Sergio Mendacious

I'd never complain if someone served me free pao — meat I can get anywhere, but I've never managed to cook them properly. 

20 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

On a slightly related note, my 10yo has gone gammon mental recently. It's all she ever wants for dinner, and it always strikes me that gammon is an old person's food (it's not obviously) and maybe she's just beyond her years.

 

Put some pineapple on it, blow her mind.

Dispatch from the south here - possibly the most American politician name

Last few years, my dad genes activated, but we’ve no kids, so I’ve been doing a lot of projects. Recently wired up our shed, and put a new outside power outlet from the garage, including cutting through the siding on the house. Gives me a rush, which reminds me I’m old.

Just finished our first raised bed for planting veg, going to be three when I’m done. Felt great to go from a pile of uncut landscaping timber to this.

Passata and a touch of maple syrup? I’ll tell the ‘ole boys down the grange about that, you’d best be expecting a posse

When you hear about biscuits and gravy, that’s the gravy. It’s a peppery cream sauce that sometimes has sausage crumbled in it, it’s… okay.

Can’t say that I’m definitely going to this, might end up being too lazy, but the last one of these I went to was great. Smoked meats! Rural conversations! Men in big hats! And for @Carbomb, red eye gravy!

Ah, fuck.

“Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital and for most of my life he’s been like a brother to me. He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest. But today he made me sob and for that I’ll never forgive him.” - Larry David

Please note that this is not a shit song, but I'm not allowed to play it around the house, and they'll come for my liberal card if anyone hears it. For the record, it's a masterpiece.

32 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

The only issue I had with the 2016 remake was that it was a remake. 

There was no reason why, with that cast, it couldn't have been the long-awaited sequel, with some cameos or support from the originals. All they had to do was a "30 years on" scenario where Ghostbusters are now a nation-/world-wide franchise, with new teams springing up everywhere, and "certificated" by the original team, who are now retired from the frontline game and are just corporate.

This way, we could've had our cake and eaten it. Not just in terms of getting both the nostalgia and the freshness of new faces, but it could have also been set in a city other than New York, with new ghosts and paranormal concepts to play with. I reckon one set in LA, with all the "ghosts of Hollywood", could've worked, or maybe Chicago, with all the dead mobsters.

Should have been set in the Potteries, Stokebusters.

I saw him on his grind in various subway stations in Midtown when I lived in NYC — now I wish I'd put down the $25 for a handshake and photo.

1 hour ago, Merzbow said:

The last one was possibly the worst bit of nostalgia bait ever recorded, fucking awful stuff.

Bearing in mind that I haven't see either of the new Ghostbusters, the lady one at least sounds like it wants to be a comedy. The newer one really does sound like nostalgia bait, and also like a shit tumblrisation of the "IP", where it's given a load of weird reverence, and forgets to be good or funny. Again, I'm that twat who is commenting on it without seeing it.

The last immersive Wonka event didn't go too well, either

I've been out of the UK for a few years, that's a big change for Iceland.

WaWaWeeWa

2 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

What's he going to do, eat fish on stage?

He's going to fillet and cook a carp.

As mentioned in the croak thread, my grandfather in law nearly iced both Greg Proops and Jared Leto. Proops was crossing a street in SoHo without looking, and gave a comical shocked reaction when grandpa stopped about an inch short of him.
 

Leto stepped backwards out of some big SUV type vehicle, right in front of  the car. Barely seemed to notice Grandpa swerving to avoid him.

27 minutes ago, gmoney said:

John Savident definitely one for "I thought they were dead already" file.

My dad nearly ran him over many years ago when he walked into the street without looking. My dad also nearly ran over Noel Edmunds, who was arguing with his current girlfriend and not looking where he was going. If I remember any other celebs my dad nearly killed in his car, I'll post them here. 

My grandfather in law nearly ran over Greg Proops, and Jared Leto (not simultaneously).

Fucking hell, now they're going to have to change all of the syrup boxes, and syrup inspector uniforms. Selfish sods, can't they think of a struggling country for once.