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  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 4,347
    edited December 25

    ydoethur said:

    Liz Truss is right:

    https://x.com/lbc/status/2004182844470710713

    'I don't believe it should go with turkey... I think that's wrong.'

    @NickFerrariLBC is shocked by @trussliz 's controversial take on what belongs on a Christmas dinner.

    Link doesn't work.
    It works for me. Anyway her take is that Yorkshire pudding should only go with roast beef, not turkey.
    (Garth Marenghi voice) WELL SHE'S WRONG
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 54,515
    Cicero said:

    ydoethur said:

    Sandpit said:

    Ukranian Christmas present to Russia. Orenburg gas plant is on fire.

    https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2004172940745785687

    That's an unorthodox Christmas present.
    In terms of destroying Russian infrastructure, Ukrainians have increasingly Catholic tastes.

    (However, Orthodox Christmas isn't for another fortnight.)
    The Ukrainian Orthodox moved to Western Christmas just after the war broke out.
    One of my colleagues is Ukranian, from Donetsk no less. She celebrates Christmas Eve, but the main celebration is at 12th night. She leaves her Christmas decorations up until after har birthday at the end of January.

  • MattWMattW Posts: 31,394

    ydoethur said:

    Liz Truss is right:

    https://x.com/lbc/status/2004182844470710713

    'I don't believe it should go with turkey... I think that's wrong.'

    @NickFerrariLBC is shocked by @trussliz 's controversial take on what belongs on a Christmas dinner.

    Link doesn't work.
    It works for me. Anyway her take is that Yorkshire pudding should only go with roast beef, not turkey.
    (Garth Marenghi voice) WELL SHE'S WRONG
    Ask Toby Carvery.

    The main specification is that the Yorkshire should take up the maximum space to minimise sale of things that are not air.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 12,258
    ydoethur said:

    Cicero said:

    Sandpit said:

    Ukranian Christmas present to Russia. Orenburg gas plant is on fire.

    https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2004172940745785687

    Has Ukraine won yet as you were predicting as early as 2023?
    1.1 million casualties can hardly be described as a Russian triumph. The fighting may continue, but Ukraine will survive and that counts as a temporary victory. Eventually Moscovite brutality will pay the just price. Patience is a virtue.
    And Grace is a little girl who wouldn’t wash her face
    Putin’s negotiation tactics are more reminiscent of Violet Elizabeth.
    More like Violet Beauregarde
  • MattWMattW Posts: 31,394
    For our legal eagles, I'd welcome a piece looking at legal avenues for recovering spondulicks from the likes of Michel Mone, and why she in particular is still in the Lords. *

    Given that action is still continuing, it is possibilities and potentials, but I'm interested - also in the various deceptions engaged in over the years.

    * After we've done the current round of HoL reforms, I'm quite inclined now to rolling overlapping longer terms, perhaps with a greater element of approval by citizen juries rather than insider committees, or perhaps regional elections a la Oz.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 84,715
    Bother.
    I got three bottles of malt for Xmas, so felt duty bound to drink half of one tonight.

    That was probably a mistake on top of everything else.

    Fortunately I've now watched sufficient Kdrama to have an approximate idea of how to make hangover soup for breakfast.

    Wish me well.
  • Penddu2 said:

    Pro tip for you all.


    With AI it is much easier to remove people on the inside as well...
    Which AI would you recommend for photos. I would especially like to take 3 or 4 photos and put them together ti get a photo where everyone is smiling and looking the right way. I find ChatGPT great for medical diagnosis but it flatly refuses to doctor photos.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 8,086
    Nigelb said:

    Bother.
    I got three bottles of malt for Xmas, so felt duty bound to drink half of one tonight.

    That was probably a mistake on top of everything else.

    Fortunately I've now watched sufficient Kdrama to have an approximate idea of how to make hangover soup for breakfast.

    Wish me well.

    Half a bottle is 15 units (or more if cask strength). See you tomorrow!
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 8,086
    edited December 25
    Today's drinking:

    A few Tio Pepes.
    Some 2007 claret (indifferent, but I like the taste of old wine even when it's mediocre).
    Some lesser red wines.
    Some ordinary port.
    A few beers, slowly.

    All perfectly balanced.

    Boxing day involves driving and, therefore, sobriety.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 8,086
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj69j8l918do

    "US launches 'powerful strikes' against Islamic State in Nigeria, says Trump"
  • MattWMattW Posts: 31,394

    Penddu2 said:

    Pro tip for you all.


    With AI it is much easier to remove people on the inside as well...
    Which AI would you recommend for photos. I would especially like to take 3 or 4 photos and put them together ti get a photo where everyone is smiling and looking the right way. I find ChatGPT great for medical diagnosis but it flatly refuses to doctor photos.
    I think Google Pixel phones have features that help with that kind of thing.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 31,394
    carnforth said:

    Nigelb said:

    Bother.
    I got three bottles of malt for Xmas, so felt duty bound to drink half of one tonight.

    That was probably a mistake on top of everything else.

    Fortunately I've now watched sufficient Kdrama to have an approximate idea of how to make hangover soup for breakfast.

    Wish me well.

    Half a bottle is 15 units (or more if cask strength). See you tomorrow!
    Or not, as the case may be.
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