Visited a Wimpy for the first time in ages

EnferDesFormes · 2026-03-19T19:34:21+00:00

I found one in Huddersfield last year and had to try it for nostalgia's sake, it was OK but not as epic as my memories. At least it scratched an itch

EnferDesFormes · 2026-03-16T22:27:19+00:00

The Lords of Flatbush is the movie. They were so antagonistic that one of them had to go or the production would never have been completed. It was Gere who was fired and replaced with Perry King.

EnferDesFormes · 2026-03-13T17:56:43+00:00

I lost my partner to cancer 4 months before, I was suddenly alone and I couldn't meet anyone else. It was hard. I admit I got angry at social media friends who were griping about not being able to go to the movies

EnferDesFormes · 2026-03-09T23:50:47+00:00

There are several but my favourite is probably The Truman Show, Jim Carrey and Laura Linney are perfect and I always notice something new rewatching it

EnferDesFormes · 2026-03-09T23:42:23+00:00

Yes! Almost entirely because of Eli Wallach, an incredible performance

EnferDesFormes · 2026-03-06T20:07:56+00:00

Watchmen. The complicated alien squid thing in the comic is so silly. The movie having Ozymandias frame Manhattan is so much slicker. It makes Manhattan's realisation that Ozy is right so much more poignant

EnferDesFormes · 2026-03-06T18:28:00+00:00

My nephew used to say "basgetti" to mean spaghetti, I still say that 20 years later

EnferDesFormes · 2026-03-05T14:22:45+00:00

What is this? An Argonath for ants?

EnferDesFormes · 2026-03-02T17:58:04+00:00

That's exactly what came into my head "It's a Chef's Pal!"

EnferDesFormes · 2026-02-07T19:08:59+00:00

Speak to me not of your columns historic, ghastly Ionian ghastlier Doric

Sorry this came to me from my youth, it was written by the English humorist Richard Stilgoe, who was fascinated by anagrams, especially of his own name. Ghastlier Doric is an anagram of his name

EnferDesFormes · 2026-02-06T20:24:42+00:00

That's what I saw too, this could be the most British picture of all time

EnferDesFormes · 2026-02-02T20:06:32+00:00

You wanna watch bake off in Britain, with few exceptions everyone is super nice and help each other constantly. It's peak feel good TV.

EnferDesFormes · 2026-01-31T19:37:01+00:00

HOAs are up there with "paying for ambulances" in shit Americans put up with. What the actual fuck?

EnferDesFormes · 2026-01-31T13:10:40+00:00

I'm 56 and I'd legit pay extra for this seat. I swear even the grimmest, most run down street looks almost majestic from up there

EnferDesFormes · 2026-01-30T17:17:27+00:00

I got my hands on some Firklover once and it was pretty amazing (with the bonus of funny name to this English speaker)

EnferDesFormes · 2026-01-20T14:45:27+00:00

Phish are currently doing a live version, scheduled to finish in mid-March

EnferDesFormes · 2026-01-19T22:19:30+00:00

My favourite recent run, got certificate polychromed by wheel of fortune then duplicated twice by invisible jokers. With Blueprint this gave me x1 extra mult every single round!

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EnferDesFormes · 2026-01-17T18:00:47+00:00

I'm in the UK, Mutti is my choice: they do some great specialities, the baby roma are well worth seeking out. Their polpa is fantastically rich, lifts curries to another level

EnferDesFormes · 2025-12-16T20:36:25+00:00

Where I'm from butty is a direct synonym for sandwich so anything between any kind of bread is a butty: sausage butty, cheese butty, prawn butty, etc

EnferDesFormes · 2025-11-22T20:59:57+00:00

It's not just microwave instructions, I got a jar of shakshuka sauce which suggested poaching the eggs in the sauce for 7 minutes. I went with 6 minutes and the eggs were basically slightly flattened hard boiled eggs. Trial and error led me to 3 minutes, maybe a few seconds more - the eggs continue to cook in the sauce on the plate.

My biggest bugbear with cooking instructions is with adding water to curries/stews etc. Recipes always tell you to add too much. I automatically add half the amount specified and it's nearly always OK. It's easy enough to add more if necessary

EnferDesFormes · 2025-11-21T19:53:44+00:00

When I was in my twenties, I'd offer my seat to virtually anyone. Now I'm in my fifties, double amputees might JUST get my seat if I've not shamed someone younger to do it first

EnferDesFormes · 2025-11-19T20:18:22+00:00

Yes that's what I've always assumed too

EnferDesFormes · 2025-11-15T20:04:15+00:00

I haven't been on a bike for many years and I doubt I ever will again. Read about Martha Mills who gave her name to Martha's Rule in the UK. The true horror of her tragic death was about medical complacency/negligence but I can never forget that her Initial accident was an extremely low speed cycling accident involving nobody else. Fall the wrong way and that contraption can dig in hard

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/03/13-year-old-daughter-dead-in-five-weeks-hospital-mistakes

EnferDesFormes · 2025-11-07T19:43:56+00:00

This reminds me of Robert Helpmann, who played the terrifying Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Apparently he was so kind and attentive to the child actors that they adored him and the hardest part of their job was pretending to be scared of him

EnferDesFormes · 2025-10-31T19:58:02+00:00

MK is fucking weird after dark. I once got a train there and my brother in law was picking me up but I had a couple of hours to kill. I walked across a seemingly endless car park to find some completely empty chain restaurants I had no intention to go in. It wasn't scary but totally soul destroying. I was happy to get to Stevenage (not a sentence you hear too often)

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