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52 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

I think I'm a bit confused by them as I've looked up the Blu E-cig, but to be honest you have to fill it with liquids, so that to me is a vape?

Fuck sake, I'll just carry on smoking, it's easier 😂

I use the disposable vapes, they’re not great for the environment but other vapes I’ve had, even fairly expensive ones, are a leaky faff. I’m still on 20mg nicotine though, as every time I try to lower it I end up blasting the hell out of it until it makes me feel sick. Haven’t touched a fag in years so I’m still relatively happy with it. 

1 hour ago, Onyx2 said:

Or go full hardcore with  Larousse Patisserie and Baking: The ultimate expert guide, with more than 200 recipes and step-by-step techniques and produced as a hardback book in a beautiful slipcase https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/0600636208/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_fabc_VVWBRGZD7A067SMFYGT9

What are you planning on making? 

I picked up a copy of Gastronomique last month, gonna have to get this to sit alongside it now. Cheers.

@Chest Rockwell As usual, I’ll fanboy Ottolenghi. Sweet is a great book, I’ve use plenty of recipes from it including the lemon and poppy seed cake that I make at least 4 or 5 times a year. Plenty of variety in the recipes too. 

Always had a grudging respect for Walter Smith, RIP. 
 

This interview is great.

This man’s gonna shit a regenerative concrete brick when he realises what vegans have been up to this entire time. 

The “oh won’t someone think of the discourse” and “oh our precious democracy is under threat” stuff can gtf.

Spouted by the same cunts that printed the faces and names of judges on the front page of a newspaper calling them traitors or by the very same people that suspended parliament so that our elected officials couldn’t vote on the most pressing matter of a generation.

Someone got stabbed at work, it’s horrific. Don’t think for a second that the Tories (especially Patel) won’t be trying to gain political capital from this.

1 hour ago, Vamp said:

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to express myself adequately so I'll preface this by saying that I think anyone (regardless of their politics) being murdered is a tragedy. 

The Speaker wrote an article calling for an end to the hatred aimed at MPs. He's argued that we should have a kinder political discourse. With all due respect to a man grieving for a colleague and friend, I think that's quite a troubling response.

The notion that we should stop being so hateful towards politicians ignores the fact that we're hateful towards everyone. It's not just politicians that face abuse and death threats. But politicians are uniquely placed in being able to take action to tackle the problem. And presenting it as an issue uniquely facing politicians furthers the divide between politicians and everyone else and likely does more damage than good.

We also can't ignore the role politicians and the media play in creating hateful discourse. We saw that with Jo Cox. Nothing has changed since then. 

We've also recently seen what's considered a "kinder" political discourse. The Speaker presides over a political conversation where you can lie but you can't accuse someone of being a liar. That conversation is as broken as the political conversation elsewhere.

But more importantly, the Speaker expects an entire culture shift in response to the death of one politician. And yes, I'm pro stopping unnecessary deaths as well. But how many people died as a result of this government's austerity measures? How many people died as a result of this government's response to Covid? And how much has politics changed as a result of those deaths? 

It's a terrible thing that happened. And I sympathise with MPs and their families. I don't think anyone should be scared for their life while going to work. This isn't the time for politicians to ask other people to be kinder, its the time for politicians to take responsibility. Its not the people who create threads entitled "Tories are cunts" that need to change, its the Tories that are cunts that need to change. 

Where were his pleas to respect the sanctity of life when the Home Secretary (int the very same week)is trying to get immunity for Border Force Officers who allow migrants to drown right in front of them? 
Snivelling cunts, the lot of them.

Murdering a guy in cold blood is, obviously, never acceptable though. 

Paddington 2 is pretty special, more so because most modern day sequels are the worst.

Home Alone 2 is alright but you’re on the wind up if you think it’s better than the first. 

1 minute ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Where is the interview from @IANdrewDiceClay ?

Looks like a live show of the Off Menu podcast.

a little excerpt from Totti’s upcoming autobiography. I’ve never really enjoyed a football autobiography (other than Fergie’s) but I’ll be giving this one a go, they don’t make them like Il Capitano anymore. 

Hope he rips in to those Lazio cahnts, who I recently found out Mussolini’s great-grandson plays for.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/oct/10/francesco-totti-i-wouldnt-go-to-real-madrid-because-it-wasnt-my-story-roma?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Some top stuff in here, seeing them side-by-side you’d be forgiven for thinking you were reading The Onion.

”Chairman Mao style bicycle” and the Daily Fail’s apocalyptic imagining of Crobyn’s premiership are my personal favs.

9 minutes ago, neil said:

While the media is problematic I do put a lot of blame for the current situation, both UK and US, for the tribal/sports team behaviour of voters. It really does feel that at one point you could lose your voters by acting in shitty ways, whereas now people just double down on their support and come up with elaborate excuses for their party/person.

