The BBC

Hold on, I've been led to believe that only working class people from the Midlands and the North can be thick ignorant racists.

"Some cruelty yes but"

XPs

At one point she says his emails to her were amazing. He jokes that they're better than his stories. Well, what we do see / hear even of their emails to each other are embarrassingly mundane. 'Normal' if you like. It's fine to write and send such emails. But it's not good for them to appear in a programme where it's implied that they're works of genius.

I have (had, actually, as they've mostly been forgotten) Thoughts about Normal People but this was one of them (also Aldo otm). Including how they're meant to be excellent writers - we see a flash of this in Marianne (as I've moaned about before - after the first two eps where she's mainly talking about how she's not like other girls) but not really anywhere in their communication for the most part. Is that meant to be some kind of irony? I watched the weird 'breaking glass in sink' 'flashback for most of ep' 'back to broken glass in sink' bit and didn't understand what had happened, then the next ep opened with another kind of flashback about this iirc? Like everything takes so long to spell out except the actually important stuff. That Jamie or whatever he was called was such a bloody pantomime villain too, was any of his character supposed to be anything other than bog standard sneery entitled Grange Hill bully? Did he and Marianne share anything on any intellectual level? Where did Peggy go?
I did like that the characters that seemed to help Marianne through everything were the 'normal' (ha) women, just by being there without anything to prove - Lorraine and the English flatmate with no mummy issues who was gently checking in on her the whole time.
I feel like lots of people got a lot from this series/book and I possibly just missed it all.
Also this https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/05/sally-rooney-normal-people-hulu-bbc-soap-opera

Well I got to the end. I guess the only time I really engaged with it was in Conner's reaction to the suicide, but when it was just turned into a narrative excuse for his behaviour which wasn't apparently different from before then I was just annoyed.

My big takeaway is that we make all our life decisions before we have the experience or emotional ability to make them.

ok all day the bbc news main headline has been about a rocket going into space. considering whats happening in th euk and around the world w/ covid an considering what else is happening in the us this is fn perverse. also how inefficient is the private sector, literally 50+ years behind the ussr

nick robinson currently doing an in-depth interview with someone from “the national diversity coalition for trump”

crucial stuff there...

i heard him the other day doing a jokey "you would say that wouldn't you, hoho" with a tory saying we should move on from dominic cummings. cunts all of them.

creditable job on the 10 of covering the protests. called them a continuation of historical injustice and grievance rather than an aberration. two live OBs.

now a fairly brutal piece on contract tracers “sitting on their arse”.

how come Today can’t do this?

Sarah Sands, next question?

yeah :(

New DG has been announced: Tim Davie.

Big news, I assume.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/05/bbc-appoints-insider-tim-davie-as-director-general

It's another white man but at least this time it's one with Big Croydon Energy.

I think the BBC will need a bit of a bruiser in the coming years, and he can be that. He's not genteel. He's capable of thinking in quite ruthless commercial terms. But I don't think he'll sell the corporation out - he's BBC to the bone.

He doesn't have a news background - so it'll be interesting to see what he does there.

hmm i see he is a tory

feck

The optics are...not great. Rona Fairhead was widely distrusted for being married to a Tory councillor. Davie was deputy chair of the local party.

and responsible for BBC Store

the less said of that the better

Presumably the optics are good for Tories, who will be calling the shots in the mid-charter review?

Absolutely losing my mind at a BBC panel show discussing the possibilities for radical global change after coronavirus ft George Osborne, Tony Blair and A MINISTER IN ORBAN'S GOVERNMENT https://t.co/WpaR5GI5ir

— Dan Hancox (@danhancox) June 22, 2020

lol this shite was on R4 and WS at the same time when I tried to switch over, beyond a fucking joke!

I knew Amol Rajan was a horrible right wing bullshit merchant from his despicable media program on R4, but it's much worse than that Jim!

LMAAOOOO WHO IS THIS HILARIOUS DUDE??????? 😂😂😂😂😂 THIS RICE COOKING IS A HATE CRIMEpic.twitter.com/V4N4gS4W77

— Jenny Yang (@jennyyangtv) July 23, 2020

:D :D :D

that is the greatest video i've seen in a long time

lol

Never thought i'd live to see the day someone cooks rice worse than gyac but here we are. That's astonishing.

you don't need to boil the water first, just put the pasta in the water from the get go and then heat it up cmon guys

― gbx, Sunday, 18 June 2017 03:57 Bookmark

reminds me of this guy (also an idiot) i once met who cooked rice by pouring it into a pot of boiling water and draining it after x minutes

― r|t|c, Sunday, 18 June 2017 08:55 (three years ago)

shots fried

western ppl in their expensive millionaire kitchens with every bleeding mod con going apart from a rice cooker!

tbf i don't own a rice cooker - one day, sigh - but i know how to measure water to rice

uncle roger otm, wtf is this

Ffs

I use a colander to wash the starch off the rice before I cook it, like you would with potatoes for chips or a bake. If I'm prepping it for a fried rice dish I use the steel rice ball, otherwise the rice cooker is the easiest way and they are cheap af.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pasta+method+for+cooking+rice&oq=pasta+method+for+cooking+rice

this was how every uk person of non-asian descent cooked rice in the eighties iirc.

It's how French people still do it!!

The 1 part rice/2 parts water thing is so simple and makes such decent rice I don't know why I need a rice cooker!

because they keep the rice warm when i'm cooking a few things at once like a curry and frying some onion bhajis, it takes one more job off the load, too much multi-tasking and whats left of my brain starts to melt!

that ratio sounds wrong btw!

well for basmati it would be! ignore me I only get the cheap rice in big sacks

I'm used to the rice cooker ratio of 1 - 1 and a bit

1 part rice to 1.5 parts water ftw. Turn the heat off and stick the lid on for 10mins after the water had soaked up or boiled away. Comes out perfect.

Works for me! 2 people = 1 cup of rice, 2 cups of boiling water, simmer for 15 minutes on lowest heat, turn off heat, cover with clean tea towel, steam for 5 minutes. Bob's yer mother's brother.

i think i cook rice fine but scraping the burnt ones from the pan is always an arse

That method is one of the few things I can be sure of in this palsied world. If that's wrong, I'm going full Captain Oates.

this was how every uk person of non-asian descent cooked rice in the eighties iirc

I was thinking about this the other day and idk if rice cookers were even a big thing in British Indian / Bangla / Pakistani households until a lot later than that.

Of course, even with a saucepan, as Uncle Roger says, if you need to drain the rice after cooking you've fucked up.

this was how every uk person of non-asian descent cooked rice in the eighties iirc.

I'll use a saucepan for my lol Mexican style sautéed rice or pilau, but rice cookers rule im

Heat a little oil in bottom of pan (with cardamom pods/cinnamon stick if cooking Indian), then toast a cup of rice and pinch of salt to infuse, then two cups water. Give it a stir, lid on until pan boils, then turn heat right down and leave it alone for 20 minutes.

that sounds good, but I'd usually add a good chunk of butter before serving.

Ooh, some ghee instead of oil would be the real way to go but I never buy ghee.

i think last time I got ghee from online tescos rather than local Asian supermarket I didn't check the weight and was disappointed to be paying just short of a fiver for a small little tin of it.