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spratters

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  1. Mine's even simpler. Tuna, obviously, tinned sweetcorn and mixed leaves. Used to have beetroot salad instead of the sweetcorn but the Co-op opposite my work stopped stocking it, the bastards. I have that same thing Monday - Thursday lunchtime every week. Somehow it doesn't get boring.

  2. I bought myself The Pacific on blu-ray the other day cause it was on offer and I've been meaning to see it. Read "With The Old Breed" (Sledge) a while ago so that obvoiusly is portrayed in it quite a lot.

     

    I thought it was excellent. I haven't seen all the extras yet so will go through them at some point.

     

    There's fuck all else to watch really.

  3. beneath-the-underdog-by-charles-mingus-mobile-wallpaper.jpg

     

    Just started this. Still at childhood. Speaks in the third person. Looking forward to how it progresses.

     

    Does that have the Mingus Cat Toilet Training Program in it (I'm serious)?

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    I can't say I've seen it referenced yet but it's still early days..... I can only hope.

  4. I phone and place an order with my Chinese takeaway of choice, The Beijing. Half hour later I arrive at The Beijing to collect.

    I inform the girl behind the counter of what I am here for. She goes through into the kitchen. She comes back,

    not with a bag of delicious food, but a handful of little white notes and a sorrowful face that instantly tells me that all is not as it should be.

    We go over the details again, but nothing. My order is nowhere to be found. Hungry and ever so slightly miffed the penny silently drops in my mind.

    I am at the wrong place. Curse all those different menus that were being passed around so freely and unchecked. Curse them to hell!

    I ask the girl to excuse me for a moment while I go outside to make a phone call. On my exit I feel the eyes of the other collectees as I pass them,

    I hear every jiggle jangle of chimes as the door gently closes behind me. I slowly move myself out of view as I pretend to make that phone call.

    I run. I don't look back. My mind racing. Where did I place that elusive order? Then it comes to me like a sickening bolt ... Cheung's!

    Did I even have a Cheung's menu, if so why? I say to myself, please let it not be Cheung's. But it was, I knew that now. All hope was lost...

     

    That night we fed on mediocre Chinese takeaway.

     

    FMFWL

     

    I've done similar in a curry house before. Having one called Abbots Tandoori and one called Village Tandoori in the same high street is not a good idea. I played mine differently though. After I realised my mistake I just kept insisting that I definitely ordered from there and gave them the "I always come here" speech. Eventually I got my curry after a free bottle of Cobra and half a tonne of bombay mix while I was waiting.

     

    The place that I actually ordered from is known as the "sticky carpet", so you can see my reasoning for staying put.

  5. I changed my routine Thursday night pub session to Wednesday for this week and now Thursday feels like a Friday when it's still Thursday and Friday is tomorrow which is two days ahead of the Wednesday which I swapped with the next day after that Wednesday which is a Thursday that would have usually felt like a Thursday and not a Friday.

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