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[MoonSong]

TIL about the "Italian Forrest Gump". In 2020, during the pandemic lockdowns, a man had a discussion with his wife, left and began to walk away to cool down. A week and 450km later, he was detained by the Italian police for breaking curfew. He was fined €400 and got reunited with his wife after the police found his missing person report.

Who knows what they were discussing about.

 

[Ryujin]

TIL about the "Italian Forrest Gump". In 2020, during the pandemic lockdowns, a man had a discussion with his wife, left and began to walk away to cool down. A week and 450km later, he was detained by the Italian police for breaking curfew. He was fined €400 and got reunited with his wife after the police found his missing person report.

Who knows what they were discussing about.

If he's anything like my mother's father it was likely, "You need to get checked for Alzheimer's." They lived in Dorchester, NB, and he would routinely be found having walked halfway to Sackville.

 

[MoonSong]

If he's anything like my mother's father it was likely, "You need to get checked for Alzheimer's." They lived in Dorchester, NB, and he would routinely be found having walked halfway to Sackville.

Must confess the story gave me some kind of "this sounds a bit like early dementia".

 

[jian]

Today I learned (from the Origin Story podcast) that Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech in 1968 was incredibly, overwhelmingly popular across social and economic groups in the UK - Gallup polls showed that 75% of respondents approved of his message, 40% supported detention and deportation, and 70% considered him the greatest living Briton by the end of the year.

His popularity only lasted about 5 years and he was widely condemned by all major political parties (both Wilson and Heath called his message evil; Heath fired him from the shadow cabinet) but for me it was a timely reminder that progress is made when we don’t talk about racism, and bringing it out into the open and making it acceptable makes everything worse.

 

[overgeeked]

French Toast, aka Pain Perdu, aka Arme Ritter, is a Roman invention that dates back to at least the 1st century CE.

The History of French Toast

This is not a copy cat recipe but the actual family recipe for creamed spinach donated by Ruth Chris.

kitchenproject.com

 

[Scribe]

French Toast

I could go for that actually.

 

[gnarlygninja]

French Toast, aka Pain Perdu, aka Arme Ritter, is a Roman invention that dates back to at least the 1st century CE.

The History of French Toast

This is not a copy cat recipe but the actual family recipe for creamed spinach donated by Ruth Chris.

kitchenproject.com

Even the "just use melted ice cream" version that got popular on tiktok a while ago is older than people might think, Jacques Pépin talks about "borrowing" vanilla ice cream from the pastry section of a hotel he worked at in the 50s to make pain perdu (Art of the Chicken p65).

 

[Umbran]

Today I learned...

Mod Note:
... that EN World has a no-politics rule, and you are expected to follow it.

No more access to this discussion for you.

 

[The Soloist]

Some people are using the term O5R, instead of OSR, to define Shadowdark and other 5e spin-off games that try to emulate old school D&D.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Some people are using the term O5R, instead of OSR, to define Shadowdark and other 5e spin-off games that try to emulate old school D&D.

Jeez, talking about D&D is getting almost as complicated and confusing as ordering coffee at Starbucks.