Internet highlights – w/c 14th April 2019
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Internet highlights – w/c 7th April 2019
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Internet highlights – w/c 31st March 2019
6 04 2019
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April Fools 2019
1 04 2019Can’t quite believe it’s my tenth year of doing this! (see the back catalogue here – although I imagine many of the older links will be broken by now!), anyway, in the hope of finding out Brexit was all a big joke, here we go…!
Thumbs Up release new range of pet-tech including: Drone dog walker, Paw scanner pet door, and Catapoop.
Telegraph: Parliament ban April Fools jokes.
https://twitter.com/HMCabinetCat/status/1112489850807246850
https://twitter.com/HMCabinetCat/status/1112587618716401664
https://twitter.com/O2music/status/1112394438217814024
https://twitter.com/mikepilav/status/1112511983688003585
Items I saw listed on other roundup pages but couldn’t find evidence for on the actual internet (will add links later if I find them):
- Colman’s Mustard Custard.
- Uber Pogo Stick.
- Brussells banning British Biscuits from EU meetings after Brexit.
- Sainbury’s Pink Avocados.
- Kia Touchscreen Steering Wheel.
Items found after I published at midday:
Daily Express: Britain to leave Eurovision after Brexit.
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Internet highlights – w/c 24th March 2019
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Off Menu – My perfect meal
28 03 2019I’ve got completely addicted to James Acaster’s and Ed Gamble’s Podcast “Off Menu”, where celebrity guests discuss their perfect meal. The waiter-genie that is James offers them various choices and they construct their ideal meal this way. It’s very light hearted, a lot of chat and debate on the way through, plus sharing stories as some courses can end up being *very* specific. Geography is no object, time is no object, money is no object – he’s a Genie, remember!
I’ve actually found it’s a really fun conversation to have with your friends too, like the “dream dinner party list” conversation, and having talked about it a few times now, here’s my dream menu set out via the questions they ask (and again, sometimes very specific)!
- Water for the table: Still, sparkling or tap?
- Poppadoms or bread?
- Starter
- 1 sesame prawn toast
- 1 chicken satay skewer with peanut sauce
- 1 butternut squash spring roll
- 1 mouthful crispy seaweed
- 1 duck pancake with the sauce and green stuff
- 1 mouthful of deep fried crispy chilli chicken (normally a main, but couldn’t be missed out!)
- Main Course
- Side Dish
- Drink
- Dessert
Definitely tap. Sparkling water just tastes weird, and still and tap are essentially the same thing other than price.
A fresh-from-the-oven tiger bread roll, crusty and chewy on the outside, soft and doughy on the inside, warm enough that the butter melts into it as you spread it.
A Chinese starters selection platter. Including:
Is that too big for a starter?
Chicken Tikka Chasni. In 2014 I went to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a friend, and one day we were looking for somewhere for lunch, anywhere that had air-con as there was a heatwave going on (yes I know, in Scotland!) and we dived into a place called India Quay that looked like it’d do. On the menu I saw this dish with the description, “A rich creamy sauce with a twist of sweet and sour”, thought I’d give it a try and was not disappointed!
A big onion bhaji. Several years ago I went on a course at Oracle University in Reading, and at the canteen one day experienced the best bhaji I’ve ever had!
None of this mixing-in-lentils nonsense, just lovely crispy onion and massive! I’ve told many people about this bhaji in the intervening years, no bhaji I’ve had since has lived up to it!
Cheap, translucent, room temperature apple juice. None of this fancy “cloudy” nonsense, and definitely no ice. When it’s chilled the flavour is so muted, and the cheap stuff is so much sweeter than the fancy stuff!
Slug and Lettuce used to have an amazing dessert on their menu called the “Cookie Cup Explosion”. It was essentially all good things on a plate. A chewy cookie forming a shallow bowl, containing bits of brownie, chocolate honeycomb, marshmallows, chocolate sauce and ice cream, – just amazing!
The good news is that a different part of the Stonegate Pubs family now has it on their menu!
What about you? What are your answers to these questions?
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Categories : If I could only choose one
The Great Gatsby – by F Scott Fitzgerald
24 03 2019After loving Rebecca, I felt more confident and so picked up another 20th Century Classic from my bookcase.
Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy this one so much – I persevered primarily because it was only 180 pages and wasn’t necessarily difficult to read, it just didn’t feel like anything was happening at all until about 40 pages from the end! Upon finishing my main feeling was just relief that I could tick it off and move onto something else.
It’s supposedly one of the greatest pieces of American Literature, but I just didn’t get it – not one for me!
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Internet highlights – w/c 17th March 2019
23 03 2019
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Internet highlights – w/c 10th March 2019
16 03 2019
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Found Poetry – by Dave Gorman
9 03 2019I’m a huge Dave Gorman fan, the man is stupidly clever and also hilarious, and a complete geek – a superb combination! The YouTube video I send people most in this world, is below:
As part of his old radio shows, and then more recently as part of his “Modern Life is Goodish” (of which you can watch the most recent four seasons here), he shares Found Poems. He describes them as comments he’s found when searching “the bottom half of the internet”. Each one is themed around a news story, and he collates sentences from comments sections from different news websites, and the results are pure gold. Each one he reads out to the backing music of Handel’s Saranbade.
This collection was put together in 2012 so there are a few around the Royal Wedding, but the absolute best has to be the horse meat scandal – his performance of it is below, and if you enjoy it, just search “Dave Gorman Found Poem” on YouTube and you’ll find further examples!
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