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TIL there's a Dutch company which makes animal sex dolls for zoophiles.
They also make baby sex dolls for pedophiles. :wtf:

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TIL Ritchie Blackmore has been in a medieval-classical folk rock band for the past ~25 years.



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Just discovered Blackmore's Night, eh?

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I'd always wondered why **THE BOOK** of Medieval Cookery, was called "The Forme of Cury"

TIL that "Cury" is a very old term for "Cooking".

BTW: There's some GREAT Recipes in this book, and several translations with good modern redactions. Medieval Cooking is far more varied in spices than modern cooking and the difference is amazing to the taste buds, unless you're from cultures that still use Saffron, Foetidia, Lavendar, etc.
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I assume that recipes in the book were aimed at the fairly well off or did the spices 'trickle down' to the peasantry?
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Bedlam wrote: 2024-04-15 03:11am I assume that recipes in the book were aimed at the fairly well off or did the spices 'trickle down' to the peasantry?
Peasantry? No. Minor Lords and some of the richer Guild-heads? Yes.

Besides the fancier feasts, which included a whole chicken "gilded" with saffron sitting atop a whole piglet ala Knight in Armor, there were simpler meals, such as "Tarts for Ymber (Ember) Day", which is a very tasty caramelized onion and cheese tart for meatless days. It even has one of the earliest Macaroni and Cheese dishes "Makerouns", as shared on the Wiki Page here: The Forme of Cury

The "losyns" dish mentioned is a non-tomato sauce lasagne-like dish, with layers of large noodles, cheese, power forte, and butter.
Then you have "Hedgehogs", which are pork meatballs studded with spears of almonds, served with spiced sauces.
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Anything that involves saffron is going to have a big price tag, they don't call that shit "red gold" for nothing :lol:
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TIL that New Girl, despite seeming to have her shit completely together in most other ways, completely hasn't done her taxes yet. Hasn't even started them as of this morning. For our non-USA audience, I will note that they're due today in most jurisdictions.

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The YouTube channel Tasting History has done some recipes from The Forme of Cury and touched on the spice issue. Some of the "simpler" dishes - beans, cheese-based, etc. - would have had peasant equivalents, or perhaps one should regard the recipes in the books as more upper-class versions of peasant dishes. The lower classes wouldn't be using saffron, but depending on their resources might be able to afford some less expensive spices, particularly for special occasions. Poorer folks would rely on things like onions and herbs for flavor and seasoning.

I make a bean dish called makke I got from this video.
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TIL That the kid in The sixth sense was actually yelling "Stuttering Stanley", instead of "Staring Stanley" this whole time :lol:
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TIL Chinese & Indian soldiers beat each other with sticks to settle border disputes so that they don't start a war.

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The Tesla cybertruck takes 5 hours to reboot after a carwash and comes with instructions to not wash it in direct sunlight

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TIL that for some reason, Edge on my PC has suddenly decided it doesn't like this message board, spitting out the following error:
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So for the time being I'm using Firefox to get on here :?
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TIL that my PC will semi-regularly, and annoyingly, forget how to connect to the internet. It will suddenly decide, nope, not doing it anymore. REstarting it fixes it, but it's annoying as fuck.

Also a slightly-delayed TIL from yesterday: turns out "he's drunk the kool-aid" is not as commonly understood as I had expected from this board. For context, one of my colleagues, despite being the Englishest Englishman you will ever find (despite living in Cardiff) is a big-time "Trump did nothing wrong" supporter.

While describing this to another colleague later on, I concluded with "that guy has really drunk the Donald Trump kool-aid." The (sane) colleague did not know what I meant, and honestly thought there was Donald Trump-brand soft drinks available in the office. Which was funny, even if I am surprised he hasn't done that yet.
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TIL that Drinking the Kool-Aid has its own Wikipedia page :lol:

It's easy to forget that because we don't have it here in the UK, not everyone gets the reference :lol:
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Eternal_Freedom wrote: 2024-04-20 07:16pmWhile describing this to another colleague later on, I concluded with "that guy has really drunk the Donald Trump kool-aid." The (sane) colleague did not know what I meant, and honestly thought there was Donald Trump-brand soft drinks available in the office. Which was funny, even if I am surprised he hasn't done that yet.
Let's not give him any ideas. Trump's fugly-ass sneakers are bad enough, the world does not need his branded drinks, or anything else for that matter.
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bilateralrope wrote: 2024-04-18 05:23am The Tesla cybertruck takes 5 hours to reboot after a carwash and comes with instructions to not wash it in direct sunlight

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-n ... 1851417011
What a fucking useless vehicle.

