United Kingdom chat thread V3: We still miss our empire
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[QUOTE=Mr Kotov;52409948]Gave you £10, would do more but I'm leaving for the Netherlands soon and need to keep an eye on things.[/QUOTE]
Darian thanks you :)
Can I just say if any of you have a hour free watch season 2 episode 1 of a documentary called hospital on Iplayer, they were filming when the Westminster attack happened, really interesting documentary.
On the train to kings cross when a carriage worth of American exchange late-teens get on.
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This is the true British fear.
[QUOTE=icemaz;52414956]On the train to kings cross when a carriage worth of American exchange late-teens get on.
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This is the true British fear.[/QUOTE]
Oh god, they didn't try and talk to you did they?
They sang a couple of songs from a musical and talked about only being able to eat salad for lunch. I can't believe this is real. God bless British people not even being able to look eachother in the eyes in public.
[QUOTE=icemaz;52415381]They sang a couple of songs from a musical and talked about only being able to eat salad for lunch.[/QUOTE]
subhuman
[QUOTE=icemaz;52415381] only being able to eat salad for lunch.[/QUOTE]
We had an American on an exchange with us once and she was legit disgusted at the existence of macaroni pies and the fact that they are a staple diet of Scottish tradesmen
[QUOTE=Mr Kotov;52416135]We had an American on an exchange with us once and she was legit disgusted at the existence of macaroni pies and the fact that they are a staple diet of Scottish tradesmen[/QUOTE]
Man, if she's got a problem with cheese, pasta and pastry, she should witness all the cartilage, hooves and sphincters that go into Scotch Pies. mmmmm.
Scotland really is a culinary dustbin, it's great.
[QUOTE=El Burro;52417072]Man, if she's got a problem with cheese, pasta and pastry, she should witness all the cartilage, hooves and sphincters that go into Scotch Pies. mmmmm.
Scotland really is a culinary dustbin, it's great.[/QUOTE]
Can't even make real haggis to sell legally because its actually a food hazard. :v:
Deep fried haggis would be far more suitable for your future borderline nsfw pic reagy
[editline]1st July 2017[/editline]
Disgusting
No one wants to look at it
Yet someone out there gorges on it
(same applies to Marmite)
Customer: You finish at 11? That's a bit late
Me: Could be worse
Customer: That's true, you could have AIDS
A customer then told me to tear up their scratchcard. I checked it anyway and they won £40.
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;52422343]Stupid question but does anyone here remember anything about Quantum of Solace?
[editline]1st July 2017[/editline]
like legit I remember more of the game than the movie (though it had some proper quality multiplayer :v:)[/QUOTE]
I remember vague details about it. Like I remember they deliberately made the villian unimposing and visually unremarkable which seems like a bad move in retrospect. I liked Skyfall better and Casino Royale better than that.
Spectre was very confusing because a lot of white men look the same to me so I didn't see all the connections between the films, even then the whole "You know all the bad things that happened in your life, Craig-Bond? It was me! It was me all along!" was very forced, especially when it came to plot details from Skyfall where the villian was unconnected to the Quantum/Spectre organisation.
It's a shame because I think audiences today would eat up an Illuminati-esque conspiracy film what with all this political espionage and escalation of tensions between right and left wing politics. There's a film to made from real life just waiting to be made and the state of Hollywood is in too bad a shambles to capitalise on it. Unless it's superheroes (and which Captain America 2 is the closest to this there's been, I reccomend it) or something that can be sold to the Chinese (so mindless big budget action schlock with no ghosts or comedy/self-awareness) then Hollywood doesn't want to know.
I also didn't like the ending to Spectre.
I know you asked about James Bond and the Quantum of Solace, but don't really remember much other than "that one girl dies by oil, the poor dear, and something about tricking people into thinking some land is valuable because of oil but there's just water there and someone's about to cause a drought I think? Or is he oil fakery all there is to the plan. Also Quantum is an Illuminati-esque conspiracy and nothing really comes of it because Writer's Strike". That's my complete thought.
