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Hossenfeffer

@ Hossenfeffer @feddit.uk

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Look, you get born, you keep your head down, and then you die. If you're lucky.

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  • What is your favorite quote, proverb, or piece of wisdom?

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  • "Sometimes, at the end of a sentence, I come out with completely the wrong fusebox. The problem with using the wrong words is a. that I don't always notice, and b. orange water gibbon bucket of plaster."

    I think of this often and have to say we can all learn something from it.

    [Note to add: it's a throwaway line from Monty Python sketch. Second note to add: TheWrongFusebox was my reddit username for 15 or so years.]

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  • My great grandfather's body was recovered and is buried at the Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Novia Scotia. His wife was never told his body had been recovered and my sister was the first member of the family to ever visit his grave.

  • Have you ever solved a Rubik's Cube? And how?

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  • I read this book, published in 1981.

    tl;dr - kid on skiing holiday, broke his hand, spent two weeks figuring out the cube, wrote book.

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  • My great grandfather died on the Titannic. He was engine-room crew.

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  • Is this what you say to scammers when they call you?

  • Have you ever hitchhiked before?

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  • As I recall, we all just teased him for being so monumentally ugly that he was safe from molestation. It was a simpler time!

  • What’s your favorite sad song?

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  • “And I don't care what you're calledTell me later, if at allI can wait a long, long timeBefore I hear another love song”

  • What’s your favorite sad song?

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  • “Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way…”

  • Have you ever hitchhiked before?

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  • Used to hitchhike all over south west Scotland when I was a kid in the early '80s.

    No real drama or stories except the one time three of us were hitching and the car that pulled over was being driven by a guy who was locally known as a ‘kiddy fiddler’.

    Two of us hopped over a dry stane dyke, leaving just one kid to get a lift with him. Nothing happened to him, but in retrospect it was a shitty move on our part.

  • What's your favorite band?

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  • It's changed from year to year and scene to scene and phase of life to phase of life. But Pink Floyd has always been up there.

  • Can you touch type?

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  • I zan tough ty[e thos well.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • Pressing your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth can prevent sneezing.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • It’s actually purely logical!

    What's the logic that can guarantee your first move won't be a mine?

    Edit to add: Norsemen was great, loved it.

  • What's your pitch for a new pizza?

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  • My friends are very proud 'boro supporters who have season tickets etc. I doubt they'd agree with you but their judgement is questionable.

  • What's your pitch for a new pizza?

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  • Been there once that I recall - friends from university came from up that way. Surely if you're going for a takeaway in Middlesbrough you get a parmo?

    I live in one of the places that frequently gets in the top ten best places in the country to live. Not sure I'd agree, but then I'm a country boy at heart.

  • What's your pitch for a new pizza?

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  • Haven't been there in many years, but I'm sure it's actually very lovely.

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  • They also offer bacon, garlic sausage, salami, meatballs, Tandoori chicken, and ‘Mexican’ chicken whatever that is.

    So the Hossenfeffer only has 40% of their meat choices.

    And, yes, it's ironic, I know, that they don’t do rabbit.

  • What's the stupidest thing someone has ever done in front of you?

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  • Minor: on a rough Channel crossing, a friend stepped outside to throw up, but was facing into the wind. Face covered. He looked like the shittest panda ever when he took his specs off.

    Medium: back in my university days I hung around with some 13th century reenactment types. One of them was walking up a grass bank and stabbing his broadsword into the ground to give himself something to hold on to as he went. Then he missed the ground and stabbed himself in the foot, right through his boot. He threw the boot away in anger, but one of my housemates rescued it and put it in pride of place on our mantlepiece. The best part was when the guy realised he didn't have any other boots to wear so had to come around, ask for the boot back so he could stitch it up and wear it again. AKA the medieval equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.

    Major: I once saw a car ignore the lights and sirens of a fire engine at a crossroads and drive into the side of it at about 40 mph / 65 kph. The fire engine was on its way to a fire so the water tanks would have been full. It barely rocked from the impact but the entire engine compartment of the car displaced into the passenger compartment.

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  • My local pizza place has an off-menu pizza called the Hossenfeffer since it's what I order every time. Deep pan, spicy beef x 2, spicy pork x 2, lamb doner (gyro) meat x 2, pepperoni, jalapenos x 2, fresh green chilles.

  • What's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?

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  • This was just the quotidian breakfast at Hossenfeffer Court. I suppose they might serve much the same at whatever counts as a 'middle class hotel', surely anything less would be grounds for complaint?

    I've just taken a peek at the Savoy's breakfast menu and it seems a bit spartan to me. No kidneys, no fried bread, no mushrooms, I'm troubled by their description of a 'choice of egg', and those modern, American, baked beans instead of traditional buttered beans. Is that the sort of thing you were thinking about?

    Edit to add: crikey, just looked at the Ritz breakfast. Eggs, bacon, sausage, mushroom and tomato. And that's it! The middle class do appear to have it somewhat rough. I blame the governement.