1 cup sugar, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 cup water, 1 tsp. salt , 1 cup brown sugar, Lemon juice, 4 large eggs, Nuts, 1 bottle tequila, 2 cups dried fruit.
Sample a cup of tequila to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the tequila again to be sure it is of the highest quality then Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.

At this point, it is best to make sure the tequila is still OK. Try another cup just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 eegs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the fruit up off the floor, wash it and put it in the bowl a piece at a time trying to count it.

Mix on the turner. If the fried druit getas stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a drewscriver Sample the tequila to test for tonsisticity. Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something. Check the tequila. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window. Finish the tequila and wipe the counter with cat

Seems to be a rather new thing and annoying since the same sites appear to keep asking every time you visit.
Kind of ironic because cookies are supposed to save your decision so they remember who you are for next time if you click on allow!

Is this some sort of legal requirement perhaps?

.....*nods

I had a theory that we'd move into the traffic light system at the end of November regardless of the vaccine rates, looks like I may be onto something:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...es-up.html

It makes sense. Giving a clear goal is great incentive to go and get vaccinated. But now that the vaccine rates have dropped off, moving to the new system will be an even greater incentive because it will prevent the unvaxxed from participating in society like normal.

Bring it on I say!

Seems to be OK, for the time being but my computer would just  go to a blank screen when it was supposed to go into sleep mode after 30mins.
Except only it wasnt going into sleep mode at all and was in some sort of frozen state, nothing would wake it up, and just a single short press of the power button without holding it in for 4 seconds would cause it to turn off immediately.

Then if i went to turn back on the computer, it would not boot up at all and after the BIOS had loaded it just went blank again.
If went into the boot menu and select the UEFI boot partition on the SSD, it would boot up fine again, until next time round.
Seemed to be messing up the boot order on the BIOS settings too, I have to keep moving it back around, but it reverts back after it crashes.

Weird thing is it seems OK for the time being, but will know after i leave this running for a few hours, last night it appeared to go into sleep fine.

Its a brand new samsung 980 pro that ive replaced my old 960 pro with thats double the size. Seems to run faster and everything else, so hopefully its OK.
I might check if there is a firmware update for the drive.

Quite like this rule used by the Austrian government. Would be good here, especially with our low number of ICU beds...

"Under an incremental government plan agreed in September, once 30% of intensive-care beds are occupied by patients with Covid, people not vaccinated against the coronavirus will be placed under lockdown, with restrictions on their daily movements. The current level is 20% and rising fast." - taken from The Guardian

I would be following this very closely if I were you.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/11/11/new-l...-covid-19/

I think the whole thing is a joke and dont understand the WHO reasoning.
Did this person have acute symptoms of covid prior to being shot? Shouldnt this be clear cut enough to even bother with any "investigation"?
I cant find anything to back this up, but it appears they felt he was linked to a covid case, so the body was tested anyway.
I know of a similar case from a friend in the USA where this particular person died in a car accident, but has been marked as a covid death and as a result does not qualify for a life insurance payout.

Has anyone received any Countdown Bricks yet? 
I shop online and 2 weeks running ordered the bricks - should have been entitled to 7 each week but order came with "Countdown Bricks Out of stock" on the packing slip.

They shouldn't be Out of Stock already surely, as the promotion only started on 4 November.
If you are getting them please let me know which stores have them. Thanks.

So here's my one for the day:

"Pregnant people"

Wtf is that?  The ONLY creature who can get pregnant is a female WOMAN.  As far as I'm aware.

Anyone also got a bit of 'Pc' crap they'd like to share?

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