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[SKINNER!]

Best Muppet/Seseme Street character?

Cookie Monster man. We go waaaay back. He inspired me to be the man I am today.

Can you do any impressions? Or more accurately, which impressions do you attempt, even if you can't do them?

I've been putting on an impression since I was born.

Which country would you like to visit?

Hard one. Cuba I guess?


Summarise your feelings on the Channel 4 series 'Sex Box', recently returning to screens, presented by are-you-sure-he's-not-made-of-plastic Steve Jones.


Confused. What's a sex box? I already got one of those. It's called a computer.


You're hosting a fancy dress party. What's your theme and what's your costume?

Saturday morning TV theme. I'd be dressed as wonkey donkey.


What do you think of people who travel first class on trains?

Grade-A cunts

Some pubs have board games or card games in them now. This might be a trendy thing.

What games would be good to play in a pub environment?

Hungry Hungry Hippos.


Doncaster. Explain why?

If Doncaster was a nerd at school it would be called "Dongcaster".

 

[8bit]

Best Muppet/Seseme Street character?

Waldorf & Stadler.

Can you do any impressions? Or more accurately, which impressions do you attempt, even if you can't do them?

Not really.

Which country would you like to visit?

Not sure nowadays, have been fairly well travelled in Europe. Maybe Russia?

Summarise your feelings on the Channel 4 series 'Sex Box', recently returning to screens, presented by are-you-sure-he's-not-made-of-plastic Steve Jones.

I don't know what that it. Is it gogglebox with porn?

You're hosting a fancy dress party. What's your theme and what's your costume?

No, I'm not. The theme is fuck off out of my house.

What do you think of people who travel first class on trains?

That they didn't pay for it themselves.

Some pubs have board games or card games in them now. This might be a trendy thing. What games would be good to play in a pub environment?

This isn't a particularly new thing. I'd be happy with something like Ticket to Ride or Catan. Monopoly & Cluedo can fuck off though.

Doncaster. Explain why?

It wasn't me.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Best Muppet/Sesame Street character?

Oh, easy. Tom Waits.

Can you do any impressions? Or more accurately, which impressions do you attempt, even if you can't do them?

Ask me about my Columbo impression one day.

Which country would you like to visit?

Japan.

Summarise your feelings on the Channel 4 series 'Sex Box', recently returning to screens, presented by are-you-sure-he's-not-made-of-plastic Steve Jones.

If it involves Steve Jones sticking his smug dick into the latest consoles and watching it get mangled by the disc drive, then I'd watch the fuck out of that. Popcorn and everything. Otherwise, I don't know what it is and I absolutely don't care to find out.

You're hosting a fancy dress party. What's your theme and what's your costume?

I am? Exciting! I would go for a Nirvana themed party...

That way you could all come as you are.

...

...

...

What do you think of people who travel first class on trains?

I don't think.

Some pubs have board games or card games in them now. This might be a trendy thing.

What games would be good to play in a pub environment?

Chess. I've done that.

Doncaster. Explain why?

Simple Definition of why: for what reason or purpose.

—used to offer a suggestion or to say that a course of action is not necessary
—used to express irritation or annoyance

...and stop calling me Doncaster.

 

[Cindres]

Well this thing's livened up the thread.

QUESTION TIME 2: ANSWER HARDER

• Best Muppet/Seseme Street character?
  - Fozzie Bear, waka waka
  
• Can you do any impressions? Or more accurately, which impressions do you attempt, even if you can't do them?
  - My girlfriend likes my Alan Rickman impression...
  
• Which country would you like to visit?
  - Japan or somewhere in East Asia, just because I'm going around europe mostly this/last year.
  
• Summarise your feelings on the Channel 4 series 'Sex Box', recently returning to screens, presented by are-you-sure-he's-not-made-of-plastic Steve Jones.
  - I have literally never heard of this. But that Steve Jones bloke is aight if he's the one I'm thinking of.
  
• You're hosting a fancy dress party. What's your theme and what's your costume?
  - I'm a miserable turd who avoids fancy dress where possible. I'll go cross-dressing Disney though.
  
• What do you think of people who travel first class on trains?
  - I'm with Dapper, pointless if <1 hour. I do it usually when I'm on my own to get the only quiet coach TransPennine actually have.
  
• Some pubs have board games or card games in them now. This might be a trendy thing. What games would be good to play in a pub environment?
  - Anything that doesn't require too much verbal communication.
  
• Doncaster. Explain why?
  - Worst Yorkshire needs SOMETHING.
  

