Saw Threads in 1986 as a student living in Sheffield. Hit pretty close to home, obviously.
loaded magazines are kept in a locked guardhouse
So why couldn't modern weapons be kept there letting them carry on using the Lee Enfields. But hey, it's just aesthetics, I suppose, and on the scale of things not a big one to spend time worrying about!
I don't understand why they wear old style uniforms but carry modern guns. All the parade ground 'shoulder arms' type stuff looked so much better with a Lee Enfield than with a modern SA80.
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I mean, sure, it's no looker, but if it makes mail carriers' lives easier then that's a win. Will probably be 'iconic' in a decade or two.
Worse than cockneys.
Blue Lights is really good. Very tense!
Ooh, Sledge Hammer was fun. My memory says something like David Rasche for the lead?
Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb is the most perfect portrayal of a character from a book I've ever seen. I'd read three or four of the books before the first series came on, and when I saw him on screen for the first time I was blown away. The look, the delivery of his lines, everything is spot on.
Pffft. 70s Scotland says 'hold my beer'.
We had a Witches Hat. Far bigger than the one in this video and we went a lot quicker and with a lot more perturbation.
I was shaving my head. Happened to have the news on the TV in the background and thought 'fuck, that's awful' after the first plane, then 'fuck, that's deliberate' after the second. I guess the twin towers is our 'you remember where you were moment' for those of us too young to remember the moon landings.
As a kid I remember thinking he was weird though obviously I had no idea he was actually a predator.
I like that guy's "someone has fucked up to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars and it's not me" grin.
I was thinking he might trip getting in or out, the car would roll a bit, enough to pin him against the house door frame and then he’d end up having to sever some part of himself like in 127 hours. It could happen! (maybe)
... theme tune to Casualty plays.
Kevin McCloud looks back on 25 years of dream homebuilding
Most of which time he has spent catastrophising, especially about peoples' budgets and contingency budgets, but even more especially about whether the custom glazing would fit in the holes. It's always the fucking windows.
I get it, I do. We all want to make a mark on life, for others to be impacted in some way by our existence. Some people build, or create and their legacy is bound up into what they make. But destruction and desecration are far easier routes to making an impact on others. When you have no hope, fucking shit up is a way to stamp your existence on a society which otherwise ignores and marginalises you.
Plus, also, some people just want to tag the world.
“Who’s going to compensate me for my emotional damage?” joked one person who lost their brand new Calvin Klein set.
Another countered: “It’s actually quite romantic. You might even pick up your crush’s underwear while taking a walk on the street.”
It's casualuk's time to shine!
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Just a shame they're quite old images and therefore quite low res.
Score! Found some guancale so naturally I made carbonara. Hands down one of my favourite pasta dishes.
The recipe is pretty simple (for which, read there’s nowhere to hide).
Serves 4 people.
Cooking time: about half an hour.
Ingredients:
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some guancale. I like it sliced thin so you get slivers of flavour, but some like it cubed. How much? I used about 100g.
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500g of pasta. Spaghetti works well here, but bucatini is better.
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Egg. I like to do 1 egg yolk per person plus one whole egg per two people. So, for four, four yolks and two whole eggs.
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Black pepper. Freshly ground. More than you think.
Now some people will tell you that’s all you need (and all you’re allowed for an ‘authentic’ carbonara) but I also salt the pasta water and use some of it in the final saucing.
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Boil a lot of salted water. Add the pasta. Cook it.
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Meanwhile, in a heavy based pan, fry the sliced guancale (or pancetta, or if all else fails some unsmoked streaky bacon). You need something like a cast iron or enamelled Le Creuset because we need heat retention later.
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Also meanwhile separate the eggs, loosely whisk and then start grinding black pepper and grating cheese. Grind slightly more black pepper than seems sensible and add it to the eggs. For the cheese I like to use a 50/50 mix of parmesan and pecorino. I don’t know amounts but if your pasta takes about 8 minutes then grate, stir pasta, grate, stir guancale, grate, repeat, until there’s about one minute left on your timer.
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With one minute to go scoop up a cup of the pasta water. Then make sure your eggy cheesy peppery mixture is nicely combined.
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When the pasta is done, turn of the heat on the guancale. Drain the pasta and then add to the guancale, tossing it until all the pasta is coated in the oil.
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Add half the reserved pasta water to your cheeggy mixture and stir well to temper the it. Then pour into the pan with the guancale and pasta. Stir it! You want the egg to gently cook in the heat of the pan, but not scramble! So stir it, keep it moving until it’s barely saucy. Then add the rest of the reserved pasta water again and stir again until it hits a creamy but not wet consistency.
