Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you

pblakeney

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

So much of a phenomenon I'd never heard of him until this thread and even with the first reference I didn't realise it was a person.

It doesn't intrigue me enough to bother to read about him. Happy to remain ignorant.

To save you too much reading a restaurant with a high social media profile is charging £300 for a mediocre steak.

Pross

pblakeney said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

So much of a phenomenon I'd never heard of him until this thread and even with the first reference I didn't realise it was a person.

It doesn't intrigue me enough to bother to read about him. Happy to remain ignorant.

To save you too much reading a restaurant with a high social media profile is charging £300 for a mediocre steak.

Which seems to be all down to the incredible way they season it (chucking salt on in stupid way).

TheBigBean

I always find it amazing how much fashion influences where people eat as opposed to their tastebuds.

Pross

I can't imagine paying £300 for a steak no matter how good it was. If I had the money I would pay £300 for a top quality meal but a steak is a steak. Sure, some are better cooked than others and the quality of meet varies but there's only so much anyone can do with it.

mrb123

Until you've tried a steak covered in gold tinfoil adorned with a pile of salt mixed with a few arm hairs you haven't really lived...

shirley_basso

There are two amazing butchers here in central Cambridge and I always go for either the t bone or mature ex dairy rib eye. Bloody lovely. With a red wine jus or miso butter.

rjsterry

Pross said:

I can't imagine paying £300 for a steak no matter how good it was. If I had the money I would pay £300 for a top quality meal but a steak is a steak. Sure, some are better cooked than others and the quality of meet varies but there's only so much anyone can do with it.

I think a lot of people don't understand how many stupidly rich, bored people there are in London. For the kind of clientele they are aiming at, £300 is a cheap Friday night out.

They're mainly paying to be seen at the right place, rather than the food.

Tashman

Pross said:

So much of a phenomenon I'd never heard of him until this thread and even with the first reference I didn't realise it was a person.

I thought it was the name of a racehorse

pangolin

briantrumpet

If I hadn't read the accompanying article, I'd have guessed that this was a Mel Brooks movie still.




It's not. Seems it's an American 'church'. Well... hmm...

https://www.businessinsider.com/maga-gun-church-moonies-civil-war-deep-state-2021-10?r=US&IR=T

rjsterry

briantrumpet said:

If I hadn't read the accompanying article, I'd have guessed that this was a Mel Brooks movie still.




It's not. Seems it's an American 'church'. Well... hmm...

https://www.businessinsider.com/maga-gun-church-moonies-civil-war-deep-state-2021-10?r=US&IR=T

In this country, those would be called terrorists.

briantrumpet

rjsterry said:

briantrumpet said:

If I hadn't read the accompanying article, I'd have guessed that this was a Mel Brooks movie still.




It's not. Seems it's an American 'church'. Well... hmm...

https://www.businessinsider.com/maga-gun-church-moonies-civil-war-deep-state-2021-10?r=US&IR=T

In this country, those would be called terrorists.

I'm not sure what I find 'funnier', the guns, or the plastic crowns on grown men. The two together are just, er, killing.

briantrumpet

I mean, how can you take a country seriously when people like that are allowed to vote?

rick_chasey

Superpower in decline behaviour.

TheBigBean

I'm sure barrels burning and cheese chasing would be considered eccentric in most countries.

briantrumpet

TheBigBean said:

I'm sure barrels burning and cheese chasing would be considered eccentric in most countries.

I have a feeling that they aren't religions, and participants are doing it for a giggle. I suspect that those in the photo aren't going to be laughing at themselves for their stupidity.

rjsterry

TheBigBean said:

I'm sure barrels burning and cheese chasing would be considered eccentric in most countries.

Not sure the Gloucestershire cheese rollers are preparing for a armed conflict with their own government, either.

pangolin

rjsterry said:

TheBigBean said:

I'm sure barrels burning and cheese chasing would be considered eccentric in most countries.

Not sure the Gloucestershire cheese rollers are preparing for a armed conflict with their own government, either.

With Gloucester cheese we're fairly safe. It it was more like a Swiss then they could be preparing for holey war.

rick_chasey

How some artists when they are in a supporting role I love their music and when they are the lead I think it's dogsh!t with nothing in between.

womack

I'm quite intrigued that at this very moment, somewhere around the world, unbeknown to you and I, there could very well be two men, you know, doing that to each other, you know that, I can't say anymore, but it is not what God wanted.

pblakeney

womack said:

I'm quite intrigued that at this very moment, somewhere around the world, unbeknown to you and I, there could very well be two men, you know, doing that to each other, you know that, I can't say anymore, but it is not what God wanted.

Leave your fantasies off here please.

Wheelspinner

pblakeney said:

womack said:

I'm quite intrigued that at this very moment, somewhere around the world, unbeknown to you and I, there could very well be two men, you know, doing that to each other, you know that, I can't say anymore, but it is not what God wanted.

Leave your fantasies off here please.

I think he has FOMO.

rick_chasey

I am not in the business of defending suicide bomber terrorists - the driver did a great job letting him kill himself away from everyone else - but why when the terrorist changed hi name by deed pol from Emad al-Swealmeen to Enzo Almeni, after his conversion to Christianity, why are they still referring to him as Emad al-Swealmeen?

kingstongraham

mrb123

rick_chasey said:

I am not in the business of defending suicide bomber terrorists - the driver did a great job letting him kill himself away from everyone else - but why when the terrorist changed hi name by deed pol from Emad al-Swealmeen to Enzo Almeni, after his conversion to Christianity, why are they still referring to him as Emad al-Swealmeen?

https://youtu.be/h3FGi7Wwl2s

rick_chasey

https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1460884259909083139?s=21

focuszing723

I'm glad for the pilot, but when a £90,000,000 F35 jet crashes in the sea, is it insured?

https://www.forces.net/news/what-you-need-know-about-f-35b#:~:text=How much do the jets,grand total of £190m.

focuszing723

Mind you, compared to the cost of Covid it's pocket money.

rick_chasey

focuszing723 said:

I'm glad for the pilot, but when a £90,000,000 F35 jet crashes in the sea, is it insured?

https://www.forces.net/news/what-you-need-know-about-f-35b#:~:text=How much do the jets,grand total of £190m.

Yikes. Guy from my NCT is up to fly those. Hope it’s not him

rjsterry

That Rachel Johnson article in the Spectator. Why on earth would you write such a thing? Even if that's what you thought.