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[NinjaBoiX]

I don't do this, instead I organise my consumption as I engorge foodstuffs so that there is an equal amount of each constituent meal part remaining at all times. So if I have a meat and potatoes meal with a 1:3 meat/potatoes ratio I will purposefully focus on the potatoes to equalize and restore balance to the foods.

This is the correct way, you're doing life proper daps.

Whoever said they don't like roast dinners has clearly never had a well cooked roast dinner.

Nah, my bro is a professional chef and I'm pretty handy in the kitchen, one thing you definitely couldn't accuse our household of is culinary inexperience.

We always pimp out the individual parts; creamed turnip with bacon, garden peas with pesto, carrots with coriander and OJ, shredded sprouts stir fried with garlic and juniper berries, all that good shit. But it's still just a kind of middle of the road meal, certainly undeserved of nationwide adulation IMO. No wonder we're renowned worldwide for our unadventurous palettes!

They're perfectly tasty, but people seem to go nuts for them. Which is especially surprising when you eventually taste their "best roast ever" and it's composed of dry, overcooked meat, bland, grey, mushy veg and thin, watery gravy.

there's a reason it's the nation's favourite food.

It's not.

 

[sploatee]

#teamroast. It's like a hug from your mum.


Hardest part of going veggie. :-(

 

[Symphonia]

#teamroast. It's like a hug from your mum.

I go round my nan's twice a month for a catch-up and Sunday dinner. She cooks the best roast dinners ever. As much as I love a Toby Carvery, you can't beat a home-cooked roast, with lashings of gravy, crispy roast potatoes, parsnips and, of course, homemade Yorkshire puddings. I fail to see how my nan is such a damn good cook, whereas my mother can't cook a pizza without it burning. Even my cooking is pretty damn good, although it's nowhere near on par with my nans.

 

[dapperbandit]

This is the correct way, you're doing life proper daps.

Cheers babe

Nah, my bro is a professional chef and I'm pretty handy in the kitchen, one thing you definitely couldn't accuse our household of is culinary inexperience.

We always pimp out the individual parts; creamed turnip with bacon, garden peas with pesto, carrots with coriander and OJ, shredded sprouts stir fried with garlic and juniper berries, all that good shit. But it's still just a kind of middle of the road meal, certainly undeserved of nationwide adulation IMO. No wonder we're renowned worldwide for our unadventurous palettes!

They're perfectly tasty, but people seem to go nuts for them. Which is especially surprising when you eventually taste their "best roast ever" and it's composed of dry, overcooked meat, bland, grey, mushy veg and thin, watery gravy.

It's not.

Traditional English/British food is a bit pedestrian. Though I do enjoy a good Beef Wellington.

But I think that actually the blandness of our food is what inspired us Britons to sail around the world and liberate far away lands centuries ago.

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Also, star anise and carrots. You'll never go back.

 

[show me your skeleton]

lucky charms are the height of culinary excellance.

 

[8bit]

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Also, star anise and carrots. You'll never go back.

Made roasted carrots with five spice at Christmas, really good.

 

[War Peaceman]

isn't tikka masala england's favourite?

It is the best.

Well there are about half a dozen south asian meals I could pick that are instantly better than roast dinner.

 

[Volotaire]

Most British food is bland or very plain. I much prefer other cuisines.

 

[Symphonia]

Most British food is bland or very plain. I much prefer other cuisines.

Omelette says no. You can make omelette as plain or as flavoursome as you see fit.

 

[sploatee]

Umm. Real talk / overshare.

So I had a sit down chat with the super-big-boss today, who is basically my idol. She's just brilliant. She's one of the two people at work who know about my "situ" and is totally chilled about it all (and me needing time off work occasionally for various medical bits and bobs). Turns out my feedback is all great, I'm very highly valued, I'm wanted to take charge of a few initiatives and lots of other nice things. I really hope that by sharing that I haven't jinxed something, somewhere.

Also, had a phone call from the doctors this morning with some potentially positive medical news that I've been waiting for for FIVE YEARS. FIVE YEARS! So, er, thanks universe.

Still feel like utter crap, of course, and I'm not able to take any of those compliments on board properly and I'm still unconvinced of the need for my existence, but hey. I'm home and I don't feel like crying (yet), I haven't committed suicide, cut myself, stamped on a kitten, started an argument with a Jehovah's Witness or walked in to the Church of Scientology. So <3 BritGAF, even those of you who I secretly don't like. Ha ha! It's a joke! I like you all.

Look at that. I'm sharing a bit less obliquely now. I'm gonna make it to full human status one day, I swear.

