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  1. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~food

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    It's just a joke made by guys at age 20. Yes, I've been to England, and eaten British food, and it was fine.

    It's just a joke made by guys at age 20. Yes, I've been to England, and eaten British food, and it was fine.

  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~food

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    I'd be interested in hearing your experience. Of course, even then it might not be palatable for you. Different strokes, as they say. Cheers!

    I'd be interested in hearing your experience. Of course, even then it might not be palatable for you. Different strokes, as they say. Cheers!

    2 votes

  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~food

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    As someone who raised chickens several times when I was doing the hippie back to the land thing, and had eggs from whatevertheycouldfind-fed chickens, I approve this comment.

    As someone who raised chickens several times when I was doing the hippie back to the land thing, and had eggs from whatevertheycouldfind-fed chickens, I approve this comment.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~food

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    It should also never contain wheat flour. Whornbread is disgusting.

    It should also never contain wheat flour. Whornbread is disgusting.

  5. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~food

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    Many, many years ago a friend and I came up with what we considered the most quintessentially English dish imaginable: boiled fat, two inches thick. We laughed our asses off. Disclaimer: my mother...

    Many, many years ago a friend and I came up with what we considered the most quintessentially English dish imaginable: boiled fat, two inches thick. We laughed our asses off.
    Disclaimer: my mother is an English lass who married an American serviceman in 1954, so I'm a bit laughing at myself.

  6. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~food

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    Completely respect your position. Mine is that what people commonly consider tomatoes, are those pink, translucent things they sell at grocery stores, that are varieties bred to maximize physical...

    Completely respect your position.

    Mine is that what people commonly consider tomatoes, are those pink, translucent things they sell at grocery stores, that are varieties bred to maximize physical durability and transportability, with flavor considered not at all. Slightly better are the redder, hydroponically grown ones, but they're still lacking.

    In an entirely different realm are tomatoes from one's own garden, preferably old varieties bred for flavorfulness, that wouldn't stand the industry transport system. That tomato, warm from the sun, picked and taken inside, sliced and given a light sprinkle of freshly ground black pepper, (but no salt, never any salt), and eaten immediately, is one of the best taste experiences possible. Heavenly.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Reddit is testing a paid monthly membership on a per subreddit basis for core features. in ~tech

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    Interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but it explains a lot. Thanks.

    Interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but it explains a lot. Thanks.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Thoughts about novelty accounts on Tildes in ~tildes

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    Novelty accounts are fun on Reddit- which is already a cesspool in many ways- but they don't have a place here.

    Novelty accounts are fun on Reddit- which is already a cesspool in many ways- but they don't have a place here.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes

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    To my way of thinking, Tildes should remain invite-only, or in some other wise not available limitlessly, as Reddit is, for the precise set of reasons that have caused Reddit to become a swamp,...

    To my way of thinking, Tildes should remain invite-only, or in some other wise not available limitlessly, as Reddit is, for the precise set of reasons that have caused Reddit to become a swamp, necessitating the existence of Tildes in the first place. My preference is to keep this site to fewer, but higher grade participants, and I don't see any danger of it becoming boring or irrelevant as it slowly grows into a community and a culture. Flood it with the Great Unwashed, and it'll become an unwieldy eternal-September morass, shot through with bad actors, in short order.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Voat, the ‘censorship-free’ Reddit, begs users to stop making death threats in ~tech

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    I had an account there from four years ago, that I'd forgotten about and never used. Just deleted it.

    I had an account there from four years ago, that I'd forgotten about and never used. Just deleted it.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on What are your hobbies? And how do you get into them? in ~hobbies

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    Not sure we have a way here yet to post pictures, but I'd be glad to share some :)

    Not sure we have a way here yet to post pictures, but I'd be glad to share some :)

    2 votes

  12. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    You've just said, with more words and sourcing, what I was going to say: that people want their privacy respected without their having to do anything about it. They just want that no one even...

