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Ah man at most stations I'll take the stairs when I can. Usually I'm travelling London with a 30kg suitcase and the stairs are insurmountable. I forget the name of the station, but I think 3 N-E meets ago I walked half-way to hyde park then got on a tube, and the station itself was down a 600+spiral staircase. Everyone I passed was all "omg is it nearly the top?!"

how the hell did you even find this thread? Are you narcissistic enough to have searched for your own name?! :P

Congrats @dr4hkon for finding that seed of happiness, and not flooding it with hope too soon And @Tales seriously I'm in awe of you doing this. Looking forward to hearing about it! @coolness_bears glad to see you back! Bring us your happy plz And everyone else; good jokes, good posts. Happy day today for sure!

Van persie - 23 Hernandez - 14 Rooney - 13 Welbeck 1 Luis suarez - 22 Steven Gerrard - 7 Jonjo Shelvey - 5 ... I can't even be bothered to list them all. Who cares about one low scoring striker for Man U when the rest are scoring loads? Why does it matter? (from http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/top-scorers and the man u version)

MAN HUGS FOR ELL. Best wishes dude. We're all here if you need us. Next time get that other guy fired and hire one of us and we'll sympathy-drink anytime. --- My 'bad' stuff doesn't really compare. My friend's (Mutual Friend, as she is known) father passed away late last night. I moved a lot of my plans around and me and her and my lady had a great fun evening, but as a consequence I wasn't able to pick up the v-day gift my other friend promised to make me (I don't think she's actually made it yet anyway). So yeah. Not the same scale of bad-ness.

I'm a few seasons behind currently. Why?

Well conversely, I'm still encountering novelties of a relationship with someone new that I hadn't ever really thought about. I think this girl I like is quite... paranoid. I've had a couple of rather stressssssy, rough days and she's getting really sensitive about the exactness of what I'm saying and, frankly, I'm just super tired and drained and in a fairly apathetic mood. I don't want to have to deal with hypocracy already. I don't want to have to deal with mind-reading and the whole "saying no but meaning yes" bollocks. Bah.

Whilst not advised, traversing stairs with shoelaces undone is still safter than practicing the same madness on escalators by several magnitudes. Not only did I nearly die on the tube one time, but I came extremely close to causing dozens of commuters to sigh and look at me with great disappointment.

Celtic behaving poorly does not excuse the behaviour in that video though. That's completely shocking. I can't recall seeing that many instances in a premier league match of that severity!

@Tales good luck! I once wussed out of a solo trip to Germany. Bought two tickets to see a music one-night festival, my friend backed out and I basically lost a few hundred quid because I was such a pansy about it all. I have a few really, really good excuses to not go travelling alone, but they're still just excuses.

Egg is the last thing to go in. Rice goes in, heat it up, then shove in what you want to cook veg/meat wise (chop it very fine), then add your scrambled eggs in. I've forgotten how many eggs I use normally, but if it's for 4 people I'd use one egg per person plus an extra egg for the fun of it. Because I like eggs. let the egg set a little, then 'stir-fry' it and scramble the eggs. I'd've written a decent recipe but it's late and I'm angry.

That would be fine. A day of cold storage would do the trick. Fried rice is great because generally you don't need to add any herbs or spices. You can feel free to mix it up with some garam masala if you wish. It's really meant to be a snack, or a meal accompaniment. I've made up a nice fried rice with frozen veg (peas, sweetcorn, carrots) and just grilled chicken to go with it. It's a satisfying meal that is flavoursome and doesn't require anything at all. Just adding a pile of cumin, or coriander, or chili flakes, or a few eggs make the dish quite different. The key is to not try to do too much with a new dish. Try making a basic fried rice dish with a few ingredients then mess with different stocks, spices and additional ingredients. It's the kind of dish I'll do when the cupboards are half-bare and I can't be bothered to go to the shops.

There's far too much effort gone into that for it to be a parody. It's scary. ... But yes that video was... lol :P And hey -- dude. let's re-evaluate who we have on our lists. How many friends you got? Why not just delete these guys who pester you? That way if someone genuine invites you to something you won't dismiss it so quick!

Yes. The colder, day-older rice is essential. It may sound like a chore but actually it's easy. Boiling rice requires no attention, and the frying bit is 10 mins of effort. If you list any herbs/spices you have or a regular set of ingredients available to you then I'll humbly (is that a word?) submit to you my suggested recipe! Pepper, garlic, maybe some five-spice. Soy sauce or ginger or lime or a combination of the above... fried rice is very versatile and very cheap.

