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  1. On 14/04/2021 at 04:17, darrenm said:

    It's interesting that Kelly MacDonald's career has been much more successful than it might seem. Both her and Ewan McGregor went onto a great career after Trainspotting. It took me a minute to realise it was her in Line Of Duty.

    What? You didn't recognize her? How can you ever forget THAT scene in Trainspotting?*

     

    *In fairness, I may have played it over in my mind several thousand times in the intervening years.

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  2. On 23/04/2021 at 11:27, villa4europe said:

    Working my way through the serpent, it's OK, got a cheap feel to it both in terms of production and acting which is spoiling it a bit 

    The story is interesting enough though, surprised me how popular backpacking was even back then 

    I can't believe had bad the lead actor is. He's like a competition winner.

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  3. On 19/04/2021 at 14:52, HanoiVillan said:

    The Cantonese food we eat in the UK has next-to-no relationship to the food eaten in Hong Kong or Guangzhou either. Cantonese people had either the good fortune or misfortune (depending how you consider it) to generally be among the first waves of immigrants from Asia to the UK, and as such were met by a British public who were much less adventurous in their food than they are today, less tolerant of spice and strong flavours. Which is why Cantonese food from 'Chinese takeaways' is near-universal chicken-dippers-in-jam shite. In my experience there are very few decent Chinese restaurants in this country - I'm lucky to live close to one of the few I've found, the Ruby Cantonese in Stourbridge - and having worked with a man of Cantonese parentage who grew up with parents in the takeaway trade, and talking about this with him extensively, there is not really any pretense that anything we eat in this country is even particularly close to real Cantonese food. I've also been to Hong Kong a few times and food there is approximately a million times better than the crap we have here.

    In our family we always said “going for a Ruby” rather than a Chinese.

    (Hanoi and I have already established that I come from the proper Black Country and he grew up picking his nose with a knife and fork.)

    I’m a huge fan of Szechuan. First time I had that spice I thought I was having an allergic reaction! Lucky over here in the US to have great Chinese in the majority of major cities. (See maps OT)

     

     

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