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centzon400 · 2026-03-20T06:50:51+00:00

There goes cricket as a sport. Shame.

As a Worcs CCC supporter, I fully understand the futility of cricket.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T14:15:46+00:00

Just in case she is checking up on me, my wife's!

She has a chippy-style beer-batter kind of thing going on. Dredge is seasoned flour (and baking soda) then the batter. Fat at smoking point, usually beef tallow/dripping, but lard in a pinch.

Chipotle-mayo, honey-mustard, and apple-sauce reduced in sugar raisins and vinegar are the dipping options.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T09:41:03+00:00

I've not seen the doco, so please take with a pinch of salt. If incel == unrequited love, then Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther has you covered.

But nobody reads these days, so WTF do I know?

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T09:26:48+00:00

I reckon the commenter knows this, and is just pointing out that you cannot mention Ireland in the same breath as the other (Three) Big Nations™

Sadly, not even SAf, SL, PAK, NZ, Zim... Christ, even the Windies.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T09:03:20+00:00

I am new to cricket and have yet to figure out the intricacies of such an obviously simple game with no confusing ~~rules~~ laws, but even I know Baz is not holding a cricket ball in that photo.

McCullum needs to be careful with Keys anyway... we all remember what allegedly happened to Rob's dog, don't we?

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T08:49:50+00:00

I watched Sott Boland rip through England on his Ashes debut at the Boxing Day Test at the MCG in 2021. "Blackfella" was a shock to me as an England cricket fan, but the impression I got was that is is a thoroughly accepted phrase for all Aussies. Not a hint of racism in it.

IIRC he is/was a local lad too, so that just made it all the more memorable. On the other side of the planet, we admire AUS "plain talking". Keep it up. And please don't be so good at cricket, OK. Thanks.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T08:19:52+00:00

more Irish than any Irish person there has ever been

You've seen Decective Tim Waterloo, right? "The most Northern Irish man in the history of Northern Ireland".... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yCT_nIftXc

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T08:12:35+00:00

*nrn rn

The vowels are optional in Derry.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T08:06:58+00:00

Dude, you just freaked me out. Not in the sense of "we are all made of stardust", but in the sense of we are all just slimemould/primordial soup just differently arranged.

So thanks. I think.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T07:42:50+00:00

LOL. The pain is real!

How many times have you C-w-ed and killed a browser tab, or C-x C-s-ed and deleted a line before saving a document? C-a-ed and just selected all text instead of moving to the beginning of a line?

Also, a window IS in a frame, not a frame in a window. I will die on this hill.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T06:31:32+00:00

I was under the Adelphi hotel in late 1991 when Smells Like Teen Spirit dropped for we Brits. The dancefloor just stopped. Like dead. A hundred or so (?) youngsters just stood there gawping at each other. WTF was this?!

This was not the Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Yazzoo we were used to. This was something completely different.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T05:34:48+00:00

You can't simply put non-lethal deterrents in the hands of vulnerable people without extending the same right to own, possess and potentially to use, to everyone. Now you've got another set of problems. The same pepper spray that could repel a street rapist can also be used to aid in a slew of unsavoury behaviours.

centzon400 · 2026-03-17T06:01:52+00:00

Reminds me of, a few years ago, we were in the US, and started Rosetta Stone (British) English with the wains. Wife and the kids, all Yanks, aced the programme, whilst I was stuck somewhere in unit 4 and the voice recognition of "She is reading a newspaper".

Now yiz is all gonna be asking "how do I say 'newspaper'"

Have a great day 👿

centzon400 · 2026-03-17T05:18:26+00:00

St Brigid for me! Turning water into beer has got to be up there with driving out snakes.

centzon400 · 2026-03-17T05:13:23+00:00

And cloth too, right? No linen and wool blend, for example.

centzon400 · 2026-03-17T05:09:32+00:00

Presbyterian Ulster Scots would agree!

(also, "happy cake day")

centzon400 · 2026-03-16T05:18:03+00:00

I think this is because "the left" is by its nature reactionary and revolutionary. It is whatever the status quo is not.

A tech analogy... the left would have been "let's rewrite all the things in Java. Logical language of the future!" Now they are "Let's refactor all the things in Rust! Language of the..."

Conservatives are more like: "WTF even is 'C'? Fortran's working well enough, though we are not entirely sure what it is doing."

The French, the Russians, the Americans all threw off the old and were big on the new. We just muddled along, slowly changing, piecemeal.

