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Go on then.
You have your choice of takeaway, from whatever genre or type of cooking or country you care for. Give me a starter, a main and a dessert, and a beverage to wash it down with.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:35, 120 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Starter: Spliff
Main: Pepperoni Pizza
Dessert: Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream
Beverage: Cider/Ice cold diet coke.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:43, Reply)
Hmm, you could in fact be me.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:47, Reply)
a much fatter you. With a better beard. Yeah I totally went there.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:49, Reply)
If this isn't a beard, what the hell is it?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:51, Reply)
practice.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:51, Reply)
Pffft come back when the bumfluff turns wiry.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:53, Reply)
I went past wiry at 15, I'm into gorse territory.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:54, Reply)

r at
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:58, Reply)
*applauds*

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:58, Reply)
took me ages to work it out! may be too stoned already
but bravo Kristine
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:01, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S35THmZD_E
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:06, Reply)
nice. heard it on zane lowe this week, good vid.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:11, Reply)
Top track, I think I may have converted Poppet to commercial dubstep with this one.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:11, Reply)
shit! I have to send her cv back, good reminder. I'll do yours too tomorrow.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:15, Reply)
Ha, best had, she's waiting for it.
Edit: actually the sooner the better, she'd really appreciate it.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:15, Reply)
sorted, onto yours next

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:52, Reply)
Hmmm
So that's what Dubstep is, they play a lot of that in one of my local dives on the weekend and I weep to see the amount of Skinsesque young fitties gyrating and copping off randomly - not with me of course, I'm 30+ and hairy. Think it's the first entire genre of music I've ever heard that makes me feel old. I just don't get it, sounds like the radgiest drum and bass ever after an uncomfortable amount of nitrous oxide and ketamine?

At least I know what it's called now. Each to their own, tomayto, tomahto etc I suppose.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:26, Reply)
I'm 35 and hairy, get in fucking line.
Dubstep is effectively half-speed drum and bass, a little hip-hoppy if you fancy. It's a head-nodder in my book, although it does go through dub and darkness in its various guises. Being a junglist at heart and taking into account my love affair with hip hop I've really identified with it, especially when loud as fuck with a good sub.

And a whole lot of dubstep is absolute bandwagoning crapshite. You have to filter through a lot of dirge to find the good stuff.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:29, Reply)
I realise this may make me sound like a pretentious cunt.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:30, Reply)
Not at all.
I have an uneasy relationship with dubstep. There is alot of serious, intelligent dubstep around- people like Martyn, Modeselektor, Benga etc then there is the wideboy shit that Caspa peddles.

Personally, I like the stuff that veers towards techno- I've been listening to Shackleton and the aforementioned Martyn lately. Just don't really like the wub stuff.

Post dubstep stuff is great too- Burial is superb, as is Mt Kimbie. When it comes to dubstep on a system though, I just don't dance to it. I can't take it seriously as raving music.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:35, Reply)
I don't dance anyway so that's moot, I'm a headnodder.
I dunno how to divide genres but I definitely know what I like, and it's generally swinging towards the quirky and commercial side of the scene as opposed to dark or "trying to be clever with bass synths" side of stuff. I'd lean towards clever beats over dirty bass any day of the week.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:39, Reply)
When I first heard Burial I was astonished.
I barely consider his stuff dubstep anyway, but when I heard it I wondered when 'urban' music had got so clever. Ghostly samples, intricate, cleverly programmed beats and heartbreaking melodies. All that from a garage & grime background. Incredible.

It's like Mogwai- a bunch of Glaswegian teenagers when they did Helicon 1 & 2, brought out Come On Die Young when they were very early twenties- incredible depth in the music and breadth of influences.

At the time I was describing Burial's Untrue as 'CODY era Mogwai, as remixed in the rain by Go Plastic era Squarepusher, in a cave'.

Sums it up nicely.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:44, Reply)
Just had a quick run through rated stuff on iTunes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbJ-1g5dyVM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2YEVZZOWLY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zO7H2yGvrU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPb1w7s7iUQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=heX7gXWk0FA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ZJhMfOpMA
All quite commercial I think but I love each one for individual reasons.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:46, Reply)
You must have heard 'Night' by Benga & Coki, right?
I heart that track. The way the melody and the sub interact is wonderful.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:49, Reply)
I've no idea but listening now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=haAxsi9MKWA
Hahah ok yeah I already like it.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:53, Reply)
It's great.
Totally infectious.

