wrongly bcz it's delicious
― mark s, Friday, 24 February 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
It was only widely available in seaside caffs in the era when I didn't like hot drinks
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 February 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
It's my goto option when I've already had 6 coffees and need hot drink. You can make it very strong and add a bit of honey and it's as good as a meal.
― calzino, Friday, 24 February 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
it's rich in *checks label* anti-caking agent
― mark s, Friday, 24 February 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
That's the best kind of agent
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 February 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
I love that malty aroma. like when you are walking past a huge factory brewery
― calzino, Friday, 24 February 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
A heaping teaspoon of Horlicks into a chocolate milkshake is the closest thing there is to a drugstore malted milkshake.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
'Mental clarity and emotional regulation'
It is quite an odd thing to claim, implying that he was worse in these regards 4+ years ago.
Still, he is sincere in his tip. I'm afraid I won't take it as I like coffee.
― the pinefox, Friday, 24 February 2023 23:30 (one year ago) link
That was the ad slogan in the 70s
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 February 2023 bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Friday, 24 February 2023 bookmarkflaglink
I assumed Horlicks went bust as I can't see it in the supermarket. Maybe I blocked its existence out.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 February 2023 11:16 (one year ago) link
Or remember the last I saw it, that is..
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 February 2023 11:17 (one year ago) link
I ordered some from Morrisons and it was unavailable + substituted with vegan Horlicks. It remains unused in my cupboard because it's bloody awful and will no doubt remain there until it turns into a solid block. But honestly, the real stuff is good.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 February 2023 11:32 (one year ago) link
I can vaguely remember Horlicks sweets a long long time ago. I don't think they make them anymore.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 February 2023 11:37 (one year ago) link
http://futuremuseum.co.uk/imageGen.ashx?image=%2fmedia%2f6395%2f8051.jpg&width=356&constrain=true
obv not these ones!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 February 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/attachments/equipment-field-gear/108961d1275159418t-british-horlicks-tablets-ration-tin-horlicks-tablets-tin..jpg?s=c2ec3f3b7a101ed36ad1b68a90b8d47a
or even these
― calzino, Saturday, 25 February 2023 11:42 (one year ago) link
I think they used to sell tubes of Horlicks tablets in Boots in the 70's or this might be a phantom memory
― calzino, Saturday, 25 February 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
I remember asking Paul Mason why he was fascinated by defence and security policy (it surprised me given his books had covered labour movements and technological change). The answer included “I liked playing with toy soldiers as a kid”.— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) February 26, 2023
― the pinefox, Monday, 27 February 2023 11:41 (one year ago) link
This is why I think the government needs to do more about dungeons and dragons
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 February 2023 13:31 (one year ago) link
it seems Ash Sakar is now a regular on The Moral Maze, that show where idiots and bigots feign intellectual curiosity about this week's hot right-wing talking points. I bet if there was Radios back in the 1850s then her apparent hero, Karl Marx, would have found better ways of paying for his cigars than helping to legitimise ideological enemies like this!
― calzino, Monday, 27 February 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
She’s been on there for a couple of years!
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 27 February 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
I thought she was just an occasional guest rather than a weekly regular, but I do tend to switch to a music channel as soon as it comes on.
― calzino, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
*engels the cheque-writer gritting his teeth and sighing every time karl turns down a lucrative media slot*
― mark s, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
he could have purchased some decent chairs then. I was reading a quote from a report from a Prussian spy on the state of KM's filthy flat. Apparently every chair in the gaff had a three legs and the only unbroken one was reserved for guests!
― calzino, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
The people who own the Kentish Town house once lived in by Marx refuse to have a blue plaque for it because: tourists and Insta.
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 27 February 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
A wealthy Englishman wants to be the MP in a rural Welsh seat with 29% child poverty. His link to the constituency? He has a second home there. You honestly can’t make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/v3UTXtRxJ5— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 3, 2023
― the pinefox, Saturday, 4 March 2023 10:53 (one year ago) link
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/23/09/35996002-8977149-image-a-5_1606123788582.jpg
― calzino, Saturday, 4 March 2023 11:18 (one year ago) link
I think a third selection failure for Mason might be a sign that he should put his parliamentary aspirations on hold for now, it's getting a bit desperate and the chances don't look too good for him. Not even a case that the CLP might not be too enthusiastic for a 2nd home owning English guy, they will almost certainly hate the fucker!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link
His Twitter bio is now half in Welsh.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:29 (one year ago) link
he will soon be disclosing the discovery that he is in fact descended from Welsh peasantry, a humble clan of weavers who lived in the same cave for generations.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link
@stoya dewch i canolbarth a de sir benfro -- mae'r chwyldro yn digwydd!
