James On Twitter

[Vivienne]

James has tweeted about cheese. Whether or not to refrigerate cheddar and parmesan cheese.

[eolise]

lol I dont know either kinds of cheese!

[devil-may-care]

I refrigerate them unless I'm going to be using them soon. Then I let them come to room temperature. ;D

[muggs]

I think Oz is rubbing off on him.

[pie]

Dec 23, 2011 22:32:16 GMT muggs said:

I think Oz is rubbing off on him.

Maybe Oz hacked into his account. ;D

[cockney]

Dec 23, 2011 22:32:16 GMT muggs said:

I think Oz is rubbing off on him.

I get the feeling that Oz would love to rub off on James.

[dit]

Cheese in restaurants - Due to recent legislation in the UK (grrr!) cheese has to be kept refrigerated until required, which means if you fancy cheese at the end of the meal the only way you can get it at the correct temperature (room) is to insist they take it out of the fridge the moment you step through the door. In some places you really have to insist.

I dislike legislation intensely.

[liverbird]

I dislike cheese!

[aaurora]

Dec 23, 2011 23:56:55 GMT cockney said:

Dec 23, 2011 22:32:16 GMT muggs said:

I think Oz is rubbing off on him.

I get the feeling that Oz would love to rub off on James.

That was probably saved for the Oz & James Bonk For Britain Limited Edition DVD

[dit]

Please tell me how to remove that image from my brain, now you've put it there.



Won't go away.






Eeuuw!

[jacqui]

Yes can we get back to the subject of cheese ;D This is a public thread after all

I'm sure in May's Britain cheese in restaurants would be served at room tempreture ;D

[rx7]

James was tweeting about beer today

[Vivienne]

Try this: pint of bitter with a gherkin lightly pickled with peppers and spices.Gherkin first then swig of beer:Complimentary. This was his tweet about 2 hrs ago. Guess he's feeling better!

[amie8]

Jan 23, 2012 22:58:07 GMT Vivienne said:

Try this: pint of bitter with a gherkin lightly pickled with peppers and spices.Gherkin first then swig of beer:Complimentary. This was his tweet about 2 hrs ago. Guess he's feeling better!

Or he could be delirious.

Actually, he's right. I eat gherkins (or cornichons in this case, for it was the French who first pickled them with spices and peppercorns) like sweeties, and they do go well with a slug of ale. One of the pubs where I used to drink (now closed, sadly) used to serve gherkins as bartop nibbles. Loverly!

[rx7]

Feeling better? Was he ill?

[dit]

He didn't look too good at the TG shoot last week in Wales (see series 18 spoilers thread). Whether he was actually ill was conjecture, but he certainly looked pretty p1ssed off in a lot of the photos.

[missburlo]

confused on twitter... what the hell is it all about?

[dit]

I don't actually understand twitter itself. It would appear that you can keep your messages to friends private, but very few seem to do so. I'm not actually on any social networking sites as such as I'm concerned about privacy; I would probably set it up all wrong!

As well as using it to check twitters such as James' (Man Lab and his Arlington account), hypocritically, I also use the internet to search twitter for anything I think might be interesting. I scan through the results very quickly, and it's surprising what you can pick up. It's a bit like Googling, and I don't feel I'm intruding as the people involved have made their messages public.

[Vivienne]

James seem to be upset today about air bags and politicians.

Let's put politicians faces on airbags-then we can at least head butt them in an accident.

A little later he says:

I mean of course politicians'-bloody auto correct thingy.

Don't know what's going on.

[dit]

He's clearly as pedantic as I am about punctuation! Whatever device he's using to post the tweet has obviously refused to accept what he put and has corrected it by taking out the apostrophe.

A well-known British writer, Keith Waterhouse, founded the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe. I hope you don't mind me quoting...

The AAAA has two simple goals. Its first is to round up and confiscate superfluous apostrophes from, for example, fruit and vegetable stalls where potato’s, tomatoe’s and apple’s are openly on sale.

Its second is to redistribute as many as possible of these impounded apostrophes, restoring missing apostrophes where they have been lost, mislaid or deliberately hijacked – as for instance by British Rail, which as part of its refurbishment programme is dismantling the apostrophes from such stations as King’s Cross and shunting them off at dead of night to a secret apostrophe siding at Crewe.

