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oh noes! rumpie, on the greek food thread, says bad things about koshkemeer.

No! I had an awful time in the Kurdish place. Please do not go! My lamb kebab tasted, as Mr Rumpy so elegantly put it "Like a punch in the face".
The soup was like really watery tinned Spaghetti Hoops, and Mr R's lamb kebab variation (the menu was mostly takes on lamb kebabs) tasted as though it had been steeped overnight in battery acid.
The decorations were, typical Kurdish? I don't know, but the Mournful Girl picture made me feel guilty for eating.
They do not take credit cards either meaning an embarrassing jog to the cash machine down the road.
Puding, if memory serves me correctly consisted of milk and egg yolks. I didn't order this.
The bread was DIVINE. Perhaps my palate is just not refined enough for Kurdish eating.

i vote fuck it, we go anyway. ~~fat~~slim ron liked it, and so did some bloke who wrote a letter to the evening times. and it smells lovely.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi Anna! My mobile phone number will not have changed. I will email you anyway though because you are nice.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Stop flirting, everyone.

I am free, 11.

New year: staying in is the new/old going out.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I have just marked November 11th on my calendar as "GOING OUT TO EAT FOOD WITH MENTALISTS". Count me in. And is it wise to rely on Madchen to book restaurants in a timely fashion?* (Neil just said "but doesn't she organise these sorts of things for a living?", and he has a point). He's probably coming too, so you can poke him with a kebab skewer then if you like.

* only joking

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Aww, I want exciting Kurdish food.

I really love Seb´s café at the top of Argyle Street but it is too small to fit more than four people in really. Seb is Kosovan. I think the Argan café looks good but I haven´t been. The Korean buffet that replaced the Indian buffet is good. Best of all is the Thai Siam. There´s really no reason to ever leave Argyle Street. Except to go to the Konaki. Don´t go to Anonious, it´s BAD!!

Let's talk about Turkey's human rights record, for Cathy

Just to clarify, I am not an apologist for Turkey´s bad human rights record! I have a pedantic pet-quibble about people saying that countries have a "bad human rights record". I think you should have to be more specific. You should say, I don´t like Turkey because they burnt all those Kurdish villages, or yeah China is okay but they´re always torturing prisoners. I don´t mean that you should have to say that in Turkish and Chinese restaurants, this is a separate thing.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I make a point of saying "China is okay but they're always torturing prisoners" to the waiting staff whenever I eat in a Chinese restaurant. Is this bad form/morally courageous?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

It was Antonious Place I went to with the auld man. Can't remember being overly impressed but the atmosphere was nice.

Skint this weekend, will be hibernating until payday. Spent thirty five quid on cheese, mussels and salmon up at Loch Fyne on friday, another tenner on petrol. Now I'm living on crackers and said cheese :-(

― Rumpie, Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Aww, I want exciting Kurdish food.

And I want to be in Spain. Swap with you, if you want...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

ally talk to your little man for me huh?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I love seb's too!!

I haven't been in a while : /

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

morally outrageous

x-posts

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Average-ish review from The List. Though according to the crappy google map, it's situated in Neil's uncle's house, which would be handy, if true.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

can we go dancing again soon?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a greek food thread? and i'm missing it!?!?! bah!
looks like i'll also be missing fancy food fapping, as i'll be on a plane to the promised land... where the food is far superior! ha!
the south side greek place is disappointing. and TINY. unsuitable for fappage.
and um... the 'turkish version of kiss kiss' is the ORIGINAL FAR SUPERIOR version by TARKAN, Turkey's very own Michael Jackson! i have it on tape!
i love Turkey! mmmm. (not turkey tho, which makes the prospect of thanksgiving in america less exciting)
((apologies for the cross posts times 100, but i've been unable to post at work and was waiting all night to reply and.. yeah, i'm LAME))

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I've just been watching Alba's dad on the telly.

You might not get turkey for Thanksgiving in case it's been infected by bird flu (but you're a veggie anyway aren't you, so it's all academic).

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

If you can drag your sorry Glasgow arses through to Paisley some time, I cannot recommend this place highly enough for future feeding extravaganzas.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

we nearly moved to paisley a few years ago. raeburn's sounds cool. paisley FAP! then a saunter to feegie park with a big fucking chib. ROCK.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

dalry - saltcoats road FAP

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

braidwoods is meant to be brilliant, yes. [reads] fuck me, it's got a michelin star! let's roll.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I can confirm, it's fantastic.

I went on an anniversary

ooh la la

we're not still together & I'm miserable

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Dang, that's the same night as Sleater Kinney. Maybe we can meet in the pub somewhere afterwards...

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Incidentally, when are we having an old-man-tastic-FAP in the Station Bar Cowcaddens as proposed way back in the mists of time?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link

5013

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

My little man says - dancing, yes.

Fuckin sweatball.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i wanna to go to Braidwoods and i wanna dance.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a restaurant in DALRY that has a Michelin star? Well fuck me. And to think I went to the bloody Dalgarven Mill that one time instead. Anyone fancy PayDayFAP tonight then?

― stet (stet), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

on second thought: if it's that good, reservations could be hard to get. God, what a novel thought: an Ayrshire restaurant you can't just walk in to.

― stet (stet), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Another quote from Rumpie on the Greek Food thread: "I think my fussiness may make it difficult to consume anything" :)

Mr Ailsa is right, I should be able to get my arse in gear and organise this. I'll call today and provisionally book a table for 10 at the Kosh on the 11th and we can sort out numbers properly after that.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 October 2005 06:09 (eighteen years ago) link

braidwoods would be too small for all of us I think and also too difficult to co-ordinate

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish I could have watched Alba's dad on the telly :-(

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link

You could listen to him on the radio instead if you like!

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone know anyone

who teaches french lessons?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I just listened to him! I didn't realise it was him until they read the credits at the end. My poor Mum will never get to see/hear him. She's in Barbados at the moment.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Cozen: http://www.afglasgow.org.uk/

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i was in the station bar last night. it was quiet but topp. quality guest ale, as usual.

i'd be up for fappery there any time (tho not tonite, stet: i'm going to teh gym, and have to set off at the crack of dawn tomorrow for this goddamn wedding).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

saw your little man

not impressed

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link

consolevania

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, Alba! Here goes!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

That was lovely, Nick.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I would be well up for a PayDayFAP but unfortunately it is still ten days away from payday, so it won't be tonight. Instead I shall sit at home and do nowt. Now where's that "happy with your social life?" thread.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, I just work round the corner from you meeja types now, so any post-work old-man-tastic pint-drinking would be most welcome.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I second the post work old man Fap. Work at Skypark, so I can be at any of the meeja land boozers within twenty minutes. Being a temp every Friday is payday, so I'm flexible.

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I'm going to be an extra in a Belle & Seb BBC special. Anyone else joining in the twee fun?

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't dress up on request

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Look like you're from the 70s? Fuck that.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

cozen, what about isabelle?

I´m so annoyed to be missing alba´s dad.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, I´ve just remembered she´s in leeds. never mind.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

try the south side less

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a french tutor in glasgow for a while. His name was bertrand and he was belgian. He was really great. I think I´ve lost his phone number though. If you go into the modern languages building there will be lots of notices up about people giving french lessons, and much much cheaper than the alliance francaise.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

but grimly where was that? govan, govanhill, shawlands?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

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