cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6801344

"Thrilling chase underway in Gateshead"

A photo of two trucks; the one in front full of pallets, the one behind labelled 'pallets wanted'

funny

Picture Slam. It's objectively awful TV, and I've never been a big fan of Carr ....... but in my current state of constant exhaustion and unending misery I find it almost calming.

Imagine the disappointment when I went to school and learned the Romans didn't actually have a time travelling flying machine.

What a silly Klopp he is. 9 men and an own goal is not a golden performance, but football history is littered with disrespect for referee decisions. Was the ball over the line? They think its all over

Finally off Virgin Media and their bloody price rises.

And where does the Galaxy Ripple fit into this hellscape.

Got any plans this weekend? Going away for a nice long weekend? Staying in and gaming for two days straight? Celebrating your divorce? We want to hear it 😎

Personally we're just going to make some home made pizzas, and enjoy a bottle of red after the kids have (finally) gone to bed. Then we're getting a rare evening to ourselves on Saturday night by heading out to a local restaurant.

Needed some positivity in life, so just upped and decided to rewild our front garden.

My wife and I have talked about making the front garden a wildflower meadow (which will be step 3 or 4), but my wife likes frogs so I thought I'd gamble on the chance that a little pond might attract some - as well as being a boon for wildlife in general.

We used the kids' old paddling pool, as you can see, and I'm following guidance found on various websites (e.g. rewildingbritain.org.uk, RSPB, etcetera).

Step 2 will be buying some native pond plants once we've got some rainwater in.

Once we've got the meadow going, I'm planning on seeing if I can recruit any neighbours. (First target is next door who has never once used their garden and only goes out to strim it down. I'm hoping I can tempt them with an offer of turning it into a meadow for free, seeing as they paid for our shared fence.)

it still all looks as good as goldeneye, and gameplay is not much more exciting than mario kart. although playing both original versions is a little depressing.

apparently our great Prime has seven bins and has abandoned plans to tell us all to get seven bins in his battle against climate change. With this kind of assertive action he could get a job in any hotel.

How many bins have you got? we have 3 and a bag hanging off the door handle

In an episode of Food Unwrapped, TV presenter and farmer Jimmy Doherty paid for kebabs from nine different takeaways and delivered them to forensic scientist Paul Hancock to find out what was really in them. And the results were surprising.

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And Jimmy was visibly shocked to learn that only one of the nine kebabs was made from 100% lamb. "Most of them contain chicken,” Paul told him. "We've also got a couple which contain beef. Fortunately, we found no goat, no donkey, and no horse in any of the products."

Asked what he would expect to see with a larger sample size - around 900 kebabs - Paul estimated that he would see around a 60% failure rate. Viewers were quick to share their thoughts.

"So just like fast food burgers, it's mystery meat," one commented on YouTube, while a second echoed: "Question should be, what is not in a doner kebab?!" A third wrote: "Noticed how 10% was called bulk…"

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Not everyone was put off, however. "I love a doner kebab," one viewer wrote. “"I even eat it sober. It's bloody delicious! My issue is finding a decent chilli sauce seems to be an issue these days!" Another second noted: "I don't care what it is made of - as long as all the ingredients are honestly listed so I can make an informed choice."

A third advised: "If you want 100% of a specific meat either chicken or lamb doner then only go to a restaurant that serves Yaprak Doner. It translates as leaf doner, the cut gives you smaller pieces instead of the long strip of meat but you are guaranteed the meat you want as it's made in-house.

"They basically stack thin, leafs of meat over each other a bit like how they do in this documentary but here it was more blobs of meat they compress to form the industrial doners. Anyway, contrary to popular belief, doner is actually a Kurdish invention, throwing that trivia out there in case it pops up as an entry question at the gates of heaven!"

Look, I know the forecast was for Saturday to be the last hot day of the year, but I thought we might have a few days of grey before the start of all-out autumn rainstorms.

I'd like to apologize to the entire country for allowing this to have happened. I'm sorry.

Update

Made a small Tesco run and got some Yorkshire Tea. On with the day.

An oldie but a goodie.

The full commentary track is here. Looks like the Beeb slap down anyone trying to sync the whole footage, hence the YouTube Short. Here's another bit from them leaving the palace.