Wings Over Scotland questioned under caution by police on account of Lynsay Watson

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No details yet. He says he will post about it at length tomorrow and it will be worth the wait. So this is just a placemarker for the moment.

True. Dunking is a mixed discipline that deserved more funding to test out properly.

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To be fair, it's a social science too. The impact of class and/or income on choices of dunking implement and beverage and relative satisfaction levels.

Edited to add we could use both EEG studies while dunking for brain activity and qualitative surveys. It's got ESRC funding written all over it!

I'm not much for dunking except...bite the opposing corners of a penguin biscuit (also works with supermarket 🐧 dupes and TimTams) then use it as a straw to suck up a gobful of your tea. Then eat the melted/soggy/tea infused biscuit. Only works once for each biccy. I don't do it very often. I could easily slurp my way through a family pack per mug of tea.

On a micro level this works for a chocolate finger.

Blimey, cake, "bored"? Just send them over to Puffinland.

As rhubarb is out of season: I was reliably informed by a botanist that young shoots of Japanese knotweed are a dead ringer for rhubarb, in fact even better.

I used to do this with almost every penguin I've ever known.

Happy days.

Please stop doing grim things with biscuits and hot drinks!

You think biscuits are bad, I've just been in the Bluestocking staff room. What the gerbils dunk in their drinks is vile! Although by all accounts Little Gracie willingly chose to dunk herself in the hot chocolate.

still all hard at work training chatbots I see

good, good

It's a hard job, but we do it for the cause.

One day biscuit dunkers will rule the entire universe.

Leaving aside the pros and cons of dunking for a moment - where do we stand on the issue of deep frying the various chocolate bars?

I've never had one myself, but occasionally I do find myself wondering if I should before I die.

I long to one day try a deep fried Mars bar.

I've heard of deep fried pizza and I think I could manage a slice of pepperoni. If a spam fritter followed by a pineapple fritter from the chip shop passed as a meal in the 70s, what's wrong with DF pizza followed by DF Mars bar?

I was reliably informed by a botanist that young shoots of Japanese knotweed are a dead ringer for rhubarb, in fact even better.

I grew up in West Wales. We knew Japanese knotweed as wild rhubarb although nobody actually ate it.

It just doesn't appeal. Mars bar, yes. Deep fried batter, yes. But both together? Nah.

It's like Marmite-flavoured chocolate. I love Marmite and I love chocolate but DH once bought me Marmite-flavoured chocolate and it was just not very nice. Certainly not as nice as a Marmite and butter toastie followed by a cup of tea and some chocolates (no dunking)

See, now I think it could actually be quite nice with a bit of salt on the batter to balance the tooth rotting sweetness of the Mars Bar. Not sauce though, even though that's the only acceptable accompaniment to salt on battered savoury goods.

I have been in a chip shop when someone ordered a deep fried mars bar supper: they asked for the mars bar to be kept separate from the chips, with salt and sauce only on the chips. I think I might possibly be tempted to try a fried mars bars. Maybe as a dessert? With ice cream?

Well, the Met Commissioner has had to admit his force should not have acted as it did and apologise.

"Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has admitted his force "dropped the ball" when it spent four months investigating a journalist examining claims about a University of Cambridge professor embroiled in a plagiarism row.

Journalist Jack Grove said he was told by the Met it had looked into a complaint made by Jason Arday, which it closed, and that Grove should not contact Arday again.

When asked by broadcaster LBC if he should apologise to Grove, Sir Mark agreed and said the complaint should have been "screened out earlier on as not requiring investigation"."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rd9y99grzo

Edited for typo

If anyone's interested Poundland are currently selling both Teacakes and Caramel Wafers in both milk and dark chocolate for £2 per pack (of 10, I think).

Happy days!

Might just be Scotland though.

The same Arday that has stepped down at Cambridge, that one?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e146jw618o

"
University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row has resigned "with immediate effect".
On Wednesday the university said it had launched an investigation into Professor Jason Arday "following new information" about his "academic qualifications and honorary appointments".
Arday - who became the university's youngest ever black professor in 2023 - has admitted errors in his work, but said he had faced "an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack" and was not a "liar".
It came after a series of media reports questioning some of his achievements and allegations of plagiarism in his PhD thesis.
Arday said he had "concluded that the only way to bring this chapter to an end is to step away".
In the statement posted by the Good Law Project on Wednesday, Arday said that being appointed professor had been "without question, the greatest professional privilege of my life".

My ex took a bounty into our local chippy at the time to see if they would fry it. They agreed they would if they could have half as there were the two small ones in a pack. Both pronounced it good.

But have you tried celery and almond soup? It is a thing of beauty.

They are absolutely delicious. I think it's the way the caramel and chocolate go molten and gooey combined with the crunchyness of the outer batter. I'm not a fan of "weird for the sake of weird" foods but deep fried mars bars are genuinely delicious