UKMT October 2021 - It's the Great Sewage Pump, Clifton-Brown

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therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

a pipe smoking dog posted:

That's the thing is just arrogance. They've known since the second he was arrested there would be a public response but they just haven't bothered doing anything because the previous experience is that it wouldn't matter and nothing would need to change.

It�s not true that they haven�t done anything.

They attacked people at the vigil.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2021 13:54

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therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

goddamnedtwisto posted:

~~Limmy~~ Rowan Atkinson, your country needs you.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2021 16:15

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Mourning Due posted:

Can't post today without saying: gently caress the police. I'm a morbid fan of horror who it takes a lot to shock, but the details of this case are so loving grim it takes my breath away. And the fact we've got the Labour leader saying what we need is more of these corrupt cunts, and Cressida Dick is his best friend, and and and. Can't believe they're trying to just say "WOW what an unbelievably bad apple!". There was an awful woman on BBC4 this morning, saying how great it was that the police have an internal anonymous line available to file complaints if they fear retaliation, and I'm just thinking, oh yeah, nice and anonymous if you say "Sergeant X sexually assaulted me in the changeroom", oh yeah, how will he ever know who lodged the complaint? gently caress they are bent beyond belief.

Completely different topic and I don't mean to be insensitive: my works given us a �350 "wellness payment" to buy something that makes us happy, which I thought was bloody decent tbh. I've been after a rice cooker for some time and thought it would be straightforward, but there's so many. Any recommendations? I wanted to go big with a Zojirushi, but the models available in the UK are apparently old tech, and don't fancy paying �300 for an outdated model. Looking at the Yum Asia Panda, anyone used it? Any others you like?

ACAB. This has been really grim.

Onto lighter fare: I got a Tefal combination rice cooker/slow cooker a few years ago that I�ve been happy with. I mostly use the slow cooker for overnight porridge. Creamy.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2021 19:30

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

The Question IRL posted:

I got a rice cooker for my birthday and it's aces.
I got the Yum Asia Fuji. It's like the Panda but it's got this really sleak design where it sort of looks like an old fashioned bamboo cooker but lights up really organically.

It's great for Rice and you can use it to make Porridge and bread. I tried the Porridge and preferred cooking it in pan, but it's nice to ha e the option.

Would recommend the Fuji. Just beware that the cooking bowl is ceramic so you have to make sure you don't drop it.

Porridge is much better cooked slowly overnight. About 1/3 cup per portion, about 3.5 x volume of liquid (water or water and a bit of milk).

# ¿ Oct 1, 2021 21:50

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Mebh posted:

On rice cookers, not for everyone but, my wife is diabetic and we were in the market for a new one and we stumbled across this one.
We thought "That can't possibly be true"
Having been around the hills for years trying endless low carb alternatives that are all just poo poo, frankly but... loving hell, it works!

It basically drains the water out into a separate container after a bit of cooking, then steams the rice the rest of the way. Since the starch doesn't reabsorb into the rice, it ends up being about 1/3 less carbs, which is huge! Less carbs = less insulin needed = less weight gain. Woop.

Needs a bit of tinkering with amounts of water to get non mushy rice but I honestly can't tell the difference one we nailed it and can now share a bowl of fried rice with the lady instead of having to watch her sadly poke at a bowl of shirataki or riced cabbage, which is ace!

(note: riced cabbage is loving awesome if you cook it like okonomiyaki, try it!)

E: catte hot tub tax

Holy poo poo. I was sceptical that it could reduce carbs but that actually makes sense. My son is diabetic and coeliac so we eat a lot of rice. I will look into this.

fuctifino posted:

Is the Independent a satire site now?

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1443935968743116801

I love the picture they chose. It�s a delightful contrast to what she�s saying.

Imperial units are illogical. Metric forever!

# ¿ Oct 2, 2021 11:48

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

She does care deeply. She cares deeply about loving them over in as cruel and callous way as possible. I think Tory Hone Secretaries have to be sociopaths.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2021 13:27

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

I am a decent cook but rice is my Achilles heel so I bloody love my rice cooker.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2021 21:00

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Endjinneer posted:

22 mil for tennis courts? What about the boat house, that's what I'm asking!
A knackered tennis court is a reasonably good place to contain a small game of footy and various other team games. Restoring them so that only a few people can play only tennis on them is a total waste of money. It makes them a far less useful space and they'll fall into disrepair rapidly. The council where I grew up spent a load of money renovating their old tennis court into... a skatepark. More than two people can use it at once and it facilitates an activity the local kids are interested in.

