>standing in spar >wobbly fricker at the front of the line is buying 17 different beer bottles like he's some sort if fricking beer connoisseur >packs them slowly into 13 different pockets in his bag and jacket
>Why doesn't he just go in and buy the beer, without the whole charade of buying other shit?
That's what most alcos do, because who cares what some cashier thinks?
Occasionally though you do see this type.
They can't admit to themselves or the world that buying whisky/special brew at 9:30 on a Wednesday is abnormal so they make this charade.
I worked in an off license / booze shop.
We called this the alcoholic masquerade. Rubbing their chin, looking at food, wandering around, making small talk... to then eventually grab the cheapest vodka we have (or ultra strength lager) and put it at the bottom of a worn out carrier bag under a two month old newspaper.
>Londis during lockdown >little perspex window >couldn't fit my daily 12 bottles of 4-for-£6 ales all in at once >struggled to get them back out and place them in a bag >staff eventually started picking/bagging them the moment I entered the door
Does he even act anymore? Or is he just stuck in panel show hell? Whatever happened to Webb? I don’t watch much British TV anymore but I was surprised that he only made one appearance on would I lie to you
>panel show hell
As far as jobs go that's pretty cushy. He probably only has to work 2-3 days a week and the rest of the day would be free by lunch time.
Webb had heart surgery and only does occasional appearances on the odd show. Mitchell is on the Stephen Fry's bum chums list and is a long term panel show feature so he'll be getting very good money from the BBC.
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Webb was an alcoholic, so not that healthy after all.
Might also explain why he didn't get as busy a career as Mitchell.
Mitchell also can't drive, so having to walk everywhere probably helped his cardiovascular health on the approach to middle age, which is important time for staying active.
>panel show hell >getting paid exorbitantly to go on TV for a couple hours a week with all the other rich semi-elite tier of british society >your job is to make people laugh and remind everyone you still exist in an era when no one really gives a shit about celebrity anymore in the way they used to
Yeah, poor Mitchell I don't know how he does it
>Whatever happened to Webb?
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/12/986560733/david-mitchell-and-robert-webb
Hit the Download button, skip to >42:25
Host added an explanation in post. This is also why Mitchell and Webb's audio is so poor (they refused to hand over their source audio).
>Content warning: While most of this conversation with Mitchell & Webb is fun and lighthearted, it concludes on a serious note. During the interview, Jesse asks Robert Webb about some past statements he made that were critical of the British charity Mermaids, which provides care and support for transgender and gender nonconforming children.
British comedians all hate transgenders because they made wearing dresses gay. Men in dresses was their bread and butter for centuries and transes ruined it.
The mermaids thing is mad, he will be vindicated, and you all you troony Jannies will be in suicide watch then.. erhem. More than you already are right now that is.
Most men his age are fathers and manage, anon. David Mitchell and Victoria Coren Mitchell have kids, they both still work. Olivia Colman still acted while pregnant and worked it into her roles.
Don't give the James Rolfe excuse.
Most men his age are fathers and manage, anon. David Mitchell and Victoria Coren Mitchell have kids, they both still work. Olivia Colman still acted while pregnant and worked it into her roles.
Don't give the James Rolfe excuse.
It's been interesting watching Cinemaphile age into the 2020s and seeing the clash between suddenly overwhelmed, family-oriented fathers, and the old rebellious youth culture who doesn't understand anything.
>Tuesday morning >just been to the off licence
We have an understanding. Only song-and-dance was a year ago >i'm not supposed to sell wine this early >but it's OK because it's you
Based quiet Asian shopkeeper <3
Being Nordic, I fricking envy people in countries where you can buy wine and strong beer at the regular corner shop. Not even alcoholic, it's just a hassle to have to go to the government owned liquor stores if you want a nice Pinot.
I've briefly lived in Norway, everyone there is rich and the cost of living is basically nothing. I pay $4000/month in mortgage in a country town in Australia and $5 for a fricking loaf of barely edible bread. If it wasn't for the constant threat of Europe being scrubbed off the map I'd move back there, even discussed it with the wife when we had kids.
>If it wasn't for the constant threat of Europe being scrubbed off the map
????????????
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Anonymous
Russia have captured 1/4 of Ukraine in two years ergo they will wipe Europe out at any moment.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Russia have captured 1/4 of Ukraine in two years ergo they will wipe Europe out at any moment.
>200 million Europeans killed by war in the 20th century >has been going on since the Thirty Years War in the 17th century >anon thinks it's going to stop this century for some reason
We have separate stores for everything. I envy the UK where they seem to have alcohol and pharmacists in the supermarkets. The government tried to do the latter here but the pharmacist's union kicked up a stink.
Really? Huh. Where'd you stay, and how long were you here? Did you pick up the language at all?
My wife lived there for over a year. I was only there for a month, with a bit longer in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. That was over a decade ago now, she's still fluent but I only remember a few phrases, but with all this gender bullshit going on in US, Canada, and Aus, we seriously discussed raising our children in Europe (Norway or UK) where these things are discussed a bit more "fairly" and the culture is a bit more resilient in general.
Tobacco in Aus and NZ is insane, the governments have a policy to try to price everyone out of buying it while simultaneously banning vaping. It's almost $2 a cigarette these days. There are huge black markets for cigarettes and vapes are still just sold at every tobacconists and weird trinket store despite government attempts to crack down on it.
