Sergio Mendacious

I don’t have any vices except for caffeine, I would regularly have 7-8 cups of coffee in the office when I worked in an office. 

I did learn a lesson, though; one day I was totally knackered, and I had my usual coffee intake, a big monster drink, and two five hour energy shots. The crash was so severe that my boss shook me awake at my desk and sent me home. I ended up taking what would have been a very expensive cab ride at a point when I couldn’t afford that, but ended up in a cab sponsored by Dr Drew Pinsky for some reason, for free. I guess the big man* was watching over me that day.

*Dr Drew Pinsky.

Never beaten; it’s not even about something sad but I was pondering putting it in the fillin up thread 

Seven years today Maggie Roche died 

Can confirm that Frankie’s dad is an absolute diamond.

my parents moved into an old folks development recently, it’s made their old personitude intensify. My dad keeps getting banned off Facebook for racism, and my mum is positively gleeful about it.

That’s interesting , which polls?

It's possible that since I last posted regularly on here that we've had 100% turnover of pets. Manny, the best cat, passed away in 2021 from what was probably stomach cancer. He had a reasonable 12 year innings, not long enough, and his ashes are over the TV in the bedroom.

In 2017 we got Margot, who was a very underdeveloped 10 day old who we brought home in a bag from a wig store. She's now a round lump with a bad attitude.

In 2021, not long before Manny started his decline, we got Hiccup (sitting straight up on the bed); he was on Craiglist, someone found him covered in pain in the basement of the building she lived in. He had some issues with his urethra, but special food seems to have put that right, and he's grown into a right lad. Loves being picked up and hurled across the room, he comes running right back for more.

Finally, after we moved to North Carolina, we got Tiptoe in late 2022. She's the one in the tree. She was picked up off the streets of Raleigh, and only weigh sabout 7lbs, less than half the size of the other two. She lies in wait in the bedroom most of the time, and only comes out to eat, drink, and go "fishing" for us, to lure into the bedroom. 

Oh, and we've got five chickens called Blanche, Sophia, Rose, Dorothy, and Count Bessie.
 

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@Loki If you ever do that, try some Eastern NC bbq. It's more vinegar than tomato, but when it's good it's amazing. Keep meaning to go to Lexington, which is the place locally for BBQ.

@Gus Mears Didn't even know it was a chain! Was in a really grotty mall, but Gatlinburg is a grotty mall in its own right, it's blinding.

We were in Tennessee a few months ago, and went to Gatlinburg. Weren't able to stay that long in the town, my mum was having trouble walking far, so I didn't get to do more than walk by this amazing looking place.

Also included, a gratuitous photo of my workshop.

10 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

That’s one hell of an accomplishment list!  

☑️ Savin' babies

☑️ Protectin' ladies

☑️ Most pro-life candidate

🔲 Not being arrested for chasing a woman on a patio area near the hotel entrance, trying to retrieve a laptop computer from the woman, when she fell and hit her head on a concrete bench

18 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Only found out the other day that Nikki Haleys birth name is Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. So in my book that counts as STOP CALLING HER NIKKI. 
 

My favourite thing about American elections is always the local ads that mentalists put out for their campaign in their towns. Some absolute pearlers over the years and I’m hoping for more of the same this year. 

@Keith Houchen An all timer here

Haven't found a nice old cinema around here; there was a drive-in that closed as soon as we arrived, but it had only been open since the start of Covid.

I've almost exclusively gone to the RCE Theater in Roxboro (North Carolina), because it's dirt cheap, with a top price of $7.50 on a Friday night. Bought the popcorn bucket and soda cup with cheap refills for the year this year and last, so the two of us going to the pictures with popcorn and pop comes out at about $30. They have a lot of fun theme stuff, and most of the new films, and I wish I could have gone there as a kid, because it's in Palace Pointe, which would have been ace to go to a youngster.

Other than that, we wanted to go and see Talk To Me, and they didn't have it, so we went to the city and paid $12 each for tickets, and $15 each of popcorn and a small drink, so stuff that.

There's a lot of people on the left here who want Trump as the nominee, because "he'll be easy to beat." No thanks; like @Loki says, I'd rather have a shitty "normal" republican like Haley who will piss around with the tax code and pretend to take away Obamacare, even though she's likelier to win in a general election.

Looking forward to seeing what a general election is like in the place we live these days (Orange County, North Carolina); I'm predicting a million lawn signs (have considered making one myself that says "Lorne's Signs" and using it to advertise for design business), and more Trump ones than Biden, because Trump fans love to shout it from the rooftops. The county will easily go for Biden, as all of the people live in Hillsborough/Chapel Hill/Carrboro, three of the most liberal places I've ever been.

11 minutes ago, Loki said:

@Keith Houchen If you want to try something hot but really tasty as a sauce to put on the side, get a bottle of Encona Original Hot Pepper Sauce.  It's genuinely fantastic, it's got texture and a fruity flavour and is hot but not in a way that hits the stomach too much.  It's a blend of scotch bonnet and habaneros, and it's in every supermarket.

In all honesty it's my favourite, can't believe I forgot about it earlier.

Encona is delicious, was always my favorite.

When I was at uni, I had a couple of run ins with this one

A lad spent his whole month's worth of money in the first ten days of the month, and went cap in hand to all of us to help him out. We did, we all put in £10 each if he would eat a curry cooked by a bengali lad (Bob) from our halls who was working part time at a local restaurant. A dog food curry, with several tsps of Dave's sauce. He didn't even like korma, he said it was too hot for him, but hats off, he put away the whole curry. 

Later, Bob tipped the rest of the sauce into a single curry for himself and ate it without flinching.

Love living in America and being in America waiting for this bloke to inevitably become president again.

Probably makes me a wrong 'un, but who knows when I'll be back here again, so here's another one

Skyrim, that's my boring the arse off of people. I'm one of dem blokes who've never played another elder scrolls game, although I played and disliked the online game. But when Skyrim came out, it really spoke to me, and so I've spent well over a decade relating all sorts of stuff to Skyrim, like "it's snowing, like it does in Skyrim," or "I'll have an apple, like you find in Skyrim."

Skyrim.

We had an "awards ceremony" (aka mass rhubarb rubbing) at work yesterday, and there were bunch of different emcees. The best by a mile was one bloke who sounded like a cross between Ken Howard (the lead in the old show The White Shadow, and later in 30 Rock), Johnny Gilbert (Jeopardy announcer), and John O'Hurley (J. Peterman from Seinfeld). Kind of bloke who could read the phone book and make it sound good.

Anyway, all of the people above had/have tremendous voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnCEVOSarqw

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