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WhatEvil posted:Proper British chips are one of the only foods I really miss. Really good British Indian Restaurant food too. The last time I had proper chip shop chips it had been months without them. They were so loving delicious I was close to tears. Cat tax: 
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OwlFancier posted:And yet we put gravy on them. Sweet and sour sauce on fried rice is a travesty. Ketchup on fried rice gets you tomato/omurice which is delicious. Chilli oil is the far superior condiment. As is scallion and ginger oil. Regarding swappable carbs. Maybe someone could make a chip butty with sushi rice instead.
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Chili oil is nice on rice, so is soy sauce.Z the IVth posted:omurice 
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Z the IVth posted:Sweet and sour sauce on fried rice is a travesty. Ketchup on fried rice gets you tomato/omurice which is delicious. This sounds like a very inferior version of jollof rice which is genuinely one of the best rices. Z the IVth posted:
Neither of these are in dispute though. Eat scallion and ginger oil with finely diced chicken thigh, egg fried rice, and a little sliced green scotch bonnet and you will know god Olpainless fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Aug 11, 2022 |
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Olpainless posted:This sounds like a very inferior version of jollof rice which is genuinely one of the best rices. The best really is Indonesian styled fried rice, very spicy and the egg is cracked raw into the middle of it as it's still hot out of the pan.
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Everybody needs to get themselves a can of this stuff: https://tradewindsorientalshop.co.uk/products/bull-head-shallot-sauce-360g You might also find it at your local chinese supermarket, if you're lucky enough to have one. Awesome stuff. Shallots in oil, with spices and a little bit of chili, plus yeast extract, soy and MSG for umami. It's a great condiment, goes on basically everything. Put it on anything you might put caramelised onions on. Eggs, pizza, rice, noodles, baked potatoes, anything really. Same goes for Lao Gan Ma (that's the brand) Spicy Chili Crisp - crispy chilies fried in oil with spice and MSG, plus you can get different variants with like, soy beans in and stuff. Really good - and despite being made with lots of chilies, it's not actually that spicy/hot - like, if you can handle the jalapenos or tabasco sauce, this stuff is not as spicy as that. You can eat instant noodles with just that added in and it's delicious, but again, works as a condiment on everything: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lao-Gan-Ma-Crispy-Chilli/dp/B00886C52O
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WhatEvil posted:Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!-An ecstasy of fumbling  Holy poo poo. 
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Z the IVth posted:Sweet and sour sauce on fried rice is a travesty. Ketchup on fried rice gets you tomato/omurice which is delicious. And yet I will happily buy just a tray of fried rice and sweet and sour and work my way through an entire back of prawn crackers with it.
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OwlFancier posted:And yet I will happily buy just a tray of fried rice and sweet and sour and work my way through an entire back of prawn crackers with it. Truly a man of taste. A half-and-half box of chips and fried rice doused in S&S sauce and a bag of prawn crackers is god's own drunkfood.
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I wish I had that excuse but I've been stone sober since I was born so I must claim responsibility for all my decisions.
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https://twitter.com/OliverKamm/status/1557755889792061442?t=qjbz_kmwFQown1Q01GaAkw&s=19 If you fancy getting angry.
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The problem with heat and the UK is that UK houses are poo poo for dealing with hot summers and cold winters. It's currently 34.3C indoors in my house despite the outside being 21C at ~23:15 right now (though I live in one of the hottest parts of the UK).
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WhatEvil posted:Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!-An ecstasy of fumbling
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i'll give this to liz truss, she's distracted me from hating starmer lately
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Private Speech posted:The problem with heat and the UK is that UK houses are poo poo for dealing with hot summers and cold winters. strong recommendation for a big fan you can put ideally on your windowsill, to blast cool night air into the house.
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Yeah I'm actually doing okay so far just by shutting the house up with blinds down during the day and throwing all the windows open at night. But it'll get progressively nastier as the heatwave lasts. Still, the lower temps at night for this heatwave are saving me a bit from horrid suffering. And also being alone in the house so I don't have to keep explaining to Mum why closing the windows is good if it's hot outside.
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Drinkslinger posted:Sauce with chips is for dipping. Chips and fries should be crispy. A most correct opinion
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OwlFancier posted:strong recommendation for a big fan you can put ideally on your windowsill, to blast cool night air into the house. The windows go out into the street at street level and I had a burglar try to climb in only a few weeks ago (mate I'm standing right here in the room -which admittedly you can't see through the curtains and blinds- with all the lights lit and the window is hard to climb through, pick somewhere else). I do have them open at the top for ventilation and have a big fan moving air around, but doesn't help much. e: I got an alarm kit off amazon, figured it would help a bit, still a bit leery to leave them open overnight. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Aug 11, 2022 |
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Roof fan that takes air up into the roof and blows it out of the eaves if you have a house where that works, chimney fan that blows air up the chimney if you're in a house with a chimney breast and no fire. Creates negative pressure inside, sucks outside air in through holes too small for burglars. Also yeah always close sun facing curtains. Throughout the day if possible.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/OliverKamm/status/1557755889792061442?t=qjbz_kmwFQown1Q01GaAkw&s=19 what if you just say you turned up the letters randomly and that what came out? can't blame me?
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Guavanaut posted:Roof fan that takes air up into the roof and blows it out of the eaves if you have a house where that works, chimney fan that blows air up the chimney if you're in a house with a chimney breast and no fire. No chimney or roof I can install a fan onto, but I just turned on the extractor fan at full blast, that goes outside and might help. Maybe I'll do the windowsill fan thing for a bit now.
