@hazardwarning OK, I get it. I just thought the dissing was very harsh, so I was expecting their ‘crime’ to be more horrible. On the other hand, being fake is the devil’s way, so I suppose the harshness makes sense in light of that.
Can any one explain this to me? Why would Jesus say such a thing?:
'Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.' [Matthew 7]
@peemee Rhubarb will never die. Anyway, gooseberries make rhubarb seem positively delightful by comparison.
// @coopey
@coopey You better not come to Wakefield when the annual Rhubarb Festival is on, you’ll get lynched with that kind of talk. They’ve even erected a rhubarb sculpture in the park (coz rhubarb triangle).
@hazardwarning You also forgot Rhubarb & Custard, the dish, not the cartoon. We had rhubarb in the garden when I was a kid. We’d break a stalk off, put sugar in a bowl and dip the end of the rhubarb in the sugar and chomp away. You need to be very liberal with the sugar, otherwise it’s horrid. What is Rhubarb Fool?
// @matigo @coopey @peemee
@nitinkhanna It’s sad isn’t it? All the good, competent people are busy with their heads down and all the incompetent, egotistical gobshites are sat behind big desks dictating to the good people.
// @matigo
@nitinkhanna I just went back and checked. It's actually Autumn I've been liking recently, not Summer. It still has some of the catchiness of Spring but sounds a bit more serious.
@nitinkhanna Until recently I would always have said Spring, but I think I'm starting to like Summer more.
'After a year of war, Kupol, a [Ukrainian] lieutenant colonel, said his battalion is unrecognizable. Of about 500 soldiers, roughly 100 were killed in action and another 400 wounded, leading to complete turnover. Kupol said he was the sole military professional in the battalion, and he described the struggle of leading a unit composed entirely of inexperienced troops.'
A one hundred percent casualty rate is not very effective in war. It is very effective at depopulation and psychological scarring though. I remember last year, someone saying that one of America's secondary aims (if the primary aim of chopping up Russia didn't work) was to ensure that the relationship between Russia and Ukraine was ruined forever so that Moscow could never re-unite with Kiev. The countries of West Asia have experience of this tactic of the Westerners….but they are starting to wise up if recent changes over there are anything to go by.
In the eighteenth century, pastry wasn’t part of a meal; it was just a container for food. Leftover pastry was given to servants.