Christmas 2022

[Baz]

Played Escalado before.

Now I’m watching The Young Ones.

[Jimmy Floyd]

However, lamb burgers are the best burgers, so why do you hardly ever see them on menus?

They're harder to add wanky adjectives to when you want to triple the price.

[Lewis]

How's the old man?

[Bam]

Lets find out when Jim comes out of the closet to him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How's the old man?

He loved it. Who wouldn't? Dog walk by the river, two pints, bottle of champagne, kids cook you a paella, he put the King on loud enough that we all had to hear it from two rooms away, and someone gave him that book about Liz Truss. Pig in shit.

[Lewis]

Took the dog out, hit the drink, sulked in another room with the music on.

[Spikey M]

What was the Truss book?

[Ian]

Little Miss Incompetent.

[Bam]

Dodged the question, man up to yourself.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dodged the question, man up to yourself.

Been on the sewer system chardonnay have we?

[Spikey M]

Go to bed Bam.

[Bam]

Been on the sewer system chardonnay have we?

Yes, if you say so.

[Bam]

Go to bed Bam.

Why?

[Dquincy]

Lets find out when Jim comes out of the closet to him.

This actually makes a lot of sense.

[Spikey M]

Because the Stella has run out.

[Offshore Toon]

Stop dodging the question.

[Baz]

Got the kids loading dinosaurs into Noah’s ark. Fuck you, bible.

[Dquincy]

Got the kids loading dinosaurs into Noah’s ark. Fuck you, bible.

They would have actually had 2 of each egg on the ark from the Jurassic Park cryogenics lab.

[Giggles]

Today is always a good day. Only decisions are how early to go for a few pints and what leftovers to eat when I get home.

[Ben]

I’m usually in the pub by 12. If I’m home by 12 midnight I’ll be happy with myself.

[Spikey M]

Fry up this morning, football with my boy this afternoon, probably a nap in between. Boxing Day > Christmas.

[7om]

Merry Christmas lads. Hope you all had a good one.

[Ian]

Ovenable food and a couple of films for me today. I'm thinking Banshees of Inisherin and Glass Onion. Y'know, festive stuff.

[randomlegend]

Having Christmas just the two of us after me working yesterday.

About to sort dinner and then watching the Matilda film later.

[Don]

Ovenable food and a couple of films for me today. I'm thinking Banshees of Inisherin and Glass Onion. Y'know, festive stuff.

https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/t...s-of-inisherin

Is it free on disney+?

[Boydy]

Anyone else getting bombarded with spam calls today? I've had about five so far.

[randomlegend]

[Giggles]

[Boydy]

Is that bread sauce?

[Giggles]

My cousin sent up some homemade pate for Christmas and I think a layer of it will be required on the big dinner sambo later. Bread sauce on that and all too @Boydy.

[randomlegend]

Is that bread sauce?

Yeah.

[Boydy]

Yeah.

Good man.

[Boydy]

My cousin sent up some homemade pate for Christmas and I think a layer of it will be required on the big dinner sambo later. Bread sauce on that and all too @Boydy.

Good stuff. It really annoys me how many people don't have bread sauce (or even know what it is). Your Christmas dinner (or any poultry roast) os only living up to half its potential if you're not having it.

On thr topic of pate though, I bought some from M&S on the 22nd. Went to have some on Christmas eve and it fucking went out of date on the 22nd. Whole thing went in the bin. It went off the day I bought it and it wasn't even fucking reduced.

[Boydy]

Anyone else getting bombarded with spam calls today? I've had about five so far.

Had fucking 12 of these now. All different numbers. I answered a couple just to see what they were and it was some robo-voice thing trying to pretend I'd been scammed on Amazon.

[Baz]

Won a Christmas quiz made by my brother in law.

Also got wished a merry Christmas on Instagram by Pritchard from Dirty Sanchez and it made my day. Not sure why.

[Baz]

My mum cooks an almighty Christmas dinner, with all the trimmings you could ask for,and we all eat at the dining table and it’s fantastic - better than any present I could unwrap. As previously mentioned, this years my dads turn.

But then on Boxing Day I’ve gotta go the in laws and they don’t have a Christmas dinner at all. Mother in law puts out like 5 pork pies, buttered barms, an open packet of Bernard Mathews turkey slices, and like shite buffet stuff like that, and it barely feeds the 5 of us who are there, and I’ve gotta eat it on my knee in the living room. Proper depressing. No wonder my wife hates her family, if that was her Christmas every year.

Took pics this year. Was my dad cooking cos my mum wasn’t well but the contrast is still baffling. Brace yourselves.

[Baz]

What I got off my dad:

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What I got at my in-laws:

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[Spikey M]

As depressing as the inlaws offering may be, your dad has served up raw sausages, over-boiled brussels, and boiled(?) potatoes? And been sick on top of it. And what is the greasey shite under those brussels about? It's a no from me.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Didn't take a picture of the whole spread but I did take a picture of my roasties:



First time I had done actual proper roast potatoes and they came out fairly well. Was a bit pushed for time so they didn't get enough time to par-boil but they came out decent enough.

For the meats we had the Polish Beef steaks, a Turkey Crown and gammon. Sprouts (which my Mum ruined despite telling her a foolproof method which she got right today), stuffing, pigs in blankets and potato dauphinoise were on the table too.

[Lewis]

That second plate isn't too bad for a Boxing Day spread. He's properly built this up to disappointment.

[Baz]

As depressing as the inlaws offering may be, your dad has served up raw sausages, over-boiled brussels, and boiled(?) potatoes? And been sick on top of it. And what is the greasey shite under those brussels about? It's a no from me.

The downfall was because he was thrown under the bus last minute (my mum was meant to be doing it again, after cancelling a planned operation but then was sick yesterday) nothing was ready so went down the much-hated everything in the middle of the table and help yourself, so I just slopped everything on with haste. We were missing my mums presentation. All tasted great though.

This photo was also taken before everyone else had finished filling their own plates, as I then went back for a pile of pigs in blankets, two more yorkshire puddings and the remaining sprouts.

There were no boiled potatoes on my plate at any point.

[Boydy]

Where's the bread sauce?

[Baz]

That second plate isn't too bad for a Boxing Day spread. He's properly built this up to disappointment.

if you say so, but you must consider that this is their only Christmas dinner.

[Lewis]

Yeah that's the weird bit.

[Boydy]

if you say so, but you must consider that this is their only Christmas dinner.

They didn't have Christmas dinner yesterday? Or they had the same thing yesterday as well?

[Baz]

They didn't have Christmas dinner yesterday? Or they had the same thing yesterday as well?

They definitely didn’t have Christmas Dinner and they didn’t have this either cos she only cooked the turkey this afternoon. No idea what they had but nothing resembling anything Christmassy.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Go on Christmas Day next year and check it out.

[Manc]

Hosted Christmas for the first time. Couldn't wait to get them out the door.

[igor_balis]

Where's the bread sauce?

your bread sauce related posts in this thread have a similar urgency to the kinda text messages I used to send at 2am after 8 pints

[igor_balis]

Hosted Christmas for the first time. Couldn't wait to get them out the door.

people wanted to go to your house? definitely happened