Rey_Piste

15 hours ago, King Coconut said:

The only Wotsit type snack I can get hold of in Germany is peanut flavoured. Fucking rank.

No knockoff Wotsits in Aldi or Lidl?

2 minutes ago, Loki said:

Watch Pump Up The Volume for peak Slater.  Completely agree he’s been wasted to some extent, a really great film presence.

Add Heathers to make a great pair of Slater films.

Why would you put your hand into a shitty bowl? Never mind the dangers of piss wrist.

This seems like a parody, but they seem to be very serious about it.

This thread summed up by Dead Kennedys songs. 

Your viewpoint is either

Or

31 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

 I quite liked the idea of breaking in back doors 

It's 2020, wiping your arse with quilted 3 ply bog roll shouldn't be looked on as decadent.

6 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

I’m gutted Glastonbury has been cancelled. I love that weekend when all the Glasto twats have fucked off and I can avoid the smelly pricks. But the Queen must be protected at all costs so it’s fair enough. 

I'm glad Glastonbury's been cancelled, So I don't have to put up with "Gap Year hippies" clogging the roads up with their rented VW campers.

A dodgy parody shot on camcorder by students you say? It wasn't shown on Takeover TV by any chance?

Damn X-files chat has ended up with me getting this stuck in my head.

1 minute ago, Onyx2 said:

Renters I can't help you with. But Sole Traders (<£51000) have got access to the same funds. Can't knock them on this one. 

I never realised the shoe shop was that popular.

I need to stop watching food YouTubers, because if I end up being shut in I will do too much cooking. Anyway I realised that the thin mint Girl scout cookies aren't even half as good as a mint Viscount, although the samoas look really nice.

On 3/4/2020 at 7:26 AM, Slapnut said:

Oh absolutely, I’ve not gone anywhere near that advice (sorry @Rey_Piste).

I’m not sure why this one turned out so bad, I followed the instructions to a tee, almost obsessively at times. Maybe it’s just not a particularly good kit.

When I did it I just had 2 litre pop bottles I cleaned and disinfected, the sieve was really only there on top of the funnel to to stop any large particulates from entering the bottled final product. This was because near the end of the initial fermentation I added  some extra sugar to kickstart it off to give it a bit more oomph and I was just literally just pouring it straight out of the bucket I used the brew kit in.There was a lot off dead yeast floating around since it produced a fair amount of co2, so it was causing it to float up off from the bottom.It was drinkable, but a little bland with the only real taste to it being a sweeter than usual after taste than you would expect from a ruby bitter ale.

If I were doing it today I would make sure use a syphon pump method and to use smaller bottles. I would still use some method to strain out anything from entering the final bottled product. I found the large bottles to go stale quite quickly once they were opened. So out of the original 10 litres I lost approximately half a litre to spillage, another half a litre near the end which was just really murky and full of sediment. I also lost one 2 litre bottle because it got knocked over and split as well as over a litre from a bottle which I didn't consume quick enough once opened.

Or just use words that already exist such as ransacked, pillaged, raided, plundered or sacked.

I'm surprised they didn't add they were gay Islamic gypsies to round out a triumvirate of fear.

26 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Indeed it is but I’m sure it’s scant comfort to a zero hours worker who has to choose between self isolation and putting food on the table. 
 

Im not saying it should be a race to the bottom, quite the opposite. I wish everyone had the best health protection. I also realise this sounds like some advice from the 80s about AIDS. 

I've just used the last 80 hours of my holidays for the 19-20 season. I won't get paid if I had to to self isolate, unless I were to use up holiday for the 20-21 fiscal year. I shouldn't have to use my supposed leisure time if I want to feel safe.

I know vigorous hand washing is supposed to help against this virus, but the Tories hand washing excuse to get out of this mess is fucking disgraceful.

Well I've had the job I was supposed to be doing today cancelled on me because my point of contact is self isolating themselves. /i am supposed to be on a training course tomorrow, but I can see that getting cancelled as well.

5 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

I wish I still had the X Files Compendium thing that I got for Christmas 96, and I still maintain that Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paper Clip is still one of the best end of/start of series that there has ever been.

I had this book, which covered the first 2 season and the second book, which was the same colour in a spearmint blue. That one covered the 3rd season and the film.

EDIT: I actually found an amazon link to the book. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unofficial-X-Files-Companion-Mysteries-Conspiracies/dp/0517886014

When it comes to the X-files it's really split into pre and post film. Pre film is the first 3 seasons, where most of the episodes are single monster of the week with bits and pieces showing the cigarette smoking man occasionally. The problem is that from around halfway through the second season they start off doing the annoying continuity episodes. Any episode with Krycek in tends to be awful.

I quite enjoyed The Hateful 8. Whilst it's definitely a bit too long and could do with some of it's length lopping off. It does a great job of having some wonderful showcases for each of the actors and their roles along with lovely cinematography. It was more the actors own charisma that drew me into it.

23 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

It's really at the height of everyone desperately competing to be a part of it now. I know there's a fancy word for that but I can't for the life of me remember it.

Everyone has a coronavirus annecdote now and a reason why it's going to affect them more than most. Fair play if your an old black lung like Keith but people on my girlfriends social media feeds who especially desperately need to avoid it because they have young or old relatives without the acknowledging that that is actually everyone need to calm down.

The thing is that this virus can be passed on very easily and people can have it without showing signs. This means open plan offices or busy supermarkets are hot beds for passing it on.

I am working on my lonesome all week apart from a tomorrow and Friday. I am just spending my days cutting up logs and chipping branches.