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Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
Greggs is definitely poo poo. I had a sausage and egg roll there the other day for breakfast and it was like I was transported back to being a poor freshman who buys the cheapest ingredients I can find and cooks them really badly. The egg turned to dust in my mouth.

Speaking of supermarkets from last thread, I used to use Tesco since they were the closest but since I've moved the only one around is Sainsbury's, and while it's not that great they do at least have the proper rooster sriracha instead of that weird goose poo poo that Tesco has.

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Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

bump_fn posted:

i’m gonna go to wales for a few days what are some welsh delicacies that aren’t wet regret

Welshcakes are great! Also a good quality Welsh Rarebit is amazing, don't listen to anyone who says it's just cheese on toast. Extra points if it comes with ham and an egg on top.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Guavanaut posted:

I was going to say Welsh Rarebit, especially if it's done traditionally where the cheese is melted separately and ladled over the top. Anything else is just a grilled cheese fight me.

Yeah it's absolutely more like a cheese sauce with spices and beer in rather than just melting slices of cheese on top, it rules.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

crispix posted:

There's definitely something in that. Like how twirls are nicer than solid dairy milk, even though it's probably the same chocolate.

I reckon it's because all the twirly crumbly bits give a greater chocolate surface area

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
smh if you don't go to south east asia and brew your tea directly from the bush

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Aidan_702 posted:

Guys what are your tricks for when you are literally trying to keep your eyes open in an office job

if you're like me and have a fair amount of downtime in your job, find something to learn. I'm learning Python at the moment and it's a bitch but it keeps me occupied.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Failed Imagineer posted:

Spoken like someone who's never worked (wanked) from home.

A few years ago at work someone posted on our #tech slack channel that he was working from home. A couple of hours later he posts another message, all it said was "pornhub.com". It was deleted like a minute later but a few of us saw it and just looked on in horror. It was glorious.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Tesseraction posted:

I'm more disappointed it didn't have a search term attached

he had the look of someone into some weird poo poo tbh

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Ratjaculation posted:

I loving hate Black Mirror

because it stopped Brooker from doing Wipe

loving :agreed:

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
I listened the gently caress out of regular features a few years ago but stopped for no apparent reason. I might have to start again now that my commute is longer. Jon Blyth is absolutely wonderful.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

orange sky posted:

Buy Zimbabwe dollars, they're very stable in these troubled times.

I was given a 500 million Zimbabwe dollar note when I was in Mozambique and I will guard it with my life for when no deal happens.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

WhatEvil posted:

That might actually be worth something now.

I bought 5x 100Tn dollar notes from ebay back during the crash - they were ~£2 each. I was going to give them out to family as jokey christmas presents but forgot, so I still have them. Found out recently they're now worth about £50 each. Result!

Haha wow, who would have thought investing in that would pay off!

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

WhatEvil posted:

Hey man, at the time I was giving money to an impoverished nation for something essentially worthless.

Not my fault if I've accidentally made money from it.

[/capitalistsay]

I worked HARD to get where I was today

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
When the good weather comes back I'm going to go wild camp in the Brecon Beacons and it's going to rule.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

WhatEvil posted:

Their constituency has App Mancock as their MP and Tories got 61% of the vote in 2017.

I didn't know that they renamed Grindr.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Jedit posted:

You can pretty much do that by sitting someone down to watch Fantasia, although anyone who doesn't listen to Mars, The Bringer of War and get caught up in it can gently caress off.

That said, the greatest piece of 20th Century classical music is Heat Miser by Massive Attack. Change my mind.

I swear Mars is the first ever example of Metal and it rules. It's even got a breakdown ffs.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
No one in the gym is gonna laugh at you because you're not lifting heavy.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
Any people here potentially interested in starting the gym/weights should definitely go over to the general thread in YLLS which is super super helpful and knowledgeable. It was the main thing that helped me start being a fitness-haver a few years ago.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

thespaceinvader posted:

Consider that a 22 year old man may very well have never needed a loving black jacket in his entire adult life, abd that this is more than likely the first death he's dealt with as an adult, and society has more than likely not even CLOSE to equipped him with the emotional health and tools to deal with it properly, and maybe try some empathy whilst you're at it?

