We can use this official thread to talk about what we have for lunch.
It's perfectly acceptable to be as detailed or as vague as you like when describing your lunch - it's up to you.
If you enjoy talking about your lunch while having to navigate a bizarre web of unwritten secret rules on pain of hysterical verbal abuse, please feel free to carry on contributing to the now unsupported thread. If not, then this is the place for you.
Let's all try and have a nice time.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's a bit late for lunch. Are we allowed to discuss dinner on this thread as I'm having roast dinner leftovers put into a pearl barley risotto tonight.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Today I had a salad sandwich, it contained sliced tomatoes, cucumber (again, sliced), some pepper (orange vegetable type one not the spice or a different colour of pepper). Interestingly as we have run out of a butter substitute I had no butter substitute on it. To compensate for this I gave it a topping of coleslaw. I used a standard white loaf which was pre-sliced into 'medium' slices to contain all the ingredients and once the sandwich was formed to my liking I made a cut with a bread knife to divide the sandwich into two approximately equal pieces. I then put it onto a plastic plate and ate it while browsing some websites at my desk.
For a dessert I choose three custard creams dunked into an instant coffee (with milk substitute - no sugar)
3/10
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: It's a bit late for lunch. Are we allowed to discuss dinner on this thread as I'm having roast dinner leftovers put into a pearl barley risotto tonight.
We've got risotto too - bacon and mushrooom. For lunch I had two pieces of toast with cold cheese and some leftover curry on them.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I had this for lunch. It cost £1.38 which I'm sure you will all agree is an absolute bargain.
[ 15.09.2009, 13:33: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Is that cheese sauce on the broccoli or mayonnaise?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's cheese sauce. Mayonnaise on broccoli would be strange Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Who wants to play "what's in hippy's flask today"?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Is it Lobster Thermidor?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
No!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Cock-a-leekie soup?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Pie and mash?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Pie and mash?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
No!
...perhaps I should tell you all before someone bursts.
It was beef bolognaise, with green beans.
You can all breathe out now.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Thank god - my next guess was going to be bull semen.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm having Lamb Bredie. From an aaaaancient South African recipe handed down from generation to generation.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
thai curry.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Lemon chicken and mange tout sandwich from Markses. Only 260 calories!
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I might have meze.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i had that yesterday. Turkish meze.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
one could argue that a risotto made of pearl barley is not actually a risotto but frumenty. you can make frumenty with milk or stock, or indeed, cracked wheat instead of barley. frumenty is often described as britain's oldest dish; the saxons were mad for it. im not arguing with cherry's description of his dinner by any means, just... telling him an (i think) interesting series of facts about said potential evening meal.
hoummous, pitta breads, fruit. pretty dull really.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Imagine a flask full of lamprey.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
blech!
Those look like alien peniii to me. not that I've had first-hand experience. I can just imagine some silvery-skinned astral traveller being thus equipped.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: blech!
In the picture above, they look like they might be singing a medley of Beach Boys hits.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: i had that yesterday. Turkish meze.
I'm having Spanish meze.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Hey, DeeEm!
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Chicken tikka and 'mixed leaf' sandwich - which was the culinary equivalent of one of the bleaker chapters of The Road.
I also had a packet of Walkers salt & vinegar. What is it with Walkers? Do they have some sort of grand strategy to sear the tongues of the crisp-buying public so that only Walkers' DDT-strength hormone-enhanced flavours have the remotest chance of burning through the layer of necrotised tongueflesh?
I only chose them because the alternative was one of those faux-handwoven packets of 'Nantwich rock salt and Somerset cider vinegar hand-carved chipes' with a monochrome photo of two models pretending to be potato farmers on the front. One of the Twelve Signs that we're living in terminally decadent times.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
hey BeeEm! you made an awesome baby, by the way.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
the people in charge of the nantwich hand- fried king edwards chipes probably wouldnt even make this connection, but the granddaddy of the rustic chipe market was of course the hedgehog crisp. the brown paper- look packets, the romany connection, which conjures up images of brightly coloured caravans trundling past hedgerows beneath a sapphire june sky; all of it pioneering in its contrast to the chemical- laden products of Big 'Tata of which ben so accurately speaks. yes.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben: I also had a packet of Walkers salt & vinegar. What is it with Walkers? Do they have some sort of grand strategy to sear the tongues of the crisp-buying public so that only Walkers' DDT-strength hormone-enhanced flavours have the remotest chance of burning through the layer of necrotised tongueflesh?
With my sandwich, I also indulged in a packet of Markses Count On Us... salt and vinegar baked crisps. Rather than having any discernable flavour, these are covered in a very fine powder that gets up ones nose as crisp approaches mouth. This mimics the feeling of an oncoming sneeze almost exactly, until just before the sneeze were to happen at which point the sensation stops, leaving you with a buzzing, false after-shock, and the disappoinment of having missed out on yet another 0.125 x orgasm.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I had Japanese meze, in the end. I ran out of soy half way through. It all got a bit claggy.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ok I think we've all had enough of these kinds of comments, BM. There is another thread for those who want to play silly buggers and antagonise the self-appointed club president.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
you know how in tescos if you buy pre- packaged cheese theres a picture of the farmer on it to prove how totally down tescos are with supporting their local food producers yada yada yada? i once bought some cheese purely on the basis of which of the farmers i would least object to having sexual relations with. sadly the winner was mild cheddar, a cheese which is almost always a Waste Of Everybody's Time And Fucking Effort. he was the only one without a beard though, and i liked his jumper.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I had a sandwich filled with homemade British meze: in this instance chicken-liver pate.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Who's more barbaric? Your Turk or your Portuguese?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: the winner was mild cheddar, a cheese which is almost always a Waste Of Everybody's Time And Fucking Effort.
It's good for padding out an otherwise insubstantial sandwich. It's the kind of thing I used to buy on 2-for-1 at the Wimbledon Somerfield and put in my lunch so that I wouldn't get hungry halfway through the afternoon. It means your lunch is a bit of a fuel-stop, rather than a genuinely pleasant experience but it keeps you alive, if not truly 'living'.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i had hoummus and pitta. i didnt do it out of any express desire to show solidarity, but we could say i did if you like, benway.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Who's more barbaric? Your Turk or your Portuguese?
Going on my own wild and insubstantiated prejudices I'd say the Turk, by a long shot. A few seconds of free association reveals the following facts about the Portuguese and Turks.
Portuguese: Round breasted women with long black hair bouncing through fields in cottony/ sackcloth dresses that show off their curves; rogueishly charming bandits stealing blonde children; toothless old men sitting with a walking stick watching their dozens of grandchildren play with carefree abandon.
Turkish: Snaggle toothed, swarthy men with beady eyes brandishing dirty, chipped knives in alleyways, no women because they've all been sold into sexual slavery, no exports other than football hooliganism and confectionary.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I am comprehensively convinced.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Why would anyone eat the meze of a Turk?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
as for crisps - i don't have a strong opinion. The drive to embed notions of rustic labour practises into the junk food market doesn't simply particularly surprising. A lot of the chefs most admired by the middle classes seem to be all about cooking rich, fatty and expensive food.. decadance in general seems to have become something that we've been pursing in our newly outfitted kitchens. I'm thinking Hugh FW, Nigella, G-Ramsay rather than J.Ol. Anyway, this is the perfect cover for junk food - completely lacking in nutrition as it is - because by endowing it with the same cultural properites that you might associate with one of those multi-bird super stuffed perversities, you're able to legitimise unhealthy eating. The more authentically elaborate the process of transforming raw produce into the finished meal, the less the public care about the health properties.
I don't really eat crisps though.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Why would anyone eat the meze of a Turk?
turkish meze is based around yoghurt, chick peas, garlic, hummus, aubergines and bread - it's good food! Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: one of those multi-bird super stuffed perversities,
We had one of these last Christmas. Never. Again.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: i had hoummus and pitta. i didnt do it out of any express desire to show solidarity, but we could say i did if you like, benway.
no thank you, and let's not drag this thread down with the infantile fever-dream one-upmanship that thorn started yesterday. He's got a thread if he wants to act like a delirious retard in public - let him do that there so he doesn't mess up yet another Lunch Club.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Just posted on Yahoo News:
quote:The Duchess of York is reportedly facing arrest over claims she broke the law by taking part in a TV documentary about Turkish orphans.
Authorities in the country are angry at Sarah Ferguson's appearance in the ITV programme which claimed children were being neglected.
The Duchess, disguised in a black wig and headscarf, was accompanied by her teenage daughter Princess Eugenie.
At one point she was tearful when she saw the conditions some youngsters lived in.
Prince Andrew's former wife is accused of breaking privacy laws. Turkish officials have already spoken out against the Duchess, accusing her of trying to smear the country's image to prevent it joining the EU.
Could Benway's consumption and defence of Turkish food be taken as an endorsement of the Turkish ill-treatment of children? The answer, I'm afraid, is 'yes'.
[ 16.09.2009, 11:03: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Thorn, lunch club is not a place for you to pursue your erotomaniacal quests for vengeance. Please, if you have something to say about your lunch, we'd love to hear it, but if you wish to prove that your obsessional gay love for me has finally overwhelmed your ability to coherently communicate, then please use your own special thread for that. Thank you.
nb - edited for coherence.
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Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
e4dp
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
anybody else have any thoughts about their lunch?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask:
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: one of those multi-bird super stuffed perversities,
We had one of these last Christmas. Never. Again.
I remember you saying you were gonna. Why so bad? Did they leave a bone in the swan?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
octavia your husband is in the grip of a dangerous gay love for me. You might want to watch out in case he kills you or something.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I'm thinking Hugh FW, Nigella, G-Ramsay rather than J.Ol.
These people are Johnny-come-lately jumped-up pretend-cooks. Everyone should be cooking from Elizabeth David. Also JO is a shite cook.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
because if he kills you, then surely his next stop is raping, killing, raping, raping, raping and then raping me. and then eating me.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: octavia your husband is in the grip of a dangerous gay love for me. You might want to watch out in case he kills you or something.
He's got a photo of your XBox avatar on his phone.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia:
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I'm thinking Hugh FW, Nigella, G-Ramsay rather than J.Ol.
These people are Johnny-come-lately jumped-up pretend-cooks. Everyone should be cooking from Elizabeth David. Also JO is a shite cook.
the more jumped up and pretend, the better they are at being celeb chefs though, and the more meaningful they become in the eyes of those men and women who look towards such people for meaning in their lives.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Why so bad? Did they leave a bone in the swan?
We had my folks over for xmas and my Dad's fancied cooking one of these for ages. He supplied it, cost a fortune, apparently. Goose, turkey, mallard, teal... something or other. Dry as a fucking bone. Bearing in mind that's with a goose on the outside. Like sawdust.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Also JO is a shite cook.
Have you seen his American show? I want to fucking murder him every time he opens his stupid fucking mouth.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
didn't the same thing happen when he did 'the naked chef' about ten years ago, and every single time between then and now?
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Take it meze-y everyone! Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask:
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Also JO is a shite cook.
Have you seen his American show? I want to fucking murder him every time he opens his stupid fucking mouth.
It's the horrible matey stuff I can't stand. "This is Antonio! He's such a great bloke!! and he makes the most amazing home-dried mesquite-smoked bark-chipped sawdogs!!! Mate, these are amazing, really mate, really amazing." Flesh-shiveringly bad. I liked him ok when he was proselytising about what we feed children.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: the more meaningful they become in the eyes of those men and women who look towards such people for meaning in their lives.
Such people should be machine-gunned at dawn. Come on, who's with me??
(Note to CIA/FBI/MI6 - this does not constitute an actual plan to murder anyone. There aren't enough bullets.)
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
There's hardly any cooking in this show. It's just Jamie hanging with his homies. Eating 'ethnic', 'downhome', 'Mom' 'and' 'Pop' cooking in between patronising everybody in the universe and delivering appalling homilies and generally being a **** .
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: It's the horrible matey stuff I can't stand. "This is Antonio! He's such a great bloke!! and he makes the most amazing home-dried mesquite-smoked bark-chipped sawdogs!!! Mate, these are amazing, really mate, really amazing." Flesh-shiveringly bad. I liked him ok when he was proselytising about what we feed children.
He was calling everyone 'Bruvva' last night. I was in tears.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: because if he kills you, then surely his next stop is raping, killing, raping, raping, raping and then raping me. and then eating me.
Well if I stop posting then you'll know what's coming to you.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben: Take it meze-y everyone!
Hey, Ben! When I got in from work yesterday, Octavia looked up from the laptop and said "I'm really glad Ben's back on TMO." Thought you might enjoy that compliment. Of course that was all before this pun happened.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Hey on the subject of compliments; last night I was reading a bunch of old threads and found the one where I talked about my old school reports and then there were lots of tales about schoolhood shame, and parents' days, and kids with cock-breath. Anyway, I found it funny enough to want to show to Reema who remarked "I really like this Nathan guy, he's hilarious!"
So, y'know, good work all round I think.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Cheddar, mozzarella and tomato toastie, 'giant' oat and raisin cookie*, mango juice drink. Sadly, as fast as I could shovel nutrition in, the infant at my breast sucked it out.
* A mere 15cm diameter, which I wouldn't strictly call 'giant'.
[ 16.09.2009, 13:51: Message edited by: herbs ]
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Reema who remarked "I really like this Nathan guy, he's hilarious!"
I'm going to kill her.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
lamb hotpot and carrots!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
In a thermos?
I had salad from the cafeteria that included crab pasta, spinach and bacon, grated carrot, beetroot, sweetcorn, cous cous with roasted vegetables, broad beans, chillis and olives. It were good.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
the carrots are a bit al dente
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Jesus what time do you crazies eat lunch?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I'm about to have some elevenses. A slice of the ultimate chocolate cake that I made the other day for Mel's birthday. I wouldn't recommend it; far too sugary and chocolatey and nasty, really.
Lunch will be chicken soup. Carcass in pan at the moment. Needs work.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Actually it'll probably be for dinner rather than lunch. Lunch will be the cake, for elevenses.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I had my breakfast (porridge) at 7.30. I get quite hungry by noon.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Same here. Don't let this coppertop nazi boss you around, Hippy.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I had three peaches for lunch, so I'll probably end up with the runs.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: I had my breakfast (porridge) at 7.30. I get quite hungry by noon.
What we have here is a category error. What you ate at 7.30 was actually petit dejuner. By having another meal at 9.30 - 'breakfast' - comprising, say, sausage, fried bread, bacon, hash brown, beans and grilled tomato, you could have held back those hunger pangs for at least another hour or so.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I always suspected that ben was a hobbit.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: the carrots are a bit al dente
Cooked carrots are the work of the devil. Especially in shepherds' pie, when they are particularly disgusting.
ETA lunch was honey-smoked mackerel in a baguette with lettuce and mayonnaise, courtesy of my mother.
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Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
You're wrong, octavia. Frankly I feel a bit embarrassed on your behalf.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
It's that mucky, squidgy, discoloured outer skin that bites open to reveal formerly sweet-and-crunchy now weirdly gravy-tasting wrongness.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Roasted carrots are good, but any form of boiled carrots or carrots cooked in liquid are definitely wrong, immoral and possibly illegal.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Of course I may have been excessively influenced by my mother's shepherd's pie, which always contained cooked carrots and which I was forced at gunpoint to eat.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Roasted carrots are good, but any form of boiled carrots or carrots cooked in liquid are definitely wrong, immoral and possibly illegal.
Correct.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Your mother sounds quite the character.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
She was very definitely of the school of you-will-eat-what's-on-your-plate-regardless-of-whether-you-like-it-or-not.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Your mother sounds quite the character.
Do remember the French and Saunders characters that were country women braying about how they got hit by their own landrover, stampeded by cows, and so on? Basically like that but short and skinny.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
And with no 'down' setting on the volume knob.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
So was it a shotgun? That she forced you with?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Figurative gunpoint, sadly for the excitement-value of the story. The only time I've met a proper gun was when I shot someone's house with his own .45.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sardines on toast.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Don't you mean 'Portuguese meze'?
[ 17.09.2009, 10:41: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
no. Sardines on toast.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Meze tiger! Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
look, it's totally reasonable to describe a meal as a 'turkish meze', and in the context of a lighthearted cyber-chat about lunches, such a description provides a perfectly adequate level of detail re: the components and flavours of the meal.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Today my lunch will include at least one of these
and perhaps a thai dish in the St james tavern. Either thai red curry or spicy beef noodles.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I have no idea what my lunch will be today.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Why don't you just open the flask and see what's inside?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I overslept. I don't have my flask. I feel like an abandoned puppy.
(not to eat, that would be wrong. What's a good name for a dog, by the way? My colleague Baby Dave is thinking of getting a springer spaniel puppy).
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Cooked carrots are the work of the devil.
You should try some of the little fat baby carrots, don't peel them just give them a bit of a wash. In a lidded pan with some butter and olive oil, a big pinch of demerara or muscovado sugar and a couple of star anise. Low/medium heat, check them after 20 minutes. Nice with roast pork.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: What's a good name for a dog, by the way? My colleague Baby Dave is thinking of getting a springer spaniel puppy
Call him Moses.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: What's a good name for a dog?
Sirius.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Apparently one of his mates called their dog Deefer.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia:
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: What's a good name for a dog?
Sirius.
What makes you say that? Or to put it another way, 'Whyso: Sirius?'
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
If he called his first dog Sirius he should get a second dog called McEnroe. The second dog cannot be Sirius.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Fun to be had at the vets, as well, asking "Is it serious," "Yes, but his ailment is pretty trivial."
[ 18.09.2009, 06:59: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm a bit hungover.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
And I'm a bit tired. Alice was crying at 4am this morning, so I had to get up and go and sleep in the spare room while Octavia took care of it.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
TheGree's aunt had some pissy little dog called Sandy Sue.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I heard a woman on the train yesterday talking to her significunt other on a mobile:
"Fancy a walk out to the pub later for a cheap dinner, hon?"
....
"Umkay, lovely!"
....
"Could we take the four-legged people, too? I feel so guilty otherwise..."
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Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I thought Deefer Dog was quite good.
I personally think dogs should be called human names, so it's more amusing when you're shouting for them in the park, or telling them off for humping legs or rolling in their own poo.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Right, I think I'm about to brave the canteen. Wish me luck, chaps!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i think generally people should stop owning dogs.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Do you mean that any dogs that are currently owned by people should be turned out onto the streets, as of, like, right now?
Or should people own their dogs until they (the dogs) die, and then not get any more dogs?
Imagine a world where no dogs were owned.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: i think generally people should stop owning dogs.
You mean like, sniping them right from the other side of the map?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: i think generally people should stop owning dogs.
You mean like, sniping them right from the other side of the map?
yes, and 'stick glitching'
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i don't know what to have for lunch today. Maybe a boiled egg or something.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: "Could we take the four-legged people, too? I feel so guilty otherwise..."
*hnnnnngh* binsick Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I had a pint and nothing else. I feel quite giddydrunk.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I had a pint of guinness and spicy beef noodles. The title was accurate. They gave me the chilli sweats.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Jesus I might have to have a coffee.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I had the top half of two home-made rolls. Top halves only because the bottom halves were irrevocably stuck to the greaseproof paper I'd lined the baking tray with because it had been in the bottom of the oven and I was too lazy to wash it. The moral of this story is not to try and bake your own bread.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Or buy hundreds of baking trays and use a new one each time you bake
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
^ this
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
cous cous and chicken salad.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I had salad that included chicken with lettuce, cous cous with roasted vegetables, egg mayonnaise, potato mayonnaise, beetroot, sweetcorn, oriental noodles, bean sprouts and sunflower and sesame seeds.
It was alright. I'd have preferred a cheese and bacon savoury from forfars though.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
mine was alright too. No as spicy as usual though.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I had the lemon chicken and mange tout sandwich again, from Marks & Spencer.
Their foods used to be branded St Michael, but since the new millennium, this has been slowly phased out. Keen eyed customers may have noticed that M&S till receipts still feature the St Michael 'seal of approval'.
Today's sandwich was every bit as tasty as the previous one, although there was a bit of an imbalace of filling between the two halves.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Marks & Spencer
I admit to not having checked this out personally by writing to ask M&S if it's true, but Tristram Stuart's book, Waste, says that M&S discards two extra slices of bread from each loaf that gets turned into sandwiches - ie not just the crusts but the slices next to the crusts. A whole extra sandwich from each loaf goes straight into the bin.
E4UBB
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: A whole extra sandwich from each loaf goes straight into the bin.
Wasn't there also a rumour a few years ago about M&S destroying any clothes found to have imperfections, so as not to devalue the brand? Not sure how true that was. I suppose it would be embarrassing if you were on a night out with friends and saw a tramp quaffing Special Brew in a doorway wearing the exact same Per Una cocktail dress as you.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I've been massively incensed by it and have actually been planning to write to them to ask if it's true, so I'll let you know what they say.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Tuna mayo sandwich for me today. Simple but effective. Plus an apple and a strawberry yoghurt.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
No idea really. Need to dash into town at lunch time to go jewellery shopping so will get something around there. Subway perhaps.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
**Breaking news**
I've just eaten a donut
More details as they filter through
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
MORE BREAKING NEWS!
It's the recruitment girl's birthday so she has brought in cakes. CiH is unsure whether to have a cake now and then possibly not be hungry at lunch or to wait until after lunch for a cake but run the risk of them all having been eaten.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Cake now. Always cake now.
And what are you jewellry shopping for, if it's not impolite to ask?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Subtle.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: ARE YOU GETTING MARRIED
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
With that tasty final salary pension on offer, he'd be stupid not to.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Not for an engagement ring. Just for a present for Kate for after she's had the baby. I was looking for some nice earrings but the only nice ones I found were £35 (too cheap) or £2700 (too expensive) so I've come back to look online.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
That's quite a jump in price. Could you not just buy some fancy forks from Marks & Sparks and bend them into a fancy shape with a pair of pliers?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
a wrap containing ham and smoked cheddar.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Thai chicken curry and green beans, inna flask
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Beef and Tomato Pot Noodle..
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: Thai chicken curry and green beans, inna flask
Do you just pop the lid open, pour the food straight into your eager gullet and choke it down like a bird eating a fish? Are there other people about when you do this?
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
That would be good -- Hippy opens her flask in the staff kitchen, tips it to her mouth, and a full slippery fish slides out, into her mouth and down her throat, still wriggling.
Sexy.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: earrings
Antique jewellry is the way to go.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
For a millionaire perhaps!
That site desparately needs a search function.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I was going to eat The Death Meal* that my boss produced wrapped in a tescos carrier bag. The death Meal can't be eaten by my boss because she's vegetarian. I pried the bag off and looked at the rice inside. It's suppose to be chicken. A big hunk of brown beef sits in the centre of the rice. Everything is orange. Except the brown meat. which is supposed to be chicken. 'There's a fly on it! I'm chucking it' I say. 'It's on the outside' and 'It's a vegetarian fly' quip the bystanders. I throw the Death meal in the bin.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles:
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: Thai chicken curry and green beans, inna flask
Do you just pop the lid open, pour the food straight into your eager gullet and choke it down like a bird eating a fish? Are there other people about when you do this?
Yes.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: That would be good -- Hippy opens her flask in the staff kitchen, tips it to her mouth, and a full slippery fish slides out, into her mouth and down her throat, still wriggling.
Sexy.
Did that erect anyone else or was it just me ?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: For a millionaire perhaps!
That site desparately needs a search function.
You mean like clicking on 'Jewellery' at the top, then narrowing down by type and price? That sort of thing?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
No, I mean like typing in "Opal" and it bringing up all things with Opal in.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
They're v nice if you ring them up (it's where we got my engagement ring) but antique shops in general nearly always have jewellry. And you don't pay VAT on it.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
For some reason they just brought round bacon sandwiches and cava for everyone in the office. I'm sure there is some reason for it but I'm not sure what.
Anyway. I have eaten my bacon sandwich and have been given a second glass of fizzy wine that I'm working my way through.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i am well hungry. haven't eaten since yesterday lunch. I should eat soon.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I should eat soon.
How long d'you reckon you could survive without food?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
about five poun
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes, five poun.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I can't think what to have. I need to go to the post office to send back a thing that doesn't work any more, so i will pass the deli. but then lunch gets costly. but. but they do Pastel de Nata there and i love those. but. oh. i don't know. i also fancy making a miso soup. this is how i end up not eating - decision paralysis.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
look at that outrageous list of wankiness there.
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Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I had Sausage Badabing!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
is that from the little place just off carnaby street?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I had Sausage Badabing!
Flasked?
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Nope, it was from the Badabing Cafe on St John St. Not all of their food is called xxxx Badabing though. Just the sausage.
It was in a polystyrene box, not a flask.
I feel a bit sleepy now mind you. Recently I discovered an old abandoned gym in the basement of my building, and there are a number of those padded floor mats which make for an excellent napping spot. Bye!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
What a pleasant way to spend your afternoon - napping on an abandoned crash mat, all full of sausage.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Yeah, it was pretty good.
It’s lucky I found this napping spot as a few weeks ago I unintentionally fell asleep for over an hour at the lab bench. A health & safety nightmare! Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
if i was in the market for a new internet forum username, i would be mighty tempted by sausage badabing. luckily i am not in the market for a new username, because at this stage in my life i shouldnt think i will ever be joining any new internet forums ever again, but if i were, thats the username id choose, for sure. its like the name dirk diggler- it jumps out at you from the screen.
peanut butter on a cheese roll. it was a strange decision, that one. tescos forced my hand. they had no ciabattas and no bagels and it was either that or a sixpack of pittas and i wasnt really ready to make that kind of long- term commitment carbs- wise.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i had chicken schnitzel in ciabatta.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Mutton stew and sugarsnap peas (flask) and a babybel (not flask).
Dinner at my friend's house tonight, unfortunately followed by a what is sure to be execrable chick flick. I enjoy a good chick flick, but I suspect this one will be utterly dire. The evening will only be redeemed by my friend's excellent cookery. And lots of wine.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
If you came round to mine for dinner, I'd be sure to fill your flask up with my own hot meaty stew.
Etc.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
WTF is up with people eating their lunch from a flask?
Another tuna sandwich today. This time made by Reema and deeper filled than the one I made yesterday. I'd appreciate the protien but I'm not walking home today as I fell over last night and bust my knee like a twat.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
WTF is up with people having their sandwiches made by their girlfriends? First thorn, now you. It's like the whole world has regressed to being eight years old. Literally, the whole world. Literally, eight years old. Literally.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: WTF is up with people having their sandwiches made by their girlfriends? First thorn, now you. It's like the whole world has regressed to being eight years old.
You seem to be confusing girlfriends with mothers. Worrying.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
not me. I make my own sandwich. In life.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Do you know what film it will be H1ppy? Or do you just have a bad feeling? Having clocked an impressive 27 hours of Grey’s Anatomy over the weekend as doomed method of escapism, I have run out and been forced to return to the Gilmore Girls, despite knowing what happens in the end.
My housemate makes my lunch for me sometimes…That reminds of a funny thing! lolz! …Our bathroom is laid out in such a way that the shower is directly in front of the window which looks out on a busy shopping street. The glass is frosted, but insufficiently so, hence there is also a shower curtain across the window. But my (other) housemate doesn’t like the curtain because it clings while you shower… So far I have had several phone calls at work from the lascivious hairdresser opposite asking if he had a date that night, because he was washing very thoroughly. Then last night the owner of the curry house next to the hairdressers rang the bell and demanded that I come across the street and see how necessary it was that I enforce curtain usage, as his customers were becoming agitated.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
in the end of the gilmore girls they finally find Earth, but all is not what it seems.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
also Ross and Rachel have a kiss.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
It'll be Confessions of a Shopaholic Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: So far I have had several phone calls at work from the lascivious hairdresser opposite asking if he had a date that night, because he was washing very thoroughly
LULZ.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Chicken and coleslaw sandwich today. Plus the obligatory yoghurt and apple. Made the sandwich myself.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Veg curry with runner beans and carrots.
Confessions of a shopaholic was better than I'd expected. The preceding roast chicken lasagne was nice, too.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm undecided again about lunch. Maybe chicken again. I think I'm going to go for a run tonight, readers!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
What you need is a girlfriend to make your lunch for you. Then when you open your lunch box it's like an exciting surprise!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, that would be pretty sweet.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
in the morning louise does always make enough coffee for me to have some when I get up. I always appreciate that, but it means I miss out on the thrill of grinding the beans, which is the kind of thing that my demographic enjoys. It provides the much needed 'authenticity via rustic toil' factor that I highlighted in my previous devastating study of middle class food habits here, on this very board.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I say 'always' - this has been going on for about three weeks. It's only since I bought the grinder that she's been drinking coffee in the morning. Before that it was tea. Tea! With milk! Not cool.
Fact!
Did you know that adding milk to tea is considered by the Yanks to be putting on airs and graces?
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Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I have a cup of instant coffee in the morning. With milk. Reema has tea with milk. Usually it's made by whichever one of us gets up first. Usually her.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I have milk and half a sugar with tea. Coffee is drunk strong and black with no sugar. I don't drink much tea.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I had a camomile tea this morning, just to mix it up a bit.
I didn't care for it
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i tend to jive with jasmin tea, and usually only when I've just tidied the flat and want to have a calm moment in ordered surroundings, or if I'm massively hungover.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
actually before we all get carried away, let's remember that we did this two years ago.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I really am an excellent poster. Every line from 2007 was gold.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Pia sometimes buys Red Bush tea which I quite enjoy, but most of the time we have PG Tips or some such horsehit. Actually, Misc came over once and bought his own coffee and we had that most mornings. It was a vry fancy instant, yet rich brand. It went a suprisingly long way. So basically if you're reading this Misc we've run out of coffee and we need you to bring some more please. Thanks mate.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Oh man, Red Bush tea is a great name. "Yeah, I love to drink from the red bush". Hours of fun for all the family.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
See, how can anyone say that gingers don't have a sense of humour.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Actually, Misc came over once and bought his own coffee and we had that most mornings. It was a vry fancy instant, yet rich brand. It went a suprisingly long way. So basically if you're reading this Misc we've run out of coffee and we need you to bring some more please. Thanks mate.
Makes me sound like a right cunt, doesn't it? I arrived a bit early that morning and so I thought I'd save some pricey studio time by nipping in to the supermarket to buy all the things that we usually have to pause mid rehearsal for - a load of nasty pop, crisps and chocolate. I remembered that you didn't always have coffee and I need coffee so I thought I might as well. It was Carte Noir (Un café nommé désir), and I only bought it because it was on special.
At work, we have Kenco Red (aka Really Smooth), Kenco Blue (aka Really Rich), Nescafé Gold Blend and some other expensive looking Nescafé version in a black and pink jar. I can't drink the Nescafé because they still rape African babies to death for fun and profit, so I have to go for the one of the Kencos. Blending the two produces the ultimate instant: Kenco Purple - Quite Rich and Quite Smooth. It's the best of both worlds.
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I bought some Jamaican Blue Mountain the other day from the Algerian shop in Soho -- 9 poun for 125g.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's where I've been going. I know of this blue mountain coffee - how is it?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm currently enjoying Kenco Rappor
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Makes me sound like a right cunt, doesn't it?
Well I was going for 'Misc treated us peasants how not to drink runny brown poo water' actually.
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I can't really comment on the Blue Mountain. I bought it for my girlfriend, who used to drink it all the time when she was earning West End megabucks (she's between jobs at the moment). I have tried it. It's "nice". I sully my coffees with milk and sugar though, so I think it's fully over my head.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm currently enjoying Kenco Rappor
Love the way they cut the -t off so people would pronounce it correctly.
I wonder if it would catch on with other French items, like Kwasson, Shom Pan, Whore Durve, Buf Borg In Yon, On Tray, etc.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Well I was going for 'Misc treated us peasants how not to drink runny brown poo water' actually.
Meh, it's still instant.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Man, what are you? Benway or something?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, what are you, me?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
yeah! If you're not you and him instead who are you eh?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I like the way that thread starts as a civilised exchange of information about caffeine consumption and turns swiftly into a thread about feminine involuntary micturation.
Blue Mountain coffee is good, but Monsoon Malabar is da bomb. (Or siiiiick, or whatever it is the Yoof say these days to mean something is good.) I'm immune to caffeine in coffee but apparently the baby isn't so I have to be careful about timing coffee and feeds.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
breakfast: bacon sandwich made with wholemeal toast, brown sauce
mid-morning: jam tart from yesterday's team meeting
lunch: salad box from the canteen, slice of cake from the cake sale downstairs
***feelabitsicknow*** Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I haven't eaten yet today. I'm hungry though. Maybe a couple of eggs would be okay.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
You need to give yourself a proper routine, Kanye. It's no wonder you're so up and down all the time. The body and mind need a steady flow of nutrition to function properly.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I wonder how Wayne's business is going.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Folded, apparently. Some sort of tax problem. He might be looking at some jail time.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
poor old waynster. Another dream ends in bitter defeat.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Knob off ! I know I am usually at home to captain cock up, but no the business is doing fine thankeweverymuch - I haven't borked it yet.
Lunch was banal, although there is free beer upstairs - apparently one of the directors thought it would be an ace idea to show a film, in Dutch (about half of the workforce are non-natives), and apparently IMDB rates as bullcr*p. Of course I can't leave my desk so no beer for me, however being isolated means that I am able to work on my master plan.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yyeesssssssss
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
imdb: 2/10
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
imdb: 3/10
I'll stop now, sorry.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Nnnnngnggng okay REALLY stopping now.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
hoummus. i ate some hoummus. today. on some oatcakes. fucking hell. hoummus. im so bored of hoummus i could shit. i wonder if the only reason im still eating hoummus, twice a week, sometimes more- more often than twice a week! this isnt living, its existing- despite the fact that it bores me to a place near death is that i dont want to give zoe williams the satisfaction of not buying hoummus any more. 2002! i should be over that article by now. i cant dislodge its idiocy from my brain. every now and again i stand in the supermarket, holding a tub of hoummus, and someone else comes up behind me and picks up a tub of hoummus, and i cant help it, my brain shouts in caps lock: 'OH YES! STILL BUYING IT! WE HAVENT STOPPED BUYING HOUMMUS YET!'
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i know. could somebody else who has never really been a big hoummus purchaser take up the slack for me? i need to hand over the baton. thats the answer. if i stop buying hoummus, but someone else starts, then... thatll show her. or something.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
maybe i could do some volunteer work for the Hoummus Marketing Board. i dont know if it even exists. if it doesnt ill start it. but then i guess i might have to eat hoummus, because of the role. id probably have to eat quite a lot, actually. i might end up being the Face Of Hoummus. that probably wont work.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
lolol
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
what are you on about, disco?
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
I wonder where we'd be without these people to keep us in order. Thank goodness for columnists.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
At the canteen: lamb's liver and caramelised onions, new potatoes and cabbage.
Back at my desk: out of date salt n vinegar crisps (only 15p) for "pudding".
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Slim-A-Soup (Minestrone)
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
With croutons.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Do you have any idea how many calories there are in croutons?! Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
chicken + cous cous again.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
beef meatballs and baby corn (f), raspberry jelly, Lilt zero.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: beef meatballs and baby corn (f), raspberry jelly, Lilt zero.
Interesting. That was John Wayne Gacy's last meal.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: meatballs (f)
Freakin' hott.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Do you have any idea how many calories there are in croutons?!
Yes. The box says 56 calories for the whole mug of soup so as the croutons were about 1/56th of that I would say 1 calorie. Unless you want to imply the croutons are what make up the majority of the calories so, well reverse that and say 1 calorie for the soup and 35 calories for the croutons. It ain't called Slim-A for nuttin.
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
Must buy less bread more frequently. In brekfast news, waking up to rice is great.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Chicken fajitas for lunch today…with refried beans, guacamole and char grilled peppers. Made them on Monday night for dinner and two of those babies is quite a meal, so I’m predicting it will be necessary to take a bit of a digestion-nap on the crash-mats.
Having two of them is totally unnecessary, but second breakfast didn’t even touch the sides, so today is a hungry day.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Marmalade spooned from the jar, the last of the coleslaw, and soup made from leftover casserole-juice.
Christ, I eat like Bridget Jones.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
parsnip and honey soup, since going round to friend's place tonight for dinner.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: parsnip and honey soup,
served on a dining plate.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
nope, in a (different) flask.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Ham and coleslaw sandwich today, plus an apple and a bag of Asda wholegrain snack things. Some kind of herb flavour. Can't remember what. Tasted good.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: nope, in a (different) flask.
How many flasks do you have, for goodness sake?
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Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Moussaka and red cabbage, spinach & coconut soup. From the canteen. It was meh.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Some kind of herb flavour. Can't remember what. Tasted good.
Okay, so 'some kind of herb' that induces memory loss and makes things 'taste good'. Hmm...
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'd fish the packet out of the bin but it seems to have interfaced with the yoghurt pot with messy consequences
Posted by missgolightly (Member # 34) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Chicken fajitas for lunch today…
I had steak fajitas last night and used the leftover filling to make sandwiches today, yum.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Fajitas are great (assuming you use the yellow box packet thing) as you go from sitting on your arse in the lounge to having a really tasty dinner ready in about 15 minutes which is brilliant really.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
fajitas! good lord. now theres a thought. fajitas. mmmmm. crikey.
im glad i visited tmo before lunch today because it serves as a reminder to me not to eat hoummus. instead i will probably have something from greggs. not a pasty, they dont taste right in bristol, they taste acrid, sometimes dusty. in london a greggs chicken pasty was a thing of dreams; in bristol it is the stuff of fevered lunchmares. so i will probably have a cheese and ham baguette, and maybe a pear, and sit idly in broadwalk shopping centre dreaming of a time when i will be able to post more interesting entries to this thread.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I had a Greggs pasty in south shields and it was disgusting. The filling was like a sloppy meat paste and it was a square pocket of pastry rather than a proper pasty. Absolutely useless.
Ginsters pastys are immeasurably superior.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Chicken Nuggets and Chips. I grilled it all myself. Eaten whilst watching Film 2009 with Jonathon Ross.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
pork meatballs in a tomato-ey sauce with butter beans, sugarsnap peas and green beans
hummuna-hummuna Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
thai green curry
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
a peanut butter sandwich.
I thing finsbury's lunchtime diet wins.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
finsbury lol.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, finsbury
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
lolsbury fin.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lolol
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
In any case, peanut butter sandwich > thai green curry any day of the week. As far as lunch is concerned anyway.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, okay.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's not true.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: In any case, peanut butter sandwich > thai green curry any day of the week. As far as lunch is concerned anyway.
I think that is the wrongest thing I've heard all week.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
How is Ringo such a big hit with the fucking ladies? I mean, the most you can hope for is he takes you out for a candlelit peanut butter sandwich.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, come on "Ringo" (if that is your real name).
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I had a ham, apple and coleslaw sandwich for lunch. It was really nice and it destroys a peanut butter sandwich in all aspects in the lunch department, but I'm under no pretences that it can come even close to a thai green curry for lunch.
I am having a thai green noodle soup for dinner which will help relieve the pain a bit.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
a toasted peanut butter sandwich might be almost as good as a thai green curry. but maybe thats just me.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It isn't my real name, you know that!