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Serve with some more freshly ground black pepper.
No photos because you want to eat this while it’s still hot! Maybe next time.
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The discovery was made during a series of dives by underwater robots this summer.
... I mean, the boat's at the bottom of the sea, bit late to be worrying about health and safety now!
Chicken thighs marinaded overnight in:
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- ¼ cup white wine vinegar
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 8 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- ¼ teaspoon ground coriander
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder
- Salt and pepper to taste
Cooked on a joetisserie on a Kamado Big Joe 3, then taken off the skewer, given a minute or so over direct flame to give a little colour all over and chopped.
Served with:
Spicy pickled red cabbage Tabbouleh Zhoug Labneh
And a sort of Greekish salad.
Bonus picture, some bay leaves harvested from my bay tree, washed and drying for later.
Norwegian Princess Martha Louise is set to wed Durek Verrett in a three-day ceremony among the fjords.
I dry brined the wings overnight with a simple barbecue rub (salt, pepper, paprika, ground cumin, ground coriander seed, onion powder, garlic powder, mustard powder).
I brought the Kamado up to 180'C/350'F.
I put the wings on over a deflector for about half an hour then moved them over direct heat, turning frequently, for another ten to fifteen minutes.
Then I served them for saucing to individual taste (I like Buffalo, wife likes BBQ, daughter likes plain).
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I have a bunch of go-to online sources for recipes that I use, from NYT cooking (subscription required but worth it) to Serious Eats (Kenji FTW!) to BBC Good Food.
But my all time favourite online writer is Felicity Cloake who does an utterly brilliant series in The Guardian.
The premise is simple: for any given dish, she takes a bunch of recipes from various chefs and food writers, tries them all, and discusses what works and what doesn't, then publishes her best version of all of the above.
Whether it's pierogi, nettle soup, cheese empanadas, or pasta ai funghi her articles are great because you can see why she's made the decisions she has for her final recipe. You can pick and chose from the various recipes she tried.
Strongly, strongly recommended.
Dry brined then cooked low and slow (just around 100'c) for about two and a half hours (in a braising liquid made of mostly beer). Then finished over direct heat on the grill.
Then I got over excited and didn't take any more pictures.
They were ok - bought from Sainsbury's on a whim for about £5. Not that great in terms of meat/bone ratio, but good flavour.
I would gladly pay good money for re-released AC games without any of the modern day Abstergo stuff. Am I the only one? I mean, at the time it was interesting, but the modern day missions now just detract from immersion and are usually crap.
Just me or anyone else?
[Just started replaying Revelations!]
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"The ancient sages said, "Do not despise the snake for having no horns, for who is to say it will not become a dragon?" So may one just man become an army."
One of my all time favourite shows from my childhood. Any one else love the rebels of the Water Margin of Liang Shan Po?
All of Chaosium's Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha is currently available in PDF from Humble Bundle for £14.21.
That's everything. Which is insane value for money. You'd be mad not to. Get it here!
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All of Chaosium's Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha is currently available in PDF from Humble Bundle for £14.21.
That's everything. Which is insane value for money. You'd be mad not to.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/runequest-chaosium-inc-books
The voice recognition system seems not to have recognised what customers were really ordering.
We've had to wait for it, especially in the UK since the initial shipment of hard copies seemed to go missing, but it's well worth that wait.
This is the counterpoint, the rebuttal, the answer to questions posed by the Lightbringers and Earth Goddesses cult books. The Lunars are not just baddies, they're the flip side of the coin, the pragmatists, the side with the winning perspective. I believe in the Red Goddess, Mistress of Life and Death.
Presented here are cults including the Seven Mothers, Teelo Norri, Honeel, the Crimson Bat, the Red Emperor and the Red Goddess. Also included is Nysalor/Gbaji and an introduction to Lunar illumination.
This is a must have volume if you want to run anything connected to the Hero Wars in Glorantha.
Plus, also, once again the art is breathtaking.
Police are asking for anyone with information to contact them about the theft.
An investigation has been launched after ram-raiders stole a Slush Puppie machine.
The raid happened at about 01:40 BST on Saturday at Moores Fish & Chip Shop in Newton Leys, Milton Keynes.
Thames Valley Police said significant damage was caused to the shop after a vehicle, believed to be a dark Vauxhall Astra, repeatedly drove into it.
A number of men entered the shop and stole the cold drinks machine.