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Today I continued stocking my freezer by making gnocchi for the first time. The "ugly ducklings" were fried in some sage butter for dinner, while the rest room their rightful place in the freezer. They ended up nice and fluffy, especially the second batch that got some more rest in the fridge before rolling them out, so I will let them all rest longer in the future. #gnocchi #cooking https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs3olFngqAv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ymagxlfm75so
Made some gyoza, or potstickers yesterday, according to the recipe and video of @joshuaweissman Had about half the stuffing left over, so I made a quick meatloaf with it. The taste of the gyoza is amazing, and I can easily see myself doing them again and again in the future, but with double the dough, like he said in the video. Maybe then I will also improve the fold đ The best part about this is that I now have a big old bag of them in my freezer, ready for whenever I want some! đ #potstickers #gyoza https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs3nttOge1L/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19fntt7bdhxd6
Today I tried my hands on some Onigirazu. After spending quite some time yesterday pickling some carrots, radishes, and pickles, and preparing the sushi rice, I only had to boil some chickpeas for the filling today, and then it was on to assembly. I definitely need to work on forming them a bit more, and need to find the ideal moistness for the seaweed to form it, but I'm quite pleased for a first try. The miso pickled cucumbers were surprisingly rich in taste, even after just one day. Excited to see how all the veggies turn out after some more time. Thank you to @brothersgreen for their video, which got me interested in trying to make one in the first place. #vegetarisch #vegetarian #onigirazu #lunchsorted https://www.instagram.com/p/BsoZ70FglYf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mw7y1h8cbxoe
Still not getting an android
Have fun with your overpriced paperweight
I will. And I know Iâll be safe from explosionsÂ
Bih you really forgot when iPod and iPhones were exploding and burning people in their sleep? An exploding phone is the only thing the iPhone has done before an Android.
^^^ lmfao clap back ; THE ONLY THING IPHONE HAS DONE BEFORE ANDROID
MASSIVE MILITARY COUP IN TURKEY RIGHT NOW!
I live in a narrow, one way street. Thereâs a fairly swanky motel in the adjacent street, and their parking garage is accessed from my street. This results in a lot of people in fancy cars ignoring the large âone way â>â sign across from the motelâs driveway and driving the wrong way down my street.Â
Tonight, I was driving home tired after a long day of experiments. I pulled into my street and was driving along slowly (because itâs really narrow and no one keeps their cats inside) when someone in a Porsche SUV pulls out of the motel driveway and starts driving towards me, going the wrong way down the street. I continue driving slowly hoping theyâll get the message, but they start flailing their arms about and flashing their lights. I flash my lights back, and by this point Iâm about 2 metres from their car with nowhere to go except backwards, which Iâm certainly not going to do when Iâm not in the wrong.
After about 2 minutes they finally realise the only way out of the situation is for them to reverse back into the motel driveway, which they do. I then drove past them and continued to drive slowly along my street, hoping for a park outside my house. However, this slow pace was not fast enough for Mr Porsche, who decided to drive extremely close to my tail and flash his lights, practically blinding me. I then noticed a large space of empty curb in front of my house, about twice my car length, and I could easily have driven in forwards to park. Instead, I decided to teach Mr Porsche a lesson in patience.Â
I put my blinker on, pulled up beside the car in front of the space, put my car into reverse (which then forced Porsche guy to reverse) and proceeded to do the worst job of reverse parking ever known to man. I needed to pull out of the park multiple times to correct my angle, and probably held Mr Porsche up for a good seven minutes while I pretended I didnât know how to park. I hope he was late to wherever he was going.
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i shared in 21 seconds and he fucking killed me with that hammer
Got a text from my neighbor that Amazon accidentally wedged a package between the door and the hand rail, pinning them inside their house. I got there, took a picture of the box and tweeted it to Amazon. They responded with a pun. Iâm not even mad
I cycle to work and back most days, as I work in a big city the roads are busy with traffic. One day as i was cycling home minding my own business a white van drove past me, and as it did the passenger leaned out of the window and shouted at me in order to scare me, and he succeeded, in fact i nearly fell off my bike. The van then carried on down the road whilst i took a minute to compose myself.