Anyway, I'm talking about lunch here. Y'know, the midday meal. For me, lunch is like a fuel stop halfway through the day. It should be something which is tasty, gives you a good amount of energy, but something which sits well in the stomach. I don't think I could happily carry on working after having a thai green curry. For me, there's little better than a nice sandwich, a bit of fruit, and maybe a yoghurt at lunch time. By all means a nice curry is perfect for dinner, but for lunch it's far too rich.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
so what you're saying is that you're not hardcore enough to eat a proper meal before six o'clock?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
and remember, this is a thai curry, so it's not like sitting down for a madras, although I am hardcore enough to do that at like, 8am if I wanted to.
best thing about the thai curry you get from borough market is that it contains mussels, squid, chicken, and prawns. Yeah man. think about that shit while you write on the internet. Think about that. shit.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
here is the man that i get it off, serving some of his delicious thai curry. He says "taste! anybody want a taste! ladies and gentlemen! Anybody want a taste! Thai curry! Taste!" all day long.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
he is from manchester.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
at any one time there are twenty people photographing him, ten people tasting the food, one person buying.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you can see is handing a spoon to somebody off camera - this is so a man / woman can have a taste.
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Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: By all means a nice curry is perfect for dinner, but for lunch it's far too rich.
Fucking hell. Comes on here acting the big man and he can't even handle a thai green curry for lunch. What next? Passing out at the cadbury's cream eggs at the petrol station? You use to be the man that ate two ginsters in a row man. Whatever happened to that guy?
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
*shoves ringo*
lol
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
lol
Now pick 'em up.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Is that all the taste you get? That tiny spoonful?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, that's the taste that you get, just that tiny little spoonful.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Not much of a taste, that, is it. That tiny spoonful.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Should be fine for Ringo, though.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
They look like sporks actually.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
You could always bend your entire skull backwards, hinging on the back of the neck so that your head is upside down looking behind you, and your oesophagus is in the centre of a freshly bloomed flower of flesh. Once you've assumed this horrifying position, gurgle at the man, asking him to syphon the boiling juice directly from the pan into your stomach using a small hose jammed into your exposed gullet-hole. You could always do that, but he probably won't go for it, and then you've contorted your body beyond its practical limits for no good reason.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: They look like sporks actually.
well spotted. They are indeed sporks.
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Ringo's going to Egypt, isn't he. I wonder what he'll have for lunch while he's there.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you can probably get sandwiches in egypt. I had chips in morocco.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Fucking hell Benway. If you'll lie to us about that, what else will you lie about? Did you even have thai green curry for lunch? For all we know you may have just had a bagel with philadelphia
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i think of a spork as being a spoon with fork functionality, rather than either a fork with spoon capabilities, or a totally separate hybrid of fork and spoon.
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
But will he choose to have a sandwich. He must know that in many places around the world lunch is the main meal of the day. He's not going to win many Egyptian friends if all he has is a modest sandwich. He'll be insulting them, and embarrassing himself.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
what's the alternative? They don't do bagels in egypt as far as I know. Or ciabatta.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yoghurt shouldn't be a problem though.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
He'll work it out, I'm sure. Sometimes you've just got to let people stand on their own two feet.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm sure he'll be okay, I do worry about him though. He's not really used to this kind of thing. He's quite the homebody. It could be a shock to the system to find himself so far away from home, with nobody around who can take care of him if there's a problem. But, he's a big lad, and as you say, sometimes you have to let people do these things for themselves, if only to enable them to experience both the lows and the highs of life.
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
There is a saying in Arabic: "When the sky is red, saddle your horse, put on your gandoura and get ready to gallop."
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Her body is naked now, on the bed. The room is unearthly quiet. She has not one dirham extra, in preparation for taking possession of her life (life will possess her), to buy a rug, or perfume, or the pottery she coveted in the street. She intends to sleep on the cool floor on cushions, and steal a few pieces of silverware, and eat off a cutting board.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
whatevs, I'm fucking out of here, lol.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: you can probably get sandwiches in egypt.
You can definitely get sand there. I think it was on QI once.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
hotdog
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
is anybody else watching skateboard videos from the late eighties, wallowing in nostalgia for those long childhood summers? No? Just me?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Future Primitive
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
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Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Ravens Creed Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's alright.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I had a ham, apple and coleslaw sandwich
Are you pregnant?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Ham and coleslaw is a nice combination, adding apple to coleslaw is good as it's an extra crispy bit with an additional flavour. I don't think it's weird.
Lunch today will be sweet potato and chilli soup that I'll start making in a minute followed by a slice of custard tart the shell of which is blind baking AS I TYPE
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Chips and mushy peas from the canteen. And a bottle of Lilt, the totally tropical taste.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Salad box from the canteen, plus I've just had a Penguin biscuit left over from yesterday's team meeting (to which I wasn't invited as I'm lowly contractor scum).
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: I've just had a Penguin biscuit
served in a thermos
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I bought some of those last year. Surprised at how small and light they were.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
yeah, the Penguin went a bit melty.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Greg's Chicken and Mango Sandwich. My current favorite quick lunch
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
just some pasta and chicken, whatever. Fucking hell.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
seriously mate, that was all I had, none of your... I don't know..cupcakes, or... posh crisps...fucking... you know all of that shit. Just chicken and pasta. Go and hassle somebody else yeah? Fucks sake mate. Not being funny, but.. nah, nah, I'm not trying to be fun - listen mate, listen, oi, don't - listen - oi don't you fucking touch - oi! oi! Don't you fucking touch me mate, I'll fucking fuck you up son, don't you - get your - yeah? You fucking want some do ya? You fucking poof, you're - yeah you fucking heard you fucking bum bandit - yeah? Come on then! Fucking, come on mate! You fucking poof. Fucking wanker..... Yeah - not fucking worth it... not fuck - You're not fucking worth it mate!, jog on yeah? Jog on! Fucking jog on mate, walk away with your fucking boyfriend... wanker.. fucking stupid wanker...lunch..fucking I'll fucking lunch you, mate! Come round here, stupid fucking questions. Wanker.You silly fucking wanker.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
nah, I never touched him, he was just being all weird and asking about lunch and he was looking at me like he wanted to bum me or something so i just told him that i wasn't interested because i'm not a poof, i never touched him or nothing. He was the one starting it, pushing me, I was trying to get him to calm down. If they said that, then they're liars. Then they're liars aren't they, because I never - If they said that they saw me being aggressive - if - who said it anyway? Who said they saw me being aggressive to him? Well it does matter, because they're liars, that's all I'm saying. They're liars, saying things that aren't true about me like I was the one starting on him, when he was the one starting on me. You wouldn't like if people saying that you were being aggressive and fighting when you weren't. You wouldn't like it would you. I'm not being aggresive now, I'm just saying that they're liars whoever said it. I'm not - I'm - look - you can't - I haven't done anything - listen to me, oi, listen a minute - listen mate - they're liars, I never started on him, was trying - listen -
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
i don't find sporks very funny. Am I deficient?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
You've got a great ear, dude.
On topic: I had a fucking massive chicken shawarma for lunch.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
What about if I stuck a Spork into a child's eye and when they looked around the spork moved around with the eye like a Dalek's Gunstick?
[ 12.10.2009, 11:14: Message edited by: Tilde ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
The reason I had such a massive lunch was because I never had any dinner, yesterday. On a Sunday. No dinner. I had a little bag of pretzels like you'd get on a fucking plane! And at about 10pm I had one of those shitty little packets of Chinese noodles. On a Sunday!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tilde: What about if I stuck a Spork into a child's eye and when they looked around the spork moved around with the eye like a Dalek's Gunstick?
I reckon Benway would laugh at this for a moment, and then when you told him it was a gag from the first Pirates of the Carribean film, he'd get annoyed and feel like he'd been 'duped' into laughing at something he felt that he was above.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
lol! I totally didn't realise I was channelling that.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It's not a spork in POTC, though, so you could argue that you've put your own wacky twist on it. Although laughing at a spork is kind of a 'Bandy' gag, where you poke fun at things that seem kitsch or seventies, or both. Maybe you could argue that bringing these two disparate influences together is an act of creativity in itself, although personally I don't rate it as such.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I think if somebody stuck something into a child's eye in a bid to entertain me, I'd be shocked rather than amused. The kind of thing that amuses me is when somebody makes a pun about an MP who has had a sex scandal, and the pun refers to the sex scandal. Or if somebody says something in an off hand, non committal way, and then somebody else - ie mark from peep show - goes "really? Really Jeremy? Is that really what you want? A world where blah blah blah. That is quite literally the stupidest blah blah blah. It's a good thing that Stalin didn't yadda yadda yadda". I find that amusing because he is angry at the world for being so stupid, and I identify with him and this gives me a comfort and it heightens my sense of superiority and we can despair at the world together. I like it also because it makes references to things that aren't part of popular culture, and that gives me a sense of detachment that allows me to look at life from a different angle to everybody else.
I also like it when people say things like charlie brooker, it always cracks me up when people create complex, furious and scatalogical fantasy scenarios involving television personalities crossed with self-loathing and some throwaway references to a philosopher. If you can have things about hot piss, eyeballs, and things literally going into people's faces, all the better.
I'm trying to think of other things I like.
I like sketch shows where women act not like you'd expect women to act - it's clever because it's making you laugh but also forcing you to look at your own prejudices re: women.
I also like stand up comedy that doesn't make you laugh but instead just makes you tense and guilty when you realise that you are exactly the type of person that the comedian hates.
Finally, I like it when you remember things from the past and mention them in a way that highlights how lame they are when viewed through the cynical eye of the modern audience.
Oh, and anything to do with zombies is hilarious, always.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i'm going to see richard herring tonight, which promises to be hilarious.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
no, really.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
seriously, should be hilarious. He's funny.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
^ that'll be me later. Literally lol'ing. Lololol I'll be going. Lololol.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I saw Richard Herring a few years back. It was kind of... you sort of had to try really really hard not to be appalled at how naff and lame it all was. If you could manage that, it was quite a pleasant evening. Sort of like being at a barn dance in that respect.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i saw him at fat tuesday a couple of months ago doing his 'hitler moustache' thing and I thought it was alright. I lol'd a couple of times. What more can you want.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
lol'ing several times? To be honest, I think you've got a pretty shitty evening ahead of you. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Have you ever been to a barn dance benway? It's not the kind of thing I think you'd enjoy. I think you should go to one.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
comedy fans! I am pleased to report that Richard Herring made a joke about pissing into Schaupenhauer's dead eye socket.
The show was okay, some alright jokes. He's best when he's just riffing on his character rather than coordinating scripted material. You can hear the thing I just went to by checking out 'It occurs to me' on itunes. You'll hear that sadly, I'm not kidding about the eye socket gag.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Stewart Lee did a joke about vomitting into Jesus Christ's spread open arsehole. I think Stewart Lee wins that round.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i feel that you haven't read all of my posts here.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I did read them, but I probably had a baby on my shoulder at the time so I may have been distracted. Did I miss something important?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
the point about the eyeball joke wasn't that it was good, but that it fitted exactly into my earlier criticism about how people just repeat the same old stuff over and over again expecting it to be funny, and that I was amazed / disappointed that I had specifically mentioned piss, eyes, and philosophers only to have Richard make that exact joke about two hours after my post.
[ 13.10.2009, 05:25: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
do you see
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Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I did read them, but I probably had a baby on my shoulder at the time so I may have been distracted.
Was it pissing into your eye?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
maybe Herring is a fan of my posts here on tmo, and threw that one in there for me.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: the point about the eyeball joke wasn't that it was good, but that it fitted exactly into my earlier criticism about how people just repeat the same old stuff over and over again expecting it to be funny, and that I was amazed / disappointed that I had specifically mentioned piss, eyes, and philosophers only to have Richard make that exact joke about two hours after my post.
I told you you were in for a miserable evening. What a waste of time and money. What a waste.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it wasn't miserable really - it was still entertaining enough, but I zoned out for a while after that joke happened, daydreaming about what Herring would say if I told him about my earlier rant, if he would feel like I beat him at comedy and would have to reevaluate things, if we could still be friends after I told him, if he'd be sad, or if he wouldn't care. A lot to think about.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I think he'd probably be a bit annoyed, and probably point out that that bit always gets a good laugh.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'd come back by saying that yes, but if I - somebody with no comedic ability - can predict the kinds of 'edgy' jokes that modern comedians can come up with, doesn't that mean that you are only performing to the minimal acceptable level, and staying firmly within the prescribed boundaries?
I believe that the point of the joke is to basically define class boundaries. The schopenhauer reference is flattering to everybody who even knows who he is, and I reckon that's likely to be middle class graduates... only because a philosophy degree suggests that you're fairly confident that you can get a job based onwhat you learned during your further education, and you're taking time to indulge an intellectual whim rather than studying to get an edge in a future career. Either that, or you are looking for a career as an academic, which I think is probably a middle class pursuit. I suppose also, you could simply like the sound of having a degree in philosophy because it makes you seem as if you hold a kind of secret knowlege of the world, giving all of your other opnions greater validation.
If you haven't studied philosophy but you know who he is and what he's about, chances are you've read around the subject in order to match friends or colleagues who have previously referenced him - so you probably move in middle class circles, and also are driven by the kind of gentle intellectual one-upmanship that the middle classes use to define micro-strata during social events.
Anyway, that's all good, but then the eye ball / piss reference is obviously an extreme image. I think perhaps that a reference to pissing into schopenhauer's eye socket an admittance that while you know about him, or have heard of him, your knowledge is limited, and actually you are distanced from the 'you' that maybe once cared. The act of pissing onto something is one of debasement, and in the joke you aren't debasing the philosopher, but rather, you are debasing your own quest for knowledge, and are proclaiming that you have given up intellectualising, but have retained enough information to elevate you to a high enough social status (because intellectualism is prized within the middle class) to give you 'mobility'. The audience too feels this mobility - a conquering (or even ownership) of both the crude and the elegant - and the sense of power pleases them.
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I think Richard Herring would then just repeat what you'd said right back to your face, but in a voice like Zippy from Rainbow. That's what I would do.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
ZippyVoice conquers all arguments. I've always wished there was a way to do it on TMO.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm doing it with your post now, in my head.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
then you are retaining the spirit in which the post was intended.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
If Herring could perform his 'stand up' routine entirely through a Hitler-moustached Zippy puppet whilst crouching behind a desk, he might actually stand a chance of being cutting edge.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Good old Zippy.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: do you see
This takes me back...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
thai green curry again, with spork.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Chicken and lemon sanger with FREE soup (potato and spring onion)
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
pop quiz motherfuckers
quote:If the scene in red dragon with the blind chick and the bloke from CSI jumping through a window is the best use of Iron Butterfly's psychedelic classic 'inna gadda da vida', which 1991 film gives us the worst use?
no cheating, please.
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Did someone mention a Gregg's Chicken and Mango sandwich on here the other day? I've just tried one and am pleased to confirm that it was acceptable.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
all good guesses, but nobody's got it so far.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
is it Harold and Kumar Get The Munchies?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's not what I've got on my card.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Is it The Chain by Fleetwood Mac?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's not a film.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Pedant.
Is it Nightmare on Elm Street?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Hudson Hawk?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Thelma & Louise?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Other Peoples' Money?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Yes, you've mentioned it.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
My Girl?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Hangin' with the Homeboys?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I haven't mentioned Drop Dead Fred yet, have I?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Thanks everybody for playing! Hope you had fun. The answer was of course Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm suprised that nobody brought this up sooner, but both eyeballs and pissing are of course a huge part of the 1928 French Novella "Histoire de l'oeil". A classic read.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Did someone mention a Gregg's Chicken and Mango sandwich on here the other day? I've just tried one and am pleased to confirm that it was acceptable.
I did indeed mention it. It was a pleasant surprise when i first had one, i seem to be having them every week now.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I was well into that, during one of my more unhinged periods.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
do you like violent surrealist pornography, Hades?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I know, lol. Who doesn't, right?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol. I'm going to the Kings Arms now, for a pint. See you there, dick sniffers!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ok, really going now. Bye!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
God, they're remaking Drop Dead Fred with Russell Brand...
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: I'm suprised that nobody brought this up sooner, but both eyeballs and pissing are of course a huge part of the 1928 French Novella "Histoire de l'oeil". A classic read.
Did they also do something involving sitting on food...a plate of bacon? An egg? I cant remember. Myabe it's just me...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah a chicksits on a plate of milk at the beginning, and later on a chicken egg goes inside a human vagina.. with some bull testicles and also maybe an eyeball.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I remember watching that as a kid and thinking 'whoever wrote this script hasn't played a video game and has a bit of a vague idea what it might be'
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm trying to imagine what the director thought the audience's reaction would be. Some of the editing - like when he's about to fall down the stairs - seems to suggest she thought it would be tense. I wonder if, heading home at the end of the working day, she imagined the audience coiled rigid with fear and anxiety and speculated that the sequence would be spoken of in the same breath as the opening to Halloween. Or maybe she just didn't give a shit.
On a Nightmare on Elm Street tip, a good film trivia question is always what do Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, LA Confidential writer Brian Helgeland, Iggy Pop and Peter Jackson all have in common.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
^^^ by the way, if you're using that in a pub or at a dinner party it's a lot harder for people to guess the answer if you don't start by saying "Speaking of Nightmare on Elm Street..."
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Do they all wear the same size shoes?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I don't know the answer to that trivia question.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Try guessing it from the context. There's a clue in the phrase "On a Nightmare on Elm Street tip..."
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
they've all casually searched ebay for an accurate replica of the razor-glove?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Did they all have terrifying nightmares as children and have all tried to beat the record for staying awake just so that they don't have to face their fears in their dreamworld?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Did Peter Jackson have his innards ripped out and his body smeared all over the walls and roof of his bedroom by an invisible attacker?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
have they all got drunk and awoken the next day to find that they've cellotaped cutlery to their hand, and three hours later while they slowly eat a bagel remembered that they posted a picture of themselves brandishing this arrangement together with a liberal coating of ketchup on their exposed torso onto a social networking site?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
My last post had a slight spoiler about something that happens in Nightmare in Elm Street, so don't read it if you want to watch the film with no knowledge of what is going on.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
did they all buy the 7 disc dvd set at a knock down price only to find that the promised commentary on disc 4 was non-existant?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
have they all at one point said "Yeah, Wes Craven has been really hit and miss over the years"?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
have they all had nightmares while they slept in a house on a street?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Have they all been pictured wearing a red and black striped moth eaten sweater?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
have they all murdered children, been killed by a mob of concerned parents, then made murderous wisecracking appearances in the dreams of the children of the parents that killed them?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Have they all been played by Robert "classically trained actor" Englund?
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sorry, I've ruined it, just like misc ruined my one yesterday.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Have they all been pictured wearing a red and black striped moth eaten sweater?
That's Dennis The Menace though, right?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's true, it's actually red and green.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I thought Red and Green, but did a google image search to make sure and almost all the pictures on the front page are red and black which is why i wrote it.
It is Google's fault my post was wrong.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
They've all been involved with the Nightmare on Elm Street film series.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That answer is a bit of a letdown really.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
chicken, couscous, onion-laden salad.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Like I say, it's more suprising if you don't have a whole build up talking about the Nightmare on Elm Street series. Try imagining that question coming completely out of the blue, without any of the giveaway context. Perhaps after someone has just announced a really important piece of news, or a family bereavement, or maybe just to break a tense silence during a lunch break at the pub with some work colleagues. Suddenly, you see, it's a lot less predictable and more satisfying.
Also, the coda to the question is when people go, "OK... all right. Johnny Depp was in the first one, obviously, and Alice Cooper played Freddy's dad in number six, and Iggy did a song for no. 4, which - now you mention it - I remember was written by Brian Helgeland, but what the frigging tits did Peter Jackson ever have to do with Nightmare on Elm Street?"
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I wondered that same thing, but then I googled and now I know.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: They've all been involved with the Nightmare on Elm Street film series.
Who has?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65:
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: They've all been involved with the Nightmare on Elm Street film series.
Who has?
Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, LA Confidential writer Brian Helgeland, Iggy Pop and Peter Jackson.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Were they all really into puppetry?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I like the word 'puppet'.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I was looking through my bookshelf the other day and discovered that we own a book called "Puppetry of the Penis".
I say we, but I suspect it is Kate's rather than mine. It appears to be about using your penis as a puppet shockingly enough.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Lunch was some Tesco sushi, a tesco pork pie and two bananas. The sushi didn't come with enough soy sauce and had no wasabi.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
are you pregnant?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
do you like anime?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That does sound like the lunch of a pregnant doesn't it.
I was going to buy a sandwich, a pork pie and some bananas, which is quite a sensible lunch. However, I had picked up the pork pie and was looking at the sandwiches thinking "I hate a sausage, hash brown and fried egg bap but 4 hours ago, do I need more bread?" and then cast my eyes down to the sushi and thought "Rice would be suitably filling and a bit of a change, and at £1.30 for that pack, it is also a bargain".
If I had reached this decision before picking up the pork pie then I may well have realised that pork pie did not go with sushi, however as I already had the pork pie in my basket I didn't really link the two together and this is why they were purchased.
I admit it was wrong and I shall attempt to do a better lunch when I have my next work lunch break on Friday.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: do you like violent surrealist pornography, Hades?
I don't know. I haven't gotten to that on the "porn to try" list. It's an alphabetical list and I'm only on the letter P.... Pregnant porn is strangly mesmerising
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by Hades: Pregnant porn is strangly mesmerising
Woah.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
you guys are obviously all doing a great deal of work this afternoon- either that or the time is long past when some wag would spend time filling in hades' alphabet of porn, with commentary, notes and misc addenda. im posting from a library, and i value that privilege quite frankly, so i wont be going there.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
some egg sandwiches, not great.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Prawn sandwiches, sushi, bananas. Not great either.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
damn that sucks, both us having not great lunches.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
seems quite quiet around here these days.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, fuck, I want to go home, I feel rough.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm shattered. I was having to sing a baby to sleep from about 12.45 to 1.45 this morning and then had to be up at 6 to get ready and into work for 7 and I'm here until 7. I'm just about ready to sleep now but there is still 5 hours to go.
I had a good lunch yesterday but wasn't online to let you know. Yesterday I made caramelised red onion, goat's cheese and fig tarts. You can see it on my flickr account if you want.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, square plates.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Square plates are good. You can get more food per area of cupboard used for storing them which makes it good value in my book.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
lol, goat's
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
should it be "goats cheese"?
I suppose that would make sense as the goat doesn't actually own the cheese.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
goat's cheese is right
sheep's cheese cow's milk
etc.
use the singular; it's the species, not a single animal
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Perhaps Misc was just amused by the concept of goat's cheese then, much as Benway is amused by the concept of non-round plates.
Did you know that Wil Wheaton was on "The Big Bang Theory" this week in America. That's pretty geeky.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I was just amused by the concept of goats.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm not really amused by anything, I'm feeling too rough.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
What's wrong with you?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Surely you're not too ill to find humour in a fainting goat?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I've got AIDS.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Again? Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
same one. It's the colder weather, it brings it out.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Had you ever considered not rooting around in bins full of hypodermic needles?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Try some codeine. It's good for the seasonal AIDS.
Also, do you have an AIDS lamp? They can really help this time of year.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I had an ok lunch today.
Sandwich with tuna and some kind of dressing. Not sure what. It was pinkish with peppers in it, and maybe onion. Tasted nice anyway. Reema made it. Plus a little tupperware pot full of grapes, and an enormous Granny Smith apple.
Good lunch.
I've had epic shits since I went to Egypt and today has been the first day I've not been doubled over with spine ripping stomach cramps. So it has kind of taken the fun out of eating over the past week or so. I did a relatively firm poo earlier though and my stomach hasn't complained in any meaningful way since last night, so maybe I'm over the hump, who knows.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
my lovely gravy lumps / check 'em out
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
haven't had lunch yet, mainly because I'm really craving soba noodles and there is zero chance of getting any around here.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
A flame grilled steak
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
packet of MCoys Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I was just about to come back with an overly aggressive "shut up did you".
btw does anybody know what has happened to thorn
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Cracked up. Did himself in.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sweet.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I'm gnawing my way through a steak and cheese sub.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Thrown out of house and home. Was having an affair. With his bicycle. He got caught in bed with it, stroking its handlebars. He was gently easing the breaks on when the missus burst in. He was completely nude apart from his cycle helmet. 'At least he wore protection' I said, to a sobbing Octavia on the phone the other night.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sainsbury's sweet chilli prawn sandwiches. I eat supermarket sandwiches very rarely, and I didn't enjoy these. Too sweet, very flimsy, tasteless prawn. Luckily Borough market kicks into gear from tomorrow onwards.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
We went to Borough at the weekend. I had a bratwurst while we wandered around. We've got faggots for dinner, tonight...
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
No..? No-one?
Fair enough.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Ah end of the month savings time! Gone are the lovly Chicken and Mango Greggs Sarnies and in are the brought-from-home ham ones so that i can pocket the £5 lunch allowence to tied me over till payday.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i had like..cheese.... like...swiss cheese...and some uhh...some uhhhhhhh like meat, ham...or...more like.....what's that.....uhhh..well...I had bread too....and cheese....uhhh....its like pepperoni but its called something else.......fuck......its from europe or something......and....and.....i had a pepsi.... actually a diet pepsi..... uhhhh...and.....no that was......slami?....Slami does that sound....? Uhhh...
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You had a salami and cheese sandwhich. Good choice! I had beef and mustard!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I had some tesco sushi at 10.30 and then two apples and a banana. I was still hungry so I've just been back to tesco and bought a ginster's cornish pasty for £1 and two tubes of sour cream and onion pringles that were BOGOF. I have eaten the pasty and don't really fancy the pringles.
I want to go home
[ 28.10.2009, 11:14: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Lunch today will be a pint of guinness and a thai curry. Traditional Friday lunch.
Listening to "Learn Italian with Michel Thomas". It seems to be going OK apart from I'm finding it hard to find time to listen to it apart from to and from work which only gives me just over an hour of learning a week which isn't proving to be very productive.
I borrowed transformers 1 and 2 from a friend so will watch those this weekend. I've seen neither and I think I'm most looking forward to seeing the second one just because of all the awful things I've heard about it.
Playing Borderlands in the daytime. Really want to play online at some stage but at the moment I can only play when Amelie sleeps which appears to be the morning and early afternoon and evenings are her awake time so I think I'm going to have to start getting her drunk early afternoon so she sleeps it off in the evening.
Weekend. Possibly going to Dorset to visit parents but my mum has now said that she's doing some charity thing on Saturday so that might have to be put off until midweek so dunno.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Weekend. Possibly going to Dorset to visit parents but my mum has now said that she's doing some charity thing on Saturday so that might have to be put off until midweek so dunno.
"?"!?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I know It's ridiculous.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
No - I mean. I still have a spare ticket if you want to come. .
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Thanks for the offer but I'm not sure I'm quite ready to leave Amelie yet. I realise that's a bit weaksauce
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
No - that's completely understandable. Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
IT'S A GAY-OFF!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I lol'd
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: IT'S A GAY-OFF!
Come on now. Not every post needs to be made of spite and horrid. It's Halloween weekend - the time of kindness and giving.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
anyway, this thread is about lunches, we've gone off track. Here are some ideas about the kinds of things we could talk about:
what we think about lunch
swapping lunch hints and tips,
talking about our favourite lunches
Lunches throughout the ages + the future
Alternatives to lunch
lunches from around the world
burning issues about lunches
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Inspired by ian davis, I'm listening to a bit of therapy? Specifically, Babyteeth, which blew me away when I first popped it into my cassette walkman on xmas morning, 1992. Still sounds great.
In terms of lunches though... I have a packet of green tea soba noodles on my desktop. I also have a bit of a hangover after a comedy thing I went to yesterday, and noodles would do the trick I reckon. Currently researching dipping sauces. Why do yanks insist on measuring thing in 'cups'.
[ 30.10.2009, 07:26: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
if its halloween then maybe we should talk about horror films.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
listening to 'nurse' now, thinking about childhood.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I would love to be listening to Troublegum right now. I haven't listened to that for years. Does it still work now or is it a bit too teenage angsty?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I will give it a listen later on and let you know. I've set sail in the good ship nostalgia. Now listening to the Offspring album 'SMASH'. Sorry I keep being off topic.
[ 30.10.2009, 07:37: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: if its halloween then maybe we should talk about horror films.
I hear SAW 6 is pretty good
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I have also heard that, at least if you're a Saw fan... and I don't think I would count myself in that category. However Pontypool and Triangle look good.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
That clingfilm looks suspect on your desktop.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: That clingfilm looks suspect on your desktop.
sandwich wrapper from yesterday
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Yeah right. A crack sandwich?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
your momma's crack.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I'm going to go see Zombieland tomorrow! I've been wanting to see it for WEEKS.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You can see my leftover fruit and pringles that I bought on Wednesdayhere.
You can also see that I've been busy at work doing the football betting where I could win upwards of £13
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I could go for that, hippychick.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
That Paranormal Activity film is out next month isn't it. That looks like it could be ok. Which means it's probably not
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I would love to be listening to Troublegum right now. I haven't listened to that for years. Does it still work now or is it a bit too teenage angsty?
I gave it a spin a few weeks ago and it's still great. I always thought the teen angst thing was quite tongue in cheek on that album, so it didn't jar too much. Unlike, say, The Downward Spiral, which feels like exploitative cack these days - something a 30 year old put together thinking "lol, those self-harming teen idiots will lap this 'dark' shit up".
Anyway, yeah. The sense of humour leavens it, the songs never outstay their welcome, the drumming is still absolutely insane and the great moshpit moments like Trigger Inside are still marvellous.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I tried to tidy my beard up to a grade 2 yesterday but somehow managed to take a bit on my chin to shorter than grade 2 is meant to be so I had to knock the entire look down to a grade 1 which is shorter than a beard should be. It's barely a beard anymore, just stubble really. People probably look at me and think "God, he's going for the designer stubble look, he's about 2 decades behind the times" when really it was just an accident. Proof can be found here and you can also see that really I need a haircut or something.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Anyway. That wasn't really about lunch, just me abusing the fact I can post pictures online even when I'm at work.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I have a shit load of hair + beard at the moment. Mickey even commented about it a few weeks ago.
[ 30.10.2009, 08:00: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm as clean shaven as always and have recently had a haircut. I look quite smart.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I've got maybe 5mm of growth on my face at the moment. I was debating whether or not to keep it for the weekend or shave it off, but it was pointed out to me that the false moustache probably won't stick on unless I shave so I suppose I may as well.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ladies will be delighted to discover that the picture I've linked to of my face can be downloaded in a large enough size to be made into an attractive desktop wallpaper.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
My beard was probably a little longer than that yesterday so it did need a tidyup. Here's one that was taken on the 17th so imagine that beard but with about another 2 weeks of growth.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Benway looks like a King of Leon
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I listened to Die Laughing recently and it still hits me hard when I hear it. You're totally wrong about The Downward Spiral. It was written to be a lot more subtle than the Broken EP than Pretty Hate Machine. 'Closer' is hardly a teen friendly romp and the video was censored for the most part. Maybe the lyrics of 'heresy' seem a bit angsty by todays standards but the furious pacing of March Of The Pigs and the unconventional silence during the song make for radio-unfriendly plays. Which teens do you think Reznor aimed it at?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: Benway looks like a King of Leon
you could download that picture to your phone if you wanted.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
She could also put it on a memory stick and take it to a shop and get it printed on a t-shirt that she could wear in bed.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah.... you could do that. Man, I'd like one of those t-shirts.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
do you think if you walked around wearing a t-shirt with a picture of your own face on it, people would respond positively? I was considering getting a t-shirt that featured a picture of me wearing the t-shirt that I'm wearing. If you see what I mean.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think it's going to be a definite conversation starter. I think really you want it so that it goes back several levels so you're wearing a t-shirt that has a picture of you wearing that t-shirt and on that t-shirt it is you wearing that t-shirt etc. You know, turtles all the way down type thing.
You'd either have to spend ages getting t-shirts printed or use some sort of "magic" (photoshop) to do that though.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes, so, take a picture of yourself wearing a plain t-shirt, and have that made into a t-shirt. Then put that t-shirt on - the one that's got a picture of you wearing a plain t-shirt on it - take another picture, and get a t-shirt made of that. After that, pop the new t-shirt on, and get somebody to take a picture of you. So you've got a picture of you wearing a t-shirt featuring a picture of you wearing a t-shirt that's got a picture of you wearing a t-shirt on it. Have that picture put on a t-shirt, put it on, and get a picture taken. Stick that on a t-shirt, that you then wear, and - well, you get the idea.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It sounds expensive and time consuming. I think it would be better just to wear a t-shirt that has a nike swoosh on it. That's almost as good.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's the sort of silly bollocks that you might get in 'Flight of the Conchords'
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: It sounds expensive and time consuming. I think it would be better just to wear a t-shirt that has a nike swoosh on it. That's almost as good.
You can get paper that you can just print at home and iron onto a t-shirt. I reckon after about six cycles you'd have reduced the original picture of you wearing a white t-shirt down to such a small size that it wouldn't be worth carrying on.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I think this thread is going to see a lot of lurkers finally coming out, prompting a new era of activity for tmo. It's that good.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Would you keep the same pose in each picture or would you make sure they're noticeably different, just to add further confusion for the viewer?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I listened to Die Laughing recently and it still hits me hard when I hear it. You're totally wrong about The Downward Spiral. It was written to be a lot more subtle than the Broken EP than Pretty Hate Machine. 'Closer' is hardly a teen friendly romp and the video was censored for the most part. Maybe the lyrics of 'heresy' seem a bit angsty by todays standards but the furious pacing of March Of The Pigs and the unconventional silence during the song make for radio-unfriendly plays. Which teens do you think Reznor aimed it at?
Well, I thought it was the dog's bollocks when I was 16 so I would say "Teens like me". Interestingly, a lot of what you've listed are the reasons why I would say it was cynically targeted at... whatever audience I was. I would say Closer was absolutely a 'teen friendly song'. I couldn't imagine anyone past the age of 20 taking it remotely seriously: it seems custom made to appeal to angry, horny 16 year olds.
Elsewhere on the record you've got Reznor yelling "Don't you tell me what I feel! You don't know just what I feel", which is almost like a parody of a teenager shouting at their parents. The nebulous dark imagery about drowning and suicide could have been copied straight from the back of an 'arty' 6th Former's notebook. The whole record is nebulous fury, self-loathing and miserable lyrics about no-one understanding you.
I agree that March of the Pigs etc aren't radio friendly, but I don't equate 'radio friendly' with 'teen friendly', and these days when I listen to Downward Spiral all I can hear is a man who would have been the same age as I am now nailing down a blueprint that's guaranteed to appeal to kids with black nail varnish.
Obviously NIN aren't the only band peddling angst, but when I go back to stuff like the first Korn album, or Nirvana, or whatever I get more of a sense of sincerity. TDS just sounds like a man going "This is going to sell in its bajillions, lol".
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Maybe in one picture it could be a completely different person wearing the t-shirt.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I think this thread is going to see a lot of lurkers finally coming out, prompting a new era of activity for tmo. It's that good.
It is a great thread, I can't argue with you on that count. However, all these lurkers are going to think "Oh, a massive long thread about Lunch, that sounds right up my street", click on here and then find nonsense about t-shirt printing and realise that this place isn't nearly organised enough for them.
I think we need some more active moderation with bans being handed out for people going offtopic as with so many active threads at any stage you really want to know what sort of thing you're getting when you click on the topic.
[ 30.10.2009, 08:29: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
It'd be better if all of the pictures of you were different poses. That'd show real effort.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I agree with Hippy.
I bet all those fuckers who left tmo to join the mock turtle would fucking kick themselves if they saw this kind of quality going on. What is there like six people left on tmo now?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
fuckers, all of them.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Even Darryn seems to have left
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yeah. Fuckers. Fucking posting on the mock turtle. Fuckers.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Darryn hasn't provided good content for about six years though...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
when people have babies it seems to make all these people appear who are normally invisible.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Hang on, no you are totally right about TDS. It hasn't aged well. Particularly as Marilyn Manson took the concept and spam-bummed it to the new wave of goths.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Steve O's got a tattoo of himself on his back.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
For lunch I had leftover Nigel-Slater-toad-in-the-hole. It was yum.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I still haven't had lunch. I'm well hungry.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
You should get yourself something. It's nearly three o clock. You'll be running into tea-time soon.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
what's the difference between nigel slater toad in the hole and normal toad in the hole?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: You should get yourself something. It's nearly three o clock. You'll be running into tea-time soon.
I know I know, I keep looking at these noodles but I think I need to make a sauce as well and I can't seem to get time at the moment to sort this out. I also need a shower quite badly.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I had spicy lentil soup for lunch because it sounded quite healthy and I want my trousers to fit again. It nearly blew my head clean off! Couldn’t finish it, so that should do the trick with the trousers. Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: what's the difference between nigel slater toad in the hole and normal toad in the hole?
I was going to ask this very question.
I made a toad in the hole a few months back where the sausages were wrapped in bacon and it had bits of black pudding in the batter. I'm not sure you can get much more pig in a dish than that.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
That's it basically - skin the sausages and wrap them in ham or bacon. There's grain mustard in the batter too.
I have a black pudding defrosting in the kitchen right this minute and am thinking about things to do with it. Black spaghetti on Sunday night is a possibility, especially as tomorrow night's supper is veggie.
[ 30.10.2009, 11:01: Message edited by: Octavia ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Slight change of plan for lunch in that we went to sit by the fire in the Ranelagh rather than going to the St James Tavern that does Thai food, so I've got more tesco sushi.
[ 30.10.2009, 11:10: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
nice plate.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yeah, people on other forums are always telling me how nice my plates are. Everyone loves those plates.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Have you ever considered a career as a chef?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've considered it but it seems like really long hours and I'm not sure I could get on with the idea of doing something I love as a career. Work is meant to be depressing and soul-destroying. It wouldn't feel like work if it was something you felt inspired to do anyway.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
What about as a plate designer.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
panic over - I'm now eating the lunch. cold green tea soba with a mirin / dashi / soy sauce.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't think I'd be good as a plate designer as I'm not very artistic and I have terrible taste in plates. Thanks for the suggestion though.
[ 30.10.2009, 11:52: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Well gosh, if you're going to be so negative about everything...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
soup + bread
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I am also having soup and bread. I made a sweet potato, red lentil and chilli soup that was ready at 1pm. One of Kate's friends turned up at 1pm without letting anyone know she was coming and so now the soup is just sitting on the stove going cold. I'm really hungry, I wish she'd go.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sounds like a nice soup. I had carrot + coriander, lol. From De Gustibus.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It probably would have been nice 45 minutes ago. She's still here and we have a health visitor at 2 so it looks like I'll have to reheat it at about 3 and it will be rubbish.
Honestly. Who turns up unannounced at someone's house at 1pm.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
nobody has ever turned up unannounced to visit me.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
People never used to here. We've both got mobile phones, why not call and then we can make excuses as to why you can't come over rather than just knocking on the door and then we have to pretend that we're glad to see you.
I think the strongest reason never to have a child is that people seem to think its fine to come and visit whenever they want because you have a baby. Idiots.
Anyway. This isn't about lunch sorry.
I may have chilli for lunch tomorrow if I have any leftover after tonight!
