, and if that's not true then no one involved has been willing to break ranks.
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Tarnop posted:The official line is that the new strain was discovered in October. Once they knew about it, they found it in samples taken in September, so that's accepted as when it showed up. At some point between October and December, they worked out that it was more transmissible. The Tory line is that the government was briefed on the nature of the new strain on the morning of the 18th, and if that's not true then no one involved has been willing to break ranks. Didn't Matt Hancock cite it the week before that?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Didn't Matt Hancock cite it the week before that? I think he mentioned being told about a new strain but not that he'd had the full briefing about it.
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Tarnop posted:The official line is that the new strain was discovered in October. Once they knew about it, they found it in samples taken in September, so that's accepted as when it showed up. At some point between October and December, they worked out that it was more transmissible. The Tory line is that the government was briefed on the nature of the new strain on the morning of the 18th, and if that's not true then no one involved has been willing to break ranks. Boris Lied People Died.
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NI goons : if any of you have a ps5 (disc edition), I will agree to a swap deal and send you an only partially eaten pack of cherry tomatoes. Pm me if interested.
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My grandmother's been took to hospital with COVID and isn't expected to survive. My niece has also told me she and her partner have lost their sense of taste and smell yesterday. gently caress. gently caress gently caress gently caress.
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Tarnop posted:It's possible, but at the time of the "Christmas is cancelled, sort of" announcement the general sentiment was of something politically convenient being pulled out of the bag at the last moment. Right, but I at least got that impression because in the Commons the week before I'm *certain* Hancock used it as justification for the massive spike in London, and at the time it seemed like a convenient lie to excuse them putting London in T2 despite still having some of the highest numbers in the country.
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Olpainless posted:My grandmother's been took to hospital with COVID and isn't expected to survive. My niece has also told me she and her partner have lost their sense of taste and smell yesterday. gently caress. gently caress gently caress gently caress. Sorry man. Hope they are all ok, although for your gran if the worst happens I hope she is comfortable.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Right, but I at least got that impression because in the Commons the week before I'm *certain* Hancock used it as justification for the massive spike in London, and at the time it seemed like a convenient lie to excuse them putting London in T2 despite still having some of the highest numbers in the country. You're probably right, there's too much history happening too fast for me to keep up
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Convex posted:Sorry man. Hope they are all ok, although for your gran if the worst happens I hope she is comfortable. Yeah, this. 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Right, but I at least got that impression because in the Commons the week before I'm *certain* Hancock used it as justification for the massive spike in London, and at the time it seemed like a convenient lie to excuse them putting London in T2 despite still having some of the highest numbers in the country. 14 December according to this https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4857
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crispix posted:gonna get growin some tamatas i think 
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Convex posted:Sorry man. Hope they are all ok, although for your gran if the worst happens I hope she is comfortable. Thank you. I'm trying to take some comfort that she'll be able to see my grandad again afterwards. ... I'm not normally particularly religious but it's something to hold on to. I'm literally doing work and reading poo poo on here now just to take my mind away from it. goddamnedtwisto posted:Right, but I at least got that impression because in the Commons the week before I'm *certain* Hancock used it as justification for the massive spike in London, and at the time it seemed like a convenient lie to excuse them putting London in T2 despite still having some of the highest numbers in the country. Yeah, this is how I feel it was, trying to blame figures on 'scary new mutant' as opposed to 'we're letting schools turn into loving plague factories'.
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My hot take on coffee is that coffee is good but caffeine is bad. I accidentally went like 2-3 weeks without having any caffeine (wasn't working or going out anywhere and couldn't be arsed to use the machine) and then when I tried having a coffee it made me feel awful - just very unpleasantly wired and tense. Also my sleep has improved massively and I just generally feel a lot less groggy through the day. I listened to the Caffeine episode of "Say Why to Drugs" which is a really excellent podcast with Scroobius Pip and Dr. Suzy Gage where they talk about the appeal, affects, pros, cons of different kinds of drugs but not in a scalding way: https://play.acast.com/s/saywhytodrugs/caffeine Anyway she works as a drug researcher at a university and she said that at their department meetings they have two pots of coffee - normal and decaf, and anybody who's ever done any research into caffeine always has decaf. Effectively what caffeine does is not "wake you up" or whatever - it brings you out of withdrawal. That lovely tired feeling you get before having a coffee, and the feeling you get of suddenly being awake and feeling good - yeah, the awake and feeling good part is how you feel without caffeine at all, the lovely part is how you feel when in caffeine withdrawal. As far as making coffee - we have a fancy bean-to-cup Delonghi machine and it's amazing - they're about £300 but we got ours as a wedding gift from my wife's well-off aunt and it's been a godsend. Really excellent coffee - you have to play around a bit with grind size, bean amount, amount of water, water temp (though you only have to do this once really and then you can usually just tweak one factor, usually amount of water, for different kinds of beans) but once you nail it you get really great tasting coffee with hardly any bitterness.
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There's so many less lovely and less harmful stimulants but all of them got banned.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That's a skidplate. *This* is a skidpan: I did that coming home this evening. Albeit less impressive in a corsa than a bus.
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Just Another Lurker posted:The nearest i get to a tomato these days is eating a can of baked beans. I hardly ever enter it, but yeah it is still going, last I heard they shut the M and S in there.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:We're 14 days past Christmas day - you'd expect to see the infections falling and deaths at least starting to plateau by now. Obviously there's a couple of days lag but still, that hesitation between cancelling Christmas in London and actually properly locking down is really showing itself here. I speculated at the time that maybe the new variant was being played up in apocalyptic terms to scare Johnson into taking any action at all You had a better read though, they do seem to have been rattled
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peanut- posted:In a fit of new year stupidity I signed up for a vegetable box delivery. Anyone know what a human does with a celeriac? Peel it, cut the roots off, Dice it into chips, toss it in olive oil, paprika and chicken or veg boullion (salt if you have that) throw it in the oven at 180 for 30-40min depending on your oven strength and how thick you cut the chips. You may want to shake the pan half way through. Lots of moisture will come out and they'll shrink up massively. Eat dipped into mayo and or ketchup like French fries. It's low carb so I make it as a fries sub for my diabetic partner a lot and it's close enough that it doesn't spike her blood sugar.
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Jakabite posted:Over 1300 deaths in the last 24 hours. 
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Olpainless posted:My grandmother's been took to hospital with COVID and isn't expected to survive. My niece has also told me she and her partner have lost their sense of taste and smell yesterday. gently caress. gently caress gently caress gently caress. Sorry to hear this  I hope you have people around you to lean on. If not my DMs are open.
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Perhaps a hamster posted:Meanwhile we're business as usual, back to work next week, guess should just hope I don't get coughed at or anything Depending on what you do and your coworkers you could take a page from the NEU and refuse to work in dangerous conditions under Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. Demand to see the risk assessment, keep an eagle eye on any breaches of it and kick up a huge fuss about the whole thing, particularly if there is an alternative way of working that they just don't want to do.
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In covid news https://twitter.com/vplus/status/1347567240745537536 Interestingly I saw some US commentary to the effect that the US would take a while yet to spin up mass injection sites anyway and wouldn't hit the supply limit for a while, and could watch the UK to see how the strategy shakes out in the meanwhile
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Lungboy posted:Is it this one? https://www.dualit.com/products/new-milk-frother Yup.
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namesake posted:Depending on what you do and your coworkers you could take a page from the NEU and refuse to work in dangerous conditions under Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. Demand to see the risk assessment, keep an eagle eye on any breaches of it and kick up a huge fuss about the whole thing, particularly if there is an alternative way of working that they just don't want to do.
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