Things in the UK that will kill you stone dead
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Topic: Things in the UK that will kill you stone dead
Posted By: Ajay
Subject: Things in the UK that will kill you stone dead
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 20:35
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 20:37
Ah, delicacies of the old country.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 20:50
That looks amazingly like a hot beef brisket sandwich. |
Ajay wrote:Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 20:54
If that's what your brisket looks like, I hope I never have to eat at your place.  ------------- Hail Eris! 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 21:41
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okay maybe pork chops 'n gravy |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 22:39
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Drunk people Hot air balloons The welsh ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 01:07
You really don't like hot air balloons, do you? |
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 01:18
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on the subject of the deep-fried mars bar - Back in 1996 a friend and I (both of us being sweet-toothed lovers of chocolate and fried food) found a place that did them, and we decided to share one just to try it out. Despite both of us loving fried food and sweet food, we couldn't even finish this thing, kept passing it back and forth trying to eat it. That's 1 deep fried mars bar defeating two people who love fried food and mars bars. Don't try it. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 01:27
| ^ yeah I think at this point I could probably manage one good mouthful before I passed out |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 01:36
| "Mars chocolate bars" and "beef" in the same sentence ... something odd about that. Like Rachel's beef-n-onion cake. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 02:36
I actually do.  I have a painting of them in my room.They are pretty to look at, if, frankly, not really useful. Though they can be dangerous. I don't even know if such things are even popular in either Austrailia or the UK. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 03:16
Dangerous wildlife ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 03:27
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You are more likely to be killed by a plant in the UK than any animal or insect, forget Giant Hogweeds, these will kill you stone dead if eaten:
 Every inch of this plant is fatally toxic - the flowers, leaves, stems, roots and seeds. ------------- What? |
Posted By: lisa3721
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 04:32
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okay maybe pork chops 'n gravy
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 04:46
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Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 04:51
They're popular here in Australia. Despite the crashes. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 04:57
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Deep fried mars bars and other deep fried stuff like that is mostly confined to Scotland. Not the UK in general. Nowhere here does them anyway. @Dean Foxgloves are one of my favourite wild flowers. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 05:04
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Anyone can make their own. 1. Unwrap a Mars bar. 2. Dip it in batter. 3. Fry in loads of oil. 4. Or in lard. 5. Serve. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 05:15
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^Obviously, but no thanks ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 06:09
colchicum (a pink flower bulb growing in fall in cow pastures) can kill a cow if eaten by them...
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 06:29
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saying "in fall" in the UK won't kill you , but you might need to specify what colour grapes you'd like your hospital visitors to bring ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 06:43
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 07:24
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 07:48
| I guess that I shouldn't visit some parts of England with a t-shirt with the emblem of a French football club (O.M.! O.M.! O.M.! O.M.!) |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 08:06
It's all a question of dosage. Go on, get some digitalis and take the whole lot. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 08:08
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Skinheads
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 08:10
There are still skinheads in UK? I was aware about right-wing hooligans, but I thought that Skinheads were a dead "culture". |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 08:12
Fixed -------------  Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 08:15
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 08:42
A small dose of arsenic will kill you, but a massive one will give you a headache
(and arsenic is often used for treating horses >> hopefully not those going into lasagnas, though
 ) BTW, digitalis is not really a UK endemic plant... the whole continent has them >> I've even got some in my Dutch back yard (though not systematically at the same place every year >> it's not a perenial plant >> but it resseds itself quite easily) Some gardeners even plant them ornamentally, but it's not my case >> they just come and go... don't care much
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 08:50
| Cutting in front of someone whilst queued. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 08:52
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 09:01
Massive dosage will kill you sure enough, a small dose will make you ill, prolonged small doses will kill you slowly. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 09:03
Only if being glared at and subjected to people muttering under their breath can cause the painful and excruciating death that people are wishing upon you. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 09:34
Despite my initial surprise, I was told otherwise by a pharmacist (not on the job then), so I never questioned it.
