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Bigtoe

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  1. 8 hours ago, Smiley said:

    Haha, correct. I wasted hours at work, literally hours and hours, laughing my tits off and doing no work.

    I spent so much work time on here I've no idea how I didn't get rumbled, did it for years.

    Heres a flashback..

    Who remembers the sunbed hidden cam site someone found?

    Used to watch that at my desk! 

  2. I spent a fortune on a double oven, induction hob but use a Ninja 15 in 1 more than anything else. Well worth £250.

    Bought an extra pot so it's simpler to swap stuff around.

    Steam roast, air fry, pressure cook 👌

  3. Just now, stevieb said:

    Hard to find records! 🤣 

    I used to buy vinyl off there when I was 15 online. Cost more for the dial up Internet than the purchase price! 

    Was an industrial unit if I remember in the middle of nowhere

    HMV used to have the odd bit of US house and listening stations in manchester

  4. What was the place in Bolton called? Beat Street? Used to call in there when I bought my house and garage vinyl.

    Eastern Bloc in the NQ. Always moody. Picadilly Records, HTFR in Birmingham, Uptown Records London.

    Used to spend a small fortune on the stuff.

  5. 30 minutes ago, Spider said:

    There has to be a strict hierarchy of alcohol on Christmas Day, for me anyway.

    10.30am, or thereabouts, I will open a cupboard temperature ale. Timothy Taylor Landlord or Wainwright’s, something along those lines. After the bacon barms have settled.

    ”A pair of Directors bitters” basically.

    11.30 - open your red wine and decant for later, this is essential with a Frogs Leap or De Loach level bottle. Powerful stuff but needs to breathe and soothe the tannins.

    Then at noon, I’ll have a couple of glasses of champagne (it’s Jesus’s birthday for fucks sake, I have respect for the main man).

    From 1-2 onwards, it’s a selection of crafty lagers and zippy, zesty IPA’s.

    3-4pm, I’ll get stuck into a mushy pea-free Christmas dinner. This will be accompanied with the decanted red, and another couple of ruby ales.

    6pm , wobbling a bit now but ready to pile into the port.  Washed down with some cheeses and a palate cleansing Lost Lager or 3.

    8pm. It’s all hazy. Like the rivvy cloudy numbers I’m on with.

    9pm. A couple of generously proportioned Old Fashioned using the Woodford bourbon I will have been bought and given a flourish with my cocktail smoking machine.

    11pm. Pretend I’ll make it to the first delivery of the test match at midnight. I won’t because I’m about to hurl a gutful of rainbow like sick into the sink, then collapse on the lounge floor.

     

    These instructions must be followed to the letter. Baby Jesus says so

    🤝

    Great effort

  6. Christmas booze roll call

    Got a good deal on some red from laithwaites, ordered then cancelled 😉

    https://www.sundaytimeswineclub.co.uk/jsp/offer/recr/uk/common/landing.jsp?promoCode=5653001&content=2021/5653001&cid=affiliate/JB15/linkshare/stwc&ranMID=39103&ranEAID=hL3Qp0zRBOc&ranSiteID=hL3Qp0zRBOc-Bq72rrtqTSV5oX8Gs3c3Ng&utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_campaign=main&siteID=hL3Qp0zRBOc-Bq72rrtqTSV5oX8Gs3c3Ng

    A big case of DIPAs and Impy stouts from premier hop

    And a personal treat the 6 barrell aged impy stouts from cloudwater. Cost me 75 quid for them. No chance they'll be shared.

    After a bottle of Patreon XO cafe 

    Not got any whisky yet

     

  7. I've just skipped 11 pages to say 

    Mushy Peas

    WTF

    As for Sprouts, don't just serve them boiled

    I never used to bother with them till we changed how we did them

    Once cooked roughly mash them and serve them with smoked bacon lardons, loads of butter and salt and pepper, you can even crumble a bit of Stilton in. So good.

    Pigs in blankets, goose fat spuds, decent stuffing and a proper gravy all essential

    Can't be bothered with mash or Yorkshire with it

  8. Horwich restaurants haven't changed for years.

    Maybe it's the hipster in me trying to get out but there's nothing new and interesting anymore.  

    I'd pick Sokrates, Spice Valley, Lucianos (though its out of the way).

    We did go to Roccos the other week. Mains were good. Wouldn't bother with starters. Had the braised Ox cheek as a main.

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