Gus Mears

Gus - you can make great stuff with tamarinds, like sauces and pickles. My dad's from Mauritius, so I've had quite a few dishes in which tamarinds were a key ingredient. They're also quite nice as sweet snacks by themselves, a bit like dates.

 

Of course, English cuisine uses them a bit - you need them to make Worcestershire sauce and Branston pickle.

 

 

The stuff I have is an enormous block of them, which I am guessing are the dried version? Used a bit of it in a marinade for prawns, along with soy sauce, ginger, lime juice and chilli. Really nice combo and will take a look at using it for a homemade pickle/Worcestershire sauce (thanks for the tip). It was more the sheer quantity I was given. Seriously, It's like a car hubcap of dried tamarind!

 

 

Pomegranate molasses are heaven on ice cream

 

Haven't the foggiest on what to use my jar of it for, so will give that a go. Cheers!

 

One of the other utensils I have bought recently was one of those internal meat thermometers. Was going to wait until BBQ season to really utilise it, but this talk of slow cooking means I may well give it a bash at the weekend while doing some pork low and slow, as I have some family round. 

My family has decided to latch onto the fact that I enjoy cooking and consequently, every bloody thing I got this Christmas was a bizarre cooking utensil or ingredient (no, I don't need pomegranate molasses or half a kilo of tamarind). However, I did get a cooking blowtorch, which I have been after for a while. Did a slow roasted whole duck with potato fondants, roast parsnips and glazed carrots. Used the blowtorch to crisp up the duck skin at the end and it worked a treat. Then did a crème brule afterwards, solely to use the blowtorch a bit more.

I'm a fan of Adam Rose's Bush too. At least it's different from the rest of the show. I do find it slghtly baffling that he is still employed though, I think this is about his 4th gimmick.

Fury is a complete knob, but I find him wildly entertaining. Consequently, I am delighted with the result. First boxing PPV I have bought in about a million years and it was worth it for that.

Did Big Dave ever get done on a wellness violation? I vaguely seem to remember him being part of the elevated liver enzymes crew, but can't recall if he ever officially got caught.

£100 says despite Diggers getting a life time ban, those pictures have already been screen grabbed for use in future promo material.

 

We have a winner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Some pictures from fans' (that I have banned from attending any future shows).

Was there a Smackdown vs Raw game where they actually had the terms 'face' and 'heel' in it?

 

I seem to remember it being in one with the dreadful GM mode

 

 

I'm relatively sure that Here Comes the Pain back in 2003 had the option to switch anyone on the roster from face to heel or vice-versa.

Just saw my first one of the year. Running under the coffee table. I had a swing at him and missed and he's under the sofa now. Massive fucker. That's it, the windows are getting closed until Christmas. Does that spider spray stuff work?

 

 

I first sprayed the house three weeks ago after one the size of John Goodman pounded its way under my piano. Apart from one which was hiding in the bin (which I had not sprayed), I have had no problems since then and would say that it is worth a shot.

 

 

 

After months of low numbers and nature just treading water by having the common garden spider on top, we are now really on the road to Spidermania. With all the big names, like the Wolf Spider and House Spider, coming back for the next few months.

 

Unfortunately, it has only just started. We are apparently in for a bumper crop of gargantuan 8 legged bastards this year too according to my highly reputable local newspaper. They also said this:

 

 

Users might spot the giant house spider Tegenaria gigantea, one of the largest species of spider in the UK which can have a leg span of up to 7.5cm.

 

 

Wonderful. Wake me up after Christmas please.

I bought some spider spray and have pretty much drowned large sections of my house in it. Even so, this big burly bastard was in the bathroom when I went for a morning piss the other day, standing right in front of the bog, taunting me and saying 'go on mate, I dare you to go for a slash'. Needless to say, I kept my bladder clenched.

 

The following day when brushing my teeth in the same bathroom I found the fucker in the bin (one of the few places I hadn't used the spray for what it is worth). Placed about 4 lever arch files over the top of the bin to trap it, I wasn't taking any chances, I reckon this thing could have bench pressed me. I then had to wade down the stairs to the outside carrying the bin with level arch files on like an atomic bomb before finally hurling the entire contents of the spider-bin into the big grey one outside like I was throwing it off the edge of the Hoover Dam.

I quite like Alvarez and still think that F4W/WO is worth the money. However, Wrestling Observer Live is abysmal. Everything from the 2 minute segments to the sucession of mouth-breathers who phone in make it unbearable. I found Todd Martin dull as ditchwater and much prefer Tom Lawlor, who actually has a personality, as the new weekly guest.

 

Schwartz Bros in Bath is a local institution that has been producing artery-clogging goodness for about 30 years. The best takeaway burgers I have experienced and they have a store with a 2AM close next to what was at one point my local. Nothing beats 8 pints of Guinness followed by a burger as tall as your bonce.

 

If you need evidence as to why they are top, this advert on their home page sums in up with a big banner basically proclaiming 'NOW WITH EVEN MORE MEAT!!!!'.

 

 

Plus, if you live in the local area, they send out menu vouchers about twice the year so you can get BOGOF on burgers. Shamefully, I have never managed to eat more than a double in one sitting though.

 

So if anyone does venture into the South West any-time soon, I would give it a go.

 

So you were either drinking in Flan O'Brians or Molloys then?

 

Couple of mates currently work at Schwartz, which comes in handy as they'll definitely serve me if I'm a little worse for wear after an evening out which is ideal.

 

There's a kebab place across the road or so from it called Alfallafel's which still to this day serves the best kebab I've ever had. Bath surprisingly is brilliant for utter gluttonous food.

 

 

 

Flan O'Briens rather than Molloy's. Although Molloy's did a decent Superbowl event that I went to a couple of times.