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Why are you letting them stop you eating soup?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Yeah, you should say "Oh, we were just about to have lunch. Could you just wait outside for half an hour or so? I know it's a bit nippy but we really really rely on these little moments in the day, everything gets SO hectic. It's nice when we can have a little quiet spell to eat together, without some **** barging in unannounced. Not that it's not lovely to see you, you selfish fucking MONSTER!"
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
That's it, or be like 'well I just had soup on the go so I'm sure you won't mind' followed by you both messily eating your soup with forks. Served off of the square plates.
Stop halfway through destroying the place to say 'sorry that's rude of me, did you want some?'
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
These are good ideas. Everyone's gone now and I've eaten soup. It was tasty. Really tasty. I liked the fact that Dr Benway had coriander in his soup so I put some in mine as well and it worked well. It worked really well.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you should chuck some curry leaves in as well I reckon.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm thinking about making a curried parsnip soup soon so I will use curry leaves in that.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
or just invite her in the kitchen and pour the soup silently down the drain in front of her, and if she doesn't react, smash her round the head with the pan and then kill yourself.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
lol
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
*contented sigh*
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Boots has stopped doing their "Buy 5 meal deals in a month and get a 6th free" offer. Disgracefull!
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
I think either the boots meal deal r the Ceaser Salad i had from pizza hut last night gave me food poisioning. I did not have an enjoyable night. Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lots of shitting yeah?
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
oh yeah. And the puking and stabbing pains in my stomach and while that has all stopped this morning i still feel sick and have a thumping headache.
Of course im only assuming it was food. Maybe a witch has cursed me.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i had gastroenteritis a few months ago. Bad pizza. The thing that blew me away was the stomach pain. Previous experiences of food poisoning was the sickness and evacuation requirements, but that pain was a fucker. I was convinced I had an ulcer or something because I was paralysed by it.
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Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I was having real stomach cramp issues when I came back from Egypt. Real double-you-over-in-pain kind of cramps. Not fun.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Yeah that sounds like what i was feeling last night.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
A very small, very overpriced baguette in the teeming screaming cafe at John Lewis and four (count them, four) apple cinnamon muffins when I got home to enable me to get over the experience of shopping in John Lewis with my mother. Shoulda better known better. The muffins were intended for the freezer in preparation for Cherry and Mrs Cherry's visit in a couple of weeks, so, sorry guys.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
A burned fried egg sandwich. With posh ketchup, which didn't compensate for the burned egg. Who on earth manages to burn a fried egg.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i just had nuts. Aww yeah.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
salad. I'm experiencing a chip craving. I need carbs.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I haven't eaten anything yet today. I think it's too late for breakfast or lunch.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
same here, h1ppychick. Nuts is not enough for a whole day. Well... I mean. Not these nuts. Not for me. I'm well hungry. Anyway how are you?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
when I say 'these nuts' I mean of course
DEEEEEEEEEEEZ NUTTTTZZZZZZ OWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ralphin' again. Oh readers, will I ever learn.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't know what that last post means.
I had some leftoever soup and leftover chilli all packed up in tupperware and ready in the fridge to bring into work today to try to get me through my 12 hour shift and then managed to completely forget them so I guess I will be hitting either Tesco or the cafeteria for lunch.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
He means he got lagered up again and is now being sick, like a dog.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
pretty disgusting to let yourself get into that state on a Tuesday night.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've not heard the term ralphin' before. What's the etymology of that?
But yeah, to get that drunk on a Tuesday night isn't the sign of an up and coming professional destined to become a director of one of the big accountancy firms.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I suspect it's onomatopoeic.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
or a cruel jibe at alcoholic TMO poster "ralph"
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Should we organise an intervention for Benway? On the one hand it would show we care, but on the other I'm sort of curious to see how far he falls left to his own devices.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm in agony, lol
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I need the services of a woman w/fuzzy jumper again.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Don't worry Benway, it is all going to be ok...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh abby...
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
This pretty much it for the day then?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I don't think I'm having lunch today. I'm going into shock at the moment.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: This pretty much it for the day then?
If you're bored I could link to an immensely unsatisfying bickering match I got into on IMDB. It closely resembles the History Today sketch on The Mary Whitehouse Experience if it was about film and and the sketch lasted for over a week.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah go on, that could kill the rest of my lunch hour I guess
Incidentally - peanut butter sandich, granny smith apple, and a packet of beef crisps.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It's here. I'm everlone_2000 and the pointless argument starts about halfway down the thread when someone starts wanking on about Godard and Fellini. Well. The pointless argument starts well before that, but that's the point where it gets even more pointless.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
tl;dr
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
The best quote is where he suggests my liking the film is somehow fundamental to my sense of self:
quote: Obviously, you won't agree with that as you have already built up some sense of feigned control over your existence around your own continued championing of this film.
I don't think I've ever been attacked on an existential level on a message board before.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
salad, lemon jelly pot. looking forward to team outing to the casino tonight, when I will have a decent dinner for once!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: salad, lemon jelly pot. looking forward to team outing to the casino tonight, when I will have a decent dinner for once!
Sorry to break this to you H1ppychick, but I think you're going to be disappointed. A Casino is a place where people stake money on games of chance. You were getting it confused with a cafe/ bistro, maybe.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
That has actually left me rather speechless
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I actually hate getting into arguments on IMDB, but at the same time I can't stop myself.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah, it's hard not to bite isn't it. It's like going on the BBC site and thinking "I'll just have a look at what nonsense people are saying on Have Your Say, just for a laugh like" and still finding yourself shouting in genuine rage at the screen. Even though you knew what you were getting yourself into by clicking it in the first place.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
If I want to get a bit angry, which sometimes is useful and invigorating, like those ice bath things the Scandinavians do, I look at this article. I should warn you it is in the Daily Mail, but it isn’t the Stephan Gately one.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
at least the people commenting on it are all putting the boot in.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You can sort the comments by bottom rated and then you'll find the people agreeing with the mail.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
"We are no longer accepting comments on this article."
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Wow, you can get five years in prison for posession of cannabis.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You should get five years for posession of the daily fucking mail
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm still crippled by agony and nausea. I know how concerned and interested everybody on tmo is in this situation. I might have to go and throw up soon. But the problem is I'm 90% sure if I do, then I'll kick off a phase of cyclical ralphing, which is not a good situation to try and handle at work. Throwing up at all really will only damage my nearly-non existant credbility in this place, but having a full of fit of puking would be severely problematic. Interesting to see how this pans out. Also I might pass out as a result of the shock symptoms. I've gone freezing cold, can only take short breaths, so I think my blood pressure has fallen. If i pass out I won't be able to stop myself from puking. I'll try and hold it together.
[ 11.11.2009, 08:39: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
You should see a doctor, dude. That's not really what a hangover should be like, unless you've been drinking heavily for about five days.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
what we should do on imdb is get a few of us together to have a really ridiculous discussion, like all apparent strangers start agreeing on something ludicrous in relation to what happens in a film or what the 'hidden meaning' is, or swearing blind that a completely awful film is actually excellent, or something. Build it up over a month or so, to the dismay and frustration of other, legitimate posters. Maybe see if we can get them to eventually agree with us, just because everybody else seems to think it. Then pull back the curtains and cause people around th world to have panic attacks as they realise that they have been cruelly manipulated for our entertainment.
[ 11.11.2009, 09:05: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I notice Mikee hasn't checked in. Do you think he's dead? Does this mean Pia is now on the market?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
this voicemail is the last I heard from him. I assume that he killed himself.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: You should see a doctor, dude. That's not really what a hangover should be like, unless you've been drinking heavily for about five days.
I've self-diagnosed a massively damaged liver, which prevents me from processing the alcohol, therefore causing me to get something akin to alcohol poisoining due to it not being able to leave my bloodstream.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Sounds like something you can drink through to me. I'd suggest a couple of lunchtime pints.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
aye, good call.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I've self-diagnosed a massively damaged liver, which prevents me from processing the alcohol, therefore causing me to get something akin to alcohol poisoining due to it not being able to leave my bloodstream.
And... that's not something worht taking to the doctor. Is it just that you're afraid of what he might say?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, lol.
anyway what do you think of my imdb idea.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I think you'll find that just about every single terrible film listed on IMDB already has several threads by people waxing lyrical about how good they are. It's like a defining feature.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Just like every brilliant film has someone declaring it the "worst film ever made".
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
usually it's just one madman bravely defending against an army of haters. I'm talking about maybe one madman defending against haters who all eventually start coming round to the madman's ideas, much to the disbelief of onlookers.
[ 11.11.2009, 09:32: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I've lost interest in the idea now anyway I think. Too much hassle for zero gain.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Go to the doctor instead.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
well I'm a bit better today. Feel like I've been beaten up though, really achey and sore muscles. I managed to eat in the end last night, you'll be relieved to hear.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Yeah, that's still not a normal hangover, dude. Go. See. A. Doctor.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Or... cream soda, lots. Berocca. Go for a swim.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm thinking maybe a big-ass mcdonalds might sort me out.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Miso Soup, disappointing. I put it in the proper bowl with one of those special spoons and everything, couple of spoonfuls in I remembered that I didn't really like it.
Went to the fridge in despair, choose a prepared fruit mixture pot - ok, except it had grapefruit in it, which was bitter obviously, again not a favorite. Finished off with a doughnut.
3/10 Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
salad box. rather nice boiled sweets from a bag supplied, amongst other more cake-y things, by the guy who won the poker last night. I didn't do too badly for my first ever poker game, won a couple of decent hands, stayed in longer than some, but nowhere near being in the money.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
hmmmmm... homemade chocolate brownies
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Burnt toast. Again.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Coffee. Dark, violent coffee. As the rza said - caffeine is ridiculous right now.
[ 13.11.2009, 05:32: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
have you seen the gza / rza / bill murray bit from coffee and cigarettes? If you haven't, and you've got 7 minutes to kick back, I really recommend it Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Man it's so good. That's the kind of thing that makes me wish I had some kind of creative ability. It's so effortless and slick and perfect.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I watched it a long time ago, and can confirm it's ok.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Lunch will be pint of guinness and spicy beef noodles from the pub that does thai food.
It's blowing a gale though so I may get blown away as I head towards the sea front. Fingers crossed I'm fat enough to stay on the ground.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Ham and mustard sandwich. Granny Smith. Walkers salt and vinegar. Bassett's Mint Imperials (it is Friday, after all)
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
What sort of mustard? what sort of ham? What sort of bread? Any salad at all?
Come on Ringo, we need details of these things. Lunch club is all about the details.
Apart from Benway who things that saying "I'm having mezze for lunch" is enough.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Seeded grannary bread, wholegrain english mustard, co-op processed ham slices. No salad. Burtolli spread. I'm having a cop of coffee too. One heaped spoonful of Nescafe Original, a half spoonful of Tate and Lyle white sugar, and about 25ml of semi skimmed milk, served in a large white mug with the spoon left in.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: It's blowing a gale
Man, remember the days when ralph was here? He would have said something like "pah - In america the wind is made out of a block solid concrete ten miles wide and ten miles high and sweeps across the country at 300 mph your weather is rubbish in America weather is more destructive and therefore better". Those were the days, eh.
[ 13.11.2009, 07:58: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I used to love how Ralph would unquestioningly declare that North America was simultaneously the hottest country in the world, but also the coldest. If you actually believed what he was telling you, in any given week the weather could swing from 50 below zero to over a hundred degrees, drop 100 inches of precipitation and throw in a few earthquakes for good measure.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Americans paid nearly a billion dollars to go and see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Think about that. A billion dollars. This isn't one mad decision made by the President. The entire country chipped in for that. And yet they complain that if they have universal healthcare then they will have to pay for someone else who hasn't worked hard, like them, to be able to afford these things.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
If we are going to start listing all the things which are wrong with America we'd be here all day.
Still, at least it's a nation founded on secular principles, unlike here in the UK, eh?
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Isnt it bizzare that a country that was founded on secular principles of seperation of church and state on a whole is a lot more religious and bigoted in their views than one that the church is entwined in the state.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I just go with the theory that the more intelligent you are, the less likely you are to be a religious nutcase. Hence why America is full of Christian fundamentalists.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Exciting news lunch fans! today i DON'T have a sandwich!
I have a white bagel with cheddar cheese, branston pickle, and peppered pork loin. How do you like them apples, hm?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It was as good as it sounded
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm still unsure about lunch. I can't make my mind up at all.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You should definitely have some. It'll help with the hangover that I assume you have.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I had a few drinks last night, but no hangover. I had nothing but coffee and a tiny muffin so far today.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Its really anoying that i keep working in places right next to Gregs, the smell keeps wafting over and makes me hungry all day long.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
A muffin isn't really going to give you all the energy you need for your day. Especially if it's as tiny as you say.
Maybe a pint of guinness and a pie
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Hades: Its really anoying that i keep working in places right next to Gregs, the smell keeps wafting over and makes me hungry all day long.
I can only assume when you said "hungry" you actually meant "sick to my stomach"
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
this was the last of the home made muffins. It was really small. Smaller than any muffin you've ever seen.
I was considering a curry.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
A curry's not a bad call. I was still feeling peckish so I just went to the shop and got some nuts
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I had leftover guinea fowl, bacon, squash and leek pie for lunch. It was really good. I'm still quite hungry though.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
eating a malaysian curry I got from the market. It's a good one.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Malaysian Curry? Guinea Fowl pie? God almighty why did I make the call to live in a country where they are more interested in what comes out of their bodies than what goes in them (proven by the abundance of shelved toilets designed for fecal inspection still in use in this country)
I had a fucking sandwich. Same fucking boring shitty sandwich I have every day. For a treat I have a banana. A fucking banana. Jesus. Fucking Guinea fowl? Jesus....
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
There's nothing wrong with a sandwich Wayne
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Totally agree with you Ringo, as long as a sandwich is constructed with the same passion one would say put into a fine dinner. The tales of freshly cut wholemeal bread, fine condiments and quality meats and dairy to make lunches of epic gastronomic proportions, at least in comparison to the same processed tripe on offer here every day, well it's frankly soul destroying. You guys all enjoy lunch, I refuel. Bland non-descript cheese, processed ham, sliced standard white bread with little choice beyond that. God I hope we move nearer civilisation soon - at least at the proposed site there is a burger king nearby - it will make half of the employees literally shit themselves having a choice!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes but cherry's tales of extravagant dining are designed at least in part to elecit this kind of response, waynster. Don't pander to it.
have you touched up your 'wife' yet? Watched her while she slept? Installed a camera in the toilet?
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I was just playing the Lunch club game and that was what was leftover from dinner that I had for lunch. Should I have been less descriptive or just pretended I'd had a salad from tesco?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
come on. Square plates?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
(I'm just trying to make waynster feel alright about the endless parade of limp, soul sucking sandwiches that taint his lunchtime experiences)
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
(although 'left over guinea fowl pie' sounds a bit hugh f-w / Henry VIII and carries the weight of the twattery associated with these notorious cuntholes)
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
cuntholes Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sweet.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo:
quote:Originally posted by Hades: Its really anoying that i keep working in places right next to Gregs, the smell keeps wafting over and makes me hungry all day long.
I can only assume when you said "hungry" you actually meant "sick to my stomach"
Not at all. Lovly smell. Although i was greatly disapointed that they didn't have any chicken and Mango sandwiches. Had to try somthing new, so went for the mexican chicken.
Not bad. but its no Chicken and Mango
[ 17.11.2009, 09:39: Message edited by: Hades ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
pasty.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Another bagel today. Pretty much the same as yesterday but with mustard rather than pickle. Mustard works better in a bagel than pickle as the large picked chunks want to work their way out of the bagel while you eat it. Mustard stays put and does what it's told.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
has nobody had lunch yet?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I ate a english muffin with jam at 12.00. I'm not sure it's lunch though.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Damn I should have held that back from you as you haven't said what your package is.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm so hungry but I've got nothing in for lunch.
I'm thinking of heading out to the shop in a minute and think I will get some chicken soup as I've got the tail end of a cold and really fancy some chicken soup and buttered toast.
I might pick up Dragon Age: Origins as well but that isn't for lunch.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I had leftover pizza
you know we were talking about having a t-shirt with a picture of yourself on it?
not quite what we were on about, but it's in the same spirit.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it seemed funnier before he did it though. That guy needs a fucking punch in the face. Both faces.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
but then, who among us could honestly stand up and say that they wouldn't benefit from a solid punch in the face? One that made your eyes water and got you all flustered and shaky, confused and hurt, dejected and deflated. Not I.
Not I.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Your version would be better though on account of you not being a complete **** . Which that guy definitely is.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
When we were talking about it though, it was just a regular guy with a regular expression on his face.
This guy though, Ridiculous hipster hair. Fucking awful fringe, stupid glasses, ludicrous beard, hairy chest on display in an ironic fashion, awful jacket, "trendy" wrist band.
And his facial expression. He really thinks he is the shit. He thinks he is so good. He is the sort of person I imagine vikram idolising.
He's just awful.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's how everybody looks in London these days. Literally, everybody. That facial expression is how we show altruistic joy for the success of a loved one.
[ 19.11.2009, 09:10: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
At a Haringey council public debate, three young members of the North London Liberal Democrats pitch the urgent need to renovate social housing in their area.
[ 19.11.2009, 09:21: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Look at the 'tache on that guy in the background. The fuck does he think he is?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
a hopeful candidate for 2010 local elections.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I discovered I'd dicked around on the internet for too long and was too hungry to go and buy some soup but I found a pack of happy shopper bourbon creams hidden under paperwork on my desk so I'm eating some of them for lunch.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
lunch today will be crumpets with butter and either marmite or jam.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Mmmm marmitey crumpets. I'm back on the bagels today, this time it's breaded ham and wholegrain english mustard. I've doubled up on the ham slices to enhance the meatiness. I'll have to eat quickly though as I've got to shoot out at lunch to buy a copy of Assassin's Creed II
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
off topic, but with chistmas coming up, how about we all meet up for a beer at some point soon? possible?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah I'd be up for that. Would it have to be london? Given that you're the only one who still lives there and all.
Hey what's everyone doing at the weekend? I'm moving in with my girlfriend. Might play some Assassin's Creed II as well.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
dragon age i reckon.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm moving in with my girlfriend.
Good luck! I've done this twice now (I mean... not with your girlfriend, obviously). Once was a horrible mistake, the second time was brilliant. The interesting thing was that both times it was obvious within the first five minutes whether it was the right thing to do or not.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Im going to a party in Croydon. Imagine that! Croydon! Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
abby, it must have been a difficult decision to out yourself as belle du jour. Hope it still feels like the right thing to do.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm moving in with my girlfriend.
Good luck! I've done this twice now (I mean... not with your girlfriend, obviously). Once was a horrible mistake, the second time was brilliant. The interesting thing was that both times it was obvious within the first five minutes whether it was the right thing to do or not.
Cheers. I think this will go well (obviously - it'd be pretty foolish if I didn't) as we've been virtually cohabiting for a while now anyway. Just with the odd day a week or so when I've had to go to my parents' house for things like clothes and occasionally food.
We were planning on waiting for this complicated situation with her ex was resolved (long story but they had a shared ownership place together on a joint mortgage which has taken some time to sort out) but since things don't look like being sorted in the immediate future we decided there was no sense in waiting.
Hopefully it'll be plain sailing as we won't have any major issues. The flat is a bit on the small side for two of us but I reckon we'll be ok until we can sort something out in the future.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Im going to a party in Croydon. Imagine that! Croydon!
I can imagine that. It's not really a sadface issue, unless you hate blacks and muslims.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
In many ways I preferred living in Croydon to living in more trendy and popular Wimbledon. Croydon was less full of wankers driving around in 4x4s, it was less completely and depressingly white, it was cheaper, and despite the fact that Wimbledon is 'in London' it was much easier and quicker to get 'into London' from Croydon. Plus! Croydon has the excellent and innovative tramlink service. Technically Wimbledon had this too, but tellingly the only place it would take you to... was Croydon.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
My brother lives in Croydon, fact fans.
But he won't be there this weekend, Abby, sorry.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Yeah, I can imagine that too as I'm putting on a gig in Croydon Wednesday next week. You'd like the venue abby. Got an EBM band on in February.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm listening to maiden's 'seventh son of a seventh son'.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's like a kick-ass italian horror film from the early eighties, only in music form.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I'm listening to maiden's 'seventh son of a seventh son'.
*thumbs up* One of the first Heavy Metal Albums I ever bought. Today I am listening to nothing but Type O Negative - a band I completely overlooked and am now wondering how the hell I missed them - just extraordinarily brilliant....
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I'm listening to maiden's 'seventh son of a seventh son'.
Fucking love that album. The Evil That Men Do was pretty much the first metal song I ever heard. Recorded it off the Top 40 and thought "This is what all music should sound like!" I was only a kid though, and I was too scared to actually buy Iron Maiden albums. I used to pick them up in the shop and nervously imagine what the rest of music might sound like.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Now I'm listening to Maiden riffs in my head and it's making me happy.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Here's a weird thing about Maiden. The artwork, sound, song titles and lyrics are exactly the kind of thing that are used to mock heavy metal. Yet, all those things about Maiden are actually fucking awesome. How does that work? It'd be like saying 'British people are ugly' and then by way of example citing Liz Hurley, Kate Moss and Joseph Fiennes.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I suppose it's all a bit earnest, geeky, and unsexy.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Look at that. Wallop! What a brilliant cover for a single. The fist through the head is awesome enough, but they've chucked in some soupy brain eating as well and - fuck it - nails through the cheek for good measure.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Without wanting to get all Doe-eyed and nostalgic, but inevitably doing so anyway, I think there is a lot lost from Sunday evenings crouched round the radio checking out the tunes of the day - certainly became a lot more of a pastime for my generation when it was moved from its previous Thursday lunchtime slot. But I used to site with an old Ferranti portable radio and awkwardly recording each song via the condenser microphone in my Alba cassette records, stopping and rewinding if it was deemed rubbish after a minute or so. You'd then give it a listen, and by the next week have your definates for re-recording in next weeks chart as you went through the whole procedure again.
I wonder if people actually listen to the charts anymore on a Sunday night? I suppose some do or are they too busy drinking cider and throwing stones of motorway bridges? Kids eh readers?
But I digress, the real killers were when you went out and bought the actual album - talking of seventh son, although I have not looked at that album in years I can pretty much remember it perfectly as I spent hours coveting that, as it was one of my first records, and your mates would come round and you would study the album cover, back to front - I can still, more that 20 years later remember most of the Maiden 'links' on the back of the album - "Acacia Avenue" with of course a door to 22 listed, the clock reading 23:58, adverts for the Aces high bar,the inclusion of the Ruskin Arms - classic. Don't make them like that any more....
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
It is a good album. It's balls out, joyful, completely uncynical.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Compare fisted-zombie-head with the kind of thing the rock press takes seriously:
This one doesn't even have a brain on it! WTF!
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: Hope it still feels like the right thing to do.
Hi Benway! Thanks for your concern. Obviously I had hoped to avoid this ever happening, and it is a difficult time for my family. But to be honest the massive pile of cash I have netted through the book and TV rights, not to mention the actual sexing, has softened the blow!
As for the Croydon issue, all your supportive words have allayed my fears somewhat. As has the discovery that there are trains running back to London Bridge pretty much through the night. I don’t expect the blacks and Muslims to be a problem, as we have lots of them in vibrant, multicultural Hackney as well. …Lol! Imagine if I get mugged in Croydon now!
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Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Urgh the annual cringefest of Children In Need has started for earnest in my office with the usual karaoke competition, dressed up as the reality competition du jour (this year it's the Pudsey Factor).
There's no escaping it as they're doing it down in the communal street area of the office, and my floor has open sides with a balcony overlooking the scene of the crime.
First girl was actually really good, she did Use Somebody in a soul diva kind of way.
Unfortunately we've just had a team of middle-aged women trussed up in sexy Santa outfits murdering a medley of Santa Baby and the Roy Wood Christmas song (whatever the actual title of it is I can't remember. Is it The Chain?)
Only two more ritual humiliations to suffer. I'm counting down the minutes.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
O God
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Shat yourself?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Fans of that post can see it enacted verbatim nearly five years ago here. Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Yes, it's a bit like Groundhog Day in that respect.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
moderately embarrassing blast from the past there.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
although good to see that anthony wong and infernal affairs get mentioned.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
can I go home now? I feel like I should have some sort of exemption or pass due to the mental cruelty I've just experienced.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: can I go home now? I feel like I should have some sort of exemption or pass due to the mental cruelty I've just experienced.
A harsh way to refer to Benway's 2005 persona.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
harsh but fair I think, although reading this old material has given me around 3 or 4 lols.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm moving in with my girlfriend.
Good luck! I've done this twice now (I mean... not with your girlfriend, obviously). Once was a horrible mistake, the second time was brilliant. The interesting thing was that both times it was obvious within the first five minutes whether it was the right thing to do or not.
I too have done this twice with similar consequences. strangly though, both times were with the same girl.
The first time we moved into a house share in london together. Couples shouldn't live in just one room. You just piss each other off too much. That lasted 6 months before she moved out (and moved 2 hours away) A year later after only seeing each other at weekends, i moved out to worstershire and its all gone much smoother this time.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I especially like my little line about picking the wrong week to give up the gamecube - a great reuse of a joke originally found in Airplane.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
He's been hanging around with the people in these posters Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
By the way, anyone with any gift vouchers for Borders would be well advised to spend them asap. Looks like they're 'doing a Zavvi'.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I should collect up everything I've written on tmo and publish it in a book, in chronological order, with no posts from anybody else.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
That would be a pretty good book.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
From Benway to Kanye
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
"A wonderful, wonderful man"
The RZA.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: with no posts from anybody else.
Thats most of your posts anyway isnt it? Your conversations with yourself are a highlight of the day. Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I would totally buy that book. Well. I probably wouldn't as I can read it on the internet, but I would pretend to have bought it and give it a good review on Amazon which is almost as good, perhaps better.
I have braved the rain to go across the road to the cafeteria and have come back with tomato, "bacon" and rosemary soup. I put bacon in quotation marks as there is no actual bacon in there, just bacon fat which is probably less pleasant than if they did the soup with just tomato and rosemary.
I also have some croutons sitting in it. Well. It's cut up toast. I have no idea if something special has to be done to cut up toast to make it a crouton. Does it have to be fried or something? Anyway. Cut up toast is in the soup. This may count as croutons.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I have no idea if something special has to be done to cut up toast to make it a crouton. Does it have to be fried or something?
No. A crouton is just a very small cube of bread that is toasted on all sides. Being cubular and multi-side toasted makes it a crouton, and not toast. If you slice toast in half after toasting it and toast the untoasted side you make it into melba toast. If you type the word toast enough times it starts to look really peculiar and you begin to wonder if you're spelling it correctly.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Melba toast sounds like it's just a really thin bit of toast that is cold on one side from your description. Is that accurate?
And what does melba mean. You get peach melba, but I bet that isn't a peach cut in half and heated up on one side. Although it could be.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
They're both dishes invented by Escoffier for Nellie Melba, the Australian opera singer.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Awesome food trivia skills.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I saw those facts on a TV show. I think it was QI.
Anyway, I had egg mayo on a white baton.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I love egg mayo. Is a baton different from a baguette?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
"A bâton is similar to a baguette in crust and crumb, but shorter and narrower."
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I love egg mayo. Is a baton different from a baguette?
Baton is like a solid lump of metal or plastic that you can either hit people with or pass to them in a relay race. Baguette is like - you know. Bread.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
If something is literally exactly the same as a baguette, but shorter and narrower then the correct term is 'a small baguette'.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
But then, that doesn't sound as cosmopolitan.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh, here we go.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Is Lunch club going to have to move again benway? We're all happy here, don't let Thorn drive us out of our house again
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
once again, I've exposed my showy, shallow desires to impress the forum.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
No, I think it's a brilliant term. I'm going to start making small pieces of food, and giving them a name with an accent on so that people will buy them in the belief that they're getting something authentic and unusual.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Let's face it: it's a Samuelnorton term for a small baguette, mon ami.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Here's a question. Do the French have a word for toast?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
just because it's the first time you've heard it doesn't mean it's exotic or bizarre. A baguette is 2 metres long. A baton is like a foot, and is half as wide. I've known this since I worked in a co-op supermarket, aged 16, and used to have to bake bread. Why even say baguette when you could say 'length of bread'? These things have names. when you buy them from a supermarket, look next time if they are labelled. They aren't called 'short, thin baguettes'.
[ 23.11.2009, 10:06: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
So what do you call, like... small eggs?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
depends what laid them.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Chicken. A small, regular chicken egg. What do you call that if the very idea of appending adjectives to words is so ludicrous?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I mean, depends which species of bird. I don't know much about any eggs other than hen's and quail's eggs. I suppose if they were quail's eggs, I'd call them 'quail's eggs'. However, if they were fish eggs, which are very small, I might call them 'caviar'. Presumably you'd go for 'tiny eggs of the sea' or something, for fear of sounding like a pompous ass.
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I mean, depends which species of bird. I don't know much about any eggs other than hen's and quail's eggs. I suppose if they were quail's eggs, I'd call them 'quail's eggs'. However, if they were fish eggs, which are very small, I might call them 'caviar'. Presumably you'd go for 'tiny eggs of the sea' or something, for fear of sounding like a pompous ass.
But the properties of fish eggs are very different to hen's eggs. We're talking about something which is exactly the same, but for size. This is exactly like when you were saying that Mikee shouldn't be allowed to call himself a 'person' and should seek some other designation so that he wouldn't be confused with what you called 'real people', who were often longer and wider than him.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Chicken. A small, regular chicken egg. What do you call that if the very idea of appending adjectives to words is so ludicrous?
Probably a small egg. Hey, I'm not knocking the idea of a small baguette. If you want to call batons 'small baguettes', that's your call. It's weird, but also quite sweet, that you think I'm using an overly exotic word. I wasn't trying to talk down to anybody. As I said, maybe it's just leftover from my time of baking and selling this stuff. In a shop, a baton and a baguette are two different things, and they don't refer to 'large baguettes' and 'small baguettes'. It was described as a baton from the shop I bought it from, and in my mind it's a baton.
What's more interesting is why you feel the need to even pick me up on this, and keep arguing about it even when I've given a perfectly reasonable explanation.
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Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Perhaps Thorn would prefer it if all different types of bread were called {string of adjectives}-bread. So pitta would be flat-unleavened-bread, naan would be Indian-yeast-dough-baked-in-a-tandoor-bread and burger buns would be sesame-seed-round-small-bread-for-slicing-and-putting-burgers-in.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
perhaps thorn would like to test the differing properties of a baton and a baguette via his sphincter.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Another spurious argument. As you point out, all those breads are made in different ways, with different ingredients. This is something with the same crust and crumb. Ha ha, yes your post is very sarcastic and clever lol wouldn't it be ludicrous to only describe things in terms of their constituent parts, but as I point out it's equally ludicrous, if not more so to give something a new name even though it's the same thing but a bit bigger or smaller.
If I baked something that was somewhere in between the size of the average 'baton' or 'baguette' could I claim to have invented a new type of bread? No - obviously not. You and Benway would doubtless be the first to tear down my achievement. Of course, I would have the last laugh when, at the launch of my new bread Octavia shouted "That's not a new type of bread. It's just an oversized baton." Then Benway would shout, "No - I don't think so it looks more like an undersized baguette to me" causing you to descend into a pointless and humiliating argument that proved my point completely.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Message Boards were made for this.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I didn't invent the word baton, I don't even know what your point is.. that the word shouldn't exist? That I shouldn't consider a baton to be a baton? Creating more and more fanasy scenarios about people baking different shaped loaves isn't going to prove anything here because the word exists. This whole thing seems to be resting on the idea that this is somehow a ridiculous, almost nonsensical word, but it's an actual thing - this is reality, not a conspiracy to confuse you. It doesn't matter if it troubles you that there is a word to describe a specific form of bread, the word still exists, and is commonly used by producers and consumers of the thing.
quote: There are some breads that are named after places, but the majority of loaves are named after their shape. Baguette translates to mean 'rod,' and batard can mean either bastard or hybrid, as its shape is a hybrid of the baguette and the traditional boule (which means 'ball' in French and refers to the bread's round shape). Then there's the ficelle (string) which is a thinner baguette, the baton (staff or baton) which is a shorter baguette, and filone (stick) which is sort of like a baton but with pointed ends.
This whole thing seems to be more about the fact that you've never heard of it, therefore it's showy, like the limits of your knowledge represent the limits of all valid knowledge, and anything beyond becomes spurious and unnecessary. As if I came into the thread thinking 'this'll show them, I'll use the word baton', when in my mind, this is what the thing is called, and actually, that's the correct term. As I said, why this upsets you so much, (and why you can't accept what I'm telling you) is the interesting part, and it seems to be taking us right back to the infernal affairs debacle, where I was 'showing off' for liking that film more than its remake, because the original wasn't American. I mean... Do you think that I think that the word baton is exotic? Even though I'm telling you that, having baked both baguettes and batons in a co-op supermarket, this couldn't be further from the truth, and both have dismal connotations of teenage drudgery for me rather than.. I don't know.. I don't even know what you think I think using the word baton is going to get me. Blowjobs from female forumites? Kudos from cherry for having a sandwich? Ringo secretly having new-found respect for me because I ate a baton?
This is all pointless. You're arguing that the word shouldn't exist, and it does. You're also saying that I'm using it in a showy way, when in truth, I didn't think twice about it, I've known these particular bread designs to be batons for fifteen years. So I don't know what you're trying to tell me / us.
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Focaccia! Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
goodness me.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: the limits of your knowledge represent the limits of all valid knowledge, and anything beyond becomes spurious and unnecessary.
Finally you're getting it.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Focaccia!
Bless you.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Let's face it: it's a Samuelnorton term for a small baguette, mon ami.
What is? Kaiser roll?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
An apple and some office orange juice (from concentrate).
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
toasted bacon roll, black coffee.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Dunno. I'll go across to the canteen at 11.30 so it could be anything! I would guess it will be one of
a) Soup b) Salad c) Vegetables d) Chips, chilli and cheese.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
In an ideal world I wouldn't go for lunch at 11.30, however that is when the canteen opens and the salad is pretty good if you're there at 11.30
However, if you're there at 11.45 you're left with delights such as
Spinach and bacon with all the bacon picked out. Oriental chicken noodles sans chicken waldorf salad with no walnuts or apple roasted vegetable cous cous that appears to have no vegetables in it mozarella, tomato and basil that appears to be entirely lacking in cheese.
It's quite funny really. You notice all the people queueing up to get in and rush to the salad counter are all quite overweight and they run up there and ignore all the salady bits and healthy stuff and just take out all the meat and high fat bits from the salad leaving it all pretty dull and unappetising for everyone after them. I bet they go home to their wives and husbands and sob saying "I don't understand why I'm not losing weight, I always just have a salad for lunch". Wankers.
[ 24.11.2009, 05:29: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
'sans' seems like an uneccesarily cosmopolitan way of saying 'without'. Be careful with that kind of thing around here.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Cherry in Hove can post whatever he likes.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I believe Thorn is aware of the word "sans" so hopefully I'll get away with it.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: 'sans' seems like an uneccesarily cosmopolitan way of saying 'without'. Be careful with that kind of thing around here.
'cosmopolitan' seems like an unneccesarily cosmopolitan way of saying 'French'.
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Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Quick question for the Baton deniers.... Would you insist on calling a French stick a Extra Large baguette?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Isn't a "French stick" just what people call a Baguette when they don't know the word Baguette?
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
I have alwasy assumed Baguett to be somthing you make a sandwhich from using all of it. like this....
and a french stick to be a huge thing that you cut up into smaller bits to actually make into stuff.
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Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
That's a bit big.
I think I may go for a home made egg mcmuffin. That's a fried egg inside a toasted English Muffin.
For clarification purposes. Medium chicken egg - fried-inserted in between sliced bread circles - toasted.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
So no sauce or salad or butter or anything? Just a fried egg on a dry muffin?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I have got salad including beetroot, sweetcorn, rocket, cous cous with roasted vegetables, jalapenos, some sort of pasta and potato salad.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Cheese sandwich.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I could well eat a mcdonalds.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
The cheese in it is Boursin. Here's a page about boursin that Benway might enjoy - it's specifically designed to allow you to impress people with your Boursin related knowledge.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't think I would like Boursin in a sandwich. I disapprove of your lunch.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: So no sauce or salad or butter or anything? Just a fried egg on a dry muffin?
Tomato ketchup, a bit of flora on the muffin. Salad? on a fried egg?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I've never had boursin, but I remember the adverts.
I've recently been on a gloucester tip. Stuff is great with mexican food.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You can have salad with a fried egg. I suppose you don't have to specify "no salad" but the fact that you didn't specify sauce led me to believe that we weren't getting the full story so I had to check all possibilities.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Boursin is no match for Le Roulé...
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Someone in my office went for the mushroom soup from the canteen and they're now complaining that it is a bit grey.
I'm not entirely sure what they were expecting when they got mushroom soup.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Someone in my office went for the mushroom soup from the canteen and they're now complaining that it is a bit grey.
That reminds me of when someone in my office ordered soup of the day at the local pub and her and the sales manager were horrified that it had stilton in it. They were like "Stilton? In soup?" as though it were the most insane and grotesque idea anyone had ever conceived.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I'm not entirely sure what they were expecting when they got mushroom soup.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I've never had boursin, but I remember the adverts.
Oh I'm sure you were making Boursin when you just eight years old and the very idea that anyone might find it interesting or glamourous is laughable to you.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Bagel again today. Plain bagel with pastrami and some cheddar with chilli bits in it. Followed up with some black pepper crisps which I got from the ethnic foods section in Tesco, a blueberry Nutri-Grain bar, and a large Granny Smith apple.
Good lunch
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
there is a mcdonalds like ten minutes away. I could do that. Or I could get a curry or something from the market. I don't know. I just want to go home and sleep and cry and then have a wash, then cry again, then watch tv, then cry, then maybe shovel a disgusting chinese meal into my stomach, have a good cry, and then finally sleep. Such are tuesdays.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You could go to Subway or something. I had a nice sub yesterday. Chicken Teryaki with cheese, green peppers and red onion. It was very nice, though the girl behind the counter was so common I couldn't make out her slurred speech which resulted in a rather tense moment when she tried to explain that I could choose between a free bag of crisps or a free cookie. It took several attempts before I could work out what the hell she was actually saying.
[ 24.11.2009, 07:27: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I have been unable to stomach subway after a moment of disgusting indulgence during my last jaunt to San Jose.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Did you go for the cookie or the coke Ringo?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
reading comprehension FTL. cookie or crisps.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Cookie. Though I asked for the double chocolate chip and she gave me the regular chocolate chip instead. I didn't have the inclination to bother correcting her.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: FTL. cookie or crisps.
Faster than Light cookies and crisps? Might not do your stomach too much good.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I picked up a chicken, salami and tomato sandwich from Marks's, largely because I'd never seen that combination of fillings before. It was £2.75.
I can report that it is fucking horrible. The filling is largely mayonnaise, the chicken is that disgusting sliced "roll" stuff (I'm surprised it didn't have a chicken's face drawn on it) and the salami reminded me more of the smell of lunch time in the form room at school, than what you might expect from a high class supermarket. Perhaps it's trying to be retro? I took three bites and chucked it in the bin.
