"Your electrical tape is hairy!"

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Ah yes, you're right. That's me out of the spelling bee.... :-(

[zozman]

Do people bother picking out the seeds/pips from Pomegranates or do they just eat them?

Quick recipe which should be in the DG recipe thread.

The innards of 2 pomegranates
3 meringue baskets broken up
about half a pint of cream

Mix em up and trough the lot with a nice glass of something.

[TotalNightmare]

Do people bother picking out the seeds/pips from Pomegranates or do they just eat them?

Quick recipe which should be in the DG recipe thread.

The innards of 2 pomegranates
3 meringue baskets broken up
about half a pint of cream

Mix em up and trough the lot with a nice glass of something.

Ooh, i like that idea!

I was told if you cut a Pomegranate a certain way and tap it hard, all the red seeds fall out.... ive never actually tried it, but still..

im sorry, what was this thread about again?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Random/surreal moments, so I guess this is still on topic.

[Labian Quest]

Someone asked a friend of mine what his favourite things were and he said:

'Beef, fire and porn!'

[TotalNightmare]

Someone asked a friend of mine what his favourite things were and he said:

'Beef, fire and porn!'

Now there is a 70s Disco band i could have grooved with!

[zozman]

That recipe is a variation on Eton mess, which is lovely in the summer.

I remember an old mate of mine once started a conversation with the improbable sentence "So, female genital mutilation - is it necessarily a bad thing?"

I think we were watching something on the news.  The general consensus was that, yes, it is a bad thing.

[TotalNightmare]

The general consensus was that, yes, it is a bad thing.

If done properly...

ANYWAY...

this reminds of, i think, Newman and Baddiel In Pieces where the line

"You know, there is no actual biological difference between the inside of a man's mouth and a woman's mouth"

That comment got me into a few jaunty scrapes i can tell you!

[Annie_Hall]

Only if you don't KNOW the difference, surely?

[TotalNightmare]

Only if you don't KNOW the difference, surely?

In my defense, it was dark, i was drunk and slightly deaf...

HE TRICKED ME!!!

[Pretty.Polly]

wow this thread has become something I hardly recognise...

...I turn my back for five minutes...

[TotalNightmare]

wow this thread has become something I hardly recognise...

...I turn my back for five minutes...

You can blame me and my 'salty sailor' stories for that.

I do apologise!

Its the heat.

[Pretty.Polly]

...when in doubt blame the weather it's the British way TN...

...but there are no excuses for your behaviour ;o)

[TotalNightmare]

...when in doubt blame the weather it's the British way TN...

...but there are no excuses for your behaviour ;o)

Erm what about drug abuse pushed upon me by an angry and hateful stepfather who doesnt love my mother and just wants her money, therefore twisting me into a maladjusted fantasist who doesnt know how to cope in the real world and projects his thoughts via the internet for some kind of recognition and love?

[Pretty.Polly]

ahhhh playing the victim card...bit old hat,

best advise I can give...face your demons, own your pain, change your life...get back to the point of this thread,

in whatever order you fancy...whenever you're ready...in your own time.

[TotalNightmare]

i do remember once, walking down Oxford Street i over hear two 'lads' japing and one said 'so.. how did you accidentally manage to kick her teeth out again?'

I wanted to hang around and find out, but my bus came.

[Pretty.Polly]

I would have missed the bus, but that probably says a lot about me, and none of it good I would wager.

[Ambient Sheep]

'What's the best way to eat a banana?  I mean the BEST way?  I'm trying to settle a bet.'

This is, actually, a curiously interesting question.  It was first brought to my attention when my ex-employers took on a lady in her mid-20s who'd immigrated from mainland China only a few years previously.

She - along with allegedly the rest of the Chinese - always ate bananas "upside down" (i.e. using the stalk as a handle, and peeling it downwards from what we would call the base).  She thought her way was the most logical, and found it puzzling and amusing that us crazy British people do it the way we do it.

She does have a point.  (Especially as that's the way they grow in the wild - a fact that seems to have escaped some marketing idiot at Morrisons.)

