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If you want to learn more about chest freezers, check out the Technology Connections guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAhWgkKlHI And he's finally got part 1 of his video on heatpumps out, which I know is of interest to several in this thread. E: Special cat tax - 1 year ago today our beloved Jimmy passed away, just after I got back from the UK 2 weeks earlier than planned. I mention this mainly because it seems like about 5 years ago, even though the last year has also gone crazy fast. What is time?  Bobstar fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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TACD posted:Ah yea fair enough. I’d like a chest freezer someday, in my future aspirational house with space for appliances that don’t all sit on the countertop or each other When I was a kid almost our entire hallway was taken up by a glass-top chest freezer that my dad had liberated from a shop that was going out of business. We had nowhere to put our coats and shoes, but also only had to go to the supermarket like once every six months.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I assume we can blame the CFC ban for that, good old Freon was perfectly happy at much lower temperatures than modern boring refrigerants that don't obliterate the atmosphere. 
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TACD posted:Ah yea fair enough. I’d like a chest freezer someday, in my future aspirational house with space for appliances that don’t all sit on the countertop or each other misread as "i'd like to be a" and, tbh, it sounds like a low-stress lifestyle
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Mar 23, 2021 14:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:BTW, Congrats! 
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This is a year old but  https://twitter.com/Edwina_Currie/status/1242146490941923340
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:misread as "i'd like to be a" and, tbh, it sounds like a low-stress lifestyle sit in a corner for months on end, accomplishing little save wasting electricity while putting food in my enormous maw? can't imagine what that's like
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TACD posted:What is a "proper freezer" I ask, anticipating a ten-page derail CoolCab posted:your fridge freezer is really just a freezer with a secondary chamber- this means that they run the risk of not get anywhere near as cold, nor to stay there, than conventional freezers. also, and this is dumb, there is a significant efficiency implications for horizontally oriented freezers for the plain simple reason that cold air falls out when you open it up, which means stuff in fridge freezers are much more susceptible to thaw-freeze cycles which ruins food. *Fridge. But yeah. The compartment above your fridge is just meant for keeping things in temporarily. It doesn't get cold enough to store things for long periods (especially meat etc).
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Mar 23, 2021 14:51
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Meat etc, the forbidden Richard Curtis film.
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Mar 23, 2021 14:53
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I have two jars of homemade piccalilli in my fridge that have been there for over a year now and I've never opened/tasted them because I'm too scared that'll die doing so. They aren't mouldy though so I must have done the picking process right I guess.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/mbbm2c/welcome_back_subreddit_statement/ "Do not mention one particular person, but we can't tell you who that is because reddit just hired them as an admin and they WILL perma you and close your sub if you even repost an article that mentions their name in passing." According to the link it's "a minor British public figure (expelled from both the Liberal Democrats and Green Party)"
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I've never had piccalilli, and for some reason thought I didn't like it. Not even knowing what it really is I decided to DuckDuckGo it just now and it seems like it would be delicious. But I will perhaps avoid the years old stuff 
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Jippa posted:*Fridge. I think there's a difference between a fridge with a tiny freezer compartment at the top  And a "fridge-freezer", which I think is what CoolCab was referring to  Which is still linked to the cooling system of the fridge, and suffers from "cold-air-fall-out" syndrome, but is still much more proper than the first thing.
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Is it this person? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Challenor
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I mean she is the one named in both the articles. Never heard of her though.
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Yep, she's recently been made a Reddit Admin and any past articles about her get nuked for "doxxing".
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What a beautiful boy. Looks like my boy who passed away in 2012 when I was away  fortunately my friend took her into her home for his last few days and I skyped him the night before he died. She insists he knew it was me. (But she was probably just being kind). He completely changed personality in the last 5 weeks of his 16 year life, he had been a shy boy all his life except for just one person (my fave ex) - even the cat sitter who had cat sat for 11 years - and hid when anyone came round, but in the last 5 weeks he was 'hello, what's going on", being nosey as fk when anyone appeared.At least in the month before he died I was having new ceramic tiles laid in my flat which in Cairo are placed on sand so there were big heaps of sand everywere "yippy" cries my boy "giant litter tray for meeeee!" so everyday I had to check for all the little presents every morning before the builders came. (His last few months he couldn't get in the actual litter tray because of arthritis in his hips so I put puppy pads down round the litter try and he went on those.) (My girl continued to use the proper litter tray despite the giant sandpit.) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/mbbm2c/welcome_back_subreddit_statement/ jfc has she not heard of the streisand effect
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I mean if she has managed to make a career out of being banned from things thus far I can't really blame her for continuing.