Egg fried rice is easy. Boil your rice up, leave it overnight in the fridge, then fry stuff like spring onions, shrooms, bacon, then add the rice and add some eggs and stir it up and bam! Taste sensation. Can add/alter like crazy. Lots of tasty tastes.

A lot of those are from this subreddit, minus the 'thanks obama' bit.

I do think it is entirely reasonable to complain about the clarity of food labelling. "New and Improved" does not mean GOOD. It can mean "we have a new processing plant, where we have improved our cost-effectiveness by removing 30% beef and adding twice as much potato. The product itself tastes different because it is actually inferior in quality, but we could even arguit it is better quality if we decided that we were measuring this immesurable non-entity on a scale focused on the quality of the printers used to print the cardboard boxes." I mean, seriously. Anyone see the advert for teh new tropicana advert? 40% less sugar! Because we removed 50% of the orange juice and added the same amount back in water. That's it. They literally say it in the advert. So why not buy the regular juice and make twice as much by watering it down? "Made using 100% real beef" ingredients: 2% beef. But it's real. Well, it's from a cow, anyway. "no added sugar" just a shit-tonne of sweeteners. Plus the drink 'naturally' contains a fuckload of fructose. Fuck it. Fuck it all. fucking bullshit. We buy food in nice packaging but we all know EVERYTHING is made in places that are run like the place YOU work. Corners are cut, people nick pens, nothing is cleaned often enough. People are hired and fired and stuff is dropped on the floor. The whole thing is bullshit.

In life I can happily live my days believing that if I act in a moral, courteous, personable manner then I am somehow bettering the world, or at least setting a good example to follow. How you interact with facebook cannot be followed or even seen, when it comes to the trivial elements such as how you treat notifications, etc. The facebook chat has a multi-chat option, however you can't refuse an invite, so now my friends have discovered a good way to 'accidentally' annoy other friends who have notifications on their iphones turned on. One friend swears that their freshly-charged phone ran out of battery due to the notification vibration. Sure flink, if you like

@Magnus; uncharming, disrespectful, fake. Joke reply incoming!

Yeaaaah well that's kind of the reason why I haven't been to the wiki page - to, y'know, avoid spoilers? I really don't get people who are all "I won't spoil it, but..." so yeah. Thanks. I mean, Lost has a controversial ending, however it didn't stop me enjoying the 7 seasons of shows as they were aired. Just by telling me the ending is lame you've now made the next 5 episodes lame. If I hadn't known that, then I'd watch the next 5 eps and just thing the last episode was lame.

Anyone keep up with this? I thought the first season was really well done. Currently on s02e07 and finding the feel isn't as good. Tone is a bit heavier and drawn out. I hate it when a new season of a show is half-spent on filling in the gaps between the s01 finale and the s02 first ep. Like, the status quo has been massively upturned and friends are now enemies, and it takes 4-6 episodes to just get on with it. There's also this power-booster element which is giving me a whole umbrella of obvious implications yet to come. There's just not enough cool solutions thanks to abilities, and too much... slowness. First season was like a fruity wine from the new world while the next season is like... alcoholic gravy. Sounds really good but there's something just not right. So far, anyway. Am I right in hearing that there's no s03, and no plans..?

I literally just bought a tesco value spag bol. My mum just came in and told me "... it's got horsemeat in it!!" I just said "well it cost me 80p so I'm still bloody eating it." There are a lot of beefburger offers on at the moment, which is the good news that has come out of this. I really just don't care.

Got me a BL2 session tomorrow evening! I am very jealous of the 4-player fun

Nope but it's another "entry level" boardgame. No dice required! Looks complicated but is really simply, just requires you to think through a strategy with your given set-up (you have a race and a class, or something, which defines how many 'armies' you can place. Obviously there are lots of other variables/rules).

@Shorty Fuck yea Small World - only played it like 4 times a couple of years ago but it's great fun! I'm being dense about which xbox game you're playing, though. Today I spent £4.44 on my food for the next 4 days - noodles, ready meals, soup, spaghetti, cheese (reduced). Feel kinda pleased with myself, but it's a really shit diet. Got something like £8 to last me 'til friday as well, so of course that'll be a couple of litres of cider one night and maybe bus fare if I need to travel about. (very exciting, eh)