See what I mean about how the rhythm reflects the melody when it breaks and reforms?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:56, Reply)
Kinda, it feels like it's old though.
I dunno, that may well be pretentious, but whatever I've been listening to for the past year somehow sounds more "modern".
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:06, Reply)
It's a couple of years old now. Maybe more.
Seminal record.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:08, Reply)
I have "Untrue" and the eponymous album coming down the streams now.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:14, Reply)
They are both excellent, but Untrue is better.
Untrue's work with vocal samples is very very clever.

interviews:

www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/oct/26/urban

www.thewire.co.uk/articles/347/

Mourning a movement he never directly experienced. Weird but touching.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:22, Reply)
Ah... Burial is dubstep too?
I like that guy.. used to listen to his (or her?) stuff a few years ago when it was tres hipsterish. A lot more chilled than the above.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:05, Reply)
The above isn't chilled?
That's probably some of the more laid-back stuff, I don't like it too dirty or indulgent.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:07, Reply)
Burial is always referred to as dubstep, but I don't class him as such.
Not enough sub and the beats are more garage.

He is very, very talented at what he does. Captivating, emotional, intense, distant, intimate and ghostly.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:10, Reply)
I'd go for Indian Noel.
Probably wouldn't bother with a starter, but I'd have some poppadoms and a full compliment of pickles.

Mains, depends on the takeout and how interesting their menu is, but assuming it's from a 'bog standard' place, chicken tikka madras, with special fried rice and a keema nan.

No desert.

I'd enjoy that with cider a plenty.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:49, Reply)
I only like curry occasionally, I have to make myself want one.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:50, Reply)
I cook huge batches of different stuff occasionally and freeze them.
This week I've had lentil curry, lamb balti, and sweet potato, chickpea and spinach curry out of my freezer, and spiced chicken and a great kidney-bean thing cooked for four hours thanks to some guys at work.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:53, Reply)
I don't even know if there are any Indian Noels.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:51, Reply)

"Welcome to deal or no deal, all boxes £2.99"
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:52, Reply)
Clearly you don't bank with HSBC
India has lots of people called Noel. Dave and Tony are other names popular in India.

I always ask them to call me Mohammed when I speak to them, if they can lie about their name, then it's only fair that I get to lie about mine.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:53, Reply)
They're trying to tell you how they spell it.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:55, Reply)
I'd just like some chicken
and after a couple of nights ago I would kill for some dry meat
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:53, Reply)
What's the deal with dry meat?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:53, Reply)
it's so delicious
not actually dry though
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:54, Reply)
Is it like this?
www.asianchefrecipes.com/indian-food/lamb-recipes/dry-meat-masala-indian-recipe.php
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:56, Reply)
That looks about right
I wouldn't know though
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:01, Reply)
allergic to lube.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:54, Reply)
starter of vietnamese summer rolls, main of grilled chicken rice vermicelli, I never order dessert, water

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 18:59, Reply)
I don't really do dessert either, I'm more a starter/main kinda guy.
Although I had a dessert at Zizzi in Whitstable with Poppet, it was fucking heavenly, almond and fig tart with pistachio icecream, I think I spunked my pants. THIS IS WHAT IT'S COME TO.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:02, Reply)
I once had homemade pumpkin cheesecake
it was orgasmic
literally the best dessert I've ever had
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:07, Reply)
I've had some good ones, don't get me wrong
but they're rare, I prefer an amazing savoury dish to an amazing sweet one.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:08, Reply)
too true *fats*

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:10, Reply)
S'like, I'd rather have a good small plate of nachos than cheesecake, knowhatImean?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:10, Reply)
well yes, yes I do
I'm not a big desert person, a pint of ice cream will last me a month
if I want a snack I'll have carrots
or beer
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:13, Reply)
This.
though the cheesecake sounds exciting
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:17, Reply)
No, too full from nachos and the amazing savoury main course for dessert.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:18, Reply)
oh it was so so so so good
to this day I've never had anything as good
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:32, Reply)
I love smorgesboard so I'll have:
Starter: Gravadlax
Main: Gravadlax
Dessert: Gravadlax