I'm off to Amsterdam on Thursday, any of you guys been that can recommend decent eateries? We're off to the Worst Wijncafe on Friday night but outside of that we're mostly winging it for bars/cafes/etc.

 

[Musha_Soturi]

Now to explain that question... the first class thing is the source of the second most debates between me and the missus (who I need a better way of referring to, because Mrs Ex gives the wrong idea).

I get it for most work trips - which are usually 2 hours each way, in to London, so paying for good seat + wifi + endless tea + biscuits + table is a combination I find so worthwhile. Don't ever do it personally as it's too expensive.

See I'm the opposite. Work will not pay for first class so most of the travelling I do on trains is peasant class. But if I'm going somewhere on a personal trip I'll always have a look at first class as sometimes it's not that much more, all the trips I took to Blackpool to visit my mate were first class.

Virgin do the best first class.

The first biggest source of arguments is how to eat pancakes. Apparently I'm a heathen for rolling them.

Depends on the type of pancakes. If we're talking crepes then definitely rolled, American style leave flat.

You're hosting a fancy dress party. What's your theme and what's your costume?

I am? Exciting! I would go for a Nirvana themed party...

That way you could all come as you are.

...

...

...

Genius

 

[SKINNER!]

I am? Exciting! I would go for a Nirvana themed party...

That way you could all come as you are.

You know you're right.

 

[Cindres]

Depends on the type of pancakes. If we're talking crepes then definitely rolled, American style leave flat.

Oh crepes have to be rolled, if you leave it flat they're not deep enough to get the fork stuck into, so you end up folding, so you may as well just roll in the first place.

Also stops me putting as much sugar and garbage on when there's less surface area...

 

[JonathanEx]

Depends on the type of pancakes. If we're talking crepes then definitely rolled, American style leave flat.

Oh god yes, it's crepe ones that I roll, I'm not a heathen and doing that to American ones.

 

[BGBW]

Calling the american one pancakes at all is barbaric.

 

[8bit]

So Solid Crew are reforming.

 

[Volotaire]

I'm always standard class. I can't justify the extra money to go first.

 

[BGBW]

So Solid Crew are reforming.

Poor Megaman. First Capcom and now SSC. No one wants him.

 

[Musha_Soturi]

Oh god yes, it's crepe ones that I roll, I'm not a heathen and doing that to American ones.

so if your wife doesn't roll them how on earth does she eat them?

I'm always standard class. I can't justify the extra money to go first.

But if it's £80 for standard and £90 for 1st class then it's totally worth it

 

[sploatee]

You want arguments? Oh I can help there.

I'd like to ask everybody some questions. You might think, oh, he did that in the OP, with those stupid questions. Surely he hasn't got more?

But he does. He's like a twisted version of Miitomo.

So, feel free to pick and choose which you answer, but to throw a six to start something a bit different...

QUESTION TIME 2: ANSWER HARDER

• Best Muppet/Seseme Street character?
• Can you do any impressions? Or more accurately, which impressions do you attempt, even if you can't do them?
• Which country would you like to visit?
• Summarise your feelings on the Channel 4 series 'Sex Box', recently returning to screens, presented by are-you-sure-he's-not-made-of-plastic Steve Jones.
• You're hosting a fancy dress party. What's your theme and what's your costume?
• What do you think of people who travel first class on trains?
• Some pubs have board games or card games in them now. This might be a trendy thing. What games would be good to play in a pub environment?
• Doncaster. Explain why?

Muppet - the drum one

Impressions - no

Country - Greenland

TV thing - if it's not Question Time I probably don't know it

Fancy dress - dungarees theme. Everyone in dungarees

First class - I travel first with work. No thoughts on it either way. It's a bit easier to work with more room I guess.

Pub games - mutual masturbation is always fun with a group

Doncaster - MATT HELDERS

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Doncaster - MATT HELDERS

 

[JonathanEx]

so if your wife doesn't roll them how on earth does she eat them?

Sort of cuts bits of it, flat, with the side of a fork and sort of folds those as you go.

It's so wrong.

 

[sploatee]

Something we agree on.

Listening to Humbug. Again.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Humbug is brilliant like, Cornerstone is just an absolute gem of a love song and displays his uncanny knack for effortlessly evocative and eloquent prose (the alliteration on the third line is glorious):

"I elongated my lift home,
Yeah I let him go the long way round,
I smelt your scent on the seat belt,
And kept my shortcuts to myself,"

As he gets older and his songwriting develops and matures Alex seems to be doing the lovelorn crooner thing more and more.

