Hossenfeffer

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 46 points 1 week ago

Dude outed himself when he told Janice his birthday was the 35th of March.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 26 points 2 weeks ago

I was the tech director of a small video game start-up. Our investment dried up but I didn’t want to lay off our employees so I kept the company going, burning through my savings, and not taking a salary myself, while hoping the finance director could sort out new investment.

He couldn’t. We had to wind the company up anyway and I had nothing left. That lead to some hard times.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago

Misread this as "technically started the Korean War."

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

Of course! I'm not going to let a fucking oven tell me when my food is ready. Fuck you, Skynet, this is how the rebellion against the machines starts!

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome to Fallout.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hrrrm. But, going Dutch and Dutch courage don't have any specifically anti-Dutch connotation in modern usage and I've never heard of a Dutch treat or a Dutch uncle. At least you chaps aren't French!

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago

Palid McHaggis, hoots, mon, och aye the noo!

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Nobody does anti Dutch racism quite like the English.

Really? I don't know many Brits who have a bad opinion of the Dutch. I certainly don't; I've never met a Dutch person I didn't like.

Comes of them being conquered by William of Orange back in the day.

Billy the who now?

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well no they discourage fast driving

Not really, or at least not with the fixed cameras. They encourage speeding as normal then harsh braking just before the camera then speeding again. Just watch traffic on the motorways when a temporary speed limit is imposed. People slow down for the gantries where there might be cameras mounted then floor it to the next gantry.

Average speed cameras are a better bet if you want to control speeding, but perhaps don't make as much money.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm an old bastard and mostly play patience, sudoku, and cryptic crosswords on my phone. And maybe Bloons TD 6 to get the dailies if I'm away from home without my laptop.

On console I play mostly single-player RPGs but I also play PUBG. Tried that on mobile (how my kids play it) but fuck that shit!

Also, what the hell is going on with that cloud? Isn't it cold? What's for pudding? Why do policemen look so young these days? Everything was better when I was a youngster!

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 26 points 2 weeks ago

One of my kids once emptied the dishwasher without bitching about it. I have no fucking clue what was going on there.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago

Never piss on your camp fire if it's upwind of your tent. - source, was in the scouts, we did this to another patrol. Man, their tent stank.

 

Sorry for the absolute potato quality!

 

Looking for a UK pixelfed server. One choice.

Do any furries have naked molerat as their fursona?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk to c/fitness@lemmy.world
 

I've been bombarded recently with adds for the Muscle Booster app. Just a minute's research revealed that this is just a subscription renewal scam, but the app looks perfect for my needs.

I'm over 50, in pretty bad shape, and looking to make some changes, so a chair workout plan seems ideal, and the (possibly fake) app they show in the ads looks perfect.

Is there a non-scam chair workout app I can use?

 

Another lighter dish to fight off the post-Christmas cheese coma!

Salmon en papillote with couscous, sun-dried tomatoes, and feta

Ingredients

  • 4 skinless salmon fillets
  • 125 ml vegetable stock
  • 120g couscous
  • 60g sun-dried tomatoes, in oil, sliced
  • 100g feta
  • ½ tsp dried oregano

Salsa

  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 handful of basil, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp capers
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp olive oil

Mix together all the salsa ingredients and season with salt and pepper.

Method

  1. Bring the vegetable stock to the boil in a pan. Stir in the couscous, cover, remove from the heat and stand for about 5 minutes. Remove the lid, fluff with a fork and let it cool slightly.
  2. Mix the tomatoes, feta, courgettes, remaining oil, oregano, salt and pepper into the couscous.
  3. Preheat the oven, or air fryer, to 180°C/360°F.
  4. Spread out four large pieces of baking paper. Put a salmon fillet in the centre of each piece of baking paper and top with some of the couscous. Press it down a little so the couscous forms a crust. Don't worry if some spills down the sides, it'll still be grand. Wrap the baking paper and try to make sure it's sealed. Place on a baking tray in the center of the oven, or in the basket of an air fryer. Cook for 20 minutes in the oven, or 15 minutes in the air fryer.
  5. To serve, cut open the parcels and drizzle with salsa.
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk to c/recipes@feddit.uk
 

After the excesses of the last few days I fancied something lighter (and which would use up some leftover chicken).