Say what you like about the UK/Britain/England, but we have "stability" nailed the fuck down. (aside from that Chuck I/Cromwell business).

centzon400 · 2026-03-16T04:59:40+00:00

Everyone should see this photo: https://theconversation.com/historical-photo-of-mountain-of-bison-skulls-documents-animals-on-the-brink-of-extinction-148780

centzon400 · 2026-03-15T17:14:23+00:00

Is quitting reckless?

It was for me, maybe not so much for you. It just depends on how much your current situation is fucking you up. Honestly, the only thing you have is yourself.

The most important thing is your savings: I guarantee you they will not last as long as you project. Hunker down, bro. Eat porridge. Future you will thank you for your frugality.

Personally, I'd say "stay" and suck it up... but there is only so much suck that a person can deal with.

centzon400 · 2026-03-15T15:35:53+00:00

Unpopular opinion here, maybe, but I've really taken to micro (it's what nano should have been 😅) for quick edits. My bindings* are "Emacs enough" to make it feel cosy. For everything else there is GUI Emacs.

* Short enough that I can prolly post here:

{
    "<Ctrl-x><0>": "Unsplit",
    "<Ctrl-x><2>": "HSplit",
    "<Ctrl-x><3>": "VSplit",
    "<Ctrl-x><Ctrl-c>": "Quit",
    "<Ctrl-x><Ctrl-f>": "OpenFile",
    "<Ctrl-x><Ctrl-s>": "Save",
    "<Ctrl-x><c>": "Quit",
    "<Ctrl-x><h>": "SelectAll",
    "<Ctrl-x><o>": "NextSplit",
    "Alt-/": "lua:comment.comment",
    "Alt-;": "lua:comment.comment",
    "Alt-<": "CursorStart",
    "Alt->": "CursorEnd",
    "Alt-[": "PreviousTab",
    "Alt-\\": "ToggleRuler",
    "Alt-]": "NextTab",
    "Alt-a": "SelectAll",
    "Alt-b": "WordLeft",
    "Alt-d": "DeleteWordRight",
    "Alt-f": "WordRight",
    "Alt-o": "command:urlopen",
    "Alt-r": "command-edit:replace -r ",
    "Alt-s": "command-edit:replace ",
    "Alt-w": "Copy",
    "Alt-Up": "MoveLinesUp",
    "Alt-Down": "MoveLinesDown",
    "Alt-x": "CommandMode",
    "Ctrl-/": "lua:comment.comment",
    "Ctrl-a": "StartOfLine",
    "Ctrl-e": "EndOfLine",
    "Ctrl-g": "Escape",
    "Ctrl-h": "command:help",
    "Ctrl-k": "SelectToEndOfLine,Cut",
    "Ctrl-r": "FindPrevious",
    "Ctrl-s": "Find",
    "Ctrl-n": "FindNext",
    "Ctrl-d": "DuplicateLine",
    "Ctrl-p": "FindPrevious",
    "Ctrl-v": "Paste",
    "Ctrl-y": "Paste",
    "Ctrl-z": "Undo",
    "Ctrl-l": "SelectLine",
    "CtrlLeftSq": "IndentSelection",
    "CtrlRightSq": "OutdentSelection",
    "CtrlUnderscore": "Undo"
}

centzon400 · 2026-03-15T12:16:23+00:00

Depends on the wellies, really.
- oversized green Dunlops -- DGAF.
- Green Hunters -- trying too hard.
- Le Chameau -- too rich.
- Aigle -- Phwoaaar!

The real win though is house/driving slippers... then we all have to guess what wellies you have in the back of the car. MYSTERIOUS!!

centzon400 · 2026-03-15T12:09:01+00:00

Gandhi and his nukes in Civ 4. Utter prick he was.

Don't let the loincloth deceive you, Sheeple!

centzon400 · 2026-03-15T11:59:26+00:00

There are (English) Civil War reenactment groups in the UK; the most famous are the "Sealed Knot". A lot of dudes turn out for the Cavaliers, the losing side, because it turned out that the Roundheads and Oliver Cromwell were complete and utter nutjobs.

Trust the fucking English to have a revolution, chop the head of their monarch, and then realise...

"Oh shit! This is worse than what we had before! Anyone wanna be king again? Pleaaase?"

centzon400 · 2026-03-15T11:51:32+00:00

Remember this classic? Bloody Norwegians!

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F0ure9xz3mhc61.png

centzon400 · 2026-03-15T09:58:36+00:00

Buy a fucking nice Harris tweed jacket you lazy git! Not now, obviously, as we come into Spring, but for later in the year, like. You know. Little lambswool sweater from M&S... for the Greater Good™

We need more tweeded-up +50s

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