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I keep hearing that Hamas are causing this, and it’s a shame that Hamas are forcing the IDF to kill protesters and children.

But it’s relatively easy to stop, especially with the military might of Israel, you don’t shot into crowds of people on their own territory. If you’re defending yourself you could wait until people are actually at, in, or across the fence before you start killing them.

It seems to me that Israel saying, “It’s Hamas forcing people to be shot, it what they want, for propaganda purposes” with Israeli then willingly obliging by shooting the people has gone on too long. For a country as intelligent as Israel, isn’t it time they stop playing into Hamas’ hands by continually giving them what they (Hamas) wants? And to stop killing and maiming people?

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You wouldn’t know the difference between rabbit and chicken in many meals.

@jimmy Being exceptionally picky and limited in what I eat I can tell exactly what I am eating. The only way to not taste mystery meat is to spice it and I don’t eat spices.

Unfortunately my mum pandered to my every whim food wise and now as a fully grown adult I find it impossible to break my eating habits and struggle to find different food to eat. I won’t touch cheese, tomato, onion, garlic or any kind of spice or pepper so I am pretty sure it would be impossible to swap out rabbit for chicken without me knowing, the taste, texture and colour are totally different.

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I like the idea of only eating what you kill, farmers take a dim view of shooting their pigs and cows though. (I dislike deer and can’t stand game).

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Are people < 30ish just as resilient or have we created a world of special snowflakes?

I would say they are probably more resilient and less deluded than their baby boomers parents, who grew up at a time where every day was better than the next, and they had nothing to do with it, and to this day still seem to take everything for granted.

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As @andpandy says the table limits (max and min) are set so you max out and lose a large amount of money too often for it to make economical sense.

In the end the house always wins!

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you should always cook onions right down, at least until golden (20 mins minimum). Undercooked onions are a cardinal sin in any form of cooking!

@jam Not all curries cook onions till brown but quite a few do. It forms the base thickness of the sauce. Some tips: absolutely make sure you fry off any dry spices before adding any liquid. But burning them is a irreversible mistake (start again if you do). Burning garlic is equally as bad. Yogurt in curries can split and look like curdelled milk which is edible but an epic fail. Use only full fat yogurt and add in stages to the pan with no liquid (after the dry spices go in). Sizzle it spoon by spoon and mix it in slowly and it should not split.

Marnanating meat in spices and yogurt is a really good technique but normally needs to be over night. A tikka whole lamb leg is spectacular when done like this and then cooked over coal. The yogurt is meant to tenderise the meat but not sure how true that is.

Anyway besides all this the very best slow cooked beef curry IMO is Malaysian beef Rendang and whilst having lots of ingredients is pretty fool proof. You don’t do any spice frying or owt like that. Put that in the slow cooker all day and I promise you it will be one of the best curries you ever tasted. Will whatzapp you the recipe.

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Should we pay for (or contribute towards) the French police stopping illegal migrants getting to the UK? Yes.

Should we be buying migrants? not so much.

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Make an appointment to see your GP. It is possible to get help with anxiety.
What is your employer’s ‘Lone Worker Policy’? Read it carefully and check the procedures that must be followed in case of any incident, make sure that those procedures are available to you, rehearse what you would do in the case of an incident. If necessary rehearse until you can do it almost in your sleep, that will help to build your confidence. Try to remember that your employer has confidence in your ability, or you wouldn’t have been given the job.
However, rather than ringing your manager, if you are having a panic attack, is it possible to ring a family member/friend? Your manager’s role is to be there for you in case of a work related incident, rather than to help you to deal with your own issues.

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@katy You may be right that it’s attitudinal change that has lead to this, but prominent members of the legal profession (e.g. The Secret Barrister) are pointing to lack of resources in the police and CPS to properly investigate and prepare cases for court.

It has never been the police’s job to find evidence of guilt, and always to be objective (which in general I believe they are).

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Sounds a lot like a failure in the idiotically designed speed control module.

If 4 slowed down whilst 1-3 were failing I would lean towards a wiring failure. If it stayed at full power then I would lean towards the speed control module.

