A quick note on Islam and babies: Islam teaches that all human beings are born Muslims (in a "state of purity") and that it is the influence on them by parents who follow another religion or who are atheists that makes them into non-Muslims in later life. It is an extreme crime according to Islam to murder any baby.
FGM isn’t Islamic either. Some Muslims do it, but the vast majority don’t.
It is barbarism for religious fanatics of all stripes. It was advocated strongly by Dr Kellogg.
Yes, something about extremism suddenly causes people to be obsessed with interferring with others' genitals. Not sure if that carries through to all types of extremism or if it is naturally more prevalent among religious obsessives.
I'd b e happier if that quote was properly documented to an original source, all the same, even if it's not untypical of physicians of a certain era.
I don't know about that original quote, but the Kelloggs story is quite an amazing one - I listened to a podcast on it once. From memory, there were two Kellogs brothers; One ran a religious sanitorium, and created a breakfast cereal for the guests. This was a massive change from the 'usual' breakfast foods or oats, but he refused to sell it to anyone who was not of the religion.
His brother used the recipe and set up a rival Kelloggs company that would sell to anyone (yes, they were both called Kelloggs), which became massive. As it happens, others in the same town started making breakfast cereals at the same time, and one of these was my favourite - Grape Nuts, invented by an ex-patient of the sanitorium.
Given the religious context, I can believe the quote... "His development of a bland diet was driven in part by the Adventist goal of reducing sexual stimulation.[37]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg
Made into a book and film, "The Road To Wellville" in the 1990s. Was given a copy by some well-meaning (but easily confused) friends whilst detained at the NHS's pleasure.
Talking of being detailed in the NHS; three men were sitting at the back of the A&E waiting room early this morning. The one in the middle was a largish man in grey tracksuit-style attire. The two men in uniforms on either side of him appeared utterly bored. Long, shiny chains connected the two men in uniforms to their prisoner.
I don't think any of them wanted to be there at five on a Saturday morning...
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
In 2018, Stonewall literally told schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers. "We, in the strongest possible terms, denounce and condemn this publication. If it lands on your desk, do the right thing: shred it.” 1/3
In 2022 Stonewall told the world that 'research' suggests two year olds can be trans. It advocated for nurseries - NURSERIES - to start teaching kids that there are more genders than boy and girl. 2/3
Politicians have snuggled up to Stonewall and Mermaids, given them privileged places at the table and adopted their talking points, to the detriment of very vulnerable children, young people and women. When are we going to see this fully investigated? When will this end? 3/X
A quick note on Islam and babies: Islam teaches that all human beings are born Muslims (in a "state of purity") and that it is the influence on them by parents who follow another religion or who are atheists that makes them into non-Muslims in later life. It is an extreme crime according to Islam to murder any baby.
FGM isn’t Islamic either. Some Muslims do it, but the vast majority don’t.
It is barbarism for religious fanatics of all stripes. It was advocated strongly by Dr Kellogg.
I think his views deserve a Frostie reception.
Can recall being urged (urgently by the Kellogg Co.) back in the Dark Ages of late 20th century, to:
"Eat your Wheaties - look what Wheaties did for Bruce Jenner!"
"For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman." - Caitlyn Jenner
NOT what I recall seeing on Wheaties boxes. Perhaps in the (very) fine print?
Incidentally, I hadn't been expecting to be able to vote against Laurence Fox, but in fact he did manage to get on to one of the London ballot papers, so I was able to.
In 2018, Stonewall literally told schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers. "We, in the strongest possible terms, denounce and condemn this publication. If it lands on your desk, do the right thing: shred it.” 1/3
In 2022 Stonewall told the world that 'research' suggests two year olds can be trans. It advocated for nurseries - NURSERIES - to start teaching kids that there are more genders than boy and girl. 2/3
Politicians have snuggled up to Stonewall and Mermaids, given them privileged places at the table and adopted their talking points, to the detriment of very vulnerable children, young people and women. When are we going to see this fully investigated? When will this end? 3/X
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
You can buy vegan no-chicken Chicken Kyivs!
If you use the right kitchen appliance, you can get irradiated vegan chicken kyev
Incidentally, I hadn't been expecting to be able to vote against Laurence Fox, but in fact he did manage to get on to one of the London ballot papers, so I was able to.