Back to apples and orange juice (from concetrate) then.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Chicken and salami sounds like a slightly unusual combination.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
is anybody sobbing at their desks right now? Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Chicken and salami sounds like a slightly unusual combination.
Thats nothing. While i was a student i worked in subway. I once made myself a chicken/ham/turkey/beef/salami/peperoni/stake with meetball sauce sub.
It was rather yummy but i did rather feel like my heart was seizing up as i ate it.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: is anybody sobbing at their desks right now?
I'm at work, so I can't sob visibly at my desk. But know that I am sobbing on the inside.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
if you were working from home, would you be crying openly?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
If I was working from home, I'd be delighted.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
If I was working from home, I'd be warmer.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm picturing it now. I'd be up in the loft, listening to some music, thinking about rearranging the desk. Maybe Octavia would come up with a cup of tea and some flapjacks and we'd laugh at the baby, then I'd say "Anyway, I'd better get on with this back cover copy" and she'd leave and I'd spend the next three hours masturbating. It'd be idyllic.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Writing copy about Rwandan genocide alays gets me fired up, you see.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
In fact I've been reading about it all morning. I'd never given it much thought before but it seems like a pretty bleak scene.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Do you think it's just Rwandan genocide that you find bleak or do you have a similar opinion of other genocides?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I don't know. I think I'd have to look at each genocide on its own merits. I wouldn't like to dismiss all genocides any more than I would like to dimiss all hip-hop. Some of it can be quite listenable and energetic.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
the one in eastern europe, the serbs and that, is possibly bleaker, simply because it's more overcast and rainy?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
actually that might not be true. It's rainy in rwanda as well.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Just had a skim through wikipedia's list of genocides and they all seem pretty bad. It seems genocide has yet to find its Eminem.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I think that might actually be the most depressing page on the internet.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Still! If this book is a success some people who are very rich already might make some money out of it, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Dirty War in Argentina is the sexiest sounding genocide on the list (with Zanzibar a close second).
[ 24.11.2009, 09:27: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Just had a skim through wikipedia's list of genocides and they all seem pretty bad. It seems genocide has yet to find its Eminem.
A genocide of Chavs might cheer everyone up.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
It's all gone a bit Daily Mail...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
pasty, diet coke.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
When you look at the pictures of the guys responsible for the Rwandan genocide it's like... it's hard to imagine any common ground at all. Can you imagine meeting Felicien Kabuga? How that would go? How would it even appear as though you lived on the same planet. Like what you might make of each other's lives, any kind of conversation you might have. Doubtless, when you said to him "Yeah, you know... I spend most of my free time on the Xbox. I'm playing a female rogue in Dragon Age at the moment," he would thnk you were a fantastically trivial and pointless human being. And you know. He'd be right. But on the other hand, serious and important though his role in this world may be, he's jointly responsible for the deaths of 800,000 people. And that's probably worse than pissing your life away playing Xbox. If all you did with your life was watch Transformers 2 over and over again for sixty years you would still have lived a better life than Felicien Kabuga. That's a damning indictment of anyone's existence.
[ 24.11.2009, 10:38: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
To brighten things up a little, I'm about to start revising a scientific academic paper that makes a "comparison analysis", whatever that is, of the "movement patterns" in what is called (the author's not English) "the female elite of the Beach Volleyball".
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Earlier today, I had to write up a news article that compared this company's involvement in the software industry to the falling of the Berlin Wall.
I only wish I was making this up...
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Can you imagine meeting Felicien Kabuga? How that would go? How it would even appear as though you lived on the same planet. Like what you might make of each other's lives, any kind of conversation you might have. Doubtless, when you said to him "Yeah, you know... I spend most of my free time on the Xbox. I'm playing a female rogue in Dragon Age at the moment," he would thnk you were a fantastically trivial and pointless human being. And you know. He'd be right. But on the other hand, serious and important though his role in this world may be his jointly responsible for the deaths of 800,000 people. And that's probably worse than pissing your life away playing Xbox. If all you did with your life was watch Transformers 2 over and over again for sixty years you would still have lived a better life than Felicien Kabuga. That's a damning indictment of anyone's existence.
You should put this on the back cover.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
The penultimate sentence has given me a great idea for what Kabuga's punishment should be, if they ever catch and indict him.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've got a white roll with two sausages, two hash browns, a fried egg and tomato ketchup for breakfast. This cost me £1.63 and it probably the best money I've ever spent on anything.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Ah I see what you did there..
[ 25.11.2009, 04:25: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Is there any other kind of ketchup, besides tomato ketchup? Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yes.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Hmpf.
They sound creepy. Then again I don't like mushrooms. And nothing should taste like bananas except bananas.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I like those banana flump sweets but they taste nothing like banana.
I don't know what Ringo's "I see what you did there" meant.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well y'see, I skim read your breakfast post, just reading the food bit, then made an hilarious quip about it being far too early for eating lunch and that you'd be hungry by the afternoon. But then I re-read and saw that you explicitly mentioned breakfast which sort of made my joke make no sense, other than of course this being the lunch thread and not the breakfast thread. So I edited, assuming that you sit here refreshing and immediately reading anything that was posted. But obviously you don't.
Jeez
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
x
[ 25.11.2009, 06:13: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Chicken Wrap made with sunday lunch leftovers.
I have fallen into the trap of eating lunch early though, i'll be hungry again by 3.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Another bagel. cheddar. peppered pork loin. yum
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't think cheddar works with peppered pork loin. You should probably take that back to the shop and tell them to give you something better.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I made it myself. The cheddar has pepper in it, so it ties it all together you see. Plus it's only a mild cheddar so not too overpowering. But it is a little stodgy without some kind of relish or pickle.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
So far today, in chronological order:
Tea Jaffa cake Danish butter biscuit Coffee Mushroom and ham wrap with a chili jam, Dubonnet and soy sauce sauce Coffee Jaffa cake Danish butter biscuit Cream cracker with butter
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm impressed by your ability to just eat one jaffa cake at a time when there are more available.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
They're Tesco value jaffa cakes.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Pea and mint soup, which was green.
Aubergine parmigiana (sp?), nearly all potato.
Sprite. Best bit.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Cheese ploughmans sandwich from tesco that had been reduced to £1.05. Bargain. Really bad though.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I had some raspberry jaffa cakes, last year around Halloween time. They didn't seem to be available this year.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
beautiful seafood green curry.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I heard tales that last year M&S sold Chocolate Port around christmas but I haven't seen any this year. I feel that chcolate poart is something I need in my life.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
okay.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Sorry Kayne. That wasn't about lunch at all.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I can take the rough with the smooth.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I'm drinking a fucking cocktail now, just for fun.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
And translating something about absinthe, coincidentally.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm drinking a 10p coffee from the vending machine. It's pretty nasty. I may well have an alcoholic drink tomorrow night!
Kate is cooking lamb stew with pearl barley and dumplings for dinner. That isn't about lunch.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Language, mart
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sounds like a good stew. That barley is the taste of winter.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Sorry.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I didn't realise the Lunch Club was a classy joint. My mistake.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
The Lunch Club, or just Lunch Club?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm drinking a #60 from the machine.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's just Lunch Club.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
But I've discussed breakfast and dinner in Lunch club. The rules appear to be relatively flexible which is nice.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
cherry your deviations are tolerated because Lunch Club is fairly easy going, but that doesn't mean that the rules are just there for a laugh.
[ 25.11.2009, 09:51: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I wonder if a little light supper talk would be tolerated.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Do we need a breakfast club and dinner club? I'm not sure there is enough breakfast and dinner talk to warrant it, however maybe people are just withholding this information because they don't have a relevant place to discuss it?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I guess it's all about moderation, like Kanye West said. Not taking the mickey. Showing a little respect. Enjoyment rather than endurement.
Like a good friend of mine said: life's not about being in the know; it's about being in the mystery.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes, like any good club, the rules can be bent to accomodate the desires of the members, but they also provide a common structure and focus that works as the key unifying element. Without unity, a club isn't much fun.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well i think that Lunch Club would be well served by the inclusion of other meals so long as the focus remains squarely on the midday meal. For instance, I never really eat breakfast, so a breakfast club would be no use to me. It's needlessly exclusive. But a thread where we talk about all of our meals we can all enjoy.
Also, there are regional variations as to our definition of lunch and dinner. Because Reema is a Northerner, for instance, she calls her midday meal 'dinner' while the evening meal she calls 'tea'. It's all very confusing.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Listen, I started Lunch Club with a strong vision, and while I'm happy that it's become so popular, and weathered some unpleasant business with thorn, I don't appreciate being advised about what Lunch Club members can and cannot do, and what is and is not acceptable.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
If you work nights (i don't i'm just curiouse) and you have your lunch at say 1am. does that count?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
"if it's lunch, it's legit"
I think that we should all stop worrying about what we can and cannot do, and just get back to the business of relaxing and chatting.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Sorry Kanye but the obvious fascism inherent in your lunch club has really taken the shine off the whole expereince for me.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm using Lunch Club to combine radical and authoritarian nationalism with a corporatist economic system?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've never seen you deny that was your intention for Lunch club.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Sandwich today. Last of that pastrami, plus some chilli cheddar and green salad, all inbetween two bits of seeded granary bread.
Plus chilli and lemon flavour crisps, a nutri grain bar, and a granny smith apple. Lovely
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
bit hard to read stuff on this thread isn't it?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I had a salad that included garlic mushrooms, rocket, potato salad, sweetcorn, cous cous with roasted vegetables, jalapenos and sunflower seeds. It was pretty good.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I've only just had breakfast!
To wit: slow-fried potatoes and onion, bacon, scrambled eggs, coffee.
[ 26.11.2009, 07:32: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That sounds like a breakfast of champions! Are you going to be hungry enough for lunch or are you just going to go straight through to dinner/supper/tea?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I'll probably graze throughout the day (I've just had two jaffa cakes), and then realise that I've not really had any more proper food, and will then go to the theatre hungry, if I do go to the theatre, and will then probably not worry about it, and drink another five pints or so of Guinness, listening to a load of actors and musicians guff on and on about their fucking performance.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
isn't the breakfast of champions having a quick fuck before starting the day? Anyway, I've had so far:
crisps
Not enough really, but my body is all wankered up after only grasping around two or three hours of blissful void last night.
I want a curry tonight.
[ 26.11.2009, 09:17: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
at nearly a quarter to three I feel that it's too late to have lunch.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You could have linner.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Cheese on 1 slice of toast, then I jazzed it up with some cherry tomatoes and went to grind some pepper on it, the pepper grinder broke and peppercorns went all over the place.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh that's annoying.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
was it like that?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
My decision to not have a pepper grinder in the house and only grind black pepper in a pestle and mortar seems pretty sensible now. That doesn't suddenly break scattering peppercorns everywhere.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That picture is clearly wrong Kanye. He didn't say "I took the lid off the jar of pepperscorns and spilt it over the counter" He clearly said that they were in the grinder when it broke. You need to pay attention to what people are saying.
I need to stop hitting refresh and get on with my preparations as I have 59 minutes left to prepare for this interview but I keep getting distracted.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
just the thought of how self-satisfied you must be grinding your pepper like a fucking caveman has made my eye twitch 100 times worse.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
We have a pestle and mortar as well, it is amazing. And a collection of five broken pepper mills.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Pestle and mortar is an exercise in kitchen efficienty not primitive.
Although one single pepper grinder takes up less space and is slightly easier to use than a pepper grinder, your pepper grinder does one task. You're not going to empty everything out of your grinder if you decide you need to crush up some coriander or cumin seeds. You can't make pesto in a pepper grinder but you can quite easily in a pestle and mortar. I don't have space in my kitchen for a utensil for every single job when I can use one item to do about 38 different things.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
And Abby raises a very good point. FIVE broken pepper grinders! FIVE. I have only ever owned one pestle and mortar. It might be OK for you London types to go out and buy a new grinder every week, but some of us have to budget but still want our spices ground.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: isn't the breakfast of champions having a quick fuck before starting the day?
Yes, according to James Hunt, sex is the breakfast of champions. And he was a world champion, so you'd think he'd know.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I've been refilling one of those jars of peppercorn with a built in grinder for years, and it's fine. We've had this conversation before though.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
also, what kind of maniac collects broken pepper grinders?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I've been refilling one of those jars of peppercorn with a built in grinder for years, and it's fine. We've had this conversation before though.
That really doesn't help you make pesto.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes I ALSO HAVE A PESTLE AND MORTAR YOU FUCKING FUCK.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I have as much ground pepper as the next man, and I can honestly say I've never broken a pepper mill. Abby must be like a fucking ham fisted animal with those things to break five of them. No wonder she prefers smashing pepper with a bit of rock.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
come on now, Abby's having a hard time today, and that's not a very nice thing to say is it.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Sorry Abby Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
and again, Ringo. And again.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Disappointing.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
More like this
[ 26.11.2009, 11:04: Message edited by: Tilde ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Nice jacket!
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I have a vague memory of a funny thread yonks ago about electric pepper grinders, but I can't be bothered to hunt for it or remember anything specifically funny from it, so if everyone could kindly remember it in their own heads and laugh, that'd be great.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Something about an illuminated electric salt cellar, or some such craziness. Louche was involved.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah I remember that. Wasn't it where someone suggested that you start off with pepper powder from a shaker, then 'graduate' to a grinder, before finally achieving you 'masters' in the form of a pestel and mortar? And it sent ben into an hilarious rage? I was reading that quite recently, actually.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I think there was some jollity around the illumination, certainly, and probably some suggestion of rudeness to do with the shape.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
And a jolly good thread it is too. Typified, as so many before and since, by me basically being right and everyone else being wrong.
I wonder if, two years on, Mikee ever bought those wanky pans he claimed were so fucking essential to his fucking lifestyle? hmm?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Imagine if he didn't. They were so important at the time of that thread and imagine if he's gone two years since then cooking with inadequate pans and probably seasoning his food with salty tears every time he cooks and thinks of his pans.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
That was a corking thread. Girls fighting over SG5's cooking skillz. Even kovacs joining in! Happy days.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I wonder if, two years on, Mikee ever bought those wanky pans he claimed were so fucking essential to his fucking lifestyle? hmm?
Yes, I did you **** .
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I cant be bothered to read that thread, but my electric illuminated pepper grinder, which I may have mentioned, also broke. The batteries leaked and when I touched them it gave me a kind of burn/electric shock. You wouldn’t catch a pestle and mortar doing that.
Also I just spent ages trying to make ‘pester and mortal’ look right before having to check the posts above. I feel odd.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I now desperately want a pester-and-mortal. It sounds like an area-of-effect spell.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:I'm 27, I'm socially awkward, and I have far more enthusiasm than I do actual talent, motivation or ambition.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Bascially she's Benway with added enthusiasm.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Bascially she's Benway with added enthusiasm.
Cruel. He's been a bundle of activity recently. You wouldn't recognise him.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: I now desperately want a pester-and-mortal. It sounds like an area-of-effect spell.
That made me do a proper laugh and then I had to explain to Kate why I was laughting and I don't think she fully understood.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay:
quote:Originally posted by mart: Bascially she's Benway with added enthusiasm.
Cruel. He's been a bundle of activity recently. You wouldn't recognise him.
Also he's got a lot of talent and ambition. And probably a lot of motivation. Being crippled by fear and anxiety =/= being unmotivated.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't know what I'm having for lunch. I've got to go to boots at lunch to print out some pictures and send them off so I could get Burger King or Subway while I'm up that way.
So far today I've eaten nothing. Nothing at all!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay:
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I wonder if, two years on, Mikee ever bought those wanky pans he claimed were so fucking essential to his fucking lifestyle? hmm?
Yes, I did you **** .
Then why haven't I been invited to come and sample some of your amazing cooking? Is it because last time I ate food at your house I inexpertly tore open a naan and got coconut all over the floor? Because that can probably be avoided if you just choose the meal carefully with this in mind.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I don't know what I'm having for lunch. I've got to go to boots at lunch to print out some pictures and send them off so I could get Burger King or Subway while I'm up that way.
So far today I've eaten nothing. Nothing at all!
I've eaten nothing today so far either. I have made myself a sandwich but the meat smelled a bit iffy when I got it out of the fridge this morning and I'm wondering if sitting in my bag the whole day will have done it any good, or if I'm better off just going to the shop and buying a bacon roll or something. I threw the rest of the meat out.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Thanks for all the e-mails everyone and sorry for the confusion!
When I said "I'm going to boots to get some photos printed" I did mean that I was going to head to the shop called Boots and they have some machines that will print out pictures from a phone or camera. I do understand that no matter how nice a pair of boots are, they are unable to help with printing needs.
I don't appreciate the suggestions that I was dropped on my head as a child for thinking that thinking that footwear can magically make photos appear. Admittedly I didn't capitalise the word "Boots" but I would have thought that you could have worked it out or at least just asked for clarification rather than filling my inbox with vitriol.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
chicken and bacon harvest roll accessorised with a ginger flapjack
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Then why haven't I been invited to come and sample some of your amazing cooking? Is it because last time I ate food at your house I inexpertly tore open a naan and got coconut all over the floor? Because that can probably be avoided if you just choose the meal carefully with this in mind.
Completely unacceptable. I told you about the tefal crumb griddle when you picked up the naan. I even started trying to get it out from under the sink and you just started tearing it and tearing it with such uncontrolled fever that the coconut went everywhere. We had the gas men round to look at the boiler recently. Do you know what they found? I can tell you. Coconut. Dried dessicated coconut.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That's just embarassing for poor Mikee. The gas man is going to be going about his business and then he goes "Oh, dessicated coconut everywhere. Can't use plates properly Mikee? Can't be bothered to pick out a plate and eat over it as then you have to wash it up. Disgusting, I'm going to tell everyone about this" and Mikee is all "Ringo did it. honestly, He came from Milton Keynes and just threw coconut around my kitchen, I tried to stop him" and the gas man will say "Yes. Of course he did. Ringo did it of course." and then double his charge.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
what up food lovers. I'm about to head out to buy a fat chicken shnitzel in a ciabatta with some of that melted mozzarella. Health food it aint.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Cheese ploughmans sandwich from tesco reduced again to £1.05. Disappointing again. I should have probbaly learnt the first time that you don't get a good sandwich for £1.05
Got some fish & veg sushi to follow it that cost £2. Can you get good sushi for £2. Most people would suggest "No".
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Steak & kidney pie, chips and mushy peas!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Let me just clear up the naan situation, right. I've had a lot of curries, and I'm pretty familar with naan breads. But this thing. It was like a big pastry pocket full of shredded coconut. I've never seen the like elsewhere. So I just went to tear a corner off, and then *bam* - coconut all over the floor. It was a fucking shambles.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Imagine the Incredible Hulk tearing up a 15 foot piñata with his bare hands and you're halfway there.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
chocolate rain.. Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
**I move away from the mic to scatter coconut all over mikee's flat
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
am I right? LOL.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I think I've scored a first for Lunch Club, food fans.
About an hour ago I had breakfast... on a boat!
That's right. Breakfast. Boat. On it. Breakfast was ate, by me, on a boat.
Check that shit out. Breakfast wasn't just eaten, it was ate. By me. On a boat.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I got an achievement in Borderlands that was titled "I'm on a boat!" which I think trumps your eating of breakfast on a boat.
I moved the virtual representation of my character onto a virtual representation of a boat and got an achievement for that. That achievement is permanent mofo. Not like temporary breakfast that has been eaten and will be digested and gone. Three months from now I'll be able to look through my achievements and think "Yeah, I remember standing on that boat. There was a chest with guns in it but they were all pistols and were no use to me." Good times
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I got an achievement on AC2 last night. I was on a horse, getting attacked by monks, and I didn't have time to jump off the horse to fight back so I swung at the monks. Only, I've not done horseback fighting yet so not a single blow landed on a monk, for like, about a minute of frantic hacking at thin air. And suddenly it gave me an achievement called 'no-hitter'.
It's a sad day when you're so shit it's actually classed as an accomplishment.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Oh, I've just looked it up and apparently that achievement is for killing 10 enemies without taking any damage so actually it looks like it was a good achievement after all.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
last night I played dragon age for a couple of hours, lost an ass-load of progress because the fucking thing doesn't autosave, then watched 'Evilspeak' instead.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I went to the theatre to watch my girlfriend, the actress, act on stage.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
my girlfriend did some baking then played sudoku on the DS.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
My girlfriend's away visiting her parents this weekend, so last night I sat on the sofa and jerked off while the cats looked on with expressions of blank confusion.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
What did she bake?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
some fairy cakes for a charity sale thing they're having at her office today. Just heard that they aren't selling that well though, and most other people bought their cakes rather than made thm. I've suggested that she needs to check that her cakes aren't being overpriced, and she said she'd find out how much they were going for.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: My girlfriend's away visiting her parents this weekend, so last night I sat on the sofa and jerked off while the cats looked on with expressions of blank confusion.
it's pretty rad to get achievements on the 360 isn't it. I sometimes feel like that too.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Last night my girlfriend (not an actress), looked quite exhausted, heated up some lamb stew and had a bath.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: some fairy cakes for a charity sale thing they're having at her office today. Just heard that they aren't selling that well though, and most other people bought their cakes rather than made thm. I've suggested that she needs to check that her cakes aren't being overpriced, and she said she'd find out how much they were going for.
Perhaps she needs to do some advertising. Make posters bigging up the fact that hers are home made and have no preservatives? Offer to tell a joke to anyone who buys one of her cakes? Perhaps go and get some models to parade around her cake stand in swimsuits.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Do keep us updated on the going price of home-baked fairy cakes, Benway.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Maybe that's something we could all consider: what's a fair price for a fairy cake?
Considering it's for charity, which implies that you don't mind being slightly overcharged, I reckon I'd probably go up to about 40p for a fairy cake in those circumstances. 50 tops. Any more and you'll pay it, but grudgingly, and not go back for a second or third one. Price it around 30 or 35p, and you'll clean up. People will literally stuff themselves on charity fairy cakes.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
my joke there about wanking was basically stolen from Todd Barry.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'd agree with your assessment mart assuming it is just a plain fairy cake with perhaps some plain icing.
If the person making it has made an effort with icing, perhaps made some icing holly and icing red balls I'd go up to 75p. Although I'd probably prefer the taste of the cake without those things on, it is nice to think that someone has made the effort to made it look nice.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I have no idea how much they are going for. They're iced though. I had a couple earlier, and they're pretty good.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I would pay around 50p each I think.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
How much would you pay it it wasn't for charity?
I find that question quite hard to answer as I don't think I would ever buy a fairy cake unless it was for charity. I would say that I would prefer the taste of and find it more filling to have a snickers than a fairy cake, and they are 35p from the vending machine, so it would be less than that.
I'm not even sure if i'd pay 25p for one. 20p I would probably do as it can be done with one coin and you don't have to mess around with change.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
So really I didn't find it all that hard to answer.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
No, you did really well, I think.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
30p for a non-charity home-baked fairy cake.
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Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i certainly wouldnt go higher than 30p. i think 50p is increasing a fairy cake's utility beyond realistic confines to be honest. when i lived near lewisham there was a pair a little girls who lived in one of the flats who used to set up a table in the front garden and sell plastic cups of econopop and homemade fairycakes for 20p. it was quite a steep hill and they were two thirds of a way up it so it was quite a canny marketing strategy. the fairy cakes were excellent and 20p was just so much of a bargain that i would often stand and eat one in front of them, smiling with my mouth but inwardly thinking '20p? i am mugging you. mugging you. at your own invitation'
sausage roll, banana, apple, tescos healthy eating ricey- fruity- only- nominally- nourishingy snack bar thing. still hungry. might have to have some crisps.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I just went to a Bazaar and they were selling fairy cakes with one of those large chocolate drops with sprinkles on top (rainbow drops?) in the centre of a ring of smarties for 25p.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
That's bang-on, competitive pricing. Savvy marketing skills from the fairy folk there.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
applying rainbow drops and smarties though? thats pretty labour intensive. i dont know, id probably go to 30p for rainbow drops and smarties but im not sure the average buyer understands the real value of that kind of artisanship in these modern, mechanised times. and dont even lets start on little silver balls. that kind of shit is luxe. id pay premium for little silver balls. those motherfuckers are some fiddly motherfuckers.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: That's bang-on, competitive pricing. Savvy marketing skills from the fairy folk there.
I dunno man, sounds like their unit cost is going to be huge. I hope someone did the numbers, otherwise they're going to be making a loss on every cake. Ain't no amount of volume gonna dig you out of that.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Good news, everybody!
All cakes sold. The fairy cakes are the pinks ones there. Still don't know the price, but have enquired again.
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Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Awwww, look at her little cakes. Amongst those colossal giants.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I know. Awww.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
That's one trolley-full of cake. Bless.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
And they sold them all, to help the kids.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
not just any kids either. London kids. The best ones.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Tinchy and Peaches won't be going hungry tonight, thanks to your love and support. But what about tomorrow? And the day after? London children like Tinchy and Peaches desperately need your help now. Please. Donate to Help a London Child today, and give the gift of hope this Christmas.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah? no good? Alright.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think most people have probably decided to start their weekends now Benway. I think you should get drunk
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Anyway. on another forum people were going on about how amazing the new season of Gavin and Stacey was, and I commented "I can see why they moved it to BBC1!" and I don't think anyone realised I was insulting it Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I see, so I should go and meet some 'friends' or something right lol.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
god damn it Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You could go home, drink some whiskey and play some xbox instead. I'm going to go and do the exciting Friday night activity of "cleaning the kitchen" but I can understand if you're not quite rock and roll enough to do that sort of thing yourself.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm already home. I was actually considering tidying up. Fucks sake.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i was invited to a party but it's in fucking streatham and that means going ALL the way to brixton and getting a bus and then come ALL the way back on the last tube which is only like 1.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You'd probably have more fun having a few beers, playing some xbox and perhaps watching Jonathan Ross. He's always fantastic entertainment. Well worth the money.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've just tidied the kitchen while your second podcast was downloading. I've just come back to get it on my phone and I'm going to go and cook while listening to you and Mikee entertain me.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
let me know how you get on with that. I've had mixed feedback on the second one, some people saying it's better, some people saying it's less accessible.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I liked it. I thought perhaps the first one felt a bit more thought out and structured but I really enjoyed the what seemed like more spur of the moment banter that the second one had.
I also liked the music better. I have that track on the Demon Knight soundtrack because I'm pretty cool.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's a cool track to have. Thank you for being honest and not cruel. Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Where are these podcasts?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I listened to the second one first and the first one second and liked them both. Both times I had a genuine lol moment.
I did like the musical interlude better on the second. In fact it opened my ears up to that music which I had previously dismissed without ever checking it out, nice huh?
about 15 mins of the first podcast i listened to was spent getting used to your voices. It was hard as for the last 8 years I'd imagined you talking slower and kind of tired, and the podcast voice sounded younger and more energetic. It took some recalibration.
I also had a bit of trouble distinguishing the two voices, making out who was who. Eventually I decided that Mikee sounds a bit like a sweary Jools Holland and that sorted me out. Sorry Mikee.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
You can also listen to them on the website at the top left, which is cool.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I am quite literally listening to the first one right now. There's lots of talk of a video game. I enjoyed the intro to the whole thing.
Now they're talking about shooting civilians.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's very kind of you too, tilde. I should point out that I introduce us with the wrong names at the beginning of the first one.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Oh I'm loving the sitting down to piss bit.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yes. I found it entertaining to have two people make a podcast basically screaming "Seb, you're a fucking **** " RIGHT IN MY FACE. That's how it felt. I cried a lot.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I bet they were sitting down when they did it, though.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Chaps, I listened to your podcasts and enjoyed them immensely. When's the next one coming? I take it it's not worth me asking if you're going to be talking about Assassin's Creed any time soon.
Would you like me to spam the link on a couple of other forums?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's raining really hard today. Really really hard. I have no lunch with me and 65p in my wallet.
I have to choose whether to go out in the rain to find something to eat or else I can use my 65p to buy a pack of crisps and a snickers from the vending machine.
I'm a bit hungover so could really do with something a bit more stodgy than just that but I really don't want to go out in the rain. I could also do with curling up and having a sleep.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i am beginning to feel that lunch club as a thread is becoming characterised by its denizens' commitment to perpetual pedantry, a syndrome to which i am reluctant to contribute. but nonetheless i must ask: how are crisps and a marathon not stodgy? how could their stodginess be increased? i am not attacking your use of the word, more unpacking the concept of stodge, really. for me, stodginess has many facets- something stodgy is necessarily high in carbs and fat and volume, all of which boxes crisps and a snickers would tick. and yet.... you want more. is the missing element a specific texture? can stodge be crunchy? i wonder. maybe stodge must also necessarily be a bit claggy- see mash, melted cheese, etc. im really just thinking out loud here.
im about to go to sainsburys, and was going to not buy hoummus, but now i think i will. im trying to get to grips with my overreliance on hoummus as a cornerstone of my day- to- day diet. its fine, you know; i like hoummus, its cheap, healthy, all that. its fine. it is what it is. typing this i sound like i might be in a bit of denial, dont i? i certainly dont think my intake- or usage, even- of hoummus is problematic in any way. what do you guys think?
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
sorry, re- reading your post i think i get what you meant- the stodginess you seek is tied up with a lack of temporarity, a degree of fillingness not inherent or intrinsic to a snack- based meal. i take all of my previous post back. except the question about whether you lot think i might have hoummus dependency issues.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think that stodgy was probably the incorrect word. I'm not sure what I meant, but I knew I had a hankering for something that wasn't going to be satisfied by a bag of crisps and a snickers bar.
I ended up getting a prawn sandwich and some sushi. It was alright but not very exciting. I suspect I could have done a lot better if I had been prepared to go to a cashpoint and go somewhere that doesn't take cards rather than rush into tesco express.
I think the only problem with eating as much hoummus as it sounds like you are is the risk of ruining your appreciation for the delicious chick pea snack. I hope you're keeping your interest up by having different flavours of hoummous. Red pepper hoummous is amazing.
Are you just eating hoummous or are you using crudites as a basic shovel to enable you to shovel more hoummous into your mouth. I like chopped up (red) pepper as it has a curve that makes it a bit scoop like enabling you to fit loads on. Chopped carrot, though tasty, does not have this same scoop benefit and so you will be getting less dip with your vegetable.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
thankyou for the tip to shake it up a little- i think maybe you have hit on the nub of it; there are so many different varieties of hoummus, yes, and yet i repeatedly kick it old skool due to budgetary considerations. which is ridiculous, because as you say, for the sake of a few pence i am running the risk of ruining hoummus for myself. so i will go to sainsburys and throw down for some red pepper hoummus; i am flush at the moment, and you have to treat yourself in this life, dont you. i need to get out of the pauper mindset in so many areas, indeed, but primarily the chickpea- related ones, it would seem. thankyou cherry! maybe you should become the lunch club's lunch doctor. or lunch coach. like a life coach, but more, you know, lunch- focussed.
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Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Grilled Pork Dumplings Grilled Salmon with Spicy Broth and Udon Green Tea
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Carrot and Leek Soup.
I think sweary Jools Holland is Benway. You can tell my voice because it's much higher and I talk quickly and half finish what I'm saying a lot because it's akin to being heckled for an hour without any good quips to come back with.
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Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Well on the 2nd one - fucking stick thumbs,
first person to speak - after the intro "er..Hello, good evening or good morning" etc
That's you that is, isn't it?
You also say that you are mikee after that bit.
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Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Actually, I think it's more the way you introduced the start of the 2nd podcast that had me thinking of Jools Holland. So don't take it too personally. Also remember you can't actually hear your voice like I can hear it right?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It's not nice to make fun of mikee's bad ear, Tilde Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Why don't you lay off Mikee, Tilde? These podcasts are damn good. Mikee doesn't need you posting abuse about his weird voice all over TMO. It takes a fuck of a lot of balls to do a podcast when you sound like that - give him some fucking credit.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Have you read your email Thorn? I sent you a message via Controller Throw. I'm sorry this isn't lunch related everyone.
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Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Incidentally, benway is right on the pronunciation of 'melee'
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I know.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Still though, your weird voice and inability to pronounce things aside, your podcasts are really genuinely good. Like, properly good, not just the kind of good that you only acknowledge because it's two friends of yours and you wouldn't otherwise give a rat's ass about. I mean like the kind of good where complete strangers would probably listen and go "Hey, y'know what? I thought that was pretty good!"
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm sure that if the all important accent hadn't been missing from his podcast script, Mikée would've pronounced 'mêlée' correctly.
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Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Well, now we've made Mikee self-conscious about his voice and given them glowing praise on the first two podcasts thereby giving them something to live up to - I'd expect the next one to be totally shit.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I'm sure that if the all important accent hadn't been missing from his podcast script, Mikée would've pronounced 'mêlée' correctly.
Well that's it really, it's pretty difficult to argue melee is pronounced incorrectly when it's stripped of accents anyway. I'm pioneering this shit. I don't let language shape me. I shape language mother fuckers.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Today my lunch is butternut squash and lentil soup from the cafeteria.
Butternut squash was one of the vegetables they had yesterday so I suspect they've basically just blitzed up the uneaten stuff with lentils but it tastes OK.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I've just had chicken and chips from the chippy. Deeeeeee-licious! Half a chicken, deep-fried. Piles of golden greasy chips. I bought a bottle of Maggi Masala Chilli Sauce to go with it. The chicken was worryingly bargainacious. I'll probably hurl, later.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I had it at my desk, too. Drove everyone in the office fucking nuts. Ha!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
crisps
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
FFS Benway. FFS
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
my colleague said the same thing.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I meant the lack of detail. He probably didn't care about that.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh. Well. Walkers thai sweet chilli. There was nothing decent in the machine, this was the best of a bad lot.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Crisps. From a machine. Has it really come to this..?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i thought i had a meeting so i didn't have time to go outside to get something. I managed to postpone the meeting until tomorrow, but by that point I'd already eaten the crisps, to give me the minimal sustinance that I'd have needed for the now-postponed meeting.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I had a Triple Favourite sandwich from M&S. Coming in at a suspiciously preiswertes £2.00, and containing one sandwich each of tuna and sweetcorn, ham and mustard and cheese and onion, I thought this might be a bargain lunch. Alas, M&S have obviously built this pack to a price. The fillings, although reasonably plentiful, were rather dry and lacking in flavour.
After reminding myself of the experience, I feel it's also worth commenting about the disappointment inherent in the triple pack sandwich. With a twin pack (of the same filling), the first half allows you time to get into the flavour, knowing that as soon as this triangle of food is finished, there's another to be enjoyed. The triple selection box offers none of this comfort. Three mouthfuls in and you've almost finished with that flavour. The mind and palate expect the sensation to continue, but before they've even got to grips with the taste of cheese for example, cheese is gone, to be replaced by the not necessarily complementary tuna, or ham. The taste buds are left reeling, at once craving more of the favoured flavour, yet being forced to adapt to the characteristics of the next wedge.
I only bought this pack because I'd never before seen a 'triple' that didn't contain egg. I will not make this mistake again.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Have we had the discussion about whether or not 'triple' sandwich packs really contain three sandwiches?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
We have not but they do not. They three half sandwiches so a total of 1 1/2 sandwiches.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I concur
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm getting pretty sick of dry, stodgy bread used in packet sandwiches, so I think I'll be heading back to The Baker's Oven tomorrow. If they could be trained to be a bit more conservative with the mayo, that shop would have a damn fine selection of sandwiches.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Apparently you enjoy flavours more for the first few bites than you do for the last few. So the first time you take a bite of something it's like "Holy fuck! This is amazing!" and by the end you're like "Meh". So it sounds like the Triple is actually pitched about right, and by leaving you wanting more it's giving you the best possible sandwich experience.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't think anyone is disputing the quality of sandwich experience, just the amount. If you get three half sandwiches you do not have three sandwiches. That is all that is being suggested. Nobody is saying that anyone who has three different flavours for their lunch is sick.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I thought that's pretty much what Misc was getting at
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I was just saying that I find the triple pack sandwich experience unfulfilling, if not unfilling.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Dear Benway and NWOD. I own an Atari Jaguar and Aliens Vs Predator.
The entire Atari Jaguar.
Kasumi ninja was one of the worst fighting games I've ever played on any console ever. It did have a scottish guy who fought in a kilt though.
We played a lot of Sensible Soccer at uni on it as well.
The best game was Tempest 2000 though which was a shooting game with a techno soundtrack.
It really was an awful awful console.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I was just saying that I find the triple pack sandwich experience unfulfilling, if not unfilling.
Maybe you needed to begin with ham, middle with the cheese, and end with the tuna. Perhaps the flavours in complementary succession would have been better.
[ 03.12.2009, 04:18: Message edited by: Octavia ]
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
deleted for cretinous UBB useage.
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Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Sandwich again today. Smoked wild salmon and philly, with basil, salt and black pepper. Seeded grannary bread of course. Sizzlin' Prawn flavour McCoys and the obligatory apple.
[ 03.12.2009, 07:01: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Medium salad. Includes grated carrot, sweetcorn, jalapenos, lemony avocado with olives (odd), potato and sausage salad, roasted vegetables and cous cous with chickpeas.
It's alright.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Last night's leftover mushroom and chicken risotto, and some involuntary mash with spinach and ricotta.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It was pretty good that salad until the end. I was eating at my desk like some sort of savage and I'd saved up a bit of potato, a bit of avocado, a small piece of jalapeno and and bit of roasted aubergine for my last mouthful and I had it all on the fork and was raising it to my mouth and then I wobbled and my last mouthful that I'd been looking forward to fell on the desk and then most of it rolled onto the carpet :cry:
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Dust off the fluff and eat it anyway.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i had a pain au chocolate. That's chocolate in a croissant, thorn.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
FFS. Croissant? We call it Doughy bread rolled into a crescent in these parts Benway.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Doesn't Pain au Chocolat literally translate as 'bread with chocolate'?
Anyway, I feel a bit bummed because I made myself quite a fancy sandwich today and was specifically looking forward to getting some positive feedback on here (literally even when I picked up the salmon in Tesco at the weekend I was thinking "Man, people on TMO are going to be well impressed by this") but nobody has even acknowledged it, let alone said anything like "well done" or "nice sandwich".
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That does sound like a really nice sandwich Ringo. Could have gone for a squeeze of lemon juice as well to give it a bit of a zing.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah I could have done, and probably would have but you have to consider how it's going to fare sitting in a plastic bag for a good four or five hours before consumption.
It probably could have done with a bit of salad but I don't have a lot left over and I wanted to make sure I had some to go with my pumpkin ravioli I'm having for dinner tonight.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: nobody has even acknowledged it, let alone said anything like "well done" or "nice sandwich".
