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sunday 5

Sun, 29 May 2022 20:01:56 GMT

1. Do you buy and use canned food?

Yes. They are a major staple of our diet. So many recipes Scottish people make on the regular use chopped tomatoes from a can for a start.

2. What is your favourite canned food?

No idea. Baked beans are probably the best thing you only get in a can for me. Spaghetti in tomato sauce either alone or with wee sausages is amazing though. And I am not beyond just cracking open a can of tuna and sitting with a fork.

3. Do you like some canned food better than the fresh or dried version of it?

Tuna maybe? I will eat tuna steaks and cook with them but there is something about the tinned version I prefer and then I have my levels. Stored in water >> brine >> sunflower oil. I straight up don't like fresh tomatoes but I can deal with the flavour of chopped tomatoes. If I can I replace with passata.

I do like tinned peaches but that is because they are prepared. Eating a standard peach turns into such a faff and I can't be bothered and then you have so many peaches need eaten RIGHT NOW and it stresses me out. Tinned peaches I can just open up and shuck some cream or something on. Nom. Craving some now. Only have tinned mandarins though and they are for a cake. Drat.

4. Do you have a can that just sits at the back of the cupboard? has anything weird happened to it? or do you still plan on using it in the future?

I'm pretty on top of our storecupboards because I hate waste (bc I grew up in poverty) The thing starting to look suspect is probably the evaporated milk. Maw keeps some around for baking but I have a feeling the tin sitting there will need used soon. Plus, if we see something has been there since the last check and realise yeah we're not going to use that but it has at least a month of date on it then we take it to the food bank drop off.

5. What is the weirdest thing you have seen canned?

Not weird but I feel very odd about whole pies with pastry tops being in cans. (free bentos). They are great for foodbanks, people living alone, perhaps people with not a lot of cooking skills but they just...blow my mind. And canned chicken? I don't know why burgers, chopped pork, corned beef (though too fatty for me) don't bother me but chicken just...no? And don't get me started on canning WHOLE chickens. That looks like an extra from the Alien movie. Full breakfasts in a can are weird. Beans, sausage, egg, tomatoes, all in a can. No. But anything else....just food and convenience isn't it? And getting foods to food deserts is what matters most.

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a green friday 5.

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:29:32 GMT

1. Where is the most beautiful nature in your area?

We are actually rather spoiled for choice around here. My town is surrounded by protected 'green belt' or land the government is not allowed to build on. We have a lock lake) of fair size around our Palace that is home to many birds, ducks, geese and various other critters as well as providing shelters for foxes, hedgehogs, bunnies, badgers, pheasants etc. A major canal route runs through our town housing similar critters and of course both places have your frogs and toads and the loch has fish. Allegedly. I've seen many sitting in their boats but have yet to see someone haul anything out looking pleased. XD But I gues the birdect population eats something.

We also have a country park to the north of us and as well as wild deer living in the hills there are also those kept in the park along with sheep, goats, hogs of various types, highland cows, a salmon farm, etc. The park allows you to walk through wooded areas either on trails or not that either just lead around each other or lead towards these places. Another loch is up the northern part of the park near our extinct volcano.

I had to really think about this because I am so lucky. A lot of things around me I take for granted because to me and my town it is normal. I have an American friend who adores sheep and never lived near any. To me sheep are annoying areseholes who need to GET OFF THE F-ING ROAD.

2. Does your household grow some of its own food?

Not currently. In the past, I have managed some strawberries and carrots in tubs but they were too small and I didn't have my patch in time to move them up so they suffocated. Paw has agreed to a full on vegetable garden but it has taken a lot of work to shift various things around. The canal burst around 15 years ago and the water flooded half our garden. Nothing will grow there now. You would have to spend hundreds if not thousands replacing soil etc for several meters across and deep. But all our sheds, bins, etc have been in the 'healthy' part of the garden. But things now seem on the up for us to have a crop next year. I used to do all the stuff in my gran's patch and many friends grow theirs so I'm itching to get started and very confident.

3. Do you recycle or repurpose a lot, a little, or somewhere in between?

Our council area in Scotland makes you do that really. We have three different bins that go out in cycles. So every second Monday is either a small wheelie bin like this or a larger blue one. We don't pay for them but that was just the best link. If you have more than four people in your house you can order a second small black bin with a red lid to show that is your extra one. Anyone can request as many blue bins as they like.

