Recent content by takno

Homogenisation does of course prevent you from just drinking the delicious cream and then leaving your parents stuck with tasteless skimmed in their tea for the rest of the day, so there are at least non-dietary downsides

I think you probably missed "n't" in the second-last paragraph

I'd probably switch to 80% oat milk if that happened, but fair is fair

As a rule I've always taken the single price pint as reflective of what milk actually "should" cost. Four pint jugs were in with white sliced bread and beans as the classic things which were sold as loss leaders in the 90s. For whatever reason the 4 pint milk just never really went back up...

Fair enough if people are arguing that. I don't think I've heard anybody I even marginally respect make that claim for years, but I don't discount that there are people saying it. Either way I think we are agreeing that education around the whole general concept is valuable for children. I...

I think the debate mostly centres around whether some places should, for the comfort and safety reasons be reserved for people with specific equipment, and whether medicalising the issue in children, who often change their minds later, is s sensible and helpful course of action. In both cases...

The Bristol Combined Authority were pushing for Filton Bank, and wanted to spend some theoretical money or other on it. I think the main proposed method for reducing costs was to use TTCs so that 2 of the 4 tracks could stay open. Given that discontinuous 750v DC electrification would be a...

Fair enough. I've never much enjoyed it, but he's never seemed noticeably bad. I've never been especially engaged with whether singers hit all the notes though. I suspect that, this year in particular, it's a struggle to find anybody really good at live performance who is interested in putting...

That's in interesting pitch. People under 50 aren't going to vote for him whatever, and people over 50 are going to look at this pathetic over-eager whippersnapper and decide they like the voice of age and experience.

It's possible he couldn't sing very well on the night. His normal stuff certainly doesn't sound auto-tuned, and he's done plenty of live singing before without issues. He's a talented if slightly annoying singer who had an indifferent song, awful staging, and probably wasn't really feeling it on...

I know he's not exactly a man of the people or a natural politician, but surely he can see that "war with Russia and China" isn't a winning manifesto pledge?

Ireland and Australia are arguably in our corner when there's something worth talking about. Norway also illustrate that alliances can easily be worthless - similar to us they put in a technically interesting and impressive song which was unfortunately quite dull in practice, and they got...

The British performance was absolutely awful, really claustrophic, tedious and uncomfortable to watch. Worst thing on the show this year - even worse than the segment in the middle with last year's winner planking and droning on for what seemed like forever. Mind you, I thought the performance...

The can of course be sliced differently, increased productivity with static GDP can still lead to quality-of-life improvements such as reduced working hours, and technological developments can still mean that the things we have can get better over time

There's more youth interest in some countries, but I wouldn't overstate it. It tends not to be covered on the youth-oriented channels in most countries that I'm aware of, and it belongs to the state broadcasters who are rarely particularly down with the kids. Even the younger artists usually...