That's because Lunch Club is a vehicle for Dr Benway's vanity, not yours. I imagine he was quite angry that you had a more impressive lunch than him today. One of the main rules of lunch club is that members' lunches shouldn't upstage that of the host, which will often have a foreign name or sound like something you can only get if you know where to shop. With that in mind, you're lucky that all you got was ignored. Lunch Club is to Dr Benway what Harlem Nights is to Eddie Murphy.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
That sounds like a great sandwich, Ringo. Glad you went for the wild smoked salmon - farmed stuff is so fatty. Cherry is right about the squeeze of lemon, but Philadelphia is quite lemony anyway, so no harm done. Good work on the black pepper, too - was it freshly ground in a mill/pestle-and-mortar, or was it pre-ground?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
"Thorn's Meal, Snack and Drink Club" is to thorn what beverly hills cop 3 was to eddie murphy.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Milled, naturally. Quite large pepper fragments. Reema curiously always used pre-powdered pepper before I met her. That stuff is horrible though. There's a pot of it in our cupboard which will never get used.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I was impressed by your sandwich ringo, I read it and thought, he must have bought it at a shop - no way he made that himself. So kudos to you.
I made my best sandwich today which is mozzarella, tomato, fresh basil leaves, Hellmans Mayonaise in a toasted giant pitta bread.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Reema curiously always used pre-powdered pepper before I met her. That stuff is horrible though.
When you discovered that, you must have been tempted to just call off the moving in together and realise that she wasn't the person you had fallen in love with. Pre-powdered pepper. What is she, some sort of animal?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Anyway. I've got a bit of my salad caught right in my top back teeth and it's really annoying me. I'm having no joy loosening it with my tongue and I feel a bit weird about shoving my hand deep into my mouth in the office to try to retrieve it. I might go and get some gum to see if that will help get it out.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well it was a long time before we moved in together that I discovered she wasn't into properly milled/crushed pepper. She actually said to me "it just seems like a bit of a faff. They're both the same thing anyway" which took me a little while to get over. But I don't think she was using enough of it.
The only time it's ever even marginally acceptable to use powdered pepper is when you're in a greasy spoon and you want to add a bit of colour to your polystyrene dish of chips swimming in vinegar.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
2 x McDonald's Cheeseburgers
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: The only time it's ever even marginally acceptable to use powdered pepper is when you're in a greasy spoon and you want to add a bit of colour to your polystyrene dish of chips swimming in vinegar.
Or when cats are shitting in your garden and you want them to stop.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Apparently you can buy tiger or lion piss on the internet and spray that around your garden to stop cats pissing there.
You do then have the problem of your garden smelling of tiger or lion piss which probably isn't ideal.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i think that my own urine would have the same effect.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's how I keep strangers away from our flat.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Been chewing gum for ages now focussing on the stuck salad area for chewing but it will not come out. I'm considering unravelling a paper-clip and jabbing around with that into the back of my mouth.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Dinner fans might be distressed to hear that I didn't have the planned ravioli in the end. But fear not, because my dinner was pretty good anyway. I sliced up some chilli sausages, and did them with some stir fried rice noodles with mushroom and onion, with lots of soy sauce and pepper. Tasted good. Bit of a mashup.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Sometimes the best meals are the ones you create trying to use up random stuff that you have in the house.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Medium Salad. Today it includes sweetcorn, beetroot, broad beans, grated carrot, pasta with feta and sundried tomato, jalapenos, sunflower seeds and green beans with red snapper in a chilli sauce.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
bit poncy
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I didn't cook it, I just scooped things out from the cafeteria. It cost me £1.67 and I don't think you can get a poncey lunch for £1.67
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Sometimes the best meals are the ones you create trying to use up random stuff that you have in the house.
Works best if you limit it to food items.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Getting further down into my salad and just discovered apple and walnut and celery so it appears I have some waldorf salad that I didn't mention before.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I didn't cook it, I just scooped things out from the cafeteria. It cost me £1.67 and I don't think you can get a poncey lunch for £1.67
Benway can. Benway knows this little place just near Spitalfields where they do the best Lebanese gahuggafuggahfor, like, £1.50. That's what they charge him, anyway. Friends with the owner - young Benway used to run errands for him when he was 15, so to Benway's mind Lebanese gahuggafugga isn't exotic or foreign at all and it's laughable to him that anyone may consider it so.
[ 04.12.2009, 07:18: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I didn't cook it
You generally don't...
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo:
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I didn't cook it
You generally don't...
It would be fair to say, though, that salads frequently contain cooked items.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Lunch today will be pizza and champagne.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Did you get the job then?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
just saw this. What's wrong with thorn there? Is he still obsessing over having never heard of a baton? Looks that way. Anyway, no lunch so far. Had some diet coke, and some fudge that I brought back from devon.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I haven't heard about the job yet. Apparently there will be an update on Friday.
My bosses boss gave us all a letter with thanks explaining what we'd done for her this year and is giving us pizza and champagne for lunch which is good stuff. Apart from it was meant to be at twelve but apparently hasn't arrived yet.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
why were you in devon, I hear you thinking. Well. I was in devon to go walking on dartmoor. It was alright. Rainy, windy. 'Exhilarating'.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
lol. Going away somewhere to go walking. lol.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
What do you fancy doing this weekend Seb?
Why don't we go for a nice walk?
ROFL.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I see.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Seriously. Going away walking in December? Are you middle aged now? Have you given up on the idea of being young and exciting and turned into your parents?
Perhaps after the walk we could go to the rail museum and look at trains!
I've just had a fairy cake with golden balls on top of the icing. I would have paid 50p for it but I got given it for nothing!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Did you wear a pullover?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I bet he had a parka and walking boots.
Unless you were talking to me. I felt that I didn't need to wear a pullover to eat my cake.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Maybe Benway was trying to get away from it all. Get out of the city and have an adventure, after seeing a tourism advert on the telly.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
after the walk we went to a farm and touched some farm animals.
I didn't wear a pullover, but I did have to wear full waterproofs and walking boots. It was pretty good, climbing down granite strewn hill sides, crossing a stream using a felled tree, battling up exhausting endless slopes whilst being battered by the elements.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Maybe he was trying to live life to the full.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
And he had a map in a plastic pocket. When he went to the pub after the walk he had a nice cup of tea.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I've got a friend who lives down there, and he's into that kind of thing, so we joined him for a walk. Is it weird to have a holiday in the UK?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Is visiting friends who don't live in London some kind of laughable cliche? Is there something hilarious about going to Dartmoor?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think visiting friends is fine. You visit friends, eat food, get drunk and play computer games. You don't visit friends to go for a walk in the rain. You just don't.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
He isn't a real friend, Kanye. He thinks you're a terrible, city-dwelling cock and was obviously taking the piss out of you when he suggested the walk. Do you think this chap really goes out trudging through rain and mud for pleasure when he doesn't have gullible 'friends' over? The bollocks, does he! He's pwning some ass at CoD:MW2 like every other brother.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
dude doesn't own a tv, let alone a games console.
I think you've all shown yourselves to be rather silly.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Did you go to the bit of Dartmoor I said to go to? If not, then you are fule.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
started at hay tor, walked to another tor, came back.
Still no lunch! I really need to go now.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: dude doesn't own a tv, let alone a games console.
Is he a hobbit?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Rather than getting lunch you could just go for a power walk.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
My mum lives on the bottom edge of Dartmoor. I also spent many a weekend being dragged round Yelverton Golf Course as a small childe. Not by my mum, by my dear departed Dad. My mum's far too sensible to golf.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I think you've all shown yourselves to be rather silly.
You know, it's one thing to go for a walk with your mate but coming on here and bragging about it, like you're Ralph Fiennes or some other explorer - you know. You can fuck off for that. 'Oh I went on a walk - you don't find out who you really are until you've crossed a river on a makeshift bridge. That's me living on the edge with my exciting non-London mate who - you know what? Doesn't even own a TV. Doesn't need it. Because - unlike you lot - he's got a little thing called imagination. Yeah. How many of your friends don't even own a TV? None I bet."
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I was simply highlighting parts that stood out for me as being enjoyable and memorable. Can I not say anything about what happens in my life without being accusesd of bragging? This is a constant thing for you isn't it thorn. It's not a competition about how many friends we have that don't have televisions, and how rugged we are.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Today is my last day in the office this year. When I get back to this office it'll be 2010 and I'll be travelling to work in an automated, smooth white pod, and beaming my ideas directly into the computer mainframe. Think about that, eh.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That's obscene! I have another 10 1/2 days in the office :cry:
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
And! I'm going to see Monster Magnet on Thursday. And Terrorvision the day after that. And Stewart Lee the week after that. A whirlwind of activity.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
apparently he hasn't got a tv because he's a 'tv junkie' (his words), and he's been dividing his time between making a documentary and doing a degree.. no tv means no distractions. I'm not saying this to try and compete with anybody's friends, and his life doesn't reflect on mine. I'm just giving out facts because I feel like somehow I've been placed in a position where I have to explain everything I say in case it seems like I'm boasting about my incredible life, even if in fact it's not my life that I'm talking about. First it's absurd and lame to go to dartmoor - because I live london - , now I mention crossing a stream and I'm trying to be like an arctic explorer, and also I'm bragging that I have a friend who doesn't own a television? Incredible
[ 08.12.2009, 10:04: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
What's his "documentary" about?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sustainable living. I don't want to be too specific.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
We've got a book coming out on that, sort of. By the fella that gave up money for a year.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
"My mate gave up television, to make a documentary."
"Yeah, well my mate gave up money, to write a book!"
Jesus, can you two please stop dick-waving? You're making a mess.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
he was at a poetry workshop i went to this summer. mark boyle, i mean. later i read a blog where he described all the other people at the workshop- so that would include me, right- as 'a bit freaky'. i was like, yeah, okay, thats rich from a man who lives in a shed in nailsea, eats roots and shoots and wipes his arse on comfrey leaves. and his poem was shit.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
His book "needs work" too.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I've just amused myself for the past half hour by going through the shittest proposals of the year. Someone told me at the Xmas party that one of the ones I'd really slagged off had been signed up, which made me so angry that I actually considered handing in my notice because I was so angry and appalled that we were going to give this dickhead money. But it turns out that they were thinking of something else. It suprised me though, how upset I was that my feedback had been ignored and how furious I was about the idea of this guy getting published.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Looking back at my post times, turns out that that didn't kill half an hour at all. Barely ten minutes in fact. Won't this afternoon ever end? Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
finally had lunch. Couscous, with chicken and a mint salad.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: Couscous, with chicken and a mint salad.
More foreign muck.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I'm leaving work early. Got to cycle home via the fancy butchers. Ordering the Xmas MEat!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: I'm leaving work early. Got to cycle home via the fancy butchers. Ordering the Xmas MEat!
Proper British grub!
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'M MISC GRIFFIN. I'M A BRITISH MAN AND I LIKE BRITISH FOOD TO EAT IN BRITAIN. I DON'T HATE PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM ME I JUST DON'T THEM TO STEAL OUR JOBS AND BE BLACK NEAR US. VOTE MISC GRIFFIN FOR THE BNP. A BRITISH PARTY FOR BRITISHES.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
too much red onion. Got that oniony thing going on.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Alright NWoD?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
yeah. tired mostly. you alright?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Fucking exhausted, yeah.
Sliced my finger up the other night. Bled for two hours. It was pretty exciting.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
How about everyone else?
Alright, yeah?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
tired, feeling a kind of simmering low level anger gently stabbing the backs of my eyes.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I've got my health though right? Nobody has come back to be about that interview in Harper-Collins. I'm hoping for one next week in Paddington. They have a bar in the workplace. Man sounds awesome. The girl at the agency made me laugh by saying:
'You get free breakfast if you're in before 9am. One of their clients is Marmite so they get that....'
*long pause*
'....They don't only give you marmite that was an example'
'I get that'
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Tonight for dinner I'm going to have some long strings of pasta served with a sort of sloppy concoction of meat, tomatos, oinion and mushrooms. It has a poncy foreign name but I don't want to offend anyone by mentioning it.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Don't forget the dry Italian cheese!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
they had a bar in john lewis hq. I was never invited to join my team-friends for a drink though, and drinking on your own in the bar at work is not a good look. Especially if your team is on the other side of the room.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: a sort of sloppy concoction
How are you though?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm ok
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Haha. I'm having spinach falafel with a tahini sauce and a salsa in pitta breads with salad and I don't care if people think it is foreign.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Haha. I'm having spinach falafel with a tahini sauce and a salsa in pitta breads with salad and I don't care if people think it is foreign.
Then the terrorists have won...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's home time.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Change of plans. Don't have time to prepare the falafel stuff as it needs to chill for two hours and I need to go to the pub now so it will be takeaway tonight. I don't know what sort.
Sorry to have mislead you TMO.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Probably something good and English like a curry or a chinese.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I've only had falafel twice and both times were during my Egypt holiday earlier this year. Once was at Pret in the airport on the way out, the second time was made by beduins in the middle of the desert. I hope that by telling you about something that happened while I was on a holiday I haven't upset Thorn by appearing to be on some kind of quest for cultural authenticity.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've only bought falafel once and they were alright. I have taken to making them and they are very simple and very tasty and very filling and very cheap as well. You can make four massive falafel burger things for about a poun
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
They were ball shaped both times I had them. Interestingly, the Pret ones tasted exacly the same as the beduin ones, so I think Pret can feel pretty proud of that.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I bet the Pret ones cost about 17 times as much as the beduin ones though so surely you would expect them to be at least as good and preferably better.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well, it's hard to say. The beduin thing was part of an evening excursion booked through the travel agents, so there wasn't an individual price as such. But when you factor in the £500 odd for the holiday, plus £50ish for the excursion, I'm not sure that the Pret ones really worked out cheaper when you look at them in context. Also the pret ones were in a wrap with salad and a sauce while the beduin ones were served plain.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't think you can factor the cost of the flights out and accomodation and the rest of the excursion into the cost of the falafel for these comparison purposes. For that you'd have to factor in the cost of your accomodation to allow you to live near the pret to be able to go and buy falafel from there. You really need to contact the people who arranged the excursion and find out exactly how much of your £50 went towards falafel to make it a proper comparison.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm not sure about that. For a start, the Pret at the airport isn't the only one in the UK. I suspect most people live within ten miles of a Pret, and they all do pretty much the same range of food.
There's a bit of civil unrest in that part of the world, so when we went on the excursion into the desert, we had an armed security guy with us. But it wasn't the type of guy you'd get in the UK, all serious and wearing a flak jacket. This guy looked like he was about 15 years old and must have been about 10 stone at the most, wearing a beige suit which was about two sizes too big for him. He had a sub machine gun tucked into his belt. He looked more like a gangster than a security official.
I suppose you don't get that in Pret.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
chicken and coleslaw sarnie. apple. crusti croc crispy crisps
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i am having the team xmas lunch today, which will as always be a bloodbath.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
for secret santa i am giving my manager a framed corporate headshot of myself, because she is about to go on maternity.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i'm going to totally trashed in about three hours.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: This guy looked like he was about 15 years old and must have been about 10 stone at the most, wearing a beige suit which was about two sizes too big for him. He had a sub machine gun tucked into his belt.
Egypt's mad innit? My mate went and when looking at some of the architecture told me a policeman held a door shut on a tomb and was laughing and wanted money off him to let him out. I asked him why he didn't kick up a fuss and he said 'they all have sub machine guns' He also got chased by a pack of wild dogs. lol.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Sharm El Sheikh isn't really proper egypt. No tombs or ancient stuff to look at. Just a bunch of holiday resorts and a load of rocky desert. Good snorkling and diving though becuase it has some of the newest coral reefs in the world.
But yeah, they definitely do things differently out there.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Today, I had to combine the two main courses at the cafeteria to produce a satisfactory lunch. Roast chicken and macaroni cheese.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Lunch today was gnocchi with a spinach and gorgonzola sauce at Carluccio's and a nice glass of red wine courtesy of the VP or our area. Very nice.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
He got a tray of beer thrown over him and has to do big meetings this afternoon stinking of beer. He did make then knock £20 off the bill for dry cleaning though.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
A lunch disaster today. Forgot to get bread out of the freezer last night so can only dream about the pastrami and chilli cheese sandwich I was planning. I'm going to have to buy something from the shop instead.
Weak.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i've had a a coffee, a paramol, and a water. Vaguely remember showing my tattoo to a colleague, getting thrown out of a rival financial services firm's party, and sitting in mcdonalds by myself.
[ 10.12.2009, 05:46: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I can still 'bring the stupid'.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I need Abby to come and be nice to me
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Hah. The last work event I went to I ended the evening by excitedly telling the Vice Chancellor of the whole University the story of the world's tallest man, saving dolphins with his unfeasibly long arms. I remember him looking at me with blank incomprehension and saying something like ...'ok...I have to go over there now'...and then me saying ...'and also he was a Yak herder...that makes it even better...do you see? funny right?'...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
hi Abby, how are you?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
That VC sounds like a right prick. Bao Xishun is a fucking legend. Can you imagine the people looking after the dolphins and getting distressed because the dolphins have eaten dangerous stuff and crying 'oh no! We need something really long, like a tall persons long arms to help' and he's walking past and he walks over quietly and interrupts 'excuse me. I hear the dolphins need help and I don't know if this will help but I have long arms' and they all stand around very quietly for a moment and then agree 'yes. ok' So then Bao uses his long arms and everyone is happy because the dolphins are better.
Now look at this picture and try not consider that the HAPPIEST thing you'll hear of all day, if not all year.
If that isn't good enough then when people found out about him they asked if there was a Mrs Xishun, he said that no he didn't so a woman saw it on the news and MARRIED him. :glee:
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
awwwwww... Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Plus he is a Yak herder!
You know those olden days shepherds who went on stilts so they could see their sheep far away? Bao Xishun doesn't need stilts to see his Yaks from far away.
Hello Benway. I am sad, but that isn't news.
I also have a gratingly enthusiastic and obsequious microscope salesman here, who has forgotten to bring the dongle to make the software work, so I cant use the microscope he is trying to flog me. :mong: Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I am sorry to hear that you are sad. I am not too sad, although I have that post-drinking binge unease. What do you think you could do to cheer yourself up?
[ 10.12.2009, 08:19: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i am making a spotify playlist to try and get through it
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Cheese and Ham Panini
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
good work Hades.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm glad that we have Hades here to pull this back on topic and talk about his lunch. Why do we have people talking about hangover and dolphins and yaks on a thread that is clearly designed to discuss lunch?
Half a roasted BBQ chicken, chips, mushrooms and gravy.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I remember when lunch club was nothing more than me and benway desperately tying to interract on msn
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
sausage roll, fruit. one day i will come onto this forum having had an exciting lunch. one day soon. one day, in the not too distant future. maybe next year. maybe.
im kind of annoyed that im having a sausage roll for another reason, because the words 'sausage roll' invariably set off a very annoying earworm invented by an old flatworm of my sister's- i have tweeted about this earworm recently. basically the earworm starts with the words 'id rather be a sausage roll than a pie' sung to the tune of el condor pasa by simon and garfunkel. which is annoying enough, but i just put the words 'id rather be' into google to find out what the song is called, and the google drop down box had racism in it. try it, its annoying. so now im annoyed at my sister's old flatmate for inventing the el condor pasa sausage roll earworm, and simon and garfunkel, for writing a song that my sister's flatmate turned into an annoying earworm that pollutes my mindspace every time i think about sausage rolls, and im annoyed at racists, just generally for being *****.
eta: lol, what the fuck is a flatworm?
[ 10.12.2009, 09:20: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Tuna Crunch sandwich.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm glad you posted here DM! I made falafel last night and the recipe only used about 1/4 of the can of chickpeas so now I have an open can of chickpeas and was wondering what to do with them and now I've seen you post it is so obvious that I am destined to make some hummus. I shall do that perhaps tonight and bring it into work in a pot for lunch tomorrow.
OH! But tomorrow is Friday and that is lunch of guinness and thai spicy noodles at the St James Tavern. Perhaps I could have it when I get home from work tomorrow as a snack.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: ...but i just put the words 'id rather be' into google to find out what the song is called, and the google drop down box had racism in it.
There's no Google Racism® if you put the apostrophe in I'd. Oddly.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i would imagine thats because most racists are illiterate. i am not illiterate, i am lazy. but weve been here before.
yay cherry makes hoummus! maybe we should have a lunch swap- you have hoummus tomorrow, and ill have spicy noodles. i could go to the enormo- cheapo asian buffet place on whiteladies and eat my own head- weight in duck pancakes. that would be the boom. and i could take photos of the rainbow- coloured jelly cubes that they have on the pudding table. they are the most beautiful thing youve ever seen. (not really, but they are momentarily entrancing if youre in the slightest bit msg- sensitive and therefore wandering around a darkened restaurant feeling shimmery and light- headed after four plates of oriental foodstuffs).
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I didn't make hummus.
I did have a pint of guinness and thai spicy beef noodles. They were good. Our office is still ridiculously hot. I'm just wearing jeans and a t-shirt and I feel overdressed. I might get down to skins.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I will also get very drunk then return to work, which is definitely a bad idea.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
turkish meze
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
falafel.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
salad meze
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
No flask required (surely to god)...
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
The delicatessen special was 'Turkey Suprise' and the girl mumbled about having run out so there was roast turkey instead. Sounded great. So a chef picked up the empty baguette and walked off. I heard him shout 'cranberry?!' and I replied loudly 'yes please!' and rolled my eyes at the queue in a manner as if to say 'and why not, huh?'
He then came back and stuffed the biggest baguette I've ever seen into two paper bags. So I went off to hide somewhere that I couldn't be seen eating this gargantuan beast. As I started to chomp through the turkey I tasted Stuffing. Pwhoar a turkey stuffing and cranberry baguette. Lovely. Then I started to taste potato. WTF? A potato baguette? Then carrots. He'd put a christmas dinner into a baguette! Tasting parsnips next. It was mad. I expected it to start tasting of christmas pudding at the end and then bite my way through two tickets to the James Bond matinee.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Christmas lunch today, at TGI:Friday
Can't remember what I ordered
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
TGI Tur-duc-ken Burger Some said we couldn't do it, but we've managed to squeeze three distinct species of bird into this limited edition Christmas sandwich. Comprising succulent turkey, richly flavoured duck and some leftover bits of chicken that the boss says we've got to get rid of by the end of the year, the TGI Tur-duc-ken Burger is sure to leave you feeling festive and full! Served in a TGI Stuffing Bun with a generous portion of parsnip fries and a bottomless glass of mulled Fanta® or Sprite®. Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
chicken + seafood thai green curry
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Deep fill BLT sandwich from Tesco reduced to £1.29
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Moussaka, green beans, potato croquettes and a bottle of Lilt. £3.14. Bargain.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
A tentacle.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
great job, guys. Same time tomorrow yeah?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I might be a bit too exhausted after todays efforts to commit myself to tomorrow as well.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lunch-chat burn out.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
LOL
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
hmm.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've got a £2 voucher for the cafeteria to use for lunch today! Unfortunately I believe they are doing christmas dinners this week which are awful so I might just spend it on two large americanos instead.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Surely you mean "filter coffees".
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Are they not the same thing? It's a costa we have at work and so they call a black filter coffee an Americano and I'm just one person and I don't feel that I can challenge Costa's naming conventions on my own.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yes, exactly. That was my point. You'll be having Turkish bloody meze for lunch if you're not careful.
Or something.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've tried ordering black coffee from them before. Generally it works out OK, but sometimes I'll ask for a large black coffee and the barrista, Sorry, the server, will say "Do you mean Americano?" and it annoys me because clearly they know what I mean as it is the only black coffee they serve (other than espresso, but obviously I don't want that as otherwise I'd have said can I have a very small very strong shot of coffee) so now I comply and ask for a large americano.
I don't comply with the ridiulous size conventions that some of them seem the need to try to thrust on you. "large black coffee please?" "do you mean grande americano?" Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Turkish meze is a totally valid thing to have for lunch.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm meant to be going to a gig in North London tonight (Highbury) however, apparently it is going to snow in London this evening. Is there any chance this could stop tubes and trains running?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Because I need to get home aftewards. Sorry this isn't lunch related.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
If it's any help, in Birmingham we've just had glorious sunshine followed by some hail, and now blazing sunshine again.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's an interesting meterological story mart, but it doesn't really help I'm afraid.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I'm meant to be going to a gig in North London tonight (Highbury) however, apparently it is going to snow in London this evening. Is there any chance this could stop tubes and trains running?
No! In fact that's the reason London itself was built on top of the London Underground - to act as a roof, and keep snow off the rails.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I'm really sorry.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You should have started a thread about the hailing though as that's quite bizarre.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I'm meant to be going to a gig in North London tonight (Highbury) however, apparently it is going to snow in London this evening. Is there any chance this could stop tubes and trains running?
This sounds like the sort of question the government might include in a "Britishness Test" for people who have only just arrived in the country.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
A hot bacon and chicken baguette (no mayo) from Pierre's.
[ 17.12.2009, 04:49: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Why would you specify "no mayo", but not specify all the other condiments that aren't in there? Wouldn't it be easier to just specify what condiment has come with it and let people assume that anything not mentioned is not included?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Why would you specify "no mayo", but not specify all the other condiments that aren't in there?
Because much of the world seems to count mayonnaise as a default sandwich ingredient, Cherry in Hove. That is why.
(edited because I spelt 'sandwich' incorrectly)
[ 17.12.2009, 05:57: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I'm meant to be going to a gig in North London tonight (Highbury) however, apparently it is going to snow in London this evening. Is there any chance this could stop tubes and trains running?
Please please please could you pick me up a copy of Chutzpah Jnr if it's on sale? I will pay you obviously, and I will pay a finder's fee for the effort.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
The Garage in N1 is a ten minute bus ride from my house.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Please please please could you pick me up a copy of Chutzpah Jnr if it's on sale? I will pay you obviously, and I will pay a finder's fee for the effort.
I was going to get you a copy as a christmas present as a surprise but now you've ruined it Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: The Garage in N1 is a ten minute bus ride from my house.
You fancy meeting up for a beer?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sure, what time can you get there? I am probably going home around 2, so i can get there early.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Anyway. I've just been called and I've got a second interview for this job that I went for. Interview will be in January with the head of the department. The guy who interviewed me said I'd done really well and I'm the only band 25 who they actually interviewed with everyone else already being band 30 so I've done well to get this far. Apparently there are now three people left for two roles but obviously the other people are already at this level which will make it tough.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm probably going to be getting there about 6.30 as our babysitter doesn't arrive until about 5.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I can't make it, I'm afraid.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ok i will aim to be around highbury for 6.30. It's not going to be like 15 mins before you fuck off is it?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
To be honest, it might be. The doors open at 7 so we'd probably go in about 7.30 so it might be better to do it another time. I would get there earlier but unfortunately we can't leave the baby on her own Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Please please please could you pick me up a copy of Chutzpah Jnr if it's on sale? I will pay you obviously, and I will pay a finder's fee for the effort.
I was going to get you a copy as a christmas present as a surprise but now you've ruined it
This isn't the first time I've done this to you. Every time I look at my Spiritual Beggars CD I think about what a spoilt impatient twat I am.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, fuck it.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: This isn't the first time I've done this to you. Every time I look at my Spiritual Beggars CD I think about what a spoilt impatient twat I am.
In fairness with that one I had told you about it about 6 months before and so I had plenty of opportunity to buy and send it, it was just unfortunate timing.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Sorry Benway
If I get this new job I might be working at our london office sometimes so we can meet up for lunch!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
bah. Enjoy standing around for an hour waiting for the first band to come on.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Well, it's not a proper gig. It's Ginger's birthday bash and there are going to be loads of people who have been connected with the wildhearts playing at random times and there isn't an official list of who is on and when so I don't want to go in at 8.30 and find Devin Townsend walking off the stage as then I would probably have to kill myself.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
did you know that I've met and chatted to Ginger in that very venue?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I did not know that. Have you mentioned it before becuase I'd have thought that would be the sort of thing I would remember.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I think I have. It was at a Guitar Wolf gig.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I spoke to him in a dingy club in Brighton which I think he got booked into by mistake. It was the second birthday of the club and somehow they managed to get the god damn whores and the wildhearts playing and it held about 140 people.
I'm having a cheese and bacon sandwich from tesco for lunch. I was annoyed by tesco as they were playing that awful pogues song.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
the pogues ruin christmas every bloody year
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I go and have a bath, and when I come out, Birmingham is covered in a blanket of snow!
Lovely.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Nice one Mart - you've caused travel chaos across the midlands.
[ 17.12.2009, 09:58: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's snowing really heavily in Brighton right now. I'm not sure I can go to London if this keeps up Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Try a shower.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Douche.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
no snow in Londreterre yet.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Ridiculous amounts of snow here. That combined with someone getting assaulted on the train home meant that my first night leaving Amelie with a babysitter ended up with us finally getting home at about 3am. I'm glad we weren't paying her.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Girlfriend made it as far as Rugby this morning from Birmingham before being told the train wasn't going any further in this weather, and she could fuck right off if she thought would make it to her audition in London.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
did you assault your girlfriend on the train, cherry? Or did she assault you?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I didn't see the assault but I turned up just after it had happened. I was looking for a toilet. We were sitting in carriage 1 of 12. i walked all the way up to carriage 9 before i found a toilet that was actually working but there was quite a queue around it and people looking a bit shocked.
Apparently there had been a couple having sex in the toilet and with it being pretty much the only working toilet on the entire train, some guy had been banging on the door to get them to stop having sex in there so that people could use the toilet. Anyway, apparently the guy in the toilet opened the door and punched the knocker in the face before running off. I guess the girl probably left as well as she wasn't there when I got there or else I'd have probably hung around as she sounds pretty easy.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
savages.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
You've got to hand it to someone who punches people in the face when disturbed whilst having sex in a public place. It's pretty difficult for a human being to de-evolve thousands of years of social conditioning to start behaving like a startled badger.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that once happened to me in the Oxygen bar in Leicester Square, but we ended up getting gracelessly turfed out onto the square by a bouncer. Had I not been completely wrecked, that might have been embarrassing.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lentil / spinach 'cake'
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Salad that included broad beans, potato salad, hard boiled eggs, rocket, beetroot, tomatos with mozarella, oriental noodles and cous cous with roasted vegetables.
I've got a wicked hangover stilll.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Nobody cares about your lunch you **** .
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Where is everyone? Has everyone finished for christmas already or are they just so busy that they don't have time to discuss their lunch?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
lol
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Im here. I had a pie (turky, stuffing and a small sausage). It was a bit disapointing. I wanted noodles but the noodle people have gone on holiday.
I also have a hangover.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I'm supposed to be at work, buy I bunked off to do some xmas shopping. I went to the Blackfriars for lunch. I had roast pork-belly, with crushed potatoes, spinach and gravy. Lots of english mustard. Two pints of Timothy Taylor Landlord and a double Highland Park.
I read Dodgem Logic while I ate.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I’m at work helping my new PhD student write her progress report. It is a bit...illiterate... Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i had a cheese sandwich. i am working from home, listening to brian eno.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I like Brian Eno.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Chip Buttie. Mince Pie. Various electronic genre artists.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I am listening to 'music for airports'
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I am listening to 'music for airports'
I don't think any other piece of music defines "ambient" so precisely. Sometimes I go over to the record player because I fancy listening to something, only to find that that Music For Airports is actually already playing.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I lol'd
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I put the 'Now That's What I Call Hungover!' playlist that mart and I made on spotify through a serious morning-after on sunday. It did the job.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I have got half a roasted chicken with honey and ginger coating, chips, mushrooms and gravy for lunch. Yum.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Oh no! I picked up two forks rather than a knife and a fork. I'm going to have to tear the chicken apart with my hands. Or find a knife.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
cheese sandwich followed by a budgens tiramisu.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I put the 'Now That's What I Call Hungover!' playlist that mart and I made on spotify through a serious morning-after on sunday. It did the job.
That's a different one from Music For Hangovers then? That's a rhetorical question as it clearly is different. Maybe you just had such a bad hangover that you forgot there was a playlist for it already.
Hey, cracker joke...
Q. What do you call a special bomb which is designed to attack children? A. A torpaedo!
I just made that up whilst throwing snowballs at the children in the garden. One of them was laughing at the joke and I got him right in the gob with a snowball. That was the best bit.
(It's ok, don't worry, he did have a coat on.)
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: budgens tiramisu.
Was it good?
I have had waitrose tiramisu and morrisons tiramisu and the morrisons one was far superior to waitrose.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it was fine.
yes dang, the two are different. 'Music for Hangovers' seemed to go wayward because idiots didn't listen or think before just filling up the back end with crap.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: 'Music for Hangovers' seemed to go wayward because idiots didn't listen or think before just filling up the back end with crap.
Yeah, ok, I get the message.
Not a Tiny Tim fan then?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh, not you. This went out into the wild. I don't know who did it.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
tuna sweetcorn sandwich, banana, mouldy apple which i took back and replaced with one that was less flavoursome in a good way, in that it did not taste of mould, but similtaneously less flavoursome in a bad way, as it did not taste of anything. then i had some nairns mini- oatcoakes things, which were supposed to taste of cheese but actually tasted of vomit. really, i could taste them in my nose and everything, exactly as if i had just done a really powerful sick.
and then i was walking through broadmead and the fake native americans with the stall selling eagle tat and dreamcatchers were playing 'id rather be a sausage roll than a pie' on their panpipes and i was overtaken with wrath. all in all, it was a mockery of a lunchbreak.
[ 22.12.2009, 11:13: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Hey, cracker joke...
Q. What do you call a special bomb which is designed to attack children? A. A torpaedo!
One of the Masketeers made up a col joke the other day...
Q. What do you call someone who has sex with themselves? A. A Me-dophile.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
For lunch we went to Ganapati. It was kicking. I had a kingfish curry, the Masketeers had chicken curries, Liz had a bunch of daals and soups and veggie things. We had a few of their gorgeous parathas on the side. I drank Meantime Wheat, everyone else had mango lassis.
Bought a few bags of their malabar coffee for xmas presents.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Bit of a thrifty month this month (Isn't jan always) so im sticking taking in lunch or to the boots meal deals mostly this month when i have to buy out (When i say HAVE to i really mean that i've woken up too late and don't have time to make myself lunch in the morning)
Today... Boots Duck Wrap, ceral bar and red bull light.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
A baked potato Topped with butter, cheese and ham (Chilli had sold out)
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Cup of tomato and bacon (fat) soup with croutons. 87p.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Hades: Today... Boots Duck Wrap
You'll find that tortillas or pitta bread are much less chewy.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Whopper, fries, Coke.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Minestrone soup (cup'a'soup), Walkers Sun Bites (onion and rosemary flavour), Granny Smith apple (small)
Thatisall
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Hmmmmm... Smocked Salmon and Cream Cheese Bagle. Completly contray to both my only buying cheap lunches and my trying to eat healthyer during jan, plans... i have weak will power. I'm surprised i never took up smoking.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
A cheese and tomato pizza slice and a ham, cheese & pickle sandwich.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
2 x Ginster Steak Slices 1l Sainsbury's Apple & Raspberry Juice Drink
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Boots didnt have the heathly fruit salad i was planning on having today so went for the morocan chicken sandwich of the month instead.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
5 x Jacob's Choice Grain crackers plus half a wodge of Cooperative's Wensleydale with spiced fruit (yummy), then a lemon cheesecake Muller light.
Like an IKEA bookshelf - not exactly balanced, but easy to assemble.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i haven't had any food since the khobez i mentioned earlier.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Three leftover dumplings, a peach slice and some tomato.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Tomato soup, walkers crisps, and an apple.
I've got an Oxo cube for if I get a bit cold later.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
jerk chicken, rice n peas, sweet dumpling.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You're a jerk, chicken.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
Sweet dumplings, though. Peanut butter sandwich, banana, apple. Not really enough.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Keepin' it real.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm drinking my Oxo cube
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm drinking my Oxo cube
bit dry?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I added some water
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's the ticket.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
do you think there's a wider market for drinking drinks made out of powdered cows? Beefy energy drinks? (red bull?) SteakShots? calf-based sparkling 'wine'?
[ 07.01.2010, 09:09: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
Could you not afford a cupasoup? Current climate, i know.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It might be a vegetable oxo cube. You're just assuming it is beef
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Does anyone drink Bovril these days? How amazing is that though. "You can use this as a tasty meaty spread for your breakfast or you can add hot water to make a horrendous hot drink"
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I already had a tomato cup'a'soup for my lunch. This is a post-lunch beef treat.
It's a nice thing to drink when it's warm. Makes you feel cozy.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ahh, a lovely beef treat.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: do you think there's a wider market for drinking drinks made out of powdered cows? Beefy energy drinks? (red bull?) SteakShots? calf-based sparkling 'wine'?
If Red Bull tasted like Bovril I would drink it.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Wouldn't you just drink Bovril?
[ 07.01.2010, 09:11: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I went to Millwall on Saturday, they still sell Bovril there.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Does anyone drink Bovril these days?
bovril is no longer beefy.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I have a Bovril fridge magnet.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Wouldn't you just drink Bovril?
And you're a translator, you say..?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I have a Bovril fridge magnet.
That's no way to talk about your wife!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Why is bovril no longer beefy? Surely the only reason anyone bought bovril instead of marmite was so that they could have a meaty spread for breakfast. It is now redundant.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i like the taste of red bull. raz told me that they used some kind of extract from bull's testicles, and I believed him.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Why is bovril no longer beefy? Surely the only reason anyone bought bovril instead of marmite was so that they could have a meaty spread for breakfast. It is now redundant.
surely we're all hoity-toity enough to have either liver paste or tescos value pate if we want spreadable meat?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: And you're a translator, you say..?
I don't understand. I'm ill, remember.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I don't think I've ever consumed Bovril. In fact I'm not actually sure what it is
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's a yeast thing. It was a beef thing. Like marmite, only made with flesh.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
I'm not sure i've ever eaten bovril. I suppose its only if i really think about it that i fully comprehend that marmite isn't meat based, even though it tastes like no meat on earth. Why would i think marmite was made of meat? Because it looks a bit like bovril. Bewildering.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
same shape jar isn't it.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
There's chicken Bovril, now!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
This has put me right off my beef juice
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
So they're basically relying on noone giving a fuck what bovril or marmite are made of, or being as bewildered as me about the difference between the two? What a waste of a strong brand identity.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: surely we're all hoity-toity enough to have either liver paste or tescos value pate if we want spreadable meat?
Not for breakfast FFS.
[ 07.01.2010, 09:25: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
do you not have pate for breakfast? I have slices of it, fried.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
with a can of vimto and a roll-up.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I always assumed Bovril and Marmite were basically the same thing.
Where does Vegemite factor into all this then?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
while watching washed out VHS videos of Ben Dover's work from the 1980s.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: same shape jar isn't it.
oh yeah. In which case, their decision to de- meat the meaty treat is even more dunderheaded. Unless they're working on the basis that nobody in their right mind wants to spread meat on their food, or drink a cup of hot diluted meat, but that people seem to quite like things that taste like marmite. In which case... thats fair enough actually. Quite sensible.
[ 07.01.2010, 09:33: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I always assumed Bovril and Marmite were basically the same thing.