I talked to an Aussie anon years ago, and he was telling me about the crazy pictures on all the cigarettes packs and how must people buy black market tobacco and roll their own.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
fricked up pictures are on tobacco in EU too, sometimes without any branding besides Name in plain text
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
A pack of Newports in NYC is like twenty fricking dollars
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
fricked up pictures are on tobacco in EU too, sometimes without any branding besides Name in plain text
I talked to an Aussie anon years ago, and he was telling me about the crazy pictures on all the cigarettes packs and how must people buy black market tobacco and roll their own.
Tobacco in Aus and NZ is insane, the governments have a policy to try to price everyone out of buying it while simultaneously banning vaping. It's almost $2 a cigarette these days. There are huge black markets for cigarettes and vapes are still just sold at every tobacconists and weird trinket store despite government attempts to crack down on it.
Just don't smoke.
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Anonymous
>how must people buy black market tobacco and roll their own.
The black market tobacco is sold at literally every tobacconist. Apparently if you go in and ask for a pack of Marlboros they will ask if you want full price or cheap and all the same cigarettes you can see behind them selling for $60+ a pack are kept under the counter and sold for half the price. Organised crime gangs force the store owners to stock and sell their illegally imported cigarettes and if they refuse they burn the store down. 29 tobacconists were burned down last year alone. They've even started killing each other in turf wars over the racket. I have no idea what the government hopes to achieve with their taxes. They do not stop people smoking and they're heading for a situation where they won't build any significant revenue from it because the only cigarettes being purchased will be sold through the black market.
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Anonymous
Good reply bro.
That is so fricking crazy. Let's just hope y'all's warrior spirit comes out and some point and you go the way of the dutch farmers.
I remember about 10 years ago buying really fancy Kretek cigarettes from a cigar shop for £9 and thinking howI could never pay that much again and it was a one off. Now the shittiest cigarettes cost £14
When I was on a train in Denmark, a bunch of young guys was chilling between carriages drinking copious amounts of Czech beer, they offered me some but I was chickenshit back then. I always figured anyone who actually cared about their wallet did the same rather than buying from the bullshit government stores.
>Norwegians go across the border and buy their booze in Sweden >Swedes go across the border and buy their booze in Finland >Finns go across the border(and gulf of Finland) and buy their booze in Estonia >Danes go across the border and buy their booze in Germany
I have unironically rewatched this show at least 20 times. I'm rewatching it right now, I saw the OP skit yesterday. It is by far my most rewatched show, there is just nothing like it.
idk how you handle drinking every day, i could not if i tried. i get hungover for 2 days from drinking 3 beers and the first day is miserable where i can barely move or think. If the hungovers weren't so bad i would easily drink more often
>Webb on Richard Herring podcast >admits they didn't write the sketches (including this one) >he's an alcoholic and it's more than slightly less than 2 drinks for him
Literally me
Why doesn't he just go in and buy the beer, without the whole charade of buying other shit?
Alcoholics are delusional and think they can fool you
who said anything about alcoholics? the man just had a tremendous thirst
A perishing thirst, even
Well said friendo
its the continental way
>standing in spar
>wobbly fricker at the front of the line is buying 17 different beer bottles like he's some sort if fricking beer connoisseur
>packs them slowly into 13 different pockets in his bag and jacket
he was embarrassed to be seen buying booze every day even though it was extremely obvious. that's literally the joke.
oh yeah
>Why doesn't he just go in and buy the beer, without the whole charade of buying other shit?
That's what most alcos do, because who cares what some cashier thinks?
Occasionally though you do see this type.
They can't admit to themselves or the world that buying whisky/special brew at 9:30 on a Wednesday is abnormal so they make this charade.
I worked in an off license / booze shop.
We called this the alcoholic masquerade. Rubbing their chin, looking at food, wandering around, making small talk... to then eventually grab the cheapest vodka we have (or ultra strength lager) and put it at the bottom of a worn out carrier bag under a two month old newspaper.
What were the regulars like?
>Londis during lockdown
>little perspex window
>couldn't fit my daily 12 bottles of 4-for-£6 ales all in at once
>struggled to get them back out and place them in a bag
>staff eventually started picking/bagging them the moment I entered the door
that was a wild time.
Does he even act anymore? Or is he just stuck in panel show hell? Whatever happened to Webb? I don’t watch much British TV anymore but I was surprised that he only made one appearance on would I lie to you
>panel show hell
As far as jobs go that's pretty cushy. He probably only has to work 2-3 days a week and the rest of the day would be free by lunch time.
He did write a book recently, about english kings. It's pretty good tbh.
better than Business Secrets of the Pharohs?
There was less errata
I always thought the history buff part of his character was probably real. That's cool to know
yeah i managed to torrent his book as an audio book. He narrates it, which makes it pretty funny. check it out if you can, anon, its called Unruly.
Webb had heart surgery and only does occasional appearances on the odd show. Mitchell is on the Stephen Fry's bum chums list and is a long term panel show feature so he'll be getting very good money from the BBC.
>Webb had heart surgery
Fricking hell, I expected the fatfrick to have cardiac issues, but Webb always seemed in pretty good shape
Happens to anyone unfortunately
Webb was an alcoholic, so not that healthy after all.
Might also explain why he didn't get as busy a career as Mitchell.
Bet that made the sketch in the op a