ITT: We classify peppers as DND classes
The Jalapeño is your basic fighter
A scotch bonnet: sorcerer
A habanero is a wizard

CURRIED was a cult BBC talk show, which ran from 1976 to 1982, where host Tim Curry interviewed celebrities while they ate increasingly spicy dishes of Desi cuisine, leading to revealing and often hilarious moments as the heat intensified.

Oof. Yeah, that will mess you up!

Mind you I recall a newly arrived American student insisting that he could handle any level of spice because he ate Mexican a lot ordering a vindaloo and not being OK (I did try to stop him, not least because the Madras was a better curry anyway, but he wouldn’t listen…)

He means university

Feel like it should be bigger news that the Home Secretary is very publicly losing the plot

None of it’s offensive though there was a particularly stupid attempt to update the old Eucharistic Congress spectrum of Catholic clergy that made no sense, I just don’t particularly want him all over my feed.

He must be spending quite a lot of money gaming the algorithm!

My nominations:

1. Kentigern goes skinny-dipping to fight a "great malignant dragon" [Jocelyn's "Life", xiv].

2. Adam Smith absent-mindedly walks into a tanpit while showing a friend the sights.

3. The explosion of the steam carriage at Halfway on 29 July 1834.

Or just “for none liveth to herself, and none dieth to herself.”

“No one liveth to herself” would read better, imo

Which is weird, because normally that button does work, more or less, at least for longer than 48 hours

I keep telling facebook I don’t want to see posts from Bishop Robert Todd Griffiths (some kind of American schismatic, by which I don’t mean ACNA), and Facebook keeps ignoring me.

There were certainly warning signs

Oooh!

This was the Home Secretary (Labour, a British south Asian woman) arguing that the personal characteristics of another MP (the LibDem Home Affairs spokesman, a white British man) invalidate his argument, because he does not share her characteristics or experiences.

(While I agree the British press’s tendency to glom onto one story is in general bad…)

And it’s actually not irrelevant to “how we handle the wars in Iran and Ukraine,” because I would like to be able to trust people who have access to state secrets and important information to be trusted with them, instead of ready to sell out the national interest.

While I agree that the British press’s tendency to glom onto one story, I think the fact the PM appointed a man to be ambassador to the US who turns out not only to have been a close pal of an abuser, but who also shared confidential national information* with him, is kind of serious.

*under Brown

Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

This is good to see. Up until now, the rise in clean electricity has been outpaced by demand - so while percentage of fossil fuels in the mix has dropped, the actual amount of fossil fuels has risen. Now we should start to see a decrease in fossil fuel burning overall. I just hope it's fast enough.

Quite striking that the lyric of She Loves You features a man telling another man to apologise to a woman.

I am Scottish and I believe it is our patriotic duty to bring the bairns up on lentil soup!

Actually, I’d be up for that, I love lentils (and yes, I’m a carnivore!)

'the world of lentils' sounds like Britain's strangest theme park

For me the start of Spring in Westminster is when the plane trees dump all their pollen in a huge cloud - today! I don’t get hayfever normally but remember once in a BBC interview in the park having to assure them that I was weeping due to the pollen, not the pension deficit…

My hottest, most scorching airport take is:

arrive as early as you want, no one can task you when you’re there. Responsibility doesn’t exist.

Oh, there’s an ask from work? WiFi is down. You’re boarding. You’re disembarking.

Airport is suspended animation. There are no rules, you survive / enjoy.

Yeah, it’s a horrendous view of men!