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less money on window fan, more money on caltrops also may be viable or if you are thrifty you could spend an evening making your own with some tin snips, pliers, and wire coathangers.
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OwlFancier posted:less money on window fan, more money on caltrops also may be viable I actually looked into that! Well maybe not caltrops but some kind of metal thing to put into the window since it's double layer. But apparently it falls into traps etc. and you'd be liable.
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Private Speech posted:I actually looked into that! But apparently it falls into traps etc. and you'd be liable. Yes unfortunately this is true, which I think is pretty unfair honestly given that the behaviour is frankly glorified in such documentary pieces as death wish 3 and home alone. also you could mithridates yourself into becoming invincible if you start out with small caltrops, or possibly lego, and work your way up to full size warhorse-annihilating wrought iron ones and frankly i think any burgler that does not do this is not trying hard enough OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Aug 11, 2022 |
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So when are y'all Brits going back to chamber pots and gas lanterns? I hear rishi wants to get Britain back to it's roots
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OwlFancier posted:Yes unfortunately this is true, which I think is pretty unfair honestly given that the behaviour is frankly glorified in such documentary pieces as death wish 3 and home alone. I meant more for a deterrent value, just some spiky bits of metal well visible in the window frame, try climbing through that. Should really count the same as a spiky metal grate or something IMO, but apparently doesn't.
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I wonder how that squares with barbed wire fencing or even cast iron railings. Like, it's plainly not illegal to put up barriers on a property that will kill you if you try to cross them.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:So when are y'all Brits going back to chamber pots and gas lanterns? If the anti-nuclear people are against the trifling amounts of emissions from Hartlepool or La Hague they'd poo poo themselves at what came out of old lamps.  Goons come with a prebuilt ability modifier for pissbottling though so that will be no problem.
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder how that squares with barbed wire fencing or even cast iron railings. Like, it's plainly not illegal to put up barriers on a property that will kill you if you try to cross them. Apparently those are borderline illegal too, unless you have proper warning signs or specific justification: Using Barbed Wire, Glass and Other Intruder Prevention Methods According to that website live fences aren't though, which is (again according to the website) part of why they are so popular. Not sure growing a spiky bush in my window is a good idea though TBH.
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What about those anti-bird spikes you see all over at train stations and the like? Presumably since that has a legit use that isn't hurting people that might be OK?
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i haven't followed any of this but just repaired my fence after a burglary and my dad was disgusted that I pulled out the outwardly facing nails on the temporary board i stuck back up to patch the hole
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WhatEvil posted:What about those anti-bird spikes you see all over at train stations and the like? Presumably since that has a legit use that isn't hurting people that might be OK? Also, like, the jagged spiky fencing that has been standard around every school I've ever seen since the 90s, including the ones the government owns.
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Private Speech posted:The windows go out into the street at street level and I had a burglar try to climb in only a few weeks ago (mate I'm standing right here in the room -which admittedly you can't see through the curtains and blinds- with all the lights lit and the window is hard to climb through, pick somewhere else). When I lived in a ground floor flat in Walthamstow, I had security bars (sort of nice lacey ones that could open up) installed, mostly I kept them locked shut so I could keep a window open for the cats to come in and out. One day I was off sick and lying in bed when I saw the curtains move and first I thought it was one of my cats, then I saw my cat frozen with terror staring at the curtain. So I carefully pulled the curtain to one side (I had nets as well between the curtain and the bars) and saw a hand coming through the window. If I had thought, I would have snuck out of bed and round to the back garden and photographed him in the act, but I didn't. I just roared at him with lots of swear words about who did he think he was. He obviously hadn't noticed the bars. They cost me £1200 to do 4 windows about 25 years ago now (2 quite big ones) (made to measure and installed by them me being the world's worst DIYer), all opening out on to the back garden, but having not had a wink of sleep after moving in, convinced that the mad axe murderer was pacing outside all night, they were extremely well worth it in terms of piece of mind. And I was the only ground floor flat in the block that didn't get burgled over the years I was there. They were like this.  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Aug 12, 2022 |
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If this is now going to be every summer I would just invest in an AC unit. Probably £450/500 for a good one you could move round the house (bedroom at night). I haven't yet but the more sleep I lose the more I think it would be worth it in the long run.
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Jippa posted:If this is now going to be every summer I would just invest in an AC unit. Probably £450/500 for a good one you could move round the house (bedroom at night). I haven't yet but the more sleep I lose the more I think it would be worth it in the long run. Get an actual heat pump so you can also get additional heat in winter. Of course with todays electricity prices...
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Guavanaut posted:Roof fan that takes air up into the roof and blows it out of the eaves if you have a house where that works, chimney fan that blows air up the chimney if you're in a house with a chimney breast and no fire. Awnings over windows is an electricity free method as well, if your place looks good with them anyway. I've read about this white color which has a net cooling effect, I wonder if awnings with that would be noticeably more effective than regular cloth ones.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Get an actual heat pump so you can also get additional heat in winter. Of course with todays electricity prices... Still more efficient than any other heating if you buy a decent unit, especially with solar panels to offset power use
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roomtone posted:i'll give this to liz truss, she's distracted me from hating starmer lately Starmer's strategy is working!
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/OliverKamm/status/1557755889792061442?t=qjbz_kmwFQown1Q01GaAkw&s=19 Doesn't this mean that Corbyn ISN'T a nazi?
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