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OwlFancier posted:How on god's green earth can someone not like scones. I wonder if, from an American perspective, the brain expects a biscuit and then revolts at the textural difference e: bad snipe, have a cat
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Borrovan posted:But the stats show that births went down, turns out most people feel pretty bleak about the future & don't feel like reproducing. Obviously normal people feel bleak about the future and forego reproduction, we however are already ground down and bleak so it makes no difference Alternative explanation: the high percentage of warhammer nerds means we see a grim dark future where there is only suffering and war to be a great time that a kid being brought into the world would have a great time in. Think of all the strategizing
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# ? Apr 18, 2022 23:38 |
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OwlFancier posted:How on god's green earth can someone not like scones. They're good but mostly because they're smothered in cream and hopefully lemon curd.
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# ? Apr 18, 2022 23:43 |
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stev posted:They're good but mostly because they're smothered in cream and hopefully lemon curd. Savory scones exist! They are also good!
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# ? Apr 18, 2022 23:53 |
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OwlFancier posted:Savory scones exist! They are also good! Beef Cobbler is basically stew and dumplings but with savoury scones instead of dumplings and it's one of my favourite winter comfort foods
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# ? Apr 18, 2022 23:56 |
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Tarnop posted:the brain expects a biscuit Borrovan posted:the stats show that births went down, turns out most people feel pretty bleak about the future & don't feel like reproducing.
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# ? Apr 18, 2022 23:57 |
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Borrovan posted:Sure as gently caress shooting up on these forums though hell, same
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 00:08 |
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Tarnop posted:I wonder if, from an American perspective, the brain expects a biscuit and then revolts at the textural difference. Exactly this. Plus she's diabetic so the extra sugar and our tendency to put cream and jam on everything revolts her. They should be made with shortening, no sugar and be served with fried chicken and gravy. Personally I like both. Though I'll take Korean fried chicken with pickled radish or buffalo with waffle fries over southern with sawmill gravy and biscuits if given the choice.
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 00:14 |
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Maybe the jam and cream are being put on in the wrong order?
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 00:26 |
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Biscuits & gravy and turning right (left in our case) on red lights are the only two things we should absolutely import from the US immediately.
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 01:12 |
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Mebh posted:Exactly this. Plus she's diabetic so the extra sugar and our tendency to put cream and jam on everything revolts her. Have you made cheese scones? I hope you are not putting sugar in your cheese scones...
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 01:13 |
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Biscuits & gravy and turning right (left in our case) on red lights are the only two things we should absolutely import from the US immediately. I would also take those sandwiches from delis in the Pennsylvania area that seem to contain 1000 slices of pastrami for like 5 dollars
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 01:44 |
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83 year old Jewish professor Jonathan Rosenhead has been suspended by Labour for - guess what - anti-semitism. He has chosen to make public his appeal against suspension and it's published by Skwakbox. These are his words, not skwawkbox's. https://skwawkbox.org/2022/04/17/83...tic-suspension/ quote:83yo Jewish professor and anti-apartheid campaigner responds to Labour’s punitive and antisemitic suspension The current Labour party is a loving disgrace. Is Keir Starmer malevolent or an empty vessel filled by those who want a highly malleable 'leader'? Ever since he became an MP in 2015 he has been pushed towards leadership of the party. I am not enthralled at the idea of him becoming the next PM by default (though I shall probably end up voting Labour as the 'anything but tory' candidate) if the British people decide that being represented by a lying, law-breaking, psychopath is actually not a good look. He reminds me of Mohamed Morsi who I thought wasn't necessarily a bad man, just a somewhat stupid one who was completely manipulated by those around him.
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 02:41 |
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I don't think it requires some machiavellian scheme to make starmer just lust for punitive centralization of power, he's literally a prosecutor.
