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Oberleutnant posted:The urban class conscious proletariat is best represented by simple, unaffected ready salted in a red bag. Does anyone, anywhere, actually eat ready salted? Why? Do people hate flavour that much? Edit: 129 AD looks like it was a really boring year.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:51
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It's OK in a sandwich but I wouldn't sit down and just eat a bag of salty greasy potato.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:53
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Guavanaut posted:Is that because there's something inherently wrong with mason jars? Because if so Comrade Corbyn's jam club would like a word. Epic fail me, I meant kilner jars. Which seem to be far more commonly used in posh kitchens. This has also set me off mooning over pictures of miniature fruit trees and wondering if they're worth it. It's a rare thing that makes me miss country living, but I do love the little barter economy that pops up at this time of year when everyone swaps stuff out of their gardens.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:54
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I like ready salted sometimes although cheese & onion is my preference. The best crisp-like snacks, however, are scampi fries.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:54
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Acaila posted:This has also set me off mooning over pictures of miniature fruit trees and wondering if they're worth it. It's a rare thing that makes me miss country living, but I do love the little barter economy that pops up at this time of year when everyone swaps stuff out of their gardens. Are they actually edible? I was under the impression that most edible fruits have to be cloned, and making alterations to them usually makes them unpalatable. If you've got a bright room you could do cherry tomatoes or something.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:58
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Oberleutnant posted:I like ready salted sometimes although cheese & onion is my preference. Scampi Fries and Bacon Fries are like performance enhancing drugs for my drinking skills OwlFancier posted:Are they actually edible? I was under the impression that most edible fruits have to be cloned, and making alterations to them usually makes them unpalatable. You can get "patio" trees that stay small/in a column rather than spreading, and for the size they produce lots of normal fruit, dwarf trees tend to have the weird fruits. There's shitloads of fruit trees that just go unpicked, this year me and the missis made dozens of jars of jam from just a few hours picking (crab apples are loving amazing done right).
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Oct 22, 2015 13:07
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feedmegin posted:Does anyone, anywhere, actually eat ready salted? Why? Do people hate flavour that much? My mum almost never eats any flavour but ready salted. In the news today, Theresa May criticises the police for not having enough black officers. This call for greater diversity seems somewhat at odds with her standard policy, shall we say.
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Oct 22, 2015 13:08
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TACD posted:Here's a good read. I was going to bold parts but honestly I think the whole thing is worth reading: That is a really good read.
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Oct 22, 2015 13:10
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I am the bougiest motherfucker in that the only crisps I bought while in Brighton were made of parsnips and beets flavoured with salt, honey and pepper.
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Oct 22, 2015 13:11
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Kokoro Wish posted:I am the bougiest motherfucker in that the only crisps I bought while in Brighton were made of parsnips and beets flavoured with salt, honey and pepper. I don't hold with the honey, but beetroot and parsnip crisps are really nice. They're also common root vegetables, so can count as proletarian.
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Oct 22, 2015 13:13
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Lord of the Llamas posted:I enjoyed most of the article until the author reached his "big data" section. Polling is literally the opposite of big data as it's using a small sample to estimate the true proportions using a model, i.e. the weightings. The models were flawed (although the FPTP system massively exaggerated how far off the polls were) and this is actually not a surprise in retrospect due to the multiple seismic occurrences in UK politics as mentioned and the pollsters having no new ground truth data to recalibrate their models against prior to the election. Ironically the author's lack of understanding here kind of proves their point - that the commentariat don't understand these things well yet use them to back up their opinions constantly. A lot of journalists etc seem to work under the assumption that "big data" = numbers, with computers involved somehow
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Oct 22, 2015 13:20
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Netflix and Chillingham.
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Oct 22, 2015 13:23
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Where does Worcestershire sauce rank on the proley-ness of flavours?
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Oct 22, 2015 13:28
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Jack the Lad posted:Because contractors are paid by result (£14k per person who finds a job while on the Programme) they tend to focus their efforts on the people most likely to find jobs - who are also the people least likely to need help. Many of these people would find work with no help at all, and when they do find work while on the Programme it's often not because of anything a contractor has done. Having suffered through both a4e and working links, their 'efforts' are useless anyway. If you have basic maths and English and know how to fill in application form all they do is get you to change your CV according to constantly conflicting advice over and over again then make sure you've be applied for X jobs whether or not they're suitable. Oh, and make you do the occasional 'course' with useful info like "don't swear at interviews'. My first session at Working Links had us taking a Myers-Briggs test to see what kind of jobs we should apply for. Both times I didn't get a job until after I was off the work programme.
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Oct 22, 2015 13:43
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Acaila posted:Where does Worcestershire sauce rank on the proley-ness of flavours? Inferior to Hendies. 
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Oct 22, 2015 13:47
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Apropos of nothing but it's been rattling around in my head for a little while. When did "deficit denier" become a thing? Like, apparently there are "deficit deniers" roaming around and the news is very keen to know if you are one. And people are very keen to make it clear that they aren't one. It's like someone autoreplaced the word "holocaust" with "deficit" given the tone of interrogation and importance of not being one. What does it even mean anyway? Does it mean you pretend there isn't one? That we need to get rid of it? That the pounds were asking to be borrowed and it's their fault anyway? What?