Black is for nonrecyclable (by our system!) waste like soiled nappies, wetwipes, ruined clothes, dishes or plastics you have no chances of fully cleaning etc, aerosauls, make up and stuff like that. The see through windows on envelopes. And crisp packets. They were recyclable until around six months ago when the council changed their mind.

Blue is for...nearly everything else that hasn't been alive at some point. Paper. Plastic. Tin. Card.

The brown bin goes out once every four weeks in Spring and Summer and once every eight in Winter and that is for garden waste and food waste. Food waste used to go into these little caddies collected once a month but not enough people were using them and there were too many incidents of the little bins blowing away and denting cars after collection. So now it is all in the garden bin. And that gets taken to council wide compost site which is then handed out to ...people who have allotments and such I think?

Metal, like...bars off an animal cage and glass are things we don't get collected anymore (your old pot can go in the black bin) and you have to take that either to the community tip for just metal or your glass can go there or to bottle banks distributed around the town. Where it is broken down my colour. So that is everything from a jar of jam or a bottle of rum.

Law abiding people will take their metal and glass away. Those not so abiding will hide it in their black bin under something that IS allowed to go in there. Because the lorry turns two bins over at a time the drivers can't prove which bin broke the law.

So I think in general we're enforced to be good here :P And of course you pay for carrier bags here and we have taxes to do with the environment so Scotland is pretty good that way in general. Different councils are ~~better and pick up your glass~~ different but yeah. I like it here.

4. What do you think the most endangered part of the Earth is?

Toss up between the ice caps at either side or the Amazon region of South America. Not just Brazil. South America. That place is big. Either way the actions of humans are destroying our planet and there is just no way to deny that now. Anything that might have been regular has been sent into overdrive meaning the planets natural response will never meet this crisis in time.

5. What is the single best way for an individual to help the environment?

Protest big business. My lamp is not an issue. Your showroom of cars is. My car is not an issue. Your fleet of jets is. Ask why buildings are lit up at night. Ask why companies can release balloons into the atmosphere when they open new buildings. Ask why private corporations are even able to go to space and release that much crap into the atmosphere? Ask why countries that can survive on solar or wind power have nuclear power stations? Ask, educate and protest. And remember anyone can do that from anywhere.

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friday 5

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:37:21 GMT

1. Can you do simple sewing repairs, such as replacing a button or rejoining a straight seam?

Seams I can do well enough. My button work will be less than pretty but it will still function. I can darn holes in socks and ladders in tights ect. I can pin-down collars. I have a lot of basic skills but if 'jack of all trades and master of none' is a phrase it is meant for me and needlecraft. I can get you ready for school but not to meet the leader of the nation.

2. Can you change a flat tire?

No, mostly because spare tyres are not really a thing here anymore. We tend to have puncture kits to keep in cars and/or then your insurance/garage takes care of it. Having said that given that my paw is a trained mechanic and I used to sit and ~~irritate~~ talk to him as he did work on cars at our house I think I can get a tyre off at least...

3. Can you plan and cook a simple meal?

I am a wonderful cook. No sarcasm. I'm being proud of myself on this one.

4. Can you rewire a lamp?

I am...now assuming American lamps are different? I mean here it is just a bulb change and a socket so I'd expect the question to be could I rewire a socket? I am 50/50 on that? Done it a few times with paw but never alone so maybe? But then again...the randomness of the question makes me feel there is something different out non-Scottish lamps that I am missing?

5. Are you a spender or a saver? Are you able to switch from one to the other on occasion?

Saver? If I spend it tends to be throwing everything at bills and/or something I have saved/planned to spend on for a while. Otherwise, I am plotting the month I let go. I am very conscious of my cash at all times because I grew up with...the lights going out or rushing to the bank on a Saturday to get mum's wages before her direct debits would hit so yes she would get fined but we would EAT. *shrug*

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Thursday 5.

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 16:01:51 GMT

1. What is one of your favorite things about your country?

We are accepting and we do not care. Worth a billion? Good for you, get in line at the cafe. Megastar on the front of a magazine each week? That is nice. We hosted the European Music awards in Edinburgh about a decade ago and everyone from Jennifer Lopez to Justin Timberlake were able to walk down Princes Street in Edinburgh and no one bothered them. Sure there was the odd 'holy shit you're!' but eh. We are open to refugees. We accept queer people for the most part. I won't claim we are perfect. We don't have the same racist or Islamophobic issues. Sectarian Christian violence is a problem but mostly we're just...kinda chill and I like that.

