Lucky for you nilus, it was only yesterday that by an unlikely set of circumstances I was redirected to one of the strangest websites I think I've ever seen: http://www.airlinemeals.net. Somewhere in that site there's a langoustine the size of a shoe. Enjoy!

Feeling lucky, Mongo?

Burn?
[laughs]
So little imagination…

I notice ZMF didn't even weigh in on the Martyrs review this week. I'd have thought he'd have been all over that like a vat of minced pig guts. Something is definitely afoot.

@lexicondevil: I have to disagree that "torture porn" implies sexual gratification from torture, because honestly, how often does anyone actually have a conversation about that? And if they did, would they not use a rather more solemn medical term? If I said "my friend is a bit of a psycho", surely you wouldn't think…

Back on topic: lexicondevil and I thrashed this out a while ago (on the review of Saw V, on the off chance that anyone cares). I think it's actually a very eloquent phrase, since it describes the genre's lurid images, lack of subtlety, prurient subtext, and visceral (rather than cerebral) effect on the viewer. It also…

@Evel: malt liquor = Special Brew = tramp juice.

@Mobobo: try covering yourself in blue fur, drop a couple of octaves, and growl it a few times. Yeah, like that. You're getting it. Good kitty.

The trick to being realistic is to focus on medicine as little as possible - it's not a documentary about how to treat diseases, it's just a backdrop for wacky antics involving Rerun and a barbershop quartet and a stuffed dog and Sarah Chalke taking her top off again and again. Mmmm.

Seamus Heaney is English?

Did I just say "sidewalk"? I think I did.

I haven't read any of CAD's poetry yet, but for real, is she worse than Andrew Motion? Cause his work read like something Mike D scribbled in piss on a sidewalk while drunk.

That's the first limerick I've heard which is less palatable than the one about the bishop of Birmingham (who buggered the boys while confirmingham). Yeesh.

Definitely far superior to the US version, which manages to get a full hour's show out of about 20 minutes of footage, repeated ad nauseam.

Can someone explain Kahn's schtick to me? I'm clearly missing something here.

Ah, America, warped mirror to the rest of the world and location of all the stuff we're aware of, but just not first-hand. To think that somewhere across the briny there is a land where people actually eat processed cheese, actually listen to country music, actually wear baseball caps in middle age, and have actually…

There always has to be a place in the conversation for the Cirque du Soleil's Most Disappointing Audience Participant.

@DCRJ: Firstly, what Jim said. Secondly, you mean that among all your goodest, givingest, gamest talents you honesly can't think of *anything*?

@LMNOP: that's as may be, but it sure as hell tastes like blood (I got surprised once). And damn but that taste takes DAYS to go away! Sorry Yummsh, but that's definitely worse.

Aw, now those are good. If only there wasn't an almost-identical bean which tastes of something godawful, I could enjoy Tutti Frutti without the Russian roulette.