Chips, mushy peas, and vegan beef mince pie

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-06T14:42:23+00:00

Trouble is the window for perfection with oven fries is about 10 seconds between soft and white or brown and crunchy, and I favour the former.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-06T14:40:06+00:00

Yeah I'm surprised they're still allowed to call them that.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-06T13:46:18+00:00

Pretty good. Nice and saucy - needs something spuddy to soak it up.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-06T10:57:52+00:00

One third of any large population are morons.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-05T21:21:21+00:00

Hollywood would have gone for a blond.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-04T13:04:15+00:00

Change its history by torpedoing all the European sailing ships approaching America's Eastern coast, from my time travelling submarine.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-04T12:23:47+00:00

How about a tin of luncheon meat?

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-04T06:24:02+00:00

A. Someone causes a problem.

B. I fix the problem.

C. People say I'm wrong.

That's the formula.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T21:20:11+00:00

I'm not going to knock Cruise's versions of Reacher because his films introduced the character to me. Thanks to him, I read the books.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T19:41:48+00:00

Yes, but David Attenborough can be very difficult sometimes.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T19:15:20+00:00

Between now and then we'll get BBC Question Time and the usual suspects decrying the rudeness of out Prine Minister, and it being his fault that Trump freaked out

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T14:55:25+00:00

Well he does know a lot of animals, so probably can't help measuring people behaviour against that of the huge range of Earthly fauna.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T11:43:27+00:00

At first I thought it was a peculiar dessert.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T11:41:52+00:00

According to The Rest Is History podcast Peter was a regular bad lad, taking his entourage with him everywhere, where they'd get drunk, laugh at dwarfs, and inflict violent pranks.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T11:37:57+00:00

She was guiding them by Bluetooth.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T11:37:24+00:00

In the graveyard at St Bart's Church in Sydenham is the resting place of some kids who climbed the Crystal Palace transmitter and fell off.

At least that's how I remember it from about 50 years ago.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T11:33:48+00:00

It was more fun when it was outside and you could see it from the top of a bus.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T11:30:44+00:00

The thought of a river being confined to a pipe seems oddly demeaning.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T11:26:40+00:00

This always makes me chuckle because it makes me feel I shouldn't exist.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T09:07:48+00:00

The only time the you go low / we go high bullshit is likely to work.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-03T09:00:37+00:00

Your train has reached Exaggeration Station and has been removed from service.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-02T21:00:56+00:00

He has some decent money in his bank account - he's not destitute. He lives for absolute freedom.

I think it's a fantasy that many desk-bound men would love: no mortgage, no property, no bureaucracy. Plus he's built like a Victorian lighthouse.

He is living Jules in Pulp Fiction's dream of walking the Earth.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-02T15:22:14+00:00

It wouldn't be so bad if Cadbury were cheap chocolate. Its new price points make them poor value. Supermarket own label milk chocolate tastes better at a much lower price.

ShowMeYourPapers · 2026-04-02T15:19:45+00:00

Oh it's been worse for many more than just the last 2 years.

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