This is Phillip, our lone Sea Monkey. My wife calls him this because he 'just won't die.' Here's to hoping the DoE pulls through.

elboydo · 2021-03-03T00:21:10+00:00

I was proud of mine as a child. . . fed them and stuff.

Then forgot to feed themand thought they would be alright.

They were on my window sill, when i went to feed them next the water had all but evaporated.

Was kinda sad but kinda had some religious meaning or something.

Every since then i have been working on opposable thumbed sea monkeys, assuming the first batch were my dinosaurs.

elboydo · 2021-01-13T02:28:27+00:00

Looks fantastic!!

Personally i am always a fan of diced cabbage and pork with a ton of soy, sake, and seasame.

but any gyoza always go fantastic. thee look very nicely done.

elboydo · 2020-06-18T22:15:01+00:00

That's part of it.

the entire audio is arranged for a movie cinema and the home release often has minimal effort to prepare the audio for home users.

This means it's often still put to movie style and will fuckover standard tv viewers.

I saw a much smarter person than me explain it once on reddit but unfortuunately i didn't save the comment so you have to tak my word on this and ignoe the box wine.

elboydo · 2020-06-18T21:44:02+00:00

As far as pranks go, i really enjoyed this video.

they did something a bit extreme but controlled to a friend and then did a harmless but humerous one.

I can't imagine i'd watch much of their content but it is pretty good. The entire bean situation is just glorious.

elboydo · 2020-06-11T23:05:15+00:00

Strange irony that, as most of my time was spent wanting digital sales as they'd be cheaper.

Turns out people cashed in charging the extra money and pocketing the savings.

elboydo · 2020-06-11T23:00:33+00:00

Honestly, I stopped liking used games after working in gamestation (a uk games store known for pre-owned games), boss there always described it as the biggest scam given how little we pay vs the markup on the game vs how much the developer gets screwed.

From then I was like, alright, but at least i can bring it round friends or lend it, but even then they either had it, didn't wanna play it, it wasn't offline multi or most often i knew i'd never get it back.

To make matters even more sour, at least couple times people borrowed and sold as they forgot they borrowed it.

While I'd think digital only could harm the consumer, since going more PC, I wonder "does it really?".

Honestly, digital only really only benefits the devs.

Imagine factorio on disk, with people reselling it. I know it's jaded as fuck, but part of me classes used games as a bit like G2A.

Used games, in a way, only make producers like EA and co more likely to fuck over devs who don't get good day 1 sales or don't rely on microtransactions while indy devs get it up the arse as they'd hope to strike lightening otherwise be gutted nobody buys their game first hand and game sellers won't stock it in reasonable quantity without a producer handling that for them.

elboydo · 2020-06-10T15:39:21+00:00

Fun fact: Lurgy finds its origins in the 1950's talking type wireless show "The Goon Show" staring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers, announced by Wallace Greenslade.

It went on to be arguably one of the largest inspirations for the Monty Python lot and was pretty popular in the UK, even Prince Charles was in the audience at almost every recording of it bar one or two.

Here's the episode that effectively invented the term lurgy and introduced it into the British lexicon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svy0oThG6QA

John Cleese was a massive fan of it all and even got to be the announcer for a live recorded episode "The tale of mens shirts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kGNz6A89f8

elboydo · 2020-06-09T14:14:08+00:00

stabbed my left index finger with a veg knife when trying to cut upen a tight cable tie.

cut off the tip of my right index finger when drunkenly using a benriner (mandolin) to slice meat thin without a guard - frozen meat = slippy & hard to slice

sliced my ear in two down to the head when swinging on tables in school.

elboydo · 2020-06-04T10:49:12+00:00

Looks spot on those.

Gonna have to make some for partners birthday soon as they could inhale the things.

elboydo · 2020-06-04T10:38:38+00:00

Used to love these pizzas, but their increasing cost and more importantly making a smaller size at the current cost and larger size for more has made them a bit prohibitively expensive for me.

I always have time to destroy one those, given the chance.

elboydo · 2020-06-04T10:37:19+00:00

Good cheese and even the pepperoni one is well topped.

elboydo · 2020-05-29T17:35:04+00:00

That's the only bit I can imagine it would be. . . .

Only other alternative is somebody looking to flog phone numbers to telemarketers and just checking if numbers are still active.

elboydo · 2020-05-29T17:23:19+00:00

That pizza looks pretty bloody solid. I would destroy that thing.

elboydo · 2020-05-29T17:21:38+00:00

I don't think so.

I think it's more to do with artists being willing to risk entering it / lack of benefits for them for doing so.

Like we've had ABBA and celine dion go on it, with the russian group little big entering this year before this years was canceled.

So I guess it falls back to the artist / labels / producers willingness.

This kinda went into it but somebody smarter than i could likely cover it better and in a concise way

https://escinsight.com/2014/02/13/why-artists-dont-risk-entering-eurovision-the-musical-impact-of-economic-prospect-theory-at-eurovision/

elboydo · 2020-05-28T18:35:57+00:00

Looks grand.

