IMPORTANT - Is your Christmas Day routine acceptable?

[Burney]

It's a great movie.

The bit at the end where he runs into the party...

I love a romcom, me.

The last romcom I loved (if you can call it that) was The Apartment (partly because it's impossible to watch it without falling passionately in love with Shirley Maclaine).

I'm genuinely shocked that you've never seen The Godfather, btw. How can you conduct normal conversations with other cine-literate adults without having seen The Godfather?

[Burney]

Anyone got any ideas for Absinthe?

Tried the sugar thing. Tasted like sweet mouthwash instead of simply mouthwash.

I need the space in the cupboard so I can order another one of these...


the Scotchers might generally be ****s, but they know whisky

I don't think Absinthe is supposed to taste nice. Does it still have hallucinogenic properties?

What I want to know is this: is there ever going to come an age when someone suggests Jaegerbombs (which I hate) and I actually say no?

Every. Fúcking. Time.

[Sir C]

Anyone got any ideas for Absinthe?

Tried the sugar thing. Tasted like sweet mouthwash instead of simply mouthwash.

I need the space in the cupboard so I can order another one of these...


the Scotchers might generally be ****s, but they know whisky

The only use for absinthe is in a Sazerac, which is really just a netto Vieux Carré, so you're best off throwing it down the sink.

[IUFG]

The only use for absinthe is in a Sazerac, which is really just a netto Vieux Carré, so you're best off throwing it down the sink.

I suppose it may well clean the sink quite well.

and the terrible anthropogenic contamination of the local water is a price I'm willing to pay

[Sir C]

I suppose it may well clean the sink quite well.

and the terrible anthropogenic contamination of the local water is a price I'm willing to pay

All those hallucinating sewer rats. Nice.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

You're not the boss of me.

By chance you have approached civilised behaviour in two areas:

Presents must be opened before breakfast. What soret of weird ascetic Protestantism are you suffering from if you make people wait for their presents?

Breakfast is smoked salmon scrambled eggs. With coriander for decent folk.

Otherwise you're all over the place there.

Can you put coriander in scrambled eggs? I've never tried that.

In the 6 weeks I've been away, all my herbs in my herb garden will have died, won't they?

Even the parsley and that was going mad as I planted two at once and they joined together and went mental, attacking all the other wons.

[barrybueno]

Pffft!

Full English breakfast.

Start drinking.

Make dinner.

Continue drinking.

Eat dinner with a drink.

Continue drinking.

HTH to get you through the 2nd most dreadful day of the year.

ooh what's the first

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

I don't think Absinthe is supposed to taste nice. Does it still have hallucinogenic properties?

What I want to know is this: is there ever going to come an age when someone suggests Jaegerbombs (which I hate) and I actually say no?

Every. Fúcking. Time.

Just put a trip into a bottle of supermarket vodka. Add any herb or flavouring you like as no-one will know. Print a C19th label off the next and pritstick it over the Aldi Vodka label.

Job's a good'un. No-one will spot the difference.

Drank liquid K once, when waiting for a bus and unable to acquire a frying pan. Didn't do anything.

[Sir C]

The last romcom I loved (if you can call it that) was The Apartment (partly because it's impossible to watch it without falling passionately in love with Shirley Maclaine).

I'm genuinely shocked that you've never seen The Godfather, btw. How can you conduct normal conversations with other cine-literate adults without having seen The Godfather?

Christ, I would run a mile from trying to converse with the kind of pompous, smug, pretentious prig who would describe himself as cine-literate!

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Btw, does no-one else do foie gras and sauternes for one of the courses?

Vital, imo. I shall be buying mine out here in a day or two as have to go back for a new passport for another visa.

Anyone recommend any decent Burgundies that are good value?

Like for a cheap but drinkable claret, I always look for a Cru Bourgeois Haut-Medoc. The Cru Bourgeois are the ones overlooked in 1855 but that are often better than the numbered growths. And Haut-Medoc borders Pauillac in places.

Fancy a Beaune or a Gevry-Chamertin, but you're playing for the appelation name in both those cases.