Good news for us.

(Check out the Submarine OST, it's full of stuff like this.)

 

[Mikeside]

Pepe the Prawn, okay? Watch his interview with Quentin Tarantino

I also do a mean Christopher Waaaalken. To be honest I can do lots of impressions but struggle with Scandinavian accents.

I would like to visit South Korea aka Worst Korea

I haven't seen it, but it sounds degenerate as fuck.

The theme is History and I'm dressed as Louis XIV

Anyone who pays for a first class ticket on a train journey that lasts less than an hour is surely part of the Reptilian Elite.

A good pub game would be Operation, provided there are severe penalties for setting off the buzzer.

Because stratospheric condensers.

That's a shit theme. History is EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED.

I could literally come as 'myself on the train on my way to the party' and I'd be on-theme

 

[dapperbandit]

That's a shit theme. History is EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED.

I could literally come as 'myself on the train on my way to the party' and I'd be on-theme

That's not true, no one will remember you when you're dead Mikeside.

 

[phisheep]

QUESTION TIME 2: ANSWER HARDER

Best Muppet/Seseme Street character? Zoot the sax-player for sure.

Can you do any impressions? Or more accurately, which impressions do you attempt, even if you can't do them? I used to do a mean Phil Cool, but since nobody remembers Phil Cool it is kind of useless.

Which country would you like to visit? New Zealand probably.

Summarise your feelings on the Channel 4 series 'Sex Box', recently returning to screens, presented by are-you-sure-he's-not-made-of-plastic Steve Jones. Complete ignorance and utter dismissiveness.

You're hosting a fancy dress party. What's your theme and what's your costume? Venice/a Doge.

What do you think of people who travel first class on trains? Usually less interesting than those who don't.

Some pubs have board games or card games in them now. This might be a trendy thing. What games would be good to play in a pub environment? "The Floor is Made of Lava!"

Doncaster. Explain why? Racecourse on St Leger day, Punch's Tavern on the Bawtry Road (oops, they turned it into a carvery now), pioneering microbreweries, stupidly cheap bus fares, Catherine McCauley School, De Mulders glue factory, Ed Miliband. What's not to like?

 

[SKINNER!]

That's not true, no one will remember you when you're dead Mikeside.

.

 

[Reknoc]

In Manchester instead of being at home playing Dark Souls 3, this is the worssssst.

 

[Little Old Man]

In Manchester instead of being at home playing Dark Souls 3, this is the worssssst.

It's pretty much the same setting tho

 

[Reknoc]

It's pretty much the same setting tho

Only a matter of time until I get stabbed. The real dark souls starts here.

 

[Symphonia]

Only a matter of time until I get stabbed. The real dark souls starts here.

Dark Souls? More like arse holes.

 

[dapperbandit]

Dark Souls? More like arse holes.

Of all the thread titles in the world, we had to settle for this trash ;_;

 

[kubus]

Hello BritGAF!

I'm visiting London next week with the boyfriend for about 4 days and we could use some shopping suggestions! Already asked a bit in the Cheap Arse thread for games/blu-ray suggestions and I've learned that 1) I should avoid the supermarket branches 2) HMV and GAME are still overpriced shit 3) Fopp and Cex are worth a look. 4) Retro gaming in London is dead .
Anything I'm missing?

As for plans, we're going to see the Lion King on Tuesday, we've reserved Wednesday for shopping and Thursday we're going to the Natural History Museum to check out some dinosaurs and other cool things. Oh and the boyfriend wants to check out the Bond in Motion exhibition. We've got some time left on Friday before we go back home though, so... we're open for suggestions

Oh and any good places to eat? We don't have the cash for something fancy so just looking for good lunch/breakfast and burger places .

Thanks! Cheers!

 

[Auctopus]

As far as I know, nearly all gaming shops are reserved for Greater London now. I don't know a single decent one in Central.

Food (will cointineu to update with addresses)

Bodeans: 10 Poland St, London W1F 8PZ (Order the Soho Special)
Meatliquor: 74 Welbeck St, London W1G 0BA (There's also Meatmarket in Covent Garden)
The Breakfast Club: 33 D'Arblay St, London W1F 8EU (This might be a little pricier)

 

[Daffy Duck]

Dark Souls? More like arse holes.

Lol.

I'm going to Manchester for a stag do in June, maybe I should get Dark Souls 3 to practice my survival skills.

