caga tio wrote: The habanero is great, especially in Caribbean food,

Doesn't Caribbean cooking use Scotch bonnets? The shops where I live are full of them rather than habaneros, but I think they are closely related.

Lu Zwei wrote: Tue Feb 17, 2026 4:33 am What is DragonForce?

They are the dreams of every Guitar Hero/Skyrim/Final Fantasy-playing nerd made flesh. Dorkily cute.

This discussion has been a revelation. It transpires that I had conflated Imagine Dragons with DragonForce, and have never heard a note of the former's oeuvre, nor even seen a picture of them.

Despite this I stand by my voting record, based as it is on confusion and ignorance.

Awful as Nugent is he will always have the Amboy Dukes. Kid Rock just has Kid Rock, and that is his tragedy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrUH9pGk90w

Why are you woke Nazis trying to stop him feeding his dog and doing other basic household chores?

His book title Manufacturing Consent is pretty odious in hindsight.


Chomsky himself said that was mostly Herman's work, but obviously he endorsed it. It's certainly disappointing that its major legacy seems to have involve undermining clear evidence of war crimes (Bosnia, Rwanda, Syria).

The ...

Red Army Faction supporter Brantley Gilbert?



I'd never heard of these people, and now I need to nuke my youtube history from orbit

Bone Temple is another home run. Also has the most horrific torture scene I've ever witnessed. Deeply upsetting.


Yes, please heed that warning (the very first scene is also nasty). The UK film classification is '18', and you have to really try to get that these days so I was forewarned.

Having ...

Stupid question from an ignorant person: Maduro had a lot of opponents, but I don't recall cases of 'narco-terrorism' being thrown at him until that idiot pulled it from thin air. I'm sure that if there was (even flimsy) evidence of that it would have been used. So what is this trial going to be ...

I'm not especially happy that I have to be present, why inflict it on others? Relationships need a little mystery.

If civilisation has any purpose it must to be help us deny these biological necessities, otherwise we're no better than animals. Or the French.