I love Big Brother! *hangs head in shame* I actually never watched the last 5 or something series, I hated it, but I've been roped into this one. Probably by Pete (the one with tourettes). He's er, a very nice young man :drool:

Hairdryers and curlers in the bathroom? You loony lot. I remember now actually I found one in my friends bathroom when I was staying in California and quickly escorted it out :lol:

I still sometimes eat veggie burgers (I make them myself, haven't had any luck in finding vegan ones) because I like the texture, which is nothing like a meat burger, since it's chopped veg, not imitation meat like Quorn. I actually don't remember the last time I ate a meat burger anyway, if I ever did. I was never fond of them at all :sick: Maybe when I was 6 I think, a friends mum tried to get one down me. Does the word burger only refer to meat ones then?

I watch Quizmania, I'm a terrible insomniac. I get quite into it sometimes, which is a tad depressing.

I find that in the UK, tofu is a health-related food, whilst quorn is a food which is more or less synonymous with vegetarianism.

As for actually eating fake meat, my view is: it's not meat, so sod it, I'll eat it if I feel like it.

I don't bother with quizmania and the mint. I think the presenters should all be rounded up, shot, and their remains ground to a fine powder. And as for ITV, they should be ashamed at their output. Love island, the mint, etc.

Has no one burst into the ITV offices with some sort of makeshift weapon, and threatened suicide/homicide/genocide unless they cancel these programmes immediately?

I often feel sorry for those presenters...they must actually think Quizmania is a step on the career ladder :no:

Love Island - eurgh. Who ever came up with that does indeed need shooting.

My little sister (who's an omni) actually eats a lot of quorn, and thinks her friends are weird because they don't ever eat meat replacements, or have meals without meat in. You can tell she's grown up in a largely veg household :lol:

could be, maybe it is only because i am german. germans have adopted the word burger (just like sandwich), but it is used only for meat. soy burgers are quite a recent phenomenon in german supermarkets and food shops and have not broadened the scope of that word. the german equivalent of sausage (wurst) is also exclusively used for meat stuff :p

Don't sausage and burger refer to the shape? I hear what you're saying but it's probably helped a lot of people switch from eating meat to eating fake meat/tofu replacements. So i don't really care what they're called.. burgers, sausages, chicken, pork, lamb, fish etc.

I never really watch bbc 1, bbc 2, or ITV. Ok.. i watch Neighbours at the moment on BBC 1, and Everwood on ITV, but that's it. My tv is more or less permanantly on channel 4. Occassionally there's a strange documentary on 5, or something stupid (i used to like Dumber and Dumberer :p).

Has anyone else noticed that tv on a Friday night is gauranteed to be sh*t? I think they presume that everyone goes out Friday, and stays in Saturday, cos there're always loads of films on Saturday night, and none on Friday.

I watched a couple of episodes of come dine with me last week, including the one with Nikki the Scouser Vegan. The vegan meals that I saw all looked pretty cool, and they didn't portray veganism too badly.
I wish I was as cool as Carol Vorderman.




QI is like, the best thing on TV.

I have been enjoying watching How Do Solve a Problem Like Maria about the search for a star for the new West End production of The Sound of Music. I love that musical and it has been fun to watch the different women and their singing/acting styles. Anyone watch that?

I have been enjoying watching How Do Solve a Problem Like Maria about the search for a star for the new West End production of The Sound of Music. I love that musical and it has been fun to watch the different women and their singing/acting styles. Anyone watch that?

I saw last weeks, but missed yesterdays. Did they send some people home? Have they started assessing their acting yet? It'd be amazing to get that part, i wish i could act and sing!

Yes--they took them to Maria School for a few days and worked on singing and got them to improvise some acting based on the tomboy/free spirit image of Maria. It was amazing that so many women were bitching to the camera about "I'm so so sick of singing How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria" Um....you've been singing this for 3 days. If you get the part you will sing from the Sound of Music for a year 7 days a week. Shut up allready.

But yes sadly Briony was put out (I like her but she was very young and at the big concert for ALW she sang well but her arms flapped at her sides like a bird) and I was pleased that annoying girl with dark hair who was so goofy and they cut but ALW put back in was cut. She was too silly to me. I felt she was never genuine. She got up my nose (probably because I know someone very like her) and Siobhan the really conventionally pretty one was cut. She had a honking cold the whole Maria school and kept complaining about how it wasn't fair to assess her with a cold. But as Captain Jack pointed out--if you get the part and you have a cold you still have to give it 110%. And because she was ill she backed off. Captain Jack said he once performed a show with Chicken Pox. The show must go on and she gave a half hearted performance.

It was good. There was a woman--not quite sure who she was--who sang Wouldn't it Be Loverly from My Fair Lady who was wonderful who made it to the top 10. Then the remaining 9 were largely people I never saw before--never featured on the show. Editing, eh? So they'll feature more prominantly in the next 6 episodes.

I have been enjoying watching How Do Solve a Problem Like Maria about the search for a star for the new West End production of The Sound of Music. I love that musical and it has been fun to watch the different women and their singing/acting styles. Anyone watch that?

I've seen a few commercials, but I mean really...there's only ONE Maria. :D

My Aunt Ree went to see Sound of Music in the cinema and left half way through saying "if I hear that woman sing in that high pitched chirpy voice again i'll scream." ha ha....I always liked that film. I always cry when they are hiding from the nazis at the convent. I'm just sure they'll be caught! Spiderman says how can I have the same feeling and reaction no matter how many times I see it--I know they don't get caught, but at that moment I always fear they will.

