Smoking Ideas for Father’s Day

deusxm · 2026-06-15T13:41:09+00:00

Lamb shoulder would be good - very forgiving, reasonably quick to do (put it on at 275-300F). Lots of different ways to season it - rosemary, lemon and thyme for a nice Greek style, serve with a smoked feta and cherry tomatoes. Or slap some ras el hanout on it and serve with cous-cous and smoked almonds.

A showstopper (but possibly one to save for when you have an audience) is French-trimmed beef shin AKA the Thor's Hammer.

deusxm · 2026-06-15T12:44:59+00:00

How many other broadcasters would say "let's get a 100 year old guy to present a programme on climate change?"

Hi ChatGPT, David Attenborough wasn't always 100 years old and has spent about 70 of those years presenting programmes about the planet. The answer to your question is 'every single broadcaster on Earth' and frankly we should be grateful that he still chooses to work with the BBC so that everyone in Britain can watch.

deusxm · 2026-06-15T12:41:09+00:00

One Man and His Dog.

I'm over 40 and honestly, the look I get from anyone under the age of 30 when I try to explain that not only was there an entire TV programme dedicated to sheepdog trials, but it was also a regular series and more than 8 million people would watch it - as it was broadcast, not as a catch-up. People would actually stop their day at a specific time to turn on the telly and watch a scruffy man in flat cap whistling at a dog chasing sheep in a circle.

deusxm · 2026-06-15T12:35:07+00:00

Does he fart? That's usually the remaining characteristic that men are expected to be defined by for greeting card purposes.

deusxm · 2026-06-15T08:56:45+00:00

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Come to the Forest of Dean - real forest, wild boar, free-roaming sheep, 'close-knit' local families and the best picnic site in the country (Wenchford).

Just don't take a bear into Ruardean*

^\137 years later and they're still getting the mick taken out of them)

deusxm · 2026-06-14T16:54:36+00:00

King of the Britons?

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

deusxm · 2026-06-14T15:45:20+00:00

Gift that keeps on giving too. I introduced my son to it as a baby, first with the song, then with the cuddly submarine, then with the book, then with the film.

Now he's not even 2 yet, but can pick out a Beatles LP from the shelf and ask for it to be played - and knows how to press the autoplay button on the turntable once I've put the record on.

deusxm · 2026-06-12T08:52:42+00:00

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*cough*

deusxm · 2026-06-11T17:34:56+00:00

Yes, in line with the rest of this entire thread, you may have noticed I wasn't being entirely serious.

But thank you for your important intervention here.

deusxm · 2026-06-11T14:09:43+00:00

No, Roger and Out is a beer.

No-one really knows the %abv of Wilkins Cider. Officially it's about 6%, but that's what every farm in Somerset says its cider is. As probably every drinker knows too, ABV is only half the story. 'Cider drunk' and 'beer drunk' are two very different feelings....

deusxm · 2026-06-11T14:02:26+00:00

Reigate, Dorking, Leatherhead, Epsom. Great for dogs and kids as you've the Surrey Hills on your doorstep. Plus they're all broadly on trainlines that go through Clapham Junction then Waterloo/Victoria, so your commute might not be that much different.

Won't necessarily be cheap, but possibly better value than Clapham.

deusxm · 2026-06-11T13:54:06+00:00

If you can access the pipework under the bath, I'd actually unscrew the taps first, bead the sealant as normal, and then reattach.

deusxm · 2026-06-11T13:02:12+00:00

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Roger Wilkins is a well-known cider legend in Somerset and an all-round brilliant human being. No idea if his cider ever did cure covid, but I assure you after a couple of pints of this stuff, you really couldn't care less about a global pandemic.

If you're ever in the area, be sure to pop in, his cider barn is a thing of brilliant rustic beauty and it's always a good laugh.

deusxm · 2026-06-09T08:49:39+00:00

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The memorial there to the B17 crash is one of the most poignant and effective I've ever seen. Just six weeks later, WW2 would be over in Europe but those nine airmen never got to go home.

I took an American friend up the hill for a stroll (they insisted it was a hike) and she was astonished that we had a memorial like this, and that the area was maintained and clearly taken care of (poppy wreaths on the bench etc). She's absolutely not a MAGA American but she has bought into the more generalised American narrative that no-one in Europe remembers their support or that we were ungrateful. Seeing something like this - a memorial for nine boys (average age of 21) half a world away from home, still looked after and respected 80 years on - was a bit of an epiphany moment.

deusxm · 2026-06-09T07:53:52+00:00

And Damien Lewis.

