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[Katy @katy Participant]

The casino will happily let you play like this. The house edge is still 2.7% if you bet on red or black so they couldn’t care less how you play. Their bankroll is much bigger than yours so you will still run out of money eventually.

Roulette is a fair game and the only strategy for a (non-rigged) roulette game is to be the casino!

[Katy @katy Participant]

One of the cruelest aspects of being on Death Row I should imagine. Knowing the exact date and time of the approaching demise.

[Katy @katy Participant]

I think that limit is an order of magnitude higher than what the UK does, but I don’t think it’s high enough – nor can it be – for what may be coming. The international community needs to act swiftly – and violently where necessary – to prevent a country disintegrating to the point where most people want to leave it otherwise it’s really going to get unpleasant.

@andypandy Violence may work against poor governments and their like but it’s no solution to famine/drought/crop failure which with the stresses they bring are likely to be the major drivers of movement and conflict in the coming decades (unless something else changes for the worse!). We’re technically ill equipped to counter those forces but I think we are more socially adaptable than we have had to be of late; accepting as people and societies that people and indeed whole societies will as they have before be forced to move seems the easier of the two issues to resolve in the short/medium term. “It’s impossible” isn’t an option and I hope genocide isn’t either though I strongly suspect it will be repeatedly tried.

[Katy @katy Participant]

Hot oil. Throw in your cumin seeds and wait till they darken. Blend the onions and cook with the lid on until dark golden brown. Add blended green chillis and ginger/garlic as required and fry off for a couple of minutes. Add meat at this point (if using) which may or may not have been marinated in yogurt/spice mix. Cook off till the oil separates (you are not really getting a sear like in western cooking though). Add tomatoes (canned and blended in my opinion) and water as necessary. Add dry spices at this point and cook for as long as needed.

This is basis for many tomato based curries. Cooking at each stage until the oil separates is the key in my opinion. And go easy on the yogurt – you don’t need much.

What’s great about curries is that there’s no much chopping to be done if you have a food processor.

[Katy @katy Participant]

Presumably the logic is:

1. The Le Touquet agreement allows the UK to put an immigration control on french soil.

2. According to UK law people can only apply for asylum once they are already on UK soil.

3. So asylum seekers wishing to get to the UK get stuck in Calais.

4. Somebody has to pick up the bill.

5. Currently that somebody is the French tax payer.

6. Since these people want to get to the UK and the UK is not letting them, it could be argued that the UK is at least partly responsible.

I should say, I don’t know whether there are already provisions in the Le Tourquet agreement to share costs.

[Katy @katy Participant]

I use those melatonin capsules from time to time. They really help me get to sleep and back to sleep when I wake up.

I tried them, but I’m one of the side effect statistics, made me itchy all over.

I use a mix of Eschscholzia californica (californian poppy), valerian, chamomile and Passiflora in fluid extract form

I buy my herbs from Panacea Health Online – you can buy 500mls Eschscholzia for £10 or so where other retailers repackage and sell 10 mls for £10!!!

Works well 🙂

[Katy @katy Participant]

Having had streaming issues last week the pharmacist then did say that for whatever reason if something tips us over the edge it does seem to come out in eyes. Mine are definitely cream sensitive and as it was I didn’t know if the issue was suncream being outside/pollen, the sun etc etc, despite taking 3 loratadine throughout the day. I left with some antistin eye drops as was going to be in the same situation for the next 2 days and they were then fine, it only last 28 days opened but I am going to make sure I have some over the summer from now on (I also got some chloramphenicol for the at least heading towards conjunctivitis eye!)

as for the outside corner hmm, I have been surprisingly impressed by my non reaction to aveeno stuff compared to others.

[Katy @katy Participant]

Thanks one and all 🙂

[Katy @katy Participant]

that the base position should be that all rape victims are telling the truth.

@phil Getting a bit pedantic here (but I do think it matters), all rape *victims* are indeed telling the truth (else they would not be “victims”).

What matters is whether rape *accusers* are telling the truth.

[Katy @katy Participant]

I’ll make a suggestion. A couple of decades ago, women complaining of rape were treated very skeptically by the police, with the result that many women were reluctant to go to them.

Campaigners succeeded in changing the culture, leading to a presumption that all accusations are true. “Always believe victims”, they say (where people making allegations are automatically regarded as “victims”).

The claim is made that the rate of false accusations is very low (2% is often claimed, though this figures has no real basis to it), and thus treating all allegations as true is justified.

So maybe the police really have now adopted that culture, where the person accused is nearly inevitably guilty in their eyes, and their job is to find the evidence to prove that, not to objectively assess the evidence.

[Katy @katy Participant]

Don’t worry, he has cancelled his trip here next month to open the new American embassy.

[Katy @katy Participant]

I once received orange shampoo instead or a bag of satsumas and 1.5kg pork chops instead of a small packet of sliced ham.

[Katy @katy Participant]

Israeli policy must change, and then Israel can claim to “want peace”. Until then, it is clear to the world that Israel wants violence.

These are the official Israeli conditions for peace with Hamas. (Taken from the Arab media, to avoid claims of bias) https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/10/17/netanyahu-israel-will-not-recognise-fatah-hamas-reconciliation-deal

The security cabinet gave a list of seven conditions:

– Hamas will recognise Israel and desist from terrorism, as per the Quartet conditions

– Hamas must be disarmed

– IDF fallen and Israeli civilians held by Hamas must be returned

– The Palestinian Authority (PA) must exercise full security control in Gaza, including at the crossings, and prevent smuggling

– The PA will continue to act against Hamas terror infrastructures in [the Occupied West Bank]

– Hamas will sever its ties with Iran

– Funds and humanitarian equipment will continue to flow into Gaza only via the PA and the mechanisms that have been established for this purpose

Tell me. Which of these show that Israel has a policy of wanting violence in Gaza? Which of these do you disagree with?

By way of contrast, these are from the updated Hamas charter (2017) http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-charter-1637794876

Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

At the heart of these lies armed resistance, which is regarded as the strategic choice for protecting the principles and the rights of the Palestinian people.

Now this is a clear call for ongoing violence.

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