Where does Vegemite factor into all this then?
that's australian, like Ray Davies and Gay Tattoo Club.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
I stear clear of all of them... horrible stuff.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Especially That Davies fellow..... and the Gay tatoo club.... unless im drunk.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you're on the right track, Hades. How often do you eat pate?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Talk of breakfast pate is not strictily suitable for Lunch Club chat
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Right. I'm off to the pub.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
I had some Macral pate at Chirstmas. True story.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
man even though I'm ill, I could well handle a couple of jars of guiness.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I don't know where this filthy rumour comes from that Bovril doesn't come from cow. My jar is very definitely Beef Extract - extracted from beef. It says so right there.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sometimes when you're ill a few pints by the fire really do the trick.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
I should get out of bed really. Stop lying here in a swathe of sweaty towelling, thinking about bovril. Get up, do something constructive, make a contribution, work towards making my dreams a reality, shoot for the stars, reach for the mountain tops, move forward, dictate the pace of my own very real life journey. Yeah. Bovril. Crazy stuff, for real.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: man even though I'm ill, I could well handle a couple of jars of guiness.
Yeah me too; there's a big night out tonight with all the members of the cast, and I doubt I'll be able to go. If any of you are ever in Birmingham, I know a brilliant pub, where we've had lock-ins till 5am.
[ 07.01.2010, 09:48: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: I don't know where this filthy rumour comes from that Bovril doesn't come from cow. My jar is very definitely Beef Extract - extracted from beef. It says so right there.
yeah sorry i didn't read it right, it was twixt o4 and o6 that it wasn't beefy.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: I don't know where this filthy rumour comes from that Bovril doesn't come from cow. My jar is very definitely Beef Extract - extracted from beef. It says so right there.
Interesting. maybe they do two different lines. Wikipedia is very clear that Bovril is made from yeast extract now. Maybe your jar is wrong?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart:
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: man even though I'm ill, I could well handle a couple of jars of guiness.
Yeah me too; there's a big night out tonight with all the members of the cast, and I doubt I'll be able to go. If any of you are ever in Birmingham, I know a brilliant pub, where we've had lock-ins till 5am.
Oh, I wish I was in birmingham. Then I could meet your girlfriend, the actress.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
She probably won't be able to go either, as her agent is coming to see the show this afternoon, apparently.
Sorry.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
rats.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I didn't know mart's girlfriend was an actress. I'd have thought he'd have mentioned something like that before.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yes, she's an actress. Like Benway's girlfriend, except that mine gets more work, it would seem.
I'm trying to upload a pic of her in action, but it's not letting me.
[ 07.01.2010, 09:55: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm not sure we need to see that, mart. How about a picture of her acting?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
god i hate myself.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I lol'd
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
before I posted that, I thought, this is exactly the kind of thing that cherry in hove might post - do i really want to go there? And I did, and now I regret it.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: before I posted that, I thought, this is exactly the kind of thing that cherry in hove might post - do i really want to go there? And I did, and now I regret it.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Great, now Cherry's upset. Good job, Kanye.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm going back to TMT where I'm appreciated flounce Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Benway's just upset because I described him as "Large" last night.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I blame mart, to be honest. It was him, bragging about his actress girlfriend for the fucking millionth time which caused this.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Benway's just upset because I described him as "Large" last night.
that's true. That happened.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Well, fine. She'll be a doley scumbag come Sunday anyway.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I will be skipping lunch today as I have a hangover.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Really? When I have a hangover I find I need to double up on lunch.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you must have an iron constituion, abby. a serious hangover prevents me from eating until like 6 or 7 pm.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
No way! It totally gives me the hungers. But then I don’t really get nausea hangovers. Except for the one time recently when I woke up in Leicester on a Saturday afternoon, and was sick at Kings Cross station on my way home. That was lols. But I did have a kebab when I got home, which sorted me right out.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
More than once last year I was throwing up until 6pm. I was having to change my work shirt before i left the house because of having sick on it. The nausea is the worst part of it all.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
actually that's not true, because the nausea vanishes. The regret and shame will always be there.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Anyway, lunch was a big-ass chicken schitzel in ciabatta washed down with a lemsip.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Anyway. I'm making spinach, caramelised onion, pistachio and goat's cheese baklava for dinner and there's nothing you can do about it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Anyway. Whatever.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I had chickpea soup. There is only so much joy to be had from chickpea soup (not much).
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I feel pretty bored and depressed.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
You need to surround yourself with some pictures of friends, maybe some snaps of you on holiday with Louise. Catching sight of something like that can really pick you up.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I had chickpea soup. There is only so much joy to be had from chickpea soup (not much).
I disagree. The Sainsbury's spicy chickpea and spinach Moroccan-y one is ver' nice and gives me a reasonable amount of joy.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i'm going to listen to the mini viva song 'left my heart in tokyo'. Might help.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
so far it's just bringing me down more. Thinking of partying, clubbing, discos, girls, socialising.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ah, but the chorus picks me up. Feel a little better. Feel like having a drink. Taking some drugs. Being a bit too forward on a dancefloor. Maybe having to be pulled off a young woman. Punched in the face. Go back home with housemate and lie on the kitchen floor as he destroys the flat in a bourbon rage. All this before term even starts.
[ 08.01.2010, 11:45: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
the song in question. It's got an air of 'violent northern disco' about it. I could imagine a strobe-lit gory bottle fight taking out silently as this track fills every cubic centimetre of iron-tinged space with mechanically recovered pop pap.
[ 08.01.2010, 11:53: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh, it's fine I suppose.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I once watched a strobe-lit fight in a nightclub to the sound of Just a Girl by No Doubt. It's quite a strange, memorable spectacle.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
was it your boyfriends fighting over you.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
No, it was a bouncer dragging a drunk punk off the dancefloor, making a bit of a pig's ear of it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
what were your boyfriends doing at the time.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I wasn't there with a boyfriend. I was there with Vogon Poetess, who was my girlfriend at the time.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: chickpea soup
Isn't that basically more-liquid hummous?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I wasn't there with a boyfriend. I was there with Vogon Poetess, who was my girlfriend at the time.
ok, I'm going to have to believe you this time.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
still listening to that track about leaving your heart in tokyo. Thinking that I should go to tokyo. but also, thinking it would be crazy expensive, really confusing and probably really stressful. Honestly thought "probably be alright if i was going with work, but not on holiday".
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
A chicken and stuffing sandwich. A glass of cold water. A few puffs on a Nicorette® Inhalator.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Homemade veggie goulash stuff, brewed up in a huge vat (i.e. pressure cooker) on Sunday night, using many elderly (in some cases positively decrepit) vegetables including several tins with BBE dates ending in 2008.
Inna flask.
Tasty but thankfully I have only one portion left to eat, I hadn't got room left in the freezer to stash portions so I've been eating it for every meal but breakfast ever since.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
How are your stools?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
three-legged.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I did in fact use up a whole cauliflower plus a load of pulses, so fairly healthy, I'd say.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: A few puffs on a Nicorette® Inhalator.
what...too weak from hunger to smoke an actual cigarette? Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: what...too weak from hunger to smoke an actual cigarette?
No - too cold.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Check this out that is stuck on the vending machine. Poor person seems really traumatised.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Avocado, chicken and bacon with blue cheese baguette. Broad bean soup.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
HAH! That rat is the best thing that has happened for ages! Genuine dead-rat or sedated stunt-rat?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I don't know for sure. It wasn't my lunch, btw. I found it here: *
quote:There are famous man-animal partnerships from history
?
[ 13.01.2010, 10:26: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
I've been sticking to my bring-lunch-from-home regiem this week. but am now getting a bit bored of Ham sandwiches.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
You need to add some good mustard. Not everyday, though, just occasionally as a treat.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
pasty.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: You need to add some good mustard. Not everyday, though, just occasionally as a treat.
God no. Hate the stuff.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Poor child.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
schnitzel.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh and some cake.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Tomato cuppa soup, apple, plain hula hoops.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
shouldn't have had that cake, but what the heck.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips, eh benway?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I've stuffed my face today.
Canteen porridge Pretzel snack pack Salad pot White chocolate Angel Delight pot (gotta love our idiosyncratic canteen menu)
2 x large tea 1 x regular tea
Out for Yo Sushi tonight whilst shopping, no doubt will continue the stuffage then.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: I've stuffed my face today.
Canteen porridge Pretzel snack pack Salad pot White chocolate Angel Delight pot (gotta love our idiosyncratic canteen menu)
2 x large tea 1 x regular tea
Out for Yo Sushi tonight whilst shopping, no doubt will continue the stuffage then.
I hope you're joking, this sounds like a diet to me.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
How can you stuff yourself at Yo Sushi? Surely even if you ate everything on the carousel you wouldn't feel remotely well fed.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
A mate of mine got a job as a manager of a Yo Sushi and turned it down during the training because the hygiene was so grim.
Just a thought for you there.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Bah. People make way too much fuss about hygiene. It's what's giving the germs the upper hand.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
what kind of problems did your friend, the manager report?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
The one I remember is that under the conveyor belt had never been cleaned, ever.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
could end up with a mangled hand if you clean under there.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I am currently roasting a duck. I don't know how it's going to turn out, as I've never roasted a duck before.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it'll probably be fine, mart.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I certainly hope so. Imagine ruining a whole duck, out of rubbish-cookingness.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I don't think the duck cares either way
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
The duck is dead, and is therefore oblivious to everything. I wouldn't cook a live duck!
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
that doesn't make any sense
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
What doesn't?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
that you wouldn't cook a live duck but that you'd cook one that someone else has already killed for you. it's dead either way.
anyway, I hope your duck turns out tender and juicy.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think there's a bit of a difference between a duck dying by being shot or having its neck snapped than it just being shoved in the oven.
And it would still be covered in feathers!
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Well, there's a difference, isn't there, in killing a duck quickly, prior to cooking it, using, say, a blow to the head with a large hammer, perhaps, and killing a duck by slowly roasting it in an oven, with an orange stuffed up its arse.
A difference, I say, in terms of, well, general decency with regard to the duck's feelings, although I'll grant you that the duck does indeed end up dead either way, so this regard for decency is extremely relative.
Thanks for the good wishes about the dead duck in my oven, though.
[ 14.01.2010, 13:56: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
not to the duck there isn't
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
One interesting thing to observe was dunking the uncooked (but dead) bird in boiling water, and seeing the skin tighten around the body. That was quite cool and made me feel like I'd done something right for once.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yes. A duck is a very fatty bird so you want to get some of that out before cooking it. You can pierce the skin and pour a couple of kettles of boiling water over it. This helps it go a bit crispier than it would if it were swimming in fat.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yes. I placed it in boiling water for a bit yesterday, then left it to dry overnight, and then seasoned it bigstyle and pricked the skin before cooking (hot and then medium and then hot again), and it came out rather well. I managed to cut the bird in half, down the backbone, with absolute success, but then got a bit shy about how to go about it from there, so we had half a duck each on our plates, which we ate half of, and it was lovely.
Good old duck.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: How can you stuff yourself at Yo Sushi? Surely even if you ate everything on the carousel you wouldn't feel remotely well fed.
I can report back that I had the following plates:
1 x chicken katsu curry 1 x pumpkin korroke 1 x avocado nori 1 x chicken katsu roll 1 x tofu salad
1 x small Asahi 1 x fizzy water
- and I was indeed absolutely stuffed, thanks mainly to the curry plate.
all for the princely sum of £12.59 as they've got a 40% off deal at the moment on the conveyor food, and since they were not busy we got the discount on all of the special ordered stuff and not just the conveyor stuff.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Lunch today will be a pint of guinness and thai beef spicy noodles.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I'm still wondering what to have for breakfast.
Options:
Porridge, cooked with cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla essence, topped with maple syrup and sliced banana
Eggs on toast, or maybe French toast, with maple syrup, or eggs and fried potatoes, or a potato, spring onion and cheese omelette, or something like that
Duck Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Go for the porridge.
Serve the duck later, with a glass of orange juice.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
put the duck in the porridge.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
That sounds like some gay-ass porridge.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Freeze the duck quickly, make some really thick porridge and put it in an oven proof bowl and make some dents in it. Break eggs into the dents and then put that in the oven so you get baked eggs in porridge. Garnish with shaved frozen duck. Sounds like a breakfast of champions to me.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Oh yeah.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
put the whole lot up your arse.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
If you're going to do that, allow the porridge to cool down first.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
and make sure the duck is dead
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It's going to end up in your arse one way or another so you might as well cut to the chase. Probably less fattening that way too.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
imagine if your arse had tastebuds.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you don't have to imagine that if you don't want to.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: It's going to end up in your arse one way or another so you might as well cut to the chase.
In that case, why not put it straight down the toilet. (make sure the duck is dead)
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: imagine if your arse had tastebuds.
It would give porn stars an opportunity to say how good it tastes without breaking the "don't talk with your mouth full" rule.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: you don't have to imagine that if you don't want to.
the picture that immediately came to mind- and i dont like my mind for this- was of a LAMPREY. a lamprey doenst look much like a bumhole, but thats what my mind did to me.
LAMPREY!!
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
even as pictures of lampreys go, thats an unusually revolting picture.
LAMPREY! dont you think someone should write a really simple, repetitive, grinding metal tune called lamprey, where the only lyric is the word 'lamprey' shouted over and over again? dont you think that? i think that.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I was thinking the same thing recently over the phrase "peaches fucking geldof". The moment has probably passed for that though.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
What is that thing?
A lamprey is a parasitic marine/aquatic animal with a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth. Translated directly, the name lamprey means stone licker (lambere: to lick, and petra: stone). While lampreys are well known for those species which bore into the flesh of...
Thank you Commander Data.
... Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sweet. I cannot read that without actually hearing it in my head as if it was really real.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Captain I'm sensing deep disgust Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I think that goes without saying, counsellor. Commander Data, open hailing frequencies. Let's see what our 'new friend' wants from us.
Hailing frequencies open, Captain
This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. We mean you no harm. May I know with whom I am speaking?
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Commander Data, is there any way that this... Lamprey... might understand us? Some other means of communication perhaps?
Captain, I believe that the Lamprey species prefers communication via the human anus
[ 15.01.2010, 08:45: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
We had duck sandwiches in the end
Top down: Bread Mayo Tomato Mustard Lettuce Duck skin, fried Duck breast Mayo Bread
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I see. Ensign Roe - can you call Commander Riker to the bridge? I believe that is a job for a more ...experienced... officer
Aye Captain
Riker to Bridge
We require your skills as an interpreter. Please join us on the Bridge.
Right away Captain.
[ 15.01.2010, 08:43: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm pretty sure it was Worf that would open hailing frequencies.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sorry i get carried away.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
lol, my boss approached me as I was reading that.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm pretty sure it was Worf that would open hailing frequencies.
you're right.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Interestingly enough I'm on a site where Wil Wheaton is a regular poster.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That might not be very interesting at all though.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
is it wilwheaton.com
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
No it is not.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Captain you wanted to see me?
I -
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Captain, I'm now picking up a powerful feeling of -
Not now, thank you Counsellor Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm pretty sure it was Worf that would open hailing frequencies.
What would happen if Picard asked Data to do it? Say, if Worf was ill, or on a planet or something. Would Data refuse, saying "No, that's not my job". Would that prompt Picard to shout "What is this? A fucking trade union? Open the fucking hailing frequencies, Data, and if you refuse to obey a simple order again I'll load you into the photon missile chamber and fire you into the fucking sun. For fuck's sake."
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't think that would happen as it was quite a family friendly show so I don't think there would be swearing.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
So something more like "This isn't a union, Commander Data. When I ask you to open hailing frequencies I expect you to do it and if you question my orders again you might find yourself calculating how long your synthetic brain can survive being fired into the centre of the sun."
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That's just not as good. I know people say that swearing shows a lack of imagination, but that really lacks something.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Also, it sounds less like Jean Luc Picard, and more like Arnold Rimmer.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
In the days before the Internet I paid a whole £1 for a floppy disc containing Public Domain applications for the Archimedes. Oddly, it also included a text file of a ST:TNG fanfic that starred Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It's unlikely that Data would be asked to do it, to be honest. Data outranks Worf so if Worf was on holiday or something, then a junior bridge officer would be manning his post. Not a senior officer.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
No lamprey though, iirc.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: It's unlikely that Data would be asked to do it, to be honest. Data outranks Worf so if Worf was on holiday or something, then a junior bridge officer would be manning his post. Not a senior officer.
Surely... I mean. If Data was literally standing right next to the console... You know. Sometimes my boss might ask me to pop out and get some milk, and I don't say "no get one of the interns to do it". I mean. He can push a fucking button can't he? What's his problem?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I dunno, I just don't see it. Why would he be standing around back there? It's a totally different part of the bridge from the Conn station. Is he just, like, stretching his legs or something? And where's Worf? Who's flying the ship while Data is wandering aimlessly around the bridge? It just doesn't add up.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: if Worf was on holiday
Do they have holidays?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Several episodes have revolved around things that have happened while various characters have been on shore-leave
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
He can, but that's going to fuck up the whole hierarchy thing. Imagine it the janitor had broken his leg and Picard walked into the toilet to take a dump and there were skid marks all around the bowl and then Riker walks into the bathroom, Picard isn't going to go "Oh Riker, can you scrub the toilet bowl please so I can crap on a clean toilet". That's going to cause issues as Riker is going to be thinking that cleaning of toilet bowls isn't what he signed up to and resentment will build up.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Why would he be standing around back there? It's a totally different part of the bridge from the Conn station. Is he just, like, stretching his legs or something? And where's Worf? Who's flying the ship while Data is wandering aimlessly around the bridge?
These are all tough questions Picard would have to answer when he gets reprimanded in his annual review. He'd probably just sit and shrug and look at his hands.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Several episodes have revolved around things that have happened while various characters have been on shore-leave
That's true, yes.
I should remember that, as a couple of years ago, Kellifer and I watched every episode of TNG - one a night for a good few months. When we'd finished them, we watched the first episode of DS9. We didn't really bother with Star Trek after that.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
picard has a ready room for matters of personal sanitation and comfort, he probably doesn't share his number ones with number one.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
According to the Star Trek TNG interactive technical manual, there is a toilet for bridge staff towards the back of the bridge ont he left hand side. The door to it is opposite the door to the briefing room.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: He can, but that's going to fuck up the whole hierarchy thing. Imagine it the janitor had broken his leg and Picard walked into the toilet to take a dump and there were skid marks all around the bowl and then Riker walks into the bathroom, Picard isn't going to go "Oh Riker, can you scrub the toilet bowl please so I can crap on a clean toilet". That's going to cause issues as Riker is going to be thinking that cleaning of toilet bowls isn't what he signed up to and resentment will build up.
But asking Riker to clean shit off the bowl is demeaning. You can't compare it.
I dunno. If I was Picard I'd expect people to - like - chip in with things even if they're not strictly within their job parameters and I'd get annoyed if they said they wouldn't. I mean. Riker there is about to have a Lamprey attached onto his anus, and Data is complaining about dialling an external number? Gimme a fucking break.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
If Star Trek - The Next Generation were a reality TV show, who would you vote off first?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Probably Worf. His weird head disturbs me.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Racist.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
d
[ 15.01.2010, 09:49: Message edited by: Tilde ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Racist.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ensign tilde, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to relieve you of UBB duties.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
CiH: well xenophobic.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: He can, but that's going to fuck up the whole hierarchy thing. Imagine it the janitor had broken his leg and Picard walked into the toilet to take a dump and there were skid marks all around the bowl and then Riker walks into the bathroom, Picard isn't going to go "Oh Riker, can you scrub the toilet bowl please so I can crap on a clean toilet". That's going to cause issues as Riker is going to be thinking that cleaning of toilet bowls isn't what he signed up to and resentment will build up.
But asking Riker to clean shit off the bowl is demeaning. You can't compare it.
I dunno. If I was Picard I'd expect people to - like - chip in with things even if they're not strictly within their job parameters and I'd get annoyed if they said they wouldn't. I mean. Riker there is about to have a Lamprey attached onto his anus, and Data is complaining about dialling an external number? Gimme a fucking break.
Not really the point though is it. If your security officer is missing, for no apparent reason, and nobody has seen fit to take up the post (a critical responsibility in terms of shipwide operations), and one of the most senior officers on the bridge is also away from his post - roaming around without a purpose while the ship simply drifts through space without a pilot - then the issue of who opens the fucking hailing frequencies should be the last thing on your mind. There has clearly been a fundamental breakdown in the chain of command. And while we’re mentioning it - why isn’t Riker on the bridge as well? Is it just Picard and Data desperately trying to fill in for the rest of the bridge staff, who have just decided they’ve got better things to do with their day than do their jobs?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Riker was in engineering investigating reports of a breach to the warp core.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
turned out that a glitch in the holodeck was causing anomolies readings.
If i was picard, the first thing I'd do would be to rip out that fucking holodeck.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Well, maybe it's one of those episodes where everyone acts a bit weird. Maybe the Lamprey is giving off some kind of psychic wave that's making everyone do out-of-character things, like Worf being off the bridge or making the red headed doctor flirt with Wesley Crusher. That kind of thing.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
A breach of the warp core?! If the core had been breached you'd bloody know about it - half the ship would be missing!
And what's Riker doing down in engineering looking at the fucking warp core when that's Geordie's job?
If that's the best excuse he can come up with he should probably start looking for another career.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Star Trek TNG is pretty sexist when you think about it. The only two female characters are a doctor and a counsellor. I mean, jesus...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
In space, nobody, especially line managers, can you hear you scream, let alone voice your thoughts about needing to move on to new challenges and taking on more responsibility.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: If i was picard, the first thing I'd do would be to rip out that fucking holodeck.
The staff wouldn't like that. First you're asking them to make phone calls, even though that's someone else's job, and the next thing you're doing is taking away their main leisure activity because of 'health and safety' regulations. It's political correctness gone mad.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: the red headed doctor flirt with Wesley Crusher. That kind of thing.
I think it is quite clear that the red headed doctor (Whatever her name is) and Wesley Crusher had something going on. There was definitely some tension there. I reckon they were taking late night trips to the holodeck together a lot.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Who'd pretend they were going to the holodeck to do some snowboarding and actually program for a gang bang with the female crew? (with fluffing from Q)
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm pretty sure they could just replace it with, like, some squash courts and maybe a gym. Or even a cinema or something. Hell, they could probably get some films up on that viewscreen of theirs if they weren't all wandering around trying to work out whose job it was to press the bloody button.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
unlikely that an alien lifeforce could take over the squash courts and use them to imprison the crew / control the ship / manifest themselves.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
You'd have to program a tin-opener to get a go on Troi though. Those councelling uniforms were tight.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
unless they wanted to manifest themselves as a squash racquet or a damp towel.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
An unwashed towel can spread all sorts of bacterial diseases.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
She must have fucking loved it though. I mean, she could sense what people were thinking, so she had to have known that every time someone got within a few metres of her they were checking out her camel toe. And yet it wasn't until the last season that she even put on a proper uniform. All those years. She knew exactly was she was doing. The fucking prick tease.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: There was definitely some tension there.
Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) once posted on his blog about having a crush on that flame haired doctor.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Wil Wheaton also said here "Dear Pat Robertson: Die in a fire, you fucking piece of shit ghoul." yesterday.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
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Commander Riker, I believe that we are in need of your assistance in the recreation facility
Aye Captain. Riker out.
*sigh* Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Oh. Wil Wheaton also said
quote:Ah, okay, so to answer the OP's question: The way I remember it, the replicators worked in concert with the Holodeck to create consumable like food and drinks and snowballs and wonderful, wonderful sweaters in every horrible color and fashion teenage space nerds could ever hope to wear. So the Holodeck technology would build the bar, for example, but the replicator technology within the Holodeck would make the food and the drinks.
I'm sure someone with access to an official encyclopedia or time to go searching at Memory Alpha could give a more technobabble-heavy answer, should this not suffice. I'd do it myself, but I'm currently writing about 11001001 for my next Memories of the Future book, and I'm sort of preoccupied with Minuet at the moment.
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Wasn't there a short-haired blonde woman who stood at the back of the bridge, in charge of security, or something, who died quite early on? I really fancied her.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm pretty sure they could just replace it with, like, some squash courts and maybe a gym.
It would be utterly gutting to get back from shore-leave to discover the holodeck had been replaced with a squash court and maybe a gym.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Wheaton needs to go easy on the sarcasm. But then, we all saw this nasty streak within him when he was trying to cover up that accident at Starfleet Academy.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Wasn't there a short-haired blonde woman who stood at the back of the bridge, in charge of security, or something, who died quite early on? I really fancied her.
tasha yarr. She popped up again later during one of the many time distortions caused by concentrations of chronotons.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I remember her! I think I've seen the episode where she dies.
Also, According to her wikipedia page she was schlonged by Data.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I named one of my cats tasha in memory of her. she eventually died too.
shakes fist at god Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think pretty much everyone and everything eventually dies ralph. You can't get angry at god each time someone or something dies.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
*Bzzzbzzztttttttt* Hmmn...Interesting... Hello everyone I come from the past..future, I'm not really sure.. I.. er..
Captain this is most illogical, Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have transported approximately 100 years into the future
Whooah, really? so I guess that would make me 145 years old huh..?
... Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Spock, what's that you're holding behind your back?
...it's nothing Captain, just something I invented for the convenient consumption of nutritional matter if one is in a situation where one has limited time to consume aforementioned solids and perhaps are reading a newspaper with your other hand
Cut the crap Spock, show me.
Very well Captain. It's a cross between a spoon and a fork. I'm going to call it a Spock.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I like these Star Trek pictorials. I would like you all to keep posting them for the rest of the day.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Natasha Yar
quote:Natasha Yar, of Ukrainian descent, was born on Turkana IV, a colony that fell into chaos and eventually severed ties to the United Federation of Planets. Tasha learned to defend herself on the streets and avoid rape gangs. She left Turkana IV at age 15, leaving her younger sister behind, and later attended Starfleet Academy.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
"rape gangs" sounds like a Daily Mail invention.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:One of the only bright spots in her life was finding a cat, which she attempted to protect while being chased by a rape gang.
That makes it sound like she ultimately failed to protect the cat. From a rape gang.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
W...w...why? Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
if I formed a gangsta rap crew, that's what they'd be called.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
ROOWWWRRRWOOOWAAAARRGH Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I think if you look hard enough you can find pictures of her with her class-DD planets out on the internet.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's one away team I wouldn't mind being a part of , etc.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
In a bizarre coincidence, I just went to sort something out on a girl's computer, and she had a little star fleet insignia dealy stuck to the corner of her monitor. I didn't comment on it.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I did a search on the BBC website for rape gangs and found this
quote: a quarter of all the boys interviewed said that 'jackrolling' - a South African term for recreational gang rape - was fun.
recreational gang rape? As opposed to what, exactly?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Has anyone seen This Ain't Star Trek? Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: recreational gang rape? As opposed to what, exactly?
Prescription gang rape.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: gang rape? As opposed to what, exactly?
Business gang rape, with briefcases, bowler hats and spreadsheets.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Why does it always come back to rape with you people?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Has anyone seen This Ain't Star Trek?
I haven't. But! It's got Evan Stone in it, so I might download it.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
You can't really blame us for the uprising of Turkana IV
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Why does it always come back to rape with you people?
It was Misc's fault. I did actually think about not posting that comment on the grounds that - you know - maybe not every thread had to wind up being about rape. But I caved.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm not sure what point I was trying to make there. I just found it pretty amusing and wanted to share. Maybe I should have put some hilarious quip underneath with him saying "Doctor Crusher, please raise the shields!" or something.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: "Doctor Crusher, please raise the shields!"
Why would a doctor be raising the shields?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
number one, I do believe that our visitors from planet lamprey have returned.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
You could have done the Riker pic with Riker saying "Captain I will now attempt to communicate with the Lamprey on it's own terms" and then 'cut to' that picture of Picard (so it looks like he's looking like that because he's watching Riker trying to get the Lamprey to attach to his anus).
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm not very good at this game, sorry.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
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[ 15.01.2010, 11:13: Message edited by: Tilde ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
"A lamprey?"
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
"Dr Crusher, please raise the shields or something"
[ 15.01.2010, 11:23: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That's like an east european bootleg of the next generation that gets show at 2 in the morning on channel four.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
that's great. Star Trek TNG is great. Fuck Glee.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
all of the tng images need to be put into an engine where you can use drop downs, radio buttons and textboxes to create your own episode by sequencing images, adding text and sound effects. Like ytmnd but just creating tng episodes. with an intro screen, music etc. That you can make into flash, embed, and send your friends. That shit would be popular. I am just saying.
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
One day verbal communication will be entirely replaced by showing pictures of Jonathan Frakes.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
once you've got the engine, you could use it for all other tv shows ever.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh hi Kevin how are you?
Gee, Winnie, I -
I AM NEVER GOING TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
It's a great idea, but wouldn't it get taken down by The Man?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it doesn't work for the wonder years.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's played out now, let's all stop.
for the record, that schnitzel that you may remember me mentioning was the last thing i ate. And that was yesterday lunchtime. No real reason for this fasting, just forgot to eat, and have been living off cold remedies.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I just nearly gave myself a hernia trying not to lol at work. Well played, all.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Picard walked into the toilet to take a dump
I can't believe nobody made a Captain's Log joke here you know...
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
We're classier than that. TMO Is a class act.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i had chicken + rice. Was fine.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Are you bodybuilding?
I had carrot, rosemary and lentil soup. It was much worse than it sounds.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Chicken soup, apple, crisps and a muller crunch corner. Yummy
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Are you bodybuilding?
no.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Well, you've got the diet for a bodybuilder going on, just lift some weights, do some crunches, feel the burn etc and you'll be so buff that women will want to squeeze your biceps as you walk around London.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
the chicken was with a fairly creamy spicy coconut sauce, so probably not ideal for getting ripped. had a mcdonalds later on, sitting in a window seat in the one by oxford circus, in what felt like possibly the bleakest moment of 2010.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i also went to selfridges and walked around 'the wonder room' where all the jewellery costs more money that you'll ever have. That also felt bleak.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Fuck money.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's true. I'm considering playing the Star Trek mmo when it launches. Is that bad?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
No - you should embrace it. It's the kind of thing you would never get to do if you were the kind of person who bought jewellry from the Selfridges Wonder Room.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's true.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Wonder Room as in 'wonder what sort of horrendous human being I'd have to be to afford anything in here'
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: that's true. I'm considering playing the Star Trek mmo when it launches. Is that bad?
I believe Star Trek MMO is doing an offer for a lifetime pass for something like $300 which will probably come out to £300 somehow by the magic of american companies hating us, but then you'd have to play it for at least 2 years to get value for money.
I'd totally get back into WOW or Star Trek if Kate left me
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: the chicken was with a fairly creamy spicy coconut sauce, so probably not ideal for getting ripped. had a mcdonalds later on
To be honest, it sounds like you're not taking your bodybuilding very seriously.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: had a mcdonalds later on, sitting in a window seat in the one by oxford circus, in what felt like possibly the bleakest moment of 2010.
I like that kind of thing…its like…if there was a big disaster of some sort right now, nobody would ever think to look for me in Camberwell KFC! I’m not quite sure why it seems like a cool thing to hide from your loved ones in the event of large scale civil disasters though. Doesn’t sound like a good idea when I say it out loud…
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Starting early this morning, abby?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: that's true. I'm considering playing the Star Trek mmo when it launches. Is that bad?
I believe Star Trek MMO is doing an offer for a lifetime pass for something like $300 which will probably come out to £300 somehow by the magic of american companies hating us, but then you'd have to play it for at least 2 years to get value for money.
yeah i know. But the idea of an mmo that i can play at any time without ever feeling pressured into it, or constantly having to assess its value is tempting.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
anyway, whatever, this is about lunch, not computer games. sorry.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't know what I'm having for lunch. Soup or salad I guess.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
trying to shed a few pounds?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yeah Thinking about taking up jogging. Depressing stuff. I was going to start earlier in January and had got all the stuff ready to go out jogging the next morning then I woke up and the entire place was covered in ice so I gave that a miss and haven't motivated myself to start again.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Also trying to save money as Kate has gone down to statuatory pay now and I'm still trying to save more money for house deposit so we can move in the near future. bleak times.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm still contemplating star trek online. I just don't know if I can seriously commit the kind of time required to kill enough tribbles or whatever, to level up to the point where I don't completely suck. I would look back at the hundreds of hours spent learning to play a computer game which I will ultimately one day ditch in favour of something else, and wonder if my time may have been more productively spent learning a new skill, or studying an OU course, or just sitting in my living room staring blankly at the wall while contemplating all the money I'm not spending on building a skillset which will only ever impress star trek geeks.
It's a tough call.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
jogging is alright. I was doing 10k two or three times a week for a while there. Ankles started going weird though. Stopped.
Your life does sound pretty bleak, but at least you have a baby, which seems to be 'all the rage' at the moment.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I momentarily considered doing a computer science degree last night. For about twenty minutes. I told Louise I was thinking about it, and she said it sounded like a good idea, and then the idea faded, as if just telling somebody that i was thinking about it somehow caused me to feel like I'd achieved something.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's louise's birthday today. Happy birthday louise. She won't be reading this.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I don't get to do a lot of exercise since moving. I used to have a nice 6 mile journey to work which could be walked or cycled, which kept me in shape. Now my walk to work is about 15-20 minutes, which does nothing for my fitness or fatness. The latter of which has incresed considerably over the past few months, to a fairly horrifying extent. Now I'm going to have to look at doing proper 'exercise'. Y'know, stuff which doesn't just involve going to work in a slightly inconvenient manner.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I was going to start an accounting course this year to try to get some skills for if I get made redundant here but now I'm starting as an executive (lol) in February I've put that idea on the back burner for a bit.
Ringo, The problem with MMOs is that they are generally only a little bit to do with how good you are at the game and mostly to do with how good your equipment is which means the people with the advantage are those with no job who can spend 18 hours a day grinding equipment and money. That was the problem with WOW. We'd have two big 40 man raids a week so that was from about 7pm to midnight that I would be doing those, but you had to get all the stuff for the raids, so potions, enchantments etc, which means you're either going to have to spend hours each night grinding or spend actual cash to buy gold to get to the same level as people who can play all the time.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
getting fat is one of the side effects of moving in with a loved one.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Thinking about it, playing Star Trek online is probably going to be contrary to my goal of increasing my fitness.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
It takes a lot longer than twenty minutes to do a computer science degree, Benway.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Of course Star Trek may have worked this issue out somehow.
Happy Birthday Louise. I hope Benway got you something great. Perhaps a nice Vertu phone?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: getting fat is one of the side effects of moving in with a loved one.
Yeah, I think the only way to avoid it is to be one of those couples that go out jogging together, but there is something wrong with that.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You see them there in the mornings or evenings jogging together, looking happy about the fact they're getting fit together. I can't think of anything worse. Smug *****.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Oh, perhaps we could get matching jogging outfits? That would be good. Wankers.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Fuck jogging, I'm going to eat cake instead.
I made american style blueberry pancakes with golden syrup last night. I did four for each of us and I was stuffed after two, but I still ate my remaining two and the one that Kate couldn't eat.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Of course Star Trek may have worked this issue out somehow.
Happy Birthday Louise. I hope Benway got you something great. Perhaps a nice Vertu phone?
i got her one of the roberts revival radios.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Of course I took a photo of it to show off online. That is probably equally as ******* as couples going jogging together.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Is it on a stupid two-tone square plate? Link please.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Nice. We've got one of those, but an old non-DAB one. It's in the kitchen but seems to tune into nothing but radio 2 and I always seem to be doing things in the kitchen when they've got country music hour or something so I generally do things in the kitchen in silence.
Although recently I've been listening to some gaming podcast on my phone whilst cooking and washing up as I can play it through the main phone speaker seeing as I lost my headphones so that has been good.
I actually listened to the latest episode of controller throw this morning while doing some exciting data analysis. Still seemed to be catching some sort of lies about Trials HD scoreboards.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Is it on a stupid two-tone square plate? Link please.
Is it not about time you bought some new plates?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It is. We've got about £200 put aside for new plates but we're having issues find a set that we both like. We got a canteen of really nice cutlery so we really do need a nice dinner service but it is just finding the appropriate ones that is proving hard.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
200 quid on plates? Have you lost your mind?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Are they magic plates?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
perhaps they have built in wifi / 3g so they automatically send updates to facebook + flickr.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Round and white. It's not that difficult.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you can monitor their temperature from anywhere in the world.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: we really do need a nice dinner service
No. You don't. Because the trouble with a nice dinner service is that you never use it in case it gets chipped or broken and isn't 'nice' any more, so it sits in the cupboard for twenty-five years (long past the point when you actually like it) until you split up and then you fight over who has to take it and get stuck with a gravy boat, sauce pot and other items of non-everyday use.
Buy Bridgewater. Pretty and functional.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you can get white plates in ikea.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It wouldn't be £200 just on plates, but 8 dinner plates, 8 side plates, 8 bowls etc could quite easily get to £200. There is some nice denby stuff that I've seen. here. It's a bit annoying it's claims to be James Martin as I don't particularly want stuff sponsored by a TV chef but it is nice.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Salad looked disappointing today and the choices of soup were cauliflower or pork minestrone neither of which appealed so I now don't know what I'm going to have for lunch. I might go to co-op and get a hoisin duck wrap or some sushi.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
They're round and white. Like countless other round and white, and much cheaper, plates. Just buy any old shit.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
They have a bit on the sides like a different height bit, it gives a little bit of interest. I don't think I want just plain white plates.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
wraps really are depressing lunches aren't they.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Buy whatever fucking plates you want. I don't care. I'm so over this conversation. You never listen to me anyway.
You've changed.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I quite like them. On the rare occasions when I buy my lunch, I'll always go for a wrap.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
the fillings are dry, they are always too cold, and they have no taste.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: the fillings are dry, they are always too cold, and they have no taste.
They're also not filling enough. The bread-product to stuff-inside ratio is wrong.
Cherry have you got a cooking blog?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: You've changed.
I didn't want to be the one to bring this up, but you're right. CiH has changed. When I first knew him, there's no way he would have considered spending £200 on plates. In fact, it would have been outright weird, and probably the precursor to some kind of mental breakdown. He wouldn't have been excited about having a daughter either. He probably would have been frightened and confused, and ashamed. Probably would have been completely overwhelmed with a feeling that he couldn't handle the responsibility. Probably crack up and suddenly buy £200 worth of crockery in a desperate bid to feel prepared for adult life.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you could get a lifetime subscription to star trek for only a little bit more. Seems like a better use of money.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
mart, you'll be delighted to hear that my girlfriend went to more auditions last night. Let's keep our fingers crossed for her.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't have a cooking blog, I just post food pictures on TMT really.
It's a bit mean to mock Mart about his girlfriend not being an actress any more Benway. You've changed.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
That's great Benway. Broken legs and all that. My girlfriend is at an audition at this very moment.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i hope you regularly mention your favourite podcast on tmt.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: That's great Benway. Broken legs and all that. My girlfriend is at an audition at this very moment.
I hope she breaks her legs.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: i hope you regularly mention your favourite podcast on tmt.
I shall start mentioning it Benway. I'm not sure it will get you many new listeners as very few people very are interested in computer games.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Visit controllerthrow.com to hear about games you probably beat a year ago!
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Jimmy Cliff.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
do they give you shit about your stupid plates over there? Or are you revered as some kind of professor of dinner? Do you have a different attitude there? A different persona?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
There's something really wrong with the world when people are spending hundreds of pounds on shit looking plates just so they can take pictures of their dinners which may or may not taste like warm shit, just to impress a bunch of cretins on the internet.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm a cretin, on the internet. I'm also a "cretin on the internet".
