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keep punching joe posted:Can't travell in London, Khan strikes again. Blame Easyjet, the useless cunts put me on flights on the wrong dates. Partially my fault for not noticing, but I booked my lodging at the same time and that was on the right date.
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smellmycheese posted:https://twitter.com/normanjam671/status/1684873242039734272?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-catering/menus/banqueting/menu-banq-apr-2023.pdf The House of Commons menu until 2023. I'm the 'Grilled Smoked Bacon Loin Steak, with Somerset cider sauce, black pudding, rosti potato, wilted spinach, and rhubarb ginger chutney' All boiled please. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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Jul 28, 2023 13:47
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"Let me eat cake".
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Keith is such a peice of poo poo, I hope he dies.
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forkboy84 posted:Is there a particular reason that Quebec is relatively affordable? The bottom 4 places are all in Quebec & Montreal is 7th most affordable. Obviously it's all still crazy but what, do people just loving hate speaking French? For the most part you need to be able to speak serviceable French and English to be able to work there (Ottawa too, for the most part, since it’s the federal capital), and relatively few people in Canada can do that. For that reason Montreal is probably the best city in Canada to live IF you are fluently bilingual.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:"Let me eat wet eggs". ftfy
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MeinPanzer posted:For the most part you need to be able to speak serviceable French and English to be able to work there (Ottawa too, for the most part, since it’s the federal capital), and relatively few people in Canada can do that. For that reason Montreal is probably the best city in Canada to live IF you are fluently bilingual. From all accounts Montreal is a loving awesome city and would be worth learning French properly for.
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happyhippy posted:https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-catering/menus/banqueting/menu-banq-apr-2023.pdf 1 litre of apple juice for nearly a tenner? gently caress me, and this poo poo is subsidised?
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Diet Crack posted:From all accounts Montreal is a loving awesome city and would be worth learning French properly for. If you learn French properly, Quebeckers may think you're a fancy lad
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Heard the national dish in quebec is chips cheese and gravy so they're probably alright.
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keep punching joe posted:Heard the national dish in quebec is chips cheese and gravy so they're probably alright. It's not cheese it's curd and it's the best junk food There's a place in Cardiff that does loaded poutine inc vegan options and it's bangin, strongly recommend
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJFiWM9XAaA On the one hand, a dire story of horrifying police racism On the other hand this couple owns 14 properties for some reason (landlording???) which somewhat dents my sympathy
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Diet Crack posted:From all accounts Montreal is a loving awesome city and would be worth learning French properly for. It is pretty cool (I lived there for a couple of years), but making a life there is also a bit complicated as a non-native French speaker. When the Quebec separatist movement really picked up steam in the 1990s and the 1995 independence referendum came within 0.5% of being successful (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Quebec_referendum), it spooked a lot of big business that had been based in or operated out of Quebec (definitely shades of Brexit there). A lot of companies left for Ontario to try to hedge against the risk and it did a lot of damage to the economy of the province, and especially the economy of Montreal, that I think it never fully recovered from. A lot of the good paying jobs dwindled as a result. So if your native language isn't French, are you really going to go through the difficult process of becoming fluent enough to live and work in that language and move there if the economy isn't that robust and your average pay isn't good? Also, a lot of people who are bilingual will just go to work for the federal government on much better salaries, since getting a national government job of pretty much any kind requires you to be able to conduct business in both languages. This basically requires living in Ottawa. quote:Heard the national dish in quebec is chips cheese and gravy so they're probably alright. Yeah, always amazed that poutine isn't more popular here. It's got all the good poo poo that drunk British people love!
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I don't know why but the (latest) musk pedo thing was the straw that broke it for me. I'm going to go through my twitter follows, note anyone useful, and then nuke my account. Does anyone have a bluesky invite or is there a thread where I can get one?
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Failed Imagineer posted:If you learn French properly, Quebeckers may think you're a fancy lad 
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MeinPanzer posted:For the most part you need to be able to speak serviceable French and English to be able to work there (Ottawa too, for the most part, since it’s the federal capital), and relatively few people in Canada can do that. For that reason Montreal is probably the best city in Canada to live IF you are fluently bilingual. MeinPanzer posted:Also, a lot of people who are bilingual will just go to work for the federal government on much better salaries, since getting a national government job of pretty much any kind requires you to be able to conduct business in both languages. The bit about Ottawa isn't really true. There are plenty of jobs where you only need English. For government jobs, yes, if you're going to be serving the public or working at a high level within government (past a certain level of management where you need to give performance reviews - you have to be able to give those reviews in the employee's chosen language) then you will need to be bilingual, but there are lots of jobs where it's not needed. Being bilingual though does open up a lot of opportunities in Ottawa. There are customer service type jobs where if you're bilingual, you can earn $35/hr (about £21/hr). Also you pay additional tax in Quebec - the provincial rate is a fair bit higher, and I've spoken to some people about living in Quebec and consensus in Ottawa right across the provincial border is that the services suck there (e.g. medical care is even worse than the already woeful Ontario). IDK how accurate that is, but it's certainly what people here seem to believe. E: Also there are significantly more accommodations made for French speakers in Ottawa and other places than there are for English speakers in Quebec. It's in Quebec law that some types of signs, advertisements etc. can't have English on, and others can have English so long as the French is more predominant. In Ottawa basically everything is in both English and French and though the English is usually first, the French is usually equal size etc. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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MeinPanzer posted:Yeah, always amazed that poutine isn't more popular here. It's got all the good poo poo that drunk British people love! I heard that multiple poutine restaurants got death threats after Russia invaded Ukraine due to the similarity in pronunciation.
