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It's Ken Doll vs Chucky. Masterchef The Professionals Thread 4

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Halsall · 28/11/2018 20:28

Let battle commence.

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OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 29/11/2018 21:05

Friends with benefits Schad. Shocking !

SchadenfreudePersonified · 29/11/2018 21:06

Thank you Wolf

Nah - I think Monica is out of Marcus' league

whatashower · 29/11/2018 21:22

Friends with “benefits” schaden

Not our Marcus, no, no, no.

whatashower · 29/11/2018 21:22

Oops sorry forgot to refresh page. Too overcome.

Wolfcub · 29/11/2018 21:23

If marcus needs a friend with benefits I’m prepared to be that friend

SpanishTiles · 29/11/2018 21:44

Grin what have I started.

they are most definitely lovers on the weekend

Grinchly · 29/11/2018 22:07

I went off Ol' twinkly eyes when I read some gossip about him on another thread.
So now I am wondering if Mon is perhaps bi-curious. Or if I am.
I do wish she hadn't bleached her hair though.

Wolfcub · 29/11/2018 22:08

What’s the gossip Grinchly. I agree about the bleached hair

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 29/11/2018 22:17

I like her hair. And I seem to recall that Mon (blessed be her name) is happily hitched with lovely kinder. So no more smutty talk about her and Marcus. (But tell us the goss.)
See y'all next week.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 29/11/2018 22:23

I also want to know the goss. And `i like Mon's hair.

I used to like Marcus but now I think he's a bit creepy not as attractive as I first thought.

I think it was just that in comparison to He-who-shall-not-be-named he looked vair' lovely.

Pencilmuseum · 29/11/2018 22:37

Au reservoir schaden - so you like E f Benson as well as B Pym.

Footle · 29/11/2018 22:52

Pencilmuseum, I thought the same about Matthew's royal antecedents when he first appeared - tried to post that he shared a parent with Prince William, but my phone sabotaged me.
Great minds, you and me.

Ewanthescreamsheep · 30/11/2018 12:29

Aw just watched on catch up. Poor Dave - really liked him. He reminded me of Gary Oldman in the Fifth Element!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 30/11/2018 16:17

I do indeed Pencil - and I assume that you do also?

Pencilmuseum · 30/11/2018 20:01

Yes schadenfreude. Recently had a big book cull and only kept EF Benson, B Pym, Bill James' Harpur and Iles series, Lucky Jim, Molesworth how to be topp and a few AGatha Christie's. How ruthless am I? And as for the cookbooks - that's another story. Have a good weekend.

Footle · 01/12/2018 09:31

Pencilmuseum, you get the Mrs Joyful prize for raffiawork for your choices.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 01/12/2018 16:20

Bill James? - I know not that name! I will get me to the library on Monday.

I, too have the Molesworth books - which are Topp as Any Fule Kno - I have Lucky Jim, but my favourite Kingsley Amis is "The Old Devils". I couldn't part with any Iris Murdoch - especially "The Sea, The Sea" or "A Word Child"

I have found my people . . . .

Halsall · 01/12/2018 18:23

The sublime Molesworth would have no time for Greggggg.

he hav a face like a sqished tomato. I diskard him

would surely be his magnificently concise verdikt.

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Halsall · 01/12/2018 18:25

PS Schaden I LOVE The Sea, The Sea Smile

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Grinchly · 01/12/2018 19:59

me too halsall tho many many years since I last read it...
I had a huge cull some years ago, and regretted it a bit.
I couldn't part with Hardy, Brontes, Waugh or N Mitford, and the poetry and biog shelf remained intact. Got rid of lots of the more mod lit fiction. Doesn't have the hold that the old faves do somehow.
Y Y re the cookbooks. I read them like novels Confused

Pencilmuseum · 01/12/2018 20:34

fellow readers - if you do try Bill James, try and get the early ones and read them in order as the author is about 80 now and (although it pains me to say it - past his best & writing the same book ad infinitum). Police procedural revisited - where the cops are as bad as the villains (who have memorable names such as Panicking Ralph and Caring Oliver). But I digress - maybe I should try Iris Murdoch again. I can remember trying her years ago when I felt like Adrian Mole who was attempting to read them and do his exams at the same time & his mother advised him to take it easy in case his brain exploded. V wordy isn't she? I've also kept all the Adrian Moles. Sue TOwnsend was no writer but caught the flavour of adolescent angst and zeitgeist to a t. Maybe I should try a book club but can imagine getting there and immediately plotting to get out again if the fellow attendees weren't on my wavelength.

Footle · 01/12/2018 23:42

Oddly I'm just having another go at Iris Murdoch. DH and a daughter are her devotees but she's always got on my tits. Tried Under the Net but our copy is vintage, not in a good way. The Sandcastle smells better so I'm on that. Misogyny rules.

Halsall, you win the thread with our Nigel's Gurning Gregg description

SchadenfreudePersonified · 02/12/2018 08:07

Seconding Halsall's Molesworth description of Gregggg.

I may have a tee-shirt printed.

Pencilmuseum · 02/12/2018 08:36

I'll buy one schaden

SchadenfreudePersonified · 02/12/2018 16:35

Pencil

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