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Somebody once raved at me that Aperol Spritz was the best cocktail and I tried one with such high expectations, only to have them dashed, dashed like soda in a whiskey. I'm going to have to get some vanilla vodka and try making some of the ones mentioned. I hold you all reposnsible for my impending disappointment/hangover.
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Vanilla Vodka really is the best Vodka for mixing cocktails, a very worthy purchase if you enjoy shaking up a drink or two. Regular Vodka has its place too of course but for most Vodka cocktails I'd go for vanilla.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Lord of the Llamas I have a political cartoon for you to enjoy That Euler diagram seems to assert that none of the alt-right are fascists or weirdos!
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Mar 21, 2021 13:43
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forkboy84 posted:That's where they went wrong, ordering its demolition rather than it just accidentally burning down. Not everywhere is Glasgow.
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Mar 21, 2021 13:51
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Lord of the Llamas posted:That Euler diagram seems to assert that none of the alt-right are fascists or weirdos! Can't account for the misfits & weirdos though e: or "no fascists are megalomaniacs", jfc 
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Mar 21, 2021 13:59
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Borrovan posted:They've got nerds overlapping both fascists & alt-right so imo it was just an honest mistake: alt-right should be the overlap between nerds & fascists. A Venn diagram would clearly be more appropriate to show all the relevant sets in this case.
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Mar 21, 2021 14:06
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Going way back to landlords with unhealthy emotional attachments to buildings, I made this
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Mar 21, 2021 14:11
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I'm pretty sure they just mash both buttons constantly and see no issue with that.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3126016/tiananmen-square-london-uk-council-seeks-rename-streets-near "China’s plans for a huge new embassy complex in the British capital faces more controversy, after the local authority in charge of approving the construction on the former Royal Mint site supported a motion to rename streets nearby to Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong Road, Uighur Court and Tibet Hill."
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Mar 21, 2021 14:16
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China will start naming their roads after British crimes.
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Mar 21, 2021 14:24
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Spuckuk posted:belated cocktail chat, but Negronis are why I feel like death today: You don't shake a negroni If a cocktail only has booze in, you stir it in a mixing glass If it has not-booze in it that's not a mixer, you shake it
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Mar 21, 2021 14:25
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peanut- posted:Reading through the list of spontaneous reports of AZ side-effects you vaccine-havers missed out on some of the good ones. In this context it means the patient absconded after the vaccination. Probably some over enthusiastic volunteer narc-ed them after they were found missing from the chair 10 mins after the dose vs 15.
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Also my 2 favourite cocktails are Jasmine's and Into the Woods Jasmine 60ml gin 45ml lemon juice 7ml Campari 7ml orange liqueur Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail glass It goes a pleasing shade of pastel pink but is a wonderful combo of bitter and sour Into the Woods 60ml bourbon or rye 2 dashes angostura bitters 90ml cider 90ml ginger beer Combine everything in a Collins glass with ice, stir. Perfect winter cocktail
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Gonzo McFee posted:Not everywhere is Glasgow. Quite. A derelict property close to where I used to live mysteriously flooded after the bath was left running with the plug in. The ceiling caved in, plaster fell off the walls and the floors were ruined. The developer was so upset that his planning application had been rejected that he had forgotten to have the water supply turned off. He blamed 'squatters'.
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Jippa posted:https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3126016/tiananmen-square-london-uk-council-seeks-rename-streets-near LBTH does like a bit of street- and building-name trolling, I'll give them that. Milligan Street (named after the slave owner who financed the West India Docks) is due to be renamed Johns Street (after the bloke who declared independence for the Isle of Dogs after the closure of the docks), they reacted to the Met complaining about Siege House on Sidney Street by naming two new buildings on the end of it Peter House and Painter House and of course there's half a dozen estates and council buildings named after various anarchists and communists. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Does it not get quite confusing to find places if they keep renaming the roads? Or is it so that when they declare the glorious sovereign republic of tower hamlets the british army won't be able to invade because they can't find where it is?
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Guavanaut posted:China will start naming their roads after British crimes. pre:turn... left and... minus... 80 metres at... nonce junction
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Guavanaut posted:China will start naming their roads after British crimes. there are about as many historical british crimes as there are roads in china so this should work out
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Mar 21, 2021 14:45
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Chinese infrastructure planners are me playing Cities: Skylines
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OwlFancier posted:Does it not get quite confusing to find places if they keep renaming the roads? Or is it so that when they declare the glorious sovereign republic of tower hamlets the british army won't be able to invade because they can't find where it is? They wouldn't dare invade anyway because we're legally entitled to shelter in the Tower of London in the event of an invasion. In any case, the renamed streets are existing ones that are going to be cut, expanded, or otherwise buggered around with as part of the conversion (e.g. Cartwright Street and Royal Mint Street are both to be cut in two and made two-way for a staff entrance and car park) so they'd (or the remainders) would normally be renamed as part of that anyway.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They wouldn't dare invade anyway because we're legally entitled to shelter in the Tower of London in the event of an invasion. It's nice to have you back
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MikeCrotch posted:You don't shake a negroni Only shake it if it's either got freshly-squeezed fruit juice or fruit pulp in it, or if you're trying to generate foam (anything with egg in, espresso martinis). The orthodox rule is always shake fruit juice, but if you're making woo-woos or cosmopolitans for example you'll be using bottled cranberry juice with no pulp in, so just stir, it'll come out much clearer & is delicious. Same applies to lemon & lime juice: try making a margarita or sidecar with bottled juice, stir it & pour it through a tea-strainer, I dare you. It comes out completely clear & it's just a better drink imo. I still shake daquiris though, they're nicer a bit cloudy with a thin foam. It's just a matter of taste really, just be aware of why you're shaking & decide whether to do it or not based on that. Never shake pure booze though.
