Jamal

As you may have noticed, the site was down for a while some time in the last 5 hours. This was due to a lack of disk space. I'll have to solve this by...

The site was down for a while some time in the last 5 hours due to a lack of disk space. I'll have to solve this by deleting lots of file uploads and ...

I like Ghost Dog (1999) as well.

Thank you. Who knows what distant shore the seas of fate will wash me upon. If they're as good as the dedicateds, I'll take your advice.

Yes, thanks. Moliere already suggested that. Keep up! If I ever get settled, it's the first thing I'll buy.

You've got the magic touch. I labour under an evil curse. It's just the way it is.

Yes, one day I'll get one of those.

If it worked for you, the blame probably has to fall on me. I should've just done bread. Where I am right now, the pans are not great. Gas. No, but I ...

@"Noble Dust" The rice was a disaster. Every rice recipe where you don't drain the rice, but instead just wait till the liquid is absorbed, always tur...

There's a conflict here.

Unless I need a special rice like bomba or arborio, I only ever use basmati. I just don't usually bother rinsing it. Today, I shall.

Breakfast: banana, mandarin orange, coffee Lunch: crispy tiger prawn wontons with XO sauce and pickled vegetables, followed by steak tartare with frie...

I had vague and tantalizing memories of this book from the first time I read it, as a teenager. I've just read it again and that memory has been repla...

Sadly I'm not currently close to a Levantine bakery so I'll be using supermarket hummus (I gave up trying to make it years ago). I also gave up rinsin...

:up: I've decided to cook that myself in a couple of days.

Yes, not yet sure what the problem is exactly.

Yum!

Trouble is we don't even know which plants to ask. I mean, if a pear tree tells you that apple trees are evil, can you trust what it says?

You could try braying, bleating, barking, bellowing, buzzing, or caterwauling.

You can complain about anthropocentrism if you like. I objected to the anthropomorphism inherent in the imagined possession of cognition by plants. As...

Anthropomorphism. What's so special about your human "thinking"?

Today I have a sore gooch. Breakfast: flatbread with refried beans and karahi paste. Lunch: flatbread with prawns in sriracha mayo and broccoli.

:up: Yeah that's probably the one I'll read too.

Currently Hothouse by Brian Aldiss.

Yeah, that was baffling to me too. I think that just added to the mystery. I think I like Monkey himself most of all; his arrogance is endearing. But ...

Aye, daresay I ought to've been thinkin' long them lines meself, cap'n. I'll have me an island in the doldrums yet.

The thing I don't like is wind. I've enjoyed a good bracing wind in the past a few times but I'm getting fed up with it now. A light breeze on a hot d...

Your first sentence answered my question in a nutshell, but I read the rest just for pure uneducational entertainment. Not a Stones fan, I am.

So is this how it works? A green chili is just a chili that hasn't turned red yet, but certain varieties are grown specifically to be picked when gree...

You called?

Is RHCP skate music? I didn't know. I will. This morning, just a banana and a slice of toast with butter and marmite.

Stripping them of all their distinctive charm? Count me out.

Even slower: https://youtu.be/iPEMTNQwBec?si=6HLk3kln-TUCXOOj :cool:

Hey I like that one. Just shows you eh?

Ah, now that's interesting. The thing that "Dancing in the Moonlight" and "Say What You Want" have in common is that they're by British bands but sung...

Now it's your turn, Shoutboxians. Post seemingly popular songs you dislike. I'll add another one: "Dancing in the Moonlight" by Toploader. It's positi...

Posting the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the Shoutbox is against the rules. Please don't do it again. Talking of bands that I don't like but lots of other...

I also often roll it up (just with a shoogle or two) and let it sit in the pan after the heat's been turned off.

I suspected (and secretly hoped) that you in particular would have something to say about that. Yes, it's tricky, but it's not something I think could...

1. Butter in a pan on medium heat 2. Add beaten eggs (2, seasoned) and shoogle it around till it cooks (2 or 3 minutes) but without browning and witho...

2-egg omelette (basic French style) in soft pitta bread with spring onions, and a side of mandarin/satsuma/tangerine/clementine or whatever the hell i...

Yeah, "small inconspicuous temple with minor monk statue under one of those umbrella things" probably wouldn't work.

I'd hoped to get the exact location but couldn't find the statue on Google (I now suspect it's not even a permanent statue but a kind of festival floa...

I just did the conversion to pounds. Never mind.

:party: Time to cough up.

Lampang of course.

Definitely not Doncaster then? Middlesbrough!

Chiang Mai.

Chiang Rai.

Doncaster?