Anyway, there you go. Anyone else got any real talk? I feel like real talk. I hate that phrase, "real talk". But what am I meant to say? Has anyone got anything they'd like to share so I feel less insecure about sharing everything on a semi-public internet forum?

 

[Volotaire]

Omelette says no. You can make omelette as plain or as flavoursome as you see fit.

Most. And are omelettes originated from other cultures?

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Nice one sploatee! Good for you mane.

Omelette says no. You can make omelette as plain or as flavoursome as you see fit.

Omlettes are French.

 

[Symphonia]

Most. And are omelettes are originated from other cultures?

I've always associated omelettes as being of English origin but, yeah, they apparently originate from France. My knowledge of food is on shockingly poor form today.

 

[show me your skeleton]

even the name smells french, yeesh!

 

[Pookmunki]

Sploatee, I don't post often but you are one of the few consistently great posters on GAF, and i'm sure that transposes into reality -try to get and keep that head up as high as it deserves.

Real talk yo.

 

[BGBW]

Food origins are so murky now it's hard to really accuse certain countries of having no decent food just because you could say the linage of of certain dishes originate from another country. Take for example the California Roll, which, if it's name doesn't make it clear, originates from California. However, if you showed someone a picture of it they'd say it's sushi and therefore Japanese. However I've heard many Japanese people say California Roll isn't Japanese Sushi, but American. So do we label it by it's parentage or where that particular dish was invented.
We have dishes like chicken tikka masala where many argue whether it's British or Indian. And lets not forget that we basically made tea what it was today but we didn't make it on the British shores since it was of course grown aboard.

 

[Skele7on]

Umm. Real talk / overshare.

So I had a sit down chat with the super-big-boss today, who is basically my idol. She's just brilliant. She's one of the two people at work who know about my "situ" and is totally chilled about it all (and me needing time off work occasionally for various medical bits and bobs). Turns out my feedback is all great, I'm very highly valued, I'm wanted to take charge of a few initiatives and lots of other nice things. I really hope that by sharing that I haven't jinxed something, somewhere.

Also, had a phone call from the doctors this morning with some potentially positive medical news that I've been waiting for for FIVE YEARS. FIVE YEARS! So, er, thanks universe.

Still feel like utter crap, of course, and I'm not able to take any of those compliments on board properly and I'm still unconvinced of the need for my existence, but hey. I'm home and I don't feel like crying (yet), I haven't committed suicide, cut myself, stamped on a kitten, started an argument with a Jehovah's Witness or walked in to the Church of Scientology. So <3 BritGAF, even those of you who I secretly don't like. Ha ha! It's a joke! I like you all.

Look at that. I'm sharing a bit less obliquely now. I'm gonna make it to full human status one day, I swear.

Anyway, there you go. Anyone else got any real talk? I feel like real talk. I hate that phrase, "real talk". But what am I meant to say? Has anyone got anything they'd like to share so I feel less insecure about sharing everything on a semi-public internet forum?

All sounds very positive, really happy for you!

I have no "real talk" at the moment...

 

[RiggyRob]

I've always associated omelettes as being of English origin but, yeah, they apparently originate from France. My knowledge of food is on shockingly poor form today.

You've clearly never seen Dexter.

"Omelette du fromage".

 

[Little Old Man]

Umm. Real talk / overshare.

So I had a sit down chat with the super-big-boss today, who is basically my idol. She's just brilliant. She's one of the two people at work who know about my "situ" and is totally chilled about it all (and me needing time off work occasionally for various medical bits and bobs). Turns out my feedback is all great, I'm very highly valued, I'm wanted to take charge of a few initiatives and lots of other nice things. I really hope that by sharing that I haven't jinxed something, somewhere.

Also, had a phone call from the doctors this morning with some potentially positive medical news that I've been waiting for for FIVE YEARS. FIVE YEARS! So, er, thanks universe.

Still feel like utter crap, of course, and I'm not able to take any of those compliments on board properly and I'm still unconvinced of the need for my existence, but hey. I'm home and I don't feel like crying (yet), I haven't committed suicide, cut myself, stamped on a kitten, started an argument with a Jehovah's Witness or walked in to the Church of Scientology. So <3 BritGAF, even those of you who I secretly don't like. Ha ha! It's a joke! I like you all.

Look at that. I'm sharing a bit less obliquely now. I'm gonna make it to full human status one day, I swear.

Anyway, there you go. Anyone else got any real talk? I feel like real talk. I hate that phrase, "real talk". But what am I meant to say? Has anyone got anything they'd like to share so I feel less insecure about sharing everything on a semi-public internet forum?

