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SteveWD40

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shorty_symd said:
Question of the day, what's your favourite sandwich? like, type of bread, white/brown, fillings, the way the sandwich it's cut etc.
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Hmmmm

I tend to buy M&S Egg Mayo with Ham and Lettuce on a soft, seeded roll.

When I make them I go for Mature Cheddar, Ham, English Mustard and Gherkin (sliced) on M&S Super Seeded bread.

Trying to limit carbs though...

Edit: top of page (for 50 post scrubs) motherfuckers.

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phisheep

phisheep

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shorty_symd said:
Question of the day, what's your favourite sandwich? like, type of bread, white/brown, fillings, the way the sandwich it's cut etc.
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Tinned salmon mixed half-and-half with tinned tomatoes topped with grated cheese - medium cheddar - topped with cucumber and pickle, on toasted granary bread lightly grilled and cut not square or triangular but half-way between.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I seem to end up getting the chicken and bacon sandwiches at Tesco and Sainsbury's as part of their meal deal. But that's also because you end up getting the crisps and drink for about 10p.
 
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noffles

Banned
Ham and mint sauce in white bread. Heavenly stuff.

Also, being awake at this time and having a lecture in 30 minutes is shit. Routines are so awful.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
For such an inoffensive veggie I've noticed a lot of people have a very strong disliking of cucumber.

noffles said:
Also, being awake at this time and having a lecture in 30 minutes is shit. Routines are so awful.
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Awake at 10:30? OH NO! HOW HORRIFIC!
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I can understand not liking texture. I hate cooked tomatoes for a similar reasons. The flesh I'm fine with, but the seeds are ARGH!
 
phisheep

phisheep

NeoGAF's Chief Barrister
Must just put in a word for roast pork sandwiches with honey. Excellent combo.

And Cadburys chocolate fingers do well in sandwiches too, but not with anything else!
 
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Jill Sandwich

the turds of Optimus Prime
Good choice. Carvery sandwiches with stuffing and apple sauce from Crawshaws are a treat. I'm addicted to Mexican Bandits from Greggs. If I'm in Subway I'll usually get the BMT on honey oat with onion, peppers, pickles and olives with sweet onion sawce.
Dang it's an hour until lunchtime :(
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Suairyu said:
Does this bring back memories, BGBW?

Because I'm nostalgia-ing so hard right now.
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No cos I'm not a nerd who grew up watching anime.
Who needed anything else when you had Bible Black?

I stopped putting peppers in my Subs because I found they taking away from the flavour of everything else. Though I'm pretty simple, turkey and ham on italian herbs and cheese with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, sweet corn and black olives.
 
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Suairyu

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BGBW said:
Who needed anything else when you had Bible Black?
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First time I saw that it was episode three with the forced water insertion. Made me positively sick to my stomach.

Oh, how naive I was. That sort of stuff is tame by anime standards.

But srsly, what did you grow up watching in the non-pornographic sense? Moe wasn't quite a thing during our teens so it couldn't have been that.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Pokémon and Digimon I guess. Oh and the opening to Outlaw Star about a gazillion times before I headed off home from my friend's house. I didn't have Sky/Cable and Wireless/other name.

I'm sure one could throw in a few one off episodes of Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Ultimate Muscle and Bomberman BE DA MAN. Basically if a friend was watching something I'd watch it with them but I didn't follow anything myself since there was nothing of the terrestrial channels.
 
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Lirlond

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I remember being given a huge stack of naruto, one piece and the original fma anime on CDs like 7 years ago. That along with dragonball, outlaw star and bebop are what got me into anime.
 
Jedeye Sniv

Jedeye Sniv

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When I was a tween I was obsessed by anime after seeing Akira and some of the late night stuff that Channel 4 would run. I don't remember what any of it was called but I do remember big hair, explosions and robots.

I guess I'm a dark horse in that I've seen more anime than even I expect, I had quite a period in my mid-20s of finding awesome shows. So much of what I see out there is the big-eyed school comedy shite though, I've fallen right off. I think my favourite High School stuff was Zetsubo Sensei, that show is hilarious. But really I like the soppy mecha stuff like Gurren Lagann, Evangelion, Eureka Seven, Gunbuster etc
 
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donkey show

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Ugh, why didn't it snow hard enough for a snow day. :(

Jedeye Sniv said:
When I was a tween I was obsessed by anime after seeing Akira and some of the late night stuff that Channel 4 would run. I don't remember what any of it was called but I do remember big hair, explosions and robots.
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Sounds like Bubblegum Crisis, Tank Police, or anything Masamune Shirow would have made.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
During my gap year I decided to check out some of the shows I'd heard about over the years and some of the stuff currently being talked about (Azumanga, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Full Metal Alchemist, Kaiji to name a few). But it would still be a couple of years (basically final year of uni) that I really got into it and started following shows.

Only people I met at uni who liked anime and manga were into Naruto and Bleach both of which I saw one episode of and didn't take to (Saying that, this Naruto song is funky. Heard it from YTMND mind). When asked what I liked I said JoJo and they didn't know what I was talking about.

