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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:How can you have a combination toaster and poacher? Are they just two separate machines that someone arbitrarily bolted into each other? One requires lots of water, the other requires a complete absence of water. They're not exactly a match. e: awful snipe. In '96, England used to have a football team
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:How can you have a combination toaster and poacher? Are they just two separate machines that someone arbitrarily bolted into each other? One requires lots of water, the other requires a complete absence of water. They're not exactly a match. You don't actually need more than a tablespoon of water to poach an egg with the right-shaped container - all its doing is holding the temp around 100C. But yeah it's literally just a thing bolted to the side of a toaster and even more ridiculously it's normally only got capacity for one egg on a two-slice toaster.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:You don't actually need more than a tablespoon of water to poach an egg with the right-shaped container - all its doing is holding the temp around 100C. who the gently caress would ever eat only one egg. what is happening to people today I'm cross because my 2nd vaccine appointment got moved up and now I'm feeling lovely *and* I have to go to work tomorrow. I'd booked holiday time after the day I *thought* it was going to happen. Blagh.
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HopperUK posted:who the gently caress would ever eat only one egg. Un oeuf is enough 
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The proper way to use a toaster is to turn it on it's side. Put a slice of bread with cheese on top in the toaster, and you get almost instant cheese on toast.
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HopperUK posted:who the gently caress would ever eat only one egg. what is happening to people today I like eggs but eating more than one makes me very nauseated, I've never worked out why but from long experience one's my limit in a sitting.
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Maugrim posted:I like eggs but eating more than one makes me very nauseated, I've never worked out why but from long experience one's my limit in a sitting. To be fair, I can't eat more than two eggs in a go. I was just feeling cross.
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GlyphGryph posted:Poisons aren't great for animals in your house because of the smell, yeah. They are best used for outdoors animals like pigeons and squirrels in your local park. there was a company here called in by a local apartment complex that set out poison traps because people were angry about the birds and they ended up poisoning untold numbers of birds in truly awful, heinous, cruel ways. it was really bad. Private Speech posted:How do people get rid of ants? We have ants in the kitchen and my bedroom, all the food is stored in the kitchen with nothing left out etc., but the buggers don't seem to want to quit. They especially love my herbal tea I have when it's too late for normal tea, must be the jasmine smell or something. i can't tell what the active ingredient is on those, but if it's borax / sodium tetraborate, it's probably pretty safe to use. those are generally in metal containers that are pretty hard to open, and the toxicity for mammals is such that you'd have to consume a fair amount for it to have a serious impact. the tiny bits that ants will eat / move won't be an issue. with that said i believe it can be toxic to aquatic life (like lots of things are) so you'd probably want to avoid using them outside / near waterways. HopperUK posted:To be fair, I can't eat more than two eggs in a go. I was just feeling cross. my limit is six unless it's deviled eggs then there is no limit
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Jesus christ I think luke akehurst might be the dumbest man alive https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1393847108143222787?s=19
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Soylent Yellow posted:The proper way to use a toaster is to turn it on it's side. Put a slice of bread with cheese on top in the toaster, and you get almost instant cheese on toast. A half decent toaster oven will also do anything that one of those air fryers claim to do and also pizza. Maybe only small pizza but still pizza.
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i remember reading a really interesting essay a few years ago that was about how, even if you ignore how they got it, it is indefensibly unethical for rich people to hoard their money. wish i could find it anyway https://twitter.com/W_F_Magee/status/1393543841429565440
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Another rubbish opinion piece in the Telegraph about the heritage sector. The head of DCMS everyone: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/05/15/time-end-elite-dominance-heritage/
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Bobstar posted:Which is why it doesn't matter to what extent a person acquired their hundreds of millions through exploitation, it should be taken off them all equally, whether they run a sweatshop, or sold their self-published Kindle book for £1.50 to 100m people. Nobody needs more than one billion in personal wealth and assets. You can argue that Amazon or other businesses are so immense that they might need a trillion income to pay their outgoings, but nobody can realistically spend more than a billion in their lifetime on themself. The only things you could in theory spend a billion on are overpriced and exist at that price only because there are people who have more than a billion to spend. Once they reach a billion we could keep congratulating them on making so much money for the country they live in and all of the charity / philanthropic causes they are earning for. Maybe publish a special magazine and TV station just for that lot so they can keep up with each others special lives etc. A narcissistic desire for approval seems to be a big thing among the turborich. They can get creative with the accounting and list purchases under self employed business rebates and so on, but they cannot horde more than a billion. That way the challenge in being rich is in spending their money creatively rather than hording it creatively, which at least keeps it moving through the economy and would trickle down to other people. People seem more willing to entertain this idea after having had it explained to them how big a billion is. I think it was one of the This Machine Kills hosts who was saying on a recent TF show that they'd been going through a bunch of finance stuff and had to adjust their money scale up to billions and trillions, so when they went back to local government stuff in the hundreds and thousands it all seemed like nothing. I don't think most people can really conceptualise how big these numbers are. My maths is absolutely horrible so please correct me, but if the average UK house price is £250k; £1 million would buy 4 houses, £1 billion would buy 4,000 houses Even then I don't think most people's brains can visualise exactly how much bigger 4,000 houses is, even if you showed them a photo of a housing estate with near as damnit 4k houses in it I don't think people's brains would really wrap around it. It's like if you say 'this guy has a billion,' people understand that as a lot. But if you say 'this other guy has 3 billion' they seem to focus on the 3 rather than the billion and it 'feels' like oh, he only has 2 more which is a 'small' amount.