[editline]2nd July 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;52422624]Customer: You finish at 11? That's a bit late
Me: Could be worse
Customer: That's true, you could have AIDS[/QUOTE]
And you didn't get Rich Evans' autograph?!
I remember hating just about everything about Spectre, except for Christoph Waltz. Don't remember Solace and really enjoyed casino royale and skyfall.
I actually only watched casino royale for the first time a couple weeks ago, Bond films are something I'm extremely behind on
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;52422880]I remember hating just about everything about Spectre, except for Christoph Waltz. Don't remember Solace and really enjoyed casino royale and skyfall.[/QUOTE]
I remember disliking the seemingly obligatory torture scene where they detail exactly what their brain drilling skullfuckery will do but it doesn't actually do what they say it does.
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;52422343]Stupid question but does anyone here remember anything about Quantum of Solace?
[editline]1st July 2017[/editline]
like legit I remember more of the game than the movie (though it had some proper quality multiplayer :v:)[/QUOTE]
Cool hotel place in the middle of nowhere?
Aston Martin DB11?
[QUOTE=Hezzy;52423119]Cool hotel place in the middle of nowhere?
Aston Martin DB11?[/QUOTE]
Jaguar CX-75 was better
All I remember about Quantum of Solace is the Sony Ericson phone in the Opera, Budweiser, awful camerawork, people...stealing water from Africa or something, the woman who gets goldfingered by with Oil and that the Bond Girl wrestles a...general who raped her mum or something. I was watching it last night and thought "why can I remember the fucking awful Spectre song and not this? It's not nearly as bad but it's still awful". Fuck Spectre and Quantum of Solace is forgettable.
Never been much of a fan of James Bond films, usually get dragged to go see them with my friends and I want to fall asleep.
Bond films are pretty fucking tedious IMO
[QUOTE=Mr Kotov;52407186]Anyone familiar with employment law because I am pretty sure my employer is messing me around. I think we should be getting paid on a regular basis rather than once in a blue moon at random and backdating pay. Boss lady says we have no right to know when we get paid but idk how people are expected to pay rent then[/QUOTE]
Update on this, been paid but over £100 short with no explanation.
Send help my friend has gone full UKIP what do I do
[QUOTE=meharryp;52423921]Send help my friend has gone full UKIP what do I do[/QUOTE]
Deprive him of tea until he can prove it's not "foreign scum taking the job of propah bri'ish produce"
If he doesn't drink tea, tell him he'll be next once all the funny-talking people are gone and nothing's been solved.
[QUOTE=meharryp;52423921]Send help my friend has gone full UKIP what do I do[/QUOTE]
Tell him that there will be no more curry shops in the UK if he would send out all of the foreigners :v:
I also neglected to mention he has a fear of Muslims and Bradford
[QUOTE=meharryp;52424035]I also neglected to mention he has a fear of Muslims and Bradford[/QUOTE]
Is he one of these people who say we can't say 'Christmas' anymore because of muslims?
[QUOTE=meharryp;52424035]I also neglected to mention he has a fear of Muslims and Bradford[/QUOTE]
all facts based off Four Lions
[QUOTE=meharryp;52423921]Send help my friend has gone full UKIP what do I do[/QUOTE]
Point out how many of his local takeaways are halal and that if he's against Muslims he can't eat any of it
(As an aside I personally disagree with how animals are killed to make the meat halal and will try to avoid places that have halal meat. It's very hard though as like 90% of Preston is halal)
[QUOTE=Hezzy;52425396]Point out how many of his local takeaways are halal and that if he's against Muslims he can't eat any of it
(As an aside I personally disagree with how animals are killed to make the meat halal and will try to avoid places that have halal meat. It's very hard though as like 90% of Preston is halal)[/QUOTE]
I thought meat that's halaled was given that label because an imam looked over the way the animal is killed and said "yep, that's fine" rather than any change on the part of the meat producers...
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