 

[Symphonia]

Lol.

I'm going to Manchester for a stag do in June, maybe I should get Dark Souls 3 to practice my survival skills.

Did you know Stratford had a strip club?

I didn't until the other day.

How did I not know this?

 

[Daffy Duck]

Did you know Stratford had a strip club?

I didn't until the other day.

How did I not know this?

I did indeed.

 

[Symphonia]

I did indeed.

It's opposite the sandwich shop I visit several times a week. I'm disappointed in myself for not noticing it before. I just assumed it was some shitty, shady club. But it turns out it's a shitty, shady club - with boobs!

 

[Daffy Duck]

Yeah, I went in once years ago and it's not that great.

Was a riot though because it was two colleagues who I used to work with and one was older than two of us and the other guy pretended he was his dad and bought him a dance lol, the girl thought it was hilarious.

Chadds is great.

 

[kubus]

As far as I know, nearly all gaming shops are reserved for Greater London now. I don't know a single decent one in Central.

Food (will cointineu to update with addresses)

Bodeans: 10 Poland St, London W1F 8PZ (Order the Soho Special)
Meatliquor: 74 Welbeck St, London W1G 0BA (There's also Meatmarket in Covent Garden)
The Breakfast Club: 33 D'Arblay St, London W1F 8EU (This might be a little pricier)

Yeah I figured as much . Oh well, probably can't beat online prices anyway.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions, I just checked them out online and they seem delicious/great. Definitely putting them on our to-do list!

 

[FantasticMrSnake]

Yeah I figured as much . Oh well, probably can't beat online prices anyway.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions, I just checked them out online and they seem delicious/great. Definitely putting them on our to-do list!

If you like Japanese food, Nobu is good, but it's expensive.

http://www.noburestaurants.com/london/experience/introduction/

Expect to spent at least £40 each

 

[Musha_Soturi]

I've not heard of this artist before but this is a really cool song

https://youtu.be/u_hDHm9MD0I

 

[Blue Lou]

I've just been tasked with taking my mother off a spam list. She's been charged around £13.50 to receive three SMS messages. How is this legal?

I ended up unsubscribing (I think) through their website.

 

[Symphonia]

I've just been tasked with taking my mother off a spam list. She's been charged around £13.50 to receive three SMS messages. How is this legal?

I ended up unsubscribing (I think) through their website.

As long as it's written in their T&Cs and is clear to the customer - as is in their text messages, for example - then they can, and will, get away with it. I got suckered in to a similar thing when I got my first mobile. It was one of those text services to get 'the hottest' wallpapers and .WAV ringtones. I got charged £3.50/week. I just rung up and cancelled.

 

[Musha_Soturi]

As long as it's written in their T&Cs and is clear to the customer - as is in their text messages, for example - then they can, and will, get away with it. I got suckered in to a similar thing when I got my first mobile. It was one of those text services to get 'the hottest' wallpapers and .WAV ringtones. I got charged £3.50/week. I just rung up and cancelled.

Was that just before you 'sold' it to a Nigerian prince?

 

[Symphonia]

Was that just before you 'sold' it to a Nigerian prince?

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Was that just before you 'sold' it to a Nigerian prince?

lol, golden age of this thread. Classic gif perfectly encapsulates my reaction:

Good times man.

 

[dapperbandit]

The fuck, Symphonia is Cy?

This guy goes through names and avatars like there's a fire sale holy shit.

 

[Symphonia]

The fuck, Symphonia is Cy?

This guy goes through names and avatars like there's a fire sale holy shit.

CyanideStrike > Biforce Of Power > Toasted Bread > Symphonia

I only had Toasted Bread as the result of a list bet.

Avatars I agree with.

 

[Screaming Meat]

That was mean. I shouldn't post when I'm drunk.

 

[Volotaire]

Never change your avatar please. I recognise a lot of posters this way.

 

[Symphonia]

That was mean. I shouldn't post when I'm drunk.

Kinda curious as to what you said.

 

[dapperbandit]

Never change your avatar please. I recognise a lot of posters this way.

For real.

Like, wasn't your avatar red previously and then went back to green?

Blew my mind.

 

[War Peaceman]

Never change your avatar please. I recognise a lot of posters this way.

Exactly. It is the forum version of plastic surgery.

 

[Musha_Soturi]

That was mean. I shouldn't post when I'm drunk.

Aw man, now I'm not gonna stop thinking about what you might have said. Pm me and put me out of my misery.