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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 
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I married an American so everything is in cups, pounds, grams, celcius, fan, fahrenheit and for some reason dl measures as well. I don't get all the fuss from people hating one or the other. It's not like anyone who ever googles a recipe hasn't had to deal with converting poo poo and weird measurements from other countries. Guess it's just old people again being shite.
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Oct 2, 2021 02:45
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If you're doing precise baking. Weigh your liquids. If you're not. Whatever the gently caress. Nothing else really matters anyway. I tried to make crumpets in colorado once. Now that was loving hard. Altitude plus flour that I swear is 50 percent sawdust. Spent a year there and became intolerant to gluten for a year after! I have neigbours who were going to throw out an entire thing of mince as they only needed 400g and it was a substitute of 600g. They decided not to use it and had no space in their freezer. People are loving weird man. Basically. Eat more beans. And don't loving measure them! MORE BEANS!
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Oct 2, 2021 03:29
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I'd be mad, but while Labour burns and crashes, to throughly crush it the tories might accidentally do some good flanking from the left. Yeah it'll be a pale imitation of an actual left wing gov but honestly I'm half a mind that it'll be better than the shite new Labour 2.0 "free wet eggs and a signed postcard of Mandleson printed on the back of an ASBO" would do. gently caress, is this how people end up voting for the tories? Just complete lifelong disillusionment due to "the bins" Is Keith our Bins? gently caress. He is isn't he. I'm going to just draw a cock on my ballot.
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Oct 5, 2021 23:10
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Stop voting for the Tories. I think these days it might just give all three major parties one vote.
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Oct 5, 2021 23:18
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Failed Imagineer posted:There's 3 major parties now? The conservatives, uuuuuh... Boris' dad... And everyone else?
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Oct 5, 2021 23:28
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Colleague who wouldn't get his cats spayed as he didn't want to "deny them the experience of pregnancy" and who also loves crypto due to it being a "great investment" because he's smarter than others, today in our one to one announced he hadn't got his vaccine yet. Why? Because you see his partner and him want kids and "there are no long term 20 plus year studies on the effect of the vaccine on unborn children" loving hell where do you start? Thankfully we're 100 percent remote now.
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Oct 8, 2021 01:16
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At this point I'll take sterility.
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Oct 8, 2021 01:19
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No kids, lots of cats. That's the way. 
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Oct 8, 2021 01:33
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Kieth continues to be impressively poo poo. On 100m I'd dump most of it in the Ukmt fund after paying off all my families debts, tuition fees etc. It'd be really interesting to see how that would play out and if it would spill over into SA in general. Collectively I'd expect some pretty cool stuff to come from it though. Plus you know a few fun things like sending every politician in the country a giant truck of uncanned baked beans on their driveways.
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Oct 8, 2021 20:50
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I really wish Corbyn had leaned into the whole "I will uptip the establishment's apple cart" a bit more. Not really him though. Clive Lewis for ... well anything tbh. He'd at least have a good shout at people.
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Oct 8, 2021 21:39
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My wife has a very neutral and flat American accent that is ludicrously easy to understand. People are constantly handing the phone to colleagues when she makes calls and saying things loudly like "I can't understand 'er, she's forrin'!" I do enjoy going shopping with her and watching her go deer in the headlights at people with incredibly strong Yorkshire accents in the same way as when someone speaks rapid German or Spanish at you when you just started learning it. Old people complaining about accents is all bullshit dog whistling.
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Oct 10, 2021 01:47
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Bobby Deluxe posted:One of my many problems is a delay in my auditory loop - it sometimes takes an extra second or so for my brain to translate the noises it just heard into information I can act on. But people always interpret that as needing to hear the exact same slurred mess of consonants, just louder. I had this and it turned out to be related to undiagnosed ADHD. YMMV. I did find after a Spanish only area in Spain and fully immersing myself in Spanish I had way, way less issues and after a year of having to call people in another language my call anxiety when I came home just loving vanished. After 2 years and no socialising it's kinda back some but I know the root of it now so it's way easier to handle.
