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I love scotch whisky but unfortunately I've had to be honest with myself and admit that bourbon is usually much better for me at least. Scotch is good if you're really capital T tasting it though, rather than just absentmindedly drinking. Still prefer the lighter malts like Glengoyne over any of that overpoweringly peated island stuff though.
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Mourning Due posted:My wife's Welsh and turned me onto https://www.penderyn.wales/ , REALLY nice. Very light in colour, not peaty/smokey if that's your thing, just genuinely high quality whisky IMO. A friend who is much more into whisky than me got a bottle of this with high hopes and said it was very grim and he was extremely disappointed. I'm a big fan of the Dalwhinnie winter malt, it seems to be on offer quite a lot too. I've never seen a distiller recommend you stick their whisky in the freezer before but it actually does work quite nicely and the taste really evolves as you sip it while it warms up. Very different experience to most types of scotch for sure but worth a go.
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Dec 1, 2022 11:52
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Mourning Due posted:😮 Dang, that's a shame! Oh yeah I agree. I will quite happily mix scotch with coke if I'm in the mood despite the horrified looks of those around me.
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Dec 1, 2022 12:14
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:dalwhinnie doublewood is very nice but it's so light that it's also only fleetingly whiskey-flavoured. a good starter whiskey imo, for pets or small children, but not one to recommend to those who like to chew peat or who need something the consistency of golden syrup Solid username/post combo
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Dec 1, 2022 12:51
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Oh lord my parents are on the cusp of retirement. They've always been very centrist though my ex-tory voting mum has definitely moved left over time. Still, they get all their news from the BBC and tabloids so they're pretty ripe brain worms material, and my (ex-cop) uncle and his wife are both insane UKIP-heads the two of them insist on palling about with. Hopefully not, at least they have me and my brother yelling at them.
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Dec 2, 2022 18:10
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Honestly even use by dates you can often take with a pinch of salt. Companies have to be pretty conservative with their paperwork when it comes to stuff expiring for obvious legal (and economic) reasons but with 99% of stuff I'm perfectly fine looking at it and giving it a sniff to check whether I'm willing to eat it. Most things will show pretty obvious evidence they're getting a bit suspect, especially once you start cooking them. This also works both ways - I've bought stuff from some supermarkets that's been well within date but clearly hasn't been stored right because that's just not how raw chicken is meant to smell, even if it doesn't make you immediately recoil. 95% sure I'd have got sick if I'd ate it.
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Dec 7, 2022 00:03
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It's honestly pretty impressive the hold neoliberal ideology has on us collectively as a society. Like this shouldn't be a difficult sell - execs on hundreds of thousands a year happily deciding to cut pay for people on 20-odd grand. The Tories haven't even tried to pretend they're old school one nation paternalists for years, but we keep voting for them! It's actually so absurd it would be funny if it wasn't literally getting people killed. I was discussing this with my partner yesterday but what exactly does someone like a uni vice chancellor or a CEO actually do? They act as the public face of the institution and sign off on stuff, but I can't help but imagine their day-to-day is mostly just dossing about sending a few emails then going to big fancy lunches on expenses to talk poo poo with other equally pointless people. I honestly can't imagine them ever doing actual work. Genuinely wild when you think about it, nice gravy train if you can get on it though.
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Dec 9, 2022 16:56
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History Comes Inside! posted:UKMT, what’s the easiest way to get your hands on Scottish bank notes that isn’t going to Scotland ...why? I imagine you can probably buy them for a tiny markup on ebay or something. Send me the money and I'll post you whatever one you want though I guess. They are nicer than the English ones imho, the RBS ones have really cure little critters on the back of them.