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Tesseraction posted:I heard that multiple poutine restaurants got death threats after Russia invaded Ukraine due to the similarity in pronunciation. Poutine's got all the stuff Brits love - poo and teens
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Vladimir Poutine is about to INVADE your taste buds with flavour.
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Tesseraction posted:Vladimir Poutine is about to INVADE your taste buds with flavour. There is actually already a place called Vladimir Poutine in Montreal. https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Restaurant_Review-g155032-d12714914-Reviews-Vladimir_Poutine-Montreal_Quebec.html
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MeinPanzer posted:Yeah, always amazed that poutine isn't more popular here. It's got all the good poo poo that drunk British people love! Isn't that like cheesy chips? Pretty popular in the chippies in my town.
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Oh no it's still going it's now named in honour of Zelenskiy https://montreal.eater.com/2022/3/11/22971375/poutine-quebec-restaurant-frite-alors-renames-la-vladimir-volodymyr
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Canada talk, watch Shoresy its loving brilliant. End of Canada talk.
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happyhippy posted:https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-catering/menus/banqueting/menu-banq-apr-2023.pdf I'm the Kir (Kieth) Royale. No, wait, I'm the incorrectly spelling "palate cleansers" as "palette cleansers" (Britane's brightest and best). I see crushed avocado on sourdough/toast there. Are there huge flatscreen TVs for pudding?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Isn't that like cheesy chips? Pretty popular in the chippies in my town. Sort of. They use cheese curds instead of actual cheese. This means they go kind of rubbery and chewy rather than full-on melting. Cheese curds are also sometimes called "squeakers" because they're sort of squeaky when you bight into them. Also poutine has gravy on it which may be chickeny or oniony or both (?). IDK, poutine is fine. If you have it in the right places in Montreal it's excellent. Here in Ottawa only 2 hours drive away it's often kind of mediocre. Part of the issue is that chips here are loving terrible. I don't even know how to explain it. Maris Piper potatoes aren't allowed in Canada so that's a part of it.
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X-post from the morbid capitalism thread because  ekuNNN posted:In incredible depressing news from the UK: Imagine caring so much about your boss not missing out on a few quid that you loving close the bus doors on a little old grandma (and drag her under the wheels of your bus) Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Isn't that like cheesy chips? Pretty popular in the chippies in my town. It's chips with gravy, usually with beefy bits in it and then cheese curds specifically. A hipster burger place near me does it that way, it's pretty good but very rich, when I've ordered it I've regretted it because eating it with a burger is a bit too much.
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franco posted:No, wait, I'm the incorrectly spelling "palate cleansers" as "palette cleansers" (Britane's brightest and best).
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Guavanaut posted:Many MPs enjoy a few shots of isopropyl alcohol between courses. If they'd gone with "pallet cleansers" there'd be a decent Norn Irn bonfire joke that I'm too dumb to make right now.
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Failed Imagineer posted:X-post from the morbid capitalism thread because Is it just me or is this phrasing implying it would have been ok if she had previously dodged a fare
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Dabir posted:Is it just me or is this phrasing implying it would have been ok if she had previously dodged a fare It's The Guardian, of course they think that, they love the rule of law as only a liberal can.
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Honestly that MP menu seemed expensive until I remember it's London prices. A tenner for a can of coke and you'll love that it's warm you little poo poo. Now huff on these car fumes.
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Dabir posted:Is it just me or is this phrasing implying it would have been ok if she had previously dodged a fare Honestly no, it's just a sober statement of the facts, it would be more weird if they felt the need to end the sentence with "NOT THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN OK IF SHE'D BEEN GUILTY". However, yeah it's probably true that whatever Guardian reptile wrote this actually does think like that
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happyhippy posted:Don't pensioners get free bus travel anyway everywhere in the UK? Well, she will now... E: maybe he spotted her dodging a fare 30 years ago, when he was a mere schoolboy, and he bided his time
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