They’re referring to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name_(brand)

Reminds me of the album covers by a band called Flook :)

Always glad to see a fellow beef head out in the wild. Beef out!

History podcasts I like:

Revolutions. Well known; Mike Duncan goes through various revolutions through history in an excellent, detailed narrative.

American History Too!: two academics from the university of Glasgow have various guests on to discuss different topics from American history. They know their stuff and are really charismatic.

In Our Time: BBC podcast that’s been going since the early 2000s. A panel of academics are interviewed and discuss a topic on which they are all experts. Incredibly well researched and interesting, though not especially humorous.

That’s fair enough. I guess I see it as if I’m happy enough to eat off rinsed plates from the dishwasher, I’m happy enough to eat a rinsed fungus.

Jammy. Real pain to clean, though I’ve heard you can do it in a dishwasher on cold without the soap

Lichess :P

Grasshopper -> copper (police, for the Americans reading the thread) :)

I’ve never heard loaf used to mean head. Grass, porkies and raspberry I’d say are the ones that have gone into common usage, to the point where I didn’t even know they were rhyming slang

Isn’t this referring to rail lines? I’ve never heard roads referred to as lines.

What’s interesting is that this precise scenario happened in the 1910s in the UK (given that at the time the house of lords was the highest court in the country as well as the upper legislative chamber). Lloyd George called an election on the subject, and negotiated with the king that if the lords didn’t vote for a reduction in their powers, he would create a massive influx of Liberal peers.

Interesting episode in history.

Someone read the prince :P

No worries; I saw it once and it stuck with me. For an ms paint drawing it’s pretty powerful. I do have one small issue with it, which is that it doesn’t explicitly state that it is not a bad thing to have that trait. Calling someone disabled as an insult implies that being disabled is bad, which I fundamentally disagree with. It’s not because I ‘don’t want to upset anyone’ – it’s because I completely disagree with the implication, and I think the implication is directly damaging to us as a society.

I’d much rather insult someone because they’re a neo-fascist who deserves to find Lego on their bathroom floor with their foot at 1am when they only went for a piss and now the pain and adrenaline has jolted them awake and they won’t sleep until at least 4am… for the rest of their life.

Or just maybe people don’t like going on their social media to be blasted by slurs and porn. Sometimes we just want the funky little guys to post funky little things y’ know

And they were lesbiabs!

“I am N’zari, destroyer of worlds!”

The small voice squeaks from the centre of the pentagram, the sentence punctuated by a tentacle slapping weakly on the concrete floor.

You smile to yourself, tuck the sterilised petri dish into your labcoat pocket, switch off the ring of LED ‘candles’, and dispose of the test subject.

“I am Il’goneth-”

The speech is cut short by the dull thud of a cleaver. In short order the tentacles are removed, cut into lengths, and dropped onto the conveyor belt. The rest is scraped down the disposal chute. The petri dish is placed on the trolley for reuse, and the next dish slides automatically into place. The ring of lights blinks, the sulphur flares, and the ritual begins anew.