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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Out of Sheer Desperation.
Lunch thread? I'm eating Pescatarian Lasagne which involves celery for some unknown reason, but it tolerable, if not that great.

What exciting things are you having for lunch?

Alt: I recently read a book which made me realise that there are reasons for becoming a catholic priest other than a desire to bum small boys. What preconceptions have you had challenged lately?
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:24, 146 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
Pizza, chips, salad.
Not very inventive, but I didn't cook it, and it was free. And some gorgeous yoghurt and mint dressing.

Ooh, and fruit salad.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
I want pizza now.
I might make one tonight.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
First of all fish in lasagne???
Alt: not all men are bastards.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
I've made a fish lasagne a couple of times in the past.
It's very nice.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Tis the devil's work DG.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:30, Reply)
I might try this.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:30, Reply)
If I remember rightly
I did the normal bechamel sauce, and put a mix of white fish and peppers in place of the bolognese. This was probably about 15 years ago, mind.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:32, Reply)
I've had some lasagne sheets knocking around for ages, this might be a good excuse to use them

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:35, Reply)
I made a seafood chili recently.
Crab, lobster and king prawns. And a shit load of birds eye peppers, half a scotch bonnet and garlic. It was rather nom.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)
trust me
it's fucking awesome. my mum used to make it with wholewheat lasagne sheets, haddock, prawns etc. it sounds Wrong, but it is so very very Right.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:37, Reply)
^ This.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Fish Celery and Carrots
Although I was a spazmo and typed lasagne when I meant bolognase.

Alt: so now you think they/we all are?
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:30, Reply)
Quite the opposite.
Although I was being a tad flippant.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:31, Reply)
I think you had it right the first time.
Men are bastards, see also women: crazy bitches.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)
There are exception to every rule and more than I thought.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:35, Reply)
This is true.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:57, Reply)
I reckon it would really work well, I might even make one myself.
I could poach some smoked haddock and prawns in some milk with peas/onion/bay, thicken the milk into a white sauce, add some parsley. Then flake up the sauce and layer it between pasta, then for the top layer add some melted cheese to go crunchy.

I reckon that would be quite lush actually.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:31, Reply)
needs MOAR cayke

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:32, Reply)
Do it, Gonz.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:49, Reply)
You know what? I think that's what I'm gonna make at the end of the month for my dinner party thinggy (there is spare seats if anyone fancies it).
Maybe.... maaaybe.... it's a front runner.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:14, Reply)
Alt: None at all, my knee jerk reaction to every situation is correct every time.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
This surprises me not at all.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:31, Reply)
I was reading some documentation on something I'm working on, and it turns out the technology was invented by Cal Henderson, who built b3ta and flickr.
This is like totally interatti stuff.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
For lunch I'm having half of last night's pizza, which is Umami, Garlic, Chili, Ham, Mushroom, Motzerella.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
I'm currently addicted to "Smith's Cheese Moments".

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
ym
ALT: The other reasons being?
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
To put it simply and probably incorrectly
a desire to devote one's life to god and through god to helping others. Not, I suppose that this idea is new to me, but it was well articulated, there was also the first plausible defence of celibacy that I have seen.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)
Which was?

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)
I'd like to hear this as well.
As an aside, the missus' cousin is a very high up catholic nun, and a very nice person to boot.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:37, Reply)
She prays for God to strike you down with face AIDS every night before bed
sorry to be the beareretc
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)
No, that would be you.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:41, Reply)
I wouldn't mind being high up a catholic nun, if they actually looked like that one off hollyoaks who wanted to be a nun.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)
Basically that it lets you concentrate all your energy on your vocation.
I'm not saying I believe these things per se, but it was interesting to see the viewpoint put intelligently.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:37, Reply)
but that's retarded, i am perfectly capable to living my life without sex getting in the way at all...not like that
the idea that sex is a problem is ridiculous. An analogy for you, the only people obsessed with food are the obese and the anorexic, everyone else gets along just fine...
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)
I think it's more the relationship side of life than the sex and one usually comes with the other.
No pun intended.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:42, Reply)
again, most of the worlds population, aprt from the internet LOLZ, can manage this
is capable of doing both, these people are obviously soft in the head and the trousers
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:44, Reply)
Not to the extreme that the religious orders live.
Relationships don't hinder our lives only when they are going right.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:46, Reply)
they can't wank
everyone else can cope with not getting laid if they have a decent vibrator.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Speak for your self.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:50, Reply)
you know i'm right
there is a difference between a temporary diet of manual orgasms only and a rigidly enforced diet of no orgasms.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:53, Reply)
well yes
I was just doubting your statement that having a good vibro makes not getting any OK. Partly because not all of us use vibrators and partly, coz it's still not much of a substitute, abstinence is worse to=hough, agree on that.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:57, Reply)
I didn't say I agreed with it, nor have I articulated it well.
it just happened to be well put, such that I can believe that others might sincerely believe it.

