Thread 11 Starmer: Will that Phone Call Be To Harris or to Trump? (the decidedly superior looking cats thread)

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New thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5195566-thread-10-starmer-first-female-chancellor-delivers-the-budget?page=40&reply=139578573

Countries have gone to war for less.

Just for clarity, no problem with mayonnaise - knock yourselves out.

My objection (as backed by Mark Thomas Peoples Manifesto when we saw him in his "Red Shed" tour) is it's ubiquitous used as a glue to keep shop-bought sandwiches together. Followed closely by people who (and I suspect there is a correlation with people who insist everyone loves their dog) think "everyone loves Mayo" and slather it everywhere before serving.

If you have to have a squirty squeezy sandwich addition, salad cream is far superior.

(Ducks).

Tartare sauce for fish finger sandwiches

Gavel

Squirty mayonnaise is an ABOMINATION.

I would have agreed with you about the ketchup and mayo combo a few years back but my digestive system has lurched to the right in middle age and now rejects such wokery as mayo and now demands good old fashioned "plain food." (it's getting a sodding curry, tonight and can STFU)

I hate those upside down sauce bottles

Apparently a New Zealand politician has said schools won't serve "woke" food.
So a newspaper helped clarify what woke and non woke foods might be

A definitive list of woke and non-woke foods - NZ Herald

Is sushi mainstream? Foodies on Seymour's 'woke foods' remark

"We just saved you $107 million on school lunches. Despite the shrieking from the left, we’re not cancelling the programme. We'll be doing more with less money to feed kids the fruit and sandwiches their parents would, not woke food like quinoa and sushi. Bon appétit."

That's confirmed it for PickAChew and her curry, woke!

Chips are great with tartare sauce, but best with peanut satay sauce. Fish finger sandwiches - tartare for preference, but will accept salad cream at a pinch. Ketchup can in general fuck right off. I eat lots of woke food - am planning a chickpea and pancetta soup for this week.

Oh yes, chips and satay sauce, yum!

Do you remember those satay sticks that you had to heat up in hot water? Student staple.

I'm now reading that Thames Water IT systems are frozen in time - dating back to the day they were privatised in the 80s.That is pre-windows for fucks sake. In fact it's pretty much pre-PCs. I really should make a bet on where a still working IBM 360 is. In fact (and I really have to work my memory here) they were probably an ICL house. So maybe a museum ready 2900 ?

Is this for real? Thames Water doesn’t have laptops or desktops or Macs, doesn’t run up-to-date Windows or Mac OS, no cloud services, no MS Office, still using WordStar, etc etc? Where are you reading this?

What sometimes happens is that the core system or database will run on legacy software but there’ll be a plethora of front ends, feeds, associated or satellite systems, extracts etc that will run on all kinds of other software, some bang up to date, some on obscure software that someone who left in 2005 installed and left no documentation for and which can’t be upgraded until something else that depends on it is rewritten only no one knows how.

I meant to add, and often the legacy system is the most resilient or robust of all.

DH does a lot of work that interacts with these sort of big national systems and they're, by necessity fixed and bodged as much as an old house. He's in his 50s (his digestive system is still staunchly lefty, lucky bugger) and often finds himself having to revisit systems he worked on 10-20 years ago.

My Android phone can SSH into a PDP-11.

An old colleague started his career programming a particular system and his project before taking early retirement last year was migrating data onto it’s replacement.

More on the Xodus...

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1dFfEZ8xl8GZChTl17FAoOghAQs-PFEaAyGH1y_vGk6E/mobilebasic?pli=1

I deactivated my Twitter account today. Been there since 2009. It was good pre Elon. I hope it crashes and burns and he loses a lot of money.

Blue sky is pretty good.

I deactivated mine a few days ago now. Trying to get used to Bluesky, and also into the habit of using it. Twitter/X had become such an awful place I'd stopped using it.

If you want to follow me/want me to follow you, PM me and I'll disclose my 'handle'.

I didn't leave twitter yet but I stopped looking at it. I missed some of the people I used to follow though, and haven't found them all on Bluesky yet so I thought I'd keep an eye on twitter until I'm following enough interesting accounts on Blue sky.

I'm the same, very rarely look at twitter/x now, and a number of people I follow no longer post.

At some point, when I get a chance, I'll start again on bluesky.

I haven't quite left Twitter yet, but my account is locked and am moving to bluesky.

I've only Ben using twitter to go straight to my list of local news and traffic reports. I looked at deactivating, the other night, but it asked for my password, which means I need to re-set my password before I can do it. Something to do when I more awake.