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[dysfunction]

Huh?

I measure the rice and water and put them in the pan. Turn it on, then off. Don't be daft

Well it's a bit more complicated than that as you have to keep the timing just right.

 

[Lamp]

Look, clearly, in situations like this, always ask yourself: what would Rod Stewart do ?

He would boil his rice for 5 mins and steam it for 10

Thanks Rod

 

[Lamp]

That egg fried rice video is the funniest thing I've seen all day
I'm laughing my tits off

"Don't put wang anywhere near your egg fried rice"

 

[Scouse]

@Lamp you wanna check out Madhur Jaffrey if you're cooking Indian.

Make Onion Bhajis with your samosas too, they're piss easy.

Whilst I agree that Mml Jaffrey is a good cook, please tell me you're not serious about white people not being allowed to show you how to cook samosas.

Honestly, I wouldn't give a fuck if a Jamaican did a video of how to cook scouse. I'd be stoked that jamacian's liked it enough to make a video on it.

Fucking cultural appropriation my arse.

 

[Scouse]

Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds

Trillions of dollars of GDP depend on biodiversity, according to Swiss Re report

www.theguardian.com

 

[caLLous]

Scouse cuisine... the mind boggles.

 

[Moriath]

Rebuild that sector rather than giving your pals back handers whilst embarking on a propaganda campaign to distance the Government from the damage that Covid and Brexit are going to cause.

The reality is that lots of people will be sat on their arse at home and the government is adamant to make them feel like its all their fault.

At least Amazon warehouses will have shit loads of talented drones in there.

We have been spoilt the last 50 years or more.

work comes and goes and to say an artist is more special than anyone else just because they are creative is strange.

capitalism says go where thework is. In times of plenty there is spare for arts and the nice things. In times of less things have to be prioritised more.

we live on this planet and have to work around it. To demand currently unviable professions to be subsidised by the tax payer long term is not viable or sensible. Unless you just create a national wage and we do as we like.

 

[Job]

It has to be said that an enforced lockdown is not a product or in anyway a trait of capitalism.
Its a once in a generation event and you have two choices, preserve the continuity by borrowing from tomorrow or let it become part of arts journey.
The reality is most artists and actors are permanently broke anway and a handout could consist of 50 quid a week and theyd be delighted.
The people complaining are the very few lucky enough to have a reliable gig.

 

[Job]

Back to the endless panic to find some black history, we keep being told its black history time but Im not seeing an awful lot of actual black history relevent to their contribution to the western world outside of the millions of hours of unpaid, enforced slavery, which for me would suggest the response of.
What the fuck did you expect, some dude to discover neutrons while cotton picking.

So they have gone for...just keep talking about it.
Type American inventors into google and click on images.
At this rate they are going to just end up flashing 'black people' on all our screens every 5 mins.

 

[Raven]

Imagine if the first thing you did all day way worry about the quantity of black people in adverts and news reports.

 

[DaGaffer]

Imagine if the first thing you did all day way worry about the quantity of black people in adverts and news reports.

It's a funny thing; living in a country where I regularly see UK TV ads but don't actually live in the UK, the change in minority representation in ads is really noticeable, but what's also really interesting is who's getting represented; the biggest minority group in the UK are South Asians, but the actors getting the ad work are Afro-Caribbean, by a long way, which shows some interesting attitudes amongst casting agents, and that some minority groups are a lot shoutier than others.

 

[Scouse]

We have been spoilt the last 50 years or more.

work comes and goes and to say an artist is more special than anyone else just because they are creative is strange.

capitalism says go where thework is. In times of plenty there is spare for arts and the nice things. In times of less things have to be prioritised more.

we live on this planet and have to work around it. To demand currently unviable professions to be subsidised by the tax payer long term is not viable or sensible. Unless you just create a national wage and we do as we like.

Capitalism is slavery.

It creates massive wealth and concentrates it in the hands of a tiny few.

The promise was that we'd be able to work a few days for enough wealth to free ourselves to pursue our artistic/sporting/family leisure time.

Instead we work like dogs until we drop to ensure the super rich can amass wealth that we can only dream of.