Jill Sandwich said:
My first intro to anime (apart from Battle of the Planets of course) was Urotsukidoji. There was an eye opener!
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An older friend brought that round and we started watching it. I have a feeling we didn't watch the complete thing since I can't remember to much about it. Finally got round to watching the full thing last year so I can tick off that box.
 
Jedeye Sniv

Jedeye Sniv

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donkey show said:
Ugh, why didn't it snow hard enough for a snow day. :(



Sounds like Bubblegum Crisis, Tank Police, or anything Masamune Shirow would have made.
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Yeah I think it must have been Bubblegum Crisis, that rings a bell. I was also obsessed with the magazine Super Play - even before I could watch anime the art in that book captured my imagination. I bet it looks terrible now!

BGBW said:
During my gap year I decided to check out some of the shows I'd heard about over the years and some of the stuff currently being talked about (Azumanga, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Full Metal Alchemist, Kaiji to name a few). But it would still be a couple of years (basically final year of uni) that I really got into it and started following shows.

Only people I met at uni who liked anime and manga were into Naruto and Bleach both of which I saw one episode of and didn't take to (Saying that, this Naruto song is funky. Heard it from YTMND mind). When asked what I liked I said JoJo and they didn't know what I was talking about.


An older friend brought that round and we started watching it. I have a feeling we didn't watch the complete thing since I can't remember to much about it. Finally got round to watching the full thing last year so I can tick off that box.
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You make me feel old talking about seeing Haruhi in your gap year. I still think of it as a fairly recent show...!
 
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Lirlond

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Ugh my anime society was like that. Id spent high school watching kaiji, jojo, planetes, reading berserk, takehiko inoue, osamu tezuka, and when I ask folk their favourites its all naruto, bleach, maybe trigun or bebop.
 
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Bazza

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BGBW said:
For such an inoffensive veggie I've noticed a lot of people have a very strong disliking of cucumber.


Awake at 10:30? OH NO! HOW HORRIFIC!
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I'm not to keen on Cucumber on its own as it does not have much flavor but i love it in sandwiches with other things.
 
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Rubbish King

The gift that keeps on giving
My old employer just rang asking if i want any work.... could take a few weeks of work before i move..


noffles said:
Hey, Tash. I'm curious as to who is older out of the two of us, because I'm pretty sure that we're the two youngest here.

Birthday month?
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December 20th, 1993

Yourself?
 
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Reknoc

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donkey show said:
Ugh, why didn't it snow hard enough for a snow day. :(



Sounds like Bubblegum Crisis, Tank Police, or anything Masamune Shirow would have made.
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Yep, that was UK anime back then. Man I bought some shit back in the day like "Vampire Wars" and "Virus Buster Surge".

I still fondly remember waiting up/recording Blue Gender, Evangelion, Nadesico and one random softcore hentai film on Sci-Fi at like 3am. They even used to have a little intro for the slot with some dude.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
My uni had a catch all Geek Society so I didn't even give it a chance. Their homepage was littered with Star Wars images which I took as a massive warning sign.

Can't really critic those I met on my course since I wasn't exactly watching or reading anything better just different. Only knew about JoJo because of the WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY meme I admit and I just happened to be in a 'guild' at the time that decided to be JoJo themed. Thinking about it, a few years went by between learning about it and actually reading it. I mean I was still in the stage where Studio Ghibli could do no wrong simply because I had watched most of their films for the first time thanks to FilmFour moving to Freeview.
 
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SKINNER!

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I usually get Tuna/Mayo with black olives and tomato slices on brown bread when I'm at work. Cut in half rather than diagonally liek phisheep as it's the best way. Great to hold and it doesn't fall apart. For Subway, can't beat a Meatball Marinara or a Steak and Cheese. Love those two sandwiches. Also, you guys are nuts for hatin' on cucumbers. So crunchy and such a refreshing snack if you got a dry mouth. Courgettes is something I can't stand..uugh yuck.


donkey show said:
Sounds like Bubblegum Crisis, Tank Police, or anything Masamune Shirow would have made.
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"Tank Poliiiiiiice. Feel the power that we got"
Dat 80's intro music and lasers. Acts 1 and 2 was amazing but 3 and 4 were very average. New Dominon Tank Police wasn't too bad either. Ghost in the Shell and Tank Police is what got me into anime around the time the first Matrix got released. Akira, Appleseed and Ninja Scroll came shortly afterwards and that was the kinda anime I liked and still do 'till this day. Before that all I ever watched was stuff like Anpanman and Captain Tsubasa when I was little. Spoke to someone at high school who was also into anime and he gave me a shot of Excel Saga on DVD...Jesus, it hurts me to think that I'm never going to get back those 2+ hours of my life. That put me off anime for quite a while until Stand Alone Complex and Innocence came out when I was at uni and that's when I finally watched Cowboy Bebop and loved the hell out of it.
 
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donkey show

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Jedeye Sniv said:
You make me feel old talking about seeing Haruhi in your gap year. I still think of it as a fairly recent show...!
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I know that feel. I remember animation when they actually used actual pens and ink. :S

Musha_Soturi said:
I had just turned 12. Now that makes me feel old.
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Goodness, I had turned 12 on Halloween that year. More feels. :S

shorty_symd said:
"Tank Poliiiiiiice. Feel the power that we got"
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FUUUUUU, now the theme song is stuck in my head again.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I'm sure a kid born tomorrow will be able say they remember when they used pen and ink when they're older since they recycle shows so often.
 