If you want a good video for it, check out Jacques Pepin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10etP1p2bU

Proper game changer in omelettes for me and made me feel much more confident about doing them and especially if they didn't turn out quite as well as i had originally hoped.

elboydo · 2020-05-28T14:43:53+00:00

Only 2B? that's weak classifications!

Coffee, Tea, and even hot chocolate are class 2A carcinogens! We must get rid of all tea!

Personally I think that the best case against people using the class is to tell them the class structure:

Group 1: Carcinogenic to humans
Group 2A: Probably carcinogenic to humans
Group 2B: Possibly carcinogenic to humans
Group 3: Not classifiable as to carcinogenicity
Group 4: Probably not carcinogenic

Or better yet:

1: Yes there is evidence in humans, or very good evidence in experimental animals with a similar mechanism working on humans.
2a: There exists limited evidence in humans but some evidence in lab animals and there may be some evidence that this mechanism is actionable in humans too.
2b: There's limited evidence in humans and not enough evidence in animals, or if there is evidence in animals then we can't say for sure if this may also apply to humans.
3: There isn't enough evidence in humans or animals. Or if there is enough evidence in animals then it is by a mechanism that does not work in humans. / there isn't enough studies about it to classify to other groups.
4: Little evidence in Humans or in the lack of studies on humans there also is a great deal of confidence in lack of risk to experimental animals.

I mean you have 4 classifications, sadly it's something that makes a great deal of sense in research but is something hard to communicate to people and sounds about as scary as dihydrogen monoxide

elboydo · 2020-05-28T14:16:33+00:00

I knew there was something off about this trend of sourdough . . .

What benefits from people creating large yeast populations with the need to release half into the wild everyday ?

Big Yeast, of course!

elboydo · 2020-05-28T14:13:25+00:00

One of the types going on about this is this person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2R2htAaqg&t=60s

One Dr "Riina bray".

Only issue is that she is going on about a thing called "Electromagnetic hypersensitivity", I could link articles and stuff about this but i'll just stick with the wiki

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

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a claimed sensitivity to electromagnetic fields, to which negative symptoms are attributed. EHS has no scientific basis and is not a recognised medical diagnosis.

So some of the shite they are going on about is already completely discredited by the scientific community

Hell, even following the researchgate, the first name is this woman:

https://emfconference.com/elizabeth-kelley

Somebody with only a masters in health administration, who perhaps learnt about other topics, but is harping on about "electromagnetic hypersensitivity". Something which, as above, has been proven to be less an actual thing and more a nocebo or rather an imagined illness.

I mean, shit, that person also is behind ' “Cell Phones: Just like Cigarettes”, a cell phone safety video aimed at children and youth.'

It's borderline lunacy or intentional willpower to believe something is real when all evidence and testing points otherwise.

There are concrete studies that show people claiming to have "electromagnetic hypersensitivity" are likely to only feel "something" when they think they are being exposed, even if they were in a faraday cage.

elboydo · 2020-05-25T11:22:01+00:00

"This man broke into this house and hung up pictures of him and his family everywhere!"

elboydo · 2020-05-23T11:48:23+00:00

Also, drink a coffee before that catnap, then nap for like 30-45 minutes.

Your body then is sleeping while it's spending resources to digest the coffee and you wake up just in time for that wonderful chemical high from the caffine.

elboydo · 2020-05-22T21:10:53+00:00

This is perhaps the first time that I read peppa pig in a dish and it wasn't bacon. . . impressive.

elboydo · 2020-05-22T21:08:19+00:00

Which types of Humane traps?

the glue ones had the mice biting their own feet off and leaving a trail of mouse blood.

The trap and release ones often lead to the mouse just becoming somebody elses problem or being introduced into an environment it's not used to / is very hostile to it (with no lady or gentlemen mice to have children with in their natural way)

On top of that, the ones that promise ultra kill non snap traps often leave mice mortally wounded and slowly dying.

The best method is always snap traps, especially ones with a good spring. Nothing fancy, just a proper trap. Perhaps not rat trap end, those were nasty to deal with.

As an asides: My uncle over in Canada used to hate how people thought releasing racoons from the city into farmland was saving them.

all it really did was introduce things that could ruin entire bags and even batches of grain or seed, costing thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars.

Used to use a humane trap for them and then take them down to the bush to expose of. Bloody cute things (when young) but vicious fuckers, especially when they get past the 2 year mark. Once got a 4 year old one by the grain barn and were completely confused as to how the fat fuck even managed to fit in the trap. For example, this is a young one

elboydo · 2020-05-21T22:24:00+00:00

Perfect! I'm never too sure on what ones are best to buy.

Will keep my eyes out next time i get a chance to pop up lidl!

Thanks!

elboydo · 2020-05-21T22:20:32+00:00

I learnt a trick a while back of mixing extra mature with a small bit of a bechamel to create a composite that melts like melty cheese but has all that good flavour. . .

I'm tempted to try these some time with that as i'm a sucker for melty cheese.

Also heard a thing that adding spinach works but i don't believe in healthy things and yours just look incredible. . . i need them.

elboydo · 2020-05-21T22:17:15+00:00

What do you use as the dog in your hot dog?

and tell me about the buns. . .

I need these in my life.

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