On the eating analogy, I reckon I could gen more done if I wasn't wasting time cooking, eating, buying food and being out pof sorts due to low blood sugar. This is not a good reason to want to give up eating, assuming it were biologically possible) but there are days I could do with out it.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:45, Reply)
I don't understand this at all
because surely someone who is getting some every night is far less distracted than someone who needs to change their sheets every time they accidentlly watch Channel 5.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Technically it's only being unmarried
which I suppose is to avoid favouritism. Said priest could be shagging anyone and everyone.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:42, Reply)
fairly sure cafflicks have views on sex outside of marriage.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:55, Reply)
Yes: "It's OK as long as it's with the altar boy".

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:05, Reply)
To waste your life by dedicating it to an imaginary force
is this your way of explaining your stubbonly intact virginity?
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:35, Reply)
I am as proud of my virginity as I am of my Catholicism.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)
You're confusing CQ with The Luggage

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:39, Reply)
It's Easy to do.
We are both waiting for the Special Someone.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)
funny
i thought you were both pretty special
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:42, Reply)
I can't speak for Luggage, but I certainly am.
Used to ride the special bus and everything.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:46, Reply)
Free wine on sunday mornings.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)
And snack-a-jacks. Although they only use the blandest ones.
They should start using the caramel ones.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:39, Reply)
I hate it when people say carmal, it angers up my blood

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)
I had to check back that I hadn't missed out an 'a' then.
But I'm glad not have angered you personally. At least not about this. About anything else I have no idea.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:42, Reply)
Nah, this just popped ino my head
*whistles and wanders off*
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:43, Reply)
There are some meatballs left from last night, I might have some of those.
Alt: that not all customer service call centres are populated by witless spastics with a barely developed grasp of the English language.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:31, Reply)
No, some of them also have a barely developed grasp of other languages too.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:32, Reply)
I've always found Cooperative Bank call centres to be staffed by cheerful and actually helpful Northern ladies.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)
You can't go wrong with northern ladies.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)
I wouldn't mind the opportunity to go wrong with you once in a while.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:43, Reply)
Hehe!
*punches on arm*
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:48, Reply)

arm cock
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:55, Reply)
Jealousy of what me and BGB have is not becoming.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:03, Reply)
I like phoning the tax office
because they all have lovely geordie accents.

I dislike phoning the DVLA because they are all welsh.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)
I like the tax office
because they gave me a lovely rebate last week.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:36, Reply)
IIRC, the largest call centre for the Coop is actually based in Skelmersdale, so half of them will have horrific accents.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:11, Reply)
I had my regular ham and cheese salad sandwich
but today I also added some chopped shallot and sliced chorizo, which definitely improved it. Also Cassava-based crisp-like product, which aren't too bad and have half to two-thirds the calories of regular crisps (depending what you consider regular).

Finished off with a flapjack, to which I am addicted.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)
I should be clear that when I say "finished off with a flapjack"
I mean I ate one for dessert, not that the only way I could achieve orgasm was to stuff one up my arse.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)
hahahha

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:41, Reply)
urgh work canteen tagliatelle
how can you fuck that up? but they did.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)
They probably saw you coming
and did it deliberately.

I would if I worked in your canteen.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)
hahahahaha
like they'd give YOU a job in our canteen.

we might be looking for someone to mop out the gents toilets if you fancy trying to better yourself a bit?
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)
I can imagine the scenario.
Good day Mr Al, I'd like the lasagne please.

We've run out.

Fish and chips?

Sorry.

Waldorf salad?

Nope.

Sandwiches?

