ManfredSchaefer Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 I love the fact he is a chef who's favourite form of food is sausage. Also he'll "review" dodgy little kebab stands and street food. No one else does that **** really. Yes, he does have a thing about mystery meat in a tube form (only rivaled by his love for pork, the Ramones, smacking down Paula Deen and drinking alcohol preferably with other chefs). First feel in man-love watching him on 'A Cook's Tour' when he met up with his buddy Zamir in Russia. From then I was hooked. 'Kitchen Confidential', 'No Reservations', his audio books, crime fiction (think The Sopranos meet Food Porn), 'Parts Unknown', even the brief Fox Network sit-com based on his first great book...all things Bourdain related are like manna from heaven for me. Saw him at the Sydney Writer's Festival a couple of years back...excellent speaker as well. His only flaw (and it's a minor one) is he seems to prefer Melbourne over Sydney. Course where he really needs to go is Adelaide...all those sicko psycho killers, pie floaters, Coffin Bay oysters...his kinda town. Link to comment
Jaggy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 I love street food as you see it being cooked there and then on the spot. The wok is piping hot and the meat is cooked to perfection instead of it being cooked in the morning as then shoved behind a heated glass window. I've been in some dodgy restaurants and when I asked what comes with the steak they've replied salmonella. Bordain certainly has a palate for all food that's on offer. Link to comment
ManfredSchaefer Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 The man needs to try a Wanderdog. He was just in Dublin a few minutes ago having a Guiness with Oysters for breakfast ....... what a legend. I quite liked his closing line. " So put down that glass of horse piss you call beer and make your way to Dublin ". Check this out, then tell me how he'd go with a Wanderdog and a derby versus the smurfs: Link to comment
WhoDoWeSingFor Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 I used to love how he'd rip into Rachel Ray any chance he got Link to comment
WhoDoWeSingFor Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 The man needs to try a Wanderdog. He was just in Dublin a few minutes ago having a Guiness with Oysters for breakfast ....... what a legend. I quite liked his closing line. " So put down that glass of horse piss you call beer and make your way to Dublin ". Check this out, then tell me how he'd go with a Wanderdog and a derby versus the smurfs: Argghh cringe. Couldn't watch much of that at all. Link to comment
Guest ZipGunBop Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Watching the Amsterdam episode of "The Layover" brought back hazy memories of "dining" at febos. The greatest "restaurant" on Earth. People who have been know what I'm talking about. It's where god would eat if he were impaired and out late. Link to comment
Guest ZipGunBop Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 The man needs to try a Wanderdog. He was just in Dublin a few minutes ago having a Guiness with Oysters for breakfast ....... what a legend. I quite liked his closing line. " So put down that glass of horse piss you call beer and make your way to Dublin ". Check this out, then tell me how he'd go with a Wanderdog and a derby versus the smurfs: Argghh cringe. Couldn't watch much of that at all. The game of rugby league, with all it's tactical complexities. Summed up by an American in 6 minutes. Which is around 5 and a half minutes longer than I thought it would take. Jaggy and wendybr 2 Link to comment
wendybr Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Hahahahaha... Just realised I've made over 1000 post on a football forum!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahaha!! Burgerman, 102megan and Jaggy 3 Link to comment
Neverbloom Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Hahahahaha... Just realised I've made over 1000 post on a football forum!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahaha!! try to catch me also congratulations wendybr 1 Link to comment
wendybr Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 ^^^ Hahahaha....as if!!!! Neverbloom 1 Link to comment
Jaggy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Years ago I was visiting my grandmother and she had an address book on her table I had a quick flick through the names and enquired about a name of a lady I'd never heard of before "oh that's your grandfather's niece" was her reply. Now my grandpa was the youngest of 8, knowing little of my family tree I wrote a letter to this lady as that began my interest in Genealogy. has anyone else traced their family tree? I was lucky as all my family came from Scotland and the Scots keep all their records in one place. I've been lucky to keep in contact with some great extended family and love the humour and stories that had I not started this journey I would never have heard. No for everyone I know but this is part of my life that floats my boat !! Link to comment
