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Was great to meet you Andres <3 Really glad you enjoyed your trip. Hopefully we'll see you again at another event in future.

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Ronaldo and free-kicks. Someone needs to have a word with him. He used to be absolutely unreal at them. Like, best in the world levels. Now he's just dire. Stop the press! Ronaldo scored a free-kick today for the first time in two years. Still: Basically Ronaldo could learn a thing or two from Jame...

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Booker Prize-winning author Douglas Stuart:

and Series 84 contestant Steven Grady:

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Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 1:13 pm It is today that we will be given names.

I presume it was yesterday that we were kicking ass?

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Great event and weekend, thanks to Fiona and George for organising. Was really nice catching up with some of you and getting to know some of you who I haven't talked to much before. Rob's heat score of 443 has to be close to the record, surely? Jack Worsley has got some pretty big scores in the past...

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Apparently today is 2 years since the first episode of ZoomDown aired. Mad ting. Paul tells me a remastered version of the pilot episode will be uploaded tonight at 8.

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How do we improve it though? (assuming the goal is to improve the NHS rather than replace it with something else) Obviously putting more money into it will help but that alone isn't likely to be enough, right? What else? Edit: My questions are intended as an extension of the thought process of Gavin...

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On the Friday night I'm off to Bloomsbury Theatre for a comedy night because the guy who did the YouTube video we discussed on the pig heart man thread is doing a bit of stand-up there. I've seen quite a lot of his stuff and find him really entertaining so when I found out he's doing a comedy set on...

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It's hit and miss with Indian places. Some of them use ghee or egg or yoghurt in nearly everything, and don't say so you have to be an awkward bastard and ask about 7 things before you finally find something you can order. Some have allergens really clearly marked on the menu tough, so you can tell ...

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Yeah one of the things I miss is getting what I call "a big fuck off naan" at an Indian restaurant, but I still make some of my own when having curry at home, or buy a vegan one. Nice explanation of the differences between those three products, thanks for the information.

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Don't think I've ever had a paratha before but I did see this recipe online recently and thought I'll give it a go at some point.

What exactly is the difference between a paratha and a chapati, or a naan?

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OVERPOWERED/HUMIDIFYING/BLUEJACKETS for me

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Egg news . No more "free range" eggs; the mask slips a little further. The article ends with a quote from a spokesperson either for the UK Government or for the British Retail Consortium (it's not clear which from the way the article is worded): "We are experiencing our largest ever ...

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A story about Oxfordshire County Council making the menu at any of their organised events plant-based and ensuring plant-based options on school menus has reached the news lately, largely because Jeremy Clarkson has joined the protests against the decision. Any thoughts on this? Mine are probably pr...

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Cobra. Amazing cast, very interesting premise(s). Sometimes shoddy execution, often trying to introduce several new plot points per episode, even towards the end of the series, leading to a fairly flat finale that leaves many issues unresolved. Overall I still enjoyed it though and will watch future...

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Mark Deeks.

Edit: Oh, sorry, I thought you said 'who makes a good Countdown presenter?'

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Will be interesting to see what any autopsy/coroner's report says about how much (if at all) the xenotransplant contributed to his death. Certainly the initial hurdle seems to have been emphatically cleared.

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Do you think the level of competition matters? E.g. if we had Russian players on Apterous or Zoomdown, would throwing them out be worse than it is in professional sporting events? I think so yes, although at first attempt I struggle to find a logically coherent justification for that feeling. That ...

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Maybe pressure from within his own country is the only way that can happen, but it's not like he's going to worry about losing votes. It appears that many Russians are believing Putin's version of events. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60600487 Yeah I saw that, was talking about it with th...

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I have seen an advert for this before but just read more about it on a new BBC article . More info on official website . Can't decide what to make of this. The fact it's from the Saudi government instantly turns me against it, but it seems sort of cool and really positive, if totally artificial. Is ...