Of course, Elon probably has "people" who can take care of his, and a spare to drive around while the other dries. Seriously, WTF? Is this fragile eye of a "truck" only supposed to driven in pristine weather on pre-cleaned roadways?
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Broomstick wrote: 2024-04-21 03:29am
bilateralrope wrote: 2024-04-18 05:23am The Tesla cybertruck takes 5 hours to reboot after a carwash and comes with instructions to not wash it in direct sunlight

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-n ... 1851417011
What a fucking useless vehicle.

Of course, Elon probably has "people" who can take care of his, and a spare to drive around while the other dries. Seriously, WTF? Is this fragile eye of a "truck" only supposed to driven in pristine weather on pre-cleaned roadways?
Does he even drive one, or does he stick to the Tesla cars ?

Also, they were all recalled. All 3,878 of them.
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EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2024-04-20 07:35pm TIL that Drinking the Kool-Aid has its own Wikipedia page :lol:

It's easy to forget that because we don't have it here in the UK, not everyone gets the reference :lol:
Descriptions of the event often refer to the beverage not as Kool-Aid but as Flavor Aid,[4] a less-expensive product reportedly found at the site.[5] Kraft Foods, the maker of Kool-Aid, has stated the same
Can't say I blame the Kraft Foods corporation for wanting to clarify that point!
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Ralin wrote: 2024-04-21 09:18am
EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2024-04-20 07:35pm TIL that Drinking the Kool-Aid has its own Wikipedia page :lol:

It's easy to forget that because we don't have it here in the UK, not everyone gets the reference :lol:
Descriptions of the event often refer to the beverage not as Kool-Aid but as Flavor Aid,[4] a less-expensive product reportedly found at the site.[5] Kraft Foods, the maker of Kool-Aid, has stated the same
Can't say I blame the Kraft Foods corporation for wanting to clarify that point!
They've been trying for years to clean up that saying, but Kool-aid, like Kleenex, is irrevocably THE BRAND for that product. If you ask for a Kleenex, you don't care if it's another brand because it's still going to be a disposable tissue paper you can sneeze into. Kool-Aid is the powered drink mix, even if it's an off-brand the kids will still call it Kool-Aid.
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bilateralrope wrote: 2024-04-21 03:54am
Broomstick wrote: 2024-04-21 03:29am
bilateralrope wrote: 2024-04-18 05:23am The Tesla cybertruck takes 5 hours to reboot after a carwash and comes with instructions to not wash it in direct sunlight

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-n ... 1851417011
What a fucking useless vehicle.

Of course, Elon probably has "people" who can take care of his, and a spare to drive around while the other dries. Seriously, WTF? Is this fragile eye of a "truck" only supposed to driven in pristine weather on pre-cleaned roadways?
Does he even drive one, or does he stick to the Tesla cars ?

Also, they were all recalled. All 3,878 of them.
And that's not even addressing the elephant in the room, the fucking awful aesthetics. Was it Musk's vision to take the prize for the ugliest production car ever made? :lol:
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EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2024-04-21 12:21pm
bilateralrope wrote: 2024-04-21 03:54am
Broomstick wrote: 2024-04-21 03:29am
What a fucking useless vehicle.

Of course, Elon probably has "people" who can take care of his, and a spare to drive around while the other dries. Seriously, WTF? Is this fragile eye of a "truck" only supposed to driven in pristine weather on pre-cleaned roadways?
Does he even drive one, or does he stick to the Tesla cars ?

Also, they were all recalled. All 3,878 of them.
And that's not even addressing the elephant in the room, the fucking awful aesthetics. Was it Musk's vision to take the prize for the ugliest production car ever made? :lol:
His vision was to make Blade Runner's car
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His vision needs some serious prescription glasses then. This monster looks nothing like that.
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It's like the CAD program used to design the thing had an extremely low polygon limit and nobody thought to use a better one.

TIL that using an air duster to clean a keyboard is more effective if you first stand the keyboard vertically so all the crap is blown out instead of being moved around :lol:
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I usually turn the keyboard upside and shake it first, then use the duster.
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Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.

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