u/interstellargator

Aren't you comments just playing into exactly the same kind of racialised thinking you decry in the British though? Ie that being colonialist is an innately Anglo thing while harping on about blood percentages and ancient history, when the ethno-national identity of a people is vastly more complex and nuanced than that?

Your comments certainly give off the feeling that you believe being Celtic to be innately superior to being Anglo Saxon, despite (rightly) taking umbrage with the theory that being Anglo Saxon is innately better than being Celtic. Which I will say, as someone who grew up in the UK and went through the UK education system, is not a level of racism anyone has really been on since the early 20th century. Nobody on Great Britain (except maybe the Welsh borders) particularly draws a distinction between those two categories any more. Not that many or even most Brits aren't racist, just that that's an extremely outdated kind of racism that would be passe to them.

I think that, as a person where the local kind of nationalism centres around a Celtic identity in explicit opposition to an Anglo Saxon one, you've internalised some of that and assumed that the same schism (in reverse) exists in Britain when it doesn't.

I kind of have an equally cynical but opposite outcome theory of the British education system, such is that I think most Brits are very well aware that we were Celts, thanks to our education system's major focus on Roman Britain (IMO a disproportionate focus which serves to propagandise us into believing that Empire is a beneficial thing to its subjects, laying a foundation for whitewashing the British Empire).

"Even though the term comes from Celtic Britons" feels like it's missing the point of the issue though.

Ancient Britons were Celtic people, the ancient Irish were Celtic people, but the Gaels weren't Britons and vice versa. That's why the modern Irish language is somewhat mutually intelligible with Scots Gaelic & Manx, other Gaelic languages; and Welsh, Breton, and Cornish (Brittonic languages) are likewise similar; but Welsh and Irish aren't at all mutually intelligible.

The only reason the term "British" is applied to Ireland is British colonialism, not a shared history of "Britishness" dating back to pre-Roman times, which is what your title seems to imply.

The dialects use the same writing system but not the same pronunciation. The transliteration into English reflects that pronunciation difference.

Not quite. They're both transliterations but from different dialects of Chinese. 

Controlling dough temp using a formula, or recording past temps to achieve the desired dough temperature is extremely basic I'm surprised you're in charge of making bread but have never learned that.

What water temp are you using and what's your target dough temp? Very surprised you're having to use ice unless you're in the world's hottest kitchen. Even making croissant dough in one of these I never had to add ice to keep it cool enough, and given the butter content we really couldn't let that one overheat.

These mixers are truly your best and only options for scaling up bread production

I work in large scale bread development and I'd say plunging arm/twin arm mixers are better if you're working with relatively high hydration doughs in bulk. 

Still I'd take a spiral over a planetary any day for bread, and it's probably the best option for stiffer things like pizza dough, bagels, croissant dough etc 

Not plunging arm/twin arm mixers?

Yeah I'd rather have this for bread than a planetary, though I'd rather have a plunging arm mixer than either.

Still would want the planetary for pastry though. And a spiral mixer is great for stiffer doughs ie viennoiserie, bagels, etc.

>the easy cleanup, lack of smell, and not making the entire house 10 degrees hotter in the summer

And the better lung health for my entire family, and a shot at a world that will still exist for my grandchildren.

What makes you say the kidney-shaped things found where the kidneys would be found are not the kidneys, but rather the adrenal glands?

I'm once again begging people to stop attributing extremely common cooking techniques to the most famous/recent/confident guy they've seen talk about it.

Community had loads of great ones 

Basic Lupine Urology was the title of the Law & Order parody episode, a show created by Dick Wolf.

Humans wash our hands and bodies regularly. Feral pigeons in a city spend their time walking around on the floors of the city in their own and other animals' faeces, mostly eat garbage, and have no qualms about touching or stepping in food that humans are going to eat.

What an insane double standard.

the court has no power to do that

Yeah but famously the other people who attend court when you're being tried for a crime are the prosecution, who very much do. And neither the court nor the prosecution take kindly to you wasting their time.

no more dirtier than your average wild animal

Ah, so extremely dirty? What, are we meant to find that comforting?

I also work in a bakery and pigeons are such a pain in the arse. Once they've noticed that your bakery is warm and full of delicious crumbs they are incredibly persistent in trying to get in. Mostly we have to keep all the doors and windows closed to keep them out (so no breeze in summer) but even then, they're so fearless of people that they tailgate customers in through the door. Problem being, while they're smart enough to get in, if they get spooked their instinct is to go up which then means they get stuck trying to leave through an unopenable window and spend the rest of the day roosting on the nice toasty ventilation ducts until you can tempt them back down to door level and shoo them out.

It goes in fits and bursts for us. One will clock us, be a persistent pest for a while, then suddenly vanish (presumably because it's gone off and died in a very stupid way) and never be seen again. Then a few weeks later a new pigeon will Hansel and Gretel its way through our doors and we all have to be hypervigilant again.

Going to court is going to cost them more than the ticket would in all likelihood. If you're convicted in the magistrates you pay court costs as well as the fine. They might dismiss the £100 but they'll likely still charge the £50. 

And his statue(s) commemorating the Windrush generation outside Hackney town hall are wonderful too 

Yeah higher attendance, higher police presence, proportionally more arrests. 

As ever it's not notably more criminal than (much much more laxly policed) music festivals like Reading & Leeds or Glasto. But the right wing press wants to depict it as a uniquely awful cesspit of violence for some reason. 

I work in food production and we're pretty underappreciated but there are a lot of industries we are utterly dependent on (some of whom - bins, power, cleaning, deliveries - have been mentioned) but I don't see anyone singing the praises of laundry services. 

Commercial kitchens are extremely reliant on having clean clothes and cloths and most restaurants, bakeries, factories, etc would close down without their laundry service.

Yeah he's as Iranian as British people are Italian because we used to be in the Roman empire

Yeah crazy to be able to name several trans women and not him. I feel like he's orders of magnitude more famous than the famous trans women out there in media.

Like he has starring roles in multiple massive blockbuster movies. The only person I feel like I see in the news even remotely the same amount is Kaitlyn Jenner.

What weird nonsense is this? How would plea bargains reduce reported crime rates?