The Culture Cup round 6

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rick_dagless wrote:http://io9.com/5982701/ultrasound-makes-sonoluminescent-bubbles

I think it is a grey ground Julius rather than black and white, so we may agree to disagree on this one

You could be right. If only you'd stuck to sonoluminescence, it definitely would have merited a round of applause. As it is, I'm not sure my conscient will allow it.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:I bet LJ is more likely to partake and Jeff is more camp than me

There is nothing camp about m*n-bags and Radox baths.  

Just confident and comfortable in my sexuality. Rarely feel a need to overtly assert my heterosexuality to a bunch of strangers online I will almost certainly never meet. Obviously I am not suggesting for a minute someone who felt the need to do that would be repressing or seeking to hide something, perish the thought.

Rowley wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:I bet LJ is more likely to partake and Jeff is more camp than me

There is nothing camp about m*n-bags and Radox baths.  

Just confident and comfortable in my sexuality. Rarely feel a need to overtly assert my heterosexuality to a bunch of strangers online I will almost certainly never meet. Obviously I am not suggesting for a minute someone who felt the need to do that would be repressing or seeking to hide something, perish the thought.

And you wouldn't tag your missus if you wanted away with another bloke.....

Rowley wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:I bet LJ is more likely to partake and Jeff is more camp than me

There is nothing camp about m*n-bags and Radox baths.  

Just confident and comfortable in my sexuality. Rarely feel a need to overtly assert my heterosexuality to a bunch of strangers online I will almost certainly never meet. Obviously I am not suggesting for a minute someone who felt the need to do that would be repressing or seeking to hide something, perish the thought.

Damn, I thought you were coming out subtly with the gay person speaks watch you bought for TSMR

ShahenshahG wrote:

Rowley wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:I bet LJ is more likely to partake and Jeff is more camp than me

There is nothing camp about m*n-bags and Radox baths.  

Just confident and comfortable in my sexuality. Rarely feel a need to overtly assert my heterosexuality to a bunch of strangers online I will almost certainly never meet. Obviously I am not suggesting for a minute someone who felt the need to do that would be repressing or seeking to hide something, perish the thought.

Damn, I thought you were coming out subtly with the gay person speaks watch you bought for TSMR

Sorry if you got your hopes up Shah, for what it's worth though I am way out of your league.

Rowley wrote:

ShahenshahG wrote:

Rowley wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:I bet LJ is more likely to partake and Jeff is more camp than me

There is nothing camp about m*n-bags and Radox baths.  

Just confident and comfortable in my sexuality. Rarely feel a need to overtly assert my heterosexuality to a bunch of strangers online I will almost certainly never meet. Obviously I am not suggesting for a minute someone who felt the need to do that would be repressing or seeking to hide something, perish the thought.

Damn, I thought you were coming out subtly with the gay person speaks watch you bought for TSMR

Sorry if you got your hopes up Shah, for what it's worth though I am way out of your league.

That's alright, It was for tophat actually, I'd need a challenger tank to mount you

Wow, did not take us long to kill this one today. Can only hope Galted's lunch time review can save us.

Rowley wrote:Wow, did not take us long to kill this one today. Can only hope Galted's lunch time review can save us.

I've been craving fish and chips all morning.

Rowley wrote:Wow, did not take us long to kill this one today. Can only hope Galted's lunch time review can save us.

Jeff, as a grizzled northerner, what is your take on the floods?

Not too bad up here to be honest Sean. Do feel sorry for those that are suffering but s*it happens, is what you pay your insurance for.

Insurers refuse to pay out. I would quite happily sentence all insurers to death and an eternity in hellfire getting raped by janet street porter

The thread is split again.

Jeff's Spice Girls fact has been replaced with rick's big word and some rapier wit from Julius.

Rowley wrote:Wow, did not take us long to kill this one today. Can only hope Galted's lunch time review can save us.

