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Absolutely no offence taken 🙂 Though I will continue to discriminate between those artists who sacrificed the full 10,000 hours of childhood to their vocation, and those who chose an easier path 😜

Having been slagged off somewhat by @MigL and @StringJunky for making somewhat disparaging remarks about one-fingered Casio playing, I had to remind myself that my favourite small brass ensemble occasionally indulge in one-fingered trumpet playing. While I''m at it, couldn''t resist posting this faulous p***take too

... or an interpretive performance of that composition, maybe? My comment was directed at a pretty abysmal pedagogical method - akin to how I was taught to play the recorder at age 5 by having the edge of a ruler crack my knuckles whenever I played a wrong note. Your reply seems non sequitur. A misunderstanding perhaps? I was thinking more of this minimalist masterpiece Ditto, really. Though if the performer lacks the basic technique a piece demands, it's really difficult to make it a musical experience for the audience. Florence Foster Jenkins springs to mind.

This is untrue. Parliamentary representatives are unlikely to be elected in the first place unless their manifesto policies can convince a majority of the electorate that they will benefit financially - ie that there will be an acceptable degree of wealth distribution in their favour. All things being equal, large producers have an intrinsic economic advantage over smaller producers due to economies of scale. Costs are not a linear function of output. The actual degree of proportionality varies a little with with context, but a common rule of thumb is that capital costs scale with output^0.6 for example. Conspiracy is not a prerequisite for this to happen.

That's how to get a noise out of a Casio with one finger. Not how to become a musician.

Dear Mein Drumpf, Thank-you for alerting us to our 'GREAT STUPIDITY' in agreeing with Mauritius a 99 year lease on Diego Garcia at considerable cost to ourselves while allowing your military personnel to squat on the island FOC. After due deliberation, we have decided to give you the option of continuing to make reasonable use of our facilities at the fair market rate (as determined by our diplomatic research team in Beijing) of $100 billion pa. If you choose not to take advantage of these terms, please accept this message as a notice of eviction effective immediately, as we have an alternative tenant who is very keen to do business with us.

Loot, I ask, or gnome devil? I repress organisms in a grosser peril. I've demon grok's AI tool.

Me too. Apart from the daily Warfarin and a precautionary dab of antiseptic on abrasions, I tend to let nature take its course unless things get scary.

14 letter word! That's very impressive! Watched a rerun of Gladiator on the box yesterday as it happens.

You ask that of a trumpet player? For us, the 2nd is of such stratospheric significance, the others barely register. So my favourite Brandenburg is the performance by Friedemann Immer https://youtu.be/3HSRIDtwsfM?si=9SL0Fo-Y1v9-0c9a I imagine the ripieno viola scoring is exemplary, as one would expect of JSB.

... or maybe her concerns are more topical: Y motif or terror reset ICE riot repertoire cites error retrofit. O my!

Useful to know. Beginning to suspect my 'inconvenience' may be down to brief fever and course of strong antibiotics over Marxmas. I've never really done allergies and the like (touch wood).

Emily Lime advises English Renaissance composer that Milhaud plagiarised John Williams (via a timewarp, possibly) Dry broom trade nut asks a moot diva do "David" too. Masks a tune "Dartmoor", Byrd.

Tried a one litre UHT batch without heating and got 100% conversion to homogenous yoghurt. Negligible whey separation. Not that I can't find a use for the whey, but it's good to have the flexibility of a choice.

Quite. In many ways, it's a very free society here - gives you the opportunity to be an adult, as my friend put it many years ago. Only, there's no safety net for the reckless. Suits some people: others not so much.

Such people don't last very long here.

But then I'm not an American am I. 🧐

My dairy intake for 25 years has been limited to the occasional bit of cheese due to food poisoning concerns back in the day. Your point is well-taken. My interest is in a bit of balanced risk management.

Do you simmer the milk first? I've seen kefir recipes that omit this stage and am wondering if I need to bother with it. The whole point of UHT is that it's already been heat treated and is pretty sterile anyway.

... and Nigeria too: Tinubu stops otter, rages Uganda dad nag. Use garret to spot subunit.

With the notable exception of South America, there is a certain degree of correlation. Maybe it's just ''the poors''. Point taken. Without wishing to overdramatise, I've had a few mildish bouts of cholera when I was younger and fitter, and know a few people who've lost friends and relations to it. Under the circumstances and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, might even a single study be enough to justify a modest shift of dietary habits? I''ve a long line of ancestors who seemed to fare pretty well with dairy products.

Following my little test run, I couldn't resist trying out a full quantities batch with our local in season pineapple (again, substituting for apples and raisins/sultanas). Equally delicious! Harking back to your "Third Condiment" reference, from what I've read the 'mustard' in Kashmiri cuisine would most likely been pressed mustard oil. I don't think sale of this is permitted in the UK (high erucic acid content), but we're not so limited here, so in place of the lemon and mustard I substituted a couple of dollops of homemade lime pickle which seemed to cover the necessary bases.

So I'm caught between Scylla and Charybdis. Thanks! 🥺 Geographical correlation?

Diet modulates Vibrio cholerae colonization and competitive outcomes with the gut microbiota Seems that I need to persist with my new casein rich diet. Is it a coincidence that the Venn diagram for endemic cholera and lactose intolerance overlap considerably? Or just one of life's little ironies.

15 kW is a fairly typical Level 2 charging rate for an EV. Perhaps a couple of high mileage commuters treated themselves to an EV apiece and got a nasty shock when the next electricity bill came through the letterbox.