[Liz Truss] said that the [10 Downing Street] flat was infested in fleas. “Some claimed that this was down to Boris and Carrie’s dog Dilyn, but there was no conclusive evidence,” she said. “In any case, the entire place had to be sprayed with flea killer. I spent several weeks itching.”
She said the Downing Street flat was “really noisy” with the “constant backdrop” of changing and protests.
The “saving grace” of living there, she said, was Larry the cat. “He’s a lovely character and seems to take a liking and disliking to all the right people.”
How much extra pension does the PM get after 2 years, not 1.5 years?
I know there's the lifetime allowance and so on.
There's always the chance that something good might happen. Sunak knows he'll never have any political office ever again, he knows that he'll be seen as a clown, but if he holds on it's hardly likely to be worse.
In 2018, Stonewall literally told schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers. "We, in the strongest possible terms, denounce and condemn this publication. If it lands on your desk, do the right thing: shred it.” 1/3
In 2022 Stonewall told the world that 'research' suggests two year olds can be trans. It advocated for nurseries - NURSERIES - to start teaching kids that there are more genders than boy and girl. 2/3
Politicians have snuggled up to Stonewall and Mermaids, given them privileged places at the table and adopted their talking points, to the detriment of very vulnerable children, young people and women. When are we going to see this fully investigated? When will this end? 3/X
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
If he wants to go sooner then October would be better (still long, but before clocks change).
I can't see any reason besides people's books why it'd be any other month.
The more I think about it the more I think December makes sense.
A full-term parliament makes sense, logically, it gives more time for recovery, and the shorter days and build up to Christmas rob Starmer somewhat of spotlight and campaign momentum.
It wouldn't surprise me if it happened.
December is what happens if nothing else happens- I'm working on the basis that not even Rishi would be dumb enough to have an election campaign that straddles Christmas.
The only reasons to go sooner are if Something turns up that changes the political weather so that the PM can cut run and do well, or he has to press the nuclear MAD button to repel.internal critics. They both seem unlikely.
So I expect him to hold off on the off chance that something turns up, even if it costs the post-election party an MP or two per week to do so.
So December 19th it is.
"Not even Rishi" is a Brobdingnagian hostage to fortune.
Tim Loughton MP 🇺🇦 @timloughton Last night I informed the AGM of the East Worthing & Shoreham Conservative Association that I would not be standing as the Conservative candidate at the next General Election. This is my letter to the Association Chairman.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
I thought Germany had the highest proportion in Europe these days ?
A quick note on Islam and babies: Islam teaches that all human beings are born Muslims (in a "state of purity") and that it is the influence on them by parents who follow another religion or who are atheists that makes them into non-Muslims in later life. It is an extreme crime according to Islam to murder any baby.
FGM isn’t Islamic either. Some Muslims do it, but the vast majority don’t.
It is barbarism for religious fanatics of all stripes. It was advocated strongly by Dr Kellogg.
The world would be a much better place if people were brought up to consider a nice wank as a good thing. As important in its way as brushing your teeth, or washing your hands.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Lots of Vegan places when I was in Hamburg last year, and good quality too. As was the Vietnamese food too.
A quick note on Islam and babies: Islam teaches that all human beings are born Muslims (in a "state of purity") and that it is the influence on them by parents who follow another religion or who are atheists that makes them into non-Muslims in later life. It is an extreme crime according to Islam to murder any baby.
FGM isn’t Islamic either. Some Muslims do it, but the vast majority don’t.
It is barbarism for religious fanatics of all stripes. It was advocated strongly by Dr Kellogg.
The world would be a much better place if people were brought up to consider a nice wank as a good thing. As important in its way as brushing your teeth, or washing your hands.
Certainly hand washing afterwards is to be encouraged.
Assuming these Conservative MPs do not actually want a Labour government, why agitate to get Keir Starmer into Downing Street earlier than necessary? There are 285 days to the general election, Thursday, 23rd January, 2025.
You're not thinking fourth dimensionally here. I think you'll find the latest date is Tuesday 28th January 2025, and why not go out with a bang and into the history books by having a non-Thursday GE?
Tories don't want a summer election, but every week that passes brings reform closer and the labour majority grows.... this is like having a bad tooth. Yeah, the dentists is nasty, but it will only get worse... much much worse if you wait.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
There are few things more depressing than watching this Man U team trying to play football. They are not a team. They have no shape or structure. They have forwards who find scoring impossibly difficult. They do not have a defence worthy of the name.
