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I'm not convinced any country gets a kebab quite the same as a British one.

Full disclosure, I hate the classic British kebab. Nasty slices of, as far as I can tell, brown crayon. Old salad items. Cheap sauce. Eugh.

The closest I came to liking kebabs was, probably, not a kebab at all - Chicken tikka jobbie on a naan from the Queens Fish & Chip shop in Lichfield. That was fantastic, and passably spicy.

I've had a couple of different kebabs at others insistence in Germany and.. It tastes like they were cooked with some kind of food standards involved - although the "meat" still tastes like slices of brown crayon to me.

Having seen a friend consume some awful, awful, looking piles of brown crayon and ancient salad with more garlic sauce than is strictly safe, given the unknown origin of the sauce and that it's been kept at a balmy 25 degrees since its purchase - I can't stomach the concept of a 'classic' British kebab again. Although, so far, I'm not sold on other kebabs either.

 

There's a proper Turkish place in town, they do a nice kebab; it's a full-on sit down restaurant.

Although we did once see them on an episode of Can't Pay We'll Take it Away

 

PMSL - almost literally.

 

The ONLY place I've ever truly enjoyed a kebab was Down Unda. Believe it or not, they actually look like a healthy eating choice over (well, down) there.

 

Tha's a long way to travel for a kebab, though

 

Hard to beat a good kebab, though.

 

Oh god damn you lot... I'm supposed to be making a stir-fry later, not ordering a kebab!

 

If the weather holds and the butcher has stock I think I'll have another crack at this later;





Butterflied leg of lamb, with some nice chared crunchy bits

 

If you want one a bit closer to home - there's a Kebab stand in the Shangri-La Al Bandar resort in Muscat that changed my life, and has also ruined all other Kebabs for me forever.

 

Mmmm. Childbirth.

 

I'm slipping down the rabbithole of custom Gameboy and Gameboy Advance cartridge flashing because of sodding Pokemon.

There's a rom hack for Red that allows you to catch/trade in game to get all 151 pokemon without needing someone with Blue. Which is nice. Although I have Yellow, and an action replay that lets me set what pokemon to catch so I can fill in the blanks quite easily (Albeit longwinded)..

But for the GBA there's a rom hack for Fire Red that, I believe, does the same. But I don't fancy playing it on an emulator, what with having the hardware to hand with a fancyschmancy screen. But although I could buy the Red 151 hack on a cart (I saw a place that sold it in a repro box with a repro manual and all that. Not sure on the legality of that, but it looked cool), I can't for the Fire Red hack.

So.. I'd need a cart flashing tool to sort that. So I might as well do my own Red 151 as well.

So, of course, I've gone and found a cart flasher (From Australia, of all places) that also has a GBA cart coming that does what I need for the Fire Red.

They sell a build-it-yourself GBC cart I could use for the Red 151 - But the parts I'd need to finish it are best obtained from a legit cart, so instead I reckon it's easier to buy a Gold or Silver cart (Which is supported by the flashing tool, I checked), reflash that, and re-shell the cart to suit. What's the best way to reshell the game? Buying a Chinese clone of the original, and chucking the contents of the game shell in the parts drawer. I can't reflash that cart, though, because the China clones basically all do some ****ery to get the game saving a different way and I'd need to patch the Red 151 rom to do the same (Lol, no). Same for the Fire Red hack on the GBA.

All in all spending like.. €100 for two games just to get them onto the actual console.

 

Gotta catch 'em all!

 

Some dog owners. Again.

Walking through the woods. Bagged up dog crap hanging from trees (waiting to be picked up? Bloody long walk then) or ditched at the side of paths.

If you're not going to take it why the feck bag it? Not only is the dog crap still there you've now encased it in plastic.

FFS, there are some right cockwombles out there.

 

Because the law says they have to bag it. Sheep, bloody sheep. Too thick to think for themselves.

 

They removed most i386 support from Ubuntu on 20.04 except some very specific packages, mainly to support Valve's Steam.

 

I share your hatred. One of my favourite past times is walking the parents' Shiba when I visit (his favourite past time is occasionally humping my leg). If I can be arsed to carry around a bag of poo for upwards of an hour before throwing it away, so can everyone else.