The Tube.

[Caomhaoin]

I was watching that one from an Irish pub/restaurant owned by an auld Irish lad who blamed his (admittedly feeble) son-in-law for all the fuck ups.

The 'authentic' Irish cuisine they were serving...😂

It's always an embarrassing question when foreigners ask about typical Irish dishes. I'm usually at a loss after 'eh, stew....the granny used to make Colcannon but it's leftovers'. I bought a book (in Granada of all places) about Irish cooking. Never heard tell of almost any of the dishes.

[StoutAndAle]

I was watching that one from an Irish pub/restaurant owned by an auld Irish lad who blamed his (admittedly feeble) son-in-law for all the fuck ups.

The 'authentic' Irish cuisine they were serving...😂

It's always an embarrassing question when foreigners ask about typical Irish dishes. I'm usually at a loss after 'eh, stew....the granny used to make Colcannon but it's leftovers'. I bought a book (in Granada of all places) about Irish cooking. Never heard tell of almost any of the dishes.

Reminds me of a Denis Leary line;

"I was in Barnes & Noble the other day, and I saw a book entitled "Irish Cuisine" and I laughed my balls off, okay? Irish Cuisine? IRISH CUISINE?! What the fuck are we famous for cuisine-wise? We put everything in a pot and we boil it for seventeen-and-a-half hours straight. Until you can eat it with a straw."

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I think he may have been getting confused with his own "comedy". Plus, "we"? He is the walking, barking epitome of an American smart-ass. "We" me hole yankee!

[Pedrito]

His people are from the next farm over from where my mother was born outside Killarney. He got it into his head one time that he wanted to buy some land back on the old sod where the wind shakes the barley down beyond the old boreen and offered my Ma a pittance for a field, an insulting amount of money coupled with an arrogant/aggressive attitude, whereupon she told him to stick his shillelagh where the sun don't shine 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Or where he thinks the sun shines out of, if it'll get the message across to him quicker!

[mickO)))]

It's fairly mental what goes on behind the kitchen door in restaurants though. Lads dropping chickens on the floor and horsing them on to the frying pan anyways. Very 'down and out in Paris and London' esque.

It's just like any other business profits are the one and only thing that matters. I have two mates who work as chefs and some of stories they tell are awful. They say you never really want to see what goes on in the kitchen of your favourite restaurants. Most place don't care as well because if you get something like food poisoning it's very hard after the fact to prove were exactly it came from. 

[DeletedUsermNqGIiIuGy]

An ex of mine worked the front desk at a radison blue hotel (one of the 'fancier' ones). She wouldn't even eat from the kitchen food :?

[Carnage]

Watched the first episode of the new Twilight Zone last night, it was pretty poor. Predictability should not be The Twilight Zone's most prominent characteristic.

[StoutAndAle]

Binged the final season of "Silicon Valley" last weekend. It definitely regained its quality.

Started "Hunters" on Amazon and I'm 50/50. Tonally it's all over the shop flitting from batshit comedy characters like Josh Radnor's failed actor to something akin to a TV movie weepy drama,

Spoiler

there's an impromptu ensemble dance scene in it for fuck's sake

[close]

. They've completely made up gory death-camp atrocities (as if the real thing wasn't bad enough!) for the sake of grim entertainment.

I would be more forgiving of its flaws if it didn't start with a caption "Based On True Events". It's more like a Garth Ennis comic written after he'd watched "Operation Finale" half pissed than anything based on historical knowledge - which would be perfectly acceptable as pulpy action tale. But don't pass it off as fact based.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Those previous two Jonathan Frakes directed episodes of Picard were pretty awful, with their horribly failed attempts at humour and emotion. I was afraid the arse might have fallen out of the whole thing, but last night's ep was great.

Stay in front of the camera number 1!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

A bit toasted last night, I clicked onto the second season of Preacher and watched a few eps. Even by the time I was fully sobered up, and then the one I watched this morning, it seemed considerably better than the first season. I'm guessing it goes to pot again soon after...?

[Emphyrio]

Each season I found to have major ups and downs. Too much filler with a few great moments interspersed. I finished it out cos I'd got so far into it but not sure it's one I could wholeheartedly recommend. That doesn't really answer your query, obviously. Unless just only watch it while stoned?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I really found the first season to be almost devoid of "great moments", and I'm pretty sure I watched some of that stoned too 

I do still find the contrast of gore violence overload to sexual chasteness grating. Not that I'm aching for nudity, but as a token of US moral perversion when it comes to sex vs violence, it leaps out particularly strong in the context of Preacher.

[Emphyrio]

Hadn't really considered that. Fair point actually.

[Eoin McLove]

I've been binge watching Friday Night Dinner for the past couple of days.  So funny.