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Trickjaw posted:I'm watching North by Northwest, a Wonderful life was on earlier, and I think bttf is on itv 2 now. Quality abounds, however I did notice Frozen was on earlier, and I'm never watching that. If its sitcom specials etc, I'd guess 8ts Mrs Brown's boys. Apparently, Some Motgers do 'Ave em Xmas special was on earlier this week. Frozen is pretty good tbh
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Currently being forced to watch all those unbearable posh people do up houses for Christmas parties (held outdoors with guests in t-shirts and the foliage in full bloom).
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Mebh posted:Off with my wife to go for our first wigilia with my polish friend and her husband Should be fun! Tonnes of awesome veggie food woop. Get to meet her whippet! Yay doggos. Can you translate this into English please?
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sebzilla posted:Vent incoming: Potato chat - par boil the potatoes first and then bash them around in the pan, then transfer to a roasting tin full of boiling oil you've had in the oven in the meantime. You get all that nice crispiness then. Also plenty of salt (even on frozen roasties) as it sucks the moisture out.
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sebzilla posted:Frozen is pretty good tbh Yeah it's aight actually I like Moana better though
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sebzilla posted:Frozen is pretty good tbh Ah, not my taste, sadly. I feel like I know it by osmosis, anyway. Just waiting to break out the ale and green, personally. Dad's Army was actually quite funny, it was the episode with Mainwaring's brother, as Arthur Lowe was usually pissed out of his gourd, so he could play the brother excellently. Now we abort, Carol's from Kings.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Wasn't he pro Brexit? No. Where did you hear that?
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Got to pick the Xmas Eve movie so am going with Batman Returns. Nothing says festive cheer like an evil penguin man / dominatrix fetish flick
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Necrothatcher posted:Got to pick the Xmas Eve movie so am going with Batman Returns. Nothing says festive cheer like an evil penguin man / dominatrix fetish flick I always loved the Josh : Not a lot of reflective surfaces down in the sewer, huh? The Penguin : Still... could be worse. My nose could be gushing blood. Josh : Your nose could be... what do you mean by tha... *Penguin bites Josh's nose*
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Necrothatcher posted:Got to pick the Xmas Eve movie so am going with Batman Returns. Nothing says festive cheer like an evil penguin man / dominatrix fetish flick Eh, when you're right, you're right. Trickjaw fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Dec 24, 2021 |
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Barry Foster posted:Yeah it's aight actually Yeah both Frozen and Moana are decent, but the songs in Frozen are absolute tripe whereas the songs in Moana have made me cry more than once lol
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Just Another Lurker posted:I'm doing sautéed brussell sprouts with bacon lardons and garlic as a side dish tomorrow. What the whaaaat? I was planning this exact thing. Posh steak + stilton, sausages in bacon, herbed potatoes, the sprouts thing, and mashed carrots. Tiramisu for afters, then rum and coke with lots of ice in front of No Time To Die. A crapulous utopia. Gout? Never heard of it. Sounds made up.
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Only Kindness posted:What the whaaaat? I was planning this exact thing. I'll be round at 11am.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59762286 Stupid sausage roll nonce got the #1
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah both Frozen and Moana are decent, but the songs in Frozen are absolute tripe whereas the songs in Moana have made me cry more than once lol [Christmas confession mode] me too lol
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Failed Imagineer posted:... songs in Frozen are absolute tripe... You, me, Asda car park. Now.
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Skarsnik posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59762286 If you read the article, it implies they are just ignoring the Boris Johnson song totally. Edit: poo poo, they said it came in at 5th place. Sorry, must have just missed that bit. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Dec 24, 2021 |
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Dec 24, 2021 20:08
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happyhippy posted:If you read the article, it implies they are just ignoring the Boris Johnson song totally. How so?
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happyhippy posted:If you read the article, it implies they are just ignoring the Boris Johnson song totally. quote:An expletive-laden protest song against Boris Johnson has also made the top five. Solidarity to those having a tough time. Ngl I'm in poor mental health myself. With girlfriend's family, honestly there's few places I'd less like to be than loving London lmao
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Necrothatcher posted:Got to pick the Xmas Eve movie so am going with Batman Returns. Nothing says festive cheer like an evil penguin man / dominatrix fetish flick Thanks for the reminder, I was meaning to watch that tonight as well! It's been almost 20 years I think. I vaguely recall Batman is just setting people on fire from the off, right?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:garlic is a faff So so so Wrong. Least you consistant, or more a croissant now.
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Convex posted:Thanks for the reminder, I was meaning to watch that tonight as well! It's been almost 20 years I think. I vaguely recall Batman is just setting people on fire from the off, right? bAtMaN DoEsN't kiLL, say movie weenies, completely missing the point of BvS. Batman loving kills people all the loving time, says I, c.f.: all the other movies. This year, after 40 years of it popping into my mind occasionally, and, post-google, sporadically trying to fathom what it was, I finally found the one comic book I ever read, in 1979 or so. It didn't have a cover (US import I would guess) but I remembered Ghost Rider was in it. Turns out it was The Legion Of Monsters. A load off my mind. Only Kindness fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Dec 24, 2021 |
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Frozen and Moana are both great kids films (other than the usual damaging Disney princess tropes in Frozen), and the fact that I still don't loathe either of them having watched them countless times is testament to that. Another pro Disney watch is Raya and the Last Dragon (or it might be Raya: The Last Dragon idk). Lacks the charm or music of the other two, but is a decent adventure flick and just gorgeous to look at it. Also has I believe an entirely Asian voice cast, music and direction I believe, which is cool.