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 02:45 |
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Do my eyes deceive me? A wild policy appears! https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/19/labour-says-it-will-insulate-2m-houses-in-first-year-to-cut-bills
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 09:04 |
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At the rate things are going I will not be voting Labour in any upcoming elections. I will spoil my ballot as a way to broadcast, in a very minor and controlled sense, the absolute rage I feel that there is no credible left option. I believe it was Peter Mandelson who said something like 'the left will fall in line; they have nowhere else to go'. To say I take issue with this would put it lightly. You cannot count on my vote merely by being a slightly lesser evil. And I argue, should Labour get in, this will be our downfall; it will legitimise Starmer's tactics and it will serve as a very huge flashing sign that 'socialism will never work'. As more and more people become disillusioned and angry at the status quo for continuing to worsen our lives economically and socially, more and more people will slide rightwards as a way to address the failing system. We know fascism will use this as an opportunity to demonise minorities and disadvantaged. That's why I won't be voting Labour anytime soon. The party has to fall and a viable leftist option has to take its place. Gwaint fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Apr 19, 2022 |
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jiggerypokery posted:Do my eyes deceive me? A wild policy appears! An actually decent policy, albeit unambitious. Labour are still dogshit
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 09:17 |
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jiggerypokery posted:Do my eyes deceive me? A wild policy appears! This is one of these things that is very easy to say. A lot of the low hanging fruit on insulation is gone and what's left is very expensive to do well. Don't get me wrong it should be done, they will probably just do it badly.
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Are the local elections in England not ranked PR (STV) ? Surely better to vote and rank parties accordingly than to abstain fully? Ah England still uses FPTP keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Apr 19, 2022 |
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The lesser of two evils argument is especially unpersuasive when you can't really point to any evidence of that lesser evil. Tories might be more constitutionally racist, but Labour make up for it by codifying a whole bunch of anti-Semitism into official party policy. Labour haven't really had the opportunity to flex just how poo poo and Blairite they are again
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keep punching joe posted:Are the local elections in England not ranked PR? Surely better to vote and rank parties accordingly than to abstain fully? I'm not aware of any that use that system.
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 09:22 |
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Can I remind people again that if you want to spoil your ballot, don't draw a cock and balls on it. Just post it blank. It still counts as spoiled, there's no potential ambiguity, and you're not waving obscene pictures in the face of a council worker - frequently female, and almost always low paid - at 2am in the morning. It is not a comradely act. A further reminder: marking a right wing candidate with a swastika has been judged a valid intention to vote in the past. So don't do that either.
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Zalakwe posted:This is one of these things that is very easy to say. A lot of the low hanging fruit on insulation is gone and what's left is very expensive to do well. It's the first policy of any kind at all I've seen in 3 years
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 09:40 |
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keep punching joe posted:Ah England still uses FPTP Best thing to do under that is to vote for the party that most matches your views. It increases the odds of them keeping their deposit no matter how small they are, it increases the odds of whatever small fash parties entered losing their deposit, and it possibly even increases the chances of lab or whoever looking at why they lost in such and such a place and deciding that they need to move leftwards or to a different voting system (and then whoever suggested that being ignored and suspended).
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 09:44 |
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Gwaint posted:At the rate things are going I will not be voting Labour in any upcoming elections. I will spoil my ballot as a way to broadcast, in a very minor and controlled sense, the absolute rage I feel that there is no credible left option. Yep, this sums it up succinctly. A Labour party one step to the left [citation needed] of the Tories is no improvement and only serves to show that they were right to vilify Corbyn and drag to party to the right. gently caress that.
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 09:48 |
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jiggerypokery posted:It's the first policy of any kind at all I've seen in 3 years It's arguably not even new, the Government has long standing insulation schemes in place that part fund pretty much anything that it makes sense to do. If they are going to fund 100% then I suppose that's a step in the right direction. Or they could retrofit all council stuff but I'm not sure that would be easy either. Basically it's both difficult and unambitious.
