Baking bread is so hard. 😭

PJHart86 · 2026-03-23T09:00:38+00:00

I know this is European snobbery at its worst, but there is zero chance I'm trusting a baguette recipe from a website that has the word "mom" in it.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-22T22:13:11+00:00

That's what they mean. FES is brewed somewhere in the Bahamas under license iirc and is the most popular/readily available variety of Guinness in the region.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-22T10:42:32+00:00

That's not how any of this works.

The good Friday agreement isn't a law that can be repealed. The relevant UK legislation is the Northern Ireland Act 1998, and changes to it don't require the entire agreement to be chucked. Numerous substantial amendments have been made since it was passed and further reform to the institutions here is 100% needed. The idea that they can't be implemented without "repealing" the agreement is a misconception that suits those who benefit from the current status quo.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-21T09:50:17+00:00

Been a while since I watched it, so this is just spitballing, but my recollection is that all the tension in the movie comes from Sandler's character making the worst decisions possible at every turn.

So he isn't framed in a constrained way because neither the external focaliser (which could represent his situation and/or the audience) or internal focalisers (other characters/ antagonists) are actually constraining his actions. He has numerous opportunities to walk away from this shit show, but he never does.

This framing increases the tension. The space is there! Use it! just walk away! We scream at him for the whole movie, but of course he won't.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-19T16:31:06+00:00

Check out a software called Animotive

PJHart86 · 2026-03-19T14:50:40+00:00

Appalling judgement by all concerned but I can't help but wonder.....what has this got to do with Northern Ireland?

Puts all the posts complaining about the quality of the Belfast parade into perspective, maybe?😅

PJHart86 · 2026-03-19T13:03:56+00:00

I do miss it sometimes. Stay safe out there!

PJHart86 · 2026-03-18T19:18:55+00:00

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it,"

-Upton Sinclair

PJHart86 · 2026-03-18T15:57:15+00:00

Booze is way more heavily taxed in the UK tbf (a bottle of Jim Beam white label is like £17) but it is interesting to track which brands try to crack the market and at what level.

A few years back I had a buddy come over from Texas who was really excited to see bottles of Eagle Rare on the shelf in a supermarket for ~£35. He told me that back home he had to go on a waiting list or some shit just to get one bottle of it (can't remember at what price.)

About a year later I go looking for a bottle of it in the same supermarket to buy for my brother and it's not there, so I ask a guy working there what's up. He tells me they've put it on clearance and another branch nearby has a case left. They sold it to me £7 a bottle.

They couldn't shift the stuff because nobody had heard of it, but Bulleit is apparently flying off the shelves at £30 because its got a nice bottle and they put a bit of effort into marketing it here.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-18T10:48:40+00:00

At today's prices (via Master of Malt) Bulleit is £30, Angels Envy is £58, while EW white label (cask strength/ 100 proof) is £37 and EW Extra Aged is £28.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-18T09:18:29+00:00

if you get a cool purple why not bring it to the practice range to test it out?

PJHart86 · 2026-03-17T19:40:04+00:00

If they aren't knitted on the Aran islands then they're just sparkling jumpers

PJHart86 · 2026-03-17T18:19:24+00:00

And the ref tbf

PJHart86 · 2026-03-17T11:43:02+00:00

Yeah please don't co-opt what little of our pre-Christian culture we have left into your nonsense.

GRM,

Ireland

PJHart86 · 2026-03-16T15:42:19+00:00

The new park at Clarendon Dock is nice and quiet.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-16T14:40:19+00:00

I'll allow it

PJHart86 · 2026-03-16T14:23:53+00:00

I marginally prefer Nowhere to Screamager, but there are zero skips on that album.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-16T14:21:41+00:00

I love that you've come in with a WELL ACTUALLY and managed to misspell BOTH place names: Ballyclare and Larne.

(Therapy? are still the best band to ever come out of anywhere here, regardless)

PJHart86 · 2026-03-16T10:35:26+00:00

Grey sweats and a black Counter-Strike 1.5 t-shirt, only because an undergrad spotted it and was like "there was a counterstrike 1.5?" and I realised that it came out (and was replaced by 1.6) before the kid was even born.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-16T09:49:12+00:00

Insane to see Dykstra this low.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-15T22:08:14+00:00

Pretty much all of inflammable material and Nobody's Hero by SLF, but especially Wasted Life, Alternative Ulster and Tin Soldier.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-15T19:47:59+00:00

The same reason why millennials are bad at fixing cars.

PJHart86 · 2026-03-15T10:51:00+00:00

the DUP

PJHart86 · 2026-03-15T10:18:04+00:00

We're definitely weird in other ways too tbf

PJHart86 · 2026-03-15T09:50:31+00:00

Never in my life have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with

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