Come on, team. One final Friday afternoon push.
I am going to a wedding festival this weekend. Should be a larf.

Weekend plans?

Alt: How are you keeping cool? It's facking boiling here.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:18, 115 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

I just went to the shop for an ice-cream.
I opted for a dark chocolate and caramel magnum. The lack of joke on the stick disappointed me, so for that reason I'll mostly be depressed this weekend.
( Muns, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:21, Reply)

I am building my wife a bike
then I am picking up 6n2 lights for my 6n. Then taking my kids to a 6 year olds birthday party, thankfully its the kind where the parents stand around drinking beer. Then a housewarming party. So I am hoping that sunday is spent recovering. Tonight I intend to get pissed on scrumpy and carrots.
( Peej, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:22, Reply)

What a nasty thing to call your wife

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:28, Reply)

I built her, I can call her what I like.

( Peej, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:28, Reply)

She will be faster... stronger
Da da da dum

*jumps* dedededededededdede
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:33, Reply)

Is it bespoke?

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:12, Reply)

Alt. Its cloudy and shit but fucking hot here. I am sitting under the aircon.

( Peej, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:23, Reply)

My boss just delivered me a Calippo

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:27, Reply)

Also this weekend I'm doing nothing

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:29, Reply)

wtf is a wedding festival?
tonight i am at the theatre - soho theatre, so interesting new fringey stuff, but fuck me there is no air con - and then out for dinner. tomorrow i am at the gym then lunch with a friend, then lemmy-sitting, then out for a friend's birthday in notting hill. sunday i am working, and hitting the gym.

alt: my office has all-powerful air con. at home i shout a lot and open all the windows.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:27, Reply)

Pub.
Alt: Wearing shorts innit.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:27, Reply)

+es

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:34, Reply)

Going to see this chap tonight, which should be amazing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Stetson

Alt: I'm barefoot in the office
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:36, Reply)

Might go and get a lolly

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:37, Reply)

I crushed up the last remnants of my Calippo into a nice ice drink but it's stuck somewhere in my oesophagus and now I feel weird :(

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:39, Reply)

This lolly isn't very nice :(

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:40, Reply)

Twister or gto

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:42, Reply)

I always like the cheap shit lemonaid lollies

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:43, Reply)

I like the lager flavoured ones you can never get anywhere

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:44, Reply)

I genuinely cannot tell what flavour this is supposed to be
I thought it might be blackcurrant, but the taste is vaguely somewhere between almond and lolly stick.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:47, Reply)

Oh, marzipan, how refreshing

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:51, Reply)

I don't like it

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:53, Reply)

Go and get a Calippo

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:55, Reply)

Nah you're alright ta
Gonna go pick up the kids and go for a pint
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:56, Reply)

The Cameron school of parenting

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:59, Reply)

Actually, I lied.
I'm going to make the eldest one go to a piano lesson and then give all the crisps to his little sister.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:00, Reply)

these
www.francos-ices.co.uk/products/lager-and-lime/
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:47, Reply)

That's them, they're delicious

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:52, Reply)

You are welcome
Di Sotto foods, 26 Park Royal Road
London, NW10 7JW...

they don't stock them to the north, the nearest one for me would be in leeds
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:55, Reply)

Girls Together Outrageously?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:44, Reply)

Yeah whatever Dozer

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:45, Reply)

Yer soz

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:47, Reply)

it serves you right
i've warned you about your obsession with ice drinks
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:44, Reply)

I'm making Ribena 'ice' tonight!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:45, Reply)

Thanks Jane Fonda

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:40, Reply)

She's well fit in that

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:41, Reply)

She was hot in the late 60s full stop
barbarella was a bongle moment for me as a youth
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:42, Reply)

^ old

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:06, Reply)

Yep
I didn't watch it till the 80's though
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:17, Reply)

I think I am meant to be finising off the front garden
But as its going to be pissing it down on Saturday that may well get postponed.

Alt By not being a fat mess
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:41, Reply)

You are, while I'm meant to be 'finishing off' your missus' lady garden

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:53, Reply)

alt: I'm not, my testicles are fully dripping. I'm going to have to change my pants when I get home.
Pretty sure I've got a damp patch on my moose hoof.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:42, Reply)

Are all you IT bods cooped up together in the one room?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:48, Reply)

room pair of pants
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:54, Reply)

Desk fan innit.
Im just having a chilled on before my lovely week off in lovely Whitby with my lovely(?) parents.
Should be an interesting week.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:54, Reply)

Look, just don't go if it's bothering you that much

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:56, Reply)

He'll be alright 'Pa-tayto' is taking a tablet for the lad to watch his programmes on

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 14:58, Reply)

Nah. His Chromebook instead.

