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A Buddhist Home Secretary, who is married to a Jewish man and born of a Hindu Tamil Mauritian mother and Christian Goan father (who emigrated from Kenya), serves a second generation immigrant Hindu Prime Minister alongside a second generation immigrant Foreign Secretary and a Chancellor married to a Chinese immigrant, to complete the Great Offices of State, is claiming multiculturalism has failed. Quite the take. 

2 hours ago, FelatioLips said:

We started watching The Bear and I’m about 7 episodes in and honestly I really hope Richie gets brutally killed because he’s single handedly spoiling the show. Absolute gobshite waster.

18 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

I mean she was definitely ACTING wasn't she? I loved the episode, but I felt the fact that it was such a stacked cast slightly took me out.

1 hour ago, Factotum said:

I actually thought she was the worst thing in that episode.

I may have been looking too much in to it but I thought that was the point. She’s playing a total narcissist who was deliberately acting up, in a not very subtle way, to ensure absolutely everything was about her. The character isn’t genuine like Richie or Bear.  I’m sure we’ve all met one those arseholes that put on a performance that elicits an eye roll between everyone else in the room but you’ve got to play along with it or they turn it up even more. 

Can’t take my eyes off his biceps every scene he’s in (not gay)

The first series was great but I wasn’t sure it lived up to the hype. The second series blew me away though, the dinner party episode and family and friends night in particular were such an intense but enjoyable watch. Hope we see more of Jamie Lee-Curtis in the third. 

2 hours ago, Fatty Facesitter said:

Our new Deputy PM. Look at that appalling Tory cue action. Desecrating the baize. 

Just Stop Oli

Charlie’s a keffer, pass it on.

Personally, I love going to the pub just as they’re closing to be told I’ll need to drink up. 

2 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Jenas has said no. He's still in my bad books but fair play.

“would of”

Reason enough to still hate him. 

3 minutes ago, David said:

He wasn't just acquitted, he was awarded financial compensation as well

He had his legals fees reimbursed for the Scottish Government’s flawed internal inquiry, which was on procedural grounds, not the court trial. I think that’s quite an important distinction to make. 

19 minutes ago, David said:

And it was proven and admitted to that there was a concerted effort to use their not inconsiderable influence to affect the case against someone they considered a political enemy.

Do you have a source for this?

Salmond and Sturgeon weren’t political enemies before the investigation in to his behaviour so I’m not sure why you think that’s a valid line of argument.  She may have wished him to be less vocal in his demands that the Scottish Government be bolder in their approach to a second referendum but I struggle to see how Sturgeon would go straight to conspiring to have him done for multiple sexual assaults. Sturgeon is a very canny political operator, probably the best Scotland and the UK has seen since Blair, there’s no way she’s dragging the SNP’s name through  mud, putting her job and legacy on the line and potentially derailing the independence movement by trying to stitch up predecessor, a man many people still considered to be a a figure head of the SNP and wider Indy cause. 
 

I’m not going to go as far as saying I think Salmond is guilty, he was found to be innocent and deserves to be treated as such. However, by his own admission he plied younger, more junior female staff with alcohol while alone with them, engaged in “sleepy cuddles” and got in to a state of “partial undress” with them. His behaviour was enough for senior civil servants to ban women working alone with him at night. That’s enough to give me doubt. 

19 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Everyone knows there are only three seasons of Arrested Development. 

*cuts to Gob trying to throw S4&5 script in to the sea*

Pat to work in the customer service dept with the response to everything being “stop gaslighting me”.

My other half is a teacher and is striking tomorrow. Just finished a batch of banana muffins to take along to the picketers in the morning.

Up the workers ✊

14 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Edie Falco puts in the performance of a lifetime in that episode doesn't she?

Incredible, that fight in the bedroom between her and Tony gives me genuine goosebumps every time I watch it, probably my favourite scene in the entire series. They both put in a shift but my god does Edie Falco knock it out the park there.

2 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Nope. She was a 

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Malignant cunt

 

The looks I get when I use this as an exaggerated response to being slightly inconvenienced by someone!

In terms of who’s innocent that got whacked:

Unbelievably jealous of anyone getting to watch The Sopranos for the first time. I must have watched it through at least five times now, and take something different from it every time, but nothing will ever beat that first watch, I was engrossed. 
 

edit: here’s a Mastermind Sopranos specialist subject for my fellow diehards to have a crack at.

4 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

I have been given 900g of Feta Cheese (don't ask) which is a lot of Feta Cheese.

What can I do with it? Already got a pasta dish in mind (this one: https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/vegetarian/baked-feta-pasta/) but any other recommendations very welcome.

Also, I've gone chickpea mad, and apart from curry, have run out of ideas so again, all welcome. Cheers. 

Dice and roast a butternut squash(I also coat it in a little bit of paprika and cumin) and a red onion.
Toss a bag of mixed salad (rocket, watercress and spinach is best imo) in a dressing. 

Mix in the veg once it’s out the oven, crumble through your feta and top with some chopped, toasted walnuts if you have any. 

Joined the air fryer club at Christmas at have used it pretty much every day since. Almost exclusively chicken wings and roast potatoes and as a result am now as backed up as the M20.

I’ll throw my, steadily increasing, weight behind Pro Home Cooks too. Good basic recipes without the filler you get from a lot of YouTube cooks.

3 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said:

Yeah. Jedi: Fallen Order managed to demonstrate that single player isn't dead. 

I couldn’t get on with this. Enjoyed the story and gameplay but wtf was going on with those hologram maps? I couldn’t make any sense of them and spent half my time running in circles trying to get back off the planet. 

Received Brass: Birmingham for Christmas this year and gave it a play last night. It took a while to get to grip with the rules and we made a few mistakes in the early rounds but we really enjoyed in and will give it another whirl at the weekend. Premise is that you’re an industrialist during the Industrial Revolution looking to build your industries and trade routes in order to sell to the market and score VPs. As it was our first game there wasn’t much strategy in our efforts and we were just building wherever we could during that action but I can see it having good replayability as you look at better ways of building your own network while keeping your opponent at bay. 
 

Also played quite a bit of Terraforming Mars last year but I’ve grown less fond of it each time. Even with the Prelude expansion which is designed to speed the early stages of the game up it still feels like it takes forever to get going. There are a huge amount of action cards which is encouraging at first but quickly becomes apparent that they all do the same few things, mostly just move your fiddly tokens up and down your player mat. I’d still recommend it to most but with the caveat that you’ll be bored of it after a few games. 

In reply to Scorch, obviously.

Yeah, and I’m sure you have everyone’s empathy and support with all of that. But your mental health was never used against you. If you’re referencing the “meltdown” Devon mentioned, it’s fairly obvious he was talking about your constant moaning about the downvote system, trying to obfuscate the two is disingenuous and pretty awful. 

10 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

 Using someone’s mental health against them is more childish than their name on twitter.

Where did this happen?