Again, sorry.

Etc.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:44, Reply)
you forgot the commentary where he adds why you are wrong for thinking that you know what you want
because he knows so much better.

also the bit about how he is really glad that your wife had a miscarriage and your father has lung cancer and your sister leukaemia, all topped with a LOLHILARIOUS impression of your dying dad trying to catch his breath...
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:46, Reply)
I was going more for the implication
that he's a tremendous lolfatty who couldn't be trusted to work in a canteen because he'd scoff all the grub before anyone got there at lunchtime.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:48, Reply)
i know
and i was going for the statement that he can be a little bit hypercritical, opinionated and cruel.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:49, Reply)
And yet in real life he's a fluffy bunny rabbit.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:09, Reply)
It is a funny impression though
especially the bit when I hide a bit of liver in my mouth so when I cough I actually look like I'm ejecting bits of my lungs.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Heh.
Enjoying the footy season so far?

Thought not.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:51, Reply)
I've decided I don't like football any more.
I'm going to avidly follow the rugby instead and put my sporting passion behind Saracens instead.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:53, Reply)
I think the whole of the Arsenal team has decided they don't like football anymore.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:54, Reply)
I think Wenger has obviously got really into World of Warcraft over the summer
and forgotten what his job is meant to be.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:55, Reply)
I did a lol at Liverpool yesterday.
And Torres, the useless cunt.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:56, Reply)
I can't remember where I stole this from, but I like the bloke that claimed that Torres was
"guilty of the worst miss in Chelsea's entire eight year history"
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:00, Reply)
HA.
It was a brilliant image of him falling to his knees after that cock up.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:01, Reply)
Andy Carroll's been a brilliant buy for Liverpool so far as well, hasn't he?
How many goals has he actually scored for them now? I'm struggling to remember any at the moment.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:04, Reply)
the really disturbing thing here is that you think it would be ok to have liver in the canteen. THAT'S NOT FOOD.
i would have put a good word in for you with our facilities manager, but you blew it. sorry!
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:52, Reply)
You eat in the work canteen?
I am disappointed, I always assumed you had exclusive noms couriered to you desk by semi-clothed HOT MEN.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)
well it's a restaurant and it has amazing views over london
but i call it "the canteen" to irritate my boss.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:41, Reply)
This is better.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:47, Reply)
We also have a restaurant. Our boss goes apeshit when anyone calls it the canteen
so I always call it the bistro in his presence.

He is a cock.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:00, Reply)
Soup, yet again
probably vegetable or scotch broth. Maybe some carrots.

Alt: Not many. My brain has been inactive
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Hey up Ambers.
Sorry to hear about the brain. I've been subscribing to philosophy podcasts in the hope of kick-starting mine
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:52, Reply)
I think daytime tv is rotting mine
Glad you enjoyed the book, I wouldn't read the sequel either
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:56, Reply)
I did, cheers.
I'll have to ask someone who's read it about the sequel, but I feel a depressing inevitability about it, much as I did about aspects of the first book.

Edit: Get off the daytime TV, it's really not good for you and you're young and clever, you have so much to loose.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:59, Reply)
arrows for example

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:01, Reply)
Fish in lasagne sounds weird
I have homemade goats cheese and rocket pesto cannelloni and it's bloody delicious.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:52, Reply)
Sorry meant bolognaise
still bloody weird though, will not be doing this recipe again in a hurry.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:53, Reply)
Mind you I'll eat tuna pasta
which is mainly bolognese sauce with tuna in it, so I don't know what I'm complaining about really; it's all the same stuff.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:56, Reply)
tuna was the fish in this case.
but it was a weak recipe, I could have done better by throwing random ingredients in. Oh well, one to remove from the recipe book methinks.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:01, Reply)
Trust me, it's very nice.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:54, Reply)
yes it is divine
but to be fair DG, it does NOT taste anything like normal lasagne. maybe that is why it sounds weird to anyone trying to think of it that way!
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:56, Reply)
True, true.
But, if you like say, fish pie, then you're probably going to like fish lasagne. The principles are fairly similar after all.

Mmmm fish pie.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:57, Reply)
You have your own goats?

