Things you only just found out about.

[tom27111]

We need our resident food safety expert on this

 

@Milo?

[Milo]

Ha - wtf has prompted this?? 
 

UHT is either Ultra Heat Treatment or Ultra High Temperature. Both work. 
 

Depends what you want to do, but usually 135 degrees for a second or so.
 

(Think about that for a moment. How to heat huuuuuge quantities of milk to such a specific time and temperature). 
 

Big fvck off tanks that force the milk through a heated, pressurised tube to the time and temp required.  
 

It’s then chilled via a glycol counter chiller into new tanks and then packaged. 
 

No pathogens or spoilage bacteria. Tastes shit, but lasts forever. 

[Daggers]

23 minutes ago, Milo said:

Tastes shit, but lasts forever. 

Like a potential tournament win for Southgate

[ozleicester]

5 hours ago, Flamey said:

Why is it cold then?? 🤔...well luke warm..

Who the hell is luke?

[Royston.]

Demarai Gray plays for Jamaica???

[ithuriel]

Wow, never knew things were this bad in NYC.

 

[ozleicester]

1 hour ago, ithuriel said:

Wow, never knew things were this bad in NYC.

 

Video suppliedby "Cash Jordan" ... He is hoping to become the next Jordan Petrerson or whoever that other video fvckwit is.

The stories are misleading and untrue, Walgreens had previously been accused of closing stores in San Fran due to shoplifting only to respond by saying they had only had 2-3 shoplifting offences and they were closing due to competetive reasons.

 

Right wing dystopian bulshit

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/01/14/heres-why-drug-stores-are-closing-in-minority-neighborhoods-walgreens-cvs-and-rite-aid-shutter-more-than-1000/

Edited 27 June by ozleicester

[Milo]

I’ve only just found out that the Tesla model numbers spell out S3XY

 

Clearly I’m late to the party, but he really is a bit of a tool, isn’t he??! 

[boots60]

On 27/06/2024 at 04:19, ithuriel said:

Wow, never knew things were this bad in NYC.

 

That's not NYC, that's Beaumont Leys shopping centre on a Saturday

[ithuriel]

2 hours ago, boots60 said:

That's not NYC, that's Beaumont Leys shopping centre on a Saturday

So still safer than the city centre then 

[Torquay Gunner]

6 hours ago, Milo said:

I’ve only just found out that the Tesla model numbers spell out S3XY

 

Clearly I’m late to the party, but he really is a bit of a tool, isn’t he??! 

That’s nothing. Trump only recently realised that the pronoun us can also stand for United States! 

[stripeyfox]

"On this Day" section on Wikipedia front page today

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_balloon_riot

 

The Leicester balloon riot took place at Leicester's Victoria Park on 11 July 1864. It occurred at a test flight of a new hydrogen balloon by aeronaut Henry Tracey Coxwell, for which 50,000 spectators attended. The crowd were enraged by rumours that the balloon was not the largest and newest of Coxwell's balloons and because a woman was allegedly struck by a police officer. Coxwell's balloon was damaged, upon which he caused the gas envelope to collapse and fled, under attack from the crowd. The balloon was subsequently torn to pieces and its basket burnt. The event caused considerable expense to Coxwell, who had to build a replacement balloon, and it set back progress in scientific high-altitude flights.

[Izzy]

6 hours ago, stripeyfox said:

"On this Day" section on Wikipedia front page today

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_balloon_riot

 

The Leicester balloon riot took place at Leicester's Victoria Park on 11 July 1864. It occurred at a test flight of a new hydrogen balloon by aeronaut Henry Tracey Coxwell, for which 50,000 spectators attended. The crowd were enraged by rumours that the balloon was not the largest and newest of Coxwell's balloons and because a woman was allegedly struck by a police officer. Coxwell's balloon was damaged, upon which he caused the gas envelope to collapse and fled, under attack from the crowd. The balloon was subsequently torn to pieces and its basket burnt. The event caused considerable expense to Coxwell, who had to build a replacement balloon, and it set back progress in scientific high-altitude flights.

@davieG remembers it like yesterday 

[davieG]

1 hour ago, Izzy said:

@davieG remembers it like yesterday 

Yeah I've still got a bit of the balloon framed and on my wall. Might be worth a few quid now the story's out.

[Royston.]