Just checked; if it is used in homeopathy (didn't know) , most likely small doses (daily? as often in homeopathy
 ) won't kill you indeed... but we're talking of the Arsenic Album plant here, not the element...But I suppose the Perfidious Albionites know more than me about arsenic poisoning (ie: Napoleon in St Helen)  jk, of course------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 10:25
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 10:45
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^ quite rightly. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Colchicum_speciosum000.jpg" rel="nofollow">  ------------- What? |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 11:14
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 11:15
| Just in case of legal action, I would like to point out that I like KFC Zinger Tower burgers and haven't died from one yet. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 11:18
How are the chips/fries in your local KFC? Ours are truly awful. Much worse than either McDonallds or Burger King. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 11:57
You're joking - just typing it means I have to take an extra statin tonight ------------- Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: dysoriented
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 12:16
 Lardy cake. I made some of these the other week. Dense, sticky, sweet. And they stink to high heaven while you're making them. Ingredients: flour, water, sugar, lard, yeast, more lard, dried fruit, more lard. |
Posted By: dysoriented
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 12:21
When I used to eat from KFC I noticed the chips were always stone bleed'n cold!!! >.< |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 12:23
OK OK... now I'm drooling! Lardy cake - one of the best ways to die ------------- Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 12:23
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 12:24
I suspect 'fries' in the same way as McD's are fries - ie, maize flour & water (no potatoes!) ------------- Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 12:43
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Note to Andrey: crisps (Brit) are chips (US) , chips(Brit) are fries(US), fries(Brit) are baby fish. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 13:05
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Every year when I go back to England I make sure I have 4 things :-
Chicken Jalfrezi
Pork Pie
Cream Cake (with real whipped cream not the crappy US synthetic stuff)
Pint of Proper Beer (though truth be told I usually have about 30 of these during the week)
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 13:31
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^ Good selection there Nogbad. Not a complete guarantee of a trip to the mortuary, but a great way to help you on your way! Mmmm!
Old Age often does it.
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Posted By: happythe
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 13:35
Oh dear... These things are from my hometown. Thank god the inventor of the pneumatic tyre is too, and pipped the chippies to the post in getting his name on the "Welcome" road sign. A few years ago, blundering around the city after a drunken night, I ordered a burger from a(nother!) chip shop. When it came, the whole thing was deep-fried! Surely this can't be normal?! I've never tried it again to see if I just stumbled upon a rogue frier that fatful night. Anyway, anything could kill you these days, we're living in violent times.  ------------- Stop me from dreaming? Okay :-( |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 17:02
I would have thought it would be black pudding. 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 17:15
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 18:02
Dip her in batter, fry her in lard..... ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 18:20
| ^ Roll her in flour... |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 21:11
We are not amused! |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 03:52
| For some reason, I'm afraid of Boris Johnson. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 05:21
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 06:39
the Nucklaeve  -------------  
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 08:30
Our local KFC was always full of people who look like they're going to attack you. The food is also awful. The chips are indeed cold and I don't know what it is about lettuce in fast food places. Last time I checked iceburg lettuce was supposed to be green and crispy, not brown and slimey...  I wouldn't give that food to a dog to be frank. I had KFC in canada once, and it wasn't great but it was a far more positive experience. The kids serving the food didn't seem to have the same skin problems that our fast food counter staff seem to have either, and they smiled. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: happythe
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 13:02
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The KFC employees in France (near me, at least) are also way nicer than in McDonalds or Quick. But the food still tastes like it's been sitting in the bottom of a dirty fryer for days. ------------- Stop me from dreaming? Okay :-( |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 15:10
Delicious Teesside delicacy guaranteed to give you a heart attack - the Chicken Parmo. |
Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 15:17
| I just lost my appetite. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 17:37
KFC is also rather disgusting on the continent... I used to think it tasted somewhat goodin Canada, though... About the fries not being potato (not just KFC, but McD and BK as well)... can anybody support this claim ?? ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 17:46
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^ Everybody knows that the fast food industry has been perpetrating such crime of substitution for real food since the beginning of time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDPQina3wIk#t=1m24s" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDPQina3wIk#t=1m24s |