Neverbloom Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Years ago I was visiting my grandmother and she had an address book on her table I had a quick flick through the names and enquired about a name of a lady I'd never heard of before "oh that's your grandfather's niece" was her reply. Now my grandpa was the youngest of 8, knowing little of my family tree I wrote a letter to this lady as that began my interest in Genealogy. has anyone else traced their family tree? I was lucky as all my family came from Scotland and the Scots keep all their records in one place. I've been lucky to keep in contact with some great extended family and love the humour and stories that had I not started this journey I would never have heard. No for everyone I know but this is part of my life that floats my boat !! my background is Scottish, Irish and English, pretty much the most possible ******* background in the history of everything Link to comment
wendybr Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Years ago I was visiting my grandmother and she had an address book on her table I had a quick flick through the names and enquired about a name of a lady I'd never heard of before "oh that's your grandfather's niece" was her reply. Now my grandpa was the youngest of 8, knowing little of my family tree I wrote a letter to this lady as that began my interest in Genealogy. has anyone else traced their family tree? I was lucky as all my family came from Scotland and the Scots keep all their records in one place. I've been lucky to keep in contact with some great extended family and love the humour and stories that had I not started this journey I would never have heard. No for everyone I know but this is part of my life that floats my boat !! I've done a bit of dabbling...tried out the Ancestry.com website while it was offering a two week free trial - and ended up signing up. It has thrown up a lot of interesting items (including that my dad travelled as a 12 year old from England with assisted passage, when in fact he was 15!!) Since being seduced by WSW and these forums, I have not really got my money's worth on Ancestry, but I have kept subscribing. It actually didn't take long to trace my family on one side back into the 1700s (all from North of England and Scotland) It's very interesting- and has definitely given me ideas about my family history I only vaguely knew about. Jaggy 1 Link to comment
marron Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 I've been handed the baton on this one jaggy as the family historian. Did a fair chunk a few years ago. Interesting stories, understatement... On one side, folks been here since the second fleet, settled on the hawkesbury (after unlocking the chains), currently on the back burner is working out one blokes involvement in the castle hill rebellion. On the other side, well lets just say that supposedly I should be in Europe and Britain trying to take back what's rightfully mine wendybr 1 Link to comment
Jaggy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) I never signed up to Ancestry Wendy, I had a quick look for free at the Penrith library and ancestry seem to con you into thinking put in a name and we'll do the rest, when actually they only give you possible and maybe links? The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints ( Mormans ) a great help but for my family they only had records from the 1900. To Ciudadmarron, second fleet is a gem of a find and the Hawkesbury is only down the road, Castle hill rebellion, the info in all here in Sydney forget Europe and Britain firstly find out what out west is rightly yours....LOL Edited February 18, 2014 by Jaggy Link to comment
Neverbloom Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 all i know about my family is we invented streets paddle pops at some point but it was stolen(that is what my grandmother told me and i dont see her as the kind of person who would lie about that) wendybr 1 Link to comment
marron Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 I never signed up to Ancestry Wendy, I had a quick look for free at the Penrith library and ancestry seem to con you into thinking put in a name and we'll do the rest, when actually they only give you possible and maybe links? The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints ( Mormans ) a great help but for my family they only had records from the 1900. To Ciudadmarron, second fleet is a gem of a find and the Hawkesbury is only down the road, Castle hill rebellion, the info in all here in Sydney forget Europe and Britain firstly find out what out west is rightly yours....LOL Ha I think the sweep of the river round Cornwallis just beyond windsor was one of the bits. But my branches went west and owned pubs and such, kurrajong, dubbo, cobar, louth, broken hill... Link to comment
WhoDoWeSingFor Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Good chance I'm related to Jack the Ripper. Link to comment
