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by Di Stefano
Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:50 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Holiday Jolidays!
Replies: 67
Views: 6923

Puskas wrote:I'll be spending a long weekend in a cardboard box in a sewer in Slough, during which time I will be stabbing myself in the eye with a blunt pencil.

This is a huge improvement on my day-to-day life.
I hope you've put that weekend in the diary, and it doesn't clash with pop festivals or football.
by Di Stefano
Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:25 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Tennis trivia question
Replies: 19
Views: 2686

It's got to involve missing most of your serves, hence gifting the points to your opponent, but them doing something similar. Hence you each win the other's game, without making a shot. It then comes down to the minimum number of shots you need to win a set - presumably 2 to win the tie break . So ...
by Di Stefano
Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:40 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: What are you eating and drinking tonight?
Replies: 9624
Views: 572023

De acuerdo, Don Kangana... Enlighten, though, how about Latin American wines - are they following the French example? I'm enjoying young Chilean consistently (red and white - not yet found a truly excellent spanish white, can you enlighten here?) And a very decent, 2009 Argentinian red tonight. Spa...
by Di Stefano
Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:23 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Post your Celebrity Crushes
Replies: 197
Views: 41028

Athers wrote:
Verbal wrote:Rebecca Hall is a making me swoon.
This is the lass from Starter for Ten isn't it.


Far right, aged about 10

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by Di Stefano
Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:00 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Where are you going tonight?
Replies: 4947
Views: 432820

Zulus Thousand of em wrote:
Puskas wrote:Tonight I am going home.

By myself.

To weep.
Again? You can rent whores by the hour - so I hear. :oops:
He weeps because I'm mean and won't let him play street football with us.
by Di Stefano
Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:36 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: sloganise your username...
Replies: 37
Views: 5092

Woo! We're with the Puskas Hands that do dishes can be as soft as your Puskas(??? I am, it has to be said, soft as sh*te) Get Puskas or Get out! I like the last one... Other top Puskas ones would be, don't you think, Too orangey for Puskas I'd like to buy the world a Puskas The future's bright, the...
by Di Stefano
Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:28 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Wimbledon 2009
Replies: 121
Views: 13460

I like him too. Much more than I could ever have liked Choker. The roof could have been his saviour and his downfall at the same time tonight. He got his match done tonight, but so has everyone else in the men's single draw who played on the "minor" courts. That saves him getting up and warming up ...
by Di Stefano
Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:25 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Wimbledon 2009
Replies: 121
Views: 13460

What a dislikeable arsehole Murray is. Thought Wickxxwaka's backhand was beautiful Have you actually met Murray in order to form this opinion? I'm planning to queue up overnight to try and get show court tickets for Wednesday. Has anyone done this before or have any tips? I'd say you're already too...
by Di Stefano
Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:59 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: European and Local Elections
Replies: 187
Views: 18543

I considered voting for the Roman Party.

I assume they were putting forward a manifesto containing a promise to bring better sanitation, medicine, education, irrigation, public health, roads, fresh water, baths, public order and peace - but as I didn't get a leaflet from them I'm not sure.
by Di Stefano
Fri May 15, 2009 10:17 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: What are you reading tonight?
Replies: 3990
Views: 364000

My experience of Shakespeare is mostly school (the same for everyone?) . Just before I left school we went to see Romeo and Juliet (the Olivia Hussy version) I fell in love with Juliet (who must be either a pensioner or dead by now) She was only 15 when she made that, which makes her about the same...
by Di Stefano
Sun May 10, 2009 7:58 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: What are you eating and drinking tonight?
Replies: 9624
Views: 572023

Roasted courgette & onion with a couple of chopped up spicy sausages, held together with a tin of chopped tomatoes and topped with a couple of spoons of freshly grated parmesan, all baked for 30 mins. Washed down with a glass of Sauv Blanc. Man, that sounds good soul food. But red wine, surely? The...
by Di Stefano
Sat May 09, 2009 11:00 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: What are you eating and drinking tonight?
Replies: 9624
Views: 572023

Roasted courgette & onion with a couple of chopped up spicy sausages, held together with a tin of chopped tomatoes and topped with a couple of spoons of freshly grated parmesan, all baked for 30 mins. Washed down with a glass of Sauv Blanc.
by Di Stefano
Sat May 09, 2009 10:52 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: What are you reading tonight?
Replies: 3990
Views: 364000

Bonanza in the charity shops today: Stephen King's On Writing , which I've eyed from afar for awhile; Stuart Maconie's Cider With Roadies (anyone who hasn't yet started listening to him and Mark Radcliffe on Radio 2 Mon-Thu 8-10pm should do so without further ado); and a Viz Profanisaurus . Still c...
by Di Stefano
Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:08 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: What are you eating and drinking tonight?
Replies: 9624
Views: 572023

Curried vegetable bake. A layer of leeks, broccoli & celery initially flash-fried with with ginger, chilli, paprika, coriander & cumin, topped with grated carrot, parsnip & cabbage mixed with ground fennel seeds and Lancashire cheese. Interesting.
by Di Stefano
Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:34 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: when the fat lady sings
Replies: 108
Views: 17735

Beginners thingy... If i had to name three accessible, wonderful intros to opera I'd go, in order of accessibility... Carmen (Bizet), La Traviata (Verdi), La Boheme (Puccini)... I would have put Tosca in there rather than Boheme, on the basis that it's just as good but shorter! Carmen, though I lov...
by Di Stefano
Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:04 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Are men allowed to drink white wine?
Replies: 98
Views: 10879

Little Green Man wrote:Malbec - now you're talking. Majestic used to do one called Gestos - mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Have to say I've never drunk a bad one - and I've tried a fair few. Best ever was in an Italian restaurant in BA but I can't remember its name :oops:
by Di Stefano
Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:58 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Are men allowed to drink white wine?
Replies: 98
Views: 10879

Montreal Wanderer wrote:Perhaps, however, they could not find any carmenere - I'll have to check my wine books when I get home from work (it being 4.52 here).
People work at 4:52 on a Friday afternoon?!! :shock:
by Di Stefano
Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:45 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Are men allowed to drink white wine?
Replies: 98
Views: 10879

You're making me hungry now and I've already eaten! :D Is carmenere a chilean grape, or am I getting it mixed up? If it is i tried for the first time (half price in morrisons) last week. Thought it was excellent. I thought that it's of French origin originally, but please don't quote me on that, I'...
by Di Stefano
Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:57 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Heavy snowfall
Replies: 65
Views: 7992

Re: Heavy snowfall

Yeah, but.... I go on the Northern Line. I know this is in the open in the Extreme North (Scotland or Finchley or somewhere), but is covered elsewhere. So why is it not working fine elsewhere? Eh? Pah. And pah again. Isn't the depot at Morden open to the elements? And there must be a depot in the f...
by Di Stefano
Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:28 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: DSB inspired "Supposed great works of art" thread
Replies: 62
Views: 9013

Aye. I don't know much about art, but I know what I like. A nice painting. Some fruit. Or maybe a bloke on an 'oss with a dog. Gah. That Picasso bloke - they don't even look like people. Some of them have square heads and that. Modern art - burn it all. What about this one? http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk...