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.

Rowley wrote:No Sean, am not out and am trying to shift some weight so will behave myself. Out all day with TSMR tomorrow looking for a car so need to be bright eyed and bushy tailed.

Could be fun doing a test-drive p1ssed and seeing how many cyclists you can rack up. Would probably inspire a thread from Lumbering Jack on Monday.

Galted wrote:  Would probably inspire a thread from Lumbering Jack on Monday.

Reason enough not to do it.

Rowley wrote:

Galted wrote:  Would probably inspire a thread from Lumbering Jack on Monday.

Reason enough not to do it.

  

I remember once a car dealer handing me his business card and I was a bit confused and startled as it had my name on it.

Carrot, Butternut and Spice soup with mini-baguette and slab of butter from Pret

Taste 2/5 – A bit tasteless but not unpleasant, especially given that it contains a variety of vegetables.  Not very spicy so the Pret naming convention is, once again, misleading to the point of being fraudulent.
Health 5/5 – Contains the vegetables previously mentioned, as well as the previously unmentioned sweet potato, and contains only 400 calories so can't fault Pret on the health factor.  So healthy in fact that it falls under their "soup-er healthy" banner.  "Soup-er" isn't a proper word but a play on "soup" and "super".  The calorie-count would drop to a waist-friendly 199 if the mini-baguette and slab of butter were excluded.
Price 3/5 – was fairly priced at £3.75 (£3.25 without the mini-baguette and slab of butter) which, while not cheap, is not unaffordable.  For £3.75 Rowley could have bought Drummond Street, Rotherham.
Onion factor 5/5 – didn't see, taste or smell onion, no mention of onions on the website.

Overall: 4/5

I was admirably served by the polite and presentable Arnoldas, a young foreigner, who kindly offered to place my lunch in a bag, an offer I declined equally politely.  He was sufficiently handsome for me to have considered furiously bumming him even though I'm not that way inclined.  Again, slightly disappointed that Pret staff don't point out the free condiments and cutlery, this probably doesn’t affect the more experienced Pret customer but, for newcomers or customers returning after a lengthy absence, this could be both confusing and distressing.  Another complaint I have with some Pret staff (though this is not applicable to the bummable Arnoldas) is that they frequently ask if the customer is "dining in" when there's no f*cking "dining in" facility – this may be on account of them all being foreign and not knowing what it is they're asking.
Would certainly recommend this particular soup to people I didn't dislike.

Galted wrote:
Price 3/5 – was fairly priced at £3.75 (£3.25 without the mini-baguette and slab of butter) which, while not cheap, is not unaffordable.  For £3.75 Rowley could have bought Drummond Street, Rotherham.

  

5*

Is near the indoor market, area is horrible but lovely fishmongers and butchers in the market. Will be there tomorrow.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

Having you pose as a B&Q employee so she can shoplift hardly qualifies as 'special'.

It make me more special to her than you are.  You haven't even met her.

F*ck you, Tino.  F*ck you and your Culture Cup Round 6 part IV thread.

I take this back, what I should have said was "F*ck you, Tino. F*ck you and your Culture Cup Round 6 part V thread".

I have just noticed that the Bird from the curling who looks like Iain Dowie has changed her name.

That means that someone either is, or was, tapping that.

Think about that for a mo

Would be particularly worrying if her name had changed to Dowie.

I think that if that happened, it would be the first sign of the apocalypse...

Like a time traveller meeting themselves

rick_dagless wrote:I have just noticed that the Bird from the curling who looks like Iain Dowie has changed her name.

That means that someone either is, or was, tapping that.

Think about that for a mo

Maybe the rest of her family asked her to.

Or swapped her for engine parts like in red Dwarf?

rick_dagless wrote:I have just noticed that the Bird from the curling who looks like Iain Dowie has changed her name.

That means that someone either is, or was, tapping that.

Think about that for a mo

which team?

The Original Scottish Team Sean, Rhona something

rick_dagless wrote:The Original Scottish Team Sean, Rhona something

Oh yeah, fat Colin Hendry.

seanmichaels wrote:Oh yeah, fat Colin Hendry.

That's the badger sean

Have to get this thread off the sign of the beast.

Now we are on the Neighbour of the Beast

Interestingly if you add the numbers of a roulette wheel up they equate to 666

Now we are on the Neighbour of the Beast's neighbour.

Now we are on the number of the hate preacher who hates the beast yet only lives a few doors away.

Now we are on that woman who lives up the road from the beast, who looks like Iain Dowie.

Now we are on the corner shop near the beast, but who will not serve the beast since the incident last time...

Rubbish on here today.

Galted wrote:Rubbish on here today.

Hampton.

