14778 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 00:41:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61251#post-178165 Wed, 15 May 2013 12:04:30 +0000 Lenny Bee 178165@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Many congrats Wrenfoe.</p> <p>A NiB in the hand's worth an FP in the bush. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61251#post-178008 Tue, 14 May 2013 14:01:16 +0000 Titus 178008@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>All credit to Humphrys, he didn't gloat or mock Entwistle at the presntation, or say "Yeah, I skewered the bastard!"</p> <p>He gave Entwistle full credit for his honesty in accepting his shortcomings and admitting his failures in the Savile issue. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61251#post-178006 Tue, 14 May 2013 13:54:00 +0000 Wrenfoe 178006@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'll be honest - baked beans on toast is more my level </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61251#post-178004 Tue, 14 May 2013 13:52:35 +0000 sredni vashta 178004@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You know your cookery stuff Wrenfoe. If I tried writing this I wouldn't get further than "boil kettle". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61251#post-177993 Tue, 14 May 2013 12:59:01 +0000 Wrenfoe 177993@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><strong>Today programme presenter John Humphrys was crowned the surprise winner of this year’s Masterchef. Humphrys won over the judges with a breakfast menu that included the Director General of the BBC sliced and diced, then served on a platter.</strong></p> <p>Humphrys was inspired in the kitchen by U.S. breakfasts, where politicians gorge on Pork barrel and Senatorial waffle, washed down by kool-aid. He had to battle through from 50 contestants to reach the final three despite being accused by Jonathan Aitken in the earlier rounds of "poisoning the well of democratic debate” with a rather disappointing vanilla chocolate panna cotta.</p> <p>Humphrys was pleasantly surprised with his final dish: “You normally expect some “duck” maybe even some “dive” when preparing George Entwistle. Instead we got a meal with grace and elegance”. He explained his process:</p> <p>1) “Tenderize: Let the tabloids give him a right hammering. Wait until he looks bloodied.”<br /> 2) “Season: Oil him up with some soft questions. Allow him to caramelize. Be careful not to puncture him too early.”<br /> 3) “Then turn up the heat: Until he cries like a baby!”</p> <p>Judge Gregg Wallace explained: “You can usually give him a good prod out the end, if he’s still a bit rare he’ll be soft and wobbly but if he’s well done he will feel very firm and unyielding. Done up like a kipper!” </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61208#post-177909 Mon, 13 May 2013 21:36:27 +0000 Al OPecia 177909@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sure did. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61208#post-177878 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:22:22 +0000 Lenny Bee 177878@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Only a complete cad and a bounder would ask such a question -</p> <p>*blushes profusely and snorts*</p> <p>Nevertheless sir, I hope you enjoyed. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61208#post-177871 Mon, 13 May 2013 18:09:01 +0000 Al OPecia 177871@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Are you the All New Lenny Bee? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61208#post-177862 Mon, 13 May 2013 17:33:22 +0000 Lenny Bee 177862@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Many thanks for the seal of approval Golgo &amp; LS. </p> <p>Much appreciated this end. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61211#post-177833 Mon, 13 May 2013 14:18:45 +0000 Golgo13 177833@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I might have dreamt this, but I remember taking a pair apart and finding that the "lens" was a red feather...the spaces between the barbs of the feather created slits that made an object lit from behind appear a little smaller... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61211#post-177829 Mon, 13 May 2013 14:11:15 +0000 blacklesbian 177829@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Used to get ads for these in Bazooka bubble gum packs too - presumably advertising standards were slacker then. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61211#post-177828 Mon, 13 May 2013 13:51:57 +0000 apepper 177828@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>NHS managers are considering legal action over the purchase of hundreds of thousands of pairs of, so called, X-ray glasses. "When we saw the advert in the back of a comic book, they seemed ideal for health professionals.", explained a senior acquisitions manager for Bart's hospital in London, "We ordered 5000 for this hospital alone. When they arrived we were a little suspicious that they'd been made of cardboard with red cellophane for the lenses, but persevered with trying them in A+E, for ambulance crew and in the nurses' hostel. In all cases, they were useless. So we want our £1.50 back." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61208#post-177808 Mon, 13 May 2013 12:25:21 +0000 Psycadelic Squirrel 177808@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>He's on to a winner there </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61208#post-177806 Mon, 13 May 2013 12:23:12 +0000 Golgo13 177806@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61208#post-177804 Mon, 13 May 2013 12:19:00 +0000 Lenny Bee 177804@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>With the Tories split on Europe even wider than a Moulin Rouge chorus line dancing the can-can, Labour supremo, Ed Miliband, is about to announce a raft of hardline election pledges.</p> <p>In a speech to Derby car workers tomorrow, he will say that he'll fight, fight and fight again to save the British sauces he loves. Then he'll pour scorn on German spaetzle sauce before warning Angela Merkel to expect plenty of British made Worcestershire and HP sauce when she visits 10 Downing Street after the next general election.</p> <p>Later he will fly to Droitwich where he'll assure housewives that a Labour government will ring-fence the price of tomato sauce. Telling them he's a pretty straight sort of guy who feels the hand of God on his shoulder, Miliband will reveal allergies to French véloute and béchamel sauce before handing out copies of a recipe for his mother's onion sauce. “Ask me my three main priorities for government and I will tell you they're sauce, sauce and sauce,” he'll tell local businessmen over a fish, chip and Doncaster sauce supper. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=61171#post-177689 Sun, 12 May 2013 12:26:56 +0000 drs 177689@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Staff have recently reported witnessing TV programmes being produced in the BBC’s new central London studios.<br /> “We thought all that nonsense had finished when Television Centre was closed at the end of March” one insider is quoted as saying.<br /> The nasty business of actually making programmes had thought to have been moved to the extremities of the UK, with Salford used to placate those with a ‘northern accent’.<br /> BBC press spokesman, Sebastian Russell, promised to look into the allegations.<br /> “We will look into any such allegation. That sort of thing hasn’t happened for a long time. We are moving forward now, building shiny new headquarters in London and around the UK, setting up advisory boards and giving employment to think-tanks and consultancy companies”.<br /> An official memo has warned staff not to leave scripts or ‘programme ideas’ lying around and to clear desks when leaving the office.<br /> “We don’t need that sort of thing ‘polluting’ the clean lines of our desks in a new and invigorated BBC”, newly appointed BBC Director General, James Murdoch, explained. </p>