This is a very good post. If I was in his position I would probably have done the same at his age except maaaybe not asked for help so last minute, but that's also part of being emotionally unable to deal with it. At 22 I couldn't even afford a black jacket/suit.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

When my dad died he had said 'no black' - he wanted joyful colours. We did put that in the notice of the funeral but 95% of people still turned up in black. I wore red.

When my Gran died it was all joyful colours too, except amazingly pretty much everyone followed it. My Dad wore the loudest jacket I've ever seen and it was a really nice day. Sad obviously but I think the no black rule really helped.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

thespaceinvader posted:

My big issue with going to proper lifting (other than the barrier to entry of it needing to be moved to and from, but that's my own problem, rather than a general one) is learning proper technique. Getting it wrong can gently caress you up, and getting it right takes some training, surely?

The starting strength book goes in depth with all the lifts and their motions, focusing on proper form. I don't do SS as a program but the book was really useful to begin with. That, along with youtube videos, and then the Form Check thread in YLLS and it's hard to go wrong. Just remember to start out light and only go up in weights if you can keep the proper form.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Cerv posted:

Consider Phlebas is generally regarded as the worst. you can tell it’s an early effort. “ok I guess” is a fair review.
The Player of Games is a much better intro. But personally I’d recommend Excession and Use of Weapons as my favourites.

Also it’s not really a series - the novels don’t follow each other as sequels* - it’s just a shared background universe. you can read any of them in any order.


* if you feel the need to be pedantic about certain shared characters in later novels, don’t cos that’s a spoiler :P

Look to Windward is also amazing. I'd say those are the top 3. Matter and Surface Detail are a bit looked down upon I find but I really enjoyed them too, they've got some really cool concepts in them.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
lmao please let that be real

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
They'll still blame him whatever happens. It'll always be his fault and there's nothing you can do to change their minds about that.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1161902442247852032?s=19

Hahahahaha

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1161904652142764032?s=19

This really should be forever known as national dunk on the libs day

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
Maybe they should just design a better jar in the first place tbh

E: 147 is the maximum break in snooker. Ronnie O'Sullivan is renowned for licking marmite straight from the jar every time he gets one.

Aphex- fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Aug 18, 2019

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Pochoclo posted:

Marmite, by Junji Ito

This is my jar... It was made for ME!!

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

The replies to this tweet are giving me an anyerusm

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

"you're being a meanie and have hurt my feelings so i'm just going to go back into my comfortable liberal bubble where the first political thing that ever had an impact on my life was brexit please why can't it be 2012 again THE OLYMPICS"

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Mrenda posted:

Tayto were the first to manage to put the flavouring actually on the crisp. They're part of Ireland's slow cultural war, a friendly snack-based imperialism where everyone comes around to the glory of Cheese and Onion Tayto's (in the correctly coloured red bag.) But, of course, there's no disagreement on the absolute fact they're called crisps.

taytos are pro-tier crisps but lol at thinking RED is the colour for cheese and onion

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Vlex posted:

You can get houses dirt cheap outside of cities. Downside is, you're in the middle of nowhere.

Upside more like!

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Rarity posted:

The only polls that matter are exit polls.

This really is the truth and you all should have learned this lesson from the previous GE. I mean come on, almost all of the polls beforehand were predicting an absolute thrashing of labour but we all know how that turned out.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
He's gonna do what I did in secondary school once when I forgot to do some homework where I brought in a floppy disk I knew was already corrupted and feigned surprise when they checked it. "Ohhh noo... my homework that I totally did was on there..."

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Junior G-man posted:

Your transatlantic ray of hope for today:

https://twitter.com/Ferric242/status/1164869840802373638?s=20

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

That looks like a loving poo poo stir fry

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

loss edits are getting weird

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Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

kecske posted:

metal is a great soundtrack for when you go drinking in the woods and dress up like a goblin, which coincidentally is my post brexit plan

Nekrogoblikon is life

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