 

If its anything like the GOP then killing off your old voters is ok, you just need to "fix" the voting laws to keep the left leaning minorities out the polls.

Was talking to one of my colleagues today who’s a massive Tory but claims to be small c, also a big backer of Brexit. I asked him, in an almost jovial way, if he was ready to admit that following Johnson in to battle was maybe a bit naive. After him claiming that all these “crisis” were media manufactured and that this short term pain was always part of the plan, he then told me that if I wasn’t happy with the way things were going then I could move away. Without a sniff of self-awareness, the prick. 

4 minutes ago, air_raid said:

What’s going on with turmeric? Why have so many TV chefs started pronouncing it as if it started with the first three letters of Tuesday rather than the first three letters of turmeric?

Add to this oregano. I’ve always heard and pronounced it as ory-gano now I’m starting to hear or-eh-gano more often. 

3 hours ago, Carbomb said:

...that today is the 47th birthday of hip-hop.

hip-hop hooray?

1 hour ago, garynysmon said:

As I understand it, Wales is ahead of the other UK nations in vaccinations. Yet I'm 37 and not due to have my second jab until the end of the month.

If that's the case then surely there are hoardes of people in their 30s and 40s not fully vaccinated in England at this juncture? The idea of lifting all restrictions at this point would scare me a little. Surely another month or so would make a world of difference?

You can probably bring your second vaccine forward. Initially, everyone was given 11 weeks between vaccines (I think) but since they’ve increased capacity you’ve been able to bring it forward by a few weeks. I wasn’t due my second until mid-August but have managed to get in before the end of July. Really easy to do if you just google “manage vaccine booking”, all you need is your name, DOB and postcode.

1 minute ago, PunkStep said:

All those more experienced England players sitting back to let a poor 19yo take the 5th penalty. Bunch of fucking cowards. It's like Paul Ince in Euro 96 all over again.

Yeah, Sterling not hitting one is poor form and surprised that the People’s Hero Grealish didn’t step up either. 
 

I was half joking with my earlier comment, seeing Saka on Southgate’s shoulder like that was awful. 

Soapy, you’re from Essex. Glass houses etc.

Bore off with the melodrama, please. 

Bringing Rashford and Sancho on to take penalties *chef’s kiss*

1 hour ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Fireworks

FTFY. 

Please, please, please let them forfeit the match because of that 🤞🏻

16 minutes ago, deathrey said:

We ordered food on Wednesday night. The place we ordered from do the most delicious garlic chilli mushrooms which are as hot as the sun but honestly taste amazing.  They always give me indigestion but I order them anyway like an idiot. I asked for them to be slightly less spicy (they weren't really) and woke up yesterday morning with really bad indigestion. Ate lots of indigestion tablets and was fine by lunchtime. For some reason I decided I would be fine to have the left overs last night, guess who has a bad stomach again this morning?

And I know I will order them again....

Reminds me of a guy I went to Uni with, he had a shellfish allergy but he would pop a couple of antihistamines and eat prawns anyway because he loved them so much, apparently. One time his lips got so swollen that if he kissed a window, you’d still be trying to peel him off.
That was just the tip of the iceberg with that guy. He was a loaded but unbelievably grounded Emirati National, total nutter but a top dude. 

5 minutes ago, PunkStep said:

They have been a revelation this tournament, work incredibly well together. To think #2CDMs and #SouthgateOut were trending after the Croatia line-up was announced.

If everyone on Twitter had their way, England would've had Graelish, Foden, Graelish, Sancho, Kane, Sterling, Mount, Saka, Gazza, Graelish and Geoff Hurst in the starting XI. Garth-errific!

Must admit, even as an avid watcher of English football I’d have struggled to pick Phillips out a crowd before this tournament. Up there with Sterling as your MVP so far. Him, Rice and Mount have clicked so well. 

Pray for the Tories who vowed not to watch England while they kneeled. 
 

Imagine being such a big flag shagger but not being able to watch your team in an international final because of your own made up racist code.

10 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Obviously I'll defend him to the hilt (and criticise when hes shit) but are you seriously suggesting he didn't play well tonight?

He was alright tonight, definitely the best I’ve seen of him this tournament (missed the Ukraine game) but I’d still be looking for more from the captain and supposed best striker in the world.  He’s a very lucky Tory that Schmeichel tried to gather it instead of palming it to fook because it was a shocker of a penalty. 
 

3 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

I said very similar to a tut from the wife. But who watches ITV football coverage by choice? I imagine it’s only psychopaths and Scottish people

ITV doesn’t broadcast in Scotland so it’s a swing and miss there, Soapy.

Got to hand it to Southgate, he knows how to drag results out of this team. Took some big balls to hook Grealish for Trippier after their second. Can’t see past England on Sunday now, even though I expect Kane to be absent yet again.