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Oct 10, 2021 13:20
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OwlFancier posted:£20k a year with a house and no work sounds like heaven to me, I think I would basically be completely happy with that. I could spend my time doing anything I like. I'd say you could post more but you have like, 1 post an hour, every hour, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for 8 years straight  Even my wife walked past my screen the other day and said 'Oh, Owlfancier? he's in every damned thread...'
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Oct 11, 2021 02:03
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I always took the "you'll be miserable if you win" thing to be a decent bit of paup shaming and classism. In a country so set up for the ultra rich it's a bit odd. Plus with how the national psyche seems to consist strongly of us hating ourselves I guess it lines up.
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Oct 11, 2021 09:21
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The fact that nearly goddamn everything is projection never ceases to amaze me. I love my goddamn job, but if anyone thinks that for a second I wouldn't throw it in and just go explore the world the moment I had no financial chains they're loving insane. Workshy my rear end. Why the hell would anyone want to do the same thing every day til they're too old to enjoy most of the things in the world just so they can live in loving Sheffield til they die. (note :sheff is quite nice but it's not exactly a life goals place...)
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Oct 11, 2021 09:47
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Private Speech posted:It's a tricky one with the life goals places. Well yeah there's your problem. Your first issue is the wage. I mean I'd happily go live anywhere if I didn't have to work... I certainly wouldn't choose almost anywhere in the UK though was more my point.
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Oct 11, 2021 10:06
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I'm up a slight hill in Sheffield and it rains a SHITLOAD here compared to my mum's house not 5 minutes drive at the bottom of the hill. It's very bizzare. It's also so windy it uprooted my roses  On an aside. I have a possibly idiotic question on remortgaging as this is the first time I've done it and I just... don't get it. With house prices constantly rising insanely. Is there any point to not remortgaging at the end of my fixed term? I bought in Nov 2019 and have a 27 month fixed rate of 2.13% until January. I've done a lot of work on the house but still... it's gone up from 170k to 250k. The gently caress, house prices. I borrowed 153k initially. Also interest rates are now below 1%. It seems like a no brainer to remortgage, but on what fixed rate duration? is going for a 2 year fixed rate basically a gamble that the prices will continue to rise and I can remortgage at an even better LTV in a couple years? (already at rock bottom I think with 56% LTV) Either way the best deals I can see have 200k left to be repaid. Can I just keep bloody remortgaging forever as long as the house prices rise to keep my interest rates low? Is that the whole scam? Because jesus after the fixed term ends the repayment prices absolutely can skyrocket... but is that only if interest rates go up massively? Are they ever going to go up? How the heck are you supposed to know any of this? e: I have a mortgage advisor to ask for advice on all this but I don't want to look like a complete idiot (whereas you lot already know I'm an idiot)
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Oct 11, 2021 10:58
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MM good food for thought all, thanks. Not looking to move just yet, job stable so probably 5 year fix is a decent shout. It just seems so... dodgy. Like, the fact that I could sell this place and use the difference in price to buy a half million house in a cheaper area with barely an increase in the monthly mortgage (for at least 2 years lol) is absolutely nuts. I'm probably going to take 15 grand out to redo the kitchen. May as well. Increases LTV to 63% and changes not a jot on the final repayment value interest wise if I stay with the same lender. It's mad how different this is from 'personal credit card' juggling imaginary money and financing and yet people still think that government spending works the same way like a loan from halifax to buy a new toilet.
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Oct 11, 2021 11:35
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forkboy84 posted:I recently saw a flat for sale in Glasgow (not the nicest area, Castlemilk), 2 bedrooms, £33k. Bet you it was a leasehold though.