 

You are spot on about Bath though. For somewhere so ridiculously middle class, it doesn't half have some dirty takeouts. Al's, Megashite, Best Favourite Fried Chicken, Adel's etc.  Speaking of Alfallafel's, some friends of mine once tried the 'Alfallafel's Challenge', which consisted of buying £10 worth of grub at the knock down prices they have at about 2AM before they close. Think one of them got to 7/10 chicken sandwiches he had ordered before oral evacuation ensued. Did you ever get to try SFC (now the Peri Peri Sizzler) opposite Alfallafel's, which is basically ghetto Nando's? Nothing beats gnawing on half a roast chicken while walking home in the early hours of the morning.

Schwartz Bros in Bath is a local institution that has been producing artery-clogging goodness for about 30 years. The best takeaway burgers I have experienced and they have a store with a 2AM close next to what was at one point my local. Nothing beats 8 pints of Guinness followed by a burger as tall as your bonce.

 

If you need evidence as to why they are top, this advert on their home page sums in up with a big banner basically proclaiming 'NOW WITH EVEN MORE MEAT!!!!'.

 

 

Plus, if you live in the local area, they send out menu vouchers about twice the year so you can get BOGOF on burgers. Shamefully, I have never managed to eat more than a double in one sitting though.

 

So if anyone does venture into the South West any-time soon, I would give it a go.

What kind of belisha beacon sized logs are you people pinching out that requires pre-evacuation arse stretching? Sounds like it would rip your bunghole into pieces. Eat some All Bran for goodness sake.

According to wrestlingobserver.com, Chris Hero wrestled a 3+ hour Gauntlet match for charity on Sunday night.

Surely that's some kind of record?

 

Depends how far that you want to go back. In the early years of pro-wrestling matches went for hours with relative frequency, although this was partly due to matches being best 2/3 falls as standard. Pretty sure Ed 'Strangler' Lewis once wrestled for 6 hours in a match causing almost all of the audience to leave.

From Memphis (daddy) the amazing 'Lance Russell's Nose' by Jimmy Hart.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFk0viRI7Ok#t=142

Have gone through all of the original based on the recommendation of this thread. Really good, but felt that it nosedived somewhat in quality half way through season 2.

 

Can't believe I didn't watch it before though, huge fan of Lynch's work and Blue Velvet is one of my favourite films ever. Will certainly take a look at the new mini-series when it comes out. Thank you UKFF!

On a slightly happier note, Wade Barrett is doing the BBC football predictions with Mark Lawrenson this week.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32276357

 

I love it when people who don't know a thing about wrestling have to write a story about it, always lots of slightly clunky language. Think he's also on Football Focus on Saturday with an extended version of the predictions if anyone is interested.

One of my mates who played the old Smackdown games but didn't watch the TV shows was adamant that Undertaker's manager was "Paul Beaver".

I am unable to watch anything in the 'On Demand' section for some reason. The stream works fine and I can acess certain things via  continue watching ,but whenever I try and load anything else it just has an endless buffering symbol. It was working fine on my laptop until a few days ago, then I switched over to my PC and have had this problem. Sent an email to technical support and got bugger all back, has anyone here had/solved this issue?

I think it's a testament to how unbelievably shit dangerously is that he's managed to cram almost as much drivel into the past couple of months as Richie and C-Rock managed to fit into an entire calender year.

 

As someone who just tends to read rather than post here, It's a pretty sure sign that a thread isn't going to be worth reading in the near future when dangerously turns up. He's like an uncharismatic enigma, dull as fuck and arse-achingly annoying in equal doses.

Here are a couple in the same vain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Desperately shit, yes. But this has all been IN THE PAST 2 HOURS. This person actually has that fucking "don't deserve me at my best" Marilyn Monroe quote as her Facebook banner as well.

 

That second one is just her begging on bended knee for some unfortunate knob to ask "what's wrong hun?"

The vapid (usually unattractive and exceedingly bitchy) women who post those fucking "If you can't deal with me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" style things.

 

By the same token for the opposite sex, people who repost stuff from LadsBible or something which wasn't funny in the first place and isn't improved by being reheated and posted again with insightful comments like "lol top bant!!" underneath it. Actually, anything with the words "lad" or "banter" in is probably to be avoided in my book.

 

In terms of other stuff, I appear to have a deluge of people I know turning into tin hatted conspiracy mongs. Nearly all of them have half of the Facebook page taken up with conspiracy bollocks, the other half with stuff about how baked they got last night.

 

Oh, also stuff like this

 

Sorry to mention Hitchcock again, but after someone talked about how some of them had aged badly a few pages ago I watched The Birds again last night. Christ almighty did that look dated, to the extent where I found it tough to watch without laughing every time the birds attack someone. Also I can't work out what it is, but I just don't like Tippi Hedren for some reason. She seems to exude this sense of unpleasant cockiness in The Birds, not just self confidence, but more "you're a bit up yourself aren't you?".

 

Going to continue the Hitchcock theme by watching Dial M for Murder later, another one which I haven't watched in a few years.

Just woke up from an odd one a couple of minutes ago, so remains relatively fresh in the mind. Dream where I was on a plane with Bill Goldberg, Norman Smiley and a variety of other WCW guys (why on earth i specifically remember Norman Smiley I'm not sure). Things were going fantastically well, Bill and I were having a great chat about all sorts, then he got angry because I said my favourite wrestler was Ric Flair, not Goldberg. He chased me round the plane (which was exactly like the map of a plane in Counter-Strike Source) until eventually I was cornered me by the pilots cabin. He then proceeded to spear me out of the plane door and I fell several thousand feet before waking up.

 

Shit on a number of levels that one, not only does my brain Bill Goldberg think I'm a dork, but I proved him totally right by having him chase me around a Counter Strike map.