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Suairyu

Banned
Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away were the first anime DVDs I ever bought, in that order.

Prior to that my sole experience was Dragonball Z, Gundam Wing and (the excellent) Tenchi Muyo.

Then I started meeting other people interested in anime, and discovered kazaa and forums, so my exposure increased. Ninja Scroll TV (shit), Gundam Seed (mediocre), Chobits (enjoyable), Excel Saga (funny), Ramna 1/2 (dated), Inuyasha (Dragonball Z for girls), Cowboy Bebop (best show eveeeeeer) and .hack//SIGN (loved it at the time, probably wouldn't now).

The MVC I was working at then got the Escaflowne complete boxset in and I bought that. Fantastic series, though you could really tell they ran out of space to tell the story when the planned amount of episodes got slashed.

And that was the beginning of my anime saga. University broadened my horizons further still, but that'd be too many things to list, and a lot of the passion had gone by then. My fondest memories are still in the discovery of something new - those first five anime DVDs I bought, the first time I discovered P2P downloads and forums telling me what to download, etc.

shorty_symd said:
Spoke to someone at high school who was also into anime and he gave me a shot of Excel Saga on DVD...Jesus, it hurts me to think that I'm never going to get back those 2+ hours of my life.
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Excel Saga is brilliant, but only if you've seen a broad range of anime beforehand. Every episode is a parody of a different genre and tropeset.

Unfortunately, they run out of ideas about 12 episodes in, and the series quickly devolves in quality after that. They then get very meta and the characters become self aware that certain events are happening solely to 'prop' up the series as the creators run out of ideas, which was cute but didn't save it.
 
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Suairyu

Banned
It's also quite interesting to see how essential illegal P2P sharing was back then if you wanted to enjoy anime. There simply wasn't yet a good enough range built up on DVD. Of course, then the market got absolutely flooded with the mid-2000s anime boom to the point of saturation. Was a very surreal moment walking into HMV one day and seeing two walls of anime, most of the titles I'd never heard of.

The options people have today with crunchyroll offering stupid cheap subscription streaming are great. It's never been a better time to be an anime fan in terms of access. It does, however, remove some of the joy of discovery that came with having to hunt hard to get your anime.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I somehow ended up on an anime centric board (basically jumping form place to place to find a decent community) during my midteens. I spent most of it on the gaming board since some of the regular posters were pretty cool despite the average poster being a moron (eventually they introduced custom sub boards so you could literally abandon the main forum and form our own sub community. So a bit like this thread).

The anime nature of course meant there were a lot of "^__^ Naruto is mai bishi xDDD" posts which basically lead me to view the average anime viewer as a plonker. I still do, I'm just more informed about the shows they watch.
 
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Mr. Sam

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Do you think the average GAF-er is more intelligent than a member of most other communities, or the average person for that matter? I think I have a problem of believing anyone who speaks with supposed authority on a subject to be intelligent and well-informed.
 
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Suairyu

Banned
Mr. Sam said:
Do you think the average GAF-er is more intelligent than a member of most other communities, or the average person for that matter? I think I have a problem of believing anyone who speaks with supposed authority on a subject to be intelligent and well-informed.
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edit - I completely mis-read your question.
 
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Lirlond

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Honestly I just think the average age of GAF is a little higher than most other gaming centric boards, I'd say the majority of posters here are in their 20's with a good % of folk between 30 and 45, and the rest older.

Consider other gaming and subculture forums on the net. It wouldn't surprise me if the majority of posters there were between the ages of 13 and 18, with a few in their 30s or 40s. Now while they're not less intelligent or less capable than the folk on GAF, they're more prone to act like, well, kids.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Just comparing that one board from my younger days and GAF I would say the average poster at least comes off as more intelligent. Also helps that the mods here ban people for terrible posts as well as breaking the rules. The other board rewarded people for posting (it had a currency system that I wasn't really to bothered about) so you got a lot of shit. Also no one read past the first page so you got a lot of repeat threads including such great topics like "Who would win, Link or Cloud?". Only reason I stayed there was because of the sub community element and because it was easy to take the piss.

And leave the animeGAF thread out of this.

EDIT: Oh you edited it out.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Well that is Off-Topic side.

But imagine that popping up multiple times a day. There's only so many times you can respond with "Which Link?" only to get the reply "Link from the Legend of Zelda games silly".
 
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TCRS

Banned
guys, even if you're not that into gaming side (like me), now is a good time! The PS4 thread is legendary and Witcher 3 was announced today!!
 
Jedeye Sniv

Jedeye Sniv

Banned
TCRS said:
guys, even if you're not that into gaming side (like me), now is a good time! The PS4 thread is legendary and Witcher 3 was announced today!!
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Probably not getting a PS4. Never played a Witcher game.

The circlejerking and giffing is only funny if you know/care what they're talking about.

Anything else worth going there for? :p
 
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