Glad you're having some positive medical news, whatever that is regarding! On a more general note the meta things you often post about Gaf (like not assuming people actually read your posts unless they're quoted) never cease to make me chuckle, since I've thought the same on occasion!

I've got a real talk thing in my life going on (deciding what to do about my life/career) but I think I might just make an OT thread to get all the views on it possible?

 

[dapperbandit]

Interview tomorrow for some IT support company. Should be smooth sailing although I must say talking to people on the phone all day is not my idea of a dream job. I'm liable to get flustered and drop my spaghetti everywhere.

If that fails I may have a job at

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Thorpe Park

. Doing admin away from the savage youths hopefully.

 

[Skele7on]

Interview tomorrow for some IT support company. Should be smooth sailing although I must say talking to people on the phone all day is not my idea of a dream job. I'm liable to get flustered and drop my spaghetti everywhere.

If that fails I may have a job at

Spoiler

Thorpe Park

. Doing admin away from the savage youths hopefully.

I have contacts at Thorpe if you need an in, GF was an actress at fright nights

As for IT job, it's really easy, just don't call em thickos..

Good Luck!

 

[dapperbandit]

I have contacts at Thorpe if you need an in, GF was an actress at fright nights

As for IT job, it's really easy, just don't call em thickos..

Good Luck!

I appreciate it. I have something of an insider myself. Atilla, my Hungarian Housemate works there in the hotel side of things.

I think the pay is probably the same and though I don't know much in terms of the day to day responsibilities I have a feeling admin at Thorpe Park is more my cup of tea and is very close to home commute-wise.

Ideally I'd like the chance to have the chance to actually choose but the Thorpe Park job only became available at the end of Feb and I'm waiting to see if my application gets a response.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Real talk: Raid 2's bloody mint.

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Sorry, Sploat. I'm rubbish at heart to heart/emotional stuff. I'm pretty sure I don't feel anything but undeserved melancholy.

 

[dapperbandit]

The Raid 2 is the only film that made me feel like I needed to sit down despite having been sat down already for like two hours.

 

[Screaming Meat]

The Raid 2 is the only film that made me feel like I needed to sit down having been sat down already for like two hours.

It's intense. Although, me and the wife were WATAI-ing and jumping on the couch a lot... right up until we realised we woke lil un up.

 

[sploatee]

Nice one sploatee! Good for you mane.

Omlettes are French.

Sploatee, I don't post often but you are one of the few consistently great posters on GAF, and i'm sure that transposes into reality -try to get and keep that head up as high as it deserves.

Real talk yo.

All sounds very positive, really happy for you!

I have no "real talk" at the moment...

Thanks dudes! Pookmunki, I won't be able to take your compliment on board, but thanks for making it anyway. And O. Bowen, apparently E is having a birthday gathering round at ours and you are coming? Looking forward to it!

Glad you're having some positive medical news, whatever that is regarding! On a more general note the meta things you often post about Gaf (like not assuming people actually read your posts unless they're quoted) never cease to make me chuckle, since I've thought the same on occasion!

I've got a real talk thing in my life going on (deciding what to do about my life/career) but I think I might just make an OT thread to get all the views on it possible?

Ta Go for it! Let me know when it's up and I will give you bad advice

Interview tomorrow for some IT support company. Should be smooth sailing although I must say talking to people on the phone all day is not my idea of a dream job. I'm liable to get flustered and drop my spaghetti everywhere.

If that fails I may have a job at

Spoiler

Thorpe Park

. Doing admin away from the savage youths hopefully.

Good luck, daps. You can do it!

Real talk: Raid 2's bloody mint.

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Sorry, Sploat. I'm rubbish at heart to heart/emotional stuff. I'm pretty sure I don't feel anything but undeserved melancholy.

That's ok, Meat. Real

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Dark Souls

talk:

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How good are firebombs? I just took out that bloody fang boar in the Undead Burg by standing above it and just "nuking it from orbit". On my last playthrough I actually wore it down with repeated scimitar attacks (seriously. It took aaages) And then I did the same to the caster in the Parish. But the best was freeing Lautrec and then making him pay for the horrible things he'd do if I let him live. I'm using a beefed up warpick and I really like it. I keep meaning to use a crossbow, but I think I'm going to try be a hammer-wielding ninja spellcaster.

 

[8bit]

You've clearly never seen Dexter.

"Omelette du fromage".

7 seasons later...

"Does his son say something about omelettes?"

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I still haven't seen The Raid 2, it's a travesty. I barely watch films anymore, it sucks.

But...

...we're getting broadband in a few weeks, so I'll be hammering Netflix at home again, woo!

O. Bowen, apparently E is having a birthday gathering round at ours and you are coming? Looking forward to it!

Yeah man, she texted me about it on Monday. I'll be there, calendar marked!

