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Fucking hell, that’s brutal.

Ah fair forgot it was still illegal at a federal level. Our situation is different as we’re a unitary state with limited devolution, it’s still a class B drug here criminally speaking but they moved it into a lighter schedule in other legislation so it could be prescribed like morphine, tramadol, that sort of thing for medical purposes. Recreationally, there’s no political courage for legalisation nor much moral authority for harsh prohibition either so the can gets kicked another generation.

Does that mean US recreational weed businesses are still largely cash based?

Christ, how does that work with your doctors being way more keen to prescribe narcotics than ours then? Is it literally a case of follow your doctor’s orders or your boss’s? That’s fucked up.

I was going to write something sarcastic about transatlantic relations, but honestly we deserve some blame for the Puritans. The English Reformation and its consequences were fairly severe.

Is that not protected under anti-disability discrimination legislation in the US?

I’m on medical cannabis in the UK, while our system is not set up for it at all if an employer took umbrage with it for a non-operational reason (such as operating heavy machinery vs being on it at all) that’d be a fairly open and shut disability discrimination case. Same as if you fired an employee for being on tramadol or similar.

Haha guilty as charged, him and Historical Italian Cooking both introduced me to it.

One thing that’s somewhat more annoying to get hold of is Colatura di Alici, the garum-like anchovy sauce. You more of less must order it from Italy and ship internationally. Absolutely top-tier stuff though, I use it in modern dishes too. I can see why it was so popular.

I just wish long pepper was more widely known, I can get it easily from Indian shops in the UK but it’s not so widely known or available. It’s among my favourite spices, think black pepper but way more aromatic and ‘flowery’. It was known to the Romans but fell out of favour many centuries ago in Europe.

The real problem in my view is that people don’t recognise post-imperial fusion cusines as ‘legit’ British food even though the curry house is the definition of an Anglo-Indian institution. When people in Britain claim the tikka masala it’s not being twee or politically correct, rather it’s earnestly considering an immigration-originated fusion cusine as part of the wider national one.

Also even pre-20th century British food isn’t exactly bad, I’d argue it doesn’t travel amazingly in many cases but a Sunday roast in our climate is sheer perfection. Too many people expect France or Italy from a country with nothing like their climate.

The chronophobia induced by realising ‘those damn kids texting all day’ has become ‘old fashioned SMS’ is more than I expected. I remember when that shit was 10p a go!

Russia might be good at general shithousery and political warfare but I feel this just feeds their mythos. America did Trump to itself to a large extent, certainly by voting him in after the man attempted a literal coup.

Too big to fail == too big to live, at least it would be in a sane world.

If we can’t beat reddit for user count, we should at least be able to beat their low bar for parsing obvious sarcasm.

That’s harsh, though I guess you could argue it’s no worse than jury service as it’s done here in the UK which is at least two weeks usually.

They could use their professional expertise to issue a statement bringing Trump’s precipitous psychological decline to wider public attention.

What is it with right-wing populists and being undone by lettuces? Liz Truss in Britain is now synonymous with the lettuce, and she had a simillarly laxative effect on the economy.

The doom of all ADHD blokes who can’t stand being behind people walking slower than him.

‘I’m not following you, I just have places to be faster than your leisurely dawdle down the pavement will allow’ is a phrase I wish we had a polite word for.

Now if this isn’t a source of pan-European solidarity I don’t know what is!

Which makes a lot of sense when you remember a lot of the North American population hailed from families who had a specific beef with a specific church and state; the role of bishops was one of these many axis of opposition during the conflict in Britain and Ireland.

The English Civil War and its aftermath is barely taught on either side of the Atlantic, yet it’s so important to understanding both countries’ history. The per capita casualty rate was worse than WW1, no wonder people felt rather strongly about religion and in some cases still do

In the UK you can even make an affirmation if you are not religious or your religion forbids you from taking an oath. This as brought in originally for the Quakers but anyone who objects to Christian oaths has this option.

When I did jury service I took the secular route, though I wouldn’t have strongly objected to swearing the traditional oath either. I quite like the idea God is personally nosing into the daily business of HM Courts and Tribunals, although judging by the backlog he abandoned the justice system long ago.