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The Question IRL posted:It would be like if there was a man named Ceremy Jorbyn who threw wild minks and ferrets at people on the street, and it got pinned on someone else instead. Piers Corbyn actually exists if that helps
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Why does he only have, like, five chips
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Sep 2, 2020 22:36
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Marmaduke! posted:I'm on holiday at the moment but all I am thinking of is getting back to the office and taking part in scrums and telling people "let's take it offline" then feeling smug that they've made the tea and coffee free ~*during these challenging times*~ while I stay late cos half the staff have just come back from European holidays but management can't decide if you need to quarantine after filling your car up at a petrol station in France What kind of hellhole doesn't provide free coffee even in normal times? At least in the tech world, the one place I've worked which stopped doing that, also stopped paying people on time a couple of weeks later. Then, eventually, at all.
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Sep 3, 2020 13:50
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I used to drink two a day at work; stopped drinking coffee completely since lockdown. Oddly, hasn't made much difference to me really.
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Sep 4, 2020 12:23
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OwlFancier posted:I genuinely cannot believe that the country which will put any part of any animal into a pie, did not have the concept of frying fish in batter until someone brought it over from spain in the seventeeth loving century. Mediaeval fried fish was a thing, I believe, it's the 'dredge it in flour first' bit we hadn't come up with. Or, possibly, we had - it's not a radical concept - but it just never took off countrywide til the Sephardic Jews turned up. (This was bad for Jeremy Corbyn)
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Sep 4, 2020 12:28
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Neil Coyle is about to go nuts and slice his nipple off while Jezza comes up with the next great Pepsi ad?   
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Sep 4, 2020 12:36
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SpaceCommie posted:It's made me miss my old cat, but I've never had to go through the early stages of cat ownership. How long does training them to use the litter box etc take? Do you keep your inside? I grew up in the middle of nowhere so we just used to let them roam free. My cat is and always has been an indoors cat - that's unusual in the UK but fairly common in America which is where I've owned most of my cats. I do have a reasonably big space though, if you've got like a 1 bedroom apartment that might not be so good. You don't really need to train cats to use a litterbox, assuming you're not getting a newborn or something I guess which you really shouldn't, they're not ready to leave their mother til maybe 8 weeks. Just point them at it and instinct will take over. Make sure to get your cat spayed/neutered. Especially if it's a boy cat and you don't want it scent marking everything in sight. In general though, cats are pretty low maintenance. Provide food, provide water, provide toys/stimulation, clean their poo, and they're good to go.
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Sep 4, 2020 13:31
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mehall posted:Similar to what Camrath said, our kitten came knowing to use the litter box. Um please noone ask me for fudge, ok, I have no idea how to make it? Edit: nm missed a post carry on
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Sep 4, 2020 14:30
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's entirely possible that there just wasn't the technology available until then. Deep-fat frying as we know it basically requires a proper, controllable heat source otherwise you're just going to be burning your face off, so we're into mid-Industrial Revolution before wood-burning stoves become cheap enough to be affordable to non-kings. I'm not entirely sure i buy this. You can control heat levels simply by having your frying container closer or further from your heat source, as one does right now on a charcoal barbecue for example. And you don't need a massive vat of oil or fat to get comparable results, an inch of lard and flipping the fish halfway through would work fine. Pan frying fish goes at least as far back as Pliny in the literature. Also anyone north of the Midlands will tell you that specifically using cod is not a sine qua non of fish and chips ;p feedmegin fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
As I mentioned fried fish goes back to the Romans at least. Its in Apicius. Edit: Heres a Roman frying pan. Works fine with fish. Probably even rolled in flour. Edit edit: I have a little Latin, I can cook and make sausages and cider. Til I died of bubonic plague anyway. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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CoolCab posted:in the UK there's an absolute ton more exposure to europe - amsterdam is literally cheaper to get to than london. *looks out the window* Not for all of us it isn't! ;p
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Sep 6, 2020 15:06
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Blue WKD is still around, my ex a few years ago loved the stuff.