 

[SuperSah]

Had an absinthe cocktail tonight and didn't notice it had such a high ass volume of alcohol in it, 70-80% range and man it was fucked.

 

[Xun]

Had an absinthe cocktail tonight and didn't notice it had such a high ass volume of alcohol in it, 70-80% range and man it was fucked.

Absinthe nowadays is nothing compared to how it used to be.

Now that shit was strong*

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*apparently

 

[show me your skeleton]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
everyone should watch portlandia.



probably not an announcement, technically but eh.

 

[sploatee]

I did an LTTP on Vanquish. Because I just finished it. So yup. I WONT THREAD SHIT IF YOU'RE OUT THERE MAXIMILLIAN!

Instead I have done a poo over on gaming side

 

[Mikeside]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
everyone should watch portlandia.



probably not an announcement, technically but eh.

Portlandia is indeed fantastic.

 

[War Peaceman]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
everyone should watch portlandia.



probably not an announcement, technically but eh.

Eh I prefer It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia when it comes to American-place name comedies.

 

[toythatkills]

I watched the first half of the first episode of Portlandia and it was horrible. It was so bad I actually had to turn it off and I've sat through whole episodes of My Hero before.

Long long sketches with no jokes beyond "lol, us hipsters." It'd have to get a lot better than that.

The new series of Sunny is fucking amazing, though.

 

[show me your skeleton]

my hero? good fucking lord.

 

[Volotaire]

You're the hero we don't deserve.

 

[sploatee]

Morning lovelies.

I do think Carrie Brownstein is amazing, but it's probably more for Sleater-Kinney than anything else. Seeing them on the Woods tour blew my mind. They're so so good.

 

[SmokyDave]

Morning lovelies.

Mornin' Sploat.

Came into the office this morning to find the coffee jar empty. Might need to go home and lie down.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I watched the first half of the first episode of Portlandia and it was horrible. It was so bad I actually had to turn it off and I've sat through whole episodes of My Hero before.

Long long sketches with no jokes beyond "lol, us hipsters." It'd have to get a lot better than that.

That is the joke though, it's a parody, like an American Nathan Barley. If you didn't get any of the gags in the first episode I'd probably just stop, it's not for you.

I love the hippie coffee shop sketch where they make Steve Buscemi buy something for using the bathroom. They offer him a place on protest organising class:

"If you're not outraged you're not paying attention."

Perfect.

 

[The_Poet]

The TV show that gave me the most consistent laughs recently is Parks and Recreation.

Such perfect characters that bounce off each other and great casting. It edges the line of absurdity in its script similarly to the peep show. I'd recommend it to anyone. (the first season is notably worse then the others but worth it for the character building)

 

[show me your skeleton]

The TV show that gave me the most consistent laughs recently is Parks and Recreation.

Such perfect characters that bounce off each other and great casting. It edges the line of absurdity in its script similarly to the peep show. I'd recommend it to anyone. (the first season is notably worse then the others but worth it for the character building)

yeah, ignore the first season. everything after is gold until it peters out near the end like most sitcoms.
seinfeld is probably my all time favourite. or arrested development.
anyone watch catastrophe? i really like rob delaney but haven't caught the show. just wondering if it was any good?

 

[Skele7on]

Destiny Talk Sorryyy.

but after an actual play time of 562 hours :\ EESSH

I finally got Gjallarhorn. AWWWWWWWWW YEAH!

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Destiny Talk Sorryyy.

but after an actual play time of 562 hours : EESSH

I finally got Gjallarhorn. AWWWWWWWWW YEAH!

562 hours?!? As in, over three weeks solidly?

By my calculation that means you've spent nearly a quarter of your waking life in the last 6 months playing a videogame.

Dude...

 

[JonathanEx]

The TV show that gave me the most consistent laughs recently is Parks and Recreation.

Such perfect characters that bounce off each other and great casting. It edges the line of absurdity in its script similarly to the peep show. I'd recommend it to anyone. (the first season is notably worse then the others but worth it for the character building)

Yesss. It's also so optimistic without being all luvvie. I know some people online quote Ron Swanson to the point of annoyance, but there's loads of great gags from everyone. Spent a good while watching all the videos from the 'funniest lines' thread. The 'definition of pornography' line cracks me up every time.

Very sweet, funny show with the world building at such a scale in a comedy that can really only be matched by The Simpsons.

yeah, ignore the first season. everything after is gold until it peters out near the end like most sitcoms.
seinfeld is probably my all time favourite. or arrested development.
anyone watch catastrophe? i really like rob delaney but haven't caught the show. just wondering if it was any good?

