Category: Piffle

  • Thought Vomit #181: ft. An Even Better Bacon Sandwich
    Thought Vomit #181: ft. An Even Better Bacon Sandwich

    A while back, I shared my thoughts on how to make a better bacon sandwich. Since then, and thanks to advice from others, I can now make an even better bacon sandwich. Do everything I advised in the last post, but add one extra step. Lightly fry one side of the bread in the bacon fat.…

  • Thought Vomit #180: ft. Not So Bored Games
    Thought Vomit #180: ft. Not So Bored Games

    I’ve been playing a lot of board games recently. I mean, I’ve been doing a lot of writing recently, and when I get the chance, I like to unwind with some dice, some meeples, and a score track of some kind. Here are some of the better ones that have made the table, and I…

  • Thought Vomit #179: ft. A Better Bacon Sandwich
    Thought Vomit #179: ft. A Better Bacon Sandwich

    Be honest, it’s something you’ve known for a long time now, deep down, but you don’t want to admit it to yourself. Bacon sandwiches just aren’t as nice as they used to be. And each time you bite into another disappointing one, you wonder why they just don’t taste as good as they used to;…

  • Thought Vomit #178: ft. Magnum P.I.
    Thought Vomit #178: ft. Magnum P.I.

    It’s always a pot luck when you revisit a television show from your youth, especially one you remember fondly, or associate heavily with your childhood (think Knight Rider, Airwolf, MacGyver). Or when you watch a show that was critically acclaimed at the time, but you were too young to appreciate (or be allowed to stay…

  • Thought Vomit #177: ft. Pineapples

    On this week’s Sundays Supplement, I asked a question that in my heart I knew was probably a stupid one. But I asked it anyway, as is my wont. Do pineapples grow on trees? It lead to quite a lot of discussion, but the answer iszi gave was correct, and when she showed me the…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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