Chilly McFreeze

Got my prep nearly done. I can cook this dinner with my eyes closed now as this is the 7th year in a row.

Had 3 people drop out this year, so only 4 of us, but the same amount of food. Looking forward to the Bubble & Squeek more than the Roast to be honest.

Stuffing, Yorkshire Pudding Batter, Gravy, Braised Red Cabbage, Swede and Carrot Mash, and Sprouts (will be fried with bacon and chestnuts.)

And this bad boy in the oven since 9am. Turkey is for wimps, it's all about the cracklin' at Christmas. Gonna do the spuds in the pork fat.

I mean, his whole shtick was about being a Sex Pest. I'm not surprised, but I love the guy's work so it's sad to hear what I always feared about him may be true. 

Mother! Really not sure how I felt about it. It could be brilliant, or it could be a pretentious pile of crap. Need to watch it again.

Either way the final act was one of the most intense, hilarious, gruesome and anxious 40 minutes I've ever had in the cinema. 

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Been rewatching League of Gentlemen. It's my favourite thing ever, and very inspirational and influential to me, but one of those things I felt I'd overwatched, as it was also one of my comfort watch shows in bad times, so had to take a break from for a few years. My god, does it hold up. The gag-rate in the very first two minutes of the first episode is incredible. Sight-gag after sight-gag at an amazing pace. I was jarred by the first season being in SD and 4:3, because it's not old, is it? LoG was only on recently.

 

But then there's a line by Les McQueen where he talks about the Eurovision heats in '81 to demonstrate how out of touch and trapped in the past he is. '81 to the time the show first aired in '99 is the exact same amount of time between its first airing and now. Christ. But still a brilliant, brilliant show. They're all so young in it, too. So young and talented.

It's just brilliant isn't it? So original and it holds up completely. It popped up on my Netflix recommends last month and it'd been a while since my last re-watch, and I just devoured the whole lot in a couple of weeks. Easily in my top 5 TV programmes of all time. I think the spirit lives on in Inside Number 9 and Psychoville, but neither quite reach the same heights.

Also found the live show on Dailymotion, definitely worth a watch. (Watching this reminded me of how many catchphrases they had, but they never relied on them, and they always felt organic rather than being the joke itself. Plus the whole show is so quotable anyway.)

To someone not as clued up, why is it Trump can just pass all these bills and laws, but when a President that isn't mad is in charge, they don't pass a bunch of really good ones? Because to me, for all his massive, awful faults, he's at least coming across as someone who gets shit done. Even if that shit is actual shit and should never be done.

Obama signed a shit load of executive orders.

Thing is, an executive order doesn't mean it will happen. Obama signed one to shut down Guantanamo in his early days, and that got no where.

For example, the order to build the wall. Just because he has ordered, doesn't mean it will happen. Congress hold the money, and they say what the money is spent on. If they don't give the money, that wall will never be built, or else he will have to find a loop hole, or get the money some other way (a 20% tax increase on Mexican Importing seems to be his preferred choice for now.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/donald-trump-mexico-border-wall-congress.html

 

 

The president can announce whatever plans he wants. But whether the plan is “build a wall” or “close Guantánamo,” if Congress does not go along, it can amount to wishful thinking. As one Republican lawmaker said of Mr. Obama’s 2009 order on Guantánamo, “This is an executive order that places hope ahead of reality.”

The scary thing about the inauguration crowd thing is that they are happy to boldly and confidently lie about something so fucking trivial. 

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but Going For Gold is a classic. It also has one of my favorite facts to amaze your friends, the composer of the track is Hans Zimmer.

The only thing I know about Little Mix is this video. I still can't work out what happened to her here. The ultimate brain fart I think

So I work in a small IT team in a big office. Someone just sent round some Xmas Meme's for the 'lulz' and the first one is a picture of Santa with a cheeky grin and the rhyme:

'You better not pout, you better not cry, you better not shout, I'm going in dry.'

Now I'm no prude, but that's rapey as fuck is it not? I've just been trying to explain to a bunch of giggling 30 year IT nerds why it's a bit rapey, but they're not having it. Apparently it's just a laugh init.

Someone help me out here, am I being silly to think that was wholly inappropriate to send round at work?

Episode 5 when they go the the night club Chasers.

'The only knighthood he's got is a condom'

OK just watched a bit of her stand up on youtube and she's definitely the bird Finchy gets off with.

Wasn't she the lass that got off with Finchy?

Vice report on CZW. Worth a watch.

Has anyone seen #prayforroslyn some poor lass at the NHS sent an email to all 1.2 million staff members today

That happened where I worked once. A big Insurance company with 100,000+ employees. The whole company's email ground to a halt for a day.