How the mighty Bournemouth are only 1 goal ahead is a mystery wrapped in a conundrum.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
Quite right. Just look in the local food shop's fridge - all the lovely venison and pheasant.
But in any case there are plenty of vegan cucumbers, and potatoes, and bananas, and so on, and so forth.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
Incidentally, I hadn't been expecting to be able to vote against Laurence Fox, but in fact he did manage to get on to one of the London ballot papers, so I was able to.
Yes, he has an Assembly list (of just himself), although he bollocksed up the paperwork, it seems, and so has no party description.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
There are few things more depressing than watching this Man U team trying to play football. They are not a team. They have no shape or structure. They have forwards who find scoring impossibly difficult. They do not have a defence worthy of the name.
How the mighty Bournemouth are only 1 goal ahead is a mystery wrapped in a conundrum.
Hopefully Sky will soon decide to actually show golf on the other channel, rather a load of blokes talking about golf while there are guys out on the course. FFS.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
I have black, muslim, Irish, Albanian and even Scottish neighbours. No problem with any of them. But I also have a vegan neighbour. 😱
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
[Liz Truss] said that the [10 Downing Street] flat was infested in fleas. “Some claimed that this was down to Boris and Carrie’s dog Dilyn, but there was no conclusive evidence,” she said. “In any case, the entire place had to be sprayed with flea killer. I spent several weeks itching.”
She said the Downing Street flat was “really noisy” with the “constant backdrop” of changing and protests.
The “saving grace” of living there, she said, was Larry the cat. “He’s a lovely character and seems to take a liking and disliking to all the right people.”
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
I'll maybe try it in the next 40 years but the last 40 have been fairly excellent thanks.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
[Liz Truss] said that the [10 Downing Street] flat was infested in fleas. “Some claimed that this was down to Boris and Carrie’s dog Dilyn, but there was no conclusive evidence,” she said. “In any case, the entire place had to be sprayed with flea killer. I spent several weeks itching.”
She said the Downing Street flat was “really noisy” with the “constant backdrop” of changing and protests.
The “saving grace” of living there, she said, was Larry the cat. “He’s a lovely character and seems to take a liking and disliking to all the right people.”
No doubt it's been done here already, but I thought it was interesting that Liz Truss's two-word comment on the death of the Queen included the word "me".
[Liz Truss] said that the [10 Downing Street] flat was infested in fleas. “Some claimed that this was down to Boris and Carrie’s dog Dilyn, but there was no conclusive evidence,” she said. “In any case, the entire place had to be sprayed with flea killer. I spent several weeks itching.”
She said the Downing Street flat was “really noisy” with the “constant backdrop” of changing and protests.
The “saving grace” of living there, she said, was Larry the cat. “He’s a lovely character and seems to take a liking and disliking to all the right people.”
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
There was once a poster on here who wrote a published article on how to " keep your hand in".
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
By "new woman" do you mean one that has just passed the age of consent or one who has been freshly minted from being a man?
It's all that time with Thai ladyboys that has given him the taste. He is just in denial, hence the forceful transportation.
Thought they were called ladyboys? There were always hundreds of posters up in Edinburgh every August advertising them (and probaby still are, but I no longer work in central Edinburgh so can avoid it at Festival time).
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
Never mind desperately in love, just sounds desperate.
Sad to see you back, I was hoping you'd "found some better place"
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
Not sure that I believe so many Poles are vegetarian. It seemed very pork heavy when I was there, albeit a decade ago.
Wild boar would count as vegan. Or so one learns on PB.
I thought it was venison?
Sadly, it seems that the bird flu and rising costs killed the farm company that made the game pies for my local butcher. Proper big things - a foot in a diameter. Fed many a party with those. Gone now. Sob.
The replacements they got in aren’t a quarter as good.
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
Never mind desperately in love, just sounds desperate.
Sad to see you back, I was hoping you'd "found some better place"
You do know I came back for JUST this reaction, don’t you?
Tories don't want a summer election, but every week that passes brings reform closer and the labour majority grows.... this is like having a bad tooth. Yeah, the dentists is nasty, but it will only get worse... much much worse if you wait.
But it's getting worse for someone else. That's almost as good as it not getting worse at all.
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
Never mind desperately in love, just sounds desperate.
Sad to see you back, I was hoping you'd "found some better place"
You do know I came back for JUST this reaction, don’t you?