Oh my gosh..how can you not like Julie Andrews? I remember a couple of years ago, watching her on some talk show about how she thought at the time that she wouldn't be able to sing anymore. It was so amazingly sad. Maria AND Mary Poppins. I love her so much I almost went to see "The Princess Diaries". :D

Jen, you might have more luck finding red pepper flakes if you refer to them as chilli pepper flakes or crushed chillis. I always thought of the terms as pretty interchangable, but I guess in the UK they're not. I just about jumped out of my skin when you said you were having trouble finding them! I loves the chilli pepper flakes.

If you still can't find them, there's always this (http://www.spiceworld.uk.com/product_info.php?cPath=10_2&products_id=250).

I'm gonna be there in less than three weeks :D

Yeah..I should've posted that I found "crushed chiles" a few days ago (at Somerfields). I was picking up some other spice and had to blink a few times to make sure that my eyes were working properly. :) Yum yum yum. I was so excited that I nearly killed my love with the amount of pepper in the Thai rice I made that night. :)

Hey UKers :D
Looks like we've let our formerly-active thread die a little, eh?

Anyway, I was just wondering if *Star*Lass*, secret Geordie VBers, or visitors to the Newcastle area had been to Sky Apple Cafe? I was thinking of dragging my family along sometime, on one of the nights that it opens up as a restaraunt. I've got info on it and stuff, and the menu looks fun (if a little small), and reviewers seem to think it's nice, I just wanted a less formal view on it if anyone's been.

Isowish, I wish I'd been to that place when I was in Newcastle a few months ago. My boyfriend is from there (Morpeth, actually, but close..) and it sounds like a good spot. If you go, let us know how it is! I'm sure I'll find myself back up there before too long.

And I just got to London on Monday! Good times so far. We'll see how it goes :)

Alright...UK VBers' numbers are increasing! :)

Okay, so who else is going to the London Vegan Festival next Sunday (10th of September)? So far we've got vheogl, and possibly Tablequeen? Astarte? Jen and I are going too, of course. Come on, this might be your only chance to meet a VB mod in real life :)

www.londonveganfestival.org.uk

That looks good...problem is, I don't have any vegan friends (who could get there as easily as me). Would their diet get checked at the door? :lol:
Hehehe, no, I very much doubt that :) I bet they'll be more than happy to have the opportunity to demonstrate the vegan lifestyle to "potential converts" regardless of their current diet. But if you can't persuade your friends to come, you are more than welcome to come and hang out with Jen and me too!

Hmm, I've never been to the venue before...doesn't look to be too far from the tube station though. I'll harrass my friends again, if they don't cough up I may come along with you :) :bobo:

Okay, so who else is going to the London Vegan Festival next Sunday (10th of September)?

I'd totally forgotten about that! Thanks for the reminder. I'll be going, although I'll have just moved into a new flat and have lots to do. I've been twice before, it's always a really good place to pick up stuff from Veganstore and Redwoods.

Okay, so who else is going to the London Vegan Festival next Sunday (10th of September)? So far we've got vheogl, and possibly Tablequeen? Astarte? Jen and I are going too, of course. Come on, this might be your only chance to meet a VB mod in real life :)

www.londonveganfestival.org.uk


Hehehe, no, I very much doubt that :) I bet they'll be more than happy to have the opportunity to demonstrate the vegan lifestyle to "potential converts" regardless of their current diet. But if you can't persuade your friends to come, you are more than welcome to come and hang out with Jen and me too!


Did i miss something? Is there some kind of meet up? If so that sounds great. I'm still planning on going.

Did i miss something? Is there some kind of meet up? If so that sounds great. I'm still planning on going.
Excellent! Yes, whenever two or more VBers are together in the same room, there is per definition a meet-up! :p Well, we just thought this would be a nice opportunity to meet some of you people in real life, since some of you were planning to go there. I'm looking forward to Sunday :)

Hey, did you guys see that programme on BBC just now? Test the nation? (Some IQ test thing.) The vegetarians won a glorious victory! I don't remember exactly the results, but they were competing against a team from public schools, a team from state schools, a team of butchers, a team of celebrities, a team of footballers' wives and a team of real estate agents.

Excellent! Yes, whenever two or more VBers are together in the same room, there is per definition a meet-up! :p Well, we just thought this would be a nice opportunity to meet some of you people in real life, since some of you were planning to go there. I'm looking forward to Sunday :)

Hey, did you guys see that programme on BBC just now? Test the nation? (Some IQ test thing.) The vegetarians won a glorious victory! I don't remember exactly the results, but they were competing against a team from public schools, a team from state schools, a team of butchers, a team of celebrities, a team of footballers' wives and a team of real estate agents.


oooh okay now i know :D sounds good. Are the few who are planning on going meeting up somewhere or just hoping to bump into each other? Sorry if this has been discussed before but i havent really been keeping up with this thread while i was away.

Nah, we haven't discussed that part yet. I'm not sure any of you look very much like your avatars, so I guess it's not a good idea to be looking for a cow, a scary burqua-clothed figure and a handful of colourful claymation characters :p Jen and I were talking about what a shame it is we don't have an official VB t-shirt, which could be useful for occasions like this. We'll think of something...

Nah, we haven't discussed that part yet. I'm not sure any of you look very much like your avatars, so I guess it's not a good idea to be looking for a cow, a scary burqua-clothed figure and a handful of colourful claymation characters :p Jen and I were talking about what a shame it is we don't have an official VB t-shirt, which could be useful for occasions like this. We'll think of something...

What do you mean i dont look like my avator? Dont you know that red blobs me. Unfortunatly i dont have hands or even arms in that picture so i'm not quite sure how i manage to type...