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I mean I should acknowledge we do have the Butlers Arms, Romantica, and a couple of decent balti houses, but you take my point I hope!
I just noticed that okra dish on the menu, it was hidden by the UI of my app. Those “madras onions” sound like there may be something a bit more fiery for me 😍
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I love that Wylde Green and Boldmere are both so good for decent local neighborhood restaurants. A trick we missed up in Mere Green/Four Oaks because Mulberry Walk can only understand making leases for very mid, very failing, fast casual chains 😢
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Just looking on Google maps, I think that’s the space where Lime used to be. Same people?
(Veggie mains on that menu look a bit sad, unfortunately. I don’t know why so many places combine the really mild sauces with the veggie options. The rest looks good!)
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I keep waiting for Adam to find his way to using “see you later innovator” as the episode sign off, but I guess whatever people say the sign off is, that’s what it’s not.
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I think it’s worth us saying it twice 🤝🤣
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And the work is usually trapped behind very high subscription and cover prices so the public whose taxes paid a lot in can’t easily read it without institutional access and those same academics budgets get eaten by the system that’s already stolen their labour. It’s a breathtaking con
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Honestly mate, a daily post of a handful of banging pictures with a caption about what sick train you got? You’re the best travel blogger ever
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Been showing my other half all these pics… she digs it too. some pals did a similar trip last year and we keep saying we will do one. Probs next summer at this point 🤞
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It’s looked amazing. Loved all the pics
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I have a very specific Guernsey one from when I was at school.
The Krankees heckled me from their car while I was doing a 10km run around town during a games lesson.
“Da ye wanna lift pal?”
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I’m excited to try it!
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Sounds like a decent way to keep small talkers at bay 😱
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Phones are the one thing that doesn’t last for us, but old iPads have such great hardware longevity 👌
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I love how long lived Apple kit can be if you don’t mind once you finally get cut off from updates. Even so far as I turned my old old old old 2012 MBP into a Linux laptop www.theplan.co.uk/linuxing-my-...
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Yeah and you?
Didn’t end up going on our big walk, as we didn’t trust the weather. Headed for the centre and did lots of “if wet” mooching nearer to the train home instead. Was still a decent time
Turns out the weather was mostly fine, tho, in the end
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I was genuinely surprised (pleasantly) that it was only £8 a pint at the West Ham ground for Sam Fender. For a stadium, and in London, felt like a bargain!
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I reckon you’ll be able to fill the bingo card on this one 😅
Have fun
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The pop ups are great once you’re in sync with them as they come back through for each cycle. The trouble only comes when you fall back out of sync again which I always do 😅
I do have 3-4 pop up options though so I can get back on track
(Yours weirdly defensive of the mobile unit’s honour 🤣🤣)
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I am not actually clear if she’s seen the movie, but I do this anyway, always
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Pleased to be of service! Pass it on
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He didn’t do any Bruce but he did play London Calling to acknowledge he was in Clash country. He’s a good boy.
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Love it!
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“Why do you hate England?!”
<angrily waves a very cheap pork sausage>
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“Tennish”
(They’re playing sport with Sean Connery just after)
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Sounds really awesome. I wish I’d had the chance to see them. Biggest regret honestly was not pushing myself (16, would have involved a lot of solo travel, planes and trains, for first time) out of my comfort zone to see them on the Monster tour
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That’s rough! Hope you hadn’t paid for the game and found something that you liked better 👍
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Ah that’s fine mate. Honestly it’s cool, when it’s not for you it’s not for you. Just wanted to mention it was an option to not have it in case that really was the only thing that bummed you out 👍
I dunno wtf a real gamer is but I doubt I’m one. Just a simple guy who likes to unwind with a game 🫡
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That gig sounds amazing but idk about calling REM a legacy act because they got out before they had to do the “playing out of time in its entirety for the big anniversary” thing?!
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Now imagine if “woke cancels “this green and pleasant land”. Farming meat won’t be allowed to fail if we keep shifting right. All of the political energy will be shaped toward making you eat a beef burger
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Think about how the entire fishing industry makes less money for the UK economy than playing Warhammer does but fishing is seen as important and it can shape so much of the (brexit etc) policy that actually effects all of us
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Last thing I can get over coherently today before I fall asleep: your current framing assumes a market that acts rationally with maths. There is weird emotion and politics here. This is where my media studies starts showing 😉
Eating meat and making meat are political things and identity things
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I would think the tipping point where the market shifts is when you start to shift a lot of people who use a lot of lower welfare, cheaper, meat.
Even then the economics are probably quite odd. At what point does it become more profitable to grow cereals to feed you than it is to feed chickens?
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Most of your 5% new converts would likely be “meat reducers” anyway, so my hypothesis is that the easiest vegetarians to win are people who eat meat less often, and at the higher welfare end anyway (possibly I am reflecting my own experience too much here)
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Freeze a bit here, discount a bit there, package things in creative ways, push a bit more consumption onto someone else, they’ve got this
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My first thought: 10% of us wouldn’t move the needle at all. I think there’s about 5% people in the UK who are veg/an.
An extra 5% of people stop eating meat? Even if they’re the the most meaty eatian Brits the market can tolerate that.
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lol as if “I have no qualifications” has ever stopped a guy on the internet from hallucinating facts more stridently than Sam Altman’s baby
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As one of your non meat eating friends I feel some responsibility to answer this but I have no qualifications at all for any part of this.
I’m a media studies guy, ffs. Can’t I just tell you why framing that object that way in a movie is really horny?
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I turned off PvP more through fear that I might have a perfect day ruined by some absolutely elite Julia than through any evidence that it would happen, also the point of the game is to pick up and go again, so that’s a bit lame of me
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The invasion mechanic, in the sense of the player v player, can be turned off. You’ll mostly win a PvP as Cole anyway but sometimes you’ll get someone good. You can make the computer do the invasions and then it’s just a mini boss battle and she’s easy enough to take.