You weren't gone that long. Just the equivalent of a long weekend. An impressive and theatrical flounce, nonetheless.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
Not sure that I believe so many Poles are vegetarian. It seemed very pork heavy when I was there, albeit a decade ago.
Wild boar would count as vegan. Or so one learns on PB.
OK, fuck off with the meat is vegan comments now please.
I said (once) I was in a pub that was serving entirely vegan food except the one dish they did offer that was meat-based was venison. I said that was because it was considered tolerable due to its sustainability credentials (because it's not farmed, its wild, doesn't take up land and there's a huge oversupply of them) so that's the only meat vegans will tolerate. And I said so.
Somehow that got twisted into a venison = vegan meme and a group of five-years olds on here have laughed on here incessantly about it for almost 18 months like they're just learned the word "poo".
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
Not sure that I believe so many Poles are vegetarian. It seemed very pork heavy when I was there, albeit a decade ago.
Wild boar would count as vegan. Or so one learns on PB.
OK, fuck off with the meat is vegan comments now please.
I said (once) I was in a pub that was serving entirely vegan food except the one dish they did offer that was meat-based was venison. I said that was because it was considered tolerable due to its sustainability credentials (because it's not farmed, its wild, doesn't take up land and there's a huge oversupply of them) so that's the only meat vegans will tolerate. And I said so.
Somehow that got twisted into a venison = vegan meme and a group of five-years olds on here have laughed on here incessantly about it for almost 18 months like they're just learned the word "poo".
[Liz Truss] said that the [10 Downing Street] flat was infested in fleas. “Some claimed that this was down to Boris and Carrie’s dog Dilyn, but there was no conclusive evidence,” she said. “In any case, the entire place had to be sprayed with flea killer. I spent several weeks itching.”
She said the Downing Street flat was “really noisy” with the “constant backdrop” of changing and protests.
The “saving grace” of living there, she said, was Larry the cat. “He’s a lovely character and seems to take a liking and disliking to all the right people.”
No doubt it's been done here already, but I thought it was interesting that Liz Truss's two-word comment on the death of the Queen included the word "me".
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
Not logical in the least. A lot of vegans avoid the supermarket ultraprocessed foods anyway. So you can't go on that basis.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
I have black, muslim, Irish, Albanian and even Scottish neighbours. No problem with any of them. But I also have a vegan neighbour. 😱
I suspect this is because no one has an interest in converting you to being black, muslim, Irish or Albanian (and I presume you are already Scottish) whist the messanic zeal of some vegans would put 19th century Christian missionaries or 7th Day Adventists to shame.
I wouldn't dream of criticising a vegan for what they eat and yet those I have met seem incapable of getting through a meal without making some comment on either the health or morality aspects of what is on my plate. More than anything it is just tiresome.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Lots of Vegan places when I was in Hamburg last year, and good quality too. As was the Vietnamese food too.
Just searching for vegan restaurants on google maps by distance from where I am sitting in Germany there is:
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
I have black, muslim, Irish, Albanian and even Scottish neighbours. No problem with any of them. But I also have a vegan neighbour. 😱
I suspect this is because no one has an interest in converting you to being black, muslim, Irish or Albanian (and I presume you are already Scottish) whist the messanic zeal of some vegans would put 19th century Christian missionaries or 7th Day Adventists to shame.
I wouldn't dream of criticising a vegan for what they eat and yet those I have met seem incapable of getting through a meal without making some comment on either the health or morality aspects of what is on my plate. More than anything it is just tiresome.
TBF you might not know about the other vegans who don't do that. Sampling methodology failure.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
Not logical in the least. A lot of vegans avoid the supermarket ultraprocessed foods anyway. So you can't go on that basis.
You are just a very sad dull dogmatic Scot who tries to make themselves feel better about the fact you haven't got Independence by trying to score minor points of fantastic pedantry with a selection of Sassenachs you think represent those who are holding you back, and fail to recognise your greatness.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
I have black, muslim, Irish, Albanian and even Scottish neighbours. No problem with any of them. But I also have a vegan neighbour. 😱
I suspect this is because no one has an interest in converting you to being black, muslim, Irish or Albanian (and I presume you are already Scottish) whist the messanic zeal of some vegans would put 19th century Christian missionaries or 7th Day Adventists to shame.
