start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Traveller park up is back since the council did nothing to prepare to prevent it, only stuck in some concrete weights which was supposed to be a temporary measure. A few days ago the ones taht were placed to stop vehicles from driving down to where the park up had previoulsy happened were found moved overnight and the caravans were back.

Now when it's finally become really summery if i have the window open I have the flat filled with the smell that I think is coming from the d.i.y. copper smelting. Certainly saw a plume of smoke coming from where the park up is.

Bummer.

Thanks Stevo

otm

blood sausage as synecdoche for englishness when uk is the one place -- of all that consume this delicacy -- that does not call it blood sausage

(this is professional proofreader/fact-checker deformation i think)

So you guys just call it a penis?

The one place?

about to say, just because we've improved it doesn't mean we don't also enjoy the old one too.

the two place

Blood (pudding) brothers

The Irish call it "boudin noir" IIRC. But I might be getting mixed up.

uk is ... the two place

(mouth opens and closes in shock and outrage)

(battered black pudding appears from side of shot, heads silently towards mouth)

we used to call it black pudding in nz, i don't know if it's still called that or if it's got any takers since it's largely made from a big blob of coagulated blood stuffed into a sausage casing.

can't believe people leave it out of pictures of post-brexit foodscapes

More importantly (heh) who's using black pudding as a synecdoche for Englisheness?

i have zero problem with this practice if and when it emerges

it's better than you deserve *shakes fist*

never understood why blood was supposed to be more disgusting than any other part of an animal

Butt pudding

being a vampire seems preferable to being a fat eater on every level

the best black pudding has big lumps of fat in it as well obviously

I've got a pan full of sausage fat I'm going to harvest for tonight's jambalaya; I claim no high ground

blood pudding is good

I thought black pudding was a big part of a full English breakfast. Almost as much as a full Irish. But not aware of it synecdochally.
Think it may have more provenance in the North. Alongside Ecky Thump.
But mainly aware of it as black pudding. Not heard the term blood sausage which sounds like it should be a translation from german more than a straight English phrase.

"God...fuck this banana." < A thing I actually said this morning.

(In my defense, it was seriously a garbage banana on multiple levels.)

Was it... unappeeling?

^ cruisin' for a bruisin'

It fostered much loathing.

people who whine about a remake of a movie and don't realize their favorite version of the movie was itself a remake.

(A Star is Born being the latest offender)

Ha, I caught myself muttering at the trailer for the new Magnificent Seven, and then went "oh shit hang on".

lol yea I saw that trailer last week too

i don't think knowing about The Magnificent Seven's original provenance is any bar to wishing Hollywood would stop doing shitty remakes in the 21st century tbh

There's remakes, and there's "How many versions of Cinderella does one planet need?"

xpost I don't mind if people want to eyeroll at remakes (the last few I've seen weren't very good), but when someone thinks their favorite version of the movie is the original while grousing about remakes it tends to undercut their point a bit!

*when someone incorrectly thinks

There's remakes, and there's "How many versions of Cinderella does one planet need?"

― Mark G, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 3:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have to wait until Baz has had his turn

sorry i drifted off into a horrified vision of Jack Black playing the comic relief in Peter Jackson's Seven Samurai and now i want to die a little bit

More importantly (heh)

I appreciated this

there are three types of pudding in ireland, viz; black, which needs to be good in order to be even ok but if good can be great; white which even when bad can only get so bad but even when good tends to be a little bland; christmas, which is p much always a y

I think complaining about a shitty remake neednt be about the 'remake' part

i wd find it hard to choose between black and white pudding but i don't disagree with what you're saying about them maybe

my sweet tooth isn't as sweet as yours i guess

xxxpost Vin Diesel in Justin Lin's "Enter the Dragon"

Gerard Butler in Christopher Nolan's Touch of Evil

Far be it from me nv to suggest youre too long away from the good black stuff

i will eat sub-par supermarket black pudding without complaint but there's plenty of the good real stuff in England, it was def a midlands thing when i was growing up

(took me a minute to realise you wasn't talking about booze tbh)

Yuck porter

boozin' noir

I get really disproportionately cross at food that's meant to be savoury but is really sweet. Often supermarket 'morroccan' style soup or whatever or sandwiches with overwhelmingly sweet sauce like hoisin where all you can taste is sugar. I find it really unsatisying like eating a biscuit instead of a proper meal.

Can't wait until the Olympics are over and these friggin' Google doodles are gone.

^^^^^

the worst

I mean they'll be replaced with other terrible Google doodles