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I think it's more self checkouts doing their job than my looking particularly youthful. I was paying full fare in the bus when I was 15. 

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Morning, evening, Sunday, and the local free paper. I was a busy bunny back then. 

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Red dark chocolate Bounty bars were discontinued in 2022.

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I thought it was a lot longer than that. A shame, as I quite liked them.

RIP.

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TIL that the maxim "the pen is mightier than the sword" was first said as a line of the character Cardinal Richelieu in a Victorian play. That is, as those words exactly. There are older versions from ancient Mesopotamia ("the word is mightier than the sword") and in Islam ("the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr"), but this particular phrasing was by a British playwright called Lytton.

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On 5/24/2026 at 11:58 PM, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said:

Lucy Davis from out of The Office's dad is Jasper Carrot's daughter

 

As an aside, I also learnt that isnt his real name!

Self quote wanker, but a sad update that she has incurable cancer and is now awaiting the inevitable. She's 53 ffs! Cancer is a cunt. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk51vk37d6o

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30 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

But not dead yet so you're allowed to post about it! I respect the hustle and you finding the loophole tbh 

Not at all, just saying that I liked her in The Office and Shaun of the Dead and cancer is an arsehole for taking people too young. 

Hadn't actually thought about it in the way you mentioned. 

 

Learned the hard way

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Man, I will be so glad when we finally figure cancer out and eliminate it completely. Such an evil thing.

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Apparently, 'preheat your oven' means leave it on 10 or 15 minutes and then the oven will either emit a noise or the little LED light will come on to let you know it's preheated.

I must have undercooked every meal I've ever prepared in my life because I thought it meant 'put it on for 2 minutes just to warm up before bunging everything in.' 

What I don't get is if I should've been preheating my oven another 10 minutes, how does half of what I cook end up burned anyway?!

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Ovens that emit a noise or an LED light coming on to tell you your oven is preheated is simply not true, isnt it? Would be curious to be proven wrong if anyone can say they have ever heard of such a thing, let alone had/seen an oven do this.

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The light on our oven goes off not on when it's up to temperature, if that makes you feel better. 

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Yeah, ours has a symbol that disappears when its up to the heat, then comes back on when it's actively heating again. 

You can get away with not pre heating the oven for stuff. The window for food being properly cooked is pretty big. For the shit that I cook anyway. 

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