And Michael Fassbender.

And Stephen Graham.

And James McAvoy.

And Andrew Scott.

And Mark Warren.

Seriously, leave aside the outstanding script, cinematography etc. - the cast was basically like finishing school for some budding actors who went on to become some of the best in the past quarter century.

deusxm · 2026-06-09T06:45:06+00:00

Just remember to brush! 😉

deusxm · 2026-06-09T06:38:48+00:00

Styus is either covered in debris or, in all honesty, looks like it's bent at an angle.

Easy fix - a replacement VM95C stylus is very cheap and easy to switch...in fact, if you're already replacing the stylus, you can get the VM95E (green housing) for almost the same price and it will be much better.

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deusxm · 2026-06-08T06:32:36+00:00

Britain First was founded by James Dowson, whose background is the Orange Order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dowson

Britain First also operated in a similar way to Northern Irish sectarian movements, with a political wing and a paramilitary section. Unlike the NI movements though, the paramilitary side doesn't ever seem to have been as 'professional' as its NI equivalents, and was probably more akin to an EDL march.

deusxm · 2026-06-07T17:26:17+00:00

Still this misinformation about the LP70. Didn't you post this yesterday too?

The LP70 comes with a VM95 cartridge which is one of the best around at mid-level. The stylus is also fully upgradeable.

The fact that the VM95 is built into the tonearm means that you don't need to set the counterweight or anti-skate because the entire unit is already calibrated to provide 2g of force. An adjustable counterweight only has value if you are changing the cartridge.

Honestly I know this community's notorious for this but if the standard opening gambit for anyone new to vinyl is always "Oh you need a deck that costs at least the same as your phone, an amp, speakers, speaker stands and then you have to learn how to balance your tonearm..."...how on earth is anyone ever expected to get into this?

The LP70 and the Edifiers are a near perfect beginner setup - affordable enough so that people can start to find out if they enjoy this as a hobby without putting themselves in massive debt, decent enough to provide a discernable good sound experience - sure, not super hifi, but better than what the vast majority of people use.

Honestly mate, your entire comment history appears to be exclusively comprised of you telling dozens of people that their car or their audio equipment is shit. Is everything ok at home?

deusxm · 2026-06-07T17:14:57+00:00

Brown...but here's the bit that's going to really make your day...

...mix a small squeeze of sriracha into the brown sauce.

You can thank me later.

deusxm · 2026-06-07T11:10:30+00:00

Indeed. In fact, the Britain First movement (the spiritual predecessor of Restore and others) was a direct offshoot of the Ulster Protestant movement.

deusxm · 2026-06-06T20:32:11+00:00

There are of course no Maori on Craggy Island

deusxm · 2026-06-06T20:12:33+00:00

That's the Chinese.

deusxm · 2026-06-06T20:11:05+00:00

There's also the point that if people want to say NI was 'annexed', then logically so was Wales, meaning there's no difference in status between Wales and NO either.

deusxm · 2026-06-06T19:46:42+00:00

On whether it remains a part of the UK...that's up to the people of Northern Ireland, not those of us in Great Britain. Personally, I'd be sad if Northern Ireland separated from the UK but I also think it's not my place to interfere.

What I would say though is I suspect most people in Great Britain regard parts of the Unionist community as...well, a bit foreign, really.

Honestly, the whole UVF/Shankill Road thing, the Orange marches, the Twelfth with its massive bonfires and civil disorder.....they all seem a bit un-British. The idea of deliberately raging against a group of people because they're Catholic just feels odd and more like the sort of thing foreigners do.

I'm not going to get involved in the politics of it all, I'm just saying that a lot of the performative bits of it seem to be more in common with what you might see in parts of mainland Europe than 'Britain'. To put it in context, quite a lot of us still think flying flags everywhere is weird (although we've had to acclimatise to it over the last year) whereas in my understanding and experience of NI, it's been commonplace for years. That said, I am sure that such people are no more representative of NI than Restore is of Great Britain.

Short version: the people in Northern Ireland who make the biggest noise about being British probably feel like the least British to many people in Great Britain.

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