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Bobstar posted:I think there's a difference between a fridge with a tiny freezer compartment at the top Oh I see yeah you are right.
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I know Reddit don't quite have that Facebook Nick Clegg money, but you'd think that they'd be able to afford at least Jo Swinson. Also: the Lib Dems have had three leaders or acting leaders since Swinson, how many can you name without looking it up?
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Jakabite posted:Is it this person? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Challenor That's a lot of crazy poo poo in such a short wikipedia 
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big scary monsters posted:Also: the Lib Dems have had three leaders or acting leaders since Swinson, how many can you name without looking it up? Dave Eddy Eddie the Head
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Lord of the Llamas posted:That's a lot of crazy poo poo in such a short wikipedia If you want crazy, reddit is the place to be. I can't think of a "bigtime" website with a darker history than reddit.
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big scary monsters posted:I know Reddit don't quite have that Facebook Nick Clegg money, but you'd think that they'd be able to afford at least Jo Swinson. Also, what's a lib dem?
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Borrovan posted:Wait who's the third? I can only name the other interim acting co-leader because I know her son (lol), but I thought it was just her & the current one? Vince Cable? Edit: Nope he was actual leader before Swinson. I actually didn't realise they had "co-leaders" during the most recent period. As if anyone cared who their leader was never mind a co-leader. Lord of the Llamas fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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TheRat posted:If you want crazy, reddit is the place to be. I can't think of a "bigtime" website with a darker history than reddit. Haven't most of us been around long enough to remember Paedogeddon? Challenor has some serious bad luck, doesn't she? Her father is a paedophile, her partner is a paedophile, now she's gone to work for the site whose admins supported and even enabled paedophiles. An amazing pattern.
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Jedit posted:Haven't most of us been around long enough to remember Paedogeddon? I feel like hiring your father as your election agent (twice) after he has been charged with all that is a very bold move for a politican.
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TheRat posted:If you want crazy, reddit is the place to be. I can't think of a "bigtime" website with a darker history than reddit. And then someone links you to the top subs, and it's all fash poo poo, or sites like /r/canada which has been proven to have white supremacist mods but is pretending everything's normal while cultivating comment sections worse than facebook and youtube combined. And the admins keep releasing statements saying the former is the type of reddit they want to see, while refusing to even acknowledge the latter, let alone do anything about it.
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https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1374359280317566976 all citizens must display an officially approved Flag and Poppy at all times, and at no point during the day must they allow their Pride At Being British to drop below acceptable levels
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Reddit is weird because it's possible to curate a list of well modded subs, and then just browse that as your frontpage and the site is pretty ok to use. Yeah I use reddit all the time, but my feed has like, happycowgifs subreddit, music stuff, and places like r/GreenAndPleasant which is fairly UKMT-adjacent. If you wanna look at a bunch of fash poo poo that's kinda up to you - though I'm not making apologies for the people who run the platform who let that poo poo run rampant. And let's be fair, it has some of the best user-created porn out there
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1374359280317566976 just the day??? 
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TheRat posted:I feel like hiring your father as your election agent (twice) after he has been charged with all that is a very bold move for a politican. Reading between the lines of that wikipedia entry suggests some *extremely* dark poo poo that I won't speculate on because she deserves privacy, but does also suggest why she might have done that.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Vince Cable? Jeffrey of YOSPOS hire a former Lib Dem co-leader as mod of GBS. e: sorry, acting co-leader
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big scary monsters posted:Jeffrey of YOSPOS hire a former Lib Dem co-leader as mod of GBS. Careful, with their membership numbers going the way they are, that puts TinTower in a very powerful position.
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Apraxin posted:all citizens must display an officially approved Flag and Poppy at all times, and at no point during the day must they allow their Pride At Being British to drop below acceptable levels  That's hardly the kind of thing you can accidentally order as many times as I've seen, I wonder what's behind it. Most likely: Nobody outside of the Most amusing: Secret coalition between Irish reunification campaigners and Chinese printers.
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