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Well not all advantage comes from obviously physical attributes as such so it depends what you mean by physiological. Do differences in brain processing count? But that still doesn't answer the question of how much of an advantage it actually gave him or whether he would have been just as good anyw...

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At first glance it appears obvious that a no-fly zone is the right thing to do, but I do think it's understandable that they're reluctant to do this it undeniably escalates the tension and we're not too far away from things getting really hairy. Essentially you absolutely can not ever lay down a rul...

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It's still legitimate to discuss how much of an advantage they think it gave him. If someone asked if height gave an advantage in basketball, you wouldn't say "Well it's legal to be tall." I suppose you could say that all disparity in sporting ability or style is ultimately physiological ...

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Yeah Mazepin is shite.

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:02 am As for why Shane Warne was more of a household name in this country that Murali[...]

Great post Mark, fascinating insight into cricket for those of us who don't know much about it but are interested in sport generally. Thanks.

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I equate it with Rooney being England's top goalscorer but Charlton the man he beat being the much better footballer... No idea how good Charlton was but I think Rooney was a fanastic footballer. Let himself down and never realised his full potential but still excellent. And anyway, Harry Kane will...

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#Heardle #8

https://heardle.app

LOVE this one!

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Back to the Mazepin thing (because we know deep down that everything is about him), it says in this article that he'd have to sign a document forbidding him to support the invasion if he's to continue in F1. Seems a bit strange. Just him? It also says: The FIA has made not backing the invasion, eit...

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All very good so far. One criticism... the players stats segment should only show the ZD series that made them qualify for the CoC. To show pretty much every fart they ever did on YouTube, does not make for useful comparisons. Fair point, I remarked that my stats looked favourable compared to Jack'...

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..this is what they deserve and will force Putin's hand. I think it's a bit harsh to say that special negative treatment is deserved by ordinary Russian citizens who have no involvement with and bear no love for Putin, his government, or his war. But the forcing Putin's hand bit is probably the key...

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Yep, it makes total sense for the Mazepins to be specifically targeted given their connections. And I believe the FIA have done the same as the Olympics, so as things stand Nikita Mazepin can still drive under a neutral flag for Haas in F1 this season, just not in Britain. It's only Motorsport UK th...

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Saw a new Quorn product in Co-op the other day: Peri Peri Strips . I don't normally go in for this sort of thing but they looked a bit different to anything else I've tried and as I've said above I like to support new products like this so I picked up a pack. Just cooked them and chucked them in a g...

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No Russian or Belarusian motorsports athletes allowed to compete in UK . I get why Mazepin is an issue given his father's ties, and I certainly won't shed a tear at Mazepin being absent at the British GP, but this really does seem to be applied entirely on the basis of nationality. Isn't this a bit...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:00 am My take on that is how can any living creature survive in such depths if that was the case

Evolution by natural selection.

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Bradley Horrocks wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 3:46 pm Just about beat Todd.

I noticed that

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Much prefer Edinburgh/Lincoln style as it's much more social. Can't chat much in Bristol style.

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I always remember that E120 is cochineal (from insects). But also I'm often suspicious of stuff that doesn't at least say it's vegetarian so while I wouldn't check all the E numbers, I'd check whether it said it was vegetarian. Yeah by no meat I meant check if it says suitable for vegetarians. If i...

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Co:Man parkrun:

Bradley Horrocks
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Fiona Titcombe
Fiona Thorne
Tasneem Rana

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Would you eat a plant based burger if it was cooked on a griddle that usually cooks meat?. Yes. If I had the choice I'd rather it be cooked on a griddle that doesn't cook meat but if I didn't have that choice I'd just eat the plant burger. Veganism is about reducing the suffering of animals, not ne...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 7:08 pm [...] what's going to happen about the Russian Grand Prix!

It's off. Mazepin's seat under consideration aswell, so perhaps a route into F1 for Fittipaldi.