I knew the stretch of road we were on very well as i cycled it every day, so i knew that usually the traffic started to queue a bit further down the road. I instantly knew how i was going to get revenge, and started to speed up. As i got further down the road i could see the van in question in a queue waiting for a red light, i carried on cycling faster until i was almost level with him. I could see that the passenger side window was still rolled down, so i slowed down almost to a stop, took a deep breath and shouted âRRRAAAAAAAARRRGGHHâ as loud as i possibly could into the van. Until that day iâd never seen someone jump into the air with fear before, but both the passenger and the driver jumped up off their seats.
I carried on down the road but took a look over my shoulder a few moments later and i could see that they both recognized me as the guy they scared a few moments ago, and both gave me a thumbs up as if to say âtouchĂ©â.
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The UK has left Europe. Which means weâve also left behind all the laws Europe put in place for the protection of LGBT people and a shit ton of other good laws as well. The pound is at its lowest worth since 1985 meaning that thousands will loose their jobs as major companies try to save money by cutting the number of staff they employ, and a loaf of bread will probs cost more than fixing the teeth of everyone whoâs ever been on Jezza Kyle ever. So no, weâre not really alright but itâs our own fault tbh.
BREXIT: what the heck does it all mean?
A lot of people have no clue why Europe is currently in a state of uproar and the only word people seem to be saying is âBrexitâ so hereâs a not-so-quick and easy-breezy explanation on the past 24 hours of CHAOS that has ensued:
The European Union (EU): an organisation of European countries that follows similar laws, allows for freedom of movement/labour, easy travelling (@people who planned on doing Eurotrips, not sure if you can count the UK in that anymore!) and trade with each other. The EU is important because before it was formed, the European continent was ravaged by 2 world wars, and a division because of the Cold War. This organisation has provided all the stability weâve seen in the past 40-odd years.
So what the heck is a âBrexitâ? Basically, the UK has just voted to leave the EU. Now this doesnât seem like a TERRIBLE thing, but there are some serious political and economic consequences.
Economic implications:
- The British pound crashed from 1.5 to 1.3 in 6 hours, the lowest value in 30 years, which in turn affected the US dollar which affects all other global currencies. I wish I was joking but Iâm not: South Africa, Poland, Norway, Mexico. Hungary, Australia, Switzerland all saw their currencies plummet. Countries that donât rely on exports as their means of production cannot have a devalued currency. ITâs not good. The Japanese Yen which has been strengthening reached an all-time high which is terrible because Japan is trying to reverse its deflationary state. The Bank of Japan is now out of options and Japan literally STOPPED TRADING IN BRITISH STOCKS/INVESTMENTS.
- A devalued GBP means that the Bank of England is going to have to hike interest rates to prevent inflation (domestic prices going up even further) whicH WILL CAUSE A RECESSION. SOUND FAMILIAR ANYONE? YEAH. FINANCIAL CRISES.
- The UK leaving the EU means its market has gone down a LOT in size making them a less attractive destination for trade partners/investors. Theyâre going to have to draw up new trade agreements with basically the whole world since all their trade was previously tied to the EU. This will be tricky because countries liked having a market with a population of ~500 million compared to the UKâs size of ~50 million.
- GDP will go down. Retirement income will go down. The British economy is in a state of panic. The global economy is basically, fucked. For now at least.
The thing is, given the precarious nature of the economy right now with markets out of control and stagnant growth practically everywhere, it was a really really bad time to have this referendum - a lot of countries have been banking on a âBremainâ before making their next move when it comes to monetary/fiscal policy. The IMF has predicted that 2016/2017 will see the worst years for growth, but we might see upward growth trends from 2018 onwards.
So how does it still get worse?
- Scotland showed an overwhelming majority of votes to remain in the EU. Itâs likely that theyâre going to call for a referendum (again) to leave the UK so that they can join the EU as an independent country.
