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StarkingBarfish posted:Best eating I've ever done was a mosque kitchen. Those guys had it right. Only a couple of options, queue at the buffet while a bunch of folks behind it are stirring a bathtub full of boiling rice and spices. Imam wandering around chatting to folks and joking with the kids. Cost next to nothing, was always cheerful and was packed out every lunchtime. Those places are nice and good imo, but if the scent of delicious religious curry is still too hierarchical for you most reasonably sized cities are going to have poorly advertised voluntarily or cooperatively run food places (even if they don't always call themselves a co-op and are often not explicitly anarchist). Vegan or vegetarian places are usually a good bet to start looking, typically they'll serve a limited menu of reasonably priced food that changes probably based on what they can get cheap at the moment. You might well find a slightly grotty event venue attached that puts on cool bands, art events and maybe even occasional non-parliamentary political organising. e: I don't have any cats at the moment but here is a very good girl for the top of the new page. 
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Guavanaut posted:I'm sure you can still find a pub for that kind of thing if you want. This is a pretty good description of the situation and I’ll definitely give her a read, cheers
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Gambrinus posted:I've just booked flights to Belfast in June. Been meaning to go for years. Where's good and is there anywhere I absolutely should not go? How long are you there? Might you have time to get out to Giant's Causeway? I think they do tours straight from Belfast, but there's also a reasonably well coordinated train/bus service from what I recall. But yeah, flegs outside of Belfast. We spent 4 days in and around Belfast but I can't remember what we did! A lot of eating usually marks our trips. Ed: Doh - titanic museum. Should be ok if you're outside school hols. There were ominous signs such as '1 hour to the next sign saying 1 hour' for queuing but we went in a September and there was no queue. Well worth it. There's also Game of Thrones bits and bobs but as I didn't watch that until last year, it didn't occur to me to go visit. I just remember another thing we did - happened to coincide with a talk by Ranulph Fiennes who is very entertaining (and self-deprecating) and I've been a fan of his for decades... swoon... one for the golden oldies  (ignoring the politics for a bit!)Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:19 on May 30, 2022 |
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Giants Causeway is very ironically much smaller than you would expect but it's quite nice on a nice day. Plus that ropebridge a few miles away that keeps getting sabotaged by local youngsters lol
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If you do get to Giants Causeway, you can actually get on to it without having to pass through the museum which is quite expensive - we managed to by pass it. And the hotel on the corner there helpfully has toilets you can use without having to go in and buy a drink (unless you want to of course!) There are also special buses up and down the first bit of the Causeway if walking down/up a steep incline is not your thing.
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https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1531409588465156096?t=paIqWlZOWBidaHRsAdyeVQ&s=19 Oh my loving god, he's still going on about restaurants
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Was in Costco earlier and I noticed they’ve taken down all the perspex sheets around the tills; despite the “COVID is over” talk I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere else actively reducing measures yet? E.g everywhere else I can think of still has screens at tills, hand sanitizer everywhere, and signs imploring social distancing and mask use (both totally ignored)
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loads of places here have got rid of the perspex screens and stuff but was just watching hignfy and ian hislop was still shielded from his team mate wang
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May 31, 2022 00:47
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that's actually just because Hislop doesn't want to breathe in Chinaman cooties
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if you're in belfast say hello to me uncle bobby, he's great craic
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TACD posted:Was in Costco earlier and I noticed they’ve taken down all the perspex sheets around the tills; despite the “COVID is over” talk I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere else actively reducing measures yet? E.g everywhere else I can think of still has screens at tills, hand sanitizer everywhere, and signs imploring social distancing and mask use (both totally ignored) My local shop has gotten rid of the perspex screen already. And clearly haven't bothered to refill the hand sanitiser for about a month. And local Tesco Extra still has them between the self service checkouts but I don't believe the staffed checkouts have them. Which seems dumb.
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Tesseraction posted:that's actually just because Hislop doesn't want to breathe in Chinaman cooties Phil Wang is Malaysian AHA NOW WHO'S THE RACIST me because I had to look it up to see if there was a gotcha to be had
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OwlFancier posted:I mean if you live somewhere where the ground does not move your entire life, it suddenly starting to do that is probably very disconcerting. Feels safe to live where I do, the earths crust is only thicker in two places in the world, the andes mountains and the himalayas.