The worst thing was people replying to all with 'This wasn't intended for me' and 'please can people stop replying to all.'

Fucking numpties.

Emile Mpenza is the only Belgian with a special place in my heart. Some of the heroics he used to pull as a Lone Striker on Champ Man 01/02 were obscene. 30+ goals a season guaranteed with him up top.

 

Hold on to your skirts ladies, I have an awful true story for you.

 

My mum suffers from terrible wax build up in her ears. She has had them syringed in the past, but now she prefers a thing called the Hopi ear candle. It's a wax and paper tube with a gromit about 2 inches up from the bottom. You put it in your ear and light the end, as it burns down it sucks the wax up from inside your ear. When it gets down to a certain point you take it out and put the candle out. At this point you can open the remains of the candle and see how much wax has come out.

 

Yesterday she had it done as she had been complaining that her ear had been itchy for a couple of days. When they opened up the candle from her left ear there was a dead spider in the wax. No wonder her ear had been itchy!

 

I shouldn't have to point this out, but Hopi Candles are a classic bit of snake oil.  They don't actually remove anything from the ear at all, they are just made of wax and so when they melt they produce... wax.

 

The spider was in the hollow candle, not your mum's ear, is what I'm saying.

 

Aye was just about to reply the same. Those candles are nonsense. 

http://www.badscience.net/2004/03/waxing-sceptical/

The best thing about this weather is the inevitable barrage of spectacular Thunderstorms heading our way on the weekend.

Even in Winter I sleep with a Fan next to my bed, because I get irrationally hot when I sleep. So you can imagine nights this week have been grim.

My wife actually threw a blanket on the bed last night because she was cold, and I declared her completely insane and slept on the sofa downstairs. The living room was so much cooler I thought I might accidentally have installed air conditioning and had a cracking nights sleep. 

 

 

This was all over my facebook last night. In case you missed the news (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33770021)

 

Is this another Savile where as soon as the truth was revealed all manner of people came out & claimed they knew all along but just didn’t want to risk saying anything or a simple case of ‘make enough claims & some of them will be true’? Seems rather specific to be the latter IMO.

Given we now know that Thatcher knew at the time I suspect this whole thing will be like another Hillsborough investigation.

 

The problem with anything Icke related is even if he's right you still can't get past the whole lizard thing.

There aren't many politicians and celebrities he hasn't named as a Paedo. A stopped clock is always right twice a day.

 

Do you genuinely believe that?

 

I belive that Faul planned to kill the Beatles one by one so the "secret" would never be let out well seem's like he don't give a damn in this video the eyes tell the story.

 

 

I love it, 

'What is your evidence for this extraordinary claim?'

'It's in his eyes...'

You know what, I really really want to know what you think happened on 9/11 now. Give me something proper mental please.

Are you a no-planer? Or one of those Dr Judy Wood freaks who thinks it was high energy weapons shot from space? Or vic-sims? Let it all out man, I want to hear everything. Take me through the looking glass....

 

John Lennon was murdered in 1980 because he was about to go public that Paul died in 1966. 

 

Ah right, so you are a troll. Never mind then

9/11 all over Back To The Future Movies.

 

 

Y'know I was all for having you banned as being a complete dribbling spanner, but you've redeemed yourself. I LOVE watching stupid shite like this. 

 

 

Do you guys (Chest and Coconut) wholly believe the official account of 9/11 (which by definition is a conspiracy theory as it has in no way been proven beyond reaonable doubt)?

 

Oh god. Please don't. Did Duane send you here?

 

Never heard of the man. Obviously mentioning 9/11 opens up a whole can of worms which can go back and forth for days/weeks and months which wasn;t the intention, nor something I would want to engage in as by now people believe what they believe. But I will never understand how people can think there is nothing fishy about paper passports which survive the fire which brought down the twin towers (which is another thing entirely) and landed neatly on the pavement below.

 

Go back to page 1 of this thread and read it through, this will teach you

1.) Who Duane is and 2) Why you should not ever bother bringing up 9/11. No one cares and your shitty rhetoric won't work here. Seriously, just don't even waste your breath. Sod off back to the Icke forums where the other dribbling morons will agree with you.

Oh and 3) Learn some fucking physics.

Do you guys (Chest and Coconut) wholly believe the official account of 9/11 (which by definition is a conspiracy theory as it has in no way been proven beyond reaonable doubt)?

Oh god. Please don't. Did Duane send you here?

Hitler obviously ran a fair few false flag operations. namely the attack on a German Radio Station on the eve of WWII to help justify to the German people why they were invading Poland. But that's the Nazi's, so doesn't really count does it?