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  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldCan a Brit confirm this?
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    11 hours ago

    I find that hard to believe, since I would go to India sometimes twice per year when younger (for over a decade).
    In 2005 we were told to be cautious of I think cabbage containing dishes, because it was making many people sick. It was also common for milk to be sold highly pasteurised and in blue bags within the city.

    I’ve also had questionable and not good food from those little backstreet fast food places whether in Atlanta, Minnesota, Arkansas, and I even had a rather average Chinese dish from near Santa Monica (which I didn’t rate well).

    There’s a good chance you were in the right area for good food, but that also exists here (example: Camden Town, which has been a ‘Foodie’ destination for a while now), or the plethora of food festivals all around London.
    I apologise if I gave the impression that they’re hard to find: they’re really not.


  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldCan a Brit confirm this?
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    11 hours ago

    Mostly a stereotype perpetuated by cheap or hastily found dining places.
    When you get fish and chips from a good place that handles fresh catches, there is considerable flavour, yet buy from the fast food place in the middle of a high street and you’ll get a soggy representation from the frozen cod.
    Same situation with a good roast, or a cottage/shepherds pie, or pie and mash that isn’t just a casserole with a hat, etc.

    Honestly I’ve stepped foot in 39 US States so far, and it’s a similar thing there. I just think the “British food bad” thing has stuck as humour, there’s plenty of theories about it I won’t get into but it’s just a thing I suppose.



  • What I’ve noticed is YouTube recommending me more obscure videos, from very small creators.

    I very much appreciate whatever they’re doing, regardless of how these bigger channels are being hit by it. Yesterday I got recommended a video by an elderly woman, showing a mug warmer she bought. It was very sweet, had less than 30 views and it was a lovely contrast to the flashy, over edited videos stretching a paragraph to 10+ minutes.

    Not saying the big channels are bad, I just personally like the small time channels and appreciate that YouTube has been (at least with the algorithm it has set for me) giving these small channels a shot at getting an audience.
    I’ve connected with a lot of people from smaller channels, joined communities etc. yet this is much more difficult with the larger ones (in some I’ve been to, over the years, the chatrooms they set up are so huge the moderation sometimes just gives up or doesn’t even exist in any practical way).






  • One of my grandfathers was murdered several years before I was born. He ran an off licence (small grocery store), when robbers took money and still used a shotgun to his face at point blank.

    I believe it took around 20 years to catch one of them, with the accomplice having passed away from other causes years prior to the capture.

    There have been a few attempted murders of friends/neighbours, over the years here, without anything coming of it.

    I’m not within any profession to be providing a direct answer to your question, however in my mind I don’t believe there would be much effort provided for most people. I say this with some confidence, after seeing how much is provided to the rich in comparison to, well, everyone else… Rather sad realisations, ngl.


  • My grandmother was on one of these trains. I’ll never forget the story of her survival.

    She got onto a train carrying her disabled brother. There were carriages transporting Gur (raw cane sugar blocks), and many people hid inside the bags. People came on board and started slicing into the bags, killing as many people as they could as quickly as they could.
    My grandmother and her brother hid behind a bunch of bags, rather than inside, which allowed them to have some barrier due to how thick the Gur is. I was told this was the last train out of Lahore, headed to Delhi, though I’m not entirely sure on the exact route.




  • Their fault. I remember a time when publishers allowed for people to run their own dedicated servers, for FPS at least. They could have modified that existing model, but instead they took that ability away from the user whilst almost simultaneously making excuses about the problem they created.

    If their servers can’t run forever, give us dedicated servers on a larger scale FFS!