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[jathanas]

I've been staggered by the JW images.

My forbears are embedded somewhere in me, the people who blooded some poor shaking creature for the sake of a benign turn of weather, and after that it was the people who could only believe that the sun revolved around God's earth.

Now we're looking at smudges on a picture which some excitable astro-type tells us is a cluster of galaxies, among a larger kaleidoscope of clusters, all of it reaching out from billions of years ago.

Here I am in my dressing gown peering towards the edge of universe and the beginning of time. Channelling Jim Morrison...immaculate.

The area of the sky that the image I linked to covers is the equivalent to a grain of sand held at arm's length.

I have by now had 2 coffees and even managed some moderate productivity, but this news is stirring.

It's even more exciting than JDG's Bali adventures.

 

[jathanas]

The images released this morning are spectacular, absolutely love it. The science nerd in me is rather excited.

If these images don't raise the hair on the back of your neck, are you even a proper nerd?

 

[JB1975]

The area of the sky that the image I linked to covers is the equivalent to a grain of sand held at arm's length.

I have by now had 2 coffees and even managed some moderate productivity, but this news is stirring.

It's even more exciting than JDG's Bali adventures.

You know, I've been meaning to turn the attention of this thread back to Covid, to discuss Dan's election-sensitive response to the latest surge, but the dribble of intergalactic images just make the pandemic seem petty.

 

[WalterBlaknWhte]

So what moderately annoys me...

We strip away a staggering amount of human liberties, mortgage the financial prosperity of future generations, fuel inflation by smashing supply chains, compromise the education of our kids, and re-allocate health treatments from a range of current and future ailments

But are our governments and health officials capable of seeing the enormous economic and health benefit of widespread RATS and rapid access to anti-virals?



No

 

[leon123]

So what moderately annoys me...

We strip away a staggering amount of human liberties, mortgage the financial prosperity of future generations, fuel inflation by smashing supply chains, compromise the education of our kids, and re-allocate health treatments from a range of current and future ailments

But are our governments and health officials capable of seeing the enormous economic and health benefit of widespread RATS and rapid access to anti-virals?



No

agreed, its so silly isnt it.

For a few cents relatively, compared to the bigger costs it will save and the huge costs of previous policies - saving some pennies now gonna cost fair few pounds down the track

 

[jathanas]

With the price of healthy green options being what it is...

P.S: My lunches were always a little "woggier". Split Vienna sliced thick, with salami/mortadella & feta filling.

 

[sr36]

With the price of healthy green options being what it is...

P.S: My lunches were always a little "woggier". Split Vienna sliced thick, with salami/mortadella & feta filling.

It was always straz and sauce when I was young. Devon looks even crapper.

 

[sideswipe]

With the price of healthy green options being what it is...

P.S: My lunches were always a little "woggier". Split Vienna sliced thick, with salami/mortadella & feta filling.

My lunches were ultimate skip. It only happened for a few years but when all 6 boys were at school at the same time Mum made all the sandwiches on Sunday and chucked them in the freezer. Then would lay them out in age order for collecting. All different orders.

I was straight ham and butter. It was often still frozen in winter. And I was about 6 years old. At least Oliver Twist had hot food.


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[sideswipe]

Am now remembering lunch orders. Brown paper bag, write order on outside. Pies in foil trays. Delivered straight from the Sun.


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[jathanas]

Am now remembering lunch orders. Brown paper bag, write order on outside. Pies in foil trays. Delivered straight from the Sun.


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Loved 'em. Never GAF about what was in those pies, they were awesome.

That was primary school.

High school I'd hit the hot-dogs and warm jam donuts. The food I ate had less nutritional value than the brown paper bags it was served in.

I was happy.

 

[JB1975]

Not sure if anyone remembers some sort of 'snack box' in primary school, which contained an assortment of purportedly healthy shit: cheese, fruit, stick of celery etc.

The inculcation of eating habits in schools has a long history, quite boring.

I'm ashamed to admit that my friend Daniel (RIP) and myself made a habit of piffing the celery over the fence at passing cars on Davey Street. Miss Cashen caught us one day. Quite brazenly, Daniel denied wrongdoing, tried to convince Cashen that her eyes deceived her.

