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@soap_everywhere @_Zojka @Candlefight12 Sainsbury's sell blocks of dripping for £1.25

@_Zojka @Candlefight12 tbf i doubt a lot of people atp have a local butchers anymore

One thing I always found funny is that in America beef fat is seen as some high-end meme health food, but in Britain it's just a standard cheap fat you find next to the butter and lard in every single supermarket

@facetedcarapace @MPolo247 The overwhelming majority of people having 6 pints on a Friday and a Saturday do not go on to develop alcoholism mate

@olcan85 @MPolo247 You're right. I forget nobody in the UK has ever dealt with alcoholism.

People routinely drink a 5th (750ml) of vodka every single day. I've met people consuming gallons of straight booze weekly.

@facetedcarapace @MPolo247 No it doesn't

@MPolo247 5 to 6 on Friday and Saturday very easily becomes 5 to 6 on Thursday and Sunday too and then suddenly it's every day

@ohnnnnnnnnnnnno He died on 9/11

The fact that Pete Campbell absolutely canonically died in plane crash in the 70s, just like his father……..

@SamaHoole @DerektheCleric These animals are feral domestics

@DerektheCleric Island cattle are usually feral domestics with periodic human intervention. The Chillingham herd has had neither outside genetics nor management since 1270. That's not a common situation. That's a unique one.

In the grounds of Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, behind a wall built in 1270, there is a herd of wild cattle. They have been there, in that specific park, for approximately 700 years. They are white. Small. Horned. They look vaguely like the cattle on a medieval tapestry, which is roughly what they are. The Chillingham herd is the last surviving population of genuinely wild cattle in Britain, and genetically the closest living relative of the aurochs, the wild ancestor of every domestic cow on earth. When the estate was enclosed in the 13th century, a group of cattle was trapped inside the wall. Nobody moved them. Nobody bred them with outside stock. Nobody managed them. The wall went up, the cattle kept being cattle, and the door, essentially, was never opened again. Seven centuries later, they are still there. No selective breeding. No herd improvement programme. No artificial insemination. No supplementary feed beyond what the park produces. They eat the grass. They calve unassisted. The bull fights for dominance. The old are taken by winter. The young grow up in a social structure nobody taught them. They have the lowest genetic diversity of any mammal on earth that isn't officially endangered. By every textbook in conservation genetics, they should have collapsed a dozen times over from inbreeding depression. They have not. They are, by veterinary standards, extraordinarily healthy. Disease resistance better than modern breeds. Fertility steady. Calving success high. They carry on regardless. What can be learned from Chillingham. The first is that a cattle population, left alone on land suited to them, finds its own equilibrium. No committee is required. No spreadsheet. No grass-measuring device. The cattle work it out. They have worked it out for 700 years. The second is that the park itself is a functioning ecosystem, maintained by those cattle. The wildflowers, the ancient oaks, the soil structure, the bird populations, are all shaped by continuous low-intensity grazing by a small wild herd. It is one of the most biodiverse small landscapes in England. The third, and most inconvenient to the modern argument, is that cattle and wild land are not in conflict. The Chillingham herd is wild cattle, on wild land, in steady state, for longer than most European countries have existed in their current form. They are a living contradiction to almost every modern claim made about bovines and ecosystems. They are not on anybody's emissions chart. They have never been invited to a conference. They are behind their wall, in Northumberland, quietly doing what cattle have been doing since before the Norman Conquest. They will probably still be doing it when the current debate has been forgotten.

@fogaratigh @rus66642152

@rus66642152 My pants weigh about 3kg with all the bits and bobs in them. I'd be too tired to empty them out and stick them in a dryer. If they were soaked I'd swap them for another pair.

From what I can see, the average chap on the #FuelProtests is a man who gets up anywhere between 4 and 7am, throws on damp clothes and sets off in the depths of winter to do a hard days work. The type calling them names works for the government or are on the dole.

@Eamon4prez What's your issue here then? Sad you can't take sneaky pints?