Now are on the bloke who keeps centipedes for pets and they scare the beast so he doesn't go round.

Now we're outside my house.

JuliusHMarx wrote:Now we're outside my house.

How is the beast getting on Julius?

You're all fecking mental.....

rick_dagless wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:Now we're outside my house.

How is the beast getting on Julius?

He's currently busy writing a review of my sandwich.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

Galted wrote:Rubbish on here today.

Hampton.

  

JuliusHMarx wrote:He's currently busy writing a review of my sandwich.

I wait with baited breath...

rick_dagless wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:He's currently busy writing a review of my sandwich.

I wait with baited breath...

Good job you didn't hold your breath.

When are you leaving for dahn sarrrf, Rick? Watch those roads, they are terrible on a Friday afternoon.

Not really relevant for the music section but just had an amusing incident. Husband just rang here asking for his wife. Turns outs he didn't know she'd taken the day off......

I know we rib jeff but he really could be on to something with this GPS stuff.

seanmichaels wrote:

I know we rib jeff but he really could be on to something with this GPS stuff.

I am not as daft as I get credit for on here.

seanmichaels wrote:Not really relevant for the music section but just had an amusing incident. Husband just rang here asking for his wife. Turns outs he didn't know she'd taken the day off......

I know we rib jeff but he really could be on to something with this GPS stuff.

Gotta be careful with stuff like that - similar thing happened at work and we all thought the woman was a ho for weeks. Turned out she'd taken the day off so she could buy her husband a car for his 40th.

seanmichaels wrote:Not really relevant for the music section but just had an amusing incident. Husband just rang here asking for his wife. Turns outs he didn't know she'd taken the day off......

I know we rib jeff but he really could be on to something with this GPS stuff.

Be even funnier if he throttles her and it turns out she took the day off to make arrangements for his surprise birthday party.

Its like our minds think alike. I'm scared.

ShahenshahG wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:Not really relevant for the music section but just had an amusing incident. Husband just rang here asking for his wife. Turns outs he didn't know she'd taken the day off......

I know we rib jeff but he really could be on to something with this GPS stuff.

Gotta be careful with stuff like that - similar thing happened at work and we all thought the woman was a ho for weeks. Turned out she'd taken the day off so she could buy her husband a car for his 40th.

Damn you, Shah.

ShahenshahG wrote:Its like our minds think alike. I'm scared.

  

I've got a sudden urge to abuse Tino in the most scathing fashion.  And everyone else, for that matter.

Galted wrote:

ShahenshahG wrote:Its like our minds think alike. I'm scared.

  

I've got a sudden urge to abuse Tino in the most scathing fashion.  And everyone else, for that matter.

and i've got an urge to masturbate at a funeral

Or... he could be like me and have a wife that tells him a lot of things and for the sake of his own sanity he chooses to filter out things that are not important e.g. that she has taken the day off work.

If you allow too much through, you forget how to do important things. It's like the time my dad showed me how to drink Scotch properly and I forgot how to drive.*





*Yes, I did borrow that line from the Simpsons.

superflyweight wrote:Or... he could be like me and have a wife that tells him a lot of things and for the sake of his own sanity he chooses to filter out things that are not important e.g. that she has taken the day off work.  

If you allow too much through, you forget how to do important things.  It's like the time my dad showed me how to drink Scotch properly and I forgot how to drive.*





*Yes, I did borrow that line from the Simpsons.  

I think that did actually happen to you. The line as I remember it was about Homer doing a home wine-making course and forgetting how to drive.

superflyweight wrote:It's like the time my dad showed me how to drink Scotch properly

A good trick I got shown is to fill your Scotch glass with water and then tip it out before you pour the Scotch in. Some of the water clings to the side of the glass and on the bottom and it gives a distinctly different taste to the drink. It is not the same as having whiskey and water which is for cretins and southerners, but it does take a tiny bit of edge away.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:It's like the time my dad showed me how to drink Scotch properly

A good trick I got shown is to fill your Scotch glass with water and then tip it out before you pour the Scotch in.  Some of the water clings to the side of the glass and on the bottom and it gives a distinctly different taste to the drink.

Works with meths as well.

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:It's like the time my dad showed me how to drink Scotch properly

A good trick I got shown is to fill your Scotch glass with water and then tip it out before you pour the Scotch in.  Some of the water clings to the side of the glass and on the bottom and it gives a distinctly different taste to the drink.

Works with meths as well.

No it doesn't, I put meths in my glass, poured it out and then filled it with whiskey. It was bloody horrible.

Uncontroversial on here today.

Morning Galted. Nice weekend?

Yes, thank you, Tino. Yourself?

I nearly got banned on here Friday night. The rugby lot are a bunch of old women....