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You can be sure the negotiators, being paid as executive bureaucrats are always paid, are making sure they've plenty of time to take their ill-gotten gains to the bank.
The long it runs the longer they're paid - along with various travel perks.
The only downside might be to have to be in the same room as one another - and that might all be a trumped up fantasy for the media to help justify their sloth.
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Thought it might be useful for someone living in the UK to comment! 
Right now, nothing has changed. The transition period maintains the status quo whilst we get our sh!t together. Are we going to do that? Who knows! Does anyone care right now? Probably not! There's a virus out there that kills people; a Government that (not surprisingly) veers from trying to save lives to trying to save the economy every couple of weeks; and the press jumping on every 'tack and jibe' as a U-turn, because that's the sort of headline that sells.
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We are still waiting to find out. Until the end of the trade negotiations nothing has actually changed.
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Brexit? No-one cares about that. When they realised the scaremongering wasn't going to come true they found some other way to destroy the economy.
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Some time back I was wondering what to do with my surprisingly abundant chili harvest (of exceptionally hot chilies).[^] Well (and this doesn't change anything) I now have about a quart of bright red habanero puree and half as much deeply yellow Trinidad Scorpion puree. Both ground with vinegar to preserver.
An interesting testimony for something to do came from my brother (I donated many pepper seedlings to him): peach-habanero sauce. Given to him by someone to whom he gave many habaneros. He says it's mighty fine. I have an interesting use for my pepper trimmings: I use them to discourage dogs whose owners take them to "exercise" on my lawn (has fire hydrant: uh oh!). I don't want to use chili powder as this would hurt the dog (it's the owner that's the problem). I figure the robust aroma of chili will keep them at a distance. Also, I rinsed the blender and poured the juice on the fire hydrant. Ideally, the beasts will be conditioned to keep away even when I run out of trimmings.
The idea of a sweet sauce, like Asian style hot-and-sweet sauce, has now opened up. One last crop seems due. A few will be allowed to go to seed (scorpion seeds are costly). Now I need to consider some fruit options (apple, a trace of lemon or Vitamin C to preserve the color, and honey? Blueberries? Maybe one donated to making a dilute soup for dosing on canine attractions.)
The pre-made purees can still be used elsewhere, as well - they're's an awful lot of it.
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Ever thought of using as paint stripper?
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Blueberry sounds like it could be pretty good. I've had mango hot sauces that were very good too. Something a little different might be a fig hot sauce. My wife and I have used a fig balsamic marinade that we just love on chicken, pork or steak. I think a fig hot sauce could make a really good marinade.
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Fig sound nice. Not quite the same, but you can take credit for it: I like making date-based spreads. Typically with walnuts and enough wine to make it a smooth paste. I've eaten this with horseradish and that works amazingly well.
Sounds like winners - now to shop for some grind-worthy dates (i.e., pitted and not too dry).
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Is a cat's favourite Shakespearean play Ro-meow and Mew-liet?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Garfield will disagree
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Meow-chant of Venice? Meow-sure for Meow-sure?
(for a creature so expert at sleeping, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a long time favorite)
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Meow-sure for fur Meow-sure?
FTFY
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I guess so. I was thinking about Poe's work, the Purr-loined Litter.
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Poe! You must be raven mad!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Not so much - but I was just ordered to leave the lounge because of a "The Smell-Real Phart" wasn't considered SFW.
. . . I'll race you to the coat rack . . .
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The meow-chant of Venice
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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No, it's King Leo!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Could also be The Winters Tail or The Merry Wives of with Whiskers.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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A Midsummer Night's Cream
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Pawsibly... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Light comes to us through the cracks![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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It's a bit quiet on here today, so I thought there might be room for another one. And this one is truly MASSIVE! It's a whole concert of covers.
Jules Buckley, (who has to be the coolest conductor dude on the planet), with Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra at the 2015 BBC Proms doing "The Radio 1 Ibiza Prom". This is one and a half hours of pure joy/magic and probably the best use of that time that you could ever make. No matter what your musical tastes, you are never going to have more fun listening to an orchestra than this!
The Radio 1 Ibiza Prom - YouTube[^]
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OK - puzzle me this:
You've a number of posts at this point touting 'covers'. Any reason you just don't listen to the real thing? Not that I'm specifically against 'covers' - the first Hot Tuna album (entitled "Hot Tuna", a true thing of beauty,[^] was essentially only covers - basically traditional works that are, practically speaking, always covers.
OK - if somethings' like a hundred-year-old blues piece that can be difficult (not always impossible!), but the real deal's quite available (even on youtube). So, why oh why?
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LOL  If you want me to start listing all the 'real' stuff I like, we are going to be here for a while. In fact, I'm probably going to have reached an age where I can't remember what I liked.
I guess covers was a small enough category for me to pick a few favourites from. And it is interesting to see someone's completely different take on a track. It also tends to spark a bit of a debate. Will a Led Zep fan stomach Corinne Bailey Rae covering one of their tracks? Light the blue touch paper and stand back! 
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Love "The Inbetweeners", one of my favourite shows.
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