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Oct 22, 2015 14:02
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Acaila posted:Where does Worcestershire sauce rank on the proley-ness of flavours? my fav, personally purple also my favourite colour so walkers did a good there
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Oct 22, 2015 14:03
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OwlFancier posted:Apropos of nothing but it's been rattling around in my head for a little while. It's the Tory attack line whenever Labour try and counter the bullshit narrative about fiscal responsibility. By making it out that they deny it exists or its a problem, they shape the narrative of it being an urgent crisis that they're ignoring. And yes, it's pure bullshit.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:04
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OwlFancier posted:Apropos of nothing but it's been rattling around in my head for a little while. I just want to know how well a river in Egypt can hear.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:09
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I know it's bollocks, it's just weird because a lot of programs and politicians seem to be bandying the term around like it's just a thing that's always been.Igiari posted:I just want to know how well a river in Egypt can hear. It can hear a river in South America. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Oct 22, 2015 14:10
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Vauxhall looked at the emissions scandal and thought "how can we get in on this publicity?" "I'VE GOT IT" 
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Oct 22, 2015 14:11
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Volkswagen chief executive spotted: It physically hurts me that there's no more Thick of It, they'd bloody skewer the current lot.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:16
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The current lot can't be parodied
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Oct 22, 2015 14:19
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It's bittersweet that because of things outside of their control they essentially made a show brutally mocking Labour for three(?) seasons and now we have Tories in power. If you were stupid and missed the point you could actually come to the conclusion The Thick of It had a right wing agenda. It doesn't. No one could have predicted the electorate would actually let these fuckers back in. As for the EU question it seems that there are two choices: 1) We stay. 2) We go, triggering another Scottish referendum that they win this time and gain independence. Meaning the English now decide what happens to the Union. Don't think the average voter quite realises this because they are stupid beyond belief and I hate them!!!!! Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Oct 22, 2015 14:20
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Armando Iannucci even said that after swine/11 he's given up trying to write new Thick of It plot-lines.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:21
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Tesseraction posted:Vauxhall looked at the emissions scandal and thought "how can we get in on this publicity?" Maybe they are just being torched by their owners for being horrible handling shitboxes, I can understand that
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Oct 22, 2015 14:21
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Regarde Aduck posted:It's bittersweet that because of things outside of their control they essentially made a show brutally mocking Labour for three(?) seasons and now we have Tories in power. If you were stupid and missed the point you could actually come to the conclusion The Thick of It had a right wing agenda. It doesn't. No one could have predicted the electorate would actually let these fuckers back in. This came up a few pages back but they essentially had to stop because the utterly ridiculous community bank thing they made up for the show ended up being put forward as an actual,legit, policy a few weeks later. When they went from parody to documentary they knew it was time to stop.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:23
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OwlFancier posted:Are they actually edible? I was under the impression that most edible fruits have to be cloned, and making alterations to them usually makes them unpalatable. Almost all fruit trees you buy at a garden centre will be cloned (well, grafted, but it's basically the same thing), yes. The fruit bearing part is spliced onto the root system of something tougher, and that determines how big the tree will grow. If you go to a specialist tree nursery they will sell you the same fruit variety in a range of sizes from 1m to 10m+, and they will all produce pretty similar crops. One thing to check if you want apples in particular is how they pollinate. It's complicated, but basically get something self-pollinating if you don't have space for multiple trees, otherwise you have to start knowing about pollination groups and it's a massive pain. Triploid, in particular, can gently caress right off.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:25
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serious gaylord posted:This came up a few pages back but they essentially had to stop because the utterly ridiculous community bank thing they made up for the show ended up being put forward as an actual,legit, policy a few weeks later. When they went from parody to documentary they knew it was time to stop.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:27
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Jedit posted:I don't hold with the honey, but beetroot and parsnip crisps are really nice. They're also common root vegetables, so can count as proletarian. I fear vegetable crisps are constantly wheeled out by various people I know who would not be classified as proley... they are definitely fairly bougie : ( The thing that really bothers me is that the kettle crisps salt and vinegar is awful - no flavour whatsoever - but those who are members of the salt and vinegar cognoscenti should be aware of the thoroughly excellent co-op own brand salt and vinegar flavour, which comes in big dark blue bags and is VERY flavoursome. SurrealityCheck fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Oct 22, 2015 14:28
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OwlFancier posted:Apropos of nothing but it's been rattling around in my head for a little while. It's because they are setting up a dichotomy where there are either people who acknowledge the deficit and by implication the need for its immediate reduction - or those who ignore it, the only possible type of person who would not want to immediately reduce it. The elision this framing commits is obvious...
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Oct 22, 2015 14:30
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The best crisps are Lays olive oil and oregano crisps.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:34
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serious gaylord posted:This came up a few pages back but they essentially had to stop because the utterly ridiculous community bank thing they made up for the show ended up being put forward as an actual,legit, policy a few weeks later. When they went from parody to documentary they knew it was time to stop. Part of the reason I love 'Corbyn is Solidus Snake' is that our political system has gone from Yes Minister to The thick of It to Black Mirror in obsurdity and there's no reason to think its going to stop there.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:37
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Pesmerga posted:Lays Pesmerga posted:olive oil Pesmerga posted:oregano
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Oct 22, 2015 14:48
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The Telegraph's letters page continues to delight
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Oct 22, 2015 14:51
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Oberleutnant posted:get in the bin Frito-Lay owns Walkers, so everyone is getting in the bin.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:56
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It's like something out of Viz.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:57
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Pissflaps posted:Netflix and Chillingham. I wish, the 4G reception there is non-existent. Context: I stayed in one of the guest suites at Chillingham castle during the summer. It's a proper bonkers place that is full of random junk and lives off its entirely commercially inspired 'Britain's most haunted' reputation. The owner is a decent chap though.
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Oct 22, 2015 14:58
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Oberleutnant posted:get in the bin They're totally working class in Italy I stand by my life choices  Besides I thought we were friends 
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It was just a lazy joke that Lays is the foreign (and therefore bad) label for the Walkers brand
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