JohnSmith

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The rivers have already been turned into streams of shit, so all we need is a bit of pipework and we have arrived at the Tory dream, known as nightmare for the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Master Handbook of Acoustics is your friend if you want to learn what to do to your room. Overkill for most, admittedly, but it contains everything you need to know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The said stone may smell of piss. If it does not, I’ll be quite happy to oblige.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

One thing I would add to the great advice already given is keep your kit clean. You do not want grease accumulating and catching fire.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think there is another aspect that is important: limit the blast radius. Shit inevitably happens when you create something new and complex, and when it does, you’d rather minimise the impact where possible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Now now, Boris got brexit done. It ended up being a complete pig’s ear, quite possibly from the same pig Cameron was acquainted with, but it did get done.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would recommend focusing on pink drinks, ideally with a tiny umbrella. The locals will be delighted if you buy a round of pink ones. The more deprived the area, the more a round of pink ones will brighten up their day, especially so if there are bikers around.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

The rate at which Rich-i keeps showing his foot deep into his mouth makes me admire his dexterity and flexibility.

 

Let me describe an idea I heard from a very innovative person, which I think would be really useful right now in midst of the general election campaign.

The basic idea is to interpret politician’s or basically any talking head’s speech realtime and check the semantics against the Internet. Imagine a banner at the bottom of a TV screen with a line being drawn as the person talks.

If what the person says correlates positively with what can be found in reputable Internet sources, the line goes up and is green. There is evidence they are speaking the truth.

If what the person says correlates negatively with the sources, the line goes down and is red. There is evidence they are lying.

If what the person says does not correlate with the sources, the line is flat and brown, because they are spewing unadulterated bullshit.

I’d pay for this service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m sure Sunak is a very intelligent person. You simply don’t get to be a PM by being an imbecile in the low IQ sense of the term. There is abundant evidence that he is a totally useless politician and an incompetent leader. His moral compass, I’m not even going to comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought the picture of Biden, Schroeder, Macron and … the chap from Chipping Norton spoke volumes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’d say that in itself is more of an achievement than anything else he’s managed as the PM.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What goes on in lemmy.ml should in my view not be a concern for feddit.uk as a community, unless they start somehow substantially interfering with this instance in a concerted and prolonged way. A few individuals here and there commenting and being the twats they are does not count.

Feddit.uk members can already disengage from communities and instances they don’t like or are offended by, and create new communities where they see a need. For me these are sufficient remedies for all but very exceptional circumstances. I understand that it may be hard to get a new community going, but them are the breaks (to quote a twat I despise with a passion).

Personally I find a level of perverse entertainment in reading some of the tankie discussion, in a similar way I found Trump being the US President and Boris being the UK Prime Minister having definite entertainment value. Macabre, perhaps, but we all have our kinks.

 

Sunak comes across like the prat he is. “Labor will raise taxes by £2,000 for everybody” regardless of the question. Talking over all the time, not listening to the moderator. Appalling creature. Starmer sympathises a lot with people asking questions without answering them. Skating around or just plainly ignoring questions all the time. I can’t watch this shit a minute longer.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The weather has been kind this weekend, so I cleaned the BBQ and made ribs & wings.

 

I’ve been watching the Rugby Cup Final this evening and fuming. They have this fancy new traveling side camera and they can’t help but use it. STOP IT!!! You are making everybody seasick. Which made me think, might you good people have examples of when somebody badly overplayed their new toy? On a completely unrelated note, do we already have a community for rants?

 

…how bloody old are you?

 

Lamb, rosemary and garlic is a match made in heaven. The only thing to do now is wait for several hours, and perhaps down a glass or three of red.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/foodporn
 

On Friday we got our annual treat: half a lamb from a farm near us. We made rosemary, chilli and garlic butter, roast potatoes, cavolo nero, cauliflower and carrots with lamb chops. The chops are as fresh and tasty as can be, simply great!

 

After numerous long evenings and weekends our sauna is back in use. Completely renovated shower room, new floor in the dressing room, floor heating in both, new stove, new lights, benches sanded down and appropriately treated, sauna room walls washed and treated, log building painted from the outside. The works. Today it was in use for the first time and the electricity was free 2-4 pm as part of the Octopus Energy trial, so it didn’t even cost a penny to heat! This is our boys conducting a quality inspection.

 

We are considering doing two weeks on Leeds - Liverpool on a rental boat in near future. I should think we are looking at one week one way and the other back. Where would you recommend we start?

 
 

UK has it great when it comes to live music. Small venues, arenas, stadiums. Big artists, small artists, almost anybody worth seeing will have a gig here at some point. I grew up in a country where my favourite artists hardly ever visited back in the day. I’ve lived over twenty years in the UK, but I’m still in awe of the shere number of gigs to choose from. It is brilliant!

 

The filet marinated overnight in a mix of HP sauce, soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce. The file was in sous vide in 50 C for just over three hours and finalised on the coal BBQ. The end result was great if just a bit over cooked for what I was aiming for.

tasty end result

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