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
They hate my plates. Really really hate them.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
good.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: There's something really wrong with the world when people are spending hundreds of pounds on shit looking plates just so they can take pictures of their dinners which may or may not taste like warm shit, just to impress a bunch of cretins on the internet.
I'm spending money on plates because I love cooking and eating and I like food to look nice. I like having people around for dinner and it would be nice to have a nice dinner service to dish stuff up on. It isn't just to impress people on the internet. Anyway, £200 for something you're going to use daily for years isn't really a lot of money.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: £200 for something you're going to use daily for years isn't really a lot of money.
you're right. I'd be an idiot not to go with star trek.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I ended up getting a Tesco Finest Roast Beef sandwich reduced to £1.65 and a half price ginsters chicken and mushroom slice which was 79p. I'm not sure this is as slimming as soup but it was quite cheap. Still 2 1/2 times as expensive as soup.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: There's something really wrong with the world when people are spending hundreds of pounds on shit looking plates just so they can take pictures of their dinners which may or may not taste like warm shit, just to impress a bunch of cretins on the internet.
I'm spending money on plates because I love cooking and eating and I like food to look nice. I like having people around for dinner and it would be nice to have a nice dinner service to dish stuff up on. It isn't just to impress people on the internet. Anyway, £200 for something you're going to use daily for years isn't really a lot of money.
Didn't we have this whole argument years ago with Mikee and ben?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yes. Mikee was right, Ben was wrong and that is why Ben left the boards because he was so ashamed about being so wrong.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I love cooking and eating and I like food to look nice.
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I ended up getting a Tesco Finest Roast Beef sandwich reduced to £1.65 and a half price ginsters chicken and mushroom slice which was 79p.
Hmmm...
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
FINEST
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Yes. Mikee was right, Ben was wrong and that is why Ben left the boards because he was so ashamed about being so wrong.
Well, I think that was a little bit different. Mikee was on about impliments for cooking, not about fancy plates. Plates which, by the looks of it, are only distinguishable from these cheap ones because they have a slight geometrical difference in the shape of the rim. And while you could happily argue that high-end cookware does ultimately contribute towards the quality of the meal produced, I think you'd have a harder time justifying the same claim with regards to two almost-identical plates. Certainly not to the degree that you'd pay something like twenty times the amount for one.
Anyway, whatever. I really don't care that much. It just seems like completely bizarre behaviour to me. Not wanting your food to look good. I can understand that. But the whole taking pictures thing. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Actually cheap plates break a lot more easily, so it can be worth spending more. If it's for nice stuff that you'd get pleasure out of looking at/using on a daily basis then why not? I'm sure CiH isn't JUST planning to use them as online-photo props. I spent money before Christmas on wooden wall-racks for the kitchen that I didn't need, but absolutely love.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Well, the reason for posting the pictures isn't just to show off, it is also to share around ideas for food. I get loads of ideas for food from that site and so it is good to have pictures. Obviously you can just go for recipes but it is a lot quicker to have a quick scan at a picture to see if it is something you are going to like and steal ideas from that it is to read the recipe.
Yes the plates ultimately don't make a difference but I like eating from nice plates. It makes me feel happy to sit down to a meal with everything looking as good as possible and cooking and eating is something that uses all of your senses and whilst sight might not be as important to the process as smell and taste, it still helps making a nice meal slightly more pleasurable. And as I said, £200 for something that will be used for years really isn't much.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
If you like eating from nice plates, why have you been using those horrible white and black things for so long?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't mind them. I think they're alright.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Bah, I just don't understand you CiH. It's like we're from different planets.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I find what CiH does with the taking of pictures of his dishes and posting them on Flickr to be sort of, I don't know, there's something about it I like. Admire even. It's clear he really is passionate about the creating of the food and taken a picture is helping to remember each occasion. I've cooked meals literally years ago and forgotten about them... wondered why I'd never made the dish again. That sort of thing. Bear in mind though, I think his plates are gaylords and if they came around my manor my fragile white ones would kick their asses.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
For me, a plate is just something to stop the dinner going on your lap.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's almost like people attach different levels of importance to different things. For example, for me a car is just something for getting from A to B which is why I drive an ancient second hand skoda that cost me nothing. It is something that I have no interest in improving as I like to spend as little time in a car as possible and so as long as it runs that is fine with me but to you a car is something that you like and are prepared to spend more money on.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Which would make a lot of sense if I had no interest whatsoever in food. But as my rapidly expanding waistline can attest - nothing could be further from the truth. But the photos thing. It just seems like showing off to me. Yes, you can try and justify it by saying that you're sharing your meal ideas with other people but I don't really buy that. I get the impression that the whole point of the exercise is to show off how much time and attention youve put into making this meal. The implication being that you're a good cook. It's a cock waving display designed to make other think you're some kind of culinary wizard.
Maybe I'm wrong. But that's the impression I get.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i'm half and half really. I can understand the point of enhancing the aesthetics of food.. like every city dwelling middle class **** , I like the festishism of japanese food presentation. I suppose there's more of a sense of pride if the plate looks good, and the gratification created by the rituals is enhanced when the rituals have been thrust into prominance by increasing the 'quality' of the associated paraphenalia. However, this idea of food conforming to an aesthetic is a minefield in terms of our relationship with food, how food is used socially, how things like class and culture can inform our understanding of food and therefore can affect our view of each other, and in a way I can see an advantage to trying to strip as much of that out as possible by perhaps focusing on the taste /texture of the food, which seems to me to be experiencing in a pure sensual form, uncluttered by trying to fit it into a social template. It's a folly though, probably - asceticism is still a response, and is packaged around whatever it is reacting to. There is no real way of stripping class and culture from any human activity, but I feel like so often these things decrease our flexibility in terms of how we see ourselves, our fellow man, and the world in general.
[ 27.01.2010, 08:25: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I do like it when people ask me for recipes so i suppose in that way it is a cock-waving thing, but I'm not doing it so that people will go "oh wow your food looks so good" as that is of no interest to me, but if I can pass on knowledge of recipes or techniques or something that other people then go onto use, that is what I'm looking for.
Again, the new plates will make no difference at all to this, and it is entirely mental as it clearly won't change the way things taste, but it something that I feel will increase my enjoyment of meals and so I think it is money well spent.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I get the impression that the whole point of the exercise is to show off how much time and attention youve put into making this meal. The implication being that you're a good cook. It's a cock waving display designed to make other think you're some kind of culinary wizard.
Is this different, somehow, to you posting pictures of you drifting, or a picture of a car with some words explaining modifications you've made or are planning to make?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Food beats Cars. Simple.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I think it’s because ultimately the purpose of creating a meal is for it to be eaten, not for it to be seen. And through sharing these pictures you can’t possibly give an idea of the quality of the actual cooking, which is why I have such trouble understanding it. The meal itself may be absolutely horrible. Thinking about it, making food look nice and making food taste nice are two completely different things. If I was making a meal I’d definitely be putting all my effort into the flavour of the meal rather than the presentation. It’s not to say I’d just whack it on a plate and be done with it. But once I’d made a meal the last thing I’d ever think to do is grab a camera.
I don’t think you can really compare this directly with me and my interest in cars and motorsports. For instance – putting up a picture of me driving my car would surely be more comparable to someone putting up a picture of them eating the meal they’ve made. It’s not a case of saying that people shouldn’t express the fact that they’re interested in something. It’s this bias towards the aesthetic elements which I find a bit difficult to get to grips with. While I do a lot of mechanical stuff to my car so I can use it for specific things, the car itself is visually very standard. I wouldn’t get any more pleasure from driving it if it had some £1000 gold hubcaps on it. That’s just showing off. Cock waving.
And like I say – making food look nice doesn’t actually imply any particular skill on the part of the cook. So it seems doubly pointless.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i think that the difference is that the arena of middle class dining seems like a far more aspirationally aggressive and individualist pursuit than that of more working class large-group activities such as car meets. You could of course say that there's nothing working class about a load of toffs comparing notes on their classic 1920s racers, but the custom car thing - ricers etc - is geared around a more working class, multi- ethnic inclusive culture, as is heavily emphasised by things like Fast and Furious when representing it. The fashion, music, surrounding media and group organization suggests this. In a way the two things - middle class dining and eastern car import customising - represent the traditional vocational / family / social structure of the two different groups.
Of course, that's not to say one is better than the other - they're just ways of managing social situations - , but you can see how they are comparable yet incompatible in terms of motivation, philosophy, history, and meaning.
[ 27.01.2010, 08:35: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: And like I say – making food look nice doesn’t actually imply any particular skill on the part of the cook.
lol
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
everything I wrote there is bullshit, just thinking out loud really, glorifying working class culture because of perceptions of authenticity that you acquire when you're plagued inadequacy and battling with an ongoing crisis of masculinity. Over bearing father figure isn't it.
[ 27.01.2010, 08:39: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
There's just something weirdly aspirational about it. I mean, I have people over for dinner all the time, so it's not like i don't enjoy entertaining people and preparing food for them. I really do love it. But it's this specific focus on making such a show of it. When you're taking pictures of the food you've prepared, you're not documenting the good time you had with your friends, you're actually documenting specifically the effort you put into making it all look a certain way. It becomes less about the experience of dining with your friends and more about how you're fulfilling some kind of lifestyle ambition. And then putting the photographs on the internet and sharing them with other aspiring upper middle classers just to gain some level of social kudos as a result.
As I say, it seems to have very little to do with enjoying food.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: Of course, that's not to say one is better than the other.
Why would anyone get that idea?
quote: middle class dining: aspirationally aggressive and individualist
quote:car meets: multi- ethnic inclusive culture
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Anyway. Benway's cleared it all up now. Cook food = antisocial, greedy and out to please yourself.
Tricking out cars = building bridges across racial divides, unity, harmony and community.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: everything I wrote there is bullshit, just thinking out loud really, glorifying working class culture because of perceptions of authenticity that you acquire when you're plagued inadequacy and battling with an ongoing crisis of masculinity. Over bearing father figure isn't it.
Yes, and I should probably point out that everything you seem to think about what I do with cars is completely wrong. I don't do anything to do with car meets, and it certainly has nothing to do with FnF!
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I see what's really going on here. Ringo's just puffing up his chest after making such a monumental **** of himself over the valve amp, yesterday.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
If you like cooking food, you're basically no different to the kind of man who would engineer a global financial crisis for his own personal financial gain. You're the Enron guys, cutting off power to hospitals and schools to push up the price of energy.
If you buy a car and add some flourescent lights to the bottom of it, you're a cross between Marting Luther King and Harvey Milk. You're an ambassador for all that is good about humanity, bringing in people from all across the community, strengthening the bonds of family and kinship as you all gather to work together in the kindly shadow of Vin Diesel.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Anyway, I can't be working class. My family read the Daily Mail and own horses.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: Of course, that's not to say one is better than the other.
Why would anyone get that idea?
quote: middle class dining: aspirationally aggressive and individualist
quote:car meets: multi- ethnic inclusive culture
Yes, it's true. I'm under no illusion about the terrible hypocrisy, jumped up pseudo-bullshit and overall lack of substance to my thoughts. I'm a sheep, like anybody else.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm not a sheep.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Just to clear something up here - I own a 1992 Mazda MX-5 which is totally standard and has a mouldy interior from its leaky roof. I haven't driven it since November when the water pump broke and I haven't bothered fixing it yet. I haven't been to a 'car meet' for about five years, and no amount of money would convince me to fit a bodykit or neon lights onto my car.
I have an interest in motorsports, which is generally manifest in the form of me travelling to motorsports events, and occasionally going to a place where i can do some donuts round some cones. Which I did all of once last year.
So can we just drop this whole "Ringo loves chavved up fanst'n'furious cars" schtick because it's well out of date.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It's maybe a testament to how little I actually talk about my interests, that you all hold such complete misconceptions.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: occasionally going to a place where i can do some donuts round some cones.
ROFL
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's not sarcasm, btw. Just exploring my own prejudices. Obviously ringo doesn't live in The Fast and The Furious, and not all dinner parties are hateful experiences. Just saying. The 'dinner party murder' party / cliche exists for a reason - there is an adversarial element to most middle class pursuits and aspirations, and I think that this is what can seem distasteful about it all... and this aspect seems less present in more community-focused activities.
Anyway, me spouting this kind of ill-informed accusative horseshit is probably the reason why I haven't been invited to a dinner party in years.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: So can we just drop this whole "Ringo loves chavved up fanst'n'furious cars" schtick because it's well out of date.
I didn't mean to imply that you were attaching flourescent lights to your car - I was just interested in the wild prejudice that Benway had revealed when talking about working class pursuits as he perceived them.
[ 27.01.2010, 09:03: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: there is an adversarial element to most middle class pursuits and aspirations, and I think that this is what can seem distasteful about it all.
That's true, actually. And conversely when you look at traditionally working class pursuits like football, for example, there's nothing adversarial about them at all.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I suppose the fact that working class culture is so multi-ethnic and inclusive is part of the reason that organisations like the BNP struggle to gain footholds in working class areas.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: So can we just drop this whole "Ringo loves chavved up fanst'n'furious cars" schtick because it's well out of date.
I didn't mean to imply that you were attaching flourescent lights to your car - I was just interested in the wild prejudice that Benway had revealed when talking about working class pursuits as he perceived them.
No, of course. It's just the same thing that's always mentioned in relation to my interests in cars. I tmay not be specifically neon lights, but it's the mentioning of that whole culture of pointless visual upgrades to rubbish hatchbacks, hanging out in car parks, shagging underage girls etc etc. And that seems to be what people think I'm interested in. And that's totally, completely wrong. And I just wanted to put that one to bed because it's a bit grating every time it gets mentioned.
I'm a motorsports enthusuast. Not a boy racer.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that doesn't fit into my compartmentalised and rigid view of the world, ringo.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
DO the traditional three tiers of class still apply to the UK? It seems to me that while you can still easily identify those that belong to the working and upper classes, social mobility has created an enormous scope of people who would fall roughly into the spectrum of the middle classes. And individual hobbies which may have once been associated almost entirely with one class could now be enjoyed by people from virtually any rung on the class ladder.
Rather than class, I'd say these days we more readily identify with people who share the same basic values and interests as us, and who have roughly the same sort of aspirations in terms of their lifestyle.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: DO the traditional three tiers of class still apply to the UK?
Yes and no. The haves and have-nots are closing in on each other, but then Thorn describes a days wages for someone as 'a DVD boxset' I sometimes wonder how out of touch it's possible to become from people with no money.
I nearly got my head kicked in on Goldhawk road for 'sounding posh' even though I was brought up in an unemployed single parent family. I've been referred to as middle-class before and I've always found that a little odd. I've never had anything from my family except an unbiased opinion and some furious encouragement in all the wrong ways.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay:
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: DO the traditional three tiers of class still apply to the UK?
Yes and no. The haves and have-nots are closing in on each other, but then Thorn describes a days wages for someone as 'a DVD boxset' I sometimes wonder how out of touch it's possible to become from people with no money.
What I said was that £30 was equivalent to a DVD box set. Which it is. It's not 'being out of touch' so much as it's "mathematically accurate". It may be a day's wages also. It may be a year's wages in some places. But it is the price of a DVD boxset.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I just always lose at dinner parties. I always come last, my shame is clear, but nobody can say anything, denying me a chance to even have the relief / masochistic thrill of publicly acknowledging my failure.
Conversely I've finished a few of the Need for Speed games.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm not sure that £30 would be a good average price for a boxset. It really depends on the boxset.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
For the sake of total accuracy, here's what I wrote:
quote: I don't think that being fined the price of a DVD box set is the same thing as sawing someone's legs off.
I stand by that; I don't think it reveals me to be 'out of touch'.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: DO the traditional three tiers of class still apply to the UK? It seems to me that while you can still easily identify those that belong to the working and upper classes, social mobility has created an enormous scope of people who would fall roughly into the spectrum of the middle classes. .
the middle class is large and has stratas, but there are still clearly delineated ways of engaging with the economy and the state. There's more of an acknowledgement now of the people who are so far down the list that they don't fit into to any of these. Migrants, paedophiles, videogame developers, etc, fly below the traditional class structure, and are duly shit on by everybody. Apart from bleeding heart liberals, who are just trying to beat the other members of the middle classes at caring.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
To be honest I'm not totally sure which class I'm meant to be, and I'm not convinced that finding out would ever have much of an impact on my life.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it would if you discovered you were upper class. That means you've won without trying.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Bandy always seemed to be terribly invested in this system.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: it would if you discovered you were upper class. That means you've won without trying.
There is one prominent Lord with whom I share a surname. But I'm not sure how I'd feel about discovering he was a close relative. I suspect I'm more likely to find that I'm descended from Jewish migrants, and that 'working class' would seem like a generous title.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Bandy always seemed to be terribly invested in this system.
I think bandy is pretty concerned about reputation and influence. A natural alpha male.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I'm more of an alfalfa male myself.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: For the sake of total accuracy, here's what I wrote:
quote: I don't think that being fined the price of a DVD box set is the same thing as sawing someone's legs off.
I stand by that; I don't think it reveals me to be 'out of touch'.
I could attempt to try and wrangle around what can only be described as a wormy, kovacian response to an honest comment. I never said you were out of touch, because I don't ever think you've been 'in touch' with poverty, just that you displayed a level of middle class stereotypical behaviour. I don't think it makes you the devil. I don't think it makes you a terrible bastard who goes around stabbing tramps and telling them to get a job in the style of Patrick Bateman. I just think you may not realise, that comments like that mark you out as someone who doesn't truly realise what a position of comfort you sit from. I mean, I know you're aware that you can't really walk through a sink estate with a DVD boxset and that people get stabbed in the street in Croydon for a copy of Modern Warfare 2, so yeah, outside of your life, 30 pounds is a lot of money to a lot of people and thinking that it isn't certainly marks a person as out of touch. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news
[ 27.01.2010, 10:27: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I can save you some time here, you're not going to convince me that you're not a rah, so can you get the DVD boxsets in for March? Ta.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I think Thorn was correct in pointing out that to your average person, £30 is not an enormous amount of money. Maybe to those living in poverty, but let's face it - we wouldn't consider it living in poverty if your average person would struggle to get £30. But let's not have this silly discussion again, eh?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I see. Tell us what to talk about and when to take photographs. I see what you're up to Ringo.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm just hoping Thorn will leave it there and go look on the Games Workshop website this afternoon instead.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
What? I think it was a retarded argument in the first place. You seem to be suggesting that unless you look at everything from the position of the impoverished minority then you're 'out of touch' which I just can't agree with. But we covered this completely before. What value is there in going over the same points over and over?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
For the same reason Cherry likes to take pictures of his food. It's driven by passion.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: outside of your life, 30 pounds is a lot of money to a lot of people and thinking that it isn't certainly marks a person as out of touch. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news
This has obviously upset you quite alot judging by the piles of sanctimonious rhetoric you're heaping up. I know it's 'wormy' and 'kovacian' of me to suggest that you apply context and maybe some thought to the original comment, but if you look back at the thread you it's surely obvious that it was a response to you absurdly comparing a £30 fine to having your legs sawn off. Naming something quite disposable that people commonly exchange for £30 without really thinking about it, was simply a way of accentuating how fucking stupid the comment was in the first place. It doesn't mean I don't understand that £30 holds different value to different people, just that it's clearly not comparable to what you were comparing it. I'd rather swap my entire monthly salary of 56.5 dvd box sets than have my legs sawn off.
Also: WTF is up with trying to paint Croydon as some kind of urban battleground I could never understand? I lived there for five fucking years. And here's what I discovered in that time: The people there go fucking nuts for DVD boxsets.
[ 27.01.2010, 10:59: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh dear. well, you know, all i was saying was that i mistrust dinner parties because I am crap at them, and so i can see it's natural to be wary of things associated with them, and that ringo is an hispanic car jacker living in tokyo, making a career from illegal racing by day and being a drum and bass dj by night.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'd love to respond properly Thorn but Ringo doesn't want us to so we should be respectful of his wishes.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
What is this? National Bring-Up-Old-Arguments Day?
Edit - talk about what you like. Seriously. But if you come to any deeper conclusions than you did last time you had this pointless argument with Thorn, I'll eat my own arms.
[ 27.01.2010, 11:05: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Would you rather eat your own arms or be fined the price of a DVD Box set?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i wasn't trying to be mean to cherry re: food, just saying that while I can appreciate the fetishism of food preparation and presentation, I also have an inbuilt desire to not feed that, and i was trying to work out why.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
You didn't have to bring class into it.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I suppose it's related to whatever causes you to resent snowboarders just because snowboarding is something you've never had the inclination to get involved with.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I think that's part of it though, for me.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
This fear of photographing food all comes from a deep-seated homosexual terror.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: You didn't have to bring class into it.
This is true. I'm going to Oxford in March, benway and there's going to be an air of sadness and regret if a round of beers cost more than 30 quid.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Right Thorn? Yeah mate. Top one. It'll me great yeah?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
There'll be more than sadness and regret if a round of beers costs more than £30. I think I'd cry.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm getting in at around 1pm if you can pick me up yeah?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Isn't that the price of one pint in Oxford? lol! A bit of working-class humour there.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i went to a pub in oxford where you get working class people, and some of them tried to give me shit later in the day when we saw them in the street.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Did you slag off their coats?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I've been threatened on the street more often in Oxford than I was in Croydon.
The scorecard looks like this
Oxford: 2 Croydon: 0
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: i went to a pub....
later in the day
I think I see the problem here...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
between those two events i attended a debate.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Did you have lunch?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Actually despite the bad reputation of Croydon, the only trouble I've had so far is that I sat in some sick in a taxi. Someone was sick so the guy sprayed with with half a can of air freshener.
A knifed up body was found behind the Jon Cryer art theatre in leafy Carshalton, so maybe I'm actually already living in the ghetto fabulous.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Did you have lunch?
err. hmmm. i think i may have skipped lunch. I recall eating quite a few burgers on the train on the way back because i was drunk and they were half price.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
does croydon have a bad rep?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I have a bad rep.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I think their seems to be a divide in opinion. One colleague laughed out loud. Breathless with humour. Another (someone who bought property there) disagreed.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
just been told to go to another conference / expo, tomorrow. Catch me at the Olympia Two.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I think their seems to be a divide in opinion. One colleague laughed out loud. Breathless with humour.
That would have annoyed the hell out of me if I'd seen it first hand. I liked it alot, and it still 'wins' in some categories, compared to other places I've lived.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
does croydon have a rep? I've always thought of it as being the same as any other surrey town.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i went there once. Seemed fine.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I've never thought of it as a 'bad' place, I just thought that in general petty crime and gang knifings were high, giving it a sort of Daily Mail scare. I had more shit in Shepherds Bush than I did in Manor House.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It does seem to have a reputation for being crappy, puggishly spiteful. The entry in that idiotic Crap Towns book mentions that you're as likely to get knifed as looked at, and it seems liek the kind of place that would feature in a Sandy Toksvig punchline. Ethnically it's quite diverse, which puts people off, maybe. I know Bandy hated the place.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've been to Croydon several times and never seen any problems. There seemed to be a lot of teenage mothers around East Croydon though.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that Crap Towns book was bullshit. herbs had it.
[ 27.01.2010, 12:43: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I bet Swindon was in it. *shakes fist*
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I bet you were in it.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I was in your mum.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't think Benway is going to like that revelation at all.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: there's going to be an air of sadness and regret if a round of beers cost more than 30 quid.
How many people are you buying for?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I...I don't think I understand money.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I had salad for lunch today it was good.
I picked up two rabbits from the Farmers market on the way home last night so tonight i will either make a rabbit pie or a rabbit hotpot. I haven't decided yet but I should probably have that discussion on Thorn's food thread rather than Benway's lunch thread.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Please post photos of your rabbit dishes Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I feel mocked Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
had some seriously depressing prawn mayo sandwiches from a Tesco Express, which i ate while standing in the street.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Brrrr. That's not lunch, that's just something you do to stop yourself fainting later in the afternoon from lack of sustenance.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i ate them because i wanted a cigarette, but was feeling sick with hunger. Smoking in that circumstance is rarely pleasurable.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm having to make my own dinner tonight. Not sure what I'm going to make yet.
Should i take a picture?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
No you probably shouldn't Ringo. I shall be taking a picture of my dinner though as it is something I haven't cooked before.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Will you try and light it properly this time?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
No, It's just a case of grabbing the point and click camera and taking a quick shot as soon as it is dished up. I'm not particularly worried about the way the photo turns out.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Apparently professional food photgraphers varnish the food before they take pictures of it. You should do that.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Apparently they also make a lot of things not out of food to make it look more like nice food or something.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Made this at Christmas
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Pie was amazing. One of the best pies I've made last night.
Lunch today is traditional Friday lunch of spicy thai beef noodles and a pint of guinness. Leaving in 15 minutes for that.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
why are there no cafes that sell cheese on toast? im not talking about any of that fancy- schmancy euro- sondweeech panini bullshit. i want some CHEESE on some FUCKING TOAST. i want little puddles of grease and blackened corners and crunchy brown bits. i will settle for a panini if i must, but really, this is a total capitalism fail when you think about it.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'd pay at least £1 for a cheese-on-toast, especially if it were available with Worcestershire sauce. Maybe you should open a cheese-on-toast van, DM. Both cheese and bread are pretty cheap so there's definitely profit to be made.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
It could also sell MP3 downloads.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
And have a private/public switch for whether you want to eat it in public or nosh quietly to yourself in a booth.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Apparently professional food photgraphers varnish the food before they take pictures of it. You should do that.
They also use Tampons doused in boiling water to provide the impression it is piping hot and steaming. True that.
Today I had Pork Pie and Baked Beans for lunch which was something of a treat - drunken visits to the expat shop whilst frighteningly expensive are all the same damn good on the tum.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
The burgers in some McDonalds adverts are actually CGI.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
pad thai, beer.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Pad Thai...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
the beers was Chang beer. I was delightful company over lunch, all spaced out on painkillers and booze, i smoothly delivered a deadpan surrealist comedy rollercoaster that had all the ladies laughing like they loved me.
[ 29.01.2010, 10:03: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Pad Thai...
yeah, pad thai. And beer.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Pad thai is nice. Chang beer is nice too. They're things I like.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, me too.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
they're good.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's all good, in fact. It's all good.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Pak Choi isn't good.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Pak choy is dangerous…all long and slithery…it goes down your throat, wraps around stuff and chokes you – on purpose. Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Tastes like shit, too.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I love Pak Choi. I love pretty much all green veg.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
get a bit windy after pak choi
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm OK after pak choi. Jerusalem artichokes are a different matter. I really have to avoid them for risk of killing someone.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
funny how that works isn't it. hmmm.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
Steamed Pak choi is rather nice.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
chicken, ciabatta, etc. Plus a 'pastel de nata'. Coke Zero.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Sushi. What is a "patel de nata"?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
[url= http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22patel+de+nata%22&meta=&aq=f&oq=]First google result[/url] has someone claming that Bona Foodie Deli in Brighton which is 45 seconds walk from my office does the best Patel de nata he's ever tasted but doesn't tell me what it actually is.
[ 05.02.2010, 10:55: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm posting it without the space but the site is putting the space in!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I had the classic today. Turkish Meze.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I went for an English classic:
1 tin Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup, heated in microwave. 2 slices of white bread "buttered" with flora spread, halved.
For desert: Approximately 7 chocolate fingers.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Tilde knows how to make a proper English lunch.
Good work, Tilde.
:nods:
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I had a massive slice of leftover game pie. I even took a little jar of mustard into work to eat it with.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
last night in the benway household we erroneously had pancake day. Little bit of 'behind the scenes' tittle tattle there for all you gossip hunters.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I agree though. Tilde's lunch is a true classic.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Soup again today. But I've got a range of soups in my desk drawer so maybe I could make this lunch a bit interactive and throw the decision open to TMO as to which soup I have.
So the choices are
Spicy Cajun Vegetable Tomato Minestrone Chicken and Vegetable Cream of Asparagus
In addition I'll be eating a nice big Granny Smith apple, and a packet of Walkers baked chilli flavour crisps.
[ 10.02.2010, 05:32: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
a spicy vegetable and tomato minestrone. Soup-hacking. Going to be big 2010.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
maybe delivered as an enema.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I've double-souped at lunch before and had two soups in a row, but I've never combined them. I'd need a significantly bigger mug. Bachelors soups are really thick. It'd be like treacle.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Fine then, I'll just have cream of asparagus
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
fine.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It was nice. Good cruton action
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
You should have taken a photo of it.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm off out to a Kurdish restaurant for lunch. I may have lamb shank
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Is that... rhyming slang?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
If so, there's no need to take a picture of it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
tuna baguette (not baton)
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
16.9g of fat.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
pretty awful. Didn't want to walk to the market, also liked the idea of buying lunch for £2.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Cheese sandwich. Made it myself. Making all my meals myself as Octavia has taken the baby and gone to live with her mother in Cornwall.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
lol
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Was it literally just cheese and bread, or did you include any lettuce (or other leaf), pickle or margarine?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Literally just cheese and bread. Well... some butter as well. Run out of... those other things that you mentioned. Should I order some in? Dinner tonight looks like it's going to be a jar of mayonnaise and the rest of the muesli
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
i really thought you were going to say you were making all your own meals because octavia was busy playing mass effect 2. I had goat's cheese, sun dried tomato and pine nuts on toast followed by lamb shank. It was good
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
She's finished Mass Effect 2. She made sure to finish it before she left.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I didn't know people still used butter. I thought I'd read something about it being made illegal.
I've had a stinking cold for about a week but I'm feeling much better since I started a new diet of Snickers for breakfast and five glasses of good quality fruit juice throughout the day. I'm knocking back the M&S blueberry juice (3 for £5) today and it's totally working for me.
(This means I should be able to resume work on your catalogue this evening, Thorn).
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I went to Middle Temple at the Royal Courts of Justice for lunch as my friend had a case there (as a barrister, not a crim). I had a 'salad' which contained ham, salami, game pie, crayfish, pickled herring, smoked trout, pickled squid (mistake) some potatos, coleslaw and an unexpected celery/pineapple combo. Also some wine. I feel a bit sick, and he lost his case.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
hi abby, you've been quiet recently.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Any salad that contains a game pie is alright with me.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
always nice to catch up with abby.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
great stuff.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Great.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
my jeans were feeling a bit tight yesterday. oh, i thought, thats interesting, my jeans are feeling a bit tight. never mind. probably just something to do with my special lady time. got home, dicking about in the kitchen, you know, tidying up, throwing away breadends, tidying away letters from n- power, staring at the wall vacantly, etc... looked at the butter dish, and i have somehow managed to use 2/3 of a packet of butter since last friday. fucking hell. and then i made myself a peanut butter sandwich and ive got through half a jar of PB since the SAME shopping trip. wub wub wub, what a little lard monster i am. they like that though, the boys, dont they? a few rolls of lovely sweaty fat over the midriff area. gentle featherlite touches dusted across a glistening wobbling jelly- like mass of subcutaneous sexiness. squish squash squish squash. never mind! back to my routine of daily spinning classes, weight- lifting and boxercise tomorrow.
[ 10.02.2010, 11:33: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
oh yeah, lunch: nothing. because nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. NOTHING.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Great.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
actually i had a chicken and mayonnaise sandwich, a banana, and apple, and a little bag of dried fruit and nuts. sensible. moderate. healthful. mindful. and later i will go and have a little walk and look at the clouds scudding past and be grateful for the fact that i live in this wonderful machine of imperfect flesh.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you are the machine.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
is that shortform for 'The Love Machine'? if so, thankyou.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
damage and the machine.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
poetic. like it. might steal it. use it for... something. the title of a poem i will never write. hey benway have you ever read 'i shall destroy all the civilised planets!' i wrote a poem about that the other day. its not very good. anyway i think youd like it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I haven't read that. I have read the poetry book "During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present", and that features quite a few poems about daydreaming re: the end of the world. It's the sort of book you read and then think that you should have got there first.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Hello, yes I have been quiet. I have mainly been listless and wan, which doesn't make for lively conversation.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's slim. Next time you're in london we can go to a pub and read poems to each other, and I'll get drunk, and you will not.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
yeah you put a link to one of that dude's poems on your twot feed and i enjoyed the hell out of it.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
Dp
[ 10.02.2010, 16:35: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Sausage sandwich, Fruit Corner.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Half a roast chicken with chinese seasoning, chips and gravy.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Cheese sandwich again, with butter.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
The first food Thorn ever made for me was a cheese and tomato sandwich at his parents home in Colehill (useful information for any potential identify thieves there). He put the bread down and (I believe) put butter on it, he then sliced cheese and put that on it. This was all going very well. However, he then got a big tomato out, put that in the middle, put a second piece of bread on top and then just hit the tomato with his fist to smash it out and cover the sandwich.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
nothing... puking badly..agony.... booze.. whiskey.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
somebody call a goddamn paramedic
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Sounds like you could do with a pint of milk Benway. Or a cheese and tomato sandwich.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
sainsburys have invented a new kind of hoummus. it is called 'MOROCCAN STYLE!'. actually they dont use the exclamation mark but maybe they should. its pretty exciting. its got lots of chilli in it, and atop each pot is a little puddle of whole chickpeas in tomato oil with loads of coriander. i would urge you all to try it. except maybe you, benway. it might make you do a another spew.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i desperately need somebody to come round and take care of me.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
please somebody (female) come round and help
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Minestrone soup, granny smith, salt and vinegar walkers baked.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
hello this is kanye's mum. just to let you know that my son has passed away due to neglect. he was a good boy and did not deserve this. funerall details soon.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That isn't really an appropriate thing to post on the lunch thread. Kanye wouldn't have liked that at all.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Also, he brought it on himself. He really did.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Also, when your son dies from neglect how can you come on here and blame a bunch of internet weirdos for that? He was your goddamn son for chrissakes. And it was us that neglected him? You fucking hypocrite! I don't mean to be harsh. It must be difficult to see things clearly, when your first born child has just died... and it's your fault.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I've got to agree with Thorn. We interacted with your son on a daily basis. Gave him support for his podcast idea, even in spite of his silly voice. What did you do for him? Sent him out into the world without the necessary skills to survive in an adult world. You make me sick.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Alright, Kanye's mum?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Shit, the Controller Throw podcast is going to suck now. Any word on a replacement yet, Mikee?
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i just read about kanye's death on twitter! Its heavily trending. heartbreaking when someone so young dies, but im sure he was an inspiration to hundreds of young gay eastend boys who saw his work and thought 'thats it. Fuck all these straights and bigots. i WILL be an accountant.' such a legacy. apparently when he was an apprentice he wrote the words 'rich **** ' in invisible ink in all the ledgers. a rebel heart, a true original, a true friend. dont listen to these... FUCKERS, mrs west. those of us who really knew kanye know there was nothing you could have done. his star was too bright to shine for long. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: his star was too bright to shine for long.
And also, he drank too much. It was bound to happen. His genius and his drinking burned him out. Mainly it was the drinking.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Hope Kanye's feeling better. I wish he would go to the doctor. It's not normal to have a days worth of vomitting when you're hungover.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Maybe he's possessed?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I spoke to his mum on xbox live last night. she's a bit shook up obviously but I think she managed to get a few hours in on ME2 to get over her pain.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Sounds like you could do with a pint of milk Benway. Or a cheese and tomato sandwich.
Not one made by Thorn, presumably.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
my son will be laid to rest in a fortnight. As per his wishes, it will be a burial at sea. we are going to release his remains from a helicopter over the channel. thank you for your support. It is nice to see so many kinds words being written about my kanye. we are currently trying to understand more about his death, and we are all still very shocked.
thank you
LOL
kanyes mum.
[ 12.02.2010, 11:15: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I am sure that his greatest regret is still that he never got to see himself in concert.
LOL
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I would like to see more people showing respect and giving LOL to Kanye's memory.
[ 12.02.2010, 11:28: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I'd like to show Kanye's mum some respect.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Mart, behave.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That's nice to hear mart. She always said you were a polite young man and so she'll be glad to hear that you are giving her some respect in her hard time
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I know it's hard for her. That's what I'm here for. It's very hard. I just want her to get a grip. To open herself up, you know.
[ 12.02.2010, 12:48: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Lol, I've missed you guys. Been working in another office and they've blocked you. Apparently you're rude, or seditious, or something.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
jebus, has everyone given up lunch for lent, or some other such fatuous bullshit? i am going to the shops to buy ingredients for my lunch- a goats cheese, basil and chutney sandwich, possibly on soda bread. i will also have a banana, probably an apple, and maybe some sort of oat +/- dried fruit based snack bar. my gosh, doesnt that sound almost unbearably delicious.
[ 18.02.2010, 09:24: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
ive also run out of ten mg nicotine patches, so will be amping back up to fifteen for the day. which could be madness. but then, madness is my middle name. one of them. i have three- alice bridget sian madness discodamage. good names, huh. hungry now. need sandwich.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Here is what we just had for lunch (breakfast).
Fried potato, with leftovers from dinner last night (grilled asparagus, courgette, roast red pepper). And some chopped ham. Salt, pepper, thyme.
Then I made a big thin omelette, and spread the above over it, together with some grated cheese. Across it I poured a little chili sauce and a little ketchup, and then I rolled up the omelette, so it looked like a wrap, chopped it in half and served each half slumped on a bed of plate, with toast triangles.
Then I had a cup of tea, a cigarette and two plain chocolate Digestive biscuits.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Sounds pretty good. A bit heavy for lunch though.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
my sandwich was a TOWERING culinary achievement. it was soooooooo good. its only downside was that the bread was quite flat and quite narrow, meaning that a lot of flavour got packed onto quite a small surface area, but that i am still quite hungry. i forgot about the snack bar, you see. i bought a dress instead. should i have another sandwich? it might not be as rollocking the second time round, which would inevitably besmirch the memory of the original sandwich. oh, what to do?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tilde: Sounds pretty good. A bit heavy for lunch though.
It was at 1.30 pm, and was breakfast and lunch combined. We might have some dinner later on tonight. Or we might not.
Lunch is usually the main meal of the day. Unless it's dinner. Sometimes it's breakfast. Sometimes it's just too hard to tell.
[ 18.02.2010, 12:06: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Lunch was Shepherd's Pie, Sushi and a handful of quality street that an intern gave us. Tummy feels a bit wrong now.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
biscuit. fox's cream biscuit.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Small salad - 68p.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Minestrone cup a soup, nice n spicy nik naks, granny smith apple
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
going to have some gunpowder tea now.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
feel a bit ropey.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Hungover?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
1 x Bottle, Sainsbury's Caledonian Still Water 1 x Excruciatingly dull meeting 1 x Sneaky Read Under the Table of the New Deadpool
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Hungover?
no, just ropey. Cold maybe. Not sure. Sore throat.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Does anyone else get that thing where they start to feel generally ill from about October, and it hangs around until March-ish? It never really develops into anything but it's an underlying stuffiness, with a more or less constant background pain in the head which affects your sleep and leaves you feeling drained and run down.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
No. You've got AIDs.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
oh no Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I get the seasonal AIDS too, Ringo.
Should start feeling better next month...
