I can fix it!

I suspect that this data is thinking in terms of hot dinners, rather than all the casual outside catering the people consume: every kebab from a van, every cake and cappucino in a coffee shop, every sneaky dash to Pret, every vending machine run, every Gregg’s pasty and scalding tea in a styrofoam cup, every snack in a street market, every ice cream from a van, every bit of toast in the work canteen, every school lunch, every tea shop in every attraction, all the small stripy apples gobbled by all the kids in all the nurseries, and of course all the drinking and snacking in pubs.

A portion of the food in the UK’s supply chain is in catering: businesses that sell you prepared food and drinks, which includes the restaurant industry. These businesses have contracted and sourced piles and piles of food and drink ingredients to provide the tremendous amount of catered food they make and sell. they buy in large amounts from specific providers to sell it, which is profitable because people come and eat it. The UK’s restaurant industry is worth £38 billion.

Now everyone must eat at home. The food in the catering supply chain is going to be dramatically less needed: food-makers are all Delivery Only. There will be shocks and shudders as the load rebalances and settles, from feeding a nation that enjoyed treats to a nation that stays at home and makes them.

Britain has awful food resilience, mostly because of historical obtuseness. The piper will have to be paid soon. But a good deal of the actual food is where it always was: in the hands of the people who meant to sell it outside.

“this is way too sweet”

“they’re remaking that movie already????”

“my back hurts”

“wait, people get mad about that now?”

“I can’t eat that, its gone fuck my stomach up”

“hold on let me check my calendar first”

I don’t know what the fuck happened to you guys younger than me in your formative years but literally everyyyything you’re describing is something that was included in the concept of ‘best friends’ as it was repeatedly presented to me as a child and teen.

SOmething happened along the way that got so many people thinking that ‘friend’ is ‘anyone and everyone you repeatedly  have ‘friendly’ contact with’ and that’s NOT TRUE.

We need to seriously bring back the word ‘acquaintance’. You need to familiarize yourself with it.

Because all of you complaining about having friend groups full of people who talk shit about you or exclude you? You don’t have friends, those are acquaintances.

Those ‘friends’ who don’t actually know much about you and aren’t that concerned about you? Acquaintances.

Those ‘friends’ you know who wouldn’t go one on one with you shopping, to lunch, to the movies? Acquaintances.

You are acquainted. You know each other. You are friendly towards each other. But that’s it. You’re not friends.

Somewhere along the way the term ‘friend’ became ‘anyone you know and talk to in a positive manner’ and that’s fine but in that case we ALSO need to re-legitimize the term best friend.

Because to a one, every post whining about ‘platonic mates’ and pining for ‘platonic dates’ is literally just someone wishing they had a best friend.

how at the end of Iron Man 3, we were reassured that Tony Stark would be back.

while for the other MCU heroes, we got this…

… not “Steve Rogers will return” or “Scott Lang will return” or “Peter Parker will return”

and at the end of BP, we see “Black Panther will return in Avengers: Infinty War”

We get their masked identities. Their superhero aliases. Their alter egos.

When we think of Captain America, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther, etc., we think of them as the heroes who we could rely on to help us, kick ass, and save the day, right?

And what do we think of when we hear the name Tony Stark?

Here, Tony’s actual name, not his alias, is in the same position as the others, reminding us that Iron Man may be powerful, but the true person we can trust to come and save us is Tony Stark. Iron Man has firepower, but Tony has more to offer the world than just his armor. If he ever finds himself in a situation where he doesn’t have a suit, you bet he’ll find another way to save the day.

That’s what he does. He’s a mechanic. He sees a problem and he fixes it. Yeah, he has an awesome suit of armor that helps him kick ass, but that’s just a high tech prosthesis, an extension of himself, an amplification of his true superpower — his brain and his heart.

5 years of DanAndPhilGAMES 🥳

PLEASE READ. WILL NOT HURT TO AND FORWARD. Kids are putting Drano, tin foil, and a little water in plastic drink bottles and capping it up - leaving it on lawns, in mail boxes, in gardens, on driveways etc. just waiting for you to pick it up intending to put it in the rubbish, but you’ll never make it!!!

If the bottle is picked up, and the bottle is shaken even just a little - in about 30 seconds or less it builds up enough gas which then explodes with enough force to remove some your extremities. The liquid that comes out is boiling hot as well. Don’t pick up any plastic bottles that may be lying in your yards or in the gutter, etc. Pay attention to this. A plastic bottle with a cap. A little Drano. A little water. A small piece of foil. Disturb it by moving it; and BOOM!! No fingers left and other serious effects to your face, eyes, etc. Please ensure that everyone that may not have email access are also informed of this. 

Do not touch it

Do not touch it

Clear the area around it. It will explode on its own in time.

Once it explodes, do not make contact with the liquid inside. If needed, flush it away with large amounts of water.

Do not try to detonate it. You’ll probably be disfigured.

These things are not a joke! When we went to check the damage there was a fucking hole in the ground. The dirt in my yard is like CLAY.

If you see one, keep your distance and wait for it to go off on its own.

My brother delt with one by putting a large metal bowl over it, but that’s extremely dangerous as well.

Whether you’re a woman, a man, gay, straight, bi, whatever sexual orientation you are, that is your personal call and that is not someone else’s to take. It’s not someone else’s to play with. It’s not someone else’s to mess with, and how dare you laugh about it and make meme after meme and retweet this and that and make it a joke. Because this behavior is not normal, it is not okay.