On eating pickles from the pickle jar

43 Responses to On eating pickles from the pickle jar

1. Bob O'Hara says:

   11 February 2009 at 11:24
2. Henry Gee says:

   11 February 2009 at 11:39
3. Richard P. Grant says:

   11 February 2009 at 11:46
4. Mike Fowler says:

   11 February 2009 at 12:53
5. Ian Brooks says:

   11 February 2009 at 15:38

   Good god Fowler!
   Pass me the martini shaker Grant
6. Henry Gee says:

   11 February 2009 at 15:40
7. Jennifer Rohn says:

   11 February 2009 at 17:22

   My comment is not pictorial, but am merely curious whether Australian pickles are proper American pickles (cucumbers in savory dill brine) or these weird British pickles (cucumbers in sickly sweet liquid of unknown composition).
8. Richard Wintle says:

   11 February 2009 at 17:27

   I am completely confused by this, but please accept that (a) I looked through all the comments bird pictures, and (b) will post one of my own once I’m somewhere where Flickr is not blocked by the institutional firewall.
   Why, I’m not sure.
9. Richard P. Grant says:

   11 February 2009 at 19:23

   Thank you Jenny, for a dose of sanity.
   Actually, the pickles in question were a pickle: ginger and mango. I wasn’t eating it, but after I took the photo the phrase popped into my head and I thought I should share.
   It goes well with vindaloo.
10. Eva Amsen says:

    11 February 2009 at 20:21

    “where Flickr is not blocked by the institutional firewall”
    AHahaha!!! I forgot about that. No, no, I didn’t. I just still think that I can’t get on Flickr from work, and then remember that I can, now!
    I think blogspot was blocked for a short while as well. But never YouTube, or Facebook, or MySpace, or the iTunes store, or live broadcast TV channels. Why Flickr? What’s so inherently evil about…photography?
11. Eva Amsen says:

    11 February 2009 at 20:22

    Also,
12. Richard P. Grant says:

    11 February 2009 at 20:30

    What’s so inherently evil about…photography?
    There might be pictures of people’s skin! Which would be so totally wrong!
    Oh, and it steals your soul. SRSLY.
13. Eva Amsen says:

    11 February 2009 at 21:21

    “There might be pictures of people’s skin!”
    Goodness, no! [fans self]
14. Richard P. Grant says:

    11 February 2009 at 22:23

    I’ve even seen…
    (brace yourself)
    ankles.
15. Stephen Curry says:

    11 February 2009 at 23:23

    I have no idea what this post is all about but I do have a picture of a bird…
    
16. Richard P. Grant says:

    11 February 2009 at 23:31

    Ah, the chief pigeon?
17. Richard P. Grant says:

    11 February 2009 at 23:33

    Oh, Brooks. Didn’t see your comment there.
    Martini shaker? Martini shaker?
    Dammit all man. You’ve been away too long.
18. Eva Amsen says:

    11 February 2009 at 23:45

    ankles
    [ Flag as inappropriate ]
19. Craig Rowell says:

    12 February 2009 at 00:04

    http://picklebird.com/
20. Craig Rowell says:

    12 February 2009 at 00:06

    Sorry, I don’t know anything about the picklebird group – but I liked their picture.
21. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 00:11

    Shocked
22. Kate Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 02:46

    Ian:Pass me the martini shaker Grant
    A lidful of Martini, ice-cold vodka (or gin recently) up to the ‘Boodles’ mark on the glass. Stab an olive with a cocktail stick (always an odd number apparently) and stir said drink anticlockwise with said skewered olive. No, I don’t know why I am so controlfreakscary but it works .
    Hic!
23. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 02:54

    Not just any vodka.
    Stolli, for preference. (And no vermouth if Anna’s drinking…)
24. Richard Wintle says:

    12 February 2009 at 04:17

    This guy’s confused, too:
    
    This fellow, on the other hand, has it all sussed out:
    
25. steffi suhr says:

    12 February 2009 at 05:22

    
    Rock shaped by wind in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica
26. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 06:21

    Oh come on Steffi, now you’re just being silly.
27. steffi suhr says:

    12 February 2009 at 07:48

    I was going to post a picture of a (very) dead penguin. That would have been silly.
28. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 08:43

    Not to mention smelly.
29. Henry Gee says:

    12 February 2009 at 09:32
30. Ed Rybicki says:

    12 February 2009 at 09:40

    Just to get things back on a more culinary (as opposed to ornithological) track:

    Nothing like it. Especially straight off the knife….
31. Mike Fowler says:

    12 February 2009 at 09:46

    Having never met Henry in person, I can only state that the resemblance in uncanny.
32. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 09:51

    What, Mike, to the Marmite?
    I agree.
33. Ian Brooks says:

    12 February 2009 at 15:20

    Unless it’s a dirty martini…filthy, catholic schoolgirl dirty, in which case only Kettel One will do.
34. Dave Lull says:

    12 February 2009 at 18:26
35. Ian Brooks says:

    12 February 2009 at 22:16

    At least someone likes Dirty Martinis…
36. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 22:28

    I do.
37. Richard Wintle says:

    13 February 2009 at 05:18

    One more. This fellow’s so confused he’s having a flap about it.
    
38. Richard P. Grant says:

    13 February 2009 at 05:20

    Did someone say penguins?
39. steffi suhr says:

    13 February 2009 at 06:38

    Hmm, that’s an interesting post you linked to, Richard. I wonder how we’d pick the species we ‘assist’, which ones would get overlooked, etc. I just hope we don’t start a whole bunch of well meant, panicky fixes and really screw things up. Sorry, back to the bird pictures:
40. Richard P. Grant says:

    13 February 2009 at 07:09

    No.. talk about penguins all you like.
41. Mike Fowler says:

    13 February 2009 at 07:25

    Richard, I’ll leave Henry’s likeness up to your imagination. It’s the most depraved best place for it.
    Steffi, I couldn’t help but think of this when I saw your picture:
    !!
    Did anything else useful ever come out of Brummingham?
42. steffi suhr says:

    13 February 2009 at 09:37

    Glad I provided an excuse to post another music video, Mike 🙂
43. Maxine Clarke says:

    13 February 2009 at 19:19

    Did you know that Dave Lull actually is an owl? I haven’t seen him laugh like that before.

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