They recently redid our local tennis courts at Finsbury Park and they are pretty solidly booked from 7am-8pm, and solidly booked during weekends. They also run tennis camps and after school lessons for kids. There is a real mix of people using the courts. There is a skate park right next door and a lot of space for football. Tennis can absolutely be a part of a council�s recreational offering. It becomes elitist when there are not decent reasonably priced (�3/hr off peak, �6/hr peak or floodlit) facilities available to the public.

therattle fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Oct 3, 2021

# ¿ Oct 3, 2021 16:02

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

NotJustANumber99 posted:

This is all baked in though. We might not know the exact details but everyone in the country assumes rich powerful people do this.

Yeah but not loving ex-leaders of the Labour Party.

Nothingtoseehere posted:

A group of people who vaguely feel modern capitalism is Bad but have absolutely no idea why or what they'd change to stop it being so.

Also, where will people who live in cities get their produce from?

# ¿ Oct 3, 2021 19:54

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

NotJustANumber99 posted:

What's a bit of tax dodging from a war criminal?

I can juuuust about see how he might have thought that going to war was the right thing to do, and compatible with his moral framework. One can�t do that with tax avoidance. There�s no way one can say �well, he thought he was doing the right thing�. (Note: I don�t want to but it could be argued). It�s just naked greed. What fucks me off so much is that the people who engage in this poo poo don�t need to. They�ve already got too much money.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2021 21:11

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Failed Imagineer posted:

By the time they've made all that money, they've probably already made a thousand choices more unethical than mere tax avoision.

Big Tone says: "I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er"

I know. And it�s not surprising. It�s just depressing.

There is something in milk that interacts in a certain way with tea that substitutes can�t match. However, oat milk in coffee is delicious. Better than milk, I think.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2021 21:33

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

happyhippy posted:

The worst thing about the bean pic above is that you don't see the liquid level left post beans.
Meaning he was slurping it.

Maybe he drank the sauce straight from the can. He was eating the beans with a fork.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2021 22:54

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

serious gaylord posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1444903224021078017

Its okay everyone they're 'concerned' about it and its nothing to do with the whatsapp group with Couzens being looked into where they were clearly talking about doing more rapes. Purely co-incidence that its another officer in his unit.

Don�t worry, lessons will be learnt.

TACD posted:

I�ve never even tried a non-dairy milk, is this yet another hot new trend my aging brain has missed the boat on

If you take coffee with milk Oatly barista is seriously good. better than cows� milk.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2021 09:41

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

OwlFancier posted:

Crossposting because lmao.

Sundae Bloody Sundae

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 11:57

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

My wife was quite involved in XR until she realised the hidden power hierarchies per the above. She knows a lot of the senior people. I don�t think they are knowing stooges. If they�re being manipulated it�s unwittingly.

^^^what they said

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 16:08

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Borrovan posted:

Thanks for the interesting & well researched perspective, but I feel that there might be a slightly more direct route to ending both wealth inequality and food hunger? (e: someone do an effortpost on the calorific value of the rich versus the needs of the population, taking account of distribution &c)

That's the same kind they have in France, the ketchup flavour is loving amazing

I�ve always wondered about things which are flavoured with things which themselves are flavours of something else. So we have tomato sauce crisps but not tomato crisps, and others which I now annoyingly can�t remember even though I�ve had this thought for ages.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2021 23:44

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Zalakwe posted:

Won't someone think of the weapons sales!

Spineless sack of poo poo. Saudi Arabia is such a disgusting country that he shouldn't have even thought about that issue for longer than a second before coming out against it.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2021 14:54

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

kingturnip posted:

On the plus side, not being able to see what's going on might actually increase your appreciation of some Premier League matches.

I actually stopped watching the Premier League in January - I've been getting more and more annoyed with it in the last few years, and the utterly farcical implementation of VAR was more or less the last straw for me. I know they've improved it this year, but until they start using it to give Yellow cards for diving, arguing with the referee and demanding another player gets booked/sent off (which are all things players should be booked for), I'll stay convinced that it's all about trying to turn football into a non-contact sport.

And I don't miss it.