I wouldn't dream of criticising a vegan for what they eat and yet those I have met seem incapable of getting through a meal without making some comment on either the health or morality aspects of what is on my plate. More than anything it is just tiresome.
TBF you might not know about the other vegans who don't do that. Sampling methodology failure.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
Not sure that I believe so many Poles are vegetarian. It seemed very pork heavy when I was there, albeit a decade ago.
Wild boar would count as vegan. Or so one learns on PB.
OK, fuck off with the meat is vegan comments now please.
I said (once) I was in a pub that was serving entirely vegan food except the one dish they did offer that was meat-based was venison. I said that was because it was considered tolerable due to its sustainability credentials (because it's not farmed, its wild, doesn't take up land and there's a huge oversupply of them) so that's the only meat vegans will tolerate. And I said so.
Somehow that got twisted into a venison = vegan meme and a group of five-years olds on here have laughed on here incessantly about it for almost 18 months like they're just learned the word "poo".
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
Never mind desperately in love, just sounds desperate.
Sad to see you back, I was hoping you'd "found some better place"
You do know I came back for JUST this reaction, don’t you?
You weren't gone that long. Just the equivalent of a long weekend. An impressive and theatrical flounce, nonetheless.
Yes it wasn’t an epic of a flounce. About a week?
I’ll tell you what tho. I got a noticeably larger amount of work done. So I may be a little more absent in future. Except when I’m travelling and want to post photos of drinks obvs
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
Not logical in the least. A lot of vegans avoid the supermarket ultraprocessed foods anyway. So you can't go on that basis.
Gregg's vegan sausage rolls are lush. No idea how they manage that same perfect combination of hot fat, salt and pastry without meat but it works.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
I have black, muslim, Irish, Albanian and even Scottish neighbours. No problem with any of them. But I also have a vegan neighbour. 😱
I suspect this is because no one has an interest in converting you to being black, muslim, Irish or Albanian (and I presume you are already Scottish) whist the messanic zeal of some vegans would put 19th century Christian missionaries or 7th Day Adventists to shame.
I wouldn't dream of criticising a vegan for what they eat and yet those I have met seem incapable of getting through a meal without making some comment on either the health or morality aspects of what is on my plate. More than anything it is just tiresome.
TBF you might not know about the other vegans who don't do that. Sampling methodology failure.
Hence the reason I said 'some'.
I've never had a vegan try to convert me to veganism - but perhaps they knew me too well.
There are some, however, who seem to belong to the vegan police: they seem to believe that the suffering they have to go to in order to be vegan in some way gives them superpowers. In one case I know, they are upset that more vegan food is in supermarkets, as it is hurting their usual suppliers on the other side of town (i.e. they don't have to suffer to get their ingredients).
But they are few and far between, and seem mostly to be in the vegans who have been vegan for a long time, and seem o share Casino's dismay that it's becoming popular. There are nutters in all groups.
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
Never mind desperately in love, just sounds desperate.
Sad to see you back, I was hoping you'd "found some better place"
You do know I came back for JUST this reaction, don’t you?
You weren't gone that long. Just the equivalent of a long weekend. An impressive and theatrical flounce, nonetheless.
Yes it wasn’t an epic of a flounce. About a week?
I’ll tell you what tho. I got a noticeably larger amount of work done. So I may be a little more absent in future. Except when I’m travelling and want to post photos of drinks obvs
I need to flounce, midweek. Instead I waste good earning time whining about SHIT spelling on here and arguing with @Mexicanpete, which is like trying to put lipstick on a pig.
1. Make a new friend 2. Visit a new country 3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
This is genuinely good advice by the way. I think I’ve managed it every year since my late 30s. Apart from the years when desperately in love, and even then there’s an argument you should do (3) just to “keep your hand in”
Never mind desperately in love, just sounds desperate.
Sad to see you back, I was hoping you'd "found some better place"
You do know I came back for JUST this reaction, don’t you?
You weren't gone that long. Just the equivalent of a long weekend. An impressive and theatrical flounce, nonetheless.
Yes it wasn’t an epic of a flounce. About a week?
I’ll tell you what tho. I got a noticeably larger amount of work done. So I may be a little more absent in future. Except when I’m travelling and want to post photos of drinks obvs
I need to flounce, midweek. Instead I waste good earning time whining about SHIT spelling on here and arguing with @Mexicanpete, which is like trying to put lipstick on a pig.
