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Korean barbecue restaurants where you get to DIY on gas or charcoal grills built into the dining table itself
represented in Japan by the Anrakutei chain
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Feed: Melting pot: A cuisine of immigrants, in reply to mark taslov,
Egg-based sushi dishes are commonplace, so it shouldn’t really be that much of an extension, but still I haven’t seen chicken sushi in Japan at all. With the striking exception of the aforementioned egg dish, the entire point of sushi is for the fish to be fresh and raw, which is maybe not the strongest marketing point for chicken or pork dishes (hence yakitori, yakiton instead).
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Hard News: Friday Music: Who is the head…, in reply to Craig Young,
I think some degree of authorship, rather than only participation as an actor, is being assumed. Otherwise we'd also have to consider Cliff Curtis in Sunshine .
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"Take back control" sounds such a powerful slogan,
until you realise that the MPs telling you that's the goal
are the ones hoping they will be taking control,
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Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
age gap is quite informative of his views on women
i.e. happy about “young women getting ahead” as long as it’s his?
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Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
the way you have to play the game if you want to win
No, because if you play their game — instead of changing the rules — you still lose, and so does everyone else.
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Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Why should that be at all surprising? The right wants to reduce participation in politics: all the more power for the 1%. Which is all the more reason the left should NOT blindly copy their playbook.
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Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
However, if only the visceral and tribal elements are emphasised, leading to polarisation, and disaffection and alienation of voters, democracy fails.
Tricky, innit. -
(Thanks, Katherine!)
looks like it :)
Indeed – most closely from Bridges himself, that naughty boy…
… but still, they shouldn’t be lowering themselves to his level of testiness/testeeness/testeness.[Note that the current government used a broader-scope “narrow the question” nonreply, rather than the narrower-scope “focus on a specific issue or organisation” nonreply used by several of the National members when in power; this is what allowed National to move in the direction of asking for larger numbers of narrower time ranges and thus further ramping up the spam war. The lesson here is that it really doesn’t become the current government to try to respond like National; they’re not as skilled at being pricks.]
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Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to Moz,
I can’t immediately find an example of exactly the same answer being used by National. So the boilerplate responses may be more simply a tit-for-tat strategy to cope with (perceived) boilerplate questions. I can see some point to that, in that providing actual answers takes considerably longer than copy-pasting text of one question into hundreds of questions, and the government seems, on that basis, to have decided that National is merely time-wasting. (Bridges actually admits as much when he says it’s at least partly about “testing the government”.) But the government is still wrong not to attempt to provide good-faith answers: we deserve better than to have both the opposition and the government acting like dicks.