In rugby if one argues with the ref or if anyone other than the captain complains about anything the infringement mark is moved ten yards forwards. No crowding the ref, no long arguments, it�s great.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2021 10:01

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Qwertycoatl posted:

Winning the lottery is genuinely one of the most life-ruining things that can happen to someone

By the same token have really rich parents does in many cases absolutely gently caress people up. (Succession illustrates this brilliantly).

# ¿ Oct 10, 2021 23:11

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I had a deal that was Base Rate + 0.39% for the lifetime of the mortgage back in days of yore before 2008 crash. (Interest only). But my life took an unexpected twist and I chucked in work and went abroad for some years. So that was that.

I'm on 0.99% above base rate, also from 2007. And we actually applied for fixed rate but the bank made a mistake and did floating, thank gently caress. I'll never have cheaper borrowing in my life.

With my lotto millions I'd buy or build a modernist house. Not too big but with a little home cinema, and a tennis court. I'd spend a shitload of money on film and TV development and maybe make some related investments. The rest would go into pensions and a trust for my son. Oh, I'd chuck some my family's way too. Plus buy woodlands and give to charity.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2021 15:15

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

TACD posted:

New Cod On The Block up in Walkley used to be very good, but I haven�t lived anywhere near it for a few years. And now I�m gluten-free I can probably never have fish and chips again

My son is coeliac and on our summer holiday we had excellent GF F&C from a chippy in Hove. Do a search - there are quite a few that do proper Gf.

Eg https://www.mygfguide.com/gluten-free-fish-chips-uk-coeliac-friendly/

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 22:53

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

OwlFancier posted:

I like just floured fish, conceivably you might be able to use corn flour?

You can also easily buy frozen GF fish fingers or fillets. Fish batter is something where one doesn�t require the specific properties of gluten so it�s easy to get a good outcome with GF alternatives. And chips obviously can be GF as long as they are fried in oil that hasn�t had gluten products fried in it.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 23:05

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

When I first heard there's a protest group called "insulate Britain" I immediately assumed it was anti immigration, because that's the kind of oval office that seems to make up most of the British population

My son is diabetic and we call giving him insulin insulating him. So Insulate Britain would be giving everyone lots of insulin.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 14:55

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Guavanaut posted:

https://twitter.com/archeohistories/status/1446746186925293569

https://twitter.com/ryanfb/status/1447229702184312833

This really made me laugh.

This is good:

https://twitter.com/simonday24/status/1446089629862703111?t=sxoZJNqEuyxIWaQ8U52msw&s=09

# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 11:33

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

I like Jay Rayner�s restaurant reviews. This is particularly good, especially the ending

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/oct/17/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-kebab-kid-london-take-away-as-a-cult-nusr-et-steakhouse

# ¿ Oct 17, 2021 13:53

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

There�s an ancient legal principle that it�s better for ten guilty people to go free than one innocent person be wrongly punished. The UK welfare system has inverted that.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2021 23:45

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Red Oktober posted:

Alec mentions his partner won�t let him take scales.

So only one half of the relationship is truly batshit.

Imagine having to sit there in a spoons while your partner measures, counts (and would weigh if he could) the chips. Most embarrassing thing to happen in a spoons? Unlikely, but still high.

I�ve measured food in restaurants before (to carb count to work out insulin dosage for a diabetic).

# ¿ Oct 18, 2021 15:19

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

goddamnedtwisto posted:

People genuinely can be both helpful and charming IRL and blithely vote for monstrous poo poo. An acquaintance of mine mentioned that Amess had been instrumental in helping a group of Afghan refugees settle in Southend, even going so far as arranging for Farsi bus timetables to be printed up. I've mentioned before that Peter Bottomley has been *amazingly* helpful to people getting hosed over by housing associations. Steven Norris was one of the staunchest allies of gay and lesbian people in the Commons in the 80s and 90s. All three are also straight party-line voting Tories and so have definitely voted for some very, very nasty things.

The point is that (with the possible exception of a few monsters) none of them wake up in the morning and thing "Hmm... how can I be evil today?". When they voted to remove the �20 from UC, to take the last example, they would mostly have genuinely believed they were doing the right thing not only for the country *but for the recipients of UC* - some bullshit about "encouraging them back to work", with a side order of "if the country goes bankrupt we're all hosed". Now obviously these are at best economically illiterate but they're not (again, with a few exceptions) doing it because they *enjoy* loving people over.

