if we lose Hatch chilis, we lose a national treasure!
Well they have spent the last few months downplaying loyalist violence soā¦
Brits seem to consider Stonehenge both an archeological site and also a sort of living shrine, which each generation is equally entitled to fiddle with
It looks like the stones were most recently rearranged about 60 years ago
https://blog.english-heritage.org.uk/excavation-restoration-stonehenge-1950s-60s
I avoid any and all inkjet printersā¦ laser only, and even then, no HP.
Iād have to say that the LaserJet 5 was the very last good HP printer. Those things were tanks, and it wouldnāt surprise me to see some still around. Then late-stage capitalism happened to HP, and their printers turned to shit. Among the duds Iāve encountered over the years at work or at clients, special mention has to go to the LaserJet 4550N, a Rube Goldberg color laser printer that constantly broke down, and the all-in-one that wouldnāt even scan if it decided that the printhead (not the ink, the PRINTHEAD) was expired.
Epson has gone down this road with cartridge shenanigans as well, though you can at least get the EcoTank models that use ink tanks. Still, itās only worth it if youāre printing photos on a large scale.
Yeah, we basically use Ricoh or Brother for the last few printers we haveā¦
Whatever HP are doing now you can bet your arse other printer manufacturers will follow suit in due course but itās not just printers is it, we see the āshitty tech adoption curveā play out in so so many areas. Cricut springs immediately to mind as a recent example.
I was talking to me father about something happening on his property, and he said, āWeāve just decided to let nature take its course.ā and I said, āThere is no nature anymore.ā
whatever you may or may not feel about the british monarchy, the thing that strikes me most at this moment is that elizabeth is an old woman who is now more alone than perhaps anyone else on the planetā
Thatās a nice sentiment, and I applaud your empathy 
, but I think she is one of legion older people who are utterly alone. At least she has help with things like chores.
I agree with both your points there @navarro and @ClutchLinkey, of course i have sympathy for an old woman losing her husband of 73 years but she wonāt want for anything or really spend her days all alone watching daytime TV as she still wants to carry on with royal duties.
elizabeth will never wonder where her next meal will come from or how her laundry will get done but that golden cocoon sheās in also prevents her from having anyone to truly share her grief with. the only person she was able to be human with has died and there she sits, trapped in duty like a bug in amber. thereās something dehumanizing about institutions like the british monarchy. i know it seems strange to express this outpouring of sympathy for one of the wealthiest women in the world but i find it in me feel sorry for her.
the mother of one of our closest friends died back in december and her father is in a similar position to elizabeth, in his 90s after the death of his spouse of 70+ years but even he isnāt as alone as she is.
Well put and you make a good case for why this antiquated institution needs to be abolished, just look at the week weāve had of Victorian stylee mourning or the institutional racism that Harry and Meghan have had to put up with. However, i heard some Tory goon on Question Time last week making the point that in some ways the royal family are the most under privileged family in the country due to their obligations and thatās where i draw the line.
That golden cocoon is part of her own creation. Her familyās actions towards outsiders comes from her direction, and she pushed away her two grandchildren (and their offspring) when Diana died. Any chance of that being salvaged was obliterated by how they handled Markle.
I feel sorry that an old lady is going to die alone, but we all die alone in the end.
Also, itās worth noting , the queen of england is the supreme law of the land. She and the rest of the royal family are all tested daily for covid, and are all given the best medical care Britain has, period. If they wanted to sit with her, they could have made it perfectly safe for her to do so. The vast majority of them have been in their āgroupingsā for three to four days or more, and so a covid test would have allowed that.
They donāt want to sit next to her. Most of them donāt seem to really like her.