We're not spoiled. We're abused to the point that some of us are so full of hate for mankind that they would rather metaphorically slap poor creatives and tell them to give up their dreams and work in jobs they hate, in service of making the wealthy even wealthier, than recognise our shared shackles and support them.

 

[Raven]

While I will agree, up to a point, the super rich are just getting richer... We do live a life of extreme luxury compared to the actual victims of global capitalism.

for just ~40 hours a week we have homes, our choice of things to eat, our choice of hobbies and the freedom to spend our free time doing pretty much whatever we want with whoever we want.

 

[Job]

Its not really that though is it.

We live like gods, houses built for us, water in a tap, vehicles to drive us around in comfort, are shit is taken away, electricity in the plug, workd class healthcare..usually...available.
Every westerner has the equivalent of a 100 slaves in convenience.

You get that even if you dont work a day in your life.

I'll take capitalism over socialism anyday, which makes the worlds worst marxist.

OK , some people take the piss, but they dont sit on money...they just control what its used for.

 

[Scouse]

While I will agree, up to a point, the super rich are just getting richer... We do live a life of extreme luxury compared to the actual victims of global capitalism.

Time is our most precious resource.

Whilst I agree on much of what you say we woefully under-cost our time. You may say "only" 40 hours a week but not only is it not just 40 hours a week, it's spread over 5 days, most of us lack our own direction and control and 75% of us work in jobs that we actively dislike - with no recourse to change that because our economy is setup like that.

If we weren't funding the lifestyles of the super rich we could consolidate that into 20 hours a week, over a couple of days, to food, house, fully employ ourselves, leaving us free to devote time to family, arts, friends, exercise, creation.

But our economy is setup to force our efforts in another direction.

One simple example (of which there are multitudes): Ursury is still banned in Muslim Saudi Arabia, it used to be banned in Christianity until el oldeo-pope-o figured out it could work as a mechanism of control in the catholic church's favour. The lending of money at interest steals our time - which is our most precious resource. (And drives that unearned profit into banks and the pockets of the rich).

Ask yourself this. On a typical £200k mortgage - at 3.5% over a 25 year lifetime you will pay £300,000. A whole half of what you borrowed again. At a cost of not just 8.5 years of your life in extra work for "the man" - but the opportunity cost of £100,000 additional earned income that you could have set against other things - to free yourself from work that 75% of us hate.

You may say that "the economy wouldn't work" that other way - but it's purpose is to make the rich even richer - so, no, it wouldn't serve that purpose any more.

Wage slavery is real. It's the whole point. And we're "grateful" for the pittance we receive because, like the canaries in the cage, we don't realise what we're missing out on.

 

[Gwadien]

Whilst I agree that Mml Jaffrey is a good cook, please tell me you're not serious about white people not being allowed to show you how to cook samosas.

Honestly, I wouldn't give a fuck if a Jamaican did a video of how to cook scouse. I'd be stoked that jamacian's liked it enough to make a video on it.

Fucking cultural appropriation my arse.

Ez baited, Tory

 

[Gwadien]

We have been spoilt the last 50 years or more.

work comes and goes and to say an artist is more special than anyone else just because they are creative is strange.

capitalism says go where thework is. In times of plenty there is spare for arts and the nice things. In times of less things have to be prioritised more.

we live on this planet and have to work around it. To demand currently unviable professions to be subsidised by the tax payer long term is not viable or sensible. Unless you just create a national wage and we do as we like.

I'm alright Jack.

 

[Scouse]

Ez baited, Tory

You're so far up the left's ass that everyone who doesn't agree with you is a Tory, right?

Not everything is politics you know.

 

[Raven]

Absolutely owning lazy, blame dodgers with the raw power of data, after they went above your head, moaning to the shirts.

Guy from another department complained that our warehouse weren't replacing stock fast enough. Essentially, someone uses a part, logs it (his lot), the warehouse replace it (half my lot, I'm inventory and finance). Bosh, frankly I push a button twice a week and the rest is automated.

I designed an SQL report that analysed every single stock transaction, dumped it into excel and banged on a nice pivot table.

It turns out it takes his lot, on average (average!) 38 days between using a part and logging that usage, it then takes my lot on average 3 days to replace that part, from warehouse to engineer premises.

