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In the spirit of Britishness, there's also: https://sheffieldknives.co.uk/

I'm not an "outdoor knives" sort of guy, but I have and greatly enjoy a couple of kitchen knives from them, and they have a full range of outdoor knives that...er...look like knives to me.

In my limited experience experience, Gemini responds better with flat, emotionless prompts without any courteous language. Using polite phrasing seems more likely to prompt "I can't answer that sorry" responses, even to questions that it absolutely can answer (and will to a more terse prompt).

So I think my point is "it depends". LLMs aren't intelligent, they just produce strings based on their training data. What works better and what doesn't will be entirely dependent on the specific model.

Obviously toasted. I mean what the fuck.

I'm pretty free and easy with the toppings. Marmite is good. Jam is good. Golden syrup is good.

My dad used to make his standard "Sunday night supper" of crumpets with cheese, garlic, sliced tomato, done under the grill cheese-on-toast style. Haven't had that for ages, but it was awesome.

apart from Safeway but I haven't seen one of those in a long time

I hate to break this to you in a "you're getting old" way, but Safeways disappeared literally 20 years ago. They were bought out by Morrisons.

Morrisons, while we're on the subject, is owned by an American private equity group.

You wanna see me install a Raspberry Pi 3 into my minivan to run the rear seat entertainment system?

I mean, I don't not want to see that...

Adding baking soda to the soak can help. Baking soda in the boil is the secret to mushy peas, and while you probably don't want them to go that far for a stew it could help soften them up a bit.

Alternatively, give them a quick boil on their own for about 10 minutes before adding them to the stew to give them a head start. Just enough water to cover, boil hard but don't let them boil dry.

Now you mention it, Branston Pickle pizza sounds pretty great.

Like a cheese and pickle sandwich in pizza form.

HSBC are shit, but they're British shit.

We have the same thing you call "pickles"- we call them gherkins (and very small ones "cornichons"). We just have lots of other pickles too! Pickled onions, pickled cabbage, pickled carrots, pickled beetroot, pickled cockles, pickled eggs...

There are two things which we call pickles that are really more like a chutney- "sandwich pickle" (which is what this is; Branston pickle and its imitators) and "piccalilli" (which is bright yellow).

NIMBYs once again should get in the fucking sea.

Ubuntu Touch is such a nice user experience. If it had an Android-tier app ecosystem it'd be a very nice daily driver.