- Northern Ireland also wanted to stay in the EU. Itâs likely theyâre going to join the Republic and join the EU.
- Not sure about Wales. They could go âhaha fuck it mateâ and potentially leave the UK too.
- David Cameron has just announced that he will be resigning in 3 months which means that extreme conservatives who managed to sway the vote in favour of Leave could come to power. Thatâs right. Weâll be stuck to suffer with the likes of Farage and Johnson.Â
- Brexit triggered a lot of nationalist/extreme right-wing movements in the rest of Europe. Some leaders already calling for âFrexitâ (France), âItexitâ (Italy) and..âDexitâ (Netherlands)? We may see more in the next few days.. A disintegration of Europe is risky business because Europe has not been able to remain stable until the EU was formed. This could give way for an aggressive Russia too, who would want to take advantage of weak/vulnerable European states. An aggressive Russia will trigger US skepticism and we all know how that goes.Â
SO HOW DID THE GOVERNMENT LET THIS HAPPEN?
Basically David Cameron came up with the idea for the referendum because he was desperate to gain support from anti-EU parties like UKIP during the general elections last year. Except now heâs resigning. So.Â
During the campaign, Michael Gove, Boris Johnson (conservatives) and Nigel Farage (UKIP) stressed on immigration laws if the UK leaves the EU because immigration/refugees have been a big problem for the UK as its reducing jobs being given to UK locals/residents and they think the UK is becoming âovercrowdedâ so the Leave campaign was like WE WILL TIGHTEN OUR BORDERS! YEAH! Except now theyâve displaced millions of UK citizens living/working in the rest of the EU. Letâs see how they figure that one out.
Additionally, they talked about the economic benefits because if the UK were to leave, they would be able to allot the money that goes to the EU to other things like the NHS (national healthcare) etc. The Leave campaign went on about how the UK spends 350 million pounds a week on the EU but actually it spends less than half of that, so really, their campaign was built on scaremongering and lies.Â
Article 50, aka the means of exiting will be triggered in 3 months when the new Prime Minister is announced (most likely one of the extreme conservatives/Farage who are riding high on their âIndependence Dayâ fuckery which is even more proof of xenophobic, colonialist bullshit) after which the UK will have 2 years to complete its official withdrawal so hopefully that will provide short-term stability.
But the world is in a dark place right now and everything is terrible.Â
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I cycle to work and back most days, as I work in a big city the roads are busy with traffic. One day as i was cycling home minding my own business a white van drove past me, and as it did the passenger leaned out of the window and shouted at me in order to scare me, and he succeeded, in fact i nearly fell off my bike. The van then carried on down the road whilst i took a minute to compose myself.
I knew the stretch of road we were on very well as i cycled it every day, so i knew that usually the traffic started to queue a bit further down the road. I instantly knew how i was going to get revenge, and started to speed up. As i got further down the road i could see the van in question in a queue waiting for a red light, i carried on cycling faster until i was almost level with him. I could see that the passenger side window was still rolled down, so i slowed down almost to a stop, took a deep breath and shouted âRRRAAAAAAAARRRGGHHâ as loud as i possibly could into the van. Until that day iâd never seen someone jump into the air with fear before, but both the passenger and the driver jumped up off their seats.
I carried on down the road but took a look over my shoulder a few moments later and i could see that they both recognized me as the guy they scared a few moments ago, and both gave me a thumbs up as if to say âtouchĂ©â.
uk side of tumblr are u ok
The UK has left Europe. Which means weâve also left behind all the laws Europe put in place for the protection of LGBT people and a shit ton of other good laws as well. The pound is at its lowest worth since 1985 meaning that thousands will loose their jobs as major companies try to save money by cutting the number of staff they employ, and a loaf of bread will probs cost more than fixing the teeth of everyone whoâs ever been on Jezza Kyle ever. So no, weâre not really alright but itâs our own fault tbh.