Sorry, Rowley, but I've been bedridden by my debilitating throat disease. The only lunch I'm likely to have is the gallons of snot from my post nasal drip.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:The thread is split again.  

Jeff's Spice Girls fact has been replaced with rick's big word and some rapier wit from Julius.

Unfortunately for Julius it now looks like a spelling mistake.

Did Rowley contribute more than usual over the previous 20 pages to get his fact replaced?  If so, perhaps I don't give Men of the North enough credit for deviousness.

Galted, I am fond of you, but you are so southern.

No self respecting Man of the North would dream of being bedridden by a cold.

Galted wrote: The only lunch I'm likely to have is the gallons of snot from my post nasal drip.

Feel free not to offer up a review of that.

Galted wrote:Did Rowley contribute more than usual over the previous 20 pages to get his fact replaced?  If so, perhaps I don't give Men of the North enough credit for deviousness.

Absolutely not, because whilst World Cupgate has rocked me to my very foundation I remain reasonably confident my Spice Girls zinger was vaguely correct.

Though now it is myself being wrongly chastised for turning a noun into an adjective...

Rats

If it's any consolation, rick, I have been waiting for an opportunity to get sonoluminescence into a conversation at work today.

I can edit it Rick, problem is Julius can also edit so would just change it back.

I'm tempted to edit it, but that would indicate that it mattered to either rick and/or myself.

The reality is that rick will doubtless produce another impressive word in the next hour or two, and another example of my rapier wit should appear before the end of the year.

Good luck with that Tino!

Please report back on how you get on, as it would be quite a feat if achieved.

Rowley wrote:I can edit it Rick, problem is Julius can also edit so would just change it back.

I guess if it advances the use of sonoluminescence then I am pretty OK with it.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Galted, I am fond of you, but you are so southern.

No self respecting Man of the North would dream of being bedridden by a cold.

It's no cold, Tino, it is an exceptionally vicious sore throat that I have braved since the early hours of Monday morning.  I thought that it had weakened its grip yesterday evening so I decided to kill it off with seven cans of Bud, five bags of crisps and a vegetable samosa but, in my drunken state, I forgot to close the window before going to sleep and now find myself at death's door.

rick_dagless wrote:Good luck with that Tino!

Please report back on how you get on, as it would be quite a feat if achieved.

I wouldn't hold out too much hope, I keep having to google it to refresh myself of its meaning.

Maybe if you shout at someone to turn the light on?

rick_dagless wrote:Maybe if you shout at someone to turn the light on?

I am not up north now, rick.

We already have all the lights on in the office.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Galted, I am fond of you, but you are so southern.

No self respecting Man of the North would dream of being bedridden by a cold.

It's no cold, Tino, it is an exceptionally vicious sore throat that I have braved since the early hours of Monday morning.  I thought that it had weakened its grip yesterday evening so I decided to kill it off with seven cans of Bud, five bags of crisps and a vegetable samosa but, in my drunken state, I forgot to close the window before going to sleep and now find myself at death's door.

You don't eat enough greenery. Good effort on the buds though. In my current financial predicament I am on 2.5 litre bottles of Barnstormer for £2.69.

Mind the windows Tino wrote:I am not up north now, rick

Ah, of course, plus the heating for the office and the Beer warming machine.

Bud is foul. Like almost all American lagers with the exception of Sam Adams.

You could have doubled up and necked 14 bottles of Miller Lite.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Bud is foul.  Like almost all American lagers with the exception of Sam Adams.

You could have doubled up and necked 14 bottles of Miller Lite.

Yes, Bud does have a lemony sourish taste to it.

Best lager is Orangeboom.

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Bud is foul.  Like almost all American lagers with the exception of Sam Adams.

You could have doubled up and necked 14 bottles of Miller Lite.

Yes, Bud does have a lemony sourish taste to it.

Best lager is Orangeboom.

I haven't had an Orangeboom for many a year, seany. I will buy a tin at the weekend and revisit it just for you.

