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I tend to favour curry for take-away these days. Support local businesses and all that.
eta: although it makes sense that Benway and CiH would rather support big business, as that's what pays the bills and keeps them supplied with talking books and dildos.
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I very rarely get takeaway but I'm viewing a house at 6pm which means that if I try to cook after that we're not going to be eating until really late.
I make two very good vegetarian lasagnes. One made with puy lentils and one with roasted vegetables including aubergine, courgette, red pepper and fennel. Both excellent and so I don't ever do mince lasagne any more.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I tend to favour curry for take-away these days. Support local businesses and all that.
eta: although it makes sense that Benway and CiH would rather support big business, as that's what pays the bills and keeps them supplied with talking books and dildos.
All Benway said is that he could go for a lasagne! You're being a bit harsh on poor Benway. He'll be all upset for the podcast now.
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What am i? His fucking babysitter? I imagine he's probably eaten Dominos at some point, or bought or eaten or used something that at somepoint in the chain used components manufactured by a corporation. The capitalist pig.
I also went to view a house at 6pm the other day. I waited outside for 25 minutes, and then the owner turned up and said "No we accepted an offer earlier today" and told me to fuck off. So I'm hoping that that falls through and she ends up begging for me to come back. And I'll be all like "Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Looks like someone's regretting putting all their eggs in one basket" and all like "So if I come to view the house will you actually - you know - let me in this time?" and things like that.
Anyway. I hope your viewing works out better, in that you're allowed into the house to see it and things like that.
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Chicken and sweetcorn soup. The environmentally disastrous clear plastic packet type, not the good old fashioned tin. Way more filling than a sandwich, and the entire 600g contents (allegedly two portions) weigh in at a lean, mean, waistline-reducin' 260 calories.
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I once ordered a disgusting amount of Dominos pizza from bed, using the PS3. The local branch is a two minute scooter ride from my flat, so I knew I didn't need to wrench back the duvet until the Pizza Tracker™ said "It's on the road". It was extremely convenient and made me feel like I was living in the future.
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Thorn has a point though. I hate it when I order my pizza and it's delivered by some hotshot executive from London rather than a hard working local lad. I should really order from Papa Luigi's or Pizza Max and just put up with the fact I'd get a more pleasurable eating experience from eating the box than the pizza itself.
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Yeah, it's not like proper local pizzaries where they make the dough from scratch; chefs in the kitchen spinning and flipping balls of dough like they do in the old country, and would exclaim 'mama mia!!' at the very thought of using any mass produced ingredients in their food...
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Really, if the small restaurants can't summon the resources to compete with Domino's in terms of supply chain management and marketing spend, they deserve to go out of business.
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Seriously though I don't understand. They're franchise pizza places aren't they, so effectively locally run businesses. There may be central suppliers for the ingredients, and the recipes are mostly determined by Dominos, but it's not like they're some relentless capitalist organisation heartlessly buying out independant restaurants and getting rid of all the local staff.
Maybe I'm just reading too much into what was just another dig at Benway selling out.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I also went to view a house at 6pm the other day. I waited outside for 25 minutes, and then the owner turned up and said "No we accepted an offer earlier today" and told me to fuck off. So I'm hoping that that falls through and she ends up begging for me to come back. And I'll be all like "Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Looks like someone's regretting putting all their eggs in one basket" and all like "So if I come to view the house will you actually - you know - let me in this time?" and things like that.
Anyway. I hope your viewing works out better, in that you're allowed into the house to see it and things like that.
You're being a bit greedy recently. You live in an owned house whilst I live in a rented house so really I should be the person to be buying a house not you. I'll be really pissed off if I'm left houseless while you snap up your summer chalet in west Brighton.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I waited outside for 25 minutes, and then the owner turned up and said "No we accepted an offer earlier today" and told me to fuck off.
The first house we bought was sold to us by an old dear who had lived there for years and was really happy to see her old house going to a nice young family [we're going back a few years here]. Thing is though, it was actually her grown up son who managed the sale. He was constantly on our backs about it, phoning up to complain about the delay when we were simply going through the usual mortgage/solicitor process etc. He was just a nasty git who was impatient for his cut of the cash, basically, but his mum was very nice and we wanted the house, so we kept quiet and didn't pull out of the purchase like we would really have liked to just to stuff him.
Anyway, about a year after we moved in we got a card from the old lady saying that her son had dropped dead of a heart attack. She didn't sound too bothered.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: You're being a bit greedy recently. You live in an owned house whilst I live in a rented house so really I should be the person to be buying a house not you.
Cuh. Look at this. New job with a shiny new salary, and now you want your own house to fill up with... with... like, gold plated books and diamond studded curtains as well. Talk about wanting to eat your cake and still have your cake in front of you even after you've eaten it.
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Dominos shareholders will be pleased to hear that I mentioned to Kate that I was cooking TITH and she looked so displeased with the idea that we're having Dominos now.
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quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: i have no 'adult news' to report.
All quiet on the Belladonna front?
yeah i don't know what she's up to these days. Probably still playing fricking final fantasy online, and popping things in her bottom.
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I found myself hoovering at 10pm last night because we have a ‘guest’ (ex-housemate) coming to visit. That is quite an adult thing isn’t it? Of course if I was adult enough to sack the totally pointless cleaner and get a better one I wouldn’t have to. Also I bought new cushion covers from the pound shop and threw out the empty shampoo bottles she left behind when she moved out last summer.
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I imagine that domino factory workers probably get one free set, and that's pretty much it. Additional sets may be purchased at cost, however, with a layaway system in place throughout the year running up to Christmas.
At the staff party, the office japester gets everyone to stand in a queue, preferibly snaking round the room, or forming an interesting pattern, and then pushes whoever is at the back so that they fall against the next person, and so on.
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I don't think there will be a factory that only makes dominos. I imagine the factor would make all manner of wooden and plastic playware.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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I bet those make a really nice 'clunk' when they fall over. Not like the cheapo plastic ones that just go 'snick'. Not SSSNNNNICKKTTT like Wolverine claws, just a sort of pathetic tiny plastic click. Noises that luxury things make are important. People who buy Jaguars pay good money to have that solid THUNK when they close the car door.
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