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Post by crankcaller on May 28, 2024 18:24:38 GMT
I made beetroot and cannellini bean dip.
I had it on toasted ciabatta. I had hoped it would be the new hummus. Dear reader, it wasn't. I'll finish it, but can't see me making it again. Babaganoush is the new hummus, but it takes fucking ages to make. Who's got time to roast Aubergine mid week.
Last night we watched The Beach Boys documentary on Disney+. They kinda went easy on Murry Wilson I thought and dialed down the cuntery. Been humming Good Vibrations all day.
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Post by whatalark on May 28, 2024 18:50:30 GMT
I subscribed to Disney + this month but all the things I'd thought I'd watch I didn't. Instead I watched 28 episodes of Reservation Dogs, written, directed, filmed, acted etc all by Native Americans. I had a hospital appointment at Wrexham hospital last year so thought I'd watch an episode of Welcome to Wrexham and ended up watching 38 episodes of it. Then trying to keep up with the times I found the folklore studio sessions by Taylor Swift to be much better than I would have imagined. 4 * for all of them.
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Post by Faceless on May 28, 2024 18:51:47 GMT
This ‘Socialist Explainer’ in the Guardian annoys me: www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/28/is-starmer-really-a-socialist-and-what-will-happen-if-labour-wins-electionHas socialism been tried in practice?Yes. The Russian Revolution of 1917 heralded a communist regime that grew into the Soviet Union. Under Joseph Stalin it turned into a dictatorship that inflicted misery, hardship and death on millions of people. As well as in eastern Europe, socialism or communism has been tried in China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and countries in Latin America and Africa. Few would say they have been a roaring success.Isn’t this conflating socialism with Karl Marx inspired communism? … I’m not an expert but it’s a broader church than that isn’t it? And there are lots of quite successful governments you’d consider to have been socialist. I mean Labour governments before 1997 … Maybe in Scandanavia? I mean in a broad sense … I used to think the Guardian was a Socialist newspaper. Maybe it was once. Maybe I was confused. Maybe I was deluded. I know several people who claim to be socialists, but whenever I ask them what they mean, or what they think socialism is, they don't seem to be able to answer |
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Post by Faceless on May 28, 2024 18:52:59 GMT
I cancelled my Disney subscription at the weekend, after finishing that Japanese thing I've already forgotten the name of
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Post by Felice Landry on May 28, 2024 18:57:18 GMT
The Grauniad was never a Socialist paper, Liberalish then Social Dem now left of centre, which is practically Socialist these days.
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Post by Sheep2 on May 28, 2024 19:30:12 GMT
The Grauniad was never a Socialist paper, Liberalish then Social Dem now left of centre, which is practically Socialist these days. Indeed the Guardian was founded as the newspaper of Manchester Mill owners.I It supported their interests for a century. Socially and economically fairly liberal and Liberal, but very much tied in to its origins. To the point that it supported the cotton producing Confederacy in the US Civil War. The Guardian obituary of Abraham Lincoln is astonishing: Of his rule we can never speak except as a series of acts abhorrent to every true notion of constitutional right and human libertyUnder CP Scott it became the house organ of the Liberals. It's only moved from that position because the Liberals became irrelevant. It's politics are very much dictated by the Scott Trust. Under first Hugo Young and more recently Liz Forgan (as chairs of the ST) t's very close to the wet side kf the Democrats in the USA and somewhere between Labour and the Lib Dems. |
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Post by amipal on May 28, 2024 21:21:07 GMT
amipalWhen we first met you gave me a powerful ‘naval handshake’. I hope to never forget it. As a result I’m imagining today that you’re stood on the deck of the Scillonian III, with your hands on your hips, and laughing, as all about you lose their heads. I truly hope that this is the case. If not please don’t say. I shan’t spoil the scenario for you, other than to say that whilst a large portion of the people on board were sick en route to St.Mary’s, no chunks were blown from I. |
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