“Better luck next year Jo x.”

Saved you a click!

I just slammed my balls in the rear door of my Range Rover a couple of times. Am I good now?

Better than Worcester police then. I had my bike nicked from a bike rack by a park & ride’s mini bus station. The guy working there spent a little while shuttling through the video and found crystal clear footage of the rapscallion arriving on a worse bike, messing around by my bike for a minute or two (cutting the lock), then riding off with it. You couldn’t hope for better evidence of the crime, and if he was known to police - he certainly acted like he’d done this sort of thing before - it would’ve been easy to identify him. The cops didn’t even bother to go in and see it.

After several weeks, I got a call from our trusty boys in blue about it. Ah great, I thought naively, they haven’t forgotten, just backlogged. But it quickly became obvious, from his leading questions, that the copper was actually hoping to catch me out as an insurance fraudster and had no intention of doing jack-shit to actually get the thing back. I lost it a bit with him and I think he did end up feeling kind of bad - although not bad enough to send someone round to view the footage of course.

yeah nice. my fave is to go to Starbucks and boof a double frappucino while everyone just stares in awe. then I recite the first 2 million digits of pi before having sex with one of the stools.

they know what they’re doing - they’re trying to create an artificial distance between meat and modern plant alternatives. Can’t blame them for trying but the government should not be so happy to do their bidding.

I care that the government cares (or more specifically that it was bribed to do so by lobby groups)

Vegetarian or not, you should care about this. Propping up the meat and dairy industry is not in the interests of the public. This move is part of an agenda by the meat and dairy industry to deceive the public into thinking there’s something “natural” about the modern meat processing industry. It’s bullshit and if we had a government that actually worked in our interests instead of that of the fat cats, it would be the meat and dairy industry being forced to change their labelling, to highlight to the public the real costs of meat consumption.

The most green option is probably to just sell it on the open market. Some takeaway shops would give you a good price for it.

This does sound like it might be a very interesting book. I am intrigued to find out more about Mary’s point of view. She says she almost dumped him when he came clean, not because of his direct support for the IRA but because of the deception:

“I know Michael isn’t a terrible person, he’s a very good person,” she said. “He just didn’t put me first, and I don’t know whether I see that as betrayal. He didn’t intend it.”

It seems there’s a wider question about when is it acceptable to keep secrets from a person you’re in a relationship with. It doesn’t seem like he was deceitful about his political leanings, just about details of his direct involvement. That kind of seems very forgivable, although given the circumstances I can see why she contemplated ending it at the time.

Firefox has Firefox Relay, which lets you create aliases (they call them masks) for one destination email for free

https://relay.firefox.com/

I love it when they pretend to be asleep like that. They’re about as good at it as a 5 year old child.

sunshine I love you but you do post quite a few things that would really be better suited elsewhere, like [email protected] or in this case [email protected]

As a compromise, why not cross-post? that way your articles - which are often interesting and IMO discussion-worthy - will be seen by more people with relevant interests and thus might spark off more discussion. (Yes I messed up cross-posting this particular article and managed to double-cross-post - I deleted one but annoyingly both links still show up here 🤦 )

I personally am really excited about what this kind of technology can achieve (in particular in the area of dairy products manufactured without any animal involvement) and if analyses such as this will encourage more government investment, all power to them.

Yeah but this article is about spreadable butter, not normal decent god-fearing butter. So it’s already been fucked up by blending in vegetable oil along with whatever stabilsers and other shit they have to use to allow you to mix vegetable oil and butter in the first place.

best method I found to watch old movies

especially as many public libraries loan out DVDs.

especially at this time of year, when you can just leave it out of the fridge and it’ll be perfectly spreadable.

Their judges disagreed with you:

Kerrygold failed to impress our judges, scoring just three out of 10.

However, it’s important to note this is comparing *spreadable* butter, not regular butter. I’d be more interested in a comparison between different types & brands of normal butter.

yeah, although this guy was a refreshing change with what seems to be a more objective analysis of the situation:

It very much is Apple’s problem, because Apple made it their problem. First off, the EU is only asking about Apple’s own App Store and how it prevents scams in there. It’s not asking about iOS as a platform.

However; Apple explicitly went out of its way to be malicious in how it implemented the DMA by requiring apps that want to publish in third party app stores to still be validated by them and pay for that too. If the EU wants them to answer for how scams get through that process, that is fair game too. Microsoft and Google don’t do this, so it won’t be a problem for them. Apple decided to create a malicious system to discourage users, and if the EU now comes knocking on their door for it, well… Karma.

Regardless, there were - and still are - plenty of apps in the App Store today that scam users into ridiculous weekly subscriptions, etc. So let’s not pretend Apple is doing a very good job even in its own app store either.

this is a really weird headline, with the use of “ration” like that.

Who doesn’t “ration” i.e. restrict their energy use? i have always done this - I turn off lights in rooms when no one is in there, I turn off heating when I’m out of the house, I don’t turn heating on until it’s really cold and I’m maxed out on jumpers and woolly underpants. It’s not just to save money - aren’t we all supposed to be restricting our energy use, what with climate change and all that?

So the article isn’t really about people having to restrict their energy use when before they didn’t, it’s really about a survey done by Citizens Advice to highlight the hardships renters endure thanks to poorly maintained and insulated houses. It seems that Citizens Advice were the ones who chose the word “ration” and to put the focus on people reducing their energy use to save money, but I don’t understand what makes them think that will make their survey results more powerful.

Something straightforward like, “Latest price hikes unfairly hit poor people in badly maintained rental housing” would seem to me to be much better.

higher levels of car theft than China

this is what happens when you let thieves off without so much as 10 years hard labour followed by a bullet to the back of the head!

Sikh sect which carries swords

According to wikipedia, all (male) Sikhs who choose to become Khalsa (and thus gain the surname “Singh”, meaning lion) are supposed to keep 5 special items with them at all times, one of which is a dagger - but it was originally a sword. All these 5 items begin with the letter K, and include a kirpan (the dagger/sword), the kara (a steel bracelet) and kesh (uncut hair, typically wrapped in a turban). I’m not sure, but KDE is probably recommended also.

One thing I didn’t know - it’s forbidden for such Sikhs to eat “halal” meat. That can’t be easy in some countries.