I was given some of the “jam on toast” flavoured ones a while ago, and obviously they sat untouched in the cupboard for ages, because of the heresy.

Anyway, when I eventually had one, I have to say it was a) Much nicer than expected and b) Weirdly, it actually did taste quite accurately of tea, jam and toast.

So I was pleasantly surprised, and I imagine their newer ones would do the same thing and actually be quite nice.

I remember thinking it’s not actually that weird, if I happily drink camomile, mint, blackcurrant teas etc - and people drink coffee (or beer) with weird extra flavours in these days.

I’d still never buy it myself, because of the heresy, but I’d drink it happily if given as a gift or offered.

I have, so far, never bought food from M&S. It’s probably more of a case of “there isn’t one anywhere near where I live” rather than a deliberate shunning.

I have, however, eaten some “percy pig” sweets and some crisps that were so fancy that you put them in a bowl, rather than eat them straight from the packet.

Delicious.

“brushing aphids off my plums.”

That’s your fault for joining that nudist allotment :D

If the MAGAs don’t care about Trump’s “Epstein related activities”, then Putin’s supposed video blackmail isn’t worth anything.

I’m on the same waiting list, but specifically waiting for a “touchpad with physical buttons” in any form.

The fall of bespoke letter commissions was a disaster for the human race I wish I had an illuminated letter P that was made of a Jesus with a pug face, holding a pug with a Jesus face 😔

You can take the fat, fluffy bit out of the duvet and just use the outer duvet cloth on its own, and it still counts. Much cooler.

[Edit] Even with that, it’s all limbs out in this weather. Just a tiny corner of duvet cloth draped across carefully as some kind of “makeshift modesty sporran”.

I hope they have a “packet of crisps/chips” pocket on the other side.

It’s very dependent on which region, which route and which train company you’re travelling with.

From a Yorkshire perspective, if your train runs North-South through bigger cities i.e. Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, Leeds, The South etc, without stopping at small in-between stations, you get 100 people on a 10 carriage long futuristic aerodynamic LNER Azuma Class 800 train, that feels like a luxury private jet and travels at 125mph.

If your train travels East-West and stops at places like Halifax, Bradford, Wakefield, Selby, Hull, but also stops at little in-between stations called stuff like Boggy Fence, Coaltown, Upper Frogbottom, Chough, Milton-upon-Jeremy and Thribblewick, you get 400 people squashed onto a 2 carriage Northern Rail Sprinter, that feels like a livestock wagon and travels at 30mph. It’s perfectly pleasant outside of commuter times, to be fair.

When the train is stopping at stations 5 miles apart, there’s not a lot of room for big fancy trains to do big fancy train things like “accelerate smoothly and aerodynamically” and “brake gently and quietly like a falling leaf”.

I hope they still do that, and all the other “rude versions” of assembly songs.

What’s wrong with a nice traditional bourbon? Life must be very chaotic for these wild, thrill-seeking, hedonistic new-flavour-seeking sex perverts.

:P

☝️🤓 Um, actually, the 4-decade-old “Pacer” (pictured) was retired a few years ago.

It was replaced by the exciting new “Sprinter”, merely 40 years old.

Wow! So futuristic!

Warm? How nice it must have been to grow up warm. We only dreamt of warm. The best we could hope for was the residual heat from the formation of the universe seeping into the cold, dank puddle in which we slept.

It’s pretty much covered by the other person’s answer, but there was a really tight spec to meet “proper DVD standards”, and loads of knowledge and stupid workarounds specific to the DVD Authoring software you were using, or CRT-era television standards, or to know the disc would play back properly on different brands of DVD players, but also work on computers (and extra messing around and lower bitrates for it to play back correctly on Mac computers).

Basically a tonne of weirdly specific technical knowledge that’s just no use any more.

These days you can sort of just record a video on your telephone and play it back on a telly or the internet, but you used to have to “cap white level at 235” and “lower max red to 240”, and export your audio file 1 frame shorter than the video file it accompanies and set fading in titles as an “in-between” video, which links to a looping video with the “real” menu over it and other stuff like that.

Aye, we had to mine our own blanket forts out of the coal face, in our free time, overnight, after doing a twelve hour shift down the pit, after a full day at school.

We used to suffer from this, but now have a cat-based monitoring system:

3 cats sleep on bed = perfectly clean
2 cats sleep on bed = clean enough
1 cat sleeps on bed = prepare to change sheets
0 cats sleep on bed = change bedsheets now

You can probably check this by looking at how often this kind of thing happens in:
a) Countries with a normal free-to-use national health system
b) America

15 years or so ago, one of my main sources of income was DVD Authoring (e.g. making menus, titles, subtitles, navigation of video files etc), a skill and trade that’s now completely irrelevant.

What if we let one Reform supporter out for each immigrant we let in?

“It’s a controversial way of doing it, but it looks like complaints about immigration are down”

All fair points for a motorway/highway/freeway/whatever. I’d mistakenly thought the previous post was referring to a smaller local road with a 55mph limit.

I don’t really care so much about what speed people do on motorways, but I have a massive problem with people doing 40-60mph in a 20-30mph limit residential area. Bear in mind where I live in the UK, the cars are driving 2 metres from the front door of everyone’s houses.