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Not a flat mein schaft, then?

I never mastered sough dough bread but I love to buy it from those who are good at it. As for the dough being wetter in your recipe,I often make it that way (ie ordinary bread and not sough dough) as I think it encourages large bubbles which I like.

I think the berets were a give away for French tourists but there was confusion as to whether the cameras indicated Japanese or Americans. They can't have got it right all the time and they were difficult to train because the scraps on the pier(prawn casings esp) meant they had low concentration levels. Not many Muslims around at that time ..... but maybe there were chapters based in Glasgow or the larger towns that included them in the training process.

Not widely known but there was a rogue element trained at the https://www.shieldaiglodge.com/explore/falconry who experimented with training the local seagulls to identify "foreign tourists" from their head gear and for them to disrupt their fish and chip takeaways with unusual flight paths. They rationalised this as some kind of a boost to the local economy whilst "protecting" the local inhabitants. There was talk of a prosecution but they claimed they were "doing the lord's work" and that no training was carried out on the Sunday.

I would paint baby lambs' eyes on them and while they are distracted arrange for them to be deported to some shithole country with an alligator pool paid for with crypto.

Certainly an alternative. Is it in India?

What a coincidence! (Was it contracrostipunctus Interruptus? ) Much easier to understand with those pictures☹️

Here https://connemara.ie/listing/wildlife-sculptures-connemara-national-park/

We had an Austin A40 and I think it had a crank handle that may or may not have seen action . We then had an Austin A50(A55?) and I don't remember if it also had that accessory.

I think nearly all of them could be used but maybe Heavy Fuel is most direct.(also brilliant in its own right,as are they all mostly)

Is it an illusion for us to think that with our minds we can somehow "stand outside" the physical processes? Would this be a common illusion ,to think we are somehow independent of our environment rather than an admittedly highly elastic and dynamic but intrinsically incorporated part of it? (Is that related to Descarte's huge lever?)

One thesis of Rankin's documentary was that this was fuelled by the semi industrial need for fresh cadavers in London and Edinburgh ,and that Jekyll may have been (based on?) one of those doctors (one entry for the public and a back entrance for the passage of dead bodies) Plenty of odours and emissions in those men's nocturnal activities.

Something similar happened to Robert Louis Stevenson.His first manuscript of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde was also destroyed by his wife (for similar reasons according to Ian Rankin,I seem to remember-he said she may have thought it was "too explicit"** ) https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/25/books.booksnews **He made a documentary about the book and the author (I think they were/are both from Edinburgh)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2nkBa3Kr9VA&pp=ygUoQXR0ZW5ib3JvdWdoIGJhcmJhcnkgZ2licmFsdGFyIGtpZG5hcHBlZA%3D%3D This is a very entertaining section of a David Attenborough program where a mother Macaque in Gibraltar has her infant stolen by another childless female in the group. She develops a scheme to recover the child, and I wonder whether we can ascribe any "motivated reasoning " to her? She goes to a third party and proceeds to groom him in the apparent realisation that this will entice the robber monkey to join their little group of 3 plus the infant. I doubt she had grooming in mind.Did she persuade herself that it was so as to achieve her main goal of recovering her stolen infant?

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A reverse ferret?

Wrong (though interesting) link? I can see nothing about beer or drinking water in that small Benjamin Franklin piece.

I expect you don't have the same history in Canada where beer was (as I think I heard) a healthier option for drinking in the (pre-?)industrial age than the water which was apparently anything but. I think i heard thst that may have applied to spirits like gin too-incredibly. Have you tried Newcastle Brown -what I used to drink ?

By "brainwashing" I mean (as per the OP,I think) that one deliberately or unconsciously "skips over" inconvenient evidence in favour of more reassuring evidence that fits in with preconceived ideas. It reminds me a bit of the skit (was it Frank Muir?) taking off an Indian man getting fitted out in Saville Row as an English Gent in full regalia ,with a witty punch line that escapes me.-ah yes it was "but sir,why are you are weeping" "because we lost the empire" It would be great if there was an animal behaviour that bore an relationship to that kind of behaviour where details are overlooked in favour of a more comfortable outcome. I think we have the "deaf ear" when we pretend not to hear something and this can become physically true with practice. Maybe I anthropomorphise my pet but I often remark to myself that it is purposefully ignoring me(if the weather is bad it will not respond although it will be all over me otherwise as it lives for its daily walks -and seems to be on tenterhooks waiting to be asked out) Do you think the dog could be displaying intuition by comparing fair weather offerings against "head down" rainy day preferences?

Are there any non human examples where an animal "brainwashes" itself for material gain? That could be a precursor to a human "brainwashing" themselves for a perceived psychological gain (which is what I understand the OP to be about) Any examples of an animal deliberately disregarding evidence in any circumstance? Could it be that there is animal behaviour where more than 1 piece of evidence is used for any particular goal and that those pieces of evidence are "weighted internally? (I think some animals do practice deceit and trickery but do they ever turn that tool on themselves?)

I haven't actually listened to this in half a century (I am going to).Apparently the subject matter is in the news as a genre of writing is showing up (unbeknownst to me ) over the past while. 'Complex, dangerous, sexual beings': The erotic, so-calle...The fairies in erotic "fae" romantasy are not cute or benevolent. They are dangerous, sexual beings, which is exactly what they were in historic folklore, according to a new book.I remember this as a really great song on a really great album(Liege and Lief) with a fantastic singer in Sandy Denny ,who very sadly departed this world via the staircase ,as I remember.

Thanks. Would there be any actual practicality to that? I mean ,are there any physical scenarios where the probability of an interaction can be predicted by summing all the possible paths from a point of emission? Or are we just in interpretation territory ? (Out if the top of my hat ,might quantum computing involve that kind of a scenario?-I don't have any understanding of that subject apart from superposition and ,presumably decoherence being involved)

So good I think I will post it twice

If I can just continue this thread without opening a new one,I think this would be a related question..... I think the "all possible paths traveled" may have been Feynman's favourite interpretation of the model. Can I ask ,when these paths are (if they are) drawn and calculated are physical impossibilities and constraints built into the calculation? ie some paths might require faster than c transfers and some paths might encounter strong spacetime curvature. In the "theory" (if this can be called a theory) ,but not perhaps in practicality are the probabilities (zero ,perhaps in many cases) weighted accordingly? Also is "tunneling" a class of travel that is included?

And vice versa? Does muscle not actually turn to fat (as I think I have heard said) but does it simply waste away - with fat increasing or decreasing regardless? Ps I wonder if there have been studies as to whether body building is a physically unhealthy recreation in the long term (I am sure practioners may feel the opposite)