Galted wrote: so I decided to kill it off with seven cans of Bud, five bags of crisps and a vegetable samosa but, in my drunken state, I forgot to close the window before going to sleep and now find myself at death's door.

Seven cans of bud renders you in a drunken state. Definitely a southerner.

Holsten Pils - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEflp6u8GU4

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Bud is foul.  Like almost all American lagers with the exception of Sam Adams.

You could have doubled up and necked 14 bottles of Miller Lite.

Yes, Bud does have a lemony sourish taste to it.

Best lager is Orangeboom.

I haven't had an Orangeboom for many a year, seany.  I will buy a tin at the weekend and revisit it just for you.

I only ever see it in this one shop round the corner from work. In cans anyway.

My weekend starts at 5 today.

These are the bad boys to look out for:
 

Spoiler:

 
I also never trust any alcoholic drink in a 440ml can. Has to be 500ml and certainly not 560ml

Best lager is a Belgian one called Efes
A close second would be a Polish lager called Zubr or the German lager Warsteiner

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Bud is foul.  Like almost all American lagers with the exception of Sam Adams.

You could have doubled up and necked 14 bottles of Miller Lite.

Yes, Bud does have a lemony sourish taste to it.

Best lager is Orangeboom.

I haven't had an Orangeboom for many a year, seany.  I will buy a tin at the weekend and revisit it just for you.

I only ever see it in this one shop round the corner from work. In cans anyway.

I'll find it, seany. I'll send one of the kitchen staff out to procure some.

I will wash it down with a bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild, 1974.

Bud just gets a bad press because it's American, it is a fine lager. Normally have a few Zywiec as well but have been off the p1ss for a while and wasn't certain what effect it would have.

Galted wrote:Bud just gets a bad press because it's American, it is a fine lager.

Nope, it just tastes like sh*t.

I had some Russian lager in a massive bottle t'other day. I bought some in Tesco. I can't remember the name but it was how I imagine pouring hydrochloric acid down your neck must feel like.

The 2nd and 3rd bottles were alright as I had no skin left on the inside of my throat.

Every Tom, Jack or Walt
Will like the taste of malt
They'll love the malt
In a Colt 45.
  

Don't tend to drink lager as a habit as I am a Guinness man, but if I have to it tends to be Heineken. Got to be honest it all tastes pretty similar to me.

Tyskie, Zywiec and Lech Sport are all agreeable and I concur with Dave on Zubr - incidentally all 500ml cans. I think the 440ml can conspiracy is not to be sniffed at. You only get 440ml cans at supermarkets and my ex-alcoholi friend swore blindly that you couldn't get proper Stella from a supermarket.

Rowley wrote:Don't tend to drink lager as a habit as I am a Guinness man, but if I have to it tends to be Heineken. Got to be honest it all tastes pretty similar to me.

I don't drink beer at all. There, I've said it.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

Rowley wrote:Don't tend to drink lager as a habit as I am a Guinness man, but if I have to it tends to be Heineken. Got to be honest it all tastes pretty similar to me.

I don't drink beer at all. There, I've said it.

Even old dogs can learn new tricks Julius. Never too late.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

Rowley wrote:Don't tend to drink lager as a habit as I am a Guinness man, but if I have to it tends to be Heineken. Got to be honest it all tastes pretty similar to me.

I don't drink beer at all. There, I've said it.

Never expected anything else Jules, as a tennis fan champagne is pretty much de rigueur.

seanmichaels wrote:ex-alcoholi friend

You can't get an 'ex-alcoholic'.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:ex-alcoholi friend

You can't get an 'ex-alcoholic'.

Yes my error. I meant ex-friend who is an alcoholic. Didn't fall out he just moved to America.

Rowley wrote:de rigueur.

Ponce.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Rowley wrote:de rigueur.

Ponce.  

I was speaking to a tennis fan, about tennis (vaguely). When in Rome and all that.