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stev posted:We learned a few years ago that so called experts are to be ignored, shunned or locked up and naturally apply that lesson to all walks of life. https://twitter.com/scarfolk/status/1474047880545583114 
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Frozen and Moana are fine, but they have one good song each.
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So my partner had a positive lateral flow test yesterday and we cancelled our Xmas plans. We both went and got a PCR test and the results came back negative today, but she took another lateral flow test (from the same batch of 7 if that matters) today and it was positive. She has no symptoms at all. Our Xmas day plan now is to go to a testing site and do another pcr in the morning and then stay home. At least we got given a case of wine before Xmas so running out of booze is vanishingly unlikely
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I kind of miss Morecambe and Wise xmas specials, although I am also 90% sure they must have blacked up or something just because of the era they were part of. There's a lost episode being shown tomorrow for the first time (not sure if first ever or first since the early M&W days).
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Got to my parents a week early to avoid a cancellation like last year, now bro has tested positive so we're stuck in the plague house for the duration. Would be better to share a toothbrush now rather than having to reset the timer if another one of us gets it in a few days. The lord Jesus has dropped a stinker in my lap this year
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Niric posted:So my partner had a positive lateral flow test yesterday and we cancelled our Xmas plans. We both went and got a PCR test and the results came back negative today, but she took another lateral flow test (from the same batch of 7 if that matters) today and it was positive. She has no symptoms at all. That sucks mate, hope you can make the best of it and she stays well.
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sebzilla posted:Frozen is pretty good tbh I especially liked the bit at the end where the girl's making her way down the mountain and comes face-to-face with the wolves still eating her friends. ... Oh you mean Disney's Frozen.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Frozen and Moana are fine, but they have one good song each. It's extremely strange to me that Frozen doesn't end with a big bombastic reprieve of Let it Go with everybdoy celebrating and having fun with Elsa's cool ice powers. It feels conspicuously absent.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:It's extremely strange to me that Frozen doesn't end with a big bombastic reprieve of Let it Go with everybdoy celebrating and having fun with Elsa's cool ice powers. It feels conspicuously absent. None of Frozen makes the faintest sense unless it's viewed through a drowsy alcoholic haze, which makes it a great post-Xmas dinner movie.
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I have mastered roast potatoes, and will share with you the secret... Oil spray. Start by boiling spuds got 10mins tops, drain them shake vigorously to get a layer of mash on the outside. Get a baking tray, spray with oil, and cover with salt & pepper. Pour in mash-coated spuds, gently seperate, then spray and season over the top. Don't flip yet or you lose the mash layer. Slam in the oven. They will take about an hour, but for the first 30mins you need to turn/spray/season every 5 mins to get the crust to start without them sticking. After that, just flip and mix every 10 mins til they are done. Timing-wise, can do first half hour then take out and cool, bung in for final half hour (or freeze and sell fit a huge markup at this precise stage). This is for 180 fan/200 normal, so just add some time if you need the oven cooler for the meat for example. Oil-wise, I use generic 'vegetable oil' which these days is nearly always 100% rapeseed, only 1/2 the price of the one labelled 'Rapeseed', doesn't make much odds tbh. Getting the mash layer to stay and turn crispy (and salty) is what makes them.
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I wish to amend my earlier garlic comments to clarify that I also absolutely love garlic, even if it makes me smell.
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Jakabite posted:Black garlic is good but should absolutely not be treated as ‘garlic but nicer and fancier’ as I learned when my broth tasted vaguely like garlicky vomit. Also all you people who don’t like working with it are mad. Crushin’ cloves is how I get my rage out on an evening I once mixed black garlic into my own home made butter, and used it like regular garlic butter and I didn't know what to think of it even after I'd snaffled down the lot like a pig.
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Garlic is a different to mince cloves for each recipe, that’s why we just buy a huge tub of minced garlic from Costco and then use it in virtually everything
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Raya and the Last Dragon (I screwed up the quote first time) Came here to say that, I really enjoyed that. Despite her terrible stage name Awkwafina's consistently great in everything I've seen. We use pots of Lazy Garlic despite always having cloves, makes life easier to put them in home made bloodshots. My Xmas gift to you, for those that like drinking: 1 bottle Big Tom tomato juice (or your preference, I found Cawstons a bit thin) Vodka of your choice Garlic (crushed or lazy) Horseradish Worcester Sauce Cayenne pepper Lemon juice Red wine (optional) Distill about half to 2/5ths of the Big Tom out to another container, stick a funnel in the top. Drop the amount of pepper you want in (I go with half a teaspoon or so), a loaded teaspoon of garlic, some lemon juice, pour vodka in and ram down with a chopstick. Repeat with a loaded teaspoon of horseradish, and a glug of red wine. Top the bottle up with vodka, give it a good shake. Took us a while to get the mix right but hey, experiment, we're on the 8th go now and it's fantastic as a shot.
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Merry Christmas everyone, hope y'all are having a good one
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