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goddamnedtwisto posted:I wouldn't call it *easy*, but IIRC 3 years of service in the French Foreign Legion, or being invalided out due to enemy action within that 3 years, is sufficient for French citizenship. That's a pretty good time frame for gaining citizenship, but it's one of those where the other requirements seem pretty high. In a similar vein (though not in the EU), if you simply become a Catholic Cardinal and move to the Holy See you can get Vatican citizenship immediately.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I wouldn't call it *easy*, but IIRC 3 years of service in the French Foreign Legion, or being invalided out due to enemy action within that 3 years, is sufficient for French citizenship. I think you get it after 3 years but have to sign up for a 5 year contract. Russia does the same these days.
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Necrothatcher posted:drat I know like 10-15 people that have tested positive today. poo poo's bonkers. keep punching joe posted:Of course Barry was right, gov has spent 2 years now absolutely half arsing their pandemic response. It's going to get real grim in a week or two. Stay safe peeps. Thank you. Sincerely. I have to admit I felt pretty hurt/ashamed when all that went down last week, but I genuinely appreciate it
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Communist Thoughts posted:Paneer is generally pretty flavourless, goes good in curries and spinach though Yeah. Cheese acquires flavour by ageing, mostly.
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Paneer is effectively processed cheese because you're doing it all pretty quickly using acids and pressure, like the White Leicester cheese made during the war or American government cheese, rather than fermenting and aging. Do not tell India that I said this. (Processed doesn't mean bad though.)
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feedmegin posted:Yeah. Cheese acquires flavour by ageing, mostly. The lack/subtle flavour i can work with, need to hit YT for methods to get a more solid result but overall i'm happy with my first batch. 
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Jippa posted:I will tell tens of thousands of people on twitter this but not some bouncer. That's good, though. Get vaxxed and stay home!
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Noxville posted:Haha someone at work has tested positive today, the day of the Christmas party, where we were intending to cram 40+ people into a tiny restaurant. Not going to trust everyone else’s lateral flows enough to risk that, thanks Ah well other positive tests and many people cancelling has led them to cancel the whole thing with only hours to go. Happy that I don’t have to be the killjoy
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feedmegin posted:Yeah. Cheese acquires flavour by ageing, mostly. I wanted to make Feta so I watched a great video where a very sweaty hairy greek man was elbow deep in a tub of milk while squatting on the floor in joggers and going malakamalakamalaka but then he had to wait several weeks and I'll just go to the shop instead
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forkboy84 posted:God it ruled when I was a kid & I'd go to the bank with my bank book & they'd fill it in & despite having done nothing I HAD MORE MONEY. It was magical.
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Barry Foster posted:Thank you. Sincerely. I have to admit I felt pretty hurt/ashamed when all that went down last week, but I genuinely appreciate it Title of this song adequately sums up my feelings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZ-of7iH7A
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big scary monsters posted:A while back I wondered how many citizenships you could pick up if you dedicated yourself to it, but assuming no convenient grandparents or marriages letting you get on a fast track to naturalisation. As far as I recall, Poland is the EU state with the easiest standard route for naturalisation, requiring only three years permanent residence. Downside is you also have to speak Polish. I once met a guy with 4 (British, US, Israeli, Swiss), but it's much easier to get certain european citizenships if you're Jewish... Anyway most countries restrict the amount of other nationalities you can have, but frankly unless you tell them I don't know how they'd ever find out you have other ones.
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Skull Servant posted:I'm still learning about UK geographical politics, but I think it makes more ideological sense for a rural Tory stronghold to flip to Lib Dem, even if they placed third previously. If a Tory constituency flips Lib Dem, they still voted Tory.
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keep punching joe posted:88 thousand cases today. Seems quite bad
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Not doubling in two days bad though. Once you're at - or near - testing capacity, reported figures are going to considerably underrun real figures. We know from the NHS site running out of LFTs and the PCR booking system having no slots we're basically at that stage already.
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Our about-to-be-born daughter will have British and two EU citizenships eventually but I fully expect to spend most of 2022 sorting all the paperwork
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Not doubling in two days bad though. Omicron is still at relatively low levels outside London, though probably not for much longer.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Food: the paneer turned out very crumbly and almost without flavour (slight hint of cottage cheese) so i need to work on my technique for a more solid product but happy to make something edible. Literally just consumed and already going back to contemplating your (cheese) orb.
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Oh dear me posted:Omicron is still at relatively low levels outside London, though probably not for much longer. I'm sure there are no upcoming events that will distribute large numbers of people based in london out to the rest of the country.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Once you're at - or near - testing capacity, reported figures are going to considerably underrun real figures. We know from the NHS site running out of LFTs and the PCR booking system having no slots we're basically at that stage already. They were both IT glitches rather than actually hitting capacity though (although it is getting a bit trickier to just pick up LFTs for free). Having said that I think absolute max capacity is around 1.1M tests/day and at current rates we're probably going to be hitting that before too long. In brighter news we're almost certainly going to break the one-day vaccination record tomorrow and with a number of big sites (re)opening next week we could actually hit 1M/day assuming both vaccine supply and patient demand holds up.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
Proud to be doing my bit there.  E: getting jabbed, I'm not doing any of the actual work.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I wonder of cases are actually higher than they were at the start of the year, or if the cases were undersold last year because that was when they had the spreadsheet the wrong way round. I think 88 thousand cases per day doesn't change that much. Unless you get double infinity?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I wonder of cases are actually higher than they were at the start of the year, or if the cases were undersold last year because that was when they had the spreadsheet the wrong way round. Cases are almost definitely higher than last year - lots of people removed the track and trace app because of that "pingdemic" bullshit and milder symptoms thanks to vaccination probably means a lot less people are voluntarily testing.
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Our about-to-be-born daughter will have British and two EU citizenships eventually but I fully expect to spend most of 2022 sorting all the paperwork If by "sorting all the paperwork" you mean "changing nappies" then yeah
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kingturnip posted:If a Tory constituency flips Lib Dem, they still voted Tory. This is also true if they flip Labour though.
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Communist Thoughts posted:I wanted to make Feta so I watched a great video where a very sweaty hairy greek man was elbow deep in a tub of milk while squatting on the floor in joggers and going malakamalakamalaka but then he had to wait several weeks and I'll just go to the shop instead I tried that and ended up with blue cheese. Edit: making feta, not the squatting and saying greek things bit feedmegin fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Dec 16, 2021 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Cases are almost definitely higher than last year - lots of people removed the track and trace app because of that "pingdemic" bullshit and milder symptoms thanks to vaccination probably means a lot less people are voluntarily testing. Never mind the app tbh, we have digital records of exactly who was in what room at what time, any kind of functioning track & trace system should have wait I see the problem
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