2. What is your favorite thing to do on your country's national holiday?

We do not have one. Scotland has a Saint's Day, which is for St Andrew on the 30th of November. But we don't have an independence day or anything because that remains a work in progress. So we all go to work but then basically we eat haggis and....I guess that is my favourite thing. We can't do anything much because work so...haggis, neeps(turnip) and tatties it is! But there is something....empowering about sitting with your family and eating your national dish and just...being proud of your country.

3. What do you usually do for your country's national holiday?

Work. Eat haggis. *nods*

4. What is your favorite national/regional ethnic dish?

Haggis. Oh dear maybe this fr5 was a bad idea lol I do love me some black pudding though. Don't look up the ingredients. Just put it on a tattie scone with some beans and enjoy it.

5. Who is your favorite national hero and why?

Cináed mac Ailpin ( Kenneth McAlpine)

In the 800s he united Scotland as one Kingdom. Mostly to tell the English to fuck off. If only we had progressed....

I didn't want to go with your Roberts or Williams because frankly I think a lot of their stories have become more myth and legend than facts. Modern heroes? Well they always fall flat don't they? Nicola Sturgeon is an amazing women but she is not without flaws. Alec Salmond already has his scandals. Donald Dewar led the charge for devolution. Then there area all our inventors. But I will stick with old Ken. He started it after all.

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thoughts on elimination chamber

Tue, 19 Feb 2019 17:24:05 GMT

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how I think Dumbledore is shown as gay in the books but why you need to look hard due to the law

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:20:45 GMT

Not the HP meta post I thought I would first write here but the one that fandom secrets seems to keep on pushing. Albus Dumbledore was written as gay from the Philosopher's Stone onwards. But, he was subtle because it was the 90s and it was not safe to just have him shack up with his ah, how shall we put it, world domination searching boyfriend. I want to thank A and E for their time in hashing out some ideas with me and looking parts of this over before I decided to post t.

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Context;

this was written in the 90s
in Britain
for Schoolkids. Primary aged.

I think far too many people see these stories through a present-day lens and forget that. I am not a person that believes JK Rowling would have got these books published if she said from the Philosopher's Stone that it was a boarding school under a gay headmaster.So many schools banned the books anyway and certainly in the United States, where this push against her saying she should have said it from the start seems be strongest, the banning was at its most hysterical.

Another important detail I always want to chip in with is that Rowling is not that great a writer. She is a wonderful world builder and she creates dramatic plotlines but years of meta and fan nerd wondering has demonstrated holes in everything she has done. The Potter fandom is a victim of itself. It put Rowling on a pedestal even when she said not to. Then they wondered why she fell of it. 'They' say that her using Remus as a comparison for Aids is flawed. Well, so is she. The basics of it are clear and show good intent. She just executes it badly. For adults. For the children it is aimed at the message is probably concrete enough, especially as it was given at a time when kids were still caught between parents freaking out at the mention of HIV and schools trying to push back against the idea that you could 'catch' HIV from a toilet seat.

The idea given is simple. A is perceived as a monster. This is wrong. A has done nothing wrong to have their illness. It is hard to catch A's illness if you do X and Y. Don't be like B, the nasty person. Be nice like C. Simple.

Adding to the 'gay Dumbledore' problem is that when she wrote the first five books were published while Section 28 of the Local Government Act was still an active part of law in England and Wales. In Scotland it was the first three books that had been published under the law. This stated that local authorities,

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thefridayfive

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 17:55:22 GMT

1. What size (twin, full, etc.) is your bed?

Double.

2. How many pillows do you sleep with?

Four main pillows but only 3 are on the bed at night. One is Nico's (my dog)and sits on the floor against the bed with a blanket from around 10pm for him to lie on. Then I have two plushie types and one mini square cushion.

3. Do you have a weighted blanket? If so, does it help you?

No. I sleep with a very thin duvet and even in winter try escape it so a weighted blanket is not my thing. My friend has one and when she has put it over me when it has been cold at her house I have found it very oppressive.

4. Do you sleep with any stuffed animals?

Not usually. I have a foot tall Pikachu that rolls between the bottom of my bed and a storage crate but other than that it is just my BB8 and Harry Potter plushie pillows.

5. Do you have to have the TV on to go to sleep?

No. In fact I am paranoid about falling asleep with the tv on because my paw would get really angry at the waste of electricity.

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links of interest

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 02:15:01 GMT

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"some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognise your power - not because they don't see it but because they see it and don't want it to exist" janet mock

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