wendybr Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 I never signed up to Ancestry Wendy, I had a quick look for free at the Penrith library and ancestry seem to con you into thinking put in a name and we'll do the rest, when actually they only give you possible and maybe links? The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints ( Mormans ) a great help but for my family they only had records from the 1900. To Ciudadmarron, second fleet is a gem of a find and the Hawkesbury is only down the road, Castle hill rebellion, the info in all here in Sydney forget Europe and Britain firstly find out what out west is rightly yours....LOL Yes there is a lot of your own time and effort required, but Ancestry.com has provided interesting documents nevertheless. It's nowhere near as easy as the ads suggest it is. Plus it is expensive, and they just bill you automatically for a new subscription when the previous year's subscription is up. Jaggy 1 Link to comment
Jaggy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Ha I think the sweep of the river round Cornwallis just beyond windsor was one of the bits. But my branches went west and owned pubs and such, kurrajong, dubbo, cobar, louth, broken hill...That be deliverance country...I can hear the banjo's playing. Link to comment
WhoDoWeSingFor Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 I never signed up to Ancestry Wendy, I had a quick look for free at the Penrith library and ancestry seem to con you into thinking put in a name and we'll do the rest, when actually they only give you possible and maybe links? The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints ( Mormans ) a great help but for my family they only had records from the 1900. To Ciudadmarron, second fleet is a gem of a find and the Hawkesbury is only down the road, Castle hill rebellion, the info in all here in Sydney forget Europe and Britain firstly find out what out west is rightly yours....LOL Yes there is a lot of your own time and effort required, but Ancestry.com has provided interesting documents nevertheless. It's nowhere near as easy as the ads suggest it is. Plus it is expensive, and they just bill you automatically for a new subscription when the previous year's subscription is up. Yes that happened to me years ago too. It was little use to me but its an interesting site all the same. Link to comment
Jaggy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Where are your family from Whodowesingfor? Link to comment
wendybr Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Yes there is a lot of your own time and effort required, but Ancestry.com has provided interesting documents nevertheless. It's nowhere near as easy as the ads suggest it is. Plus it is expensive, and they just bill you automatically for a new subscription when the previous year's subscription is up. Yes that happened to me years ago too. It was little use to me but its an interesting site all the same. Yes...actually, you can sometimes save a lot of work if you link up to someone else who shares your ancestry. This happened a couple of times to me. This way, you can add distant family members very easily. Which reminds me that I connected with a Canadian man who did have links to a distant branch of our family. We corresponded a couple of times... I'm guessing that he was possibly elderly, quite conservative...and without much of a sense of humour. He was unimpressed when I asked him if (as a Canadian) he liked "Trailer Park Boys" - a live show happened to be touring here at the time! His reply was a very sour "I decidedly do NOT!"- lol Link to comment
Jaggy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 LOL @ Wendy's Canadian relo's...I hate those conversations and you are at a blank and end up asking things like so ever been to Niagara falls type of questions. Link to comment
WhoDoWeSingFor Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Where are your family from Whodowesingfor? Sorry. I was only fishing for a one liner ............. yeah I know, I'm bored. Been to Aldgate but not from there. Jaggy 1 Link to comment
wendybr Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 LOL @ Wendy's Canadian relo's...I hate those conversations and you are at a blank and end up asking things like so ever been to Niagara falls type of questions. I guess I was being a bit mischievous. The equivalent would have been like him asking me whether I liked "Kath and Kim"...which I decidedly did not! Or "Housos"... which I have never watched, but which I don't think I would like from what I've been told. Link to comment
Jaggy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 WHAT you don't like Kath and Kim or Housos..... Send her back to the northern suburbs, do not pass go do not collect $200 Link to comment
wendybr Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 WHAT you don't like Kath and Kim or Housos..... Send her back to the northern suburbs, do not pass go do not collect $200 Haven't watched Housos...but what I don't like about "Kath and Kim" is that it seems to me to be elitist...and makes working class people seem like morons. I've never found it funny. Link to comment
WhoDoWeSingFor Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 WHAT you don't like Kath and Kim or Housos..... Send her back to the northern suburbs, do not pass go do not collect $200 Haven't watched Housos...but what I don't like about "Kath and Kim" is that it seems to me to be elitist...and makes working class people seem like morons. I've never found it funny. Well that is something we can agree on. wendybr 1 Link to comment
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