JohnSmith

joined 2 years ago
[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Prodigy was very good indeed. Rammstein-esque even. It must have been awesome in the audience.

I also liked Alanis Morissette’s and Kneecap’s sets, but for me the highlight was seeing John Fogerty playing CCR songs. Took me back that did.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who would’ve thought you enjoy french fries. But honestly, I didn’t even know pattered chips were a thing.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago

I’d still go with the earlier proposal: a lunch with Prince Andrew in Pizza Express in woking.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Great advice on dealing with pulling on lead. We got a rescue as second dog year and a half ago. He had clearly not been trained at all and was pulling on walks. My wife, who is the knowledgable dog trainer in our house, got it sorted in just few walks doing what you described.

Edit: typos

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Last week was rather warm, but good. Now I’ve got covid. Boo.

What about you?

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Priest indeed!

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The world will improve significantly when the wealth hoarding boomers just finish dying off.

Sweet summer child, I’m afraid you have another thing coming.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if they can put it back together again

Why would anybody demolish a kitchen and then put it back together again? I’d want something new and better for the trouble!

Joking aside, I hope your project goes well.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Somehow work has felt like a heavy slog over the past few weeks. It’s not just me as several people at work have said the same.

Our dogs on the other hand provide a welcome balance. Saturday was grooming day, which do ourselves. It took us four hours for the two dogs to give them haircut and another hour today to tidy up the bits we obviously missed.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

It was the time to go. I have not missed that shit show one bit.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Which king are we talking about, the commonwealth or the southern territory of Canada? Wait, same thing.

 

The BBC has been on the case yesterday and today, and at least I’m somewhat interested and perhaps even tempted to go see them. But do people care?

What other band, if they got back together, would tempt you?

 

Looks like PE requirements have gone up a bit, seeming that being an olympian is not sufficient.

21
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JohnSmith@feddit.uk to c/andfinally@feddit.uk
 

Most definitely! But maybe not in the way people would want.

 

Let me describe an idea I heard from a very innovative person, which I think would be really useful right now in midst of the general election campaign.

The basic idea is to interpret politician’s or basically any talking head’s speech realtime and check the semantics against the Internet. Imagine a banner at the bottom of a TV screen with a line being drawn as the person talks.

If what the person says correlates positively with what can be found in reputable Internet sources, the line goes up and is green. There is evidence they are speaking the truth.

If what the person says correlates negatively with the sources, the line goes down and is red. There is evidence they are lying.

If what the person says does not correlate with the sources, the line is flat and brown, because they are spewing unadulterated bullshit.

I’d pay for this service.

 

Sunak comes across like the prat he is. “Labor will raise taxes by £2,000 for everybody” regardless of the question. Talking over all the time, not listening to the moderator. Appalling creature. Starmer sympathises a lot with people asking questions without answering them. Skating around or just plainly ignoring questions all the time. I can’t watch this shit a minute longer.

 

The weather has been kind this weekend, so I cleaned the BBQ and made ribs & wings.

 

I’ve been watching the Rugby Cup Final this evening and fuming. They have this fancy new traveling side camera and they can’t help but use it. STOP IT!!! You are making everybody seasick. Which made me think, might you good people have examples of when somebody badly overplayed their new toy? On a completely unrelated note, do we already have a community for rants?

 

…how bloody old are you?

 

Lamb, rosemary and garlic is a match made in heaven. The only thing to do now is wait for several hours, and perhaps down a glass or three of red.

94
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JohnSmith@feddit.uk to c/foodporn@lemmy.world
 

On Friday we got our annual treat: half a lamb from a farm near us. We made rosemary, chilli and garlic butter, roast potatoes, cavolo nero, cauliflower and carrots with lamb chops. The chops are as fresh and tasty as can be, simply great!

 

After numerous long evenings and weekends our sauna is back in use. Completely renovated shower room, new floor in the dressing room, floor heating in both, new stove, new lights, benches sanded down and appropriately treated, sauna room walls washed and treated, log building painted from the outside. The works. Today it was in use for the first time and the electricity was free 2-4 pm as part of the Octopus Energy trial, so it didn’t even cost a penny to heat! This is our boys conducting a quality inspection.

 

We are considering doing two weeks on Leeds - Liverpool on a rental boat in near future. I should think we are looking at one week one way and the other back. Where would you recommend we start?

view more: ‹ prev next ›