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Oct 11, 2021 11:43
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Lungboy posted:You might not be able to remortgage with the same lender, you'd have to go onto one of their "retention" products which are usually significantly worse than a new deal elsewhere. Which deal to go for will depend on the size of your mortgage, for anything sub £150k or so the fee-free deals work out the best although the month payment is slightly higher, whereas over £150k then paying a fee might work out better. Keeping your LTV sub-60% will get you access to the lowest rates for either option. gently caress me, there's always another layer of complex bullshit isn't there. I mean woe is me etc. my poor free money is slightly complex to work out. It's quite crazy though. As for moving somewhere to live without working Spain (while an awful british cliche) was very nice since we lived in a Spanish only area and spoke Spanish. The food was cheap and fantastic, the people were friendly, the weather was lovely and the healthcare was good. There's a reason so many brits go there, it's pretty pleasant in the right area. Plus where I lived there was a cat cafe just by my office where I spent most of my lunchtimes practicing spanish with the owners and cuddling kitties. Not sure how that is now post covid though. E: supplying catte tax for fruitbat.    Introducing my wife to captain hook who I met one lunch time when he was the size of a bean. He is missing a foot but has all the love. He played like mad and then curled up and fell asleep on her. Had him ever since. Mebh fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Which reminds me: yeah but you can't be 'employed' by a company in the UK unless they also have an incorporated office in that country. You have to become a contractor and run your own company which is a huge ballache. Also as much as that appeals, and as great as my company is here, we are poo poo with contractors. They get excluded from events, forgotten all the time and are generally lower class employees.
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Oct 11, 2021 12:07
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jaete posted:How the hell would you have 200k left to be repaid if you borrowed 150k initially? Have you been additionally borrowing a cheeky 5k a month every month or something? Oh, I was looking at the final repayment after interest at the end of the 18 years left. Not really realising that... No poo poo you just remortgage every time your fixed period is up. Essentially banking on people not understanding the system or wanting to pick up the phone to make banks more money overall. An entire economy based on something like the American rebate system is fun...
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Oct 11, 2021 14:14
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Surprise T Rex posted:Speaking of remortgaging - we've done a fair bit of work to our house since we bought it (entirely new roof, replaced every window with double-glazed sash rather than original victorian windows) - am I right in thinking that this should just massively improve our LTV when we remortgage? I rang up my mortgage advisor to ask exactly this and he told me to get an estate agent in, tell them I want to sell and get a valuation. You're under no obligation to sell, if you tell them you're remortgaging you'll just get an online survey which you can do yourself and won't account for any changes.
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Oct 11, 2021 14:31
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Well. I bought a ticket too. gently caress it. The fun of thinking what I'd do with a few million quid is more than worth £2.50. Camrath if I win can I commission a millionaires shortbread fudge to send to everyone in the thread?
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Oct 11, 2021 18:48
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Kin posted:How much is your/a mortgage adviser? Free basically. HSBC paid the bill to have the mortgage. Bit mad, but like with most of these things, ring one and ask. I used the mortgage advice bureau and they were super awesome. The advisor I got 2 years ago is just the guy I ring directly now.
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learnincurve posted:I lived in manor top... Still looking for the best chippy around here. Though! Local is really decent.
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Guavanaut posted:Can't the ships just use our 2,000 miles of canals and navigable rivers and other scenic waterways to dock and unload directly at the cities where the stuff is needed? Please give me a cabinet position. It's just gonna be like the end scene from speed 2... https://youtu.be/gBxaGB65TB8 The dog is a local village councillor complaining about wind turbines.
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Oct 12, 2021 20:35
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Labour currently seems to be playing a long game of not being left holding the lovely stick also don't piss off capital. I think they're banking that as long as they can say "wasn't us" the electorate will forgive them eventually. I don't think so though.
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Oct 12, 2021 21:09
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OwlFancier posted:I would suggest the fact that it is a violent, racist shithole might be because power does not, in fact, change hands. Ah but you see by implying that the powerful are a set group... You must mean Jewish people and therefore...blah blah jimminy Corbyn the bins... Blah
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Oct 12, 2021 21:22
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SpaceCommie posted:Searching "Somalian" on twitter shows the best of British fash demanding the explusion of all forins and saying Patel(!!) is too soft on migrants. Crikey. Stared into the abyss a bit. Further confirming my decision to mostly stay off the hell hole that is twitter.