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Dec 9, 2022 19:05
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Soulsborne games were a revelation for me tbh. I put off playing them for so long because I thought I'd find the difficulty frustrating and wouldn't enjoy them at all, but once I tried the sheer rush you get from actually feeling yourself getting better at something was incredible. They weirdly enough helped a lot with mental health, nothing better when you're going through it than zoning out and sitting bashing the poo poo out of a few beasts for a few hours - you have to concentrate so hard you pretty much can't dwell on whatever else is bothering you. Certainly a lot more sustainable than my other stress/anxiety outlet, which is drinking entirely far too many glasses of wine and passing out lol. e: I only played Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. I'm debating going back to the actual DS games but the setting and aesthetic don't really do as much for me and I've heard the older ones can feel extremely rough now. e2: lol at Tate, truly the New Year's gift we needed. I would laugh extremely hard if he ended up going down for any significant stretch for this and I am gleefully anticipating his army of weirdo Twitter incels losing their absolute mind over it. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 17:22
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Forbidden West was fun but dear lord it didn't half suffer from absymal handholding. I do not want the player character to yell 'HUH, MAYBE I SHOULD ENTER THIS CODE INTO THAT DOOR' within ten seconds of entering a puzzle area. At least give it a few minutes. The game would be far better if it had an option to turn off those dialogue lines. I don't think every game has to leave you to the wolves like a soulsborne, but come on I do want to at least play a game here.
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I continue to be perplexed by Sameera Khan, former OK-ish left-wing pundit who campaigned for Sanders back in 2016. She's been on quite a journey from there, first going full terminally online Lion of Syria tankie before apparently ditching any pretense of being on the left at all to become a full on reactionary who's completely uncritically pro-Russian invasion of Ukraine and hero worships both Putin and Ramzan bloody Kadyrov. Currently big into Islamic conservatism, constantly posting about how traditional gender roles are great and LGTBQ+ is the worst and actually the Taliban are a great bunch of lads and the rest of it. Anyway, she's on record saying pornography and sex work is inherently evil and that not just adulterers but consenting people who take a somewhat liberal approach to sexual relationships are essentially degenerates. Apparently finds no contradiction however in openly stanning for Andrew Tate, famous currently imprisoned sex trafficker and almost certain rapist. Please make these people make sense, you'd think they could at least try to be consistent. Absolutely can't take anything she says seriously at all, but I really would like to know how a person ends up like this. https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1610461339280973825?t=cxzYPPW1LBy0tE9lB1FNqw&s=19
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Jan 4, 2023 12:36
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Tesseraction posted:She caught brain spiders op, that's all. I mean OK sure, it's just wild to see someone who I do remember having at least relatively thought out takes go so hard in the opposite direction, and so stupidly. It's totally possible for someone on the US left to be broadly critical of left-liberalism and even argue that stuff like the Russia-Ukraine conflict is more complex than a simple heroes/villains binary, but she's just jumped head first into bizarre quasi-fash bullshit that's just as absurd as the neocon stuff she used to poo poo on, and how does someone so apparently now keen on conservative family values get openly enamoured with a sex-trafficker? You'd think you'd realise something had shifted when the only people agreeing with you on Twitter are the weirdo anime/marble statue profile pic brigade.
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Jan 4, 2023 12:54
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Guavanaut posted:The Only Real Horseshoe Theory It is genuinely quite disconcerting to me how many openly fascist anime profile pic accounts there are on twitter, just happily posting about how yes the holocaust was real and it was good actually. For my own sanity I choose to believe they're primarily 15 year old edgelords but in truth I think a lot of them are probably very unassuming mid-30s people you'd never suspect.
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Jan 4, 2023 13:21
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Tesseraction posted:Oh well the answer then is money. David Pakman (of soft American left fame) has openly spoken about how the same kind of cunts who fund Tufton street here approached him years ago and offered him an eye-watering amount of money to slowly "leave the left" for becoming too unreasonable. Take the money and then just don't, imho
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Jan 4, 2023 13:49
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All education is good but realistically a working knowledge of critical thinking, literature, history, geography, philosophy etc is far more important for turning out well adjusted thoughtful people than any STEM subject, imho. A basic understanding of scientific/mathematical principles is good to combat misinformation etc but you don't really need more than that unless you plan to work in a relevant field or have a personal interest, and I'd say it's probably more useful to encourage people to be thoughtful enough to acknowledge when they don't have the specialist expertise to contribute to a discussion on whatever topic.
