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     Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.7.170 |
Trebor Softmints are preferable to Murray Mints. The Trebors are Mentos knockoffs, but they are soft and tasty, whereas the Murray's, though they have a butterscotch flavor I prefer, don't have enough of that, to my liking - and then I tend towards the soft mints over the hard as it is. Thanks to Weber for sending me these and so allowing me to come to this momentous decision. And thanks oh so much for putting I prefer "12 inches" on the outside of the strangely-shaped package the postman had to put in my box (*ahem*!), a nice touch... I will be sure to return the favor when I mail you something back....  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
It didn't say you prefer 12 inches on the packet. It said Craig "twelve inches! my favourite" Schwartz. Anyway. Murray mints are better than the trebor. The butterscotchy taste you mentioned wins them over for me. They also have a nicer, smoother texture than any of the range of trebor mints. You never mentioned the extra strong mints... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I have to agree with Weber - Murray Mints every time - it's the flavour, the texture as they melt in your mouth and the length of time they last. In fact I have a packet in my pocket now. Trebor Extra Strong mints or the black Lockets or Halls are great for emergency breath freshening though. What about Fox's glacier mints or fruits or the liquorice ones? Now there's sweets! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Creamy is the word I couldn't think of when I was trying to descibe the texture of Murray Mints. None of the trebor mints can hold a candle to them. Admittedly, for breath freshening purposes I will go for trebor over murray, but from a pure pleasure perspective, it has to go to Murray for that creamy sweet butterscotchy coolness in the mouth. You know this thread is your fault Joel... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I once crunched a whole bag of Fox's Dark into me in work (I do love liquorice) and people from three floors away were asking who'd been eating liquorice for hours afterward - I couldn't answer, my tongue was too black. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.151 |
But see, I prefer a VERY butterscotch flavor, and the Murray's may be "creamy," but they're not butterscothery enough. For that kind of thing you want Werther's. Or even Brachs. And as it is, I prefer soft-chew-anythings to the hard candies. I've not tried the extra strong mints yet, but I will soon - I'm a bit concerned, becaues I also don't like my mints too too strong. I'm a bit finicky. And I must be an old biddy, because I prefer buttermints to any other kind of mint (I always associate buttermints with decrepit old people, those and those candies that fuse together into solid colorful rocks and taste pretty damn awful - can't remember the name of those...). | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
If it's buttery sweets you're after you can't beat a genuine butterball - the kind that come in a jar. I'm more of a fan of hard boiled sweets that can stay in your mouth for ages slowly dissolving... yum. Do you have sweet peanuts over there? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.151 |
No, not that I've heard.... And the yawning gap between our cultures is evident even in your last post: "butterball" is a term I never hear in relation to candy, only turkeys; "hard boiled sweets" is another I've never heard before, let alone "sweet peanuts." Exactly how boring on the Boring Barometer is discussing the difference in terms between the U.S./U.K.?... I always suspect it spikes dramatically when it's brought up....  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Do you have Kola Kubes over there, Craig? I can't get enough of Kola Kubes ...  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.235.232 |
Never heard of Kola Kubes, not in my entire life.... So the answer there would be pretty much a no. What the hell are they?!? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.199.44 |
This IS relevant. If you can't see how, you're beneath contempt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OsBEwsu-E | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
The appalling John Barrowman has finally found his level. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Proto, thanks for that. Nearly ruptured myself laughing. (Obviously, Murray Mints are better. And in other news, Pepsi beats Coke, which tastes like donkey piss, every time.) >>>runs away quickly<<< | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I've actually ordered SHARK ATTACK 3: MEGADOLON. It's only 4 Euro, but I still hope JB doesn't get a piece of that action. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
It looks so fantastic I'm seriously considering ordering it myself. Is that giant shark inflatable? So much better than anything fucking CGI could have come up with! I'm not even joking... one to show the mates over a carry-out. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.8 |
I agree, Stevie! CGI is so slick now, we - consciously - don't even realize we're not buying any of it. CGI is anti-story: it's a Gobstopper (there's a candy - you have any of those?) we're meant to suck upon and sedate ourselves with, while a shitty-mf'n-story cascades by us. But it's all wearing so very thin: our minds are rejecting it (note our new trendy candy, "3D," which only goes to show how the old one's losing it's flavor). So few are the CGI films with any real quality. Some of those, the CGI is purely background, purely meant not really TO be seen.... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
It's not a CGI shark. It's nature documentary footage with people photoshopped into it. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I do think it works, the shark. Because it's not what we expect - it doesn't feel like we've come to expect special effects to feel. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
It's not in the uncanny valley. Google that term if you don't know it - it'll help your horror writing. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.228.177 |
I did just google, that Proto - that's a much more succinct and accurate term for what I meant! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
I could tell straight away it wasn't CGI (read back) and was impressed at the effect - in all seriousness. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Or kill again. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Oh come on, who wouldn't be proud to have that DVD in their collection! Pure genius!! I wonder what the other two are like? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Please stop using the word genius. It makes me sad. I might cry. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I cried watching that trailer... and my jaws are still sore. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
You cry through your jaws? You, my friend, are a very strange man. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
You mean you didn't find it all funny? Even slightly? Scratches head quizzically... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Yeah, very funny. But in no way was I impressed. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
There's a SHARK ATTACK boxed set on Play.com. What's your address, Zed? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
1 Shark Street, Sharkston, Sharkyville, UK | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
! Shark Street? Surely the house is one of those ones without a number but rather a name. "Shark Lodge"? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
Or what about naming your house with a noun and the definite article. Addresses which begin: The Willows, ... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
My address: Beans! 10 Roadstreet Avenue. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Beans...  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I plan to call our new house Sturdy Burt. It feels right somehow... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
There's a character in SHARK ATTACK 3 called Chuck Rampart. You couldn't make this up. Oh, they did. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Is he a friend of Zack Turret? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
That's it... I'm ordering that box set. Pure comedy gold with a giant shark - it's a no-brainer! Hang on... control, control. |