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
68p salad which bizarrely contains pineapple, apple and grapes.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Chicken and chips, from the canteen. Covered in Encona. Bottle of Coke.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
nothing yet. might wander down the shop and get a schnitzel.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I am 'leading a team' in an hour, lol, so I might as well go and get one now. I'll have a to pop a t-shirt on though first. Working from home, eh readers? It's a hard life.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Aberdeen Angus beef with vine ripened tomato and rocket sandwich, from the Co-operative.
ETA1: And horseradish too, apparently! ETA2: Water is coming out of my eyes now.
[ 24.02.2010, 08:51: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'd like to be in a team led by Benway. Sitting round a table, bolt upright, pen in my hand, diligently writing down everything he says. Making suggestions every time he asks for input. Smiling to myself when he says things like "Thanks for that Ian. That's a good point". I'd be the happiest worker bee in Londinium.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I don't think he'd say that though. I think he'd just pause for a moment after you said something, maybe exhale deeply, before continuing with what he was talking about.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
...and then, at the end of the meeting you'd all file out. In the corridor you'd notice you'd forgotten your brief case, so you nip back into the conference room. There sits Benway, head turned away, hand to his face, trying to mask the tears, but his heaving shoulders and the sniffling give him away. You sidle over and grab the case, you think maybe you should slip out of the room and pretend this never happened, but...
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I don't think he'd say that though. I think he'd just pause for a moment after you said something, maybe exhale deeply, before continuing with what he was talking about.
"I'm sorry Ian, what was that? Right. Why are you here again? I've got in front of me Belbin's list of the 8 personalities you need for an effective team, and I don't see 'complete fucking retard' anywhere on it. I'm looking now at the core objectives for this team and 'listen to another cretinous suggestion from Ian' isn't one of them. Let's have a look at the KPIs... No... no... I don't see anything about Ian having to come up with a minimum number of utterly unworkable and transparently flawed action points. So how about we forget you opened your stupid fucking face and try and progress this meeting without any more input from the mongoloid parade."
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
there a french man on the team who never says anything, and I'm starting to delight in posing questions to him over conference calls and just leaving the silence hanging there. If you can get the timing just right, it's a thing of beauty.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I don't think he'd say that though. I think he'd just pause for a moment after you said something, maybe exhale deeply, before continuing with what he was talking about.
lol, this is accurate I think.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
fans of me will no doubt be delighted to learn that I'm conducting an online 'webinar' tomorrow for some 'east asian dignitaries' in what will no doubt be some kind of hi-tech farce involving cats jumping on keyboards, audio mics picking up trips to the toilet, and situations arising that you would expect to cause massive offence, but actually show how laid back and easy going I am, thus winning us the deal. I don't know, maybe my nemesis has cut a video into my presentation, of me, drunkenly doing a naked conga with a load of girls in bikinis. It flashes on the screen and mr. yamaguchi goes quiet and looks outraged on the video feed, we all think it's lost, but then he bursts out laughing and everybody around the far east starts high fiving each other. Cut to, everybody in bermuda shorts, dancing around and shaking hands, while my broom-up-ass nemesis whacks his idiotic sidekick over the head, and they are both soaking wet / covered in food somehow.
[ 24.02.2010, 11:38: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You have cats?
I just did a presentation to my team about the video conferencing kit here, starting off by saying how reliable it was and how we would never have much call to support it. Then we went to one of the conferencing rooms and literally nothing worked. So I was just left standing at the front of the room flapping around saying half sentences about "this is very odd... hold on let me just.... ordinarily it wouldn't..." as I jabbed at the control panel innefectively. It was rubbish.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Do you think you could do the webinar while wearing the horse mask?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
no i don't have cats. one will get in somehow and start walking all over the keyboard, spelling out crude insults, and then it'll position its rear end right up against the webcam. During this time I'm probably, I don't know, wrestling with a fake telecoms man sent by my nemesis, who I saw through the window was about to cut off my internet connection.
[ 24.02.2010, 11:50: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i wonder if i will ever participate in a webinar. i doubt it somehow.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
no disasters occured, sadly.
anyway, i have not had lunch yet, but a half bottle of wine sitting on my desk is probably going to win out.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: i wonder if i will ever participate in a webinar. i doubt it somehow.
I've done one today. They sent out the information about the webinar including a powerpoint document and a word document so I thought I'd be prepared by reading through the stuff first which took about 15 minutes. I then had to be on the webinar for 90 minutes while someone went through the powerpoint document and the word document and read it out verbatim to us.
I think the lesson to learn here is that it is a bad idea to be prepared for webinars.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i think the lesson i have learnt from this SINGLE webinar related anecdote is that i have no need or desire to participate in a webinar, so i thank you for that. they sound dreary and pointless and entirely un- life- affirming. unless there should one day be a webinar where a group of people in suits hooks up on the internet to shout the word 'webinar!' at each other over and over again, because its quite a funny word.
talking of dreary, pointless, and entirely un- life- affirming, i have a 1500 word essay to write about the effect that images and perceptions of older people have on understandings of mental health and distress in later life. instead i am fartarseing about on the internet. i could probably write 200 words on the effect that not enough cake has had on my understanding of fucking stupid essay questions about mad coffindodgers. srsly, i hate writing essays. i used to be quite clever and motivated until last november, i swear. now im just like, NNGGHGHNNGHGNGGH. that is the noise my brain makes after 5 minutes of concentrated study. look at page of notes- NNGGHGHNNGHGNGGH. draw mindmap- NNGGHGHNNGHGNGGH. write three lines of introductory signposting paragr- NNGGHGHNNGHGNGGH. where all my cake at, bish?
[ 25.02.2010, 10:42: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Thorn's Top Essay Writing Tip: Think of a clever, counter-intuitive conclusion for your essay and then work backwards, crowbarring evidence in to justify your comments, twisting logic, and drawing spurious conclusions. It works best if the final paragraph isn't even all that clever: it just needs have a tone of "aaaAAAHHH!" like a column in the Sunday papers. "actually porn is feminist aaaAAAHH" "actually Tess brough all her tribulations on herself, and it was her who was punishing society aaaaAAAHHH" "actually unsympathetic portrayals of old people help build understanding of mental illness in later life aaaaAAAH!"
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
thankyou, thorn. just to clarify, is that the essay you hand in, or is this just an intellectual exercise which helps you to clarify and shape ideas, in preparation for the essay you finally write which isnt completely mental?
naw but seriously, i will try that as an exercise in reperspectivising. then i will probably go and buy some cake. if neither of those work, i will kill myself with a knife or gun or maybe a hammer.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
[ 25.02.2010, 11:11: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That's the essay that you hand in.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
its worth a go, i suppose. yeah, fuck it.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Don't put the word "aaaAAAAH" in at the end though. That won't help. Also, it probably mainly only works for academic essays, where the aim is to demonstrate independent thought, and an ability to build an argument. If you think they're more interested in genuinely helping old people, you probably shouldn't use geriatric spastics as a platform for showing off your intellectual gymnastics.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
My soup does not have high salt levels as I don't put any salt in it. Although, if I can't be bothered to make stock then I use marigold bouillon powder which I guess probably does have some salt in it, but 4 teaspoons of that makes about four large bowls of that so even if it was fully made of salt, which it isn't, that would only be a teaspoon of salt per bowl and although that probably is too much, it isn't entirely salt and so therefore it's probably alright. i think. Something called "marigold" can't be bad for you. FACT
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: i have a 1500 word essay to write about the effect that images and perceptions of older people have on understandings of mental health and distress in later life.
I translate thousands of words a day on stuff like this. Immigrants more than old people, but what's the difference, right.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Today, however, I have lurched between municipal representatives of the royal estate in medieval Valencia and an internal memo outlining developments in the sales and business structure of a chain of hotels.
Tomorrow, excitingly, is pure mystery.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Apparently a minestrone cup a soup has 1mg of sodium. That's not much, right?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
1/4 teaspoon salt = 575 mg sodium 1/2 teaspoon salt = 1,150 mg sodium 3/4 teaspoon salt = 1,725 mg sodium 1 teaspoon salt = 2,300 mg sodium 1 teaspoon baking soda = 1,000 mg sodium
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Actually, hang on, that can't be right at all. Isn't that saying that one teaspoon of salt contains more than two kilos of sodium?
Er, no. I'm getting my numbers all spazzed up there, aren't I.
[ 25.02.2010, 11:59: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Apparently a minestrone cup a soup has 1mg of sodium. That's not much, right?
quote:As little as 0.5mg of sodium a day can cause high blood pressure, and in some instances, loss of vision.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
AMerican teaspoons are much larger, mostly on account of the fact they wouldn't be caught dead drinking tea. Also, their salt has a much higher salt content than ours.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: AMerican teaspoons are much larger, mostly on account of the fact they wouldn't be caught dead drinking tea. Also, their salt has a much higher salt content than ours.
A teaspoon is 5ml wherever you are. And sorry - what?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
*facepalm*
[ 26.02.2010, 03:36: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Sorry Ringo, I'm rubbish at knowing when people are joking. Thorn finds it a sore trial.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Isn't Thorn always joking?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
You can imagine how difficult it makes life for him.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
68p salad. Again.
Mildly depressing but I weighed myself this morning and in a month I've gone from 14 1/2 stone to 13 3/4 stone which is pretty good going.
Think I'd like to get back to about 12 1/2 stone but that would mean about another two months of eating salad for lunch.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Remember, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels... Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
oof
[ 26.02.2010, 11:36: Message edited by: Tilde ]
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I have never been in a webinar, but today I was asked to give one! In return for cash! Mental…I wonder if I can make it so it isn’t dreary, pointless, and entirely un- life- affirming.
Also today I was at a workshop, and while waiting for lunch the man queuing behind me told an astonishingly dull collection of anecdotes about his life to someone else, then he sat next to me to eat and told me the exact same things. I attempted to engage in small talk as an exercise in social skills, but I didn’t rate it much. He explained how he had changed jobs in order to reduce his commute and spend more time with his family, and I was all wow you have a family. Not out loud though.
Anyway, I’m feeling pretty life affirmed now. I’m going to drink some rum under a duvet.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: small talk as an exercise in social skills
oh, i feel you. smalltalk= bullshit, overrated. but the hideousness of it is, there is no alternative. BIGTALK would be even more demoralising. imagine if that man had sat down next to you and said 'SO... tell me about the most amazing adventure youve ever had. what gives your life meaning? every day, i need to make real eye contact with a child, stare into their eyes, absorb some of the wonder, osmose some of the shining newness of it all. (theyre so in the moment, arent they, kids?) otherwise, things like the earthquake in chile just become such an unconscionable burden'. youd be like, pointing at your lunch bowl, staring into your lap, like 'dude?.... soup'.
i had a vomiting bug on thursday. i unburdened my innards three times in as many hours, mostly into the lavatory but also onto some surrounding bathroom surfaces. it was painful, undignified and unseemly, as such occasions are most often wont to be. ever since i have found myself not just unexcited by the concept of eating but have found the activity overtly challenging. today, for instance, i have had to force myself to ingest a seeded bagel and hoummus and an apple and i feel distinctly as if, and i hope youll excuse the expression, i might whole- heartedly ralph. all over my ever-loving knees. i am not very good at being ill, i find it antithetical to my completely baseless view of myself as physically invulnerable. the kicker of it is, im not even ill enough to justify loafing around in bed feeling wan and wearing layers of ill- fitting marl. also, i am so bloated i feel and look as if i have for some months been gestating a tiny defenseless baby formed of intestinal gas. pity me. i am Woe, i walk amongst you.
no progress made on the essay. stiff words with self are needed.
[ 01.03.2010, 08:38: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Nando's.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Nandos isn't free range which means you are evil.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
late lunch news! I had a baguette.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Quarter past ten is late lunch for you? It's barely time for brunch!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
this was yesterday. Today I have had only coffee.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Nandos isn't free range which means you are evil.
It's not exactly free range, but customers are free to move around the pen. They seem happy enough, unless you tap on the glass.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ahahahahh! Cherry was talking about the chickens that are served as food in the restaurant, but you deliberately misunderstood, and created the suggestion that the patrons are being mistreated when they go to Nandos. You then went further and suggested that the patrons are 'no better than animals' because you are on the other side of the windows, communicating with the people inside as if communicating with animals in an enclosure!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Yes, there's a lot going on in that little two line post. That's my craft. It's my gift. The tiniest slice that allows you to peer into a world of surreal satire. Layers and layers of comedy, insight and - dare I say it? - genius, conjured up in just a few words, like evoking the Mona Lisa with a three line pencil drawing.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Well I wasn't happy. I had to get my own cutlery and drink. Even McDonalds don't make you get your own drink. There were mums with prams all over the place, and combined with the grid of tiny two-person tables it made the restaurant into a giant sliding block puzzle. Or Bomberman if I'd been a terrorist, and the tables had been bomb-proof.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Yes, there's a lot going on in that little two line post. That's my craft. It's my gift. The tiniest slice that allows you to peer into a world of surreal satire. Layers and layers of comedy, insight and - dare I say it? - genius, conjured up in just a few words, like evoking the Mona Lisa with a three line pencil drawing.
I have shown it to my colleagues here at work, and everybody was really impressed - great work!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I showed it to my colleagues and they reckon that people in nandos are there entirely of their own free will and can leave at any time (unless they have eaten and not paid their bill) so they don't think your analogy works.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you should point out my previous post to your colleagues. tIt goes into more detail about why the 'joke' works.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
After explaining to them what "Thorn Davis" had said and hearing their response, I then did try to explain to them what "Kanye West" thought about the situation but then suddenly they all seemed to become too busy to talk to me.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Your colleagues are really going to have to put a bit more effort in if they want to enjoy that joke to its maximum potential. I don't just go for the easy laughs and sometimes the reader has to go some of the distance on their own.
[ 02.03.2010, 09:41: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
colleagues are generally useless, aren't they.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Colleagues Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
They fucking are useless! I just got stitched for £12 for a leaving present for someone in a different department, who I don’t give a toss about! When asked if I wanted to sign the card I thought it would look bad if I admitted I wasn’t remotely bothered… subsequent to that an envelop appears and I grudgingly dig out a couple of quid before being informed it is £12 each. FFFFFFS!
On a chicken related note I have become partial to the spicy wings from Dixy Chicken…the shame…but only £1.50 for five! Mmmm…When I buy them, I jump out of the shop really fast and pretend to be looking in the bookshop window next door.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I grudgingly dig out a couple of quid before being informed it is £12 each. FFFFFFS!
That's madness! Since when did a leaving present have a standard tariff? That's not how a whip round works! They've broken the basic rules of the whip round!
Also £12 is way too high a sum. I'd be annoyed if someone said "oh you have to put in a fiver", but £12 is like... this week I can't treat myself and Octavia to our Sunday takeaway.
This has made me quite angry now.
[ 02.03.2010, 11:58: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
If such a thing happened to me, in my office, I would literally tell them to fuck off.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
If such a thing happened in my office everyone would tell them to fuck off. If it happened twice, I think people would start to consider handing in their notice.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
my rules are:
1. Never give money to anybody for anything 2. Only ever write "all the best" in any card.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
actually I might start writing LOL in every card too.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I know, I know...it is totally metal. I was so stunned I just kind of folded without thinking it through. Plus I have been a bit mental/cranky/non-team-player-ish recently, so I am trying not to be too conspicuous in my misanthropy. I did manage to avoid going along to be present at the ceremonial giving of whatever it was by fabricating an emergency.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I did manage to avoid going along to be present at the ceremonial giving of whatever it was by fabricating an emergency.
Big mistake. You should've had a front row spot. Done a bit of mental arithmetic... "There is no fucking WAY that bunch of flowers cost £252!"
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I like to sign leaving cards of people I have never spoken to with a overly gushy message of how much I'm going to miss them. I don't like to give money for any leaving presents though.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
I have had in my time a lot of different jobs, and can only three times recall ever getting a leaving card and a present, and two of those were clients of the parent company thanking me for a short 3 months.
Guess I must be a **** then....
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Guy in my office got married last week, I signed his card "Happy Birthday"
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
That's Darryn!!!!! Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I got guilted into sponsoring some fucking colleague's kid a while ago. Of course he went round all the management types first, so the top of the sponsorship form was all £50, £20, etc. I ended up giving the kid a fiver, for no apparent reason.
I guess I felt a bit guilty because some rather unnecessary anti-German comments once slipped out of my mouth when I was talking to him. I mean he didn't say anything, but I later sat next to him and his quite obviously German wife at the Christmas lunch. I don't think I got away with it. I'm still pretty angry with myself for going along with that though. I could've bought a packet of DulcoEase, or had 50 goes on a fruit machine at the pier with that money.
[ 03.03.2010, 04:43: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lunch yesterday was crisps.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: lunch yesterday was crisps.
Roast chicken flavour?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
today i have had
coffee
Paramol
coke
bacon and egg roll
haven't even started thinking about lunch yet. Looking forward to seeing what other clubbers are going to eat in the next couple of hours.
[ 03.03.2010, 06:47: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I had a pate sandwich, with some lettuce in it. I mean. It was part of my lunch that I re-purposed as a mid-morning snack.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Also, Benway appears to have a similar diet to an overweight Hollywood comedian who's about to die.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
thanks for kicking us off today, thorn.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lunch will probably be 'ludes, administering a blowjob, and defibrillation
[ 03.03.2010, 06:56: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Eaten nothing today obviously as mornings are just for black coffee. Might have a salad at lunch.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm tempted by a crusty half baguette stuffed with chicken in some sort of gooey sauce from local sandwich shop, Pierre's. Minted Chicken is my favourite. Unfortunately this sandwich is not very easy to eat. They put way too much filling in, and the sauce is rarely viscous enough to remain in its bready enclosure. The freshly baked bread tends to splinter into potentially mouth-shredding shards which are difficult to avoid whilst also trying to outwit the creamy outflow from sandwich base.
On balance, I'll probably get something more manageable and boring from M&S.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
First food of the day - Chicken soup. I may have to double soup today as my dinner is going to be a late one and I've only got some nik naks and an apple otherwise.
I've discovered that if I go from a 'yellow' to a 'red' soup (i.e. cream of vegetable followed by minestrone) I can double soup without cleaning the mug inbetween. If I go the other way it doesn't work out so good.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: nik naks
Nice 'n' Spicy flavour?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You better believe it!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i have never had a cup'o'soup or whatever they are called.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
cuppa soup
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
cup a soup.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I used to have them when I was at university. I used to work better when I had a hot drink to hand, and cup-a-soups were a useful alternative to drinking 15 mugs of coffee a day. Don't think I've had one since.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i do eat pot noodles when I'm coming down from a migraine though. Don't know why. Seems like the only food I can stomach.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
They used to be pretty horrible. All watery and flavourless. These days they're pretty nice though - very thick and tasty with crunchy crutons.
I use them as a sandwich alternative.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I had a horrible time at my course last night. Talking about branding. BMW. compare-the-meerkat(market).com. Awful. Awful. Someone said of BMW "It's a status symbol - if one of your neighbours had a Ford, and the other had a BMW, you'd want to hang out with the guy who had the BMW". Awful. I think the tutor really hated my fucking guts by the end.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Those fucking meerkat adverts make me want to hurl the remote at the screen.
Did someone genuinely think that a person would be more likely to want to be friends with someone who owns a BMW than someone with a Ford? Like, genuinely and unironically?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I don't know about genuinely, but he said it without irony. A lot of people seem to approach the course in the same way they would school, so they tend to say what they think they should say. So we watched the BMW 'Joy' ad and people said it 'felt aspirational, inclusive' as opposed to 'massively patronising' or whatever.
I mean, there's an interesting discussion to be had about branding, especially where there's a distance between a brand message that gets repeated ad nauseum, and what people think about an advert or a brand. It's also a massive money-sink, so on a marketing course it's worth analysing it in depth, from as many perspectives as possible. But there was a horrible sense last night that if you criticise 'brand messages' you're somehow betraying the cause. Anyway. Basically it was three hours of me slagging off everything everyone said.
[ 03.03.2010, 07:50: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
can you hire me when you set up your own ad agency? I reckon I'd be brilliant.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I can't stand those 'joy' adverts. I don't see how they're about anything other than diverting attention away from what their cars really make, which is a load of pollution, not to mention bad drivers.
BMW are funny ones though because there seems to be a massive gulf between the things they show in adverts, and what really lies at the heart of their success - which is appealing to a specific demographic of aspiring lower-middle classers. Their cars are status symbols, but only in a very narrow and specific kind of way. It's like a symbol of social mobility. Owning a BMW (not counting the high end 'M' series ones) is basically about saying that you used to be lower middle class but now you've managed to get together some money and you can afford to spend on quality rather than something utilitarian like a Ford.
But none of this ever seems to factor into their marketing so there's some subtle doublethink going on in the minds of BMW owners where they think they're buying the cars for their emphasis on driving dynamics and their efficient, well built engines.
I think the person who said he's be more likely to want to hang out with a BMW owner probably falls right into that demographic.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
if I even begin to start thinking of the decisions and social connotations involved in how people interact with the BMW brand, I find myself becoming angry and depressed, desiring to go and live in a cave for the rest of my life.
But then, I'm more of a volkswagen man.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: can you hire me when you set up your own ad agency? I reckon I'd be brilliant.
You can be my creative director. I'll wheel you out, blind drunk, and barely coherent in front of top clients saying "This project is really important to us - I'm going to put my top guy on it. He's a fucking firework this guy. You just give him the concept and... BAM! He's like no-one else in the business. Ok. Steve... Steve... can you hear me? Mr Abbott here is looking to drive home the BMW identity. He wants it to be manly. Not like, boy band pretty, or hipster cool, but some thing that says 'I am man at his most man'. Something like that. What have you got for us?"
And you'd reach across the table, grab the wine, drink straight from the bottle. Wipe mouth with the sleeve of your badly stained Paul Smith suit and smack your lips.
I'd be nodding and raising my eyebrows at Tim Abbott like, "this is going to be it!"
And Benway says... "Ben... Benicio Del Toro punches Scarlett Johhanson in the face and drives off in a BMW. The strapline just reads: 'CAR'."
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you know how to push my buttons.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I think that the car that best sums up my own personal brand would be like
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
68p salad.
I've got cous cous in my keyboard now.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I thought you'd have chosen something more like this
(what an awesome image that is)
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
That's at Kanye, by the way. Not in response to CiH's lunch choice
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that image hosting site is banned for me. I just see a little broken image symbol.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
and probably get reported to IT every time I refresh this page.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
do you think we are 'beyond' using new threads now?
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Amazing! How much is that lion loving it?! Look at his hair blow back... Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
What I find more incredible is how unimpressed and disinterested the crowd look. Some of them aren't even looking. That's a lion! In a sidecar! on the wall of death!
[ 03.03.2010, 08:33: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I thought you'd have chosen something more like this
i like the chick at the end with her head resting on her fist. 'lion.. in a sidecar... on the wall of death... on surface of planet whirling through space at 1036 miles per hour... oh, when will this banal indignity be over...'
i am STILL feeling wan, feak and weeble after my intestinal upheaval on thursday. is that normal? i honestly dont think i have vomited more than three times in my adult life (if of course you ignore the many, many, many, many occasions on which i drank too much boozy pop and a little bit came back up again to say hello) so i dont really know how these viral things work. i feel like a terrible milksop and have no appetite and cant even get excited by the thought of a pieminister pie.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's a classic case of AIDS related pneumonia, DD. Bad luck.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i dont have aids, thankyou, doctor belushi. i know this because i had a series of aids tests in 2005, shortly before richard pryor died. i think i might have had about seven, all of which came back proudly negative. i want a second opinion. what is your second opinion?
[ 03.03.2010, 09:15: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It sounds like you just got tested for normal AIDS dd but that wouldn't pick up on seasonal AIDS. Perhaps you picked up some Christmas AIDS?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I've spun the wheel of diagnosis, and it's come up with AIDS again, I'm afraid. What are the chances of that happening.
I had some AIDS tests once. When i had the clap. I had AIDS, but I managed to beat it by eating more fresh fruit, cutting down on caffeine, swapping the tube for walking where possible, and trying to relax more during general day to day activity, such as looking, holding, and listening.
I also went on the "terror chasm" ride at Alton Towers about 300 times in the space of month. Don't know why, just developed a weird mania. After that I got the all clear. One theory was that the intense G forces pushed all of the AIDS through my scalp, where it was releases in microscopic particles.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
dont be ridiculous. i dont have christmas aids. its march. also, im not bleeding from my eye sockets. even i know that the DISTINGUISHING symptom of christmas aids is bleeding from the eyes.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've never bothered with an AIDS test as i'm still a virgin so it's a bit of a waste of time.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: dont be ridiculous. i dont have christmas aids. its march. also, im not bleeding from my eye sockets. even i know that the DISTINGUISHING symptom of christmas aids is bleeding from the eyes.
It also sounds like sleighbells when you pee.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: It also sounds like sleighbells when you pee.
And it comes out a bit thick and 'noggy'.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lunch was a maltesers 'chocolate bunny'.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Someone needs to have a word with Louise and explain to her how to take proper care of her Benway.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
oh my god. i want a chocolate bunny. i may be cured.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
don't bother, DM,. it was crap.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I have a lindt chocolate bunny in the vegetable crisper section of my fridge that is still wrapped in lovely gold paper with a ribbon and bell around its neck. It has the best before date stamped on its bottom of august 2008.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
always have to go one better don't you. What a monster.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
My main driving force in life at the moment is to beat you at everything Benway.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Get a BMW, then. Apparently that will announce to everyone that you've 'won at life' in some completely incoherent and meaningless way.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED - 100G - "If you can't join 'em"
Achievement details: Beat benway at everything.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm still reeling from the BMW marketing student. I mean, if you were to say something like that, you've mistaken yourself who can analyse marketing and actually just become the exact target audience you think you're looking down on. It would be like CiH having a really tense poorly conducted argument with a member of staff about how terrible their call quality is over the phone. In their world it consists of being asked to go fishing by their neighbour, but they decline or recoil in horror when they start to wheel their ford out of the garage with a couple of kayaks on the back as duelling banjos plays. They look over to neighbour number 2 with his soft-top down, with some massive titted playgirls in the backseat and he nods on in approval, because they both know that's where the ultimate lifestyle shit is at.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Get a BMW, then. Apparently that will announce to everyone that you've 'won at life' in some completely incoherent and meaningless way.
I have a colleague who's dating a BMW employee. This apparently means he gets to lease a brand new BMW every six months for a very low price. This is supposed to 'stimulate the used market'. I'm pretty sure he thinks he's won at life. Whenever he gets a new one, he offers me a lift home to save me the indignity of public transport, and to 'show me what it can do'.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Ride a BMX into work and offer him a backie every single day even though he declines. Keep asking. Do this for years until eventually he caves in and agrees. Then do a quick endo and cycle off really fast.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Lol, that's a pretty good idea.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
My bosses own two BMWs. And at one point my mum and dad had one each. This is pretty much means I would rather be dead than own one myself. I would rather transport myself across Oxford by climbing into a series of catapaults and being flung 300 yards at a time, than own a BMW.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: It would be like CiH having a really tense poorly conducted argument with a member of staff about how terrible their call quality is over the phone.
I don't have anything to do with call quality any more I'm a product development executive now Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That makes me sick. Why can't I be a product development executive? I bet you couldn't even draw a flow chart showing the optimum product development process.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I would rather be dead than own one myself. I would rather transport myself across Oxford by climbing into a series of catapaults and being flung 300 yards at a time, than own a BMW.
Thorn's an Audi man.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
a friend of mine's dad had one, and i went in it once and I just remember thinking the whole way "so this is what a bmw is like".
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I learnt to drive in one. It was quite good at driving into things without getting damaged. Same was true of my mum's VW Passat, mind, and that had the convenience of being an estate. Man, that car could take a punch.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: That makes me sick. Why can't I be a product development executive? I bet you couldn't even draw a flow chart showing the optimum product development process.
I don't even have the software on my computer that I would use to draw a flow chart.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Not even MSPaint?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yeah, I've got MSpaint. I'm going to be getting visio though which some people say is better for the job than MSpaint.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Gnnnnnnh! Baby lion in a side car!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
rare roast beef and horseradish sandwich, falafel & houmous wrap, and a vanilla fudge chocolate bar. Buying lunch is expensive. 7 days of lunch = 1 DVD box set = 1 overdraft fine from the bank. But we ran out of bread this morning, so it had to be done.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
coffee and a small piece of a "key lime chocolate"
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Are you trapped in a bomb shelter?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
68p salad. I don't think you could get any dvd box sets with a weeks worth of that for lunch.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
No, but if all I ate at lunchtime was a 68p salad, I would probably faint at about 3 in the afternoon.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You actually get quite a lot of food in a 68p salad. It takes me a good 8 minutes to eat. I also baked a pistachio, almond, orange, cardamom and rosewater cake with a lemon and rosewater icing that I brought in today for my team so I'll have a slice of that as well.
I won't buy any boxsets as I don't have any interest in owning any boxsets.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm guessing that that 68p salad is from a subsidised work canteen, yes? Typical. You people who work for big coporations earn more and pay less. No wonder the oppressed working class like myself can't catch a break.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It is from a work canteen. 68p gets you about the same amount of food you'd get for about £2.50 from a supermarket salad bar.
Perhaps you could get a job at a big corporation with a subsidised canteen?
Assuming that if I didn't get the 68p salad each day and instead had to pay £2.50 for lunch each day, that would cost me an extra £436.80 a year. That means really I'm earning almost £500 a year more than I thought I was.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I was just given a brownie by a danish girl who came over from denmark to see me. It was soft and nice. More chocolate though. I'm not even a chocolate fan, it's just it always seems to be lying around because people bring it back from foreign places.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Assuming that if I didn't get the 68p salad each day and instead had to pay £2.50 for lunch each day, that would cost me an extra £436.80 a year. That means really I'm earning almost £500 a year more than I thought I was.
More than that: A saving of £500 on your outgoings would be equivalent to £750 on your pre-tax salary. Maybe even more, if some of your salary gets taxed at 40%.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I could make the benefit even greater by paying for lunch on my corporate card and use this to earn points that I could use on DVD box sets but I'd feel weird about charging 68p to a card.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Man, this corporate lifestyle just gives you opportunities to make money hand over fist.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
I ENJOYED MY LUNCH! i have rejoined the human race. i had a sandwich with goats cheese, spinach, basil, avocado and chutney on it and it was dreamy as all hell. can i get a mexican wave please, brothers and sisters.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
.o \o/ o /|\ | /|\
[ 04.03.2010, 09:42: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
o o \o/ /|\ /|\ |
ETA: Do it properly, CiH, or not at all.
[ 04.03.2010, 09:53: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
when they come to rest they look so exhausted, dont they? i cant help feeling its a cruelty to make them bounce up and down in perpetuity like this. or, maybe, its a depiction of the tirelessness of the human spirit. also, if you look very carefully, they are mouthing the words 'go, disco!'.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Pint of Guinness, Spicy beef noodles.
One of the documents I'm reading has the following text.
quote:Become a challenger brand – challengers have a clear sense of themselves – they act like a Lighthouse, taking a stand, intensely and consistently projecting their point of view in everything they do – encouraging the consumer to 'navigate' by them.
Kill me.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I did several times last night.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That was probably because my wireless was playing up Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
[ 05.03.2010, 09:51: Message edited by: dang65 ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
A steak and cheese sub on Honey Oat bread with lettuce, red onion, pickles (gherkins) and sweet onion sauce.
From SUBWAY
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
An unfortunately-not-68p-but-£3.23-instead salad from the unsubsidised office canteen.
Tasty though.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I had a slice of Gala Pie...good old pork-pie loaf with an egg in. But it was horrible! I feel all soiled and wrong now...
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
A beef and mustard roll. A packet of salt and vinegar flavour crisps (baked, not fried).
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
A ham and pickle sandwich, some crisps, a cherry bakewell and a coffee.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'll be having a chicken and pesto panini a bit later.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'll be having a beef and mustard roll a bit later.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm going to have a cigarette, I reckon.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I'm going to have a cigarette, I reckon.
I'll join you, man. Giving up smoking was a ridiculous idea.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
had one. It was fine, but left me feeling a bit sick. Weird isn't it. Sometimes they are like sucking on the breath of god herself, other times, guzzling from an exhaust pipe.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I had one too. It was a roll-up of Golden Virginia with filter, wrapped in Rizla+ (green). Pretty satisfying.
7/10
The beef and mustard roll was actually not a roll at all, but rather part of a baguette. It was also quite enjoyable, but the seeds on top mostly fell off and spread themselves all over my desk. The wholegrain mustard had a good amount of bite and a pleasant mouth-feel. The beef could've been rarer, but was still packed with an intense, dark flavour. Sadly the whole process of eating the sandwich was undermined by a nagging thought that this was too much white bread to be consuming in one go, and that my next visit to the toilet will probably be a bit of a struggle.
6/10 Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich
Apple
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Sweet Chilli Chicken White Bloomer according to the packet. Oddly, it's quite obviously brown bread. Perhaps Chicken White is a term I haven't heard before, used to describe the white meat of a chicken. Sort of like egg white, only different.
I've also bought some sugar free gum, because my dentist recommended chewing it after meals "when you can't get access to the toothbrushes".
[ 22.03.2010, 09:12: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
toothbrushes?
Am I doing something wrong? I just use one toothbrush for all tooth cleaning situations. Should I have different ones for use at different times of day or after different types of meal?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
He's Polish. I'm not sure if that explains his unnecessary pluralisation.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
You trust your teeth to a Pole?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
meze. Are you supposed to eat the leaves that wrap the rice? Never sure. I didn't.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
lol.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
It's like in Adrian Mole when he drinks the hand wash thinking it's tea.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lololol SHUT UP
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
'....and don't bring it back until it's piping hot'
Gnaaaaaaaaaaargh!
[ 23.03.2010, 08:52: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: You trust your teeth to a Pole?
Not only that, I trust my teeth to the NHS!
According to my previous aged South African dentist (Tertius), the Pole is "incredibly skilled" and "despite his youth, a far better dentist than I".
If Tertius were still my dentist, I'd be tempted to go for a check-up with my teeth all messed up with crustaceans, just to hear him say the words "fookin prawns". A great accent, that Tertius.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
pasty Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
chick peas and mushrooms in a spicy tomato and onion sauce, followed by a pair of lovely kiwis, and a pineapple yoghurt
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
just having a cheeky volvic now.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You really hate the planet don't you Benway with your tumble drier and volvic.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you know, I really do. I really, really do.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
A new café opened by, and clearly aimed at, Shoreditch cycle couriers has just opened near me… it is all mismatched tables, organic coffee and a sunny courtyard. So for lunch I am going to go and leer. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That must be a total totty fest for the girl who like her men like she likes her chewing gum: crushed flat under the wheels of an oblivious transport lorry.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
True dat.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Pint (probs)
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
a quality lunch.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Perhaps he meant a pint of water. I think we could do with more of a description. I'm having a 68p salad.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm having lasagne.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
man i could go for a lasagne.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm having dominos pizza for dinner. Two for one delivered and you can order and pay for it online so you don't have to worry about money or tipping when they turn up. Tuesdays are great.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't work for Dominos btw, although that did just sound like a rubbish sales pitch.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
But if you like it hot, you need to have Meltdown: The Revenge. Exclusive to Dominos it features meatballs, pepperoni and not one, not two but THREE different types of chilli! You'll be wanting to get some cooling coleslaw to go with this and perhaps a bottle of diet coke to wash it all down.
Perfect to have after some succulent chicken wings.
I'm also pretty sure that you don't have any dessert in your house do you? What are you going to have after your delicious entree and main course? The answer couldn't be simpler! Although famous for their pizzas, Dominos also do a fantastic range of fresh (frozen) desserts. Try the chocolate gateau and you will NOT be disappointed!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
leafy salad with pastrami and cottage cheese. wholegrain pitta. red grapes. Apple.
Healthious.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: man i could go for a lasagne.
I'm eating it now. It is 'well nice'.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I do love dominos. Solid products
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
[ 27.04.2010, 08:11: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
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.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
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.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
thai chicken curry with seafood. great.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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.
I might give up sandwiches.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
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.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Just like if you don't buy Nike, how are all the kids in the sweatshops going to earn their money.
Anyway. Yes. Tasty pizzas.
[ 27.04.2010, 09:06: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
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...
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
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.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
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.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
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.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i have no 'adult news' to report.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Have you thought about moving house? Remortgaging? That kind of thing? Free up some capital for booze.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: i have no 'adult news' to report.
All quiet on the Belladonna front?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Dominos shareholders will be disappointed to hear that I decided I didn't want pizza tonight so am cooking toad in the hole instead.
House was nice. Annoyingly nice as it's 8 miles out of Brighton.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
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.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
hubband fail.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I wonder if you get free pizzas if you're a Dominos shareholder. You do if yo work there, I know that much.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I wonder if you get free dominoes if you work in a domino factory.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles:
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.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
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.
I’m rockin’ the grown up vibe!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
The 'grown up vibe' sounds like something Belladonna might 'pop in her bottom'.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
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.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Wow - I never imagined there were such things as luxury dominos.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Those are some nice dominoes. I have no interest in playing dominoes but I'm tempted to get some.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Those are some nice dominoes.
Who'd have thought TMO would come to this?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
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.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: People who buy Jaguars pay good money to have that solid THUNK when they close the car door.
So that's why they have speakers in the doors...
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: I came up with the idea of aluminum dominoes because we kept splitting, chipping and breaking the plastic dominoes that are prominent in toy stores. Plus, we were all tired of playing the same old cheap plastic dominoes and needed something that would last a lifetime.
How do you chip, split or break a domino in the course of its daily use, which is presumably restricted to a) being placed on a table, or other flat surface, next to another domino with the same number of spots at one end, or b) being placed standing upright on a table, or other flat surface, next to another domino, then being gently pushed over by that other domino and in turn pushing over another adjacent upright domino. That sort of thing doesn’t break solid lumps of plastic.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: How do you chip, split or break a domino in the course of its daily use...
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Domino players whack their pieces down with some force. They can get beat up pretty quick.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
As illustrated by the above cartoon, for example.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't remember porkpie being particularly violent with his dominoes whilst sitting in desmonds and not getting his hair cut.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Whilst that cartoon is topical, it is sadly lacking in 'funny'.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
A radical departure from the usual raid on random bowls of miscellaneous "foodstuffs". Somewhat unusually we have an abundance of actual sandwich-making materials in the fridge so lunch was pastrami and dill pickles on brown bread with mustard and mayonnaise.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
taste the difference king prawn and rocket. I couldn't taste the difference, or indeed, anything.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Remember to tip your waitress. I'm here all week, folks.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: A radical departure from the usual raid on random bowls of miscellaneous "foodstuffs". Somewhat unusually we have an abundance of actual sandwich-making materials in the fridge so lunch was pastrami and dill pickles on brown bread with mustard and mayonnaise.
Substitute the dill pickles for red lettuce and we had the same sandwich today
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Sandwich with wholegrain seeded bread, piccalilli, smoked salami, and gouda cheese. Plus the faithful granny smith apple.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
You want a braeburn there, Ringo.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I can assure you, I most certainly do not want a Braeburn. The Granny Smith is literally the pinnacle of appledom; its sharpness and juiciness being unrivaled by any other species.
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