I really enjoyed Catastrophe, don't really know how to describe it but it's good. It's very real feeling, but still funny. Well worth a watch.

 

[Reknoc]

Don't think I could play my most loved game for that long, and Destiny even less. What a massive disappointment that game was.

 

[sploatee]

yeah, ignore the first season. everything after is gold until it peters out near the end like most sitcoms.
seinfeld is probably my all time favourite. or arrested development.
anyone watch catastrophe? i really like rob delaney but haven't caught the show. just wondering if it was any good?

Seinfeld!!!!

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Whoa, 500+ hours? That's definitely MMO/ MOBA time sink levels. I think I lost attention at about 150 hours. I might go back to it after the next DLC, but, despite thinking it's still a pretty good game, I just feel that there are other games which would respect my time so much more.

Sorry about the example, but Dark Souls for example. I can play for an hour and it's immediately at 'raid' levels of intensity. I don't need to do any busywork. If I want to do a little bit of grinding I can, but it's entirely self-directed. There was a thread over on gaming side about common themes in games you love and for me it's all about intensity. Time is precious and I want games that don't mither - or mother - me. Destiny just asks you to actually do in-game homework before it lets you get to the really enjoyable stuff.

Dark Souls on the other hand, foreshadows brilliantly the great big thing that is going to kill you, and makes every encounter on the way one where you need to be alert. Vanquish is the same, Titanfall, Ikaruga, Sine Mora, whatever other games I drone on about, the barrier to progress is in yourself , ie "have you mastered this yet?" rather than "have you done this low-intensity busywork yet so we can allow you to play the engaging part?" .

 

[Skele7on]

562 hours?!? As in, over three weeks solidly?

By my calculation that means you've spent nearly a quarter of your waking life in the last 6 months playing a videogame.

Dude...

on the plus side I have saved a hell of a lot of money.

Don't think I could play my most loved game for that long, and Destiny even less. What a massive disappointment that game was.

The hooks are in me and I love the PVP and Raids.

Seinfeld!!!!

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Whoa, 500+ hours? That's definitely MMO/ MOBA time sink levels. I think I lost attention at about 150 hours. I might go back to it after the next DLC, but, despite thinking it's still a pretty good game, I just feel that there are other games which would respect my time so much more.

Sorry about the example, but Dark Souls for example. I can play for an hour and it's immediately at 'raid' levels of intensity. I don't need to do any busywork. If I want to do a little bit of grinding I can, but it's entirely self-directed. There was a thread over on gaming side about common themes in games you love and for me it's all about intensity. Time is precious and I want games that don't mither - or mother - me. Destiny just asks you to actually do in-game homework before it lets you get to the really enjoyable stuff.

Dark Souls on the other hand, foreshadows brilliantly the great big thing that is going to kill you, and makes every encounter on the way one where you need to be alert. Vanquish is the same, Titanfall, Ikaruga, Sine Mora, whatever other games I drone on about, the barrier to progress is in yourself , ie "have you mastered this yet?" rather than "have you done this low-intensity busywork yet so we can allow you to play the engaging part?" .

At this point I am literally free of destiny, I do 3 raids a week and maybe the nightfalls if I can be bothered,
I like the grinding, I am an ex WoW addict so destiny suits my play style,
I am pretty much leveling up Gjallarhorn now then waiting for bloodbourne....

I do love Dark Souls as it's a GO, GET IN, GET GOOD, LEARN BY DEATH.

I just can't place why I love Destiny so much, but I do and I cannot stop....

The recent patches and changes have made it so you can technically skip a lot of the low level stuff and boring stuff like farming, I fully expect Destiny 2 to have far less of the groundwork as players should be well versed with what it means to be a guardian, I hope for a lot more intense raids/strikes and less go to X get that come back. ERGH fetch quests.

Destiny has seen me through the game drought very well, but I do look forward to new games and more DLC for Destiny as I'm at the point when I'm fairly bored.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I think I just had an ephinany when I moved to Manchester about how much of my life I've wasted sitting on the sofa stoned watching TV and playing video games. I was scared of looking back when I'm 40 and thinking "wow, you really did fuck all with your life didn't you". You've got the rest of your life to be a couch potato, that's what retirement is for!

In the last 9 months I've sold most of my blurays, three consoles and a fuck load of games. I now have like 20 blurays, a PS4 and 5 games. I barely touch my PS4 and I don't watch anywhere near as much telly as I used to.

I just don't have the time anymore, my priorities have changed.

 

[dapperbandit]

I got Gjallhorn about three weeks before I stopped playing. Never used it.

I think the most I ever put into a game was 15 days worth of Black Ops. Best CoD.