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[Sirus]

Ah, THERE it is. The exact location of the pay-to-play rule eluded me for the first few glace-overs.

...I wonder if that's legal/allowed in the ToS? Using someone else's bandwidth and forum to make money for yourself.

[Tawa]

...solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.

In criminal law, solicitation is the act of offering, or attempting to purchase, goods or services. Legal status may be specific to the time or place where occurs.

Well then.

[TheBiggerFish]

Hmmmmmm.

Looks like we need to call the Toad.

[Bouchart]

I'll probably wither away on its own accord.

Now all we need to do is combine a pay-to-play forum roleplay game with a pyramid scheme.

[smjjames]

COULD be joking, but yeah, time to call in Toady One on that.....

[TheBiggerFish]

The one named Boris Johnson http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-35037007 , and does London seriously have two mayors or something?

The UK London.

We have the Lord Mayor and the Mayor, the Lord Mayor being mayor of the City of London and the Mayor being the mayor of London which is all of London around the City of London. The City of London and Westminster used to be two rival cities, but then they fused and just became one big London, but the City of London retained its rights in the Magna Carta (hence why the government is in Westminster, not the City of London). Oh yeah and 50 years ago the Westminster borough was awarded city status again, so London is technically 3 cities. Boris is Mayor of Greater London and is generally the more important one when it comes to politics, so his putdown is of greater significance. Boris is also known here for being absolutely hilarious.

Spoiler: Most important thing though is that Boris has better hair (click to show/hide)

-snipped picture-

I... I... What?  Why?

[majikero]

Raw egg on rice is actually a very real meal. When I first tried it all those years ago when I saw my dad eat it, I thought it was a cure for constipation from the result.

[Rolan7]

Raw egg worries me, I always overcook instead...  Not sure why, somehow I got the impression that salmonella was super common.
Maybe because I've had *expired* egg dishes, which is different, but once bitten twice shy.

[Frumple]

For what it's worth, if you stick raw eggs in two or three minutes before the rice is done cooking, they won't be raw eggs anymore :V

Actually the easiest way to make eggy rice, which is delicious.

[Shadowlord]

Not to mention that organic products are a scam in and of themselves

Not really. It's harder to grow crops without pesticides and fertilisers, so organic things will naturally cost more. Of course, that doesn't make them any less pointless, but calling it a scam is a bit much.

Fertilizers and conventional farming techniques result in soil loss (slowly decreasing nutrients in the soil, resulting in a need to use more and more fertilizer to keep the soil usable), and fertilizer runoff into the rivers and oceans (resulting in "dead zones").

Some pesticides have been proven to be carcinogenic in humans, and owing to the lack of labeling, the only way to avoid them is to know what products are safe because the pesticide won't be in what you eat, or if it will, to buy organic instead.

[Baffler]

Most organic farmers still use pesticides. The same ones, even. They just spray it on instead of using Bt corn or something. I don't think that's the case as much outside the USA, but around here that's about the speed of it as near as I can tell.

[Orange Wizard]

Fertilizers and conventional farming techniques result in soil loss (slowly decreasing nutrients in the soil, resulting in a need to use more and more fertilizer to keep the soil usable), and fertilizer runoff into the rivers and oceans (resulting in "dead zones").

... and the only solution you can see to that is to stop using fertiliser completely? It's very possible to maintain a stable level of nutrients in the soil and supplement it with fertiliser, along with mitigating runoff and such. Unfortunately many farmers like to nuke the earth with nitrates, which is bad, but it doesn't mean we need to go all the way to the other end of the spectrum to be good.

Some pesticides have been proven to be carcinogenic in humans, and owing to the lack of labeling, the only way to avoid them is to know what products are safe because the pesticide won't be in what you eat, or if it will, to buy organic instead.

It's also possible to live in a country that's sensible and bans things like that.

[Tawa]

That sound is my soul melting as I murmur prayers to Hastur.

[nenjin]

Needs more pop culture.

[Egan_BW]

Some pesticides have been proven to be carcinogenic in humans, and owing to the lack of labeling, the only way to avoid them is to know what products are safe because the pesticide won't be in what you eat, or if it will, to buy organic instead.

It's also possible to live in a country that's sensible and bans things like that.

It is impossible to do that and also live in the place that I live in.