You're not really a proper pb'er until you've had at least one good flounce.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
The ghosts of those who died in R101, R38 and the Hindenburg are waving at you...
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Lots of Vegan places when I was in Hamburg last year, and good quality too. As was the Vietnamese food too.
Just searching for vegan restaurants on google maps by distance from where I am sitting in Germany there is:
Vegan Vietnamese is very good indeed. Their cuisine is traditionally non-dairy as not a place that had dairy industry until modern times. Many Bhuddists are Vegan, so like Hindu and Jain cuisine their Vegan recipes are very good indeed, and nothing like the ultra-processed meat substitute in supermarkets.
This is quite something. Guy's first reaction to the Sydney killings is to feed it into his.... anti-bike-lane narrative
"The police and ambulance staging outside Westfield Bondi Junction would have been severely impacted by bike lanes which had been proposed for the area. The Eastern Suburbs is a heavily congested area which impacts ambo arrival and transport. This will be a first responder case study for years."
Hypothetical bike lanes are evil and the lady policeman lost her hat.
What gets me about the whole Ukraine situation is that there's no provision for vegans
Like, OK, 300,000 are dead and Russia has laid waste to most of east Ukraine and it will possibly turn into World War Three but surely there could be at least one pop-up falafel stall? Is that so hard? Or a tofu buffet in a tent?
Outside of London, Brighton and its colonies Veganism is non-existent in most parts of Europe.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
Vegan food can be found in every supermarket in Britain and Ireland, possibly Europe.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
The fact that almost all supermarkets might have a (tiny) section of plant-based crap around the nation doesn't disprove the point.
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
"plant-based crap" How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
I'm in Bulgaria right now, you dipstick. Doesn't exist.
"Blue hydrogen" is even more unjustifiable economically. It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much. Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
A lot of industry wants to fuel switch from natural gas to low carbon hydrogen in order to decarbonise their operations.
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
I suggest the smart call at present is perhaps air to air heat pumps, of which there are various options available. Perhaps with photovoltaic solar water heating.
Obviously like all types of everything for heating the philosophy is fabric first.
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I don't think any of them wanted to be there at five on a Saturday morning...
It's effectively government subsiding the mass production of a product for which there isn't a demand beyond the existing market, in the hope of creating one.
And the cost of production, while for now substantially cheaper than 'green hydrogen' (produced by electrolysis of water, is both subject to commodity prices, and technologically unlikely to fall much.
Whereas ghee's a great deal of headrooom to improve the efficiency and capital cost of bulk electrolysis.
Call yourselves geeks, you should be ashamed.
In 2022 Stonewall told the world that 'research' suggests two year olds can be trans. It advocated for nurseries - NURSERIES - to start teaching kids that there are more genders than boy and girl. 2/3
Politicians have snuggled up to Stonewall and Mermaids, given them privileged places at the table and adopted their talking points, to the detriment of very vulnerable children, young people and women. When are we going to see this fully investigated? When will this end? 3/X
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1779090482393493508?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Just above, Forest will be the best side since Leicester last year to get relegated 😞
[Liz Truss] said that the [10 Downing Street] flat was infested in fleas. “Some claimed that this was down to Boris and Carrie’s dog Dilyn, but there was no conclusive evidence,” she said. “In any case, the entire place had to be sprayed with flea killer. I spent several weeks itching.”
She said the Downing Street flat was “really noisy” with the “constant backdrop” of changing and protests.
The “saving grace” of living there, she said, was Larry the cat. “He’s a lovely character and seems to take a liking and disliking to all the right people.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-truss-i-felt-like-a-prisoner-in-flea-infested-downing-street-flat-pb8b7ljhs
I know there's the lifetime allowance and so on.
In fact, it would be considered deeply weird.
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1. Make a new friend
2. Visit a new country
3. Fuck a new woman
The latter is optional but ONLY if you are desperately in love
You can take the troll out of London.
But you can’t take London out of the troll.
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Halfwit
I think you'll find the latest date is Tuesday 28th January 2025, and why not go out with a bang and into the history books by having a non-Thursday GE?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/veganism-by-country
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1280066/global-country-ranking-vegan-share/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism#Prevalence_by_country
That's hardly 'non-existent'.
It's possible that this is because a few Vegan activists have captured the decision-making of Europe's supermarkets, and at some point they will stop throwing money (and unsold vegan food) away, but I think it shows that there is a niche there, and there are actually a few vegans, sprinkled around the place.