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Oct 15, 2021 20:05
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Man. I saw 32 posts after making a nice snack and thought, yay something fun to read with a coffee. Nope. Boring twattery. Speaking of MP surgeries, do you actually need to have a local issue like a parish closing down, someone throwing their bins on the village green, or seeing a coloured person after 3pm to go bend your MPs ear? Or could I go ask Clive Betts why his politics are so utterly middle of the road and devoid of substance other than banal support of Starmer without any critical introspection and what use is he really. I don't imagine it'd get far and I'm probably too polite to say that but I do kinda want to ask him genuinely why they're all such useless cunts who don't think things could be better and that we peaked as a society when the Queen jumped out of a helicopter in 2012
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Oct 15, 2021 22:17
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big scary monsters posted:Bit late for a coffee isn't it? I think I'd favour a nice cup of bedtime tea if I wasn't having a little rosé instead. ADHD my man. Coffee relaxes the hell out of me and lets me wind down.
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Oct 15, 2021 22:39
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OwlFancier posted:Wait is this a general response to stimulants? I know that you treat ADHD with them but I thought it was more specific than that. For some it seems its fairly common since caffeine increases dopamine but studies are mixed. Works for me though! Actually necking a double espresso at lunchtime completely stops my lisdexamfetamine crash. I always thought it was weird that coffee never stopped me sleeping.
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Oct 15, 2021 22:52
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OwlFancier posted:Huh, i wonder if that explains my lackluster response to stimulants, I try to avoid them before bed but I've never really noticed much difference. Black coffee maybe works but that might just be because it's like being slapped in the olfactory system. Black coffee still works to wake me up because its a huge slam of flavour and scent. Plus it still binds to your adenosine receptors to curb tiredness. I guess it still sorta does that in the evening but since it also calms me down and reduces all the input overload its easier to sleep. I got my first tattoo on the 12th and it's just beginning to itch so anything to draw my mind off that.
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Oct 15, 2021 23:11
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As has been pointed out (and ignored in favour of the usual arguing black and white lines in a very grey subject) it is quite possible to hold multiple opinions and have them contrast each other. Murder is bad. Tories are bad. A man was murdered, he was a tory. It is bad that he was murdered but I do not particularly care that he was as he was a bad person as his voting record showed in addition to his propping up of the party. I feel for people who lost someone they cared about on a human level, but politically he was very clearly a poo poo, as likely his friends were. The fact that politicians are entirely excused from decisions that cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands because they are sufficiently removed from it and protected by a complicit media is part of the issue of responsibility and "post truth" culture that needs fixing. They should not be able to get away with it. They should not be murdered for it either. Also here's a guardian opinion piece in how hypocritical the royals are regarding climate change to change the subject a bit. News at 11, grass green, rich people propped up by the establishment not. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/15/green-royals-saving-the-planet-helicopter-queen-charles-william-climate
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They firmly believe their actions will never have consequences (for them) its very "Don't worry men they couldn't hit an elephant from this dist..."
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It really loving beggars belief. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/17/abuse-threats-aggression-the-fear-that-stalks-mps-on-britains-streets The amount of people bringing up Rayner is nuts. quote:Shailesh Vara, the Tory MP for North West Cambridgeshire and a former minister, said the kind of language used by people when communicating with MPs either on social media, or by other means, was becoming more hostile and aggressive all the time. “To call me the C-word, or to refer to politicians as bastards, and to use unpleasant and aggressive tones is normal for some people these days.” No loving poo poo. Maybe if they weren't obviously and systematically loving the country while making posh mooing noises people might be less angry.
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Oct 17, 2021 13:12
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It just feels like the entire discourse is a combination of ad hominem and false dilemma (maybe there's a term for that a smarter person will know) Either you are aghast at the discourse against MPs or you support their murder. If you aren't publicly hand wringingly upset that a tory was murdered you are advocating for further violence against MPs. If you point out all the terrible things MPs have voted for, you're clearly the problem as you should be being respectful during such a harrowing time. It's all just so... Disingenuous.
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Was having a nice coffee and a sit down with my mum. Amess came up and how nobody seems to care about his voting record for fear of decorum and she just said "Dear... he was a catholic. Did you expect him to be tolerant of gay or black people?" It's just the sort of 'of course he was awful... what did you expect?' that gets me. Maybe that's why people just don't care. It's just normal.
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