Go James! I also believe that punctuation is important.



_{(Doesn't mean to say I don't make mistakes sometimes, though!)}

[Vivienne]

Well he just tweeted he brushed his teeth with germolene, American company that also makes hemerroid cream.!

Are you talking about possession vs. plural because that's a chronic worldwide problem. What is wrong with King's Cross isn't that possession because it's his cross?

[FizzyLogician]

The other day when he tweeted about beer and gherkins going well together, he added "Complimentary." I think he meant "complementary," unless he just meant his advice was free. But I wasn't about to tweet and correct him (even though I'm very anal about such things).

ETA: Germolene is a first aid cream that comes in a tube. I can understand how someone can accidentally squirt it on their toothbrush, particularly if he was annoyed by a politician.

[Vivienne]

I know it's just that I heard he had that problem.

[eolise]

Jan 26, 2012 15:23:43 GMT dit said:

He's clearly as pedantic as I am about punctuation!
Go James! I also believe that punctuation is important.



_{(Doesn't mean to say I don't make mistakes sometimes, though!)}

Same here. I always want to correct myself, wherever or whenever it is on whichever website etc.

[pie]

The "auto correct thingy" on the iPhone is normally very helpful (especially as the letters are so small when typing - I almost always make a mistake, and I've got small fingers!) but on occasions it can get you into a bit of hot water if you don't double-check what you've just written. Basically, if you type a word incorrectly, a little bubble pops up with what the phone thinks the word is meant to be. If you don't close the bubble before pressing "space", it will automatically replace the original word with its (note: no apostrophe ;D) word. And it will always try to replace "its" with "it's" regardless of the context.

Jan 26, 2012 17:34:56 GMT FizzyLogician said:

The other day when he tweeted about beer and gherkins going well together, he added "Complimentary." I think he meant "complementary," unless he just meant his advice was free. But I wasn't about to tweet and correct him (even though I'm very anal about such things).

ETA: Germolene is a first aid cream that comes in a tube. I can understand how someone can accidentally squirt it on their toothbrush, particularly if he was annoyed by a politician.

I noticed the "complimentary" thing too, but also didn't say anything. I figured someone would comment...and it was best to let him go off at them, not me. ;D I suppose it was free advice, so he could argue his point. Or maybe he was just fishing for a response?

(In my line of work, and this will sound a bit weird out of context, I am constantly having to correct the word "complement" in what other people write. They ALWAYS write "compliment" and I've had that many conversations about why it's actually "complement", yet no-one seems to believe me. I've double-checked the definitions, thinking I was actually wrong, but I'm not. That's why I find this rather amusing. ;D)

And thanks for the Germolene explanation - I've never heard of it before. Is it kind of like Deep Heat? If it is...eww.

[eolise]

I didnt see the mistake, for it's ''compliment'' in Dutch ;D

[meimichan]

I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.

D**n you autocorrect!


Do not click that link unless you want to be distracted and laugh your a$$ off for awhile.

[ElerVim]

Germolene? Ugh, really?


James, wrong orafice....

[dit]

Jan 26, 2012 17:34:56 GMT FizzyLogician said:

The other day when he tweeted about beer and gherkins going well together, he added "Complimentary." I think he meant "complementary," unless he just meant his advice was free. But I wasn't about to tweet and correct him (even though I'm very anal about such things).

ETA: Germolene is a first aid cream that comes in a tube. I can understand how someone can accidentally squirt it on their toothbrush, particularly if he was annoyed by a politician.

I'm suspecting the complimentary/complementary may have been another example of the dreaded auto-correct.

I'm surprised that no-one's posted the old and rather obvious joke:

A man went into a bar after work and ordered a beer. As he started drinking his beer, he heard a female voice saying seductively, 'You've got nice hair'. The man looked all around him but couldn't see where the voice came from. A minute later he heard the same voice saying, 'You are a handsome man.' The man was really puzzled by this so he asked the barman what was going on.
The barman replied, 'It's the nuts - they're complimentary.'

[Vivienne]

I have never heard that. Is it an English joke?