Jamal

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Ah, I understand. Sorry.

I don't share your attraction to luncheon meat, but I don't think it's a sign of insanity.

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Thank you Jafar :up:

Must be hundreds, if not thousands of years. Let me think back… Well, this site was spawned from an older site which is now defunct. I joined that sit...

Welcome to TPF :smile: I remember when I was new here. I look back on that naive and innocent whippersnapper with a combination of embarrassment, long...

:cool: Someone has made a comic based on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/126pky7/rise_of_tomorrows_comic_based_on_the_book_all/

*Lens

I finally finished Solaris. I was half bored, half fascinated. I absolutely loved the fictional history of Solaristics (the scientific study of the pl...

You're welcome.

Yes, and not only Europe and China. Their invasions in Western Asia (formerly “the Middle East”) had a massive impact. Most famously, the Siege of Bag...

I say old bean. :brow:

That's one way to look at it, but top left are usually called yellow split peas (although I normally use the term chana dal since it's most often used...

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My favourite is top left.

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https://youtu.be/rdxv2AFky3I?si=CgF44s-SSjYGtH-h Derivative of the Cocteau Twins no doubt, but awesome in its own right. I’ve posted it before.

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Ah, I see now.

Ramps are similar but not the same as the flowering plants shown in that photo of a European beech forest. Ramps = Allium tricoccum Wild garlic = Alli...

One of its names is “wild garlic” and it’s in the same genus and it has a somewhat similar aroma and taste, so it’s a garlic in my book. Not garlic ga...

:up: Some people avoid garlic, especially raw garlic (such as is found in tzatziki) for breakfast, but I don’t understand that. Some people say that i...

Ah yes, the Park Hill Estate is quite famous in Britain. Well, at least among those of us who are nostalgic for utopian social housing.

Good choices. The second one is the bus station in Preston, Lancashire. The first one looks like the UK too. But I’ll have to side with Lionino regard...

Yes, I'd say it fits in that category too. La Pedrera, a masterpiece. :up:

No image is showing up for me. I'm guessing it's this one: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/ac/b2/adacb287cc8f1d6b951d8131f7af3dbe.jpg It reminds me ...

I'll wager the apartments in that building are far more spacious and varied than most of today's apartment blocks. It's a famous example of organicism...

Start here: https://www.rbth.com/arts/336582-stalinist-empire-style-architecture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinist_architecture You make a goo...

I have spent time in one of the other Stalinist skyscrapers, the Hotel Ukraine. They’re not made to be good places to study or live or work, but just ...

Nice photo, but I don't like the building. I think it's a bombastic and insensitively located monstrosity, and it reminds me of Stalinist architecture...

What @"Michael" said.

What should I have done, wise one? So I know for next time (it's happened before on that bridge).

The other day I went for an interesting bike ride. It had highs and lows, one of the lows being an attempted suicide. I got 40 kilometres from home wh...

Asking @"javi2541997" what he thinks of Barcelona is like asking a Glaswegian what they think of Edinburgh. EDIT: Or maybe more like asking a Londoner...

You've pretty much hit the nail on the head, while simultaneously making me feel wistful. To subtract a point because you said I could see the Highlan...

Yes, I do particularly like the combination of fried eggs and fried potatoes. However, I had some bad experiences in Barcelona. Fried eggs and fries i...

Deepfried tiddlers be a common meal hither and yonder, howbeit I canst be speakin' for the Mexicans. Interesting thing happened yesterday. The plan wa...

In a sense, Russia was more communist under the tsars than after the revolution:

No, and it wasn’t a secret. The Party’s official story was that they were working on it, so be patient. Until the eighties they were in the habit of p...

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I saw a lot of great moss today.

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Just marginally vexed.

You don’t say. It’s great to have real medical professionals around to give us these wondrous gems of physiological knowledge.

Good idea, but I've thought of something simpler: I could glue the hams to the inner sides of the bread, and put the cheese in the middle. That way, t...

Yes, I used one of those machines when I was a child. I've since progressed to real sandwiches. EDIT: I suppose the advantage of the machine-made sand...

That's the thing, I was using rough dry ham (the best kind), so I shouldn't've need a ham sander.