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crispix posted:Chinese infrastructure planners are me playing Cities: Skylines Probably not as far off as we'd like. Though that game does basically turn into Traffic Flow Simulator pretty quickly.
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Chinese being allowed to build on the site of the old royal mint (next to the Tower of London and on top of a old Abby) is going to be glorious when they start finding genuinely important artefacts and the British museum gets to  as they all go to some museum in Beijing.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Not everywhere is Glasgow. Hey, if it works in one place it'll work everywhere else. Got a listed building? Not anymore mate.
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No matter what I do in cities skylines I always end up with a ridiculous gridlock up the motorway, despite adding piles of bypasses and extra junctions and whatever. I like the game but pfft I just want to build cool train systems, I hate having to do all the road stuff first.
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          haven't been quite as busy on the farm as I wanted the last week or two but things are shaping up for a busy planting season
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ThomasPaine posted:No matter what I do in cities skylines I always end up with a ridiculous gridlock up the motorway, despite adding piles of bypasses and extra junctions and whatever. I like the game but pfft I just want to build cool train systems, I hate having to do all the road stuff first. You might prefer workers and resources soviet republic if you can abide the greatly increased jank factor, people don't even have cars unless you give them them.
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OwlFancier posted:You might prefer workers and resources soviet republic if you can abide the greatly increased jank factor, people don't even have cars unless you give them them. I have this and think it'll be great once it's out of early access! Bit too janky when I last played it a few years back, maybe I'll give it another go. I was really put off by the lack of angle snap on the buildings, it really upset the perfectionist in me.
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There is a major update in the works that adds a bunch of nice QOL stuff as well as underground infrastructure wind power, and helicopters, so I'm gonna give it another spin after that. I also wish there were more things to facilitate building pretty cities, even if everything is soviet hellconcrete. E: though I think there is an angle snap, not sure if you need to hold a button, no positional snap though which I would like.
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learnincurve posted:Chinese being allowed to build on the site of the old royal mint (next to the Tower of London and on top of a old Abby) is going to be glorious when they start finding genuinely important artefacts and the British museum gets to Eh, the Museum of London got to have a good rummage when the Mint vacated it for it to be turned into offices in the 60s (and what they mostly found was a plague pit so didn't fancy digging much further). At the moment the plans are mostly to keep the existing buildings (although demolish and rebuild a bunch of 80s expansion around the back) so it's unlikely they'd find anything of worth. Now if the old rumour/urban legend about their being multiple tunnels from it to the Tower are true, the Chinese might fancy grabbing the Crown Jewels as reparations for the Opium Wars though.
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Borrovan posted:Don't necessarily shake non-booze either imo - I said it last night but I'll say it again for emphasis: Don't daquiris and cosmos both have lime juice in though I'm spoiled at the minute though - one of the things our local food bank gets is crates of limes donated, and it turns out most people don't want crates of limes so volunteers get to take a bunch home. I will have to try stirred if I used bottled though.
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A true mask-off moment for New New Labour (and the wider tepid neoliberal "I hear you" mantra): https://twitter.com/KerryMP/status/1371811921528303618
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"There will be a consultation at which I am making it clear you will not be listened to."His Divine Shadow posted:I just ignore and move on. Also like I said in the big rant yesterday, saying 'just ignore the abusive guy who posts anti progressive poo poo, free speech concern trolling, and attacks people every few weeks' is just leaving a huge missing step. He's not going away on his own, he's said as much. He's also been here long enough to have learnt something if he was ever going to. Not doing something about him at this point says more about us than it does him.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A true mask-off moment for New New Labour (and the wider tepid neoliberal "I hear you" mantra): "i have listened, but gently caress em" is certainly a new line.
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+1 to threadbanning from a mostly-lurker here. Putting them on ignore doesn't stop them turning the thread into a more hostile place when newbies and lurkers still see their posts. But to add value to this thread, I went for a walk in stockport and saw some caves.   According to an information board they were carved in the 17th century and were used as air raid shelters in ww2. I wonder if there's another entrance or erosion's been cruel, because I wouldn't want to go in there without a rope and harness. Also, I'm envious of DesperateDan's lovely green spaces, it's all brown and covered in litter, here.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Probably not as far off as we'd like. Though that game does basically turn into Traffic Flow Simulator pretty quickly. Oh you mean Traffic Flow If Everyone Was Allergic To The Outside Lane Simulator?
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DesperateDan posted:haven't been quite as busy on the farm as I wanted the last week or two but things are shaping up for a busy planting season ThomasPaine posted:I was really put off by the lack of angle snap on the buildings, it really upset the perfectionist in me.  I didn't become General Secretary for Planning and Development of the People's Party of Peasants and Workers to not build everything on a nice grid. I'd play British Road: There Is A Planning Dispute if I wanted that. goddamnedtwisto posted:A true mask-off moment for New New Labour (and the wider tepid neoliberal "I hear you" mantra): 
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Mind if I save the pic with the daisies? I might wanna do a painting of it sometime. I love daisies. Friends I am laid low by the vaccine. I am just unwell enough to feel super whiney and a bit loopy and not unwell enough to just go to bed. woke at 4am with horrible shivers. Now I am only sweat and anger. This must be what gammons feel like all the time.
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