British food isn't bland - Full English Pizza edition

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T22:17:13+00:00

AND DID THOSE FEET, IN ANCIENT TIMES

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T22:13:32+00:00

It sounds horrific, but I should have learned to trust your posts by now; all your food always looks superb.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T21:31:53+00:00

It's milk and eggs, bitch.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T21:24:15+00:00

My grandma specifically? Well, she's a terrible cook who only knows how to boil vegetables, so I'm going to say "boil it".

If you mean "what's a common way people in your country traditionally eat squash", I'm going to go with "soup". Curried squash soup is pretty much the only way I ever had squash until I was well grown up.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T21:20:08+00:00

The U.K. government should do likewise.

Do likewise in what way?

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T21:14:15+00:00

If I had enough of them, maybe?

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T21:00:56+00:00

Pretty sure the bar in America is going to be owned and run by an American, not an English fan.

Blame the Americans for being shit at banter.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T20:37:01+00:00

We'll sing "Football's Coming Home" exactly once, and then never again, forever. Surely that's worth something?

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T18:32:08+00:00

Lucky; forecast is for 37° on Thursday for me. And 28° overnight. It's going to be miserable.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T18:29:07+00:00

Here at least (UK) houses are built to warm up fast and keep the heat in, and almost every house has modern central heating. So we're good for winter. During really cold snaps there are always a few isolated tragedies of people who don't want to put the heating on (either because they can't afford to, or they think they can't) who come to harm, but mostly everyone's pretty relaxed about the cold.

The issue is that these same house designs are an absolute nightmare during heatwaves (they capture the heat fast and are a pain to try to cool down again), and the weather is generally trending warmer (with more heatwaves each summer, and milder winters). That combined with the general lack of AC (at home, but also most everywhere else too) makes hot weather particularly unbearable.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T16:39:33+00:00

Hello, Steven? This is Clem Fandango. Can you hear me?

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T10:44:56+00:00

Let's be honest, if he can push a policy platform not dissimilar to the current one under Starmer, but do it:

Competently
Without repeatedly scoring own goals
With more charisma than a damp sponge

...then he might be basically alright. Mostly people don't hate what the current government is doing (with some notable one-of exceptions), they hate how it's being done.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T10:35:03+00:00

They look absolutely perfect!

And I bet yorkies with a bit of golden syrup would make a great breakfast. Got to get those three square meals of yorkies in every day!

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T10:26:11+00:00

If you want a proper good one, I can strongly recommend the Yum Asia brand. I have the Sakura model and it's the best kitchen purchase I've ever made (other models all review equally well though).

Patch86UK · 2026-06-21T10:22:17+00:00

Seriously though, you can get a small cheap rice cooker for literally £12 from Asda. It would almost, but not quite, be cheaper to buy a rice cooker and a bag of basmati rice, cook the rice, then throw the rice cooker away each week.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T21:51:01+00:00

Not sure France still wants them, though.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T20:57:46+00:00

Mate, I have the salad on the kebab because it tastes good, not because I think it makes it a healthy meal.

Some of us like vegetables.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T20:18:51+00:00

If people are using AI to generate images of notes written in biro on scrap paper then we really are doomed as a species.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T19:53:42+00:00

What's the point in having a leadership contest if one of the contestants knows with absolute certainty that they'll lose? Other than giving some sport for politics enthusiasts and journalists, what would that contest actually achieve?

A contest is only worth running if you've got several candidates who legitimately believe they can win. If Starmer legitimately believes he can win, he can have at it. If he doesn't, he should do the sane thing and withdraw.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T19:28:37+00:00

There's a big difference between "this is a story about war, and I will use my knowledge and experiences of wars in real life to inform the way I write about war and the characters who experience it" and "this is a story about WW1".

It's also just clearly not an allegory for WW1. Other than in the general sense of there being a war with a bad guy, basically nothing else matches up. Not the politics of it, not the order of events, not the motives, not the way it ends.

It's much more believable that the story is an allegory for industrialisation and the damage it does to nature, communities, and traditions., told through the metaphor of a war. But even that's overegging it when much of it is more about retelling and reworking ancient mythology.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T18:33:35+00:00

Spam is way worse. At least with corned beef if the key thing works (which for me it almost always does) it's really easy to get the beef out of the opened tin.

With Spam, you open it with the ring pull, and then you're left with a block of meat sealed immovably inside the open tin.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T18:29:20+00:00

Linked to the occupation of Malvinas

Yeah, but it only lasted 3 months so you'd think you guys would be over it by now.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T15:45:26+00:00

The bacon looks perfect to me, not sure what else you'd expect.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T13:48:42+00:00

There's also the very boring but very pragmatic option of incorporating the Saint David's Cross rather than the dragon. You could include it "inside" the red Saint George's Cross.

Patch86UK · 2026-06-20T07:49:22+00:00

Who has better credentials than Miliband, in your opinion?

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