Maco1969

No, freshwater fish apart from predatory fish have never been on the menu in the UK, top feeding fish like trout or pike but never tench, bream or subsequent to the Romans, carp. The BBC article relates to one site and even there is a possibility that the aversion to fish was due to fecal contamination causing illness. In East Anglia scales from sea fish were common however apart from trout other local fish was not present in middens.

The Celts lived in houses built on piers, eating the fish you were shitting on would wipe out your tribe due to cholera and dysentry, they imported their water from local springs. They ate locally caught seafood but not freshwater fish. Carp were introduced by the Romans however the Romans had a means to wash the fish prior to consumption. There was no need to eat something possibly detrimental due to a lack of population pressure, the Romans washed carp in fresh water for a period of days prior to consumption, the Celts didn’t simply because they didn’t have to.

Spam croquettes!

The snail is so thick it doesn’t go around the blade.

Trendies, hipster chicken?

Snap! Can’t even put a new one in…

Had some idiot walk into my flat wearing wooden clogs, my cat left at speed never to be seen again…

The O’s are I’s! Fiid? Feyeeyed?

There were no monkeys when dinosaurs existed, also more time elapsed between the stegosaurus in the back existing and the t rex and triceratops than between them and us.

Teflon was banned in the United kingdom in 2005 because it is a carcinogen and toxic.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/17/dark-waters-pfas-ticking-chemical-time-bomb-in-your-blood

I wonder if there isn’t a stable chamber shape that promotes turbulence in a controlled manner in order to prevent it getting out of hand? A little bit like the dimples on a golf ball create micro pockets of turbulence promoting laminar flow.

The son is going to inherit the company, he’s clearly terrified and going to piss the whole thing up the wall within five years of being given the reins.

I probably got a pretty decent dose of lead due to licking my brushes in the eighties, little sets of paints in lead tubes.

It’s not really sitting though is it…

It’s still just two layers of a manufactured felt or bitumen, the quality of tiling, flashing and lead in the UK is beyond compare. There’s flashing on a church near me that’s nearly a thousand years old.

Techmoan did a really good video on these.

https://youtu.be/fhUfRIeRSZE

I would imagine that at some point we went from highways agency signage that was made to a standard to outsourcing to the cheapest bidder. There is also a possibility that signs can’t be too rigid so they don’t cut vehicles in half?

Mass produced spirits became a problem throughout the western world around the same time, cheap whisky in Scotland and Ireland, gin in England and vodka in Russia etc. The industrialisation of production led to slum housing and cheap, strong alcohol, not a good combination.

It’s in the UK, there will be a layer of roofing felt underneath the slate that prevents pests getting in. Roofing felt is the same stuff that shingles are made from in the US but comes in a roll. So in the UK we have basically the roof you’d have in the US and then another slate roof on top, it rains a lot here, we probably have some of the best roofing in the world.

Don’t worry about the quality of the paint, I grew up using cheap Chinese water paints and it was OK.