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- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 5 hours ago:
Eh, I will sometimes make a big batch of sauce and then either keep in the fridge a few days or freeze it. But that’s besides the point. I can still make a pasta Bolognese in about an hour if I’m trying to make a quick but tasty weekday meal, since you don’t actually HAVE to simmer it for hours.
Like to take a beef wellington for example, you can’t really cut corners on it and make one on Wednesday night after work. Even if you were to buy a pre made one, you would still have to roast it for ages.
And even then a lot of Italian cooking is quick, a carbonara for example is super quick and easy to make from scratch, if you just buy the bread instead of making it Bruschetta is super easy, or if I’m feeling super lazy I will sometimes make a frittata with leftovers, that takes like 15 mins to make. In the other hand no one quickly throws together a chicken and leek pie, or make a pasty from scratch, or even something as relatively simple as a roast. The only British food I ever really make for easy meals is a stew because you can make it in a slow cooker, but stew isn’t even a uniquely British dish.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 22 hours ago:
As a child I was forced to eat a lot of Sunday roasts at the grandparents that were bland and anemic and mushy, with veg boiled within an inch of its life, and where the meat was the only good part
And I used to date an Indian lass who was the worst cook I’ve ever met in my life, the food she made was truly disgusting. But that doesn’t mean all Indian food is bad.
I know self-flagelation is a time honoured tradition of hours, but the whole “Britain bad” circlejerk is just getting annoying now.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 day ago:
British food is actually top tier. Tye difference with Italian food for example is Italian is quicker and easier to make, so your average person can put together a pasta dish pretty quickly as a weekday evening meal. Whereas youre not going to come home and quickly make a roast dinner or a beef wellington or a proper steak and ale pie, so instead you’ll just bang some fish fingers and chips in the oven and 20 minutes later have some perfectly good scran for while you watch EastEnders.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 day ago:
100% real, you can buy packs of frozen removedts at basically any supermarket
- Comment on welp 3 days ago:
I watched The Good Place, does that count?
- Comment on And that's final 1 week ago:
I’m guessing he’s saying the weird pixels around the eye are evidence it’s AI?
But like AI has been able to do perfect profile picture photos for years now.
- Comment on Huh? 1 week ago:
Like some kind of public house?
- Comment on dating 1 week ago:
Too real
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I want to be bred while simultaneously breeding someone else
- Comment on Admin of discuss.online is mass banning for people using their vote in a way he doesn't like. Recommend defederation for bad faith participation in the fediverse. 3 weeks ago:
So you think a couple people all upviting the same comments in a thread is conclusive proof of vote manipulation???
Oh wait, it’s goat.
- Comment on Yum 3 weeks ago:
I think tablets like these are actually extremely common.
I know a guy I spoke to at the British Museum about cuneiform tablets said they literally just have hundreds and hundreds of them in storage and they are most very mundane record keeping.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 3 weeks ago:
Nah fuck this attitude, if you ever tried to use Wikipedia for an actual research project you’ll know how dubious those “”“sources”“” can be.
It’s actuslly an exercise one of my TA friends sets for students when they’re just learning to research things properly. She gives them a claim on Wikipedia and and asks them to find the primary source for it. So they end up spending hours following chains of citations, until they are checking out old books from the library to try and find excerpts that some blog post that was cited in a paper that was cited in a newspaper, that was cited in a different blog post that was cited in another news article that was cited by Wikipedia claims exists, just to find out it doesn’t.
But seriously, don’t take Wikipedia seriously unless it cites a primary source directly.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 3 weeks ago:
No I understood the point of your comment perfectly, it’s the old “well we can’t complete fix every problem with society magically overnight with 1 action, so we shouldn’t try to do anything” argument. With perhaps a dash of “you want to improve society, yet you participate in society, curious” thrown in as well.
Basically if everyone were to have the same attitude as you literally nothing would ever get better.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 3 weeks ago:
Idk, I’ve tried to play it at least half a dozen times since it was “fixed” and it still just seems rushed and unfinished, just less buggy now.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 3 weeks ago:
Idgaf he’s a bigot, a cow or a racist. If I like x thing that was made, and them being a bigot, cow or racist does not impact the product I’m buying, then I’m buying it.
Congrats on perfectly respresenting the core of what is wrong with modern society.
“If it doesn’t get in the way of my mindless consumerism, I’ll happily support people who are openly racist”
People like you, more so even than the bigots themselves, are why society is turning to shit.
- Comment on Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 3 weeks ago:
In fairness even if a big studio released a great game, enough people would either try it and not like it, or just give a bad review because it’s EA, that it wouldn’t make this list.
Indie games don’t have that problem.
- Comment on Belief 3 weeks ago:
I dont think it is, just the dumb and mean people are given the spotlight more and more.
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 4 weeks ago:
I think at this point, by dry weight I am 20% ham, 20% mince pie, 20% cheese (mostly camembert and Wensleydale) 20% chocolate and 20% Christmas cake.
- Comment on Ska ftw 4 weeks ago:
To me, madness - one step beyond is definitive ska
- Comment on The infantry will advance 4 weeks ago:
Fighting tyranny doesn’t mean going to war with the US military.
It can be things like black panther style community patrols. A lot of states are open carry, you could set up armed community patrols around your neighbourhood, and that would make the brownshirts a lot less likely to drop in and start abducting people.
- Comment on Anon enjoys Minecraft 4 weeks ago:
Can I play Minecraft and enjoy milfs?
- Comment on Burger King is always good for one. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 5 weeks ago:
???
They tought us about imaginary numbers in A levels (16-17) here, do they not even teach them in undergrad in the US??? I struggle to believe that.
- Comment on Most guys couldn't care less about skin care. But those who really care do. 5 weeks ago:
AI meme
- Comment on when fiber isn't enough 5 weeks ago:
Saw this meme while on the bog absolutely fighting for my life, and honestly I would take that.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 1 month ago:
That’s not a thong
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 1 month ago:
One joke
- Comment on Its been 84 years 1 month ago:
I succeed NNN because to me it’s nonstop but november
- Comment on There are ultimately only so many damn angles, okay!? 1 month ago:
I mean have you seen what we’re working with? I swear it’s actually impossible to take a dick pic that actually looks good
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 1 month ago:
If he was handsome it would still be creepy