Callum Todd

I'd be interested to know how obsessive you are about determining whether a food is vegan. For example, if something says that it's suitable for vegetarians and also doesn't have milk, eggs or honey, then as far as I'm concerned it's basically vegan. But I know someone who would reject stuff that d...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:07 pm Joe Wilkinson

Plato

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Would rather talk one on one than "Spam" everybody on here (as a vegan I do not condone Spam). :D Yeah I've also heard people say they dislike "vegan food" and been a bit baffled by the phrase. Mock meat products are good for appealing to a certain market but if people think the...

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Intetesting piece about the spelling of Ukraine's capital . I didn't know this. I would always have spelled it 'Kiev' but had noticed that Ukrainian football teams such as Dynamo Kyiv spell it differently. I never knew why but assumed it was just like how Bayern Munich call themselves Bayern Münche...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 7:08 pm [...] what's going to happen about the Russian Grand Prix!

Related.

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Maybe he's a lizard.

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Damn, you beat me to it; posted as I was writing. I think my post is a sufficiently specific subtopic though and hey it's not like I've not contributed to a similar pair of related threads on here recently. Seeing videos of military convoys and tanks driving over land borders, and military helicopte...

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Okay so this links to a very serious current event and recent experience tells me I need to be very careful discussing sensitive topics, so I'm going to try and handle this tactfully and I'll say now that I am asking the forthcoming question in a spirit of moral philosophical curiosity and am not tr...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 10:38 am Callum replied to this with what I would consider to be a slightly waffly response in an attempt to be diplomatic, but I'm going to be a bit more blunt.

I think your description of my writing style as "slightly waffly" is very diplomatic

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I'm genuinely really sorry to have given offense here. Looking back I should have been more careful when using the word "enslave", or just found a different word altogether if such a suitable one exists (although as stated above I'm not sure one does). And then in my initial response to t...

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I'm genuinely really sorry to have given offense here. Looking back I should have been more careful when using the word "enslave", or just found a different word altogether if such a suitable one exists (although as stated above I'm not sure one does). And then in my initial response to th...

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There are degrees of sentience though... Anne Robinson - "Callum's got a degreeee in sentience from Oxford University" ... the self-awareness of different animals covers a vast range. For example, the cow who cries for her missing calf, vs the fish who eats her young. So the more "em...

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:41 pm The Higgidy ['pork' pies] - which are not fake meat but lentil-based so only really comparable by shape and pastry - are also really nice.

Picked some of these up at the weekend; they were great! Much prefer them to fake meat type stuff.

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(Also I wonder if we should just merge the threads.) I think they are sufficiently distinct topics to warrant different threads, although I appreciate the nuance may seem quite subtle to some and the same topics have come up tangentially in both threads. To clarify my understanding of the two: This...

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While people make their own judgements on how much importance to put on human pleasure/suffering v animal pleasure/suffering, you could argue that it shouldn't really fall upon us to all individually come up with our own judgement. In many cases the "agreed-upon" morals are put into law. ...

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There's this video on the BBC about cats going on a vegan diet from a few years ago. Quite interesting. Yeah. This was the suggested next video too: basically the same thing but for dogs. I think it's really tricky with cats because it seems pretty cruel to me to make a cat live exclusively indoors...

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Is feeding your cat or dog vegan food only tantamount to animal abuse? Is keeping a pet also cruel? Just keeping the conversation going, albeit going off on a Meakinesque tangent. The issue of whether or not to keep pets, and how to treat and particularly feed them if so, while adhering to a vegan ...

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[...] in fairness to people on all other points of the spectrum I do think you have to factor in some kind of "human pleasure" to the equation as well, and the extent to which that pleasure can be considered "legitimate". That's always a subjective judgment [...] Fair point, so ...

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:11 pm For interest: viewtopic.php?t=47

I see Jon phrased it in a way that made clear Monty knows where the prize is. Best part of that thread is Dinos talking about the name Monty in 2008

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Any representation of paradox that doesn't state that he reveals what he knows to be an empty door/goat is simply wrong. I thought that but then I couldn't understand why most representations I could find didn't state that. It seemed that maybe part of the puzzle was to infer that from the context ...

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