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Avocado toast is a pretty good brunch choice
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Apr 30, 2024 12:41
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I'm in the rarely mentioned "Jones" generation - sandwiched between Boomers and Xers. Your regular reminder of life in the 70s/early 80s: We had the 70s/early 80s to contend with as teens/20s - mass unemployment - including racks & racks of empty employer folders in the 'careers office', what used to be called "the milkround" cancelled, the top 500 graduates in the country who had been recruited by IBM sacked before they started work, rampant inflation, The BinsTM (which as someone living in central London at the time was actually pretty bad - all the squares piled high with rotting rubbish & rats for weeks), 3 day week, lack of housing, home ownership a wild dream, living in HMO with 7 flatmates, fleas, maggots, mice to contend with (not all flatmates were acquainted with the fundamentals of cleaning), students spending their first term at uni kipping in sleeping bags on the gym floor, Thatcher & so on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q7HkxNhnXA
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Apr 30, 2024 12:48
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TACD posted:As a millennial, I’ve been eating avocado toast like a maniac since the media let their guard down about it 👹 i’ve had to resort to buying the occasional organic avocado over here because for some reason almost every single plebe avocado i buy has been gone off in the middle of
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Apr 30, 2024 12:52
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That's the stone, dummy.
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Apr 30, 2024 12:54
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:We had the 70s/early 80s to contend with as teens/20s - mass unemployment - including racks & racks of empty employer folders in the 'careers office', what used to be called "the milkround" cancelled, the top 500 graduates in the country who had been recruited by IBM sacked before they started work, rampant inflation, The BinsTM (which as someone living in central London at the time was actually pretty bad - all the squares piled high with rotting rubbish & rats for weeks), 3 day week, lack of housing, home ownership a wild dream, living in HMO with 7 flatmates, fleas, maggots, mice to contend with (not all flatmates were acquainted with the fundamentals of cleaning), students spending their first term at uni kipping in sleeping bags on the gym floor, Thatcher & so on.
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Apr 30, 2024 12:59
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Generational warfare is generally not the place to focus, given that for every boomer arsehole there's a Sebastian Payne grown in a vat. Born in a vat, drowned in a var.
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Apr 30, 2024 13:01
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:rats for weeks Jaeluni Asjil posted:mice to contend with Specifically Israel Aharoni, the 'Hebrew father of zoology', who successfully bred Syrian Cricetinae that he collected from Aleppo for the first time at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, from which all modern pet hamsters are descended.  Tell all your friends until Alex Jones becomes unreasonably terrified of hamsters.
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Apr 30, 2024 13:13
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Failed Imagineer posted:Avocado toast is a pretty good brunch choice Also dinner. Any meal, in fact
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Apr 30, 2024 13:13
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Failed Imagineer posted:Avocado toast is a pretty good brunch choice ALDI do a very good Spicy Smashed Avocado tub for not expensive, I put it on a toasted Red Onion / Chive Bagel from the ASDA most mornings https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-specially-selected-spicy-smashed-avocado-150g/4088600499000
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Apr 30, 2024 13:26
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Microplastics posted:Also dinner. Any meal, in fact No wonder you lot are always complaining you can't afford houses eating avocados all the time.  I used to like to mash the insides of an avocado up with a banana and extra thick double cream. All the tastes harmonize with each other. Yummy.
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Apr 30, 2024 13:27
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Now that the upper middle class failchildren can't afford houses it has suddenly become the fault of migrants rather than avocado toasts. Possibly because they can't spell avocado (or they are eating spanish lawyers). 
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Apr 30, 2024 13:32
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Pinch of cumin (S&P too) is tasty with avo. Chopped fresh coriander if you have any. Beans (Heinz always Heinz) on toast still is the winner though. Bit of chilli powder, worcestershire sauce, S&P in the beans heated on the hob. One piece of toast buttered and beans up top so it goes soggy. Grate cheese on it and a quick grill. One piece of buttered toast for dunking.
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Apr 30, 2024 13:32
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right wingers truly do only have one joke huh
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Apr 30, 2024 13:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:No wonder you lot are always complaining you can't afford houses eating avocados all the time. hmm jaeluni i generally love your posting but there’s a limit
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Apr 30, 2024 13:36
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Tesseraction posted:Generational warfare is generally not the place to focus, given that for every boomer arsehole there's a Sebastian Payne grown in a vat. And there are huge disparities within each generation. As much as I want to poo poo on the boomers there are plenty of them who are poor or have not really benefited from their generations privileges. Xers had really good music.
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Apr 30, 2024 13:39
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:No wonder you lot are always complaining you can't afford houses eating avocados all the time. ...I'm willing to give it a shot
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Apr 30, 2024 13:48
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Terry's Chocolate Avocado
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Apr 30, 2024 13:53
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The weird thing about the hate for older generations is that the people from those generations weren't trying to gently caress over future generations, they just took advantage of opportunities that are no longer available. Yes the opportunities are no longer available because of the older generations, but those people didn't set out with that as the end goal. When my parents bought their house they weren't rubbing their hands in glee at the future generations they were loving over, or pondering if this might set off obscene rises in house prices leading to rampant landlordism, they just bought houses because that's what you do and then the loving markets decided to drive up the margins. If that opportunity was available to people now I have absolutely no doubt they'd take it. Hate the system, not the people.
