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It’s almost as if leaving water supply to an overseas entity legally obliged to extract profit might not be the best idea.
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Possibly one for @bickster ?
Richard Norris memoir book tour talk:
QuoteSun 24th March, I am at Carnival Brewery in Liverpool if you are about, starting around 3.30pm, psychedelic DJing until about 10pm. This one is free, just turn up
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46 minutes ago, blandy said:
Genuine question. Is it down to water companies to determine future growth in water needs, assess sites for reservoir suitability and apply for permission to build them? I’ve no quibble with them being profiteering, polluting scumbags, but didn’t know it was their job to plan for this stuff.
Thames Water, Southern, and others have sold off reservoirs.
I guess the question, should the water monopoly in your area be responsible for planning to supply sufficient water, is essentially a political one.
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43 minutes ago, mjmooney said:
One for the unpopular opinions thread, but I consider Yorkshire puddings to be the most overrated food items ever. They're inoffensive enough, but just... meh.
A full roast dinner is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Somehow, in the last few weeks, we have absolutely nailed the recipe and cooking of Yorkshire puddings. Now, self assessment is a wonderful thing, but they are genuinely the best.
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46 minutes ago, Davkaus said:
The whole point of cups is you can just scoop to the top and you're done. If you've got to faff around only filling up to a specific line, levelling it within the container, putting a bit more in or taking some out, it's kind of pointless, just use the grams and weigh it properly
Yep, that’s where our cups are super easy, all colour coded. A blue cup of ‘x’ and a yellow cup of ‘y’.
As you say, no measuring no adding and subtracting small amounts, just scoop, tap, go.
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35 minutes ago, sidcow said:
Without question. Canned beer would always have a slight metallic tang to it. But my main objection is can or bottle over a Cask beer.
That’s genuinely a level of palate or taste that’s above mine. If I was around someone’s house and they handed me a glass of beer there is zero chance I could tell if it had been poured from a can or bottle, unless I saw it.
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I use a set of cups for those simple little recipes that are just easier with cups. Just something simple like, for instance, porridge. Getting the proportion of oats to milk correct is super fast and super easy using cups. Idiot proof every time.
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Are people suggesting that in a blind tasting they could tell whether a beer originated from a can or a bottle?
Or is this purely an aesthetics bias?
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It’s only the second flag I’ve ever been commissioned to do, but again I’m expecting a pretty good reaction to it.
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Yeah, my Les Big Byrd is delayed somewhere on the M4, so in the meantime, yet another ‘last’ Scratch album, Heaven.
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Several years ago we were attempting to collaborate with a U.S. based aero engine company. They were using what they described as metric inches. That is to say, they would tell us a measurement and it would be expressed to 4 decimal places of an inch. So for instance they’d tell us something had to be 393.7008 inches. But when we converted that, it was apparent really quickly that was 10000mm. So we were asking for the original source material, and they always claimed their inches were the original design dims. Like bollocks they were.
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5 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said:
Nope.
The earth is curved.
Yeah, you just swallow whatever line the man feeds you. WAKE UP!
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1 minute ago, MakemineVanilla said:
Although Sunak is certain to retain his Richmond seat, a lot of Tory voters feel so betrayed by the present government, that they want to see the end of the Conservative party according to Peter Hitchens.
Yep, I’m half way there with that sentiment.
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I’ve only ever known one LibDem. He bought the local football club whilst I was involved with the supporters club. He asked me for a significant wedge of money, which I declined to hand over. He called the police, told them it was his money and that I’d stolen it. He then called me to a meeting where he wanted to raise funds to relocate the club to a new out of town stadium funded by selling the current stadium. I had to tell him I was a little concerned that as the club owner he didn’t know we were a tenant and the council owned the stadium. For that news, he phoned the local newspaper and told them I had a football banning order (I didn’t). His next move was to ban me from games for non attendance at games. He rang me and told me the ban would remain in place for as long as I was boycotting games. I told him I wasn’t boycotting games, he’d banned me. He told me he would lift the ban, but only if I started attending again. His next plan was to buy the lease for the ground (which wasn’t for sale), he was going to do this by raising funding from the community with one giant event ‘like live aid’, but with a twist, it would be a cheese and wine party in a local park.
Based on this sample of LibDems, I’m not keen.
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Anybody still using any imperial measurements is sub human scum and easily the dumbest person in the room by a country mile.
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Went along to see the recording of an episode of QI yesterday evening. It was about, two, two and a half hours and it was very good, very funny and entertaining, though how it will be edited to make an episode of QI I’m not sure. Most of it was Nish Kumar talking about giving dolphins LSD and then wanking them off.
In the ‘warm up’ audience participation quiz, I survived 3 rounds longer than the current MrsChris, so bragging rights will become a big thing today.
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24 minutes ago, Lichfield Dean said:
I've often thought about this, as someone who was a little 'un at the time and wasn't really directly affected by it.
From a modern perspective, the concept of men going into mines to dig up coal is so archaic and, in fact, seems pretty distasteful in many ways.
So, was the real problem with the shutting down of the coal mining not the end aim of removing that industry, but the manner in which is it was done? The timescales, the pension issues, the police behaviour etc.? Because I cannot imagine any world in which manual coal mining would still be a thing now.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not defending Thatcher in any way at all, I'm just curious what people think the "best" solution should have been to this assuming that we should have arrived ultimately at a point where coal mining was a thing of the past anyway.
It was the manner of what happened. It was an industry that needed reform, but the way it was done was contrived to extract a crushing victory, enabled by an egotistical NUM leadership that didn’t spot coal reserves being built up in preparation, didn’t go for a proper ballot of members, and began a coal strike in Spring and through the summer. An ugly trap was set and the idiot jumped on it.
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It was a bit of an eye opener for me, a bit of a coming of age, seeing what the police were capable of given half a chance. Groups of police from out of area basically wandering around looking for trouble. I was stopped any number of times and prevented from getting home. I was searched for no reason. Stopped and questioned for having left the house. I saw cars damaged and then people booked for having broken lights. I saw collection buckets kicked down the street by police walking past peaceful fundraisers. It was a police state for a while and the police loved it.
The tories don’t like being called scum.
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1 minute ago, Stevo985 said:
It's less than 2.5m, that bit isn't a problem.
The bit I'm confused about is whether it needs to be 2m from the boundary or not.
Some sources say less than 2.5m high AND at least 2m from a boundary. Some say less than 2.5m IF it's less than 2m from a boundary
From the planning portal:
QuoteMaximum height of 2.5 metres in the case of a building, enclosure or container within two metres of a boundary
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I do like a room with some armchairs, a bath, and a fridge. That’s pretty much most things covered. Just needs a dance pole or a sex cradle swing and it’s good to go.