Gun heaven, where they can run around and frolic in the fields and enjoy the rest of their well deserved life.

I feel old enough that adding another decade seems cruel.

Still, totally worth the slight deafness and glass back that moshing to this track contributed to.

1993, not 1983, right?

Xor

And then everyone clapped, right?

Oh fuck off.

I’m making a point about the international nature of food, and the way in which it relates to identity, and you seem determined to take it in bad faith to truss up your own weak argument.

Ok, here, have a win. You’re right. You are so totally right. Well done. Enjoy the glory.

I think you misunderstand.

What I mean is the man who cooked the curry and served it to me and my two companions. He’s of Asian heritage but was born and raised in the UK.

Does that mean that he’s not really British?

What if he sees himself as British. Is he then culturally appropriating Asian food?

Because that’s the argument being used about the food too. That dish was cooked in a kitchen in Birmingham. It has Asian heritage too. But is it not the British food?

Careful, that’s like saying that the guy who made it, who was born in the UK isn’t really British either.

Pretty much all food is imported.

As someone else mentioned. The Tikka Masala was invented in Britain.

Italian pizza, the most Italian of dishes, didn’t exist until America was ‘discovered’ and tomatoes brought back from the new world.

Same with the Irish and potatoes.

Dunno, have you ever had a curry in Birmingham on the mile?

I went with two American colleagues and one of them couldn’t finish his ‘medium’ heat dish because they said it was too spicy.

You just know the 36 books you are going to get will be hotel bibles.

I’m not sure what you mean by “whole organ” haggis. I haven’t seen anything different to what I’ve described in the last 50 years.

The stuff we have still has pluck… The offal, but it’s always minced.

Can you find a picture of it? I’d be really interested in seeing if I can get hold of some to try.

According to McSween’s website, their haggis contains:

Oats, Water, Vegetable Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Emulsifier (E471), Flavouring), Black Kidney Beans (10%), Carrot (5%), Swede (5%), Mushrooms, Red Split Lentils (5%), Rehydrated Onions, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Salt, Ground Spices.

That looks like the haggis we get here in Glasgow.

It’s always looked like that. You mostly see the texture of the oats instead of the pluck.

I highly recommend veggie haggis though. Seriously, it’s good food.

It’s a contraceptive device.

Read the headline, thought this was about the lengths people go to to complain to open source coders.

I’m not sure why I got downvoted for saying that. I’m not anti-ad blocking, just describing the economics of it all.

But I have been thinking about the situation, specifically with YouTube.

I think that the problem is that the adverts, as they are, interrupt the content, whereas they should be part of the platform instead.

Like old Google search results, you could be offered sponsored content that you can choose to engage with.

That would force companies to come up with things that people want to watch, and would effectively kickstart the creativity in advertising again, rather than the brute force interruption.

Also, the branding of the platform and content. Shows “sponsored” by a company don’t need to run a two minute advert within a video to gain association. A logo, brand awareness, links and a decent service should be enough for them to get value in backing creators…

And the problem is, when those of you who aren’t susceptible to ads start blocking them, the service has to force a subscription model on everyone.

At one point most things on the internet were free because of advertising.

That’s free as in “free”. Our eyes were the cost.

Older folk will remember the insane pop ups, the animated gif banners, misleading links… But ultimately it let anyone, no matter what monetary status, enjoy the same content.

And now we pivot to a subscription based internet as traditional advertising falters. And then, the crazy thing that will happen is they will start advertising in the subscription services too.

We’ll never escape, we can only keep running.

Savage use of the singular on “point”.

Sure, but just to be clear, it’s about the brain plasticity and diminishing returns. That stuff just isn’t true.

Here’s what the British academy has to say on the subject:

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/

Yeah, no.

This is bullshit.

(Especially the stuff about brain plasticity and learning capacity)

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/