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Apr 30, 2024 13:57
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I've just read that Baby Reindeer, the acclaimed Netflix show about stalking, has resulted in fans tracking down and stalking the stalker who allegedly stalked creator Richard Gadd, and as a result she is now threatening to sue him for unfairly portraying her as a stalker (how can she prove the character is based on her? A news headline about a previous stalking conviction appears in the show which mirrors her own previous stalking convictions). I have a lot of sympathy for everyone involved, and there are some genuinely thorny questions to be unpicked about the responsibilities of portrayal - but also it's starting to feel like the Peep Show bit where everyone tries to section each other.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:03
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Tesseraction posted:Born in a vat, drowned in a var. At the risk of losing all my goon cred (!) I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and ask about the origin of "var". Googling it only gives me people mad about the footy.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:04
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grobbo posted:I've just read that Baby Reindeer, the acclaimed Netflix show about stalking, has resulted in fans tracking down and stalking the stalker who allegedly stalked creator Richard Gadd, and as a result she is now threatening to sue him for unfairly portraying her as a stalker (how can she prove the character is based on her? A news headline about a previous stalking conviction appears in the show which mirrors her own previous stalking convictions). Richard Gadd has made some token gestures towards asking people not to track her down, but if you're really concerned about that you shouldn't of left so many clues in the show, and if you really, really were concerned about it you shouldn't of made it in the first place. So she probably should sue him for the considerable damage this association is going to do to her life.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:05
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Umbra Dubium posted:At the risk of losing all my goon cred (!) I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and ask about the origin of "var". Googling it only gives me people mad about the footy. Luke 'the Nuke' Akehurst, recently of Labour's NEC, once claimed to have reported numerous twitter death threats to the Met including someone saying they wanted to see him "drown in a var of piss".
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Apr 30, 2024 14:09
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Re: Baby Reindeer. I was listening to the (admittedly fairly -melty) The Rest Is Entertainment podcast with Marina Hyde and yer man off Pointless, and they were reasonably pointing out that this was a predictable fuckup that resulted from Netflix not having any of the same legal clearance department and processes as the BBC. It's probably going to be an easy case for her to win despite her being an evil weirdo who made a bunch of people and their family members fear for their lives and tried to ruin their careers and personal lives
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Apr 30, 2024 14:10
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sebzilla posted:Galloway on LBC this morning claiming there are imminent defections (councillors, MPs and a Lord) from Labour to whatever his current grift-vehicle is called. This week or the next. He also bragged that a cricketer and a Ukip MEP joined his party. So despite its very left-signalling name, it's really a big (circus) tent party.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:16
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How is there a ukip MEP if we aren't in the EU?
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Apr 30, 2024 14:18
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josh04 posted:Luke 'the Nuke' Akehurst, recently of Labour's NEC, once claimed to have reported numerous twitter death threats to the Met including someone saying they wanted to see him "drown in a var of piss". I knew the Akehurst association, but not that it has been a typo the whole time!
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Apr 30, 2024 14:18
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Failed Imagineer posted:Re: Baby Reindeer. A friend linked me an episode of that as it had some interesting data and by gawd I hated ever moment of it. And loving lol at Netflix not having lawyers as good as the BBC, all exposure is good exposure and has probably driven a good Q2 for them so they are happy. Hopefully Gadd's contract has him covered otherwise he is going to have a bad time. Imho he should have used real names, gently caress her and gently caress the rapist producer.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:18
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The uk already ipped, did you go to Europe to get elected to complain about the uk not ipping enough?
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Apr 30, 2024 14:19
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OwlFancier posted:How is there a ukip MEP if we aren't in the EU? Former, obviously.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:21
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Umbra Dubium posted:I knew the Akehurst association, but not that it has been a typo the whole time! But is it a typo for 'jar' or a typo for 'vat'? Impossible to know.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:21
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var lukeAkehurst = "piss";
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Apr 30, 2024 14:22
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PriorMarcus posted:Richard Gadd has made some token gestures towards asking people not to track her down, but if you're really concerned about that you shouldn't of left so many clues in the show, and if you really, really were concerned about it you shouldn't of made it in the first place. So victims can't tell their stories then? That's essentially what you are saying.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:22
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notaspy posted:And loving lol at Netflix not having lawyers as good as the BBC, That's not at all the assertion, just that their lawyers are busier doing different things. Streamers are less accountable than public broadcasters in all sorts of financial and legal ways that's hardly controversial
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Apr 30, 2024 14:23
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josh04 posted:But is it a typo for 'jar' or a typo for 'vat'? Impossible to know. It's a typo of vat. T and R are next to each other on a keyboard so easy to hit the wrong one, much harder to hit V instead of J.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:23
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The weird thing about the hate for older generations is that the people from those generations weren't trying to gently caress over future generations, they just took advantage of opportunities that are no longer available. Yes the opportunities are no longer available because of the older generations, but those people didn't set out with that as the end goal. You are absolutely correct, but I reserve the right to hate boomers who refuse to acknowledge that they benefited from a time, place and system that no longer exists and think that a) they're hard-working geniuses for being able to seize those benefits and b) that anyone younger than them who can't buy a three-bed house in SE England on a single average white-collar salary is just a lazy wastrel.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:36
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I think all people are the way they are because of systemic pressures but some of those systemic pressures still make people who make everything around them worse.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:37
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Just want me country back. None of the actual good things that came out of Keynesian economic policy or postwar democratic socialism, just the bit where I could say the words down the pub without being called a racialist.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:41
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this week iar be maostly eating avurcawdo 
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Apr 30, 2024 14:41
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BalloonFish posted:You are absolutely correct, but I reserve the right to hate boomers who refuse to acknowledge that they benefited from a time, place and system that no longer exists and think that a) they're hard-working geniuses for being able to seize those benefits and b) that anyone younger than them who can't buy a three-bed house in SE England on a single average white-collar salary is just a lazy wastrel. You whipper snappers don't know how easy you have it. Back in myyyyyy day
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Apr 30, 2024 14:51
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This chart is pinned up at my office today
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