i love nadiya the most!!! i have watched that season like 3 times
it's the ultimate "you can do anything" storyline! even Mary Berry is bawling. it's so good
and her kids are 😍😍
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
i love all of her reactions & faces, and that line when she said she would rather give birth than bake (x) again was lololol
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 22:55 (seven years ago) link
one of her kids cries when she wins!!! are you trying to destroy me, adorable bangladeshi british children?
― horseshoe, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:57 (seven years ago) link
i also love ruby she is like mesmerizingly beautiful yes this is shallow no i don't care
― horseshoe, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link
i was a little weirded out by nadiya's weirdo cream soda/bubble gum type flavors at times but i still love her.
― horseshoe, Monday, 20 March 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
yeah bubblegum would have made me barf
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 23:19 (seven years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Food%20and%20drink/5oct/nadiafolder-large.jpg
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
http://40.media.tumblr.com/40583e1cdea51546c82938db5d743cb7/tumblr_nvn55eOr9Q1r2uyymo2_1280.png
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link
also SHE BAKED A CAKE FOR THE QUEEN
http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7805104.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/queen-nadiya-main.jpg
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 23:35 (seven years ago) link
aw
― horseshoe, Monday, 20 March 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
let's not hold that against her tho
― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 March 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link
also I thought it was pretty adorable that Tamal was already telling the kids he'd be coming over to visit, it's so lovely to think of Tamal and Nadiya as friends irl
like all that loveliness under one roof could create a wormhole of kindness
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 02:06 (seven years ago) link
tamal is a babe
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 02:13 (seven years ago) link
otm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 02:49 (seven years ago) link
A lovely man.
A lovely gay man.
Suck it up!
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 05:05 (seven years ago) link
Everybody's gay now. It's so weird.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 05:06 (seven years ago) link
idk how to express it but have u guys noticed the way they use "flavor" as a coded way of saying "you're not from around here"? Chetna, Tamal, Nadiya always get the "oh you with your flavors"
Reminds me of the way my mum talked about new foreign foods she had tried
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 05:10 (seven years ago) link
That does jibe with the stereotype of the stodginess of British cuisine.
Oh, I wanted nothing more than to give Ruby a hug in that last Showstopper.
In happier postings, that gif of Luis double pouring is my favorite thing ever.
― Mhysa Jar Jar Binks (Leee), Friday, 24 March 2017 06:14 (seven years ago) link
Started the next season, my impression is that Mat is actually a gentle, polite, perpetually confused giant.
― Mhysa Jar Jar Binks (Leee), Sunday, 26 March 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
It's so perfect that he's a fireman. he seems like a fireman from a kids show like Fireman Sam & Postman Pat
I have such a crush on him, he's lovely
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link
I'm sad no one ever whacks their bakes into ovens or fridges anymore.
Mat and Flora are both characters from the same cartoon, the faces they pull are magical.
I loved looking at Ugne's arms, so glad the British summer got warm enough for her to actually show them off.
The week when Nadiya won star baker for the first time, such a sudden rush of THE TEARS!
At the beginning of this season, a lot of the bakers seemed shy, but it's nice that they're loosening up. Prison Man Paul has laughed I think two weeks in a row now!
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Friday, 31 March 2017 03:54 (seven years ago) link
Yeah Paul turns into quite a hoot after a while, I love that whole gang tbh
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 March 2017 04:04 (seven years ago) link
Not Paul the judge? I can't remember a contestant called Paul.
I think Paul Hollywood is awful. Certainly Ruby had a few choice words about his conduct.
Having said all of that Ruby did this shortly after. I'm not sure if it was connected
http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article9137448.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Ruby-tandoh-main.jpg
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Friday, 31 March 2017 04:15 (seven years ago) link
No paul the prison warden, older gent with white hair & pink scar/birthmark on his forehead
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 March 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link
http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6501332.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Paul-GBBO-Main.jpg
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 March 2017 04:55 (seven years ago) link
aka him of the amazing Lion Bread
I like Paul Hollywood as an inscrutable jerk, i dont find him completely hateable but i think maybe his flaws as a human being work in his favor as a tv judge
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 March 2017 04:58 (seven years ago) link
The first episode they did remark on how the Pauls were doppelgangers, so I'm sure it's easy to melt the contestant into the judge.
I'm not that caught up on Hollywood's life outside the show, apparently he's a homophobe? But I think on the show he keeps it clean and professional.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Friday, 31 March 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
Paul Hollywood is an evangelical Christian.
― syzygy stardust (suzy), Friday, 31 March 2017 05:36 (seven years ago) link
i don't know why that surprises me, but it does
― horseshoe, Friday, 31 March 2017 12:48 (seven years ago) link
Veggie, did you make it to the season with Scottish James with the fair isle tank tops etc? I think season three. He was my *hearts with eyes emoticon* and actually he lives locally, it seems, so I've seen him a few times around. So lovely.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Sunday, March 19, 2017 8:32 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i am watching this season right now and yesssss. which makes me a dirty old woman because he is like five years old.
― syzygy stardust (suzy), Friday, 31 March 2017 05:36 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Friday, 31 March 2017 12:48 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't know why that doesn't surprise me, but it doesn't
maybe it's the smarm
― tony orlandoni, cheese engineer (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 March 2017 12:54 (seven years ago) link
OMG Tamal's life-changing sandwich.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Friday, 31 March 2017 23:53 (seven years ago) link
<3
Tamal is a lifechanging sandwich imo
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 April 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
Since I don't know anything about baking, a little game I like to pay when they're talking about creme pats is to guess what the contestants' accents are. Flora sounded like Kelly Macdonald once, she must be Scottish! Paul Jagger doesn't sound Irish, so... Welsh? Ian is from London, he could be on the BBC.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Monday, 3 April 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
LOL Welsh people do not sound Irish.
― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Monday, 3 April 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
Never seen a reference to him being religious, let alone evangelical - where does that come from?
Anyway - I like Paul. Away from Bakeoff, he's certainly the least interesting of the four hosts, but he's very watchable on the show, and to label him as the "nasty judge" of course underrates Mary's considerable expertise (and, often, relish) at driving the knife in.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 3 April 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
The best was when Nancy called him "the male judge" lol.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Monday, 3 April 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
That was hilarious
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 April 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link
For me, Welsh is just the box of "other accents" that encompasses anything that I can't otherwise pin down (not that I'm good at it in any case). Although I do try to apply the "Does this person sound like Gwen from Torchwood?" test, too.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Monday, 3 April 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
lol that is exactly my litmus test
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 April 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
The Christianity thing was mentioned on Who Do You Think You Are? when he did an episode.
― syzygy stardust (suzy), Monday, 3 April 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
Although I do try to apply the "Does this person sound like Gwen from Torchwood?" test, too.
John Cale on "The Gift" is even better.
― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Monday, 3 April 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
Flora's wee scottish accent was so adorable. her terrible time management made me want to shake her <3
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
That first episode where Flora forgot to preheat hey oven, I was all, "Martha wouldn't have made that mistake," but now she's definitely won me over with her silly faces.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 05:21 (seven years ago) link
Haha
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
We referred to Matt the Fireman as Matt the Mod throughout.
Paul being evangelical makes perfect sense given the arrogance and rock-solid conviction of his own rightness (and righteousness, apparently) but I would never have guessed. I actually assumed he was gay, idk why.
― the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
he's british
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link
Ik why. He's a man that bakes cakes.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
he gay lol
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link