Are you sure your neighbour isn't a vegan?
How the mighty Bournemouth are only 1 goal ahead is a mystery wrapped in a conundrum.
This is embarrassing. Daylight robbery.
But in any case there are plenty of vegan cucumbers, and potatoes, and bananas, and so on, and so forth.
Obvious that Boris Johnson's (alleged) hairdo makes a VERY inviting environment for fleas, ticks, small lizards, etc., etc.
Well, they do tend to rather go on about it.
Typical cat, diverting the blame.
Sad to see you back, I was hoping you'd "found some better place"
And it's not a claim. It's fact.
Sadly, it seems that the bird flu and rising costs killed the farm company that made the game pies for my local butcher. Proper big things - a foot in a diameter. Fed many a party with those. Gone now. Sob.
The replacements they got in aren’t a quarter as good.
I said (once) I was in a pub that was serving entirely vegan food except the one dish they did offer that was meat-based was venison. I said that was because it was considered tolerable due to its sustainability credentials (because it's not farmed, its wild, doesn't take up land and there's a huge oversupply of them) so that's the only meat vegans will tolerate. And I said so.
Somehow that got twisted into a venison = vegan meme and a group of five-years olds on here have laughed on here incessantly about it for almost 18 months like they're just learned the word "poo".
It stopped being funny over a year ago.
https://www.happycow.net/europe/finland/oulu/
https://www.happycow.net/europe/france/avignon/
https://www.happycow.net/europe/albania/shkoder/
https://www.happycow.net/europe/portugal/porto_santo/
Veganism is a tiny percentage (2-3% of the population, at best) and that cultural and social phenomenon is heavily concentrated in London and Brighton and a few other Met colonies, which manage to spin off and sustain a few restaurants and so forth.
Elsewhere it's negligible but of course supermarkets cater to all tastes, just as they sell all sorts of niche ingredients and foods to others who exist in even fewer numbers.
I wouldn't dream of criticising a vegan for what they eat and yet those I have met seem incapable of getting through a meal without making some comment on either the health or morality aspects of what is on my plate. More than anything it is just tiresome.
How do you know it's 'crap' if you don't eat it?
"Elsewhere it's negligible"
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha ha
110 metres: Vegan pizza restaurant
230 metres: Vegan kebab imbiss
260 metres: Vegan Vietnamese restaurant
550 metres: Vegan cafe
700 metres: Vegan 'Asian fusion' restaurant
900 metres: Vegan pizza restaurant
1.1 km: Vegan Turkish restaurant
1.2 km: Vegan Vietnamese restaurant
1.2 km Vegan burger restaurant
It's all rather sad, really. Like this post.
Even by virtue of that wanker map you linked to.
I’ll tell you what tho. I got a noticeably larger amount of work done. So I may be a little more absent in future. Except when I’m travelling and want to post photos of drinks obvs
Quite remarkable, even in the UK solar panels are down to under 20p/watt.
https://archive.ph/wCxWq
Caveat for PBers are that these are the panels, so that you need someone who knows how to put together a system. But worth buying for a future project if eg you are using them as an off grid setup.
I wouldn't be investing in a Western panel maker at this stage, as either a bloodbath or major subsidies are probably on the way. It feels a little like the previous occasion when the German solar panel industry evaporated.
Thread here:
https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/topic/38105-cheaper-to-make-a-fence-from-pv/
It’s utterly bizarre.
There are some, however, who seem to belong to the vegan police: they seem to believe that the suffering they have to go to in order to be vegan in some way gives them superpowers. In one case I know, they are upset that more vegan food is in supermarkets, as it is hurting their usual suppliers on the other side of town (i.e. they don't have to suffer to get their ingredients).
Scott Pilgrim played on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLpCZ8g5uK8
But they are few and far between, and seem mostly to be in the vegans who have been vegan for a long time, and seem o share Casino's dismay that it's becoming popular. There are nutters in all groups.
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Why is it even necessary to waste precious bytes of the Internet reposting that?
Then we have the whole question of domestic heating. Hydrogen boilers or god-awful heat pumps and an entirely new central heating system. I know which I prefer.
But not the Shenandoah. That had helium.
It must feel like having been duped on an episode of You've Been Framed.
https://charlieontravel.com/vegan-travel-challenge-week-2-bulgaria/
Obviously like all types of everything for heating the philosophy is fabric first.