The BBC

i can see glimpses of humanity there tbf to the poor fucker

By the way, who is this ugly cunt and why does it seem like I'm seeing his face every time I turn on my telly?

https://www.famousbirthdays.com/faces/horne-alex-image.jpg

xps

one bit where uncle roger is wrong is, to make good egg fried rice you are best off using a carbon steel pan with very high temperature oil and it doesn't make a shit of difference if you use a metal spatula to toss that rice whilst it gets fried.

i believe he is a comedian of some sort Tom say no more

bbc comedians aka the worst people in human existence since the paedophile nazi clique in the belle & sebastien fanclub

is this where we're talking about rice?

was looking for some hot rice on rice action

we're talking about rice everywhere #onethread

#onerice

#omurice

that said the guy he’s with, georgio locatelli, is totally bananas and amazing

Giorgio Locatelli the chef? I have been meaning to go to his restaurant for years and am guessing it won't exist for much longer.

People are right that it's the bit where she rinses the rice off after draining it that's the most egregious offence. It means she hasn't washed it at the start and why wouldn't you do that?

yes the chef. he’s like every positive cliche of italian men rolled into one - passionate, demonstrative, emotional, effortlessly good looking. during the show he makes a classic jewish-italian dish of chicken meatballs in tomato sauce and deep fried artichoke. and he rolls round to a deli stall where they get a kidney sandwich. best tour guide ever, basically.

People that don't wash rice are savage murderers, that much is beyond question. But washing it after cooking it is doesn't make any sense at all, it's like having a shower and then rolling about in a pigsty or something.

this clumpy starchy mess that you've already boiled with far too much water can't be washed at this point, can only assume she is blanching it in the vain hope it won't clump together even more as it cools down! At home economics in school instead of teaching kids to fuck up some fancy flan they will never try again in their entire life they should just some simple rice module and give them some real survival skillz.

There's a point where uncle roger references a finger knuckle joint method for measuring your water to rice ratio, I've looked this up elsewhere and I can't make the maths of it work in my head, what am I missing? Basically the theory is you put your rice in the pan (any quantity, any shape/size of pan), then rest the tip of your index finger on top of the rice and add enough water for the level to reach the first joint of your finger, and that will in theory mean your rice/water ratio is perfect. But how can that be right? Like, if my rice layer is only one or two grains deep the r/w ratio can't help be tons higher than it would've been if my rice layer was six inches deep, right?

I have spent most of my life being terrible at cooking rice, but I'd at least have the self-awareness to be incredibly embarrassed at doing it like that on camera let alone for a cooking segment.

since buying a microwave rice cooker it's super easy although mine came with instructions where the measurements, which were in cups/ fl oz which I never use anyway, were clearly just translated from metric so it was 9.4oz rice and 14.2 fl oz water or something rather than nice round numbers. I eventually realised it was just enough water to cover the rice and then a little bit more so I just do that now and it works out fine. It's never been great for small amounts though e.g. for my kids do I still do that in the pan.

sometimes a bit of sludgy stuff boils over into the microwave but the rice in the basket is usually fine.

I don't know about that finger method and have been using a rice cooker or a steel rice ball for years now, once uncle Roger gets into your head you don't want him taking the piss out of your hot rice-takes!

xpost i don't use my finger, i rest my flat hand on top and make sure it's covered in water.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdsxZSRWkAERkof?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

my biryani is not photogenic, nor one for the purists but it'll do for me!

when a thread blows up and you're wondering if it's clusterfuck or food derail

rice chat has been good but I won't lie, I prefer a good clusterfuck

There several other clusterfucks going on.

That biryani look right.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53585627

pic of red squirrel

What is causing the declines?

Different animals face different threats. The now Critically Endangered Scottish wildcat population has not recovered from decades of persecution and, for the red squirrel, disease and competition from introduced grey squirrels has driven a steep decline.

fuck off bbc

all meaningful wildlife decline in the uk is caused by either human persecution or habitat loss

Imagine how many do gooders will be outraged at the prospect of people shooting grey squirrels.

Theyd rather sacrifice the reds.

— Firearms-UK (@FirearmsUK) July 30, 2020

what a wholesome twitter account

Imago, it goes on to say what you just said and that we need more habitat space.

Also: 'introduced' grey squirrels I think implies human agency.

it goes on to say that but look what it's foregrounding

'introduced' implies we can shoot the greys no problem

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-53554485

gonna complain about this bbc article which really shocked me today and i thought i was beyond being shocked by the bbc anymore.

"After a late-night vote went against the Conservative government in April 2016, Charlie Elphicke was drowning his sorrows by sharing a bottle of champagne with a parliamentary worker." is the beginning of an account of ELphicke's sexual assault against a parliamentary worker. Are there not guidelines for reporting sexual assault similar to how there are for suicide? I'm sure that beginning the article with contextually legitimising information around a sexual assault would contravene any such guidelines.

bbc tory fan-fic quoted straight from the defendant's criminal defense lawyer is pretty fucked up.

Even for them I can't get over just how shit this is.

The UK's chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has a plan to save the country's economy from the effects of coronavirus, but will it work? 💰https://t.co/2hMQf5tRPt pic.twitter.com/p3l24cBCgW

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 31, 2020

that would be too infantile and condescending for cbeebies, but I presume it is aimed at big children.

CBBC?

I agree -- all these are dreadful and shameful.

the same big children that didn't feel there was a lack of consistency in voting for the most right-wing tories in decades and then clapping the NHS

apparently the series on the Murdochs was very good, but then they still do infantile CCHQ propaganda like this

Worse if aimed at younger viewers really but as it's from their main News account I doubt it.

That style of report in itself just feels so archaic regardless of the subject and intention. Set up a question, add a 'comedy' angle to the presentation and just wrap it up with 'only time will tell if the question we are asking here can ever really be answered'. This one was almost funny for just how unintentionally clunky it was (talking about Superman doing magic tricks and just standing there handing out money) but trying to be ironic is as bad as being consciously sycophantic at this point. Why should we have to acknowledge a difference?

'encouraging us to get out there and join the Chancellor on the front line'

It's unbecoming of journalism full stop

But tbf this has always been a personal bugbear about the Beeb since at least the Birt era

at least super Rish is 6"4 tall in his dreams

(thought this bump was going to be about matthew postgate's new job with UKStratCom)

has uh the MP stuff been properly announced yet? i hadn’t seen anything in the news.

wait i’m confused koogs - are you referring to this from Jan?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/non-executive-director-appointments

Oh, hadn't noticed the date on that. I wonder how that sits with the BBC job? Seems like an odd mix. (Or does it?)

The BBC removed the Superishi propaganda and blamed readers for being stupid

We have removed a video of the chancellor’s plans for the UK economy. While we don’t think that readers would take the images at face value, on reflection we think the illustrations struck the wrong note and we’ve removed the article.

Maybe it's a tiny consolation that calling these fucks on social media has some effect, sometimes, nowadays

Just posting this here for a classic BBC bit of context-setting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53676550

Nina Simone was a revered singer and civil rights activist, known for performing songs such as Feelin' Good, I put A Spell On You and I Loves You, Porgy.

there was a decent program on Schubert's Winterreise on R4 earlier that inspired me to dig it out.

never a bad time to dig out Winterreise but ffs Radio 4 it's August

I still don't know barely any of the lyrics but love the mood. but possibly at odds with the incoming heatwave if you are looking for summer vibes!