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"BBQ"

If the sun's still shining when I leave work today, I'm going to swing by Tesco's to buy some meat and bread rolls and I'm going to have a BBQ.

I was going to do it yesterday, but stopped at Waitrose, not knowing that it was a girl supermarket that has an olive bar, and didn't sell huge burgers, and lumps of flavoured chicken. So today will be BBQ day instead.

There's something special about cooking over flames outside on a warm evening. The mix of the fresh spring air with the smell of the cooking food. The way that the flames dance, bursting to life when fat from the food falls into them. Music playing.

Then there's the food. Burgers never taste better than when they're barbequed, and that's a fact. Well, as long as you're not completely incompetent, and manage to cook them through without turning them into lumps of charcoal. You know that these beaties are flame-grilled, not like the microwave heated products that Burger King sell you.

And what's with all of this poncey stuff they put in them? Hell, I'm not doing that, I'll fry me some onions for my hot dogs and burgers, with a nice dollup of tomato sauce too.

Then there will be messy food, like BBQ ribs, and coated chicken bits. Nibbling round a bone, covered in coating and meat juice.

I'm hoping that sun stays out, I've made myself really hungry now.

Warm weather, good music, tasty food. Excellent.

Borth Animalarium is the finest example I have visited.

Just north of Aberytswyth.

They have Mouse Town. A whole town with houses made of stale bread inhabited by mice. Amazing!

And pigmy marmasettes. And a fox that hissed at me.


And ANIMALARIUM is the greatest name because it doesn't exist.

Meka Dragon wrote:
> Zoo's rule.

I was at Linton Zoo the other day, which was cool, because they
> had tigers, and panthers and leopards. Lions too, but they were sleeping.

No
> rhino's there, which is a shame, and not enough big monkeys either.

I went to Colchester Zoo couple of weeks ago (Littlun's birthday). I sit just me or do we really enjoy it more than the kids ? they just want to shoot from one thing to the next.

Theyv'e got Rhinos and big monkeys there - the Orang utan was playing with himself and the Otters were at it in full view.

And even cooler - they have regular barbies in the summer !!

Meka Dragon wrote:
Lions too, but they were sleeping.

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In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lions sleep tonight.

Oweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeawinawomaway.

*Looks around*

Sorry, I don't know what came over me.

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Anyways, Zoos are for women. Why do you think they put all those pretty animals in there? Perhaps, it's so the blokes can get an excuse to take their birds with 'em.

I stopped off on the way back from weekend away at some "Wildlife Sanctuary" with my missus.
I was moaning like an old man because it was advertised with pictures of goats and donkeys.

"It'll be bloody pets corner. Rubbish" was my cry.

And they charged £9 per adult. Which to pay that to stare at donkeys wasn't my idea of fun to be honest.
So she paid for us both and we went in.

Yup, there are some goats and there's a mangy donkey.
This is pants.

And then I spy the "Big Cats" area. Tigers, Leopards, Panthers and Lynx. This was good.
Then Rhinos.
And then they had some crap animals like Capybaru and Flamingoes.
But then the Monkey areas.
Gibbons swinging about, a Silverback looking really angry at us all before it bashed one out into the hay.

That was a fantastic day.

Zoo's rule.

I was at Linton Zoo the other day, which was cool, because they had tigers, and panthers and leopards. Lions too, but they were sleeping.

No rhino's there, which is a shame, and not enough big monkeys either.

No man, the zoo isn't punishment.

They have tigers and monkeys and sharks and crocodiles.
Now, a barbeque at a zoo.

You don't get any more bloke than that.

"Zoo too", what's that? Some sort of drinking game?

Or is that your punishment for watching all the footy, you have to take the kids to the zoo? Still, I bet it's worth it if you can watch all of the games in peace.

This is a good manly thread.
Barbeques, football, beer and music.

Now let us talk about wolves and fighting and guns and stuff.

*thumps chest*

I'll be taking a few long weekends in June, especially for the footy.

So it will be football, beer, Gamecube, BBQ, beach and zoo too, probably.

nh wrote:
> Reading this is making me well hungry now.

Sounds like a great idea as the
> weathers so good at the mo. Only problem is I dont think I cleaned the barbie
> when I last used it last year and there's no knowing what might be growing in
> there!

This too is making me hungry, so I went to the fridge and got out a yoghurt, I am disatisfied. There must be some meat in this joint somewhere...

I could never be a vegetarian or a vegan, especially the latter.

'"I can nearly smell the charcoal and steaming burgers, or did I just fart?"


Er, if your farts smell like that, I'd go to the doctors!

:0D'

Oh dear :)

'The perfect combination for an excellent evening. Just make sure you don't get confused after a large consumption of the beer, and start eating the football and watching the burger.'

Thank God someone called the comedy police in the Women topic :p