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I'm sure this has already been posted elsewhere on the forum, but the economist has done a video on far-right extremism and i thought it might be an interesting watch for thread regulars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjDAXUDXsHY
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May 16, 2021 15:11
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I regret to inform you all that Jeremy Corbyn has been found guilty of antisemitism by proximity again.
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Seems like it would be difficult to avoid if you're in london at the moment.
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HopperUK posted:To be fair, I can't eat more than two eggs in a go. I was just feeling cross.
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My friend's family boil their eggs in a kettle when they make the tea/coffee.
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happyhippy posted:My friend's family boil their eggs in a kettle when they make the tea/coffee. Ok this I think is grounds for deportation to somewhere, I don't know where, but I am not comfortable sharing a planet with someone who does this.
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happyhippy posted:My friend's family boil their eggs in a kettle when they make the tea/coffee. This sounds sensible and efficient. As long as the kettle has a good filter.
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I heard that sometimes in hotels people will boil their dirty underwear in the room kettle to wash them
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happyhippy posted:My friend's family boil their eggs in a kettle when they make the tea/coffee. i do like a cuppa with just a hint of cloacal gel
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HopperUK posted:I'm cross because my 2nd vaccine appointment got moved up and now I'm feeling lovely *and* I have to go to work tomorrow. I'd booked holiday time after the day I *thought* it was going to happen. Blagh. If you have an adverse reaction to your second dose, don't use your annual leave. That is the definition of a sick day.
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I've used holiday for the day after my first vaccine, and will do again for the second, because making sure cover is arranged beforehand is a lot more convenient. We've also had some of our unused holiday from last year due to all the furlough rolled over to this year so I've got loads anyway.
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kecske posted:I heard that sometimes in hotels people will boil their dirty underwear in the room kettle to wash them Why wouldn't they just use the sink or something? Its not like a washing machine boils the clothes?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:loadsamoney I good comparison (that I probably saw here) was 1 million seconds is 11 days from now, 1 billion seconds is 31 years This as well, but it takes a while to get through. https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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stev posted:This sounds sensible and efficient. As long as the kettle has a good filter. mediaphage posted:i do like a cuppa with just a hint of cloacal gel I only found out when there was white thin streaks in my coffee when I was there. Turned out to be a cracked egg that leaked.
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Last year I had an ant infestation that took days to sort out, this years incursion took half an hour. They really seem to hate essential oils, so I forced them into retreat with a creeping barrage of Oust then dumped half a bottle of olbas oil on the floor, mopped the room, and jammed the entrances with little olbas soaked cotton balls. Fastest I've ever dealt with them, and smells much nicer than the vinegar/cinnamon mix I used last year (ymmv)
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If your crumpets ect. are stuck in the toaster you just have to slam the spring handle up and down with one hand and swat the crumpets out of the air with the other when they pop out the top.
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https://twitter.com/ProgressOnline/status/1393890252096475137?s=19 What the gently caress does the U stand for, Stella?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:A while ago someone in this thread had the idea of making it so that once you reach a billion in personal wealth, you give them a big ceremony and a badge or special hat or something, and then anything over 1 billion they make is taxed at 100%. Power and the wanton exercise of that power to dominate other people appears to be a major motivation for the sorts of people who seek unimaginable riches. Even lower level management types exhibit this when they insist on bringing everybody back from remote work asap and continuing to cram everybody into open offices despite the fact that both of those things are proven to tank workers' output and therefore cost a company more than it saves.
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They have the power to keep the badge and dodge the 100% tax. If they didn't, someone else would have the money already.
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Pictures of kier starmer playing football lol. Not doing him any favours.
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Vagabong posted:If your crumpets ect. are stuck in the toaster you just have to slam the spring handle up and down with one hand and swat the crumpets out of the air with the other when they pop out the top. Do it with the flat of a ready-buttered knife to save time.
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happyhippy posted:I only found out when there was white thin streaks in my coffee when I was there. TBH if that's the only streaks of white protein you encounter in a hotel room that counts as a win.
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I keep thinking meghan mc cain is that weirdo who wrote the book about doing blood rites with her english translation of the torah because she loves israel that much but that was someone else.
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