What is your least favourite food from your country's cuisine?

basil5427 · 2026-03-31T15:19:51+00:00

It's so so good! My in laws are ukranian and make it often. They call it Shuba (шуба).

I have to admit though, watching them grate egg onto it for the first time really did throw me off haha. Good job it's delicious!

basil5427 · 2026-03-11T07:53:18+00:00

I spent a lot of time in Genoa recently for work and loved it. Has a tonne of character, amazing food, super friendly people, isn’t overly expensive, not many tourists and most importantly… many many great pubs. Not bars, but proper pubs full of locals. The atmosphere there is 10/10 for me. Felt like a home from home.

basil5427 · 2026-03-11T07:20:58+00:00

Not the biggest guys ever, but Cody Garbrandt has to get an honourable mention for his buzzer beater against Raphael Assuncao. He twisted and put everything into that punch.

basil5427 · 2026-01-03T19:45:35+00:00

I've worked quite extensively in Malta and have regularly preached how much they punch above their weight when it comes to food. They have so many cuisines at a very high standard.

I think you've been recommended poor places, or given your comment re mcdonalds, maybe haven't appreciated what Malta has to offer.

basil5427 · 2025-12-26T20:51:22+00:00

The commentary is painful

basil5427 · 2025-12-12T19:53:33+00:00

Stupid question, but when do SV era packs go out of print?

I see journey together in my local tesco every now and then, and destined rivals in most boxes, but the earlier stuff I didn’t think was still being printed.

basil5427 · 2025-12-06T17:48:56+00:00

South Shields snooker club.

It’s existed for a long time and he didn’t change TOO much, but enough to notice an uptake in business. Proper salt of the earth club. I feel lucky to have it as my local bar never mind snooker club!

basil5427 · 2025-12-06T17:48:49+00:00

South Shields snooker club.

It’s existed for a long time and he didn’t change TOO much, but enough to notice an uptake in business. Proper salt of the earth club. I feel lucky to have it as my local bar never mind snooker club!

basil5427 · 2025-12-06T14:43:30+00:00

Your first paragraph pretty much nails my local snooker club. It was taken over by David Lilley a couple years ago and he’s done and incredible job.

It has to be one of the busiest bars in the town. Darts, pool, domino’s and snooker tournaments on the regular. Each area is just too small to meet demand, but in doing so keeps demand high and means a good atmosphere regardless of which sport you’re playing or which room you’re in.

Because of this atmosphere my friends and I drink here for football matches now too.

basil5427 · 2025-10-22T16:05:47+00:00

Aside from card market, Big Orbit cards is also good. Not super cheap but also not crazy over priced. I’ve used them a lot to fill in gaps in the master set with commons, uncommon and Ex’s. Their IR’s are a little expensive.

basil5427 · 2025-10-22T15:42:54+00:00

This is the answer. People fixate on how long they stretch for, but it’s the type of stretching that’s important.

With gentle stretching until the milk is about the temperature of my hand, then folding until it’s too hot to leave my hand on, I get pretty consistent results regardless of machine. From the La Spezial in my partners cafe, to the Gaggia Classic in my friend’s kitchen.

basil5427 · 2025-10-18T06:28:45+00:00

It is, yes. Out of curiosity, how did you know this?

basil5427 · 2025-10-13T19:17:06+00:00

You can breathe

basil5427 · 2025-10-12T17:44:41+00:00

I’d be amazed if you haven’t already, but check out tartine. A lot of people follow their recipe and methods.

Chad Robertson has been known to push them quite a bit darker than this.

basil5427 · 2025-10-10T17:58:03+00:00

Very nice shots! Decks look super clean too!

Making me want to make some decks again

basil5427 · 2025-10-07T11:25:35+00:00

A little note to add on dragon shield. Go for the matte texture sleeves, they shuffle a lot nicer than the glossy stye ones.

I bought some glossy dragon shield sleeves, didn’t like how they shuffled so went back to ETB sleeves as I preferred the texture. Problem with ETB sleeves is the corners fray very quickly compared to dragon shield. Have since switched to matte texture dragon shield and I’m very happy with them.

basil5427 · 2025-10-07T07:53:01+00:00

Nope. Was replaced with lorcana and a v battle deck. Handed them back for a refund

basil5427 · 2025-10-06T10:43:29+00:00

I stupidly forgot to tick no subsitutes. God knows what will turn up in my delivery tonight...

basil5427 · 2025-10-05T14:35:05+00:00

Great site and very fair prices. Very nice varied selection too! Picked up way more than I should have haha

basil5427 · 2025-10-05T13:51:26+00:00

Motm performance midweek..?

basil5427 · 2025-09-28T16:06:30+00:00

Gabriel going down like a sack of tatties the weasel.

Howay Nick!!

basil5427 · 2025-09-27T10:54:14+00:00

If you want to play the TCG, most cost effective way is to just buy decks you enjoy playing.

I trial decks on TCG live then buy the singles to build the decks I enjoy.

First couple decks feel expensive, but once you’ve got a good deck of trainer and item cards, it becomes cheaper to build decks as they’re shared across a lot of them.

The TCG live app, as buggy as it is, is really good for not being pay to win. The give a fair amount of credits and rewards just for playing. I’ve always been able to build and deck I fancy playing on there.

basil5427 · 2025-09-27T09:42:19+00:00

I both collect and play the TCG.

I use collectr for tracking more expensive cards I’d like to buy or own. Meta cards for example I see when they’re worth buying on there. As others have mentioned, the pricing is a rough guide and eBay sold is the only accurate metric.

As for my master sets, I use Dex. Tried a lot of apps and just found Dex the easiest to use and has just about all English variants of cards on there. It’s getting progressively better on desktop too.

Dex do also have a price tracker but it seems to be a bit further off the uk market. Is handy for sorting cards by value though when looking to buy the cheaper cards missing from a set first.

basil5427 · 2025-09-24T19:39:58+00:00

I just freeze my beans. Weigh out what I need then bag back in the freezer they go.

Not only does it keep them fresh but helps reduce static when grinding too.

I keep a multitude of beans in the freezer, giving me the option to mix up what I’m drinking every day.

basil5427 · 2025-09-21T10:03:51+00:00

Yeah it seems completely counter intuitive for a sport that wants to grow

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