Drink: Champagne.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:03, Reply)
sounds like a baddy from dungeons and dragons, yuck.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:04, Reply)
I'm only getting returns for fucking horse racing, nice work.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:05, Reply)
Too many RRRRRRRs sorry.
I just love smoked salmon and dill.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:07, Reply)
It does sound awesome, smoked salmon makes my gob dribble.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:08, Reply)
The above meal was had by me on the dfds ferry to Sweden a few years ago.
I'm not one for convention when there is salmon on the menu.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:12, Reply)
AGHHHH HHHHH HHHHH AGHHHHHH HHHHAGHHHH HHHHH HHHHH AGHHHHHH HHHHAGHHHH HHHHH HHHHH AGHHHHHH HHHHAGHHHH HHHHH HHHHH AGHHHHHH HHHHAGHHHH HHHHH HHHHH AGHHHHHH HHHHAGHHHH HHHHH HHHHH AGHHHHHH HHHHAGHHHH HHHHH HHHHH AGHHHHHH HHHHAGHHHH HHHHH HHHHH AGHHHHHH HHH
BRAND NEW SUSHI PLACE IN SOUTHGATE AND ITS REALLY REALLY REALLY GOOD AND OH MY GOODNESS ME AND OH WOW AND YIPPY..... This is the best news I've had in years. OH MAN, it's really really good, pretty much as good as the one that closed down. And their menu is EMENCE, so big, loads of stuff I've never heard of to try, I had to stop myself at £25, I could have doubled that if I got everything I wanted.

This is like that time when you get a new girlfriend, the first time you sleep with them, the anticipation, the awquardness before the first bite, the delight of new smells and flavours. You've feasted your eyes on a new menu, and have found out she's wearing La Senzas. OH BOY OH BOY,
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:21, Reply)
everytime you post about sushi it makes me want to run out and have some
but then I remember I hate it and I get a little sad inside
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:33, Reply)
But it's soooo good, nothing raw here at all, I got....
- Salmon Teryakki Roles (LUSH, and cooked)
- Ebi Tempora (LUSH, with nice sauce)
- Flying Fish Row Round Things That I Have Never Heard Of (Gunkan...like tiny salty sweet exploding balls of nyom)
- Crispy Salmon Skin Roll
- Chicken Yakatori
- Prawn Tempora Roll
- Teryakki Sauce (they didn't charge !) + Wassabi + Soy Sauce + Pickled Ginger

This would have cost me about 50% more at the old place.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:45, Reply)
I'm so happy for you.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:46, Reply)
=D Totally looking forward to whenever you come down so we can go together.
Apparently they've been open for a month, but I didn't walk past it because I don't go Marks'n'Sparks any more 'cus I can't go there without the Big Issue guy giving me a guilt trip.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:52, Reply)
Haha!
Can't wait for my proper sushi experience.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:59, Reply)
I seriously maintain that absolutely everything in life is better with wasabi, soy sauce and pickled gingern

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:50, Reply)
Lies on the internet
What you should have said was: "everything in life is better with cats, robots, dinosaurs, cheese or a good brass section".

This is a philosophy I developed earlier today and it's not let me down yet.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:54, Reply)
Deffo !

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:58, Reply)
You know what Gonz, I fucking love you.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:08, Reply)
Right back atcha =)

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 21:11, Reply)
I maintain that everything tastes better with chillies.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:00, Reply)
Currycurrycurrycurrycurrycurrycurry.
One thing I'm really looking forward to when I visit Sri Lanka or Goa is the food.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:22, Reply)
I couldn't get enough of a mild fish curry they served in the Maldives for breakfast.
It was outstanding.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:24, Reply)
oh that sounds horrible
/typical american
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:33, Reply)
I was a bit unsure about it at first
But it was beyond lovely.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:35, Reply)
Fish curry is fucking ace.
I've had two, one authentic SriLankan and another Thai monkfish curry my mate cooked, both were incredible.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:35, Reply)
I'm not really into fish.
I can't get it past my nose.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:39, Reply)
WE WANT DISHES WOMAN!
And a drink if you please.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:32, Reply)
Indian beer.
Lots of poppadoms and pickles, prawn biryani and garlic naan.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:44, Reply)
Right
Starter: Vegetable pakoras and poppadoms with pickles and raita
Main: Balti Palak Aloo Dhal with a garlic naan bread
Dessert: Rathsmali
Drink: A nice light lager, possibly Tiger - but Peroni works equally well.