On 09/07/2024 at 13:38, boots60 said:

That's not NYC, that's Beaumont Leys shopping centre happy hour on a Saturday

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

9 hours ago, stripeyfox said:

"On this Day" section on Wikipedia front page today

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_balloon_riot

 

The Leicester balloon riot took place at Leicester's Victoria Park on 11 July 1864. It occurred at a test flight of a new hydrogen balloon by aeronaut Henry Tracey Coxwell, for which 50,000 spectators attended. The crowd were enraged by rumours that the balloon was not the largest and newest of Coxwell's balloons and because a woman was allegedly struck by a police officer. Coxwell's balloon was damaged, upon which he caused the gas envelope to collapse and fled, under attack from the crowd. The balloon was subsequently torn to pieces and its basket burnt. The event caused considerable expense to Coxwell, who had to build a replacement balloon, and it set back progress in scientific high-altitude flights.

1) That's a big crowd to watch something go up in the air and float off. Can't have been much else on that weekend

 

2) What a thing to riot about

[Parafox]

17 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

1) That's a big crowd to watch something go up in the air and float off. Can't have been much else on that weekend

 

2) What a thing to riot about

 

Well, it was 1864. 

 

Maybe the rioting was a result of being bored on a Sunday afternoon?

[Bellend Sebastian]

6 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Well, it was 1864. 

 

Maybe the rioting was a result of being bored on a Sunday afternoon?

I suppose they might have been hoping for a spectacular fiery accident but as the Hindenburg was 70 odd years later that might not have been on their radar. 

 

You're probably right, everyone was bored and drunk and looking for a reason to kick off. 

 

Victorian drunkard 1: What is your view on Mr Coxwell's aerial contraption? 

Victorian drunkard 2: Well I would consider it fairly magnificent

Victorian drunkard 1: (conspiratorially) Well I am led to believe on good authority that it is neither his biggest nor his best

Victorian drunkard 2: You f***ing wot mate? (hurls spinning jenny across park)

[FoxyPV]

Skid row was an actual place rather than a slang term

[stripeyfox]

11 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

Well, it was 1864. 

 

Maybe the rioting was a result of being bored on a Sunday afternoon?

fortunately, not long after the balloon riot, Leicester City Football Club was created to give local people something else to get outraged about for the next 150 years!
 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Not just found out but very, very late to, was carrot cake and cheese cake.

I thought they were cakes that tasted like carrots and cakes tasting like Red Leicester or something.

Urgh! No thanks.

But then I tried some.

I am now on a mission to catch-up on 40 odd years of misguided, self-imposed abstinence.

 

Edited 13 July by Free Falling Foxes

[Parafox]

5 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Not just found out but very, very late to, was carrot cake and cheese cake.

I thought they were cakes that tasted like carrots and cakes tasting like Red Leicester or something.

Urgh! No thanks.

But then I tried some.

I am now on a mission to catch-up on 40 odd years of misguided, self-imposed abstinence.

 

 

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

Arsenic is poisonous and can kill you in fi....

[davieG]

Richard Merkel  · 

Prior to 1920, it was possible to send children through the US Postal service. However, there were certain conditions that needed to be met. Firstly, the children had to weigh less than 50 pounds, and stamps were attached to their clothing as a form of payment. Surprisingly, it was often more cost-effective for individuals to send their children via mail rather than opting for train transportation. Interestingly, during the journey, the children would travel on a train, specifically in the mail car, where they were supervised and provided with nourishment by mail clerks. One remarkable example of this unconventional practice involved a distance of over 700 miles, from Florida to Virginia, covered with a mere 15 cents worth of stamps.

 

[jgtuk]

13 minutes ago, davieG said:

Richard Merkel  · 

Prior to 1920, it was possible to send children through the US Postal service. However, there were certain conditions that needed to be met. Firstly, the children had to weigh less than 50 pounds, and stamps were attached to their clothing as a form of payment. Surprisingly, it was often more cost-effective for individuals to send their children via mail rather than opting for train transportation. Interestingly, during the journey, the children would travel on a train, specifically in the mail car, where they were supervised and provided with nourishment by mail clerks. One remarkable example of this unconventional practice involved a distance of over 700 miles, from Florida to Virginia, covered with a mere 15 cents worth of stamps.

 

 

The good old days eh, can’t do that anymore, postal service gone woke 😂