I'd try it myself sometime, if it weren't for the fact that, although I love them, bananas give me terrible indigestion.

[mook]

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I'd try it myself sometime, if it weren't for the fact that, although I love them, bananas give me terrible indigestion.

Ooof, they're bastards for that. Mind, I only ever think about eating one when I've got a hangover so perhaps I'm blaming bananas for the damage the ale is causing me?

As for pomegranates, my nan used to buy them for me when I was little and make me eat them with a pin! She claimed this was the safest way as the juice if it got in your eye would make you blind. Quite frankly the damage a six year old could do by ramming a pin in his mouth escaped her. I reckon my saintly old nan who I loved to bits, wasn't all that keen on me.

[Cerys]

Pomegranates - use a fork to scrape all the innards out into a bowl, add a dollop of cream, eat.  Yummy.

Bananas - before peeling, insert a pin through the skin at various points along the fruit and carefully slice the flesh.  Then hand to someone else to peel.  Retreat and laugh at the consternation on their face as the banana disintegrates all over them.

Overheard in the street a couple of weeks ago - "how many times has Amy been run over now?"

[TotalNightmare]

there is a trick you can do with a banana (no, not that one - imaginary editor who doesnt exist)

Whereby you take a needle and thread and use it to slice up the banana insides its skin.
I cant quite remember how, but i do know that it involves looping the thread and pulling it thru the banana flesh.
You do it along the length and then, when unpeeled, it falls into slices.

i think i got that from a 'DO IT' pull out special from the inside of Look-In Magazine!

[Cerys]

Um - hello?  Did you not read my post?  Cuh.

[TotalNightmare]

Um - hello?  Did you not read my post?  Cuh.

yea, but i read it as just mindlessly jabbing at the poor thing with the pin in question. Therefore, when it opened up, it was mush.

I see that now, they are not all that different. But as i used the reference to the old CITV show 'Do It' i thereby win the 'who's best' game.

So....pppppffffhhhhtttt!

[Cerys]

Yeah?  Well ... well ... um ...  you smell.

[TotalNightmare]

Yeah?  Well ... well ... um ...  you smell.

Ah ha! I am the bestest.

no really, this has confirmed it.

Office quote of the day:
"I dont care if you have lost it, find it"

I hate it when people say that. Stupid unhelpful shitehagglers.

[Cerys]

You've just reminded me of another, overheard in the supermarket -

They should get that detective in - the one from Midsummer Night's Murders.

(I was buying neither pomegranates nor bananas at the time.)

[Annie_Hall]

pomegranates are evil things, made to make eating an unpleasant experience as possible, I aint down with that, I loves my food stuffs, it shouldn't take that much effort to eat a piece of fruit!

[Jemble Fred]

pomegranates are evil things, made to make eating an unpleasant experience as possible, I aint down with that, I loves my food stuffs, it shouldn't take that much effort to eat a piece of fruit!

I kind of agree – you know when you're eating them that there's something really delicious underneath it all, but you have to wade through, sticky, gritty, spiderous skin and crap to get to it.

The secret is to get yourself a servant to prepare your pomegranate for you.

[TotalNightmare]

You two have no excitement in your souls.

i see it as fruit russion roulette. You never know if the next bite is going to be sweet sweet seed or if it will be sour skin...

LIVE for the moment you squares!!

and bob bless you all!

[ninestonecreature]

I'm afraid I can never go within a hundred yards of a pomegranate these days, after a bad experience on holiday in Turkey. I had an upset stomach one day and a Turkish friend of ours claimed he knew just the remedy. He brought out a two litre bottle of pomegranate juice (which looked more like sump oil) and told me take a massive swig. Well, you know, when in Rome and all that, so I did as I said, then promptly vomited the lot over a nearby wall- it was the vilest shit. So there I was, bent double over a wall, blazing sun beating down on the back of my neck, yakking up a load of brown gunk. Lovely...

That said, it did seem to do the trick- I completely forgot about having the trots.