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:55, Reply)
No, got a pear tree and a plum tree in my garden though.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 13:57, Reply)
Do you make much stuff out of it?
We've got pear, apple, plums, blackberries and raspberries in our garden. My dad's been going mad making crumbles and stuff.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:01, Reply)
She's only just moved house

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:02, Reply)
Oops had forgotten

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:04, Reply)
I moved in too late to get many plums, they'd pretty much finished
but I've got enough pears to do something interesting with. And I ransacked the wild brambles at my old place before I left so I've got about 500g of blackberries in the freezer, but I had to leave the rest of my fruit and veg plants there :(
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:03, Reply)
I did poached pears in wine the other day
which came out pretty well
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:04, Reply)
If you keep the licqour you cna re-use it and it gets sweeter each time.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:07, Reply)
Yeah still got a glass of it in the fridge
I did three lots. I don't eat pears myself, but I'm told they tasted really nice with cream
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:09, Reply)
Pear and hazelnut crumble with chocolate custard
is a new favourite of mine. However I suspect it would make you ill.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:08, Reply)
I suspect so
but it sounds delicious
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:11, Reply)
I could do something interesting with a nice pear.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:07, Reply)
So can your wife.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:08, Reply)
She can get radio 2, that's pretty good going.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:09, Reply)
Have breasts not gone digital yet?
I want to be able to get Planet Rock.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:11, Reply)
Yes but you have to press the special digital button further down the lady.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:12, Reply)
*takes notes*
DO you have any pictorial explanation of this?
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:13, Reply)
*draws diagram*

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:14, Reply)
Good idea.
The special digital button can be difficult to find for the uninitiated.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:14, Reply)
And, as has been revealed above
I have never seen a neckid woman.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:16, Reply)
Hahaha, twiddle that enough times
and you'll get any song you want.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:15, Reply)
Lol

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:15, Reply)
And a sudden, previously unknown religious streak,
which brings us nicely full circle regarding CQ's alt Q.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:17, Reply)
*twiddles in an attempt to get Smoke on The Water*
It's not working, I'm twisting really hard and all I get is weird static.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:17, Reply)
And tourettes would agree.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:08, Reply)
A curry I made a couple of weeks back, just a simple chicken madras
I have discovered that whilst the rice takes a while to defrost, when the chicken is in strips, it defrosts quickly. This leads to nicely cooked rice, and fucking volcanic chicken. My mouth hurts now.

Alt: Me and a couple of friends were at the pub a while ago chatting nonsense, when we see a skinny whippet of a lad, more gold on him than Tutankhamun's death mask, and walking like he's carrying a couple of carpets under his arms walk across the floor, whilst holding hands with a similar looking chavette (well, it seemed that way).

We immediately start wondering aloud why idiots like that are allowed to breed, let alone come into our pubs. Imagine our surprise when he approaches the bar, and asks the girl what she'd like to eat. She turns (and we see her face for the first time) and we are shocked to see that she appeared to have severe learning difficulties, and was being helped.

This lad that we'd been looking at like something we'd stepped in only a few seconds earlier was actually a carer for this young lady, as we discovered when we walked around the corner to find a group of about 5 helpers, and a group of special needs adults.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:09, Reply)

group of special needs adults QOTWers.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:10, Reply)
Sorry, forgot to mention I was at a bash

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:12, Reply)
+ and was looking in a large mirror

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:20, Reply)
I'll be you 'took care of her' and all.
You dirty fucking flid-lover.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:36, Reply)
One more time?

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:41, Reply)
Do you think that flids get fustrated because they can't masturbate?

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 15:00, Reply)
Definitely.
That's why they pull those ghastly faces.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 15:43, Reply)
Someone Gazzed me a link to this
www.b3ta.com/questions/notme/post1357289

I'm not sure what to make of it.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:19, Reply)
The correct inference to draw
is that AB is spot on the money.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:21, Reply)


(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:25, Reply)
I love this.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:26, Reply)
Looks like someone is searching for your name.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:24, Reply)
Why does everyone know my name all of a sudden?
Its not like I've been particularly active recently.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:36, Reply)
This whole week is a clusterfuck and that's actually one of the less irritating examples.
Although I am aware that you are firmly in the "it's a clusterfuck every week" camp anyway.
(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:25, Reply)
It is a bit shit, I agree.

(, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 14:26, Reply)

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