― mark s, Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
lol.. Stoya .. come to Rhyl ... I'm about to get me head kicked in by some Cardiff fans
― calzino, Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
@ paul mason news pic.twitter.com/N55FASyEqk— wariotifo (@wariotifo) March 3, 2023
― calzino, Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
Good commentary on PM from the Calzino / Sinker double act here !
― the pinefox, Saturday, 4 March 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
And what did Campbell do to the BBC?
Finally some honesty about the disgusting treatment Jeremy Corbyn received from figures at the BBC. And it’s coming from…Alistair Campbell. pic.twitter.com/sBhNOMFrIL— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 10, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:19 (one year ago) link
Obv it's a knowing tweet - it doesn't mean you promote it.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:21 (one year ago) link
Damn I’m really glad my ‘left’ media platform didn’t give this guy an exclusive interview in which he was presented as authoritative, reasonable and agreeable pic.twitter.com/TJ6KCfx8PH— tom (@tomrade_) March 13, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 13 March 2023 09:50 (one year ago) link
Wow! Coming in and out of London yesterday was quiet. Empty trains, emptyish tube. Today, by contrast, it’s packed. I guess the phenomenon of ‘TWAT’ workers (who go to the office on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) is real. Sadly I’m not one of them! 😅— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 14, 2023
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 10:36 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/hoxIjc0BzU— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 (@MichaelRosenYes) March 15, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 12:58 (one year ago) link
booming tweet, not sure why it's on this thread, is it the hitchins connection?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
it's madness that Hitch is saying a regime that was murdering and putting trade unionists and commies into concentration camps was left-wing, he's off his bloody rocker these days!
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
First they came for the people with legitimate concerns
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
😴
Only one person can host this. It’s time for @michaeljswalker - the ‘sober judge’ of British political journalism. Let’s get it on @rustyrockets!!! https://t.co/w1FgBeBYJ6 pic.twitter.com/LzGlQTfhwd— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 14, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
The hits keep coming.
I once asked Alastair on @novaramedia and he refused the offer because I’d used unsavoury language on twitter (it may have been something like ‘war criminal’). But at least he had the kindness to respond. The offer still stands, by the way. https://t.co/h9RvyHoXnB— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 15, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link
And if the green movement gives up on that it will lose, and lose badly. The task isn’t just highlighting issues, we need new people (literally in the future) to build different kind of energy and social systems. This absolutely requires thinking & deliberation! (8/9)— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 20, 2023
"we need new people (literally in the future)"
― the pinefox, Monday, 20 March 2023 12:46 (one year ago) link
nice for alumni of the 2010 student movement to reunite at right wing events, held by fash-adjacent publications, alongside a patriotic labour style reactionary trade unionist leader turned shockjock dweeb. what a few years it has been. pic.twitter.com/hCFsKFWizv— michael richmond (@Sisyphusa) March 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 March 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
Really pathetic.
An absurd position for Bastani to take! Obviously the position of the imperial core in relation to Asia and Africa plays a significant determining role in how their relationships to capitalism and climate change evolve! So we have responsibilities to fight it here! pic.twitter.com/8X6CKsBF8R— John Duncan (@Johntheduncan) March 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 08:29 (one year ago) link
I don't know who the older guy is but in a few seconds he seems to have the measure of this tool. I can't even tell what Bastani is trying to say, perhaps clumsily trying to put his own spin on what some of his right-wing Malthusian discussion panel buddies have been saying recently.
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 09:21 (one year ago) link
It's the XR guy, who is actually worse in terms of actions. Amazing how he just calls Bastani out on his grift.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 10:01 (one year ago) link
Why did people take Bastani seriously in the first place? Genuinely curious.
― bain4z, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 10:30 (one year ago) link
bastani put a lot of energy into reasonably entertaining twitter memes at a time when ppl were feeling very low and defeated (early 2017), when his affect (roughly speaking) wasleft-corbynism-for-the-lads-wahyey! afterwards he gave us fully automated gay space luxury communism etc, tho i don't think anyone took his line on that especially seriously, they just enjoyed the phrase (it's a good phrase). the book itself wasn't particularly well reviewed and i actually don't know a single person who read it lol (maybe it's great!)
as sysiphusa sourly notes he's a 2010 student-movement legacy kid (tho he was active then as aaron peters; he switched from his mum's to his dad's name for some personal family reason i don't recall)
anyway i feel that's the beginning and the end of the time ppl had for him?
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:08 (one year ago) link
wahyey s/b wahey
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link