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:02, Reply)

I hope that this is the week that you find out your parents are Swingers
And they introduce you to their lifestyle via a mass elderly party
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:17, Reply)

well that would certainly spice things up.
There's a good few bars, so that's nice. I can see me eating fish and chips for a week.
I miss living by the sea so that will be cool too.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:20, Reply)

I just bought icecreams for the team.
Did you know Haribo do icecreams?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:09, Reply)

gonz does
he was talking about them the other day
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:10, Reply)

Apparently they're shit.
The lad that got it thought it was rubbish.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:16, Reply)

It's hard to suck the jelly teddies off.

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:20, Reply)

must...............not.................strikethrough!
( Peej, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:23, Reply)

*double checks*
Nope cant see any opportunity for a strikethrough there
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:23, Reply)

Im not Dr Best Troll. That was purposeful.

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:30, Reply)

Going for a curry tonight.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:14, Reply)

Going for a curry tonight.
Mrs Vagabond has managed to contract a cold. A cold! I know! In this weather!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:14, Reply)

Sag paneer. Mmmmm.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:15, Reply)

Chicken korma, chips, five pints of Cobra.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:21, Reply)

And some poppadoms.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:21, Reply)

Nowt wrong with that.
Like a scouse "chicken dinner" with curry sauce.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:22, Reply)

Yer.
Don't want any of that foreign muck.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:28, Reply)

Poppadom Preach

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:30, Reply)

Mmmm ... crispy.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:31, Reply)

Chicken Saag when I'm 'ere*
*unless 'ere is Imrans, Sparkbrook; in which case it is lamb.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:22, Reply)

I watched one of them programmes, right - turns out most houses use only three types of sauce.
Then they just add the meat you wanted, and spice it up according to how hot the dish is meant to be.

The rest is just talk.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:33, Reply)

Yeah. I've got a book on how to do it.
Once you do the prep you can bash out a curry house quality meal in ~15 minutes.

However the reason I'll only eat lamb saag in Imrans is because it's the only curry house i've been to that serves lamb so soft you don't need to chew it. And mediocre chicken is preferable to mediocre lamb.

This book covers it (pdf's on google).
www.amazon.co.uk/The-Curry-Secret-Indian-Restaurant/dp/0716021919
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:38, Reply)

Ah-ha!
Mrs Vagabond (a keen chef) has that. She does make a damned fine curry.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:41, Reply)

The Hairy Bikers curry book is pretty good as well.
I've not made that much out of it, but their madras is very good (not quite as good as the one in that book, but you don't need to do the prep first) and they've got a one pot chicken pilau that makes LOADS of servings that's really easy as well (just leave sultanas out because people who put sultanas in curry's should be turned in to soylent green).
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:50, Reply)

In a way one could argue that putting sultanas into curries was a prototype of soylent green.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:53, Reply)

The beef vindaloo is superb, King-gheeee!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:59, Reply)

I'll look into that.
In other beef news, I'm planning on doing a bourginion this weekend.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:03, Reply)

Nice.
One of my favourite things to eat. I cook loads and freeze it. It's even better after a month in the freezer.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:04, Reply)

I did a nice one of those in the slow cooker a while back
must dig out the recipe again.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:06, Reply)

This is going to be a slow cooker job.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:18, Reply)

Use beef shin or cheek if you can get it.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:07, Reply)

That is the only reason I don't buy tinned curry.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:00, Reply)

you couldn't be a hairy biker
you couldn't grow a beard
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:01, Reply)

True enough, Si.
You could though.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:05, Reply)

not again
your mum said it tickled
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:06, Reply)

that's a terrible thing to say about my mum.
Admittedly I didn't care for sultanas in my curry back then either, but they were simpler times.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:03, Reply)

IT CAN HAPPEN

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:01, Reply)

I am supposed to be going up to Brum for my birthday
Fortunately Beecham's All-in-One appears to have this fucking flu on the run, apart from having to drink 10 pints of water a day and sweating like McBeef talking to a barmaid.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:05, Reply)

Are you due to go tonight?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:06, Reply)

nah, tomorrow day

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:11, Reply)

Normally feeling ill comes about as a result of being in Brum.
I'd cancel and dodge the bullet.
( Muns, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:07, Reply)

but then I won't get presents

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:11, Reply)

I'd use a look-a-like agency.

( Muns, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:38, Reply)