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Jan 4, 2023 16:23
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Z the IVth posted:This is how you breed Tory MPs. Eh, not really. The private school/PPE conveyor belt works to convince people they have a decent grounding in all of that when really they've gone through a very selective crash course specifically designed to make them ideologically 'correct' imperial administrators. There's a reason the actual academic humanities trend left, or at the very least liberal in most cases, and also a reason why pure STEM people can often be some of the most politically dubious people you'll ever meet. Also, I'm not saying science isn't important - people should learn all they can/want - but in everyday life as a non-specialist worker it is much more important in 99% of cases that you're able to dissect and contextualise current events and the arguments around them than it is, for example, to know how protons and neutrons and electrons interact at the atomic level. Like I say, a basic grounding in that stuff can be useful, but I'd much rather have a school system that cultivated a desire for knowledge rather than one that attempted to instil particular types of knowledge.
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Yeah I think in large part what I'm arguing against is the siloisation of education. Making philosophy of science an integral part of a science class would do wonders, whereas at present it might get a mention only a philosophy class that most of the STEM types are going to ignore and consider a waste of time anyway. There is some evidence this is happening to some extent at least at the uni level - some medical degrees incorporate history/philosophy of medicine modules, though they I think kind of miss the mark by 1) often being optional and 2) sometimes being taught by medical doctors.
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Fun history thing I learned today: Many of you will have heard the story of Frederick Barbarossa, who amassed one of the most impressive crusading armies ever seen then promptly drowned crossing a river, leading most of them to shrug and go home. Well anyway, apparently, his heir decided to continue with a small loyal contingent and took his body along with them intending to bury it. Obviously it started to rot, but they decided to make do and adapt, so long story short they took his organs out buried them on the southern Anatolian coast, then when his flesh started to rot they took that off and buried it a bit further along, and then held on to his skeleton all the way to Lebanon where they finally buried that too. So the big lad has three separate graves. Bit grim, very pragmatic I guess!
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Jan 4, 2023 18:35
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ronya posted:the choice of English is strange. English at A level does not focus on fluency, rhetoric, or creative writing, but instead is media studies lite. This is why it is a non-preferred subject... although perhaps whatever white paper Sunak is cribbing from has something else in mind At least in my school there were A-level options for both English Lit and English Language
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OwlFancier posted:Is a level english language like, where they show you the forbidden dictionary with the really esoteric swears in and the secret punctuation? I had the worst godawful teacher for it who made it unbearable but the subject itself was actually pretty interesting. We did basic linguistics yes, looking at syntax and punctuation and the rest of it, but also bits on writing for different audiences, the differences between spoken and written English, sociolect/idiolect, colloquialisms etc etc. I'm not sure I'd volunteer to do it again if I was transported back to being 16 - I think I picked it because a girl I fancied was doing it or something equally stupid - but it was definitely a real subject with some cool stuff in there. And hey, it got me into a better uni than most of my friends who did lit, so it can't be that inferior on the admissions desk despite what Ronya says!
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I was just thinking the other day, how on earth did people write books and PhD theses and stuff before computers. I get stressed enough with all my notes and multiple revisions and backups on a handy screen. The idea of doing all that with a typewriter and physical written notes gives me heart palpitations, let alone doing it completely handwritten. Typo - restart the whole page. Lose your physical thesis at the eleventh hour - entirely hosed.
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Tbh as far as I can tell almost all legal strikes in recent memory have either been tanked by the organisation and ignored or have ended up being 'settled' on marginally better but still poo poo compromises so cool, maybe this will encourage people to think a bit more, ahem, creatively about industrial action. I mean this is the UK we're talking about so lol if I think anything actually cool will happen but it wasn't really anyway so 
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Zalakwe posted:The anti strike laws.are.very dumb even by this Government's standards. The public aren't with them. Their trapped entirely in their Telegraph sponsored bubble now. True but if living in Britain the last
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Jan 5, 2023 13:28
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I honestly didn't even realise you could be fined for littering unless you were literally flytipping fridges and poo poo. Seems kinda wild and given the state of every town in the UK I cannot imagine it is enforced more than 0.000001% of the time.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:fines for accidentally dropping something and picking it up, or pouring coffee down a drain. Yeah if they tried to pull that bullshit on me I feel like I would have to go the whole hog and challenge the ticket in court on principle because there is no way either of those stick. e: Holy poo poo in Singapore first time litterers get fined like £600 quid lmao, further offenses you get a £1200 fine and a community service order. I can see how they keep the streets so clean but... wow
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liquids don't count as littering, imho, be they coffee or literal dogshit
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Microplastics posted:He was going to the vet Oh good I was worried for a second there you were one of those cat-on-a-leash types.
