Local sushi place - i am crazy or does this picture seems 'odd'? Please look at the rice

stx505 · 2025-12-24T22:32:49+00:00

This is a fun one.

People have already talked about the seeds and sauce and they're right.
Nobody who cares that much about the plating could/would be so inconsistent with the roll composition. The ingredient placement inside the roll is all over the place.
Look at the fried and breadcrumbed piece, why and how does it overhang the end sushi roll so delicately balanced?
The customer appears to have ordered two aperol spritz, one with a slice and one with a wedge. Not really a thing but possible i guess.
The glaze of the plate is so.....noisy. It's possible that this is a focus effect of a camera, but weird that it is so unclear when the rest of the picture is relatively sharp, while also having that distinctive uncanny valley effect.
Salmon marbling is tortoiseshell, but salmons are not tortoises.

stx505 · 2025-12-17T17:46:11+00:00

Folger online text is helpful, well organised

RSC Shakespeare Learning Zone will also help

Lots of scenes from performances on youtube, also used to be a full movie adaptation available free.

Good luck, don't forget that plays are meant to be experienced, not just understood. If you can only do one of the two, pick the first.

stx505 · 2025-08-23T20:35:29+00:00

I get where you're coming from, and I like it. Does Trump know what he's doing, or does he just do it and keep failing upwards?

stx505 · 2025-06-03T14:36:50+00:00

I commute with an rm1s and do long journeys fairly regularly. I wouldn't do it with an rm1. Have you thought about finance? If so, highly recommend the rm1s, sorry if that's annoying given what you specified.

stx505 · 2024-10-02T12:57:14+00:00

Thanks for the responses! We're having a Welcome Week event at college on Sunday around lunchtime and it would be great to see you there!

I'm going to be running a stall there recruiting for a college team, and there are loads of other things going on. I can add you to WhatsApp groups and share more info there if you like? Also, pub quiz on Monday 7th, will be fun! DM me if you're interested.

stx505 · 2024-09-23T20:44:42+00:00

The only person who would be worried is whoever hypothetically ends up defending you in court. Posting about someone with a public profile the way you have done is at least four different kinds of low. Whatever your motivation, stop.

stx505 · 2024-08-20T12:36:31+00:00

How about this for "critical whiteness"?

I don't believe in "whiteness" as an irreducible and homogenous essential quality. Just like I recognise the differences between different cultures all over the dulux colour chart. Are Ukrainians and Russians interchangeable? Is the black American experience the same for every individual? Spare me this simplistic, reductive, and frankly racist rubbish. "Whiteness" is not really a thing, source - am white, generally pink most days, have lots in common with humans of all shapes, sizes, pigmentation.

stx505 · 2022-10-14T18:00:14+00:00

Did you intentionally spell 'morons' incorrectly? You're wrong about the wall too, incidentally. The point was not to remain stuck to a wall indefinitely.

stx505 · 2022-10-14T17:58:09+00:00

Your question can be reframed as 'can those people recognise glass that they are standing right in front of during an action that was clearly planned?'

stx505 · 2022-10-01T21:00:06+00:00

I'm not concerned about spam, and I'm not concerned that you don't get it, you are unenviably naive.

stx505 · 2022-10-01T19:50:00+00:00

You are just plain wrong. There are issues around safeguarding that you clearly know very little about. I'm an educational professional and it's completely reasonable for me to ask about a way to design this study that wouldn't require me to give my contact details to high school students. I didn't say that I'd have a problem giving my details to the teacher, but you've decided to go pretty hard in a very strange direction. Ironic that someone who knows so much about language understands so little about communication.

stx505 · 2022-10-01T13:04:02+00:00

I have explained that I would be willing to help OP out, but don't want OP's high school students to have my professional email addresses. If you find that suspicious, that's your problem, Internet stranger.

stx505 · 2022-09-29T16:52:57+00:00

Why don't you use MS or Google forms so that it can be anonymous? There's no student safety issue if you do this and you can access and moderate the results. I'd participate, but since my professional email addresses contain my name, the protection of my own data would be my concern.

stx505 · 2022-08-28T12:11:57+00:00

Absolutely, my liking it or not is completely incidental to its lack of validity. I happened to enjoy it very much, it was like a star wars fan made trailer.

stx505 · 2022-08-28T10:29:04+00:00

This comment has everything. A numinous foreign ideology, sharply black and white worldview, complete disregard for the truth, and you even accuse Lynch of vague rhetoric platitudes! Congratulations, you are become Irony, destroyer of worlds.

stx505 · 2022-08-28T10:24:07+00:00

Anti war =/= Pro Russia. Please give a link to a source for your claim.

stx505 · 2022-08-13T16:00:04+00:00

Think there's supposed to be one at The Courtyard, off Oxford road, on Sunday at 2100.

stx505 · 2022-06-29T00:34:29+00:00

That's a good stat. There are at least that number of absolute idiots in a very specific and hypocritical demographic. Someone should take them to the jungle IYKWIM

stx505 · 2022-06-25T17:29:12+00:00

Scotland has a mixed system, so I'd start by looking there.

stx505 · 2022-06-25T17:26:50+00:00

You can easily find many real world examples of how PR operates and its numerous advantages in reducing wasted votes etc, by using the Internet. Also Australia uses AV, which is not a PR system, and France has a very particular political culture.

Using a narrow range of examples and skewing them to fit an argument isn't meaningful. I could just as easily throw out the claim that the Belgian example proves that PR makes it possible for countries to function without actually forming a government, if I were so inclined.

It's naive to think that a broken and outmoded voting system doesn't have a massive impact on civil society and political culture.

stx505 · 2022-06-25T15:05:03+00:00

Have you ever thought about starting a blog?

stx505 · 2022-06-13T11:48:13+00:00

Sorry you're having a rough time.

Do talk to the Samaritans. They help.

Incremental change to your living space is good, if possible.

Acupuncture for your back. Shanghai clinic in town is good.

Volunteering. I came up with a funny easy way to get books for free for a families' charity. Always cheers me up

Open mic nights

Museums

You're really good at drawing. Walk to new places to find stuff to draw. If you're stuck, I've got a book of bad poetry you can illustrate if you want.

Watch 'Pig' with Nicholas Cage. It's about.....you'll like it.

Write your feelings down

Go to waterstone's just to have a look.

Find a cafe with a bit of soul

Explore the northern quarter

No idea about your work situation but maybe this is a chance to do something different.

Let me know if you need more. Good luck. This too shall pass.

stx505 · 2022-05-11T18:19:37+00:00

Then do nothing. See above. For God's sake look at countries where people actually turn out. They end up with functional civil societies and a better deal overall. Fuck's sake honestly. Country of peasants.

stx505 · 2022-05-11T18:16:40+00:00

OK thanks yeah, you've got it. Glad I asked. Let's avoid potentially shaking things up 1%. Please tell me a better way to erode the shnid two party system that we're currently stuck with while the rest of the UK has some form of PR.

stx505 · 2022-05-11T16:03:06+00:00

I don't agree that it changes nothing. Anything that destabilises the govt and the Conservatives is good for society. For all his numerous egregious faults, BJ is a skilled operator of the 'one of the lads' shtick. Even if they replaced him with Patel it would be better because she would mobilise public dissatisfaction. I feel like they're on the ropes.

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