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Sep 6, 2020 23:44
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WhatEvil posted:One of my mates invented a "cocktail" of Port and Red Bull. Actually surprisingly nice but you don't want more than one. Try asking for Sprite next time. I assume Canada does the US thing where lemonade isn't carbonated and instead has actual lemons in. Edit: 1928, King Zog of Albania is crowned. Kneel before Zog. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Sep 6, 2020 |
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Sep 6, 2020 23:47
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Miftan posted:Just an FYI this is not a US thing, but a rest of the world thing. Possibly with the exception of like, NZ and Aus because they imported a lot of nonsense from the UK? Then the rest of the world is wrong 
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Sep 7, 2020 10:42
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Mebh posted:I remember going to my first bar aged 16 in 1998 and finding out that a red bull and vodka with 1 shot of red bull and 1 shot of lovely cheap kirov vodka was £7.50 I had only brought a tenner and man that was such poo poo. Jesus Christ that must be like 15 quid today, what was the bar, the American Bar at the Savoy?
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Sep 7, 2020 12:47
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Communist Thoughts posted:LOL I do find funny the American lefts attempt to embrace guns as if it helps anything. Ask the fash in Madrid in 1936 how that went down for them. Obviously if the Army goes over to them en masse we're all hosed, but if part of it doesn't a bunch of socialists with guns can at least turn a coup into a civil war. Challenge is then winning it, of course.
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Sep 7, 2020 13:04
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We were paying 800 quid in insurance on our Yaris, but that's because my wife, being American, only had a year or so of driving experience in the UK so as far as the insurance companies were concerned she was some teenaged boy racer, despite having been driving for 20 years now. Then we moved to London and sold it, problem solved!
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Sep 7, 2020 13:32
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Jedit posted:It took me a while to figure out that sundried tomatoes were actually sun-dried tomatoes, and not someone using "sundry" as a noun. Adjective 
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Sep 9, 2020 22:18
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Jedit posted:Please. I'm talking about it being the past tense of "sundry-ing". That's a gerund
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Sep 10, 2020 11:36
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communism bitch posted:I'm about to spunk £400 up the wall on a sofa I'll never sit on and I loving hate it. This "being a normal, functional adult and having furniture so your guests don't think you live like a smack addict in an opium den" stuff is a load of poo poo. Alternatively, spunk £400 on smack?
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Sep 10, 2020 22:16
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Ms Adequate posted:If you don't have a sofa what do your cats and/or dogs sleep on when they're not sleeping on the bed? In my case, a suitcase. He loves that thing.
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Sep 10, 2020 23:11
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communism bitch posted:Don't become managers folks. I've walked too far down a dark path and there's no going back for me. Here, you should come out to lunch with us. Al fresco, by this lovely shady wall over here. Would you like a Woodbine or a Pall Mall to go with it? And we have this lovely fetching blindfold we thought you might like.
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Sep 11, 2020 13:37
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OwlFancier posted:Why is it a sherman firefly? Why is it not a glorious BRITANE churchill or cromwell? Because the Firefly was actually good OP. We didnt have anything as good till the Comet.
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Sep 11, 2020 22:00
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Lungboy posted:I'll be very surprised if they are turning it back into one house and don't need vacant possession. They might not even get permission to convert it back from the council. You might be able to check this online, by the way. Barking certainly has planning applications visible online which is how I found out my landlord was trying to appeal a planning decision against turning the place I live in into an airbnb and the council told him to do one (again).
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Sep 13, 2020 17:46
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Jose posted:Does anyone give a poo poo about him? It's like major and Blair talking at this point To be fair it had already been sold to Softbank. Now it's just American instead of Japanese. Also their marketing department will bitch at you, when I was there we were firmly told it's now 'arm' all lower case. Got a free water bottle with it on and everything.
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Sep 14, 2020 10:38
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Jedit posted:TIL that not everyone has realised Ankh-Morpork is explicitly based on the City of London. What, mostly skyscrapers, bankers and Prets? (London and the City of London are not the same thing, you're not American so you should know better )
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Sep 15, 2020 19:45
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Jedit posted:The City of London has changed in definition over the centuries. Actually it hasn't, thats the exact point.
