Be Excellent To Each Other

OFFICIAL

I got the ICE last year, so fuck yes you have to.

Also, I ate the ENTIRE WORLD

Hang on, hate, not ate.

Although I have had a lot of goats cheese and rosemary and thyme flavour crisps. Which are pretty fecking weird, tbf.

Lol. The year of ice I had 26.

It doesn't really count as alcohol.

With a brand new invention?

Naked isn’t angelic. Luigi (who you’ve met) bought some wine from a “Sienese vineyard” as he was curious, because he knows all the vineyards in Siena, and none of them grow the alleged grape.

Two weeks later, he was in Kiev and a bottle of wine priced at less than £1 equivalent carrying the exact same label apart from one difference (Montenegro, not Siena) was in the supermarket.

I was briefly a member of Naked Wines years ago, absolute dogshit IMO (sorry about the wine aficionado jargon here). Basically a hipster honey trap.

We've got a great little independent wine merchant here but he's expensive. As much as I'll be laughed at for saying this, you can't go too far wrong with Coop silver label wines, they do a fantastic Chablis for a tenner whose equivalent costs £25 at posh outlets.

Even Waitrose do some relative bargains at the upper end; their Primitivo Di Manduria is wonderfully unoaked, unpretentious, bursting with fruit and just about the best Autumn red I can think of (great with fennel salami, oh my word yes... try it, you will thank me), and its less than a tenner a bottle. Fecking superb. Just make sure you decant, or at least open 2 hours before drinking, but that goes for any middleweight red.

In my experience, supermarket wine buyers are very fussy and quality control is very high.

19 I think for me.

Just reading this has made my entire stomach reflux out of my mouth.

Jolly good. MrsA has no excuses now.

"I'm not stupid enough to fall for stupid tricks" said MrsA. Just now.

Welp, it looks like I can come Friday night, now

Pay up

On it.

Hurrah!

Yay!

Awesome!

Mr Chris can get some of his deposit back now

That's not how deposits work

Ask my mum

True. But he can get at least some of the rest back, above the deposit, because I'm kind.

@Jem and Gazchap. I'll be bringing my Switch too. Will you be bringing the TV dock and how many controllers do you have? The reason being that I've just received Bomberman and thought it might be fun to get as many people as we can on that.

I've got the 2 Joycons and a pro controller that I'll bring.

Nice technohat, Giphy!

Incidentally, does anyone want me to provide a techno hat again?

Yeah

If it's not too much bother... yes please!

I promise to remember to secure the controller to my wrist this time.

Yep.

I can possibly bring the Rift too if there's any shared multiplayer jobbers, Dave?

Also if anyone has any entertaining rubbish they no longer want, the quiz happily accepts these and will recycle them into High Quality Prizes.

Just got whatever it comes with as standard.. so the uh.. joycon thingies

That'll be the fellas... Are you bringing the TV dock?

I can do.

I have flamme rouge.

If you can, then we could get a five player Bomberman game on the go... I think... the box says it will do up to 8 players but we'll only have 5 controllers between us.

Can you add controllers with bluetooth? Wiimotes?

They are bluetooth I think but it'll only work with Switch controllers.

Fucking Nintendo.

You can add the various 8-bitdo controllers and they work fine with the switch if anyone has some of those ?

You can also add USB C Wii-u controllers (obviously need a hub and a way to attach the controllers)

i am working in Derby Friday morning, if any one needs picking up from the station.

Starting to see flashback stuff from Facebook et al of cottages past

fantastic isn't it

Like this?

We should name them like 'Friends' episodes, otherwise they all run into each other.

The one with the limbo. The one with the stick. The one with the dinosaurs. Etc etc.

The tune is stuck in my head...