Kung fu panda-core

The preference on ingredients and recipes is a big one. If you’re creative in what you cook and do interesting stuff, then what you make can def beat ordering off a set menu for catering to your specific tastes. I like to do pan seared sea trout with a butterbean, sorrel, garlic olive oil, lemon thing done in a pestle, with grated beetroot + crème fraiche on the side, with asparagus and mushrooms.

The other point is you can grow your own ingredients, and particularly heritage varieties that are bred for flavour but don’t transport well can be soooo good. I grow the asparagus, beetroot and sorrel, and forage mushrooms for that recipe (well, for general use and get used in that recipe). Garden produces apples, pears, plums, damsons, herbs (incl niche ones like sorrel, lovage, savoury), black/white/redcurrants, runner beans… all of which taste miles better than those varieties that have to be transported, or are flat out hard to get.

Things I do not do well are things that require economies of scale (e.g. deep frying, ramen etc.), or cuisines that I’m no good at/don’t have the ingredients for.

Not only that, but also using them as props to try and make a point feels a bit bleargh.

Yes, so hanged is the correct form

No it isn’t

“The past tense of hang in almost all situations is hung. You hung a picture on the wall yesterday, or you hung out at the mall last week. Only use hanged when referring to someone who has been killed by hanging.”

• Merriam Webster

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Worth mentioning the first ‘witch’ story is Equal Rites, if people want to start the series at the beginning (not that you need to!)

Channel 4 once did a documentary dissecting large animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Nature's_Giants

Including a whale, an elephant, etc

Fediverse of the mind

Is it though? Or is it a critique how the education system can be used to indoctrinate minorities into voting against their interests and perpetuating inequality?

There’s certain songs I can only sing along to with a roughed up throat (Leonard Cohen, for example). The one silver lining of feeling like shite!

Good humour certainly makes me [redacted for the sake of public decency]

I did watch it and enjoyed it, but felt it wasn’t quite as good as that Mitchell and Webb look. Certain sketches (e.g. sweary Aussie drama) felt like the same joke repeated, rather than variations on a theme as for e.g. remain indoors, and the pacing didn’t feel quite as snappy. Felt like the ideas — a lot of which landed well — were being stretched a bit further than the original series.

Not to knock it too much, as there was a lot there that I did like, just not quite on the same level for me personally.

A (radio) series I did really enjoy from writers on that earlier series is John Finnemore’s Souvenir programme (esp. the first few series, but I also really loved series 9 even if it wasn’t a traditional sketch format). Def worth a listen.

They’ve had such a cultural impact haha. From ‘are we the baddies’ to numberwang to hennimore to ‘please remain indoors’. It was such a talented writing group when you look on Wikipedia

For the uninitiated