More fatalistic, I said yeah, I was throwing celery. I was set free for honesty and Daniel was sentenced to picking up rubbish for the rest of lunch.

As Walt would say, the moral of the story is that celery is an evil food which preys upon the vulnerable.

 

[JoinDate]

Celery's ****ed tbh.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

Am now remembering lunch orders. Brown paper bag, write order on outside. Pies in foil trays. Delivered straight from the Sun.


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Right there with you but was always a sausage roll guy, personally. Sauce for days.

 

[sideswipe]

Right there with you but was always a sausage roll guy, personally. Sauce for days.

S/Rs are fine. A suitable entree for the fat spoiled kids whilst they let their pie cool down.

Different story for the Pastie orderers. Bullying them was doing a favour for a kid with a mum silly enough to try to salvage some health from pastry made from fk knows what.


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[jathanas]

S/Rs are fine. A suitable entree for the fat spoiled kids whilst they let their pie cool down.

Different story for the Pastie orderers. Bullying them was doing a favour for a kid with a mum silly enough to try to salvage some health from pastry made from fk knows what.


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Tonight your truth is powerful and compelling.

Sausage rolls were an excellent hors d'oeuvre.

Pasties were beyond my comprehension, much like kale.

 

[leon123]

Not sure if anyone remembers some sort of 'snack box' in primary school, which contained an assortment of purportedly healthy s**t: cheese, fruit, stick of celery etc.

The inculcation of eating habits in schools has a long history, quite boring.

I'm ashamed to admit that my friend Daniel (RIP) and myself made a habit of piffing the celery over the fence at passing cars on Davey Street. Miss Cashen caught us one day. Quite brazenly, Daniel denied wrongdoing, tried to convince Cashen that her eyes deceived her.

More fatalistic, I said yeah, I was throwing celery. I was set free for honesty and Daniel was sentenced to picking up rubbish for the rest of lunch.

As Walt would say, the moral of the story is that celery is an evil food which preys upon the vulnerable.

Wow, with that lunchbox, you must have grown up in some houiity touity place.... a snack box, wow

 

[neilk]

The "special" was the go at my PS. A sausage roll in a bread roll.

 

[WalterBlaknWhte]

As Walt would say, the moral of the story is that celery is an evil food which preys upon the vulnerable.

Mum was President of the Mothers’ Club at Frankston Primary

One of The Socialist Nutrition Parents gained power over The Tuckshop

Mum did her best to over-turn the Healthy Choice Menu and restore pies, chocolate milk, Wagon Wheels etc

A weird compromise prevailed - chicken pies in a gluey sauce, apple juice, and f*cked-up bayonets of carob etc

The Moral JB is: Better Dead than Red

 

[WalterBlaknWhte]

The "special" was the go at my PS. A sausage roll in a bread roll.

Gourmands!

We thought bread rolls stuffed with Twisties was living

 

[jmac70]

The "special" was the go at my PS. A sausage roll in a bread roll.

I once had a pie Parma. Literally a meat pie on top of a chicken parma

 

[WalterBlaknWhte]

I once had a pie Parma. Literally a meat pie on top of a chicken parma

Makes sense - combining 2 things you like


I once made my toddler daughter an omelette studded with chocolate squares

Her Mum was out which made me OverLord of the Kitchen for a few hours so I didn’t waste my powers

 

[Good Horse]

Muffins.


Give me apple muffins people.



MUFFINS!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sideswipe]

Muffins.


Give me apple muffins people.



MUFFINS!!!!!!!!!!!



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One of the greatest marketing moves of all time. Instead of trying to sell people a massive slice of cake, lets bake them separately and call them muffins. So they don't sound so bad for you.

 

[JoinDate]

Would love to see a reaction on BF.

Would enjoy reacting to certain posters who only ever post bait.

 

[jmac70]

One of the greatest marketing moves of all time. Instead of trying to sell people a massive slice of cake, lets bake them separately and call them muffins. So they don't sound so bad for you.

Muffin tops, only half the fat…