Fucking idiot. I enjoyed that.

What makes it better is that I identified this exact potential failing before we got our dumb-ass service package and got overruled by the guy he complained to.

 

[Moriath]

I'm alright Jack.

Not at all. I would expect to do the same.
i have done loads of shite jobs, working in meat processing, working on the roads, cleaning bread factories, i done warehouse work as well. Just to get money in to do what I want.

i was looking for a job in the 80’s high unemployment. And how i advise my step children. Take any job you can, get some money coming in, then look to change to something you would like to do.

Expecting society to gift you a career in what you want to do is not realistic. And some of whats wrong with the younger generation.
i agree with @Scouse that its flawed and rich cats get richer. But in the way our society is today its how you have to work. Its so much better than it was 100 years ago but if there is no viable job in your chosen sector take any job until you can get back into it.

 

[DaGaffer]

but if there is no viable job in your chosen sector take any job until you can get back into it.

Doesn't really work with ballet dancers where you need to practice ten hours a day.

I get the whole "life's not fair suck it up" attitude, but at the same time it also makes the world a sadder, smaller place; replace the ballerina with a footballer and it would become an even more relatable tragedy; yes, you're probably not going to make it, but we don't need to rub it in to people's faces.

 

[Yoni]

A world without art / artists would be a very very sad one indeed.

 

[Raven]

It's still there.

Anyway, some of the best art comes from hard times.

 

[Ormorof]

You're so far up the left's ass that everyone who doesn't agree with you is a Tory, right?

Not everything is politics you know.

You took the first bait, and the second...

 

[Moriath]

Doesn't really work with ballet dancers where you need to practice ten hours a day.

I get the whole "life's not fair suck it up" attitude, but at the same time it also makes the world a sadder, smaller place; replace the ballerina with a footballer and it would become an even more relatable tragedy; yes, you're probably not going to make it, but we don't need to rub it in to people's faces.

The arts will have to change. Not disappear. Moth ball the venues, move the people to jobs that pay Where possible.
i agree everything is less when the arts and sports dont exist. But some times survival and situations dictate that not everything can be as it is. We come out the otherside with the infrastructure intact and start to rebuild.
Or the government finds lots of magic money and people sit around waiting for everything to get back to normal. But with huge taxes to pay back all the borrowing so no one can afford to go to the ballet anyway.

 

[Moriath]

Also appears ad was from a 2019 champaign not specifically targetting the arts

View: https://twitter.com/Nick_Pettigrew/status/1315597228367585281

 

[Scouse]

The arts will have to change.

Doesn't have to.

Only in this shitty slave economy does it have to.

 

[Moriath]

Doesn't have to.

Only in this shitty slave economy does it have to.

Sure unless the society in which it exists changes. I been saying for ages capitalism as it is today is shite for the majority.

 

[Gwadien]

Sure unless the society in which it exists changes. I been saying for ages capitalism as it is today is shite for the majority.

But then in the same paragraph you tell people to shut up moaning and get on with it, and you had it just as has when you were younger.

Which just isn't true for a multitude of reasons.

Let's face it. The future is we're (anyone under the age of 30) all going to be working for Jeff Bezos at minimum wage and having to do year long Amazon qualifications in order to get 50p a hour pay increases. And that's what the tories want, they say they're for small to medium businesses but let's see how much of a reality that's actually going to be. So long as they and their mates are making the big bucks, why change it?

My Dad for example bumbled his way through a terrible education and got a terrible job, still afforded to buy a house at the age of 18 though, and then worked his way up to a well paid job, which is the how many young people can say the same today? When there's a 18 year old that buys their own house today it makes the fucking news.

Same applies for other people that haven't progressed in careers but because they bought a house at a young age. They're essentially retired couriers sitting in 350k houses. I don't see any amazing and simple investments like that going on today.

 

[Job]

Thats a problem with Scouses favourite hate, inherited wealth.

I helped the stepdaughter with a deposit, because I inherited it from my parents and it just keeps adding up.
If you dont have that chain then you are fucked and that is increasingly becoming the majority.

They should let those with enthusiasm and a bit of know how build their own with special loans, it would be far more rewarding than a minimum wage job and quite possibly a lot more financially rewarding.