She’s being forced to accept the authority of a semi-nationalised mercantilist corporation in a series of unequal treaties. The safe word is cardamom.

Haddock is the main ingredient, but you can chuck whatever in there, which I imagine is the ‘odds and ends’ folk origins of it. In Whitby the make something like it with crab and salt cod instead, which is another favourite of mine.

Cullen Skink is a chowder type dish from the north of Scotland (though they make regional variants all over Britain) that my mate made when I was up there, using mussles he paddled out into a loch in a kayak to fetch. Very nice!

I’m sorry this has got you so upset.

Well yes, if you go have a drink with Irish Nationalists and start talking about Derry/Londonderry that’s bound to happen. But it’s not like they’re refusing to let you in the country if you’ve got a British visa in your passport, like Arab countries do with Israel, for example.

Meh, it’s a bit like saying all the Italians have is various combinations of pasta, meat and tomato. It’s true, but it misses the finer details.

It was 105 that month, third hottest day on record!

Eh. Odds are there’ll be a deal next week and nobody will even notice, hardly panic stations yet.

The signs seem to be pointing to a Brexit deal sometime next week, and if that happens then nothing will change at all really. No border in Ireland, continued free movement etc. The real danger was no deal, which hopefully wont happen.

That sounds cool, the place always needs new blood. Just don’t expect the Irish-American view to hold. A large proportion of Irish people have family in Britain, and UK/IRE relations havent been better in a century.

Yeah, I get that we’re dunking on the evil white imperialists here, but many of the Hindu nationalist types have pretty reprehensible views on race and religion that would make Trump look positively Democrat.

I believe dilithium helps regulate the energy produced by the antimatter reactor, so instead of putting out 1 unit of useful energy for every 25 units of fuel it’s more like 1 to 2. We know that the Romulans use captive singularities as a power source, but for all we know they still use dilithium to make the process…

Eh, who cares about East Anglia? They’ll be happy, they’ve already got webbed feed anyway from all the cousin marriage.

My American relatives treat Indian food like we treat Mexican food in the UK: A dangerous case of food poisoning waiting to happen. I took them to my local Indian a few years ago and they looked at the menu like it was nitroglycerin.

Eh. 1/4 of Brits have Irish ancestry and 10% are eligible for Irish passports. In my experience actual antipathy is more of an Irish-American thing.

Apparently it was filmed in Bishop’s Stortford this year where the average high is 71 degrees. However it was an unusually hot August, with a week that averaged 95, and the third hottest day on record when it hit 101.

Eh. If they had a court martial every time characters in other Trek shows just buggered off with a shuttle with no warning, there’d be no characters left past S2

Though we don’t know if they used dilithium in those or not. We don’t know very much at all about how the singularity actually powered the ship, so it might still have used dilithium in some way.

Oh my god Source Code! The guy doesnt know how to do his new job! He doesnt know where he lives or who his family are! He doesnt even know where is car is parked!

Twelve gross of self sealing stem bolts!