i was just thinking about that, how very shocking and surprising
usual choice of the things within a 3 minute stagger of the office:

staff canteen (lamb chops, pork belly or stuffed crepes. stuffed with what, that is what i need to know before i go near it)
EAT soup (wild forest mushroom today i think) or sandwiches or salad
PRET soup (mushroom risotto) or sandwiches or soup
local burrito place (veg chilli or roasted haloumi and veg)
paul baguette (bit too posh, i hate bloody brie)
POD (warming black bean stew on wholegrain rice)
sainsburys (monster munch and pesto topped houmous)
marks and spencers (everything. plus lemon meringue cookies)
itsu (thai rice bowl)
local deli (falafel wrap on choice of 3 salads or poss egg may bloomer. or a massive PIE)

i could eat a monkey's miscarriage after skipping dinner last night and breakfast this morning, the answer might have to be ALL OF THEM.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:35, 4 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I don't see parsnips on this list anywhere
This upsets me
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:38, Reply)

I'm hoping they're in the mystery
stuffed crepes.
( Kroney, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:41, Reply)

you and the parsnips really need to get a room

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:49, Reply)

It's an unrequited love
;_;
( Kroney, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:51, Reply)

Hey, you.
I am contemplating a move to West London in order to be closer to a) the hellish hole of a town I currently work in and b) some potentially more decent money. What is Acton/Hammersmith area like? Anywhere further Uxbridge than that appears to be shit.
( Kroney, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:40, Reply)

I can help with this.
It's completely shit: chock-full of smelly foreigners and gays. You'd fit right in.

Anywhere west of Farringdon is bollocks.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:44, Reply)

I've been to Islington,
so you can shut up with your foreigners.
( Kroney, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:45, Reply)

They're not my foreigners.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:46, Reply)

You probably say you live in Islington
but you really mean Stoke Newington. You're basically Turkish.
( Kroney, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:47, Reply)

I say nothing of the sort.
I live in the FACKIN EAST END MATE.

I used to live off Upper Street but it went really shit so I left. Nothing to do with a singular inability on my part to afford to buy there. No sir.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:50, Reply)

Whatever you say, Ahmed

( Kroney, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:51, Reply)

I like this

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 5 May 2011, 13:01, Reply)

upper street is fun
but it is basically a main road. that's about it.

west london has lots of parks and green bits!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:51, Reply)

I liked living there
but we fucked up when we chose the flat, as it was almost opposite the fire station. Sadly there wasn't a fire on when we looked, so the sirens issue was a pleasant surprise when we moved in.

I used to see Clive Anderson in my local shop all the time, and Paul Whitehouse used to drink in my local. BEST OF ALL was when I saw SU SHITTING POLLARD in Angel Sainsbo's. Looking utterly desperate to be approached by a 'fan', but in vain.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:55, Reply)

Haha Su Pollard
Best of all your name drops.
( Kroney, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:56, Reply)

FACKIN EAST END MATE. 1950's
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:58, Reply)

click

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:58, Reply)

I wish.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 May 2011, 13:01, Reply)

i lived in hammersmith for years and i commuted to uxbridge in about 30 mins in the car or 50 mins on the tube
town centre is a bit ugly but v nice, the surrounding streets are lovely. it's safe, good shops, near westfield, near high st ken (ie near ME). it also has really good public transport links. the problem is, all that makes it quite pricey.

acton is that bit nearer uxbridge and about 5 years ago was still pretty ropey. now it's partly ropey partly up-and-coming. i'd look at both.

or murder my flatmate and have her free room?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:45, Reply)

Murder your flatmate, sure.
An Englishman versus a New Yorker. I can see how that'd go. I'd walk towards her with my half-brick in a sock and she'd be all.

"Badda-bing, youse sleeping wid da fishes".
( Kroney, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:47, Reply)

PIE

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:48, Reply)

i would like a mushroom and feta cheese pie with onions and a bit of chilli
someone should make this
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:50, Reply)

That would be a good pie

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:58, Reply)

At Centreparcs last week
they had lasagna pie. Very odd
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:58, Reply)

You crazy northerners.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 May 2011, 13:04, Reply)

I think it was Scotch

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 5 May 2011, 13:10, Reply)

Not ours
We'd have deep-fried it, not stuck it in a pie.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 5 May 2011, 13:11, Reply)

Fry the pie

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 5 May 2011, 13:21, Reply)

Compromise
on a pesto topped thai-style haloumi stuffed crepe in a baguette.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:53, Reply)

with pie

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 5 May 2011, 12:55, Reply)