v for frequency?

You betcha...

Basically it is yellow s*it, or s**te if you prefer. It's relationship to a biological cow is sometimes questionable.

True but in many cases videos are used by people too lazy to write the text description. Worst case it's someone reading Powerpoint slides verbatim, presumably for the illiterates in the audience.

Not in my lifetime.

rbowman snipped-for-privacy@montana.com wrote

Doesnt refute what I said as far as the navy and military were concerned.let alone them being even remotely a threat to the UK world wide militarily or economically.

You are the one with that problem.

Rod Speed snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote

And while they had overtaken the UK in the last few years in some areas of industrial production, they had f*ck all effect on the UK and USA dominance in world trade.

He is. Utterly blissful. I seem to recall it was parts of what became Germany that united with Britain to crush Napoleon at Waterloo.

Of course Germany didn't exist as a nation till somewhat later, being comprised of several kingdoms then

I've shot a few things with my .22 air rifle, but its (accurate) range is at best 30metres.

Such hunting as is done, is with shotguns (never repeating, only two barrels max) and very occasionally by licensed hunters with .22, .25, and a few other calibre bolt action only, This country is simply too damned crowded to let any but the most trained loose with a rifle.

Handguns are absolutely illegal except in specialised ranges. Needless to say there are plenty about in the hands of criminals

Just owning one of those would be ten years in prison here. On the basis that its only use is short range killing of humans by unskilled gunslingers...

And it is in fact completely correct in that assumption. It does. The Storm Shadows it has supplied are having a huge impact of Russian logistics. And now Britain has supplied them, France doesnt want to feel left out and will be supplying French made ones, which they call SCALPS. It was the UKs decision to send a token dozen main battle tanks with no nuclear retaliation by Moscow, that emboldened the USA and Germany to send Aramms and leopard tanks, respectively. It is on UK soil that the USAF has all its F15s and F35s, its Rivet joint surveillance aircraft and its stratotankers, that are all buzzing round over my head as a deterrent and in support of intelligence gathering along Ukraine's borders.

Just because Biden hates the UK, doesn't mean that a lot of US military personnel are not stationed here interoperating seamlessly with UK military personnel, and cooperating on joint manoeuvres that see e.g. B52s patrolling the Baltic escorted by Eurofighters.

We are effectively at war here. In alliance with all our NATO partners. Including the USA.

And we all make a difference.

The Mature Cheddar Cheese I buy at my local supermarket is a pale yellow, and is "Free From: Artificial Colours, Artificial Flavours."

Yes, Snopes is essentially a debunking site. The story they present may not be true, but the original version may be largely correct. Stories are changed with constant retelling, for example by changing the location.

Well the best cheddars in te UK are off white with a slight buttery tinge. Red Leciester is the only red tinged cheese I can think off, and all the other cheese worldwide that I have ever experienced are all in narrow shade of white, (fetta, mozarrella, caerphilly' to more or less straw coloured. With or without blue veining. Bright yellow cheese is US processed muck. And I wouldn't really call it cheese.

We can buy that as well. But the mass-market stuff sold in grocery stores and labeled "cheddar" is usually this (or a cheaper knockoff):

Since I'm not a huge fan of cheese, it's ok for my purposes. But I also like imported Gruyere and Parmagiano-Reggiano. I'm not too fussy about Parm: anything from Emilia-Romagna with the DOP stamp is fine. Length of aging is immaterial to me. I'm a little concerned about recent flooding in the area. I'll probably be paying double for Parm in a year or two. I might also have to start eating domestic country ham rather than prosciutto. Or Spanish ham.

The Sartori parmesan, from Wisconsin, is very good. Tillamook cheddar from Oregon is as good as any import.

The US is now making some nice hard-aged gouda now.

Cowgirl Creamery has a couple of great cheeses. The USA is more than Kraft now.

Of course. But we started off talking about mac & cheese in the little blue box.

Only took them 500 years.

"Them" ?

I wonder what French or Italian or English cheese was like 500 years ago. I know that many dairy products transmitted diseases.

(In the US, most states require all dairy products to be pasteurized or equivalent.)

I suspect that a minority of europeans could often afford cheese 500 years ago. Malnutrition was usual.

Cheap cheese and expensive cheese are options now. Some people like boxed mac+cheese, especially kids. You have permission to buy or cook something else.

Merkins

Everything transmits diseases dear. gut rot is a feature of all societies that doint know how to avoid it.

We dont require it, but its clearkly marked if you want to isiste onj it

Bread, milk and cheese was the agrarian staple diet. Along with pottage. Its only expensive when city dwellers buy it

Meat was the thing the peasant didn't get much of. A cow produced more milk than it did beef, protein wise.

The cheapest is comparable with the cheapest meat.