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Sep 15, 2020 19:54
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Camrath posted:So we have a UKMT brewer, a candy maker, seem to recall someone makes gin.. all we need is a butcher and a vegetable farmer and we have the makings of a dammed nice weekend or a very Correct village to set children’s stories in. I know how to make sausages, and I'm sure I'm not the only person itt who's grown veggies (Last year's cucumbers turned out pretty good, the tomatoes less so, and I still have some murder chilis in the freezer. This year's plans got a bit derailed by covid)
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Sep 16, 2020 10:42
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Dogatron posted:And then there is the wall built in Oxford to keep the poors from the decent people. I mean there's a little remnant of the wall in New College Garden Quad but that's because the townies kept lynching students (which is why Cambridge exists, they fled to a damp swamp to get away from all that)
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Sep 19, 2020 13:20
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Noxville posted:Prepare to be utterly shocked by this confession She wax dog whistling about Mumsnet like a year ago so I'm not terribly surprised.
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Sep 19, 2020 21:50
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stev posted:That's hilarious. Who the gently caress would even subscribe to something called BritBox? The target gammons either don't know how streaming subscriptions work or get all of their entertainment from the various UKTV channels anyway. British people living in America (or Anglophile Americans). I might have considered it if it was around when I lived in Michigan, if I didn't just  all my telly anyway.
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Sep 23, 2020 13:06
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radmonger posted:That was an obvious and entirely avoidable tactical blunder. Maybe consider acknowledging that, and commit to avoid doing anything similarly stupid in future , before giving up on the whole parliamentary socialism thing. I mean, the two alternatives were a) explicitly campaign for Remain (we lose those Midlands seats even harder) or b) explicitly campaign for Brexit, in which case everyone under the age of 40 goes to vote Lib Dem. There were no good choices here. What we got wasn't great, but that's because there was no great to be had.
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Sep 23, 2020 13:20
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Lord of the Llamas posted:It's pure speculation but I think saying explicitly "Labour would bin Brexit if we got elected" wouldn't have been as bad as people think because there's a non trivial number of voters who "just want it over with either way" and found Boris message appealing in that regard. It was painfully obvious most of the pro-2nd Ref people were just FBPEs looking for a do-over even if there were logical arguments about "knowing more now" and suchlike. Labour were doing well before the meltdown in support around the EU elections; it's hard to know what could've worked (if anything) but we do know dithering on the fence really didn't work. I mean *gestures at all the retirees in the East Midlands again*. Boomers really, really wanted diamond turbo hard brexit, and that's what they're getting. 
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Angepain posted:I believe it's not against the law for them to leave, but it is apparently legal for the university to punish students with expulsion if they disobey, making them pretty much forced to. unless they don't mind applying again next year and spending a year with no money etc. Possibly no tuition fee loan either, don't you only get one shot at it?
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Sep 26, 2020 15:23
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Guavanaut posted:I literally remember "the camps in South Africa were different from Nazi death camps because the deaths weren't deliberate" in school history, so it's not new. I mean, they were different from vernichtunslager. There is a moral difference between not giving a poo poo if people die and e.g. setting up an intentional industrial machine with the explicit aim of wiping all Boers from the Earth. They were not different from regular Nazi concentration camps or for that matter gulags, which were still VERY BAD, is what we should be teaching there.
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The Question IRL posted:I thought that they had to start teaching that stuff, after they got embarrassed by the number of international stories that went "British kids think Colonial past was Aces...then showed all the bad stuff they did." I mean there was a LOT of bad stuff so it's hard to fit it in. I think we did the Amritsar massacre in GCSE, mumble years ago, that's about it.
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Sep 26, 2020 15:43
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SpicePro posted:I remember buying my first Atari ST games at Boots, buying wine brewing kits and playing with the PDAs on show...the meal deal looks positively sane in comparison! I was going to drink the refreshing grape juice and make some bread officer! Much like its not illegal to buy a still totally to purify your water honest guv
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Sep 26, 2020 17:45
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I dont know for sure but feels like catered halls is pretty rare? Like only the posho oxbridge and the like places? At an Oxbridge college you eat in your college dining hall. Choice of informal hall or formal where you have to wear your gown and you get waited on by college staff. Edit: food is still institutional grade though. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Sep 26, 2020 19:46
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ronya posted:parallel universe Corbyn has a coalition government, mind you, given the numbers He has a coalition government with a majority of like 1 and half his MPs hate him. Plus Brexit to worry about still in one form or another. It would not have gone well.
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Vitamin P posted:It would have saved an awful lot of lives though. 2017 Labour policy was to break the fake distinction between health and social care which was the main reason we had such a massive death rate from Covid. That's nice, There would have been zero time to do that between the 2019 election and all this, not to mention the legislative priority would be the second referendum.
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