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Cake day: August 29th, 2023

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  • This goes for baking too. Baking is no more science than cooking, and cooking is no more an art than baking. People who claim otherwise annoy me.

    You need to figure out what ratios of what, do what in your recipes, and then explore how that can change with different brands/varieties of the same ingredients, different ovens, humidities, elevations if you travel, etc. Book learning can only get you so far, you need to put in the kitchen time to really understand.

    The art of making good food is in being able to recreate and adapt all the science experiments you did.


  • Grace Hot Pepper Sauce. It has this tangy, buttery flavour and a nice amount of heat that accentuates food without melting your face.

    I think they use a few different peppers in the mash as while it has a little of the apricot fire Scotch Bonnet taste to it, as you’d expect from a Caribbean brand with a bunch of Scotch Bonnets on the label, it’s not the predominant chilli flavour here. I think the mash gets slightly fermented too due to that buttery taste the sauce has.

    Before the pandemic it was 50p for an 85ml bottle, I miss that. £1.50 for the same size bottle still feels like a rip off.

    Edit: just looked Grace Hot Pepper Sauce up as I’ve been thinking about it all day now since making this comment, and their website says the peppers used are a blend of Habanero and Cayenne in the mash. So my tasting apricot fire is likely a placebo from the image on the label, lmao.


  • Calling me the ‘sanctimonious buffoon’ here is a little rich considering you’re the one who’s been throwing insults and talking down in multiple comment replies to me now.

    Also, do you not understand how question marks work or something?

    I’ve been asking you questions. You keep getting morally offended and outraged at them, and then swearing at me and calling me names while having holier than thou rants where either you react like my questions are a personal attack on you, or you just repeat back the shit I was asking in different words, as if your phrasing makes it mean something different.




  • I voted in favor of the end of criminalization of abortion in my country; it was the first vote I ever cast and am proud of it.

    Because you believe people should have the right to control what happens to their bodies, even if it means ending a life.

    Every adult who wants access to euthanasia should have access. No ifs, no buts.

    But not like that.

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    So if I have this straight: You believe that messy suicides and the life long misery and impact that having a bad life full of abuse has on people, and people dealing with finding a suicide body, are all just things people should put up with because clean, clinical euthanasia is morally wrong… and life is a gift?

    Also, bro. Seriously, I was giving you a ‘tirade’? Did you even read what I wrote, or just fall over your own ego getting offended after the first paragraph?









  • I take it you’re pro-life and oppose abortions too? Obviously euthanasia wouldn’t be an option for you, you believe ‘life is worth living’ and a ‘precious gift’ and all that bullshit.

    Life is only worth living for those privileged enough to enjoy it; and those with this privilege are going to be fewer and fewer as we progress further into late stage capitalism, fascism, ww3, resource depletion and climate collapse.

    It’s nice that you’re having such a great time here, but to deny those who aren’t the right to a safe death justecause you can’t comprehend their suffering -is willfully ignorant and will be actively harmful if this ever becomes something we can vote for.

    Every adult who wants access to euthanasia should have access. No ifs, no buts.



  • Having internet was the only thing that kept me sane while staying on the wards, which is darkly ironic considering why I was in there in the first place.

    I’ve read on threads like these that in the USA and Canada actual therapy is provided for inpatients though, which is something useful at least. In the UK, inpatient facilities are literally just holding pens till they decide if you’re well enough (able to put up with the abhorrent behaviour of the staff without swearing or being visibly distressed for at least 3 days) to be released.


  • Our current ‘Labour’ government is increasingly far right, despite their once socialist origins. The Conservatives who were in for over a decade before them, gutted and sold off a lot of the NHS, and now Sir Kid Harmer is twisting the knife and finishing the job.

    We could have fixed this had the Israeli funded hate crime of our ruling class not slandered and ousted Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party. He is a socialist who supports actual human rights, both here and in Palestine. Had he been allowed to be PM instead of Starmer, the privatisation of everything was going to end.




  • Trust me, you DO NOT want to use the NHS for mental health stuff.

    Too much of my c/ptsd is from nhsmh services now. The sheer amount of blatantly ignored abuse on those wards has left me terrified of hospitals, healthcare workers and doctors. They can do anything to you in there and you have no voice or rights. They decide what gets written down about you. They decide what happens to you and you belongings.

    I’ve been told by several people who’ve been in/worked in prisons, that you have more rights and safety oversights in prisons that on mh wards here.

    Out patient care is not much better either. 5+ year waiting lists for 30 minutes of cbt ever 6 weeks to treat your suicidal depression brought on by chronically shit living conditions, isn’t going to be at all helpful. Nor is 7+ years on a waiting list to see a burnt out healthcare worker for ten minutes, who immediatly decides you’re malingering without listening to you or reading your supporting paper work, so you are now deemed unworthy of progressing up the ladder to join a waiting list to see a specialist for your condition.