Football's rubbish, isn't it? Don't even know why people pay it so much attention. Anyway, to try and temporarily take our minds off of what is a pretty glum time at the moment, I'm bringing back an old classic - Top 5s. So let's have them: Films - TV Shows - Actors/ Actresses - Musicians/ Bands - Comedians - Holiday Destinations - Home Cooked Meals - Takeaway Meals - Sweets/ Crisps/ Chocolates - Drinks - Board Games - Computer Games - Sports other than football - You don't have to pick 5, go bigger or lower. Feel free to throw in other topics but nothing Tottenham related, don't lower the mood
Films - The Rock (1996), Under Siege, LOTR Trilogy, The Last Samurai, Scarface. TV Shows - Vikings, Yellowstone, The Last Kingdom, The Inbetweeners, Animal Kingdom. Actors/ Actresses - Denzel, Nic Cage, Mark Wahlberg, Tom Hardy, Sandra Bullock. Musicians/ Bands - Eminem, CASisDEAD, Royal Blood, George Ezra, Olly Alexander. Comedians - Jimmy Carr, Micky Flanagan, James Acaster, Lee Evans, Romesh. Holiday Destinations - Malta, Amsterdam, Devon, Cornwall, Spain. Home Cooked Meals - Steak Pie, DH Special Gourmet Burgers, Pork and Beef meatballs, Roast Gammon, anything on the BBQ. Takeaway Meals - Chicken Vindaloo, Curry Goat, Kofte, Devastator Burger at Red Dog, Chick-King Chicken. Sweets/ Crisps/ Chocolates - Chipsticks, Onion Rings, Pork Scratchings, Guylian, Scampi Fries. Drinks - Mango Rubicon, Lilt, Beef and Tomato Cuppa Soup, Snowball, Local Devon/ Cornish Ciders. Board Games/ Quiz Games - Monopoly, Tension, Incohearant, Chess, Cards Against Humanity. Computer Games - Assasins Creed, God of War, FIFA, Football Manager, GTA. Sports other than football - MMA, Boxing, Rugby, Darts, Women's Volleyball.
Films - Parasite ,All Quiet on the Western front (original) . City of God .Baader Meinhoff Complex ,Battle Royale .
Today's answers are... Films - The Producers, The Nice Guys, Starman, Field of Dreams, Shawshank Redemption TV Shows - Porridge, The Sopranos, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Star Trek, any music documentary Actors/ Actresses - Steve McQueen, Gene Wilder, Gina Davis, Shirley Maclaine, Brian Blessed Musicians/ Bands - The Clash, The Damned, The Pogues, The Cramps, a whole load of others Comedians - Billy Connolly, Tim Vine, Steve Wright, Jasper Carrott, Frankie Boyle Holiday Destinations - My brothers place near Valencia, Crete, South of France, Budapest, English South Coast Home Cooked Meals - Roast beef, Chilli Con Carne, Lasagne, Creole Pork (my own invention), fry up (with beans and mushrooms) Takeaway Meals - Fish 'n' chips, Chicken Dhansak, Singapore fried rice noodles, Kebab, American Hot pizza Sweets/ Crisps/ Chocolates - Dry roasted peanuts, salted peanuts, chilli peanuts, honey roasted peanuts, Worcester Sauce Wheat Crunchies Drinks - Aspall's Cider, Henry Weston's Vintage Cider, Merrydown Silver Label Dry Cider, Red Wine, Gin & Tonic....cheers! Board Games - Dominos, Cards, Risk (as a kid), Subbuteo (as a kid), anything but Cluedo Computer Games - Only ever played on a Wii Sports other than football - Anything involving motorcycles, cricket, ice hockey, golf, rugby union
Thanks DH, I have gone from me depressed about Spurs to being depressed about my age as I compile my list of things from a long time ago!! Films – Monty Pythons Life of Brian, Blazing Saddles, Quadrophenia, The Battle of Britain, Top Secret TV Shows – Red Dwarf, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, Dave Gormans Modern Life Is Goodish, Ashes to Ashes, Line of Duty. Actors/ Actresses – Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster, Keely Hawes, Hugh Laurie Musicians/ Bands –Paul Weller (all incarnations), The Clash, The Undertones, The Stranglers, Amy MacDonald (hard to choose just 5 music being my great interest away from football) Comedians – Dave Gorman, Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Greg Davies, Bob Mortimer Holiday Destinations – Italy, Austria, Crete, Madeira, Lake District Home Cooked Meals – Roast Pork, Beef Casserole, Fish Pie, Steak and Chips, Bacon and Pasta in blue cheese and cream sauce. Takeaway Meals – Fish and Chips, Chicken doner meat & chips, Sweet and Sour Hong Kong Style, Chicken Biriani, Sweets/ Crisps/ Chocolates – More of a biscuit / cake person – Chocolate Digestives, Tunnocks Tea Cakes, Bahlsen Choco Leibniz, Custard Creams, Viennese Biscuits Drinks – IPA, Bourbon, Tea, Ginger Ale, Apple juice Board Games – Escape From Colditz, Scrabble, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Subbuteo Computer Games –International Soccer & Graham Gooch’s Test Cricket (Commodore 64), Sensible Soccer (megadrive), Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf PS2, FIFA Sports other than football – Cricket, Golf, Darts, Cycling, Athletics Days out – Airshow, 20/20 Cricket, Music Festival, Beer Festival, Meeting old friends
Due to lack of time to reply properly at the minute, I’ll just pick a couple of categories for recommendations. TV/Series - “Dark” on Netflix. Never seen anything like it before, and it’s well worth a watch. Travel - Tokyo. What an incredible city, would highly recommend to anyone thinking of heading East. Infact, Japan in general is utterly amazing.
Trebs and Luv been grilling me for not seeing City of God, I just can’t do foreign language stuff, made an exception for Narcos though.
Heading to Budapest in May for cousin’s stag, everyone I know has said it’s a great city. Someone likes a “drink drink” it seems . Henry Weston’s is fantastic though, powerful cider.
Days out is a good one. Days Out - Short notice pub nights, Local town festival, Christmas Markets, Paint Balling, Quad Biking through woods.
Budapest's great...the women are as beautiful as the architecture and dental work is cheap. I went out there to have my impacted wisdom teeth out. Quoted £3.5k over here...the best dentist in Budapest did them for less than £500. I drink black coffee...but I'm no coffee bore - no sugar or milk, Colombian. After that, it's booze or water. If you like Weston's, Lidl's vintage cider is made by them and is half the price!
Tokyo looks class, Asia in general is on my bucket list, still a few in Europe I wanna do first though.
I’ve said to the lads on the Prem board that I’ve “skim watched” GoT. Could never really get fully into it and often fast forwarded the parts that bored me (which was a fair amount) but I have technically seen all episodes. I was always fighting the Vikings > GoT battle lol.
