If I knew that before today, I forgot it.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 March 2024 08:01 (one month ago) link
Maybe he is the subject of “Easy to Be Hard.”
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 March 2024 08:21 (one month ago) link
i was traveling for work and nearly home when my wife texted a picture of one of the cats saying "she won't stop yelling." i said "tell arrow [the cat] to put a sock in it, i'll be there soon!" only i accidentally typed cock instead of sock. i corrected it before hitting send, but it made me pause. was it originally cock and sock is the "clean" version? cuz i hate that if so!
― andrew m., Friday, 15 March 2024 16:13 (one month ago) link
Martha Plimpton is Keith Carradine’s daughter.
― just1n3, Thursday, March 14, 2024 1:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
No way!! I had no idea.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:14 (one month ago) link
Blimey is a minced oath.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2024 13:08 (one month ago) link
Cockney Rebel bassist Paul Jeffreys died in the Lockerbie bombing, somehow that tidbit passed me by until now
― shave and a haircut, two brits (Matt #2), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link
Same!
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:33 (one month ago) link
Wonder what they have on him in the archives. Maybe I will find out.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:43 (one month ago) link
Just looked at this: http://paul-jeffreys.co.uk/ Hadn't realized it was their honeymoon!
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:45 (one month ago) link
jesus! :(
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:47 (one month ago) link
Watched Marat/Sade the other day and only just realised where Arthur Lee got his final words from for "The Red Telephone". Even the triple chant of "freedom".
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 18 March 2024 15:54 (one month ago) link
... i will have to look into that
― budo jeru, Monday, 18 March 2024 18:35 (one month ago) link
The title is held by his son Christopher Guest, the fifth Baron, who succeeded him in 1996. Christopher Guest is a film director, writer, actor and musician, married to the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who is therefore the current Lady Haden-Guest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Haden-Guest
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 March 2024 22:42 (one month ago) link
In New Zealand, the Classic Kiwi Dip has been a party staple for decades. I love this stuff. It’s a can of reduced cream mixed with a packet Maggi onion soup and a bit of malt vinegar. I love this stuff so much that I bring back several pairings of the onion soup and cream every time I visit. I’ve tried premade onion dips in the US and they’ve never tasted even close.
A couple months ago at my PiL’s house, onion dip was being passed around. It tasted almost exactly like the CKD! “Omg what’s the recipe?” I asked my MiL.
Lipton’s onion soup mix and sour cream 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ I guess because all the previous onion dips I’d tried were sour cream-based, I assumed that was the issue and I needed reduced cream specifically.
Tbf, CKD does benefit a little extra from the malt vinegar.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:08 (one month ago) link
a little malt vin in the onion dip does sound good
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:27 (one month ago) link
Not sure how I’m gonna break this news to my fellow kiwis, since for generations we’ve been under the impression our CKD is extremely unique.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 23:22 (one month ago) link
Does the vinegar curdle the cream?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 23:35 (one month ago) link
I think I’ve used the Knorr French Onion mix before for the same. Looks like they have a dip recipe on the bag sometimes, although theirs appears to include mayonnaise in addition to sour cream https://www.knorr.com/us/en/r/french-onion-dip.html/107790
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:19 (one month ago) link
lmao my dad used to make the onion soup mix plus sour cream combo all the time and I was SPRINTING to tell you
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 01:17 (one month ago) link
We are not kiwi of course just your everyday snack connoisseurs
French onion dips a thing in Aus too but yeah we just make it with sour cream and Continental french onion soup in a packet. I'd be curious to try an evap milk/malt vinegar combo instead!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:12 (one month ago) link
(assuming reduced cream = evaporated milk ? I am maybe rong)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:13 (one month ago) link
Not sure if it’s quite the same - it’s only sold in nz and oz, nowhere else in the world
https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/15-09-2019/future-of-kiwi-onion-dip-hangs-in-the-balance-as-nestle-factory-closes#
― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:37 (one month ago) link
Afaict, reduced cream is made from cream and skim milk, while evaporated milk is just milk. I think reduced cream has a higher fat content.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:42 (one month ago) link
Also, I don’t know of any other instance where reduced cream is used, except in CKD, which tells you just much of this stuff we eat.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:43 (one month ago) link
It only dawned on me minutes ago that the name of the protagonist of the Alien series, Ripley, is just the first name of the director of the first film with the "d" rotated 180 degrees.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:46 (one month ago) link
Ha!
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:03 (one month ago) link
Believe it . . . or not!
― nickn, Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:32 (one month ago) link
Ripley Scarn
― kinder, Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:32 (one month ago) link
Today i learned that Meatloaf was only 5'2"!! I always thought he was about 9ft tall
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:25 (one month ago) link
No way!
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:26 (one month ago) link
Haha no scratch that - I've been given false information. He was six foot
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:30 (one month ago) link
ppl out there just fibbing abt meat loaf, in 2024!
― mark s, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:33 (one month ago) link
FAKE LOAF
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:36 (one month ago) link
Like a Gnat Out of Hell
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:38 (one month ago) link
5'2" ain't bad
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:41 (one month ago) link
We were barely seventeen and we were not so tall
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:57 (one month ago) link
Clock DVA, the sheffield band, who i have always called "Clock D V A" are actually "Clock Dva", Dva being russian for 'two'. it's a clockwork orange reference.
(still unconvinced by that)
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2024 14:37 (one month ago) link
Whoa really?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:47 (one month ago) link
I heard that several years ago. The 2 o'clock bit at least. Thirst has a symbol on the front that appears to signify that too. irckle with a triangle corresponding to the clock hands position filled in.
― Stevo, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:15 (one month ago) link
circle with a triangle
I remember them talking about this in the Made In Sheffield documentary - iirc they gave up telling everyone it wasn't D V A after a couple of years and started calling it that themselves.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:36 (one month ago) link
The difference between collision and allision, at least as far as maritime law defines it.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:35 (one month ago) link
Railways existed before steam engines and locomotives - I mean, duh, why wouldn't they?
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:31 (one month ago) link
well a locomotive wouldn’t be much use without them Tom duh
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:08 (one month ago) link
allision-- my aim's untrue
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:13 (one month ago) link
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:20 (one month ago) link
Wagonways!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Wagonway
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:23 (one month ago) link
... this is what I was shockingly old when I learned about.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:27 (one month ago) link
I used to know this insane wingnut minor-league weedlord out of Cave Junction who had built a working wood gas car— it didn’t go very fast or far, but it worked! Saw it with my own eyes. Lost tough with him because he outed himself as a virulent anti-vaxxer a few years before the pando
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 01:27 (one month ago) link