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Belfast chat: thanks for all the advice. I like a Botanic garden so will deffo have a look at that. Black cab tour of the murals and whatnot sounds interesting but also a bit insensitive, don't know if I'm overthinking it... I did think of having a jog round Loch Neagh but I've just checked and it's substantially larger than I thought, but will go and have a look at it anyway.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If you do get to Giants Causeway, you can actually get on to it without having to pass through the museum which is quite expensive - we managed to by pass it. Free if you're a National Trust member though, as is the aforementioned rope bridge at Carrick-a-Rede. Bushmills distillery is conveniently located on the same bit of coast too if you like factory tours and/or whiskey, especially good for fortifying yourself before or after the rope bridge.
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forkboy84 posted:My local shop has gotten rid of the perspex screen already. And clearly haven't bothered to refill the hand sanitiser for about a month. And local Tesco Extra still has them between the self service checkouts but I don't believe the staffed checkouts have them. Which seems dumb. Both the perspex screens and the hand sanitiser are basically security theatre anyway when it comes to covid. Masks are what actually prevents transmission, but of course, they're tyranny, sooo
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Don't sneak on to the causeway without paying, how will they afford to feed the giants if everyone does it?
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Maybe if the giants didn't get so many handouts from tourists they'd stop skiving and finish the rest of the causeway. Boris wants a bridge
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Barry Foster posted:Both the perspex screens and the hand sanitiser are basically security theatre anyway when it comes to covid. I mean hand sanitiser is pretty good.
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forkboy84 posted:I mean hand sanitiser is pretty good. In general? Absolutely. If it leads to even one touchscreen in the land not being covered in human feces (yes, really) then all the better.. With regard to covid specifically? Eh. Fomites have never been an important source of transmission.
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Barry Foster posted:In general? Absolutely. If it leads to even one touchscreen in the land not being covered in human feces (yes, really) then all the better... Yeah, that's what I mean. I want every shop to have hand sanitiser as standard now, to be used before you go in & again when you leave.
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Masks are great, I've not had a proper cold since 2019.
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Same though that makes me worry when I get one I am going to die of it.
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i really hope that shitabout reintroducing imperial units and getting rid of metric is true cause this dumb loving country deserves that king of dumb useless poo poo.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I recommend everyone watch Boiling Point which is a fantastic single-shot film featuring the king Stephen Graham as head chef in a restaurant on an incredibly stressful night. I think it really hammers this point home about how poo poo the service industry is even in a fancyish restaurant, as well as being an accomplishment of a film +1 that this film is excellent. Also rather than "even in a fancy restaurant" it seems that fancy restaurants are *especially* poo poo to their staff.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:
Yeah probably right, well maybe fastfood and high-end are the worst, but the in-between might be a bit more chill
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Phil Wang is Malaysian I mean the joke is that Hislop is racist so him getting the nationality wrong would be on brand. Also he's specifically Chinese-Malaysian on his da's side.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:+1 that this film is excellent. I thought the film was good but not great. I knew pretty much exactly where it was going but it got there fairly well. I am not sure that the one-shot wasn't just a gimmick - I don't know how it necessarily added to the story.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Phil Wang is Malaysian Malaysian Chinese people exist. :P
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To avoid this debacle in the future just describe them as from The Orient.
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but his mother is English, making him some kind gentleman that's both Western and Oriental *types those words into google* oh my
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feedmegin posted:Malaysian Chinese people exist. :P
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Tesseraction posted:but his mother is English, making him some kind gentleman that's both Western and Oriental I don't know this slur
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Saw this on Twitter. https://twitter.com/thetimesscot/status/1531162567623811073?t=s_pBuNN1EUfTFzvaGJDmFg&s=19 "We initially were working of the theory that Rangers might have been bought by Werewolves. So that's why we bought all that silver."
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Dabir posted:I don't know this slur One of the claims that "wog" wasn't slur because it was "Western Oriented Gentleman" - a term that has never been used seriously and is clearly trying to pretend it isn't more likely to be from gollywog. Which I only bothered to learn today is from golly + pollywog, a pollywog being another name for a tadpole, meaning "wiggly head." So technically 'wog' means wiggle/wiggly. I guess that does rhyme with the main racial slur those kinds like to use.
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The Question IRL posted:Saw this on Twitter. Any taxpayers money used in killing Rangers FC was justifiable. The only shame was they were allowed to start a new club.
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therattle posted:I thought the film was good but not great. I knew pretty much exactly where it was going but it got there fairly well. I am not sure that the one-shot wasn't just a gimmick - I don't know how it necessarily added to the story. It's the kind of thing that I reflexively assume is going to be gimmicky but for me the form really complemented the content - I was stressed as hell for the whole thing about how they were keeping the whole production going, which is the point. Doesn't have to work for everyone
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