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For those with Amazon Prime I'd recommend taking a look at the dark comedy 'Patriot'. It's about a US intelligence agent working under non-official cover overseas for his Dad, who is the Director of Intelligence. The protagonist is a little bit of an anti-hero who perseveres with his thankless job, and writes folk songs about what he's been through. Very, very original.

Errrm.... wasn't Richard Attenborough a director, NOT a naturalist? I'm 100% certain Lee Harvey Oswald didn't assassinate anybody

Do you know what? I’d totally forgotten about Watkins. How is George Williams looking? Any sound bites?

...and was even available in my local supermarket when we lived in Dubai! At a slightly elevated price of course ?

I love Haggis. I think the poor reputation it gets is down to people trying it for the first time and being served a poorly made one, which probably puts them off for life as the flavour sticks around for a while. There’s an cool little place in Edinburgh, called Maxie’s. If you leave the castle on the main strip and take your first right back on yourself down the hill, it’s on the left side. They do a nice mix of dishes with haggis, or just the standard neeps tatties thing for the tourists, but most importantly they have a decent range of whiskies to wash it down.

Ah, so I didn’t do anything evil by eating bear then? Worried it may have been on the endangered list or something. I wouldn’t normally eat that sort of stuff but it seemed the safest bet out of all the items on the menu! Another story on the morality of food choices: I once ended up being taken into a little basement restaurant in Guangzhou, China by two scruffy ‘people’s power plant’ workers who couldn’t speak English (long story). There was a dirty old card with black and white photos but no writing - which I assume was the menu although I didn’t recognise the items as food - and I just pointed to a few things randomly... I have no idea what I ate, apart from a few items like snake and chickens feet... the most worrying thing was a broth with little furry paw things in it ? Having said all that, the two guys paid for it all which shocked me as they were very poor and you don’t expect hospitality in China. I think they were just impressed that a westerner could pick peanuts up using chopsticks!

Great thread. Only just discovered it... Don't think I've tried Caribou yet but I once ate Bear and Elk Pelmeni on Xmas Day in Moscow (it's early Jan over there not 25 Dec). I'm not sure whether it's okay to eat bear (Elk probably fine) but it didn't seem to really stand out as having a lot of flavour.

TRL gets more like RLFANS every day. It’s like Benjamin Button.

Back in the day, the club’s website had its own forum. I think it was from about 1999 to the mid-2000s. There was an infamous poster who went under the handle of ‘Wire2004’ who used to get ripped for some crazy views. I wonder what happened to him? Some posters like me ended up on RLFANS and I didn’t even discover this forum until a few years ago.

I have total sympathy for you on the first occasion this happened, but you obviously haven't learned if you keep going back! ?

-23c ??? That’s a record for Sydney ?

Watching the Rabbitohs game it looks like a cold winters day at the Watersheddings.