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Microplastics posted:Sorry to disappoint Noooo. I mean I guess it must be fine if people do it, but it always seemed just a bit... wrong to me, having a cat on a leash. My old neighbours only let theirs outside in the back garden occasionally and used to tie it to one of those swingball posts and it used to just run round in circles a few times then sit there looking defeated.
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Microplastics posted:Wow yeah that doesn't sound right. Well today I learned that cat AIDS was a thing! I had no idea that existed.
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I'd be scared to run in case the jobsworth in question decided to get their own back by uploading the video to the internet. You never want to be on social media awkwardly fleeing from someone with a bodycam, you might as well have 'I've been found out sending explicit texts to 14 year olds' tattooed on your forehead. Life ruiner.
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Yeah cigs are nasty, I've only smoked a handful in my life and I regretted it every time. Those new snus-like synthetic nicotine pouches you put under your lip though, now they're good, gently caress me.
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Mega Comrade posted:Lol Yodel is the rebrand. They used to be HDNL. A housemate of mine at uni ordered a brand new PlayStation, to be delivered by Yodel. The driver must have literally thrown it onto the wet grass in front of the house because when he got it inside the packaging was torn to shreds and soaked through. He ended up having to use a hairdryer to dry everything off and thankfully when he plugged it in it did work, but loving hell lol.
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On the topic of deliveries I am getting right hosed off with the postie insisting on handing my packages to my neighbours rather than just giving me a note to pick them up from the depot a 10 min walk from my flat. My neighbours are kinda weird and constantly seem to be yelling at each other and they're always playing a weirdly incongruous mixture of both Irish rebel and royalist/unionist songs (???) at 5am midweek. I don't really want them to have my stuff! It's just a bit awkward for me but some people will have Neighbours From Hell and it seems dumb that it's just standard practice to trust everyone to look after each other's post all the time like that.
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History Comes Inside! posted:I’m regularly on the other end of this, since we both work from home we’re virtually always here and so our house turns into a mini-depot for half the street’s parcels. In my old flat we took in a parcel and I guess the neighbours must have moved out just before it arrived because it sat there for literally months and no one came for it, and they never answered the door when I tried to take it round. After about a year we thought gently caress it let's just have whatever it is, clearly no one wants it. Turned out to be a plug adapter which was pretty boring but we did need one so thanks I guess random invisible ex-neighbour!
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I tell you what, if you'd asked me what I thought I might gain from moving to Scotland before I did all those years ago, I don't think 'a pretty decent knowledge of sectarian politics and the Troubles' would have featured high on the list, but here we are.
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I honestly thought there was something wrong with the plumbing the first time I drank London tap water but no, that's just how it tastes apparently. Only place I've ever lived where I genuinely considered buying a big bottle from the supermarket and keeping it in the flat. E: oops water chat was a few pages back and I forgot to refresh!
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1616901533110603777?s=46&t=bC5qjfnbwxN6Res16FWECg Please it's too early to challenge my ironic distance this hard, I can't deal with it. Poor kids.
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Pebbledash is horseshit though tbf. I get that it sometimes has some use for weatherproofing buildings near the coast or whatever, but I have no idea why Scotland in particular appears to have insisted on coating every single newly built house in the stuff regardless of location for most of the late twentieth century
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NotJustANumber99 posted:my youth going up to family in glasgow has probably affected my view of pebbledash. But its basically loving caveman drab poo poo. My grandparents had a kinda pebbledashed council house but it used white seashells as an outer coating and it honestly made all the difference.
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