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 10:04 |
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Guess the Gas Price Goblin finally got me, Scottish Power just emailed to say my direct debit's going from ~90 quid to 280
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 10:18 |
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keep punching joe posted:Are the local elections in England not ranked PR (STV) ? Surely better to vote and rank parties accordingly than to abstain fully? STV is bad because they haven't made a new Taggart in year I have gotten election material from 1 while candidate for this May, and it's the Tory (a former MSP). Greens aren't running a candidate and the Nats are only running one (seriously, with the voter discipline they have it seems a missed opportunity to only have the one candidate when the ward elects 3 councillors), the Labour candidate I'm pretty sure is someone I went to school with (could be his dad with the same name I guess), there's the Lib, Alba & 2 independents & I so far know gently caress all about their views on anything which means they are a potential danger. I think the hot discussion is maybe it's time to break Inverness & its suburbs up from Highland Council because it's a proper urban area of maybe 70,000 people and rest of the region is as rural as it gets
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 10:19 |
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Guavanaut posted:I want pikelets (crumpets not pancakes) now. Na. YOU - the Tory voter - are already retired or just about to. Raising the retirement age is for those young whippersnappers who've never done a day's work in their lives. Same as they get the National Insurance rises while you as a pensioner don't pay it at all.
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It's not so much that I'm surprised that they're all stuck mentally waiting for the last train from Mombasa so much as that nobody else is pointing out what a country run on a caste split between a landed elite, natives with nothing but work, and a class of indentured migrants who get a ticket back home with 'gently caress off' on the back at the end of their indenture would even look like in the medium term. Even the business wanker growth mindset powerpoint presentation lot are just nodding along. And the Labour centrists are
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 11:28 |
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Biscuits & gravy and turning right (left in our case) on red lights are the only two things we should absolutely import from the US immediately. My experience of being a pedestrian in the outskirts of LA was that you wait at the crossroads until the lights change, at which point you cross the road while cars turning right on red try to murder you. Were the SDP always, uh, utter poo poo? I read up on their manifesto as they’re standing a candidate in our ward and “We are a patriotic, economically left-leaning, and culturally traditional political party that believes in family, community, and nation.” I’ll be voting green, it’s between lib dem and labour here and I am honestly at the stage where I think that a new left movement cannot be fully born until the shambling corpse labour has become dies.
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 12:07 |
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Going by the house I live in a lot of the remaining uninsulated stock is because they are rented out by landlords who don't give a poo poo about their tenants' energy bills. If the govt came up with a scheme to somehow force the issue rather than just giving "incentives" that would probably score a good few easy wins. Re parenting chat we could ask for a channel in the Discord if enough people lurk there?
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 12:38 |
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Juche Couture posted:My experience of being a pedestrian in the outskirts of LA was that you wait at the crossroads until the lights change, at which point you cross the road while cars turning right on red try to murder you. The SDP have always been shite, they were the wreckers who left Labour as punishment for having Michael Foot as leader. But the current SDP is a very different shade of shite from the pre-merger SDP, now it's Basically UKIP with the racism dial turned down a little
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 12:40 |
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Also without UKIP's libertarian streak so you still get full drug war bullshit with SDP, but also probably less of the homeowners can use big vats of boiling oil to defend their lawn ornaments.
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God almighty I can actually feel my soul trying to crawl out of my ears to get away from this broken world: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/18/piers-morgan-compares-himself-nelson-mandela-free-speech
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forkboy84 posted:The SDP have always been shite, they were the wreckers who left Labour as punishment for having Michael Foot as leader. But the current SDP is a very different shade of shite from the pre-merger SDP, now it's Basically UKIP with the racism dial turned down a little Yeah, the original SDP was centre-left Euro-Christian Democrat sort of thing. The new SDP is basically the Johnson-era Conservatives but with slightly more commitment to Levelling Up. That Rod Liddle is a prominent figure in the current SDP should tell you all you need to know about it.
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Runcible Cat posted:God almighty I can actually feel my soul trying to crawl out of my ears to get away from this broken world:
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https://twitter.com/hepcatsector/status/1516279286365564928
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at least i'm out doing things
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Juche Couture posted:My experience of being a pedestrian in the outskirts of LA was that you wait at the crossroads until the lights change, at which point you cross the road while cars turning right on red try to murder you. It took me ages to get used to people just walking out into the road at junctions in Montreal, but the cars just... stop, & don't beep or threaten to mow you down. I know we've got that rule too now, but like gently caress am I stepping out in front of a British motorist to test it. (& re the SDP, yeah they've always been poo poo, just the fact that Rod Liddle is a member should tell you enough) Borrovan fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Apr 19, 2022 |
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