    You've just said, with more words and sourcing, what I was going to say: that people want their privacy respected without their having to do anything about it. They just want that no one even tries to pry into it. Which is... unrealistic.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on How Banksy authenticates his work in ~arts

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    I'm thinking that if looked at under a microscope, which I would expect Pest Control has, it would be virtually impossible to duplicate a tear, fiber by fiber, especially since the pattern of...

    I'm thinking that if looked at under a microscope, which I would expect Pest Control has, it would be virtually impossible to duplicate a tear, fiber by fiber, especially since the pattern of fibers extending back away from the tear would also have to match up, but maybe someone dedicated enough will figure it out. Maybe some wag will decide that their conceptual art is fucking up Banksy's system.

    It does seem a bit weird and humorously dissonant that, considering Banksy's insistence on his own anonymity, his works in private hands are tracked in a master database of chain-of-provenance: the exact opposite of anonymity. Any work which loses or has altered its certificate, or maybe gets inherited or otherwise transferred without notification to Pest Control, someone in the chain dies, might result in a genuine piece losing its 'authenticity', and so, its validity and value. Maybe this is simply a necessary evil, but maybe the irony also amuses Banksy.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What are your hobbies? And how do you get into them? in ~hobbies

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    Most of my hobbies are collecting things, starting with rocks when I was at the beach in southern Oregon when I was five. So I guess I've always had 'the sickness', as we wryly call it... At...

    Most of my hobbies are collecting things, starting with rocks when I was at the beach in southern Oregon when I was five. So I guess I've always had 'the sickness', as we wryly call it...

    At fifteen I was walking to the pool we belonged to, in the next subdivision over, and saw a glint of glass inamongst the leaf litter in the little tag end of unbuilt land between the two developments, and being curious, went over to investigate. It turned out to be a patch of rusty cans and old bottles thrown out from some former homestead many years ago, with a few things unbroken, including a blue-green Ball Perfect Mason jar and a cream-top quart Chestnut Farms Chevy Chase Dairy milk bottle. At that instant, my fate was sealed, and to this day, 44 years later, I'm still a collector of antique bottles, though my area of collecting has migrated back considerably further along the timeline, centering most on pieces blown from about 1815 to 1875, with a few earlier and a few later. My collection isn't very big, only about a hundred items, but is quite carefully picked.

    One of the more interesting qualities of being a serious collector is that, in addition to getting to own (read: caretake, for the brief span of my life) these beautiful and historic objects, learning about them casts an immensely wide net of interest into obscure sidelines of knowledge, building a picture of the mercantile and manufacturing realm that created them, as well as the social fabric in which they were embedded. The day-to-day realities of ordinary people aren't much touched on in the history books, which more focus on pivotal events like battles, treaties, major inventions and such, but those common, unremarkable realities comprise the vast majority of our collective history, and it's endlessly fascinating to find out about them. It paints a picture of life in our ancestor’s time, of the small daily rituals and needs and worries, the sadnesses and travails of a harder time, the simpler joys they sought.

    One obscure example of a difference between the then and the now is that, in those pre-electrified times, the vast majority of bottles containing anything poisonous were covered with embossed textures like ribbing or cross-hatching, or were shaped like coffins or skulls, so as to be readily identified by touch, after dark, avoiding accidental poisonings. We just flick on the light and read the label...

    And I still collect rocks, especially agates, as well as tools, stamps and books :)

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Why White people don't use White emoji: Does shame explain the disparity in the lesser use of light-skin-tone symbols in the US? in ~humanities

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    White guy here. I can't imagine a context where it would even occur to me to claim a race, and certainly not via an emoji. In America at least, I would think that was because white is the de-facto...

    White guy here. I can't imagine a context where it would even occur to me to claim a race, and certainly not via an emoji. In America at least, I would think that was because white is the de-facto default setting, and anything else is like 'Select: (other)'.

    1 vote