@olcan85 As a wise man said on here, 1 illegal pint > 10 legal pints

Unpopular opinion: the government did us a great disservice opening the pubs up on Good Friday. tos just another Friday night now

@UselessSpy @andymccreery @gerrylynch Grey squirrels have been practically wiped out in Tyrone

@andymccreery @gerrylynch Presumably Northern Ireland hasn't made the same effort.

Is it really true that grey squirrels have been pushed back so dramatically in Ireland over the last 15 years or so? Really?

@andymccreery @gerrylynch The scientific data confirms it. As pine martens continue to spread it will push the greys back. They'll probably manage to hang on in our larger cities because pine martens might struggle to live there but other than that the greys will be gone

@gerrylynch Find it hard to believe. Have seen a few reads in Mournes and there are Pinemartins there, but in other areas around Cty Armagh I only ever see greys.

@NewtonEmerson Appealing to authority doesn't really cut it when the two authors have built careers dog whistling to the far right with their predictions of incoming 'clash of civilisation' type civil wars caused by Muslim immigration

@olcan85 The authors are serious academics, whether you agree with them or not.

"Serious academic attention"...

@IanLazenby3 @SamaHoole @MithaIntel I know. This dickhead is claiming it doesn't happen at all

@olcan85 @SamaHoole @MithaIntel For roughly 100-120 days with silage made from grass

Quick note for people who avoid British supermarket beef because it's "not grass-fed." Britain is an island in the North Atlantic with approximately 65% of its agricultural land classified as permanent pasture or rough grazing. The cattle are outside. On grass. Because where else would they be. The "grass-fed" label you're paying a premium for in the boutique online butcher is describing the default condition of all British beef cattle. You are already buying grass-fed beef. You've been buying it for years. From Tesco.

@Calavera437 @SamaHoole @MithaIntel I know. This dickhead is claiming it doesn't happen. That's all

@olcan85 @SamaHoole @MithaIntel It’s UK grown barley and grain not fit for human food use.

@SamaHoole @MithaIntel British beef is finished on barley you clown

@MithaIntel Most American beef is still raised on grass. The finishing can often be on feedlots though.

@AdeptusPetricus @kenzietuff @iPostGameClips Ulster not Munster

@kenzietuff @iPostGameClips They are yeah they both descend from Middle Irish but are their own distinct languages now The Munster Irish dialect still shares some prominent pronunciations etc with it that other dialects of Irish don’t but they’re still different languages even then

Stumbled across a woman in Ireland who just interviews people asking if they can speak Irish and then they speak it and now my brain is exploding because I’ve never heard it spoken before.

@0xApolloGL @liminal_warmth He's lying

@liminal_warmth I know a guy who took this and said he was a teacher in Chicago in the 1920s and lived an entire life and woke up from it in 15 minutes

I don’t understand how anyone could hear about salvia trip reports like “I spent 5 years in the bug dimension” or “I was a sentient inanimate hose in my back yard for 20 years” and still be like “well maybe I’ll just try it once…”

@_DC67_ @jacksellic @JohnMac___ Wise up you header

@jacksellic @JohnMac___ It can’t be one rule for one player and a different for the next. It might as well be heroin with the amount of unhealthy fats in that burger x.com/jacksellic/sta…

Title race and our right back is eating smash burgers

@DamhlaicMac @Nick_Delehanty 6 counties aren't in the EU

@Nick_Delehanty Agreed. Wicklow chicken.... "Made in Wicklow with 100% Chicken breast fillet" "Produced in Ireland using EU and non EU chicken"

I hate seeing this Major Irish vegetable company goes into liquidation. Owner Julian Hughes blamed “the last three years of wage and cost inflation” have taken its toll. The rain this winter was the final straw. It goes with out saying that we should be doing everything we can to support Irish businesses but it’s especially true for food producers. Irish Businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth right now. FF & FG don’t care. No farmers no food.

@thee_ovie @d_real_jqlo @_chrismane_ Colonialism

@d_real_jqlo @_chrismane_ Why is it allowed?

How do Welsh clubs like Wrexham and Swansea leave the Wales league and play in the English league??