Most speed control modules have a power input, a power output and a control input. If you bridge the power input and output wires together on the blower module with a bit of wire, does the fan come on? If so you can use a switch wired to the pins on the plug with some crimp spade terminals as an emergency bodge until you can get a new unit. On the connector: Power input is normally at 0V, power output should be at 12V when the control unit is disconnected and the control input is somewhere in between, changing with the temperature knob.

The units typically change the resistance of the ground connection of the fan, hence the counter-intuitive voltages. This is a stupid way of doing speed control designed to bake the transistor to death. Why they don’t PWM drive it is beyond me.

If it is a wiring fault, don’t assume that it’s in the 12V feed – there may be more connectors (typical failure points) in the 0V feed. Measure the resistance from the motor’s connector to 0V at the control unit plug and to the fuse to determine the failed path.

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@donaldtrump Ok, I cant be bothered arguing with you. I dont have many feelings anyway so thats why its quite hard to offend me and likely why im not empathising.

But all that aside and to the main point of it….

Do you think the jumper is racist or not and does it give people the justification for going smashing stuff up? If you do think it’s racist please let me know why other than something along the lines of – it could be misconstrued, because thats my point. It seems lots of things are being misconstrued to be then viewed as offensive.

Theres probably some poor employee of H&M who right now is under the cosh because of this when in actual fact they probably meant the whole thing with good intention. The reason they probably had no malicious intent is because they themselves are not a racist so didn’t see why on earth that would be racist. Almost a child like (and good) way to view the world. Black person, white person, asian person…they dont see that they see…person. Which is they way it should be.

Your post isnt useful and isnt showing you as intelligent enough to put your point across. You might as well be sticking your fingers in your ears going la la la im not listening.

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@donaldtrump I think you’ll find you have misquoted me. I didnt say that, and i also said if things are genuinely offensive then people are right to be offended. Im saying people are taking offence at things they are creating a meaning for to be offended at. You have no argument.

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@donaldtrump This thing has gone world wide. The fact I referenced the incident in South Africa was just because it was in the news. In general it seems people are quite easily offended. IF – this was something completely racist (for instance the things said by the UKIP leaders wife) then of course being offended about something like that is completely understandable. Genuine racism, sexism, homophobia etc. – of course they will cause offence and are meant to do so by the people spewing it, in which case the people being offended have genuine reason to be.

On the other hand my argument is that people are far to quick to add meaning to something and take offence. Case in point – the subject of this thread. Are you seriously telling me that the jumper is racist? Bringing apartheid into this argument – you sir are part of the problem in that you are adding meaning to something that isnt there. That jumper has nothing to do with racism or social inequality.

Please expand on your argument for the justification to smash up 6 stores because of the jumper and relate it to apartheid.

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That comment isn’t going to get him removed from power. It’s a calculated statement that presents him as a tough guy who says it like it is to his supporters. A bunch of liberals that wouldn’t vote for him anyway are going to react with outrage in exactly the way he wants and make his base even more determined the Democrats won’t get in next time.

The democrats/liberals are getting played into putting their energy reacting to language rather than focussing on stuff which could actually damage Trump like where the money is going, whether he is mentally capable and what went on with Russia.

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Note that almost all those killed are young men, and (according their death notices in the Arab media) activists in Jihadi movements.

@martin Let’s analyse this statement, Jondo reckoned “most” of those killed prior to yesterday the 40+ were Hamas terrorists, you say “almost all”. The evidence Jondo produced was an Israeli newspaper with the pictures of ten of the dead having Hamas links.

So let’s pretend even half of them were Hamas activists intent on murdering Jews, that still leaves 50% innocent victims are you happy with this? Is this simply part of the chaos?

I’d say the chaos was caused by live fire into crowds. The threat has largely been existential as shown by the lack of Israeli’s injured so far (No I don’t want to see Israeli’s die before, I agree there was a threat).

Considering the distances between the army and the protesters I find it hard to see how anyone could throw a grenade or Molotov and cause any injuries, it simply defies the laws of physics.

Which is why the Israelis probably killed to press photographer who flew his drone overhead so we could all see what was really happening. He was a Hamas spy of course, so he deserved to die.

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