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The yearly work ‘Top Three’s’ chat while on mind numbing training!!

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Lardychops · 29/01/2026 21:49

Comes around every year on a specific pointless training/team building day amongst my colleagues and I love love love it as in the down time we play the ‘Big Three’ game of basically anything we can think of !!

The best of today and my quick -fire answers were -

My Top 3 movies of all time:

JAWS
DEATH ON THE NILE (Peter Ustinov/Mia Farrow 1970’s one)
CASINO

Top 3 meals of all time:

-ROAST WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS
-MIXED FRIED SEAFOOD PLATTER AND ALI OLI WITH TONATO AND ONION SALAD
-PAD THAI NOODLES WITH SOFT SHELL CRAB

Top 3 songs of all time:

-ME AND BOOBY MCGEE -Janis Joplin
-JE NE REGRETE RIEN- Edith Piaf
-BAT OUT OF HELL -Meatloaf

Top 3 actors/actresses:

-BRAD PITT (Post 50)
-KEVIN SPACEY
-GARY OLDMAN

Top 3 Places in the world:

-HONG KONG
-RONDA -Spain
-HALONG BAY -Vietnam

Top 3 fantasy shags:

-RAY WINSTONE
-LOUIS THEROUX
-THE HOUND (GAME OF THROWNS)

Top 3 TV series of all time:

-THE SOPRANOS
-SLOW HORSES
-THE GOOD LIFE

Top 3 snacks:

-CHEESE ON TOAST- WORCESTER SAUCE AND KETCHUP
-iCE COLD APPLE SLICES WITH PEANUT BUTTER /NUTELLA
-CRUMPETS DRIPPING WITH BUTTER - 1 HONEY ONE MARMITE

Top 3 luxuries would take to a desert island- none can involve electricity or internet:

-MOISTURISER -face and body
-AN LIFE TIME SUPPLY OF SALT/PEPPER/CONDIMENTS
-A MAGICAL SELF REFILLING CRATE OF GOOD RED WINE AND SELF COOLING BEER

Top 3 Books of all time:
-THE SILVER SWORD - (children’s book) Ian Seraillier
-WELCOME TO THE WOKE TRIALS - Julie Burchill
-VANITY FAIR - William Thackeray

Top 3 celebrities /famous people/ historic figures:

-JK ROWLING
-JOAN OF ARC
-BILLY CONNELLY

Top 3 ways to spend an hour:

-DRINKING A MARGARITA WATCHING A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET
-CHILLING IN A HOT TUB ON THE DECKING OF A WOODEN LODGE WITH SNOW ON THE GROUND
-WATCHING THE PLANES TAKE OFF FROM THE ALL INCLUSIVE AIRPORT BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE WAITING FOR FLIGHT TO BE CALKED

Top 3 life tips -

-CHOSE THE OTHER PARENT TO YOUR CHILDREN VERY CAREFULLY
-ALWAYS MAKE YOUR BED
-PARENTING SHOULD BE LIKE A BENEVOLENT DICTATORSHIP NOT A DEMOCRACY (MUCH LESS AN ANARCHY)

Anyone else want to play along , any other big 3 suggestions ???

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Campbellcarrotsoup · 29/01/2026 22:48

Top 3 Books - The Owl Service Alan Garner, Midnight is a Place Joan Aitkin, Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak ( but i also love the Silver Sword)
Top 3 musical decades - 1990s, 1980s - 1960w
Top 3 crisp flavours - prawn cocktail (walkers), cream cheese and chives (seabrooks) cheese and onion (walkers)
Top 3 Series - The Good Wife/ Fight, The Good Life, The Final Series of Black Adder

Campbellcarrotsoup · 29/01/2026 22:51

Also top 3 fantasy Shags
Javier Bardem - Any time
Sean Bean - Sharpe Era
Peter Dinklage - Tyrion Era

TriflingToe · 29/01/2026 22:55

Top 3 …

Ice cream flavours
(Pistachio
Rum & Raisin
Dulche de Leche)

Lardychops · 30/01/2026 16:12

Campbellcarrotsoup · 29/01/2026 22:48

Top 3 Books - The Owl Service Alan Garner, Midnight is a Place Joan Aitkin, Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak ( but i also love the Silver Sword)
Top 3 musical decades - 1990s, 1980s - 1960w
Top 3 crisp flavours - prawn cocktail (walkers), cream cheese and chives (seabrooks) cheese and onion (walkers)
Top 3 Series - The Good Wife/ Fight, The Good Life, The Final Series of Black Adder

Couldn’t agree more about the music
amd yes blackadder gotta be up there with the all time greats

The Silver Sword changed the course of my life in terms of my love of history and the Holocaust being my keen area of interest when studying.

Prawn cocktail though - jury’s out for me there …

xx

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Lardychops · 30/01/2026 16:14

TriflingToe · 29/01/2026 22:55

Top 3 …

Ice cream flavours
(Pistachio
Rum & Raisin
Dulche de Leche)

Oh Dulce de Leche on an Andalusian beach late September
can you just imagine it today (Baltic here(

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Lardychops · 30/01/2026 16:15

Campbellcarrotsoup · 29/01/2026 22:51

Also top 3 fantasy Shags
Javier Bardem - Any time
Sean Bean - Sharpe Era
Peter Dinklage - Tyrion Era

I forgot about JB - Yummers !

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