I have spoken, and in doing so, made myself immensely hungry. I hope you're happy.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:41, Reply)
when are we getting married?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:50, Reply)
Damn, I was free on Monday but now I'm not.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:52, Reply)
Damn.
Maybe we should call the whole thing off. The ladies of OT would be devastated.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:57, Reply)
I'd hate to devastate them
Fine, you can be 'the one that got away' if you want.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:58, Reply)
I thought we had something special.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:01, Reply)
You were the one who wanted to call it off.
You don't even know why I'm not free on Monday. It's because I have to go to Manchester to visit a friend in hospital, and you want to dump me for that. *sob*
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:03, Reply)
I thought the Monday thing was an excuse to avoid me.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:06, Reply)
No, Monday is my first day off in three weeks
And now I am having to schlep to Manchester to be a Nice Person. My next time off is in two weeks, and I'm pissing off dahn sarf for a few days. If you don't mind not having a reception, a wedding night or a honeymoon, I might be able to pencil you in the Thursday after next, but I have to be at work at 9 p.m.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:10, Reply)
It's a deal.
Sorry ladies, I've been snapped up by BA.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:11, Reply)
Oh wow, I have a b3ta-husband.
I hope my pub-husband and my blog-husband don't find out.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:14, Reply)
I won't tell if you won't.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:16, Reply)
It will be our little secret.
By the way, I'm wearing this: i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/belladonnaanodyne/screengrabs/leopard.jpg

But with red instead of pink.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:18, Reply)
wearing it right now or on the day?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:23, Reply)
On the day
I'm in work scruffs now. I should go get changed, I'm supposed to be going out now. I don't want to go out though, so fuck that.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:25, Reply)
*is devastated*

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:59, Reply)
Sorry baby.
We'll always have the wicky wicky though.

But tonight I am listening to Come On Die Young. Not a scratch in earshot.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:00, Reply)
*looks pensively out of the window at the moon*
*wipes a lone tear away*
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:02, Reply)
Go and listen to Shake Ya Ass.
It is 'our song'. You'll get over me.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:03, Reply)
I'll try.
*wanders over to youtube*
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:04, Reply)
Don't watch the new
Hotter than my Daughter BGB :(
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:15, Reply)
Did you listen to it with a sad look in your eyes?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:15, Reply)
Not really.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFD1Tfb_Jc
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:17, Reply)
Ha!

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:24, Reply)
how is raita supposed to taste?
I had it at the beach once and it was a little sweet and nyomlicious
then had it at the local and it was bitter eurgh
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:55, Reply)
It's essentially just natural yoghurt and mint
So I don't think it should be bitter really. Maybe it was off?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:57, Reply)
isn't yogurt naturally a bit bitter and/or sour tasting?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:00, Reply)
I don't know
I'm eating pizza, I'm finding it hard to visualise other foods at the moment.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:01, Reply)
hahaha well I'm fairly certain it is

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:05, Reply)
It is but drop some red onion in that shit and it'll balance straight away.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:11, Reply)
aaaaaaawesome

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:17, Reply)
If I was making at home I'd use, in order of proportion, diced as tiny as you can get it apart from the yoghurt which is a cunt to dice:
low-fat natural yoghurt
cucumber
red onion
tomato
green chili
mint
sugar
salt and pepper
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:11, Reply)
Noel has spoken and saved my woeful lack of food knowledge
To me, raita will always come in a little plastic tub.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:13, Reply)
To me, raita will always come in little plastic tubs from my fridge.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:15, Reply)
Get you, with your "cookery skills"
I can do wonders with eggs, and heat things up, and that's it.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:19, Reply)
I've depended on myself since 1993.
Cooking is just one of those things that comes naturally, if chopping things into tiny bits and throwing them in yoghurt can be counted as cooking.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:23, Reply)
oooooooooooh that looks good, ta

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:16, Reply)
C'mon someone, start a new thread please, this one's had it.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:24, Reply)

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