Tuscan chicken, bean, and spinach soup

Serves 4

Soup
• 1 medium diced onion
• 1 x diced red pepper
• 1 large diced carrot
• 2 fat cloves minced garlic
• 1.5 litres chicken stock
• 2 tsp dried marjoram
• 1 can cannellini beans, rinsed
• 100g baby spinach
• 400g shredded, cooked chicken

Pesto
• Fat handful of basil leaves
• 2 tbsp good olive oil
• ½ cup of finely grated Parmegiano Regiano

Make the pesto:

  1. Shove all the ingredients in a little blender.
  2. Blend.

Make the soup:

  1. If using raw chicken: season, cook, reserve, cool, shred.
  2. Gently fry onions, pepper, carrot, and garlic until soft, 10 minutes.
  3. Add stock and dried marjoram, bring to a simmer
  4. Add spinach, beans, shredded chicken, return to simmer for 5 minutes.
  5. Stir in the pesto.
  6. Season with salt and pepper.
  7. Serve with toast or crusty bread.
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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk to c/ukmusic@feddit.uk
 

I love early Iron Maiden. They had a raw fresh sound, born out of metal like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, but also with influences from prog rock and - perhaps most importantly - punk. The first two albums, featuring Paul Di'Anno's vocals have a raw, angry purity which I keep coming back to.

Ludicrously under-serviced by the British music press, Maiden have given us a stupendous total of 41 albums, and have performed utterly epic tours often over 100 shows long, with the '84-'85 World Slavery Tour coming in at 187 shows and playing to massive crowds including a co-headline with Queen in Rio de Janeiro with an attendance of 300,000 people.

 

The next Runequest Cults book will be the Solar Pantheon, coming in early 2025.

 

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk to c/runequest_glorantha@feddit.uk
 

This post is not about the mythical origins of Glorantha but about how Greg Stafford began writing about it back in 1966.

This is from a Wayback Machine snapshot taken on )ctober 14th, 2018.

How I Discovered Glorantha

I HAVE BEEN FASCINATED with mythology for most of my life.

My first mythology book that I recall reading is Manual of Mythology, by Alexander S. Murray (published 1935). I still have that old book. It is a thick tome full of the euhemerized versions of Greek myth, with many pictures of marble statues and renaissance paintings.

Like most people, I was interested in the strange and interesting stories. I began reading other versions, like Bullfinch, which was not much different, really. And then other mythologies too — well, other mythologies readily available to a pre-teen with a library card. I was lucky in that by the time I was in sixth grade I had access to the adult library, too.

Then I started reading books about mythology. I was convinced by every book that I read. If it was about how all myths are variants of Sun Myths, then I was convinced of that. Then I read one about how they were all Seasonal Myths, and they were that; or whatever subject the book was about. It didn't take too long to realize they couldn't all be right, that none were entirely right, and that mythology was something else. So I kept reading. Hero-With-a-Thousand-Faces-cover

When I got into college I was delighted to find a huge section of even deeper books that I’d never had access to before and dove into those. We even had Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces in one of my courses.

But I always had loved reading the stories, and those were in short supply. That is, there weren’t any new.

Now, at that time I’d never seen a book of fantasy fiction. I didn’t have that outlet, which was limited at the time anyway — we're talking 1966 here.

So one day I decided, “I’ll write my own mythology.”

I wrote one document, (reproduced below).

Then I wrote a little story about a guy named Snodal fighting a demon guardian, and put some notes about what he’d be doing. And thought, well, I need to know where his people came from, and so I wrote some stuff about Loskalm. But then I had to know where those people came from, so made some notes about the destruction of Seshneg. And had to know where they came from, and so on and so on.

The earliest materials weren’t as dense or sophisticated as the later ones. I didn’t have the breadth of knowledge to pack it in. It wasn’t until college that I started cramming on archeology, history sociology and religion.

But I did start writing the stories of the earliest kings of Seshnela. The first was the reign of King Froalar, which begins at the dawn of the first New Year in the world. It is about how Hrestol broke the Seshnegi caste system and instituted the new order of knights in order to combat the Pendali barbarians at the gates of his land. the-hobbit-cover

And so it began. I felt fantastic, documenting fantasy dynasties, enchanted realms, invented history, a made-up world.

Then one day I came across a copy of this weird book called The Hobbit in a book store, and then found Lord Of The Rings. I read the cover blurb and thought, “Damn, I’m not the first guy to do this.”

Ah, sweet innocence of youth, so long fled!

As, wonderful ignorance, so long driven out…

The First Glorantha Writing

I wrote this one night in 1966, in a moment of creativity, and it bore me into Glorantha. I laer discovered hat this is the only remains of a log of travellers who were fleeing the destruction of Seshnela at the end of the Second Age by the Luathela, and they later were instrumental in the foundation of the kingdom of Fronela.

Obviously, it was written in flet tip pen which has suffered slightly from some water, but it's still here!

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