@Bozza

Apparently Iran is one of the worlds biggest suppliers of pistachios, so they started growing them in the US and the Dubai chocolate craze switched over US consumption from Iran imports to California. Cutting off Iran's exports.

LOL no.

Iran was the primary supplier of the world's pistachios several decades ago, but right around the time of the hostage crisis in the 1970s, it was realized they could be grown in California.

Bonus reason to buy the American ones: the Iranians used to dye the pistachios with red powder to hide how many of them had gone bad.

That was used for a gag in the first "Naked Gun" movie:

youtu.be/nyGZAg3lo9A?si=OXtHQ_UF7J_q4kLC

@Bozza classic

I was more familiar with the Muppets version:

youtu.be/1W3gYXeFRJM?feature=shared

Know your worth men - www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR16XcVokZ4

Absolute scenes at the poker tonight.

From ~30 got down to the final table. Me and one other guy.

I pull two 6's - solid hand.

Flop - K, 3, 6.

Triple 6's so I go all in. He goes all in.

Turn over. He's double kings, I'm trip 6. He's raging.

Next card, 4. I'm winning.

Final card, 5. FUARK. He's got double kings and a straight.

Still won £75 so GG. But fuck me.

@Victor It's all manufactured.

There was a oversupply of pistachio and so someone came up with Dubai chocolate as a way of selling them.

Apparently Iran is one of the worlds biggest suppliers of pistachios, so they started growing them in the US and the Dubai chocolate craze switched over US consumption from Iran imports to California. Cutting off Iran's exports.

Reform - right (leftists would call hard right) Labour - left (incumbent government) Liberal Democrats - centre left Conservative - right Green - hard left

Also based Rupert Lowe with Restore, won 10/10 of the seats he campaigned in. Beating Reform by a landslide.

Today was the UK local elections. it doesn't mean too much politically, as most of these seats are for local councils with limited power. Their power is mostly fixing the roads, trash collection etc. But it's somewhat analagous to the US midterms in terms of a bellweather for political opinion.

Well, the right won massively. Given reform didn't even exist a few years ago, this is an earthquake in british politics.

The greens (fringe left) had a lot of hype and support recently, turns out most of that was hot air.

@Bozza I had hoped that postings on WAATGM and WATGMA would be reposted to Reddit and traffic drawn to there. If I see myself tagged out, I'll certainly join in. I suppose it's a challenge to follow all the forums I belong to already including amspec, X, and WAATGM and WATGMA.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MTXonJsppo