wub wrote:People who take pictures of their food as restaurants need to have a word. If you've made it yourself, then fair enough. But not if you ordered it and it's just turned up at the table. It does not need a photo in that instance. You're better of taking a picture of it after you've shat it out, at least then you've had a hand in it's creation.
Heh, I'm exactly the opposite with these. People posting pictures of their own meals just makes me think "Yes, I had to cook tonight too, much like last night and however many hundred before hand... well done for working an oven just like 75% of the world's population".
People posting from fancy restaurants at least makes me think they're doing something notable with their evening.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:59 am
by Terpit
Is there a thread for jokes? Cant seem to find one.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:02 pm
by PinUp
Nevalo wrote:golf is fun high.
Nothing like a spliff at the driving range!
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:07 pm
by wub
magma wrote:
wub wrote:People who take pictures of their food as restaurants need to have a word. If you've made it yourself, then fair enough. But not if you ordered it and it's just turned up at the table. It does not need a photo in that instance. You're better of taking a picture of it after you've shat it out, at least then you've had a hand in it's creation.
Heh, I'm exactly the opposite with these. People posting pictures of their own meals just makes me think "Yes, I had to cook tonight too, much like last night and however many hundred before hand... well done for working an oven just like 75% of the world's population".
People posting from fancy restaurants at least makes me think they're doing something notable with their evening.
Meal at home is achieving something though, creating something yourself...all the reason to be proud.
Going to an expensive restaurant and snapping the food is just an extension of bragging about how much money you have...totally crass IMO.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:09 pm
by Sexual_Chocolate
PinUp wrote:
Nevalo wrote:golf is fun high.
Nothing like a spliff at the driving range!
exactly.
a few mates, a few buckets of balls & a few pre-rolled bifta's and you've prepared yourself a good day.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:09 pm
by wub
Fuck golf.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:10 pm
by Terpit
Guck folf
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:11 pm
by Forum
PinUp wrote:
Nothing like a smoking ban at the driving range!
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:18 pm
by magma
wub wrote:
magma wrote:
wub wrote:People who take pictures of their food as restaurants need to have a word. If you've made it yourself, then fair enough. But not if you ordered it and it's just turned up at the table. It does not need a photo in that instance. You're better of taking a picture of it after you've shat it out, at least then you've had a hand in it's creation.
Heh, I'm exactly the opposite with these. People posting pictures of their own meals just makes me think "Yes, I had to cook tonight too, much like last night and however many hundred before hand... well done for working an oven just like 75% of the world's population".
People posting from fancy restaurants at least makes me think they're doing something notable with their evening.
Meal at home is achieving something though, creating something yourself...all the reason to be proud.
Going to an expensive restaurant and snapping the food is just an extension of bragging about how much money you have...totally crass IMO.
There's creation and there's creation - if people were posting pictures of Blumenthal style efforts, then perhaps it'd be worth taking the time to take a photo before eating... but, honestly, posting a picture of a bogstandard Chilli with the caption "MMMM, FOOODTIME!" just makes me wonder if people cook for themselves so rarely that it really is that much of a special event for them.
Having a night out at a restaurant is a notable event, just like going to a club or going to the theatre. I wouldn't come into work telling everyone that I cooked Carbonara last night or that I listened to a CD, but I would tell them if I went to Nobu or went to a gig. One's interesting, the other isn't.
wub wrote:Fuck golf.
We agree here.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:29 pm
by ehbes
Did you know hippos kill 2900 hundred people in Africa annually.
That's basically a hippo 9/11 every year
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:30 pm
by wub
ehbrums1 wrote:Did you know hippos kill 2900 hundred people in Africa annually.
That's basically a hippo 9/11 every year
Good to see I wasn't the only person who Googled about the vending machines then
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:31 pm
by ehbes
wub wrote:
ehbrums1 wrote:Did you know hippos kill 2900 hundred people in Africa annually.
That's basically a hippo 9/11 every year
Good to see I wasn't the only person who Googled about the vending machines then
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:49 pm
by Johnlenham
ehbrums1 wrote:Did you know hippos kill 2900 hundred people in Africa annually.
That's basically a hippo 9/11 every year
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:50 pm
by Electric_Head
Hippos and Malaria, biggest killers in Africa.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:52 pm
by Electric_Head
PinUp wrote:
Nevalo wrote:golf is fun high.
Nothing like a spliff at the driving range!
I haven't been to the driving range in years.
I have one across the road from me as well.
Beautiful range in a pine forest.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:01 pm
by magma
Electric_Head wrote:Hippos and Malaria, biggest killers in Africa.
Malaria's killed more humans worldwide than anything else in the history of humanity.
Bin Laden didn't have SHIT on mosquitos... Genghis Khan and Hitler didn't even have shit on mosquitos...
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:03 pm
by Johnlenham
Sorry to bring down the town but Sea Salt and Malt Vinegar are the best flavour of crisps. Ever.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:05 pm
by wub
magma wrote:
Electric_Head wrote:Hippos and Malaria, biggest killers in Africa.
Malaria's killed more humans worldwide than anything else in the history of humanity.
Bin Laden didn't have SHIT on mosquitos... Genghis Khan and Hitler didn't even have shit on mosquitos...
I remember an episode of the Really Wild Show where Terry Nutkins and Chris Packham were talking about the most dangerous animal in the world being in a box with a black cover over it, then revealing it to be mosquitos. Felt proper let down, was expecting some sort of double hard bastard snake or spider or something.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:05 pm
by magma
Johnlenham wrote:Sorry to bring down the town but Sea Salt and Malt Vinegar are the best flavour of crisps. Ever.
You're absolutely right, of course, but just occasionally NOTHING will do but a bag of good ol' traditional Walkers Salt & Vinegar.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:06 pm
by magma
wub wrote:
magma wrote:
Electric_Head wrote:Hippos and Malaria, biggest killers in Africa.
Malaria's killed more humans worldwide than anything else in the history of humanity.
Bin Laden didn't have SHIT on mosquitos... Genghis Khan and Hitler didn't even have shit on mosquitos...
I remember an episode of the Really Wild Show where Terry Nutkins and Chris Packham were talking about the most dangerous animal in the world being in a box with a black cover over it, then revealing it to be mosquitos. Felt proper let down, was expecting some sort of double hard bastard snake or spider or something.
There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito.