In fact I'd say one of the biggest weaknesses on the Left (it happens all across the spectrum of course but it's something the Left should be more able to recognise and avoid, IMO) is this assumption that the other side are moustache-twirling panto villains who do what they do because they are actual biblical evil personified, rather than at best people with an extremely misaligned moral compass (and at worst chancers and spivs looking for a quick buck, but that's a different class of bastards all together). Blair, Thatcher, even Kissinger never did what they did because they correctly identified what was right and wrong and chose to do the wrong thing for the lols, they did what they thought was right, and considered the downsides to be acceptable. This is of course also monstrous and evil but it's a completely different kind of monstrous and evil. and failing to recognise that is a massive blind spot in how you fight it.

I agree with this.

forkboy84 posted:

The problem is that motivation doesn't matter, end result matters. I am totally aware that Tony Blair thinks he's a good guy who made Britain better. So did Thatcher & Churchill. But sincerely believing in something evil is still evil, even if you have convinced yourself/been convinced by cultural hegemony that you're not.

I agree with this too. There is a moral/ethical difference (although it may be an inconsequential one) between a wrong deliberately done, and one that is done with good intentions. It's the difference between murder and manslaughter. Both are crimes but one is slightly less of a crime. (Not necessarily to the person who ends up dead as a result).

# ¿ Oct 18, 2021 17:59

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

LGD posted:

https://twitter.com/nadinebh_/status/1450475588796493833?s=20
https://twitter.com/nadinebh_/status/1450477280019484692?s=20
https://twitter.com/nadinebh_/status/1450478414041866247?s=20

This is interesting because I was going to make a similar post in response to the hypothesis that a Tory PM with a large majority could simply legislate away all opposition. It still requires most of the Tory MPs to vote for it, and i think that's a harder ask than voting for eg austerity etc. A majority doesn't automatically confer unlimited power on the PM, and I believe that there are some Tories who actually do have some integrity (in certain spheres at least...), the misguided rather than plain assholes, who would not vote for such a plan.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 21:12

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

fuctifino posted:

I love that my frankenbong brings so many smiles It's one of the reasons why I'm making the V.1 into a ridiculous behemoth that's going to be as over the top as I can make it, but I am planning a more realistic V2 model that people can easily replicate, using water cooling instead of a heatsink, but I'm going to have to save up for a while before I can afford to get the bits to make it.

Nobody in the specialised vaping groups I'm in have ever heard of sub zero distillation tube cooling like this used for vaping, so I got that earlier poo poo video recorded just so I can claim prior use to stop anyone from attempting to patent it as theirs. I have no plans to patent anything myself, but I loving hate patents, so this should allow anyone to take the idea forward. The owner of the Slingshot Channel on youtube does the same with his inventions, and he claims it works.

The difference between taking a sub zero cooled hit and a normal hit is like explaining to a blind person what it's like to see. I cough my lungs up with unfiltered vape hits. With sub zero cooled hits, I barely feel it enter my lungs and never seem to cough - yet I'm taking super dense hits due to Charles Law compressing the vapour etc.

Your bong is loving amazing. BTW, I studied IP law a loooong time ago but I�m not confident you�re right how patents work. I think someone can copy your work, patent it, and then prevent you from exploiting it. Goon project: patent the sub-zero bong with any proceeds going to UKMT Fund! Any patent lawyers here?

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 09:21

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I for one do not feel the need to post happily about the potential death of an old lady, whoever she might be.

until twisto posts about a weird helicopter its all bullshit anyway

I don�t think the Queen is a particularly horrible person so won�t rejoice her passing. It�s a bit like hate the game, not the player. Although she obviously has a healthy dose of self-interest she also, unlike most others in power, also has something of a sense of duty, even if it may be misguided. Makes a change from the government.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2021 10:32

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

fuctifino posted:

This is a good catch from 2017 https://twitter.com/carrielbjohnson/status/905026180499243008

We�re importing 30,000 tons of sludge from the Netherlands to use as manure. It contains human waste. Using it as manure is illegal in the EU.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2021 21:10

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Bobby Deluxe posted:

due to a mix up at the outgoing distribution centre, dutch authorities have issued a clarification that the black sludge is for facial use only

Is it Xmas already?

# ¿ Oct 24, 2021 22:43

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 15:43

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

I watch some BBC programmes (most recently the very good Back To Life s2 and Alma�s Not Normal) and I pay the TV license. I guess that makes me centrist dad in these parts.

Did anyone see the rather good recent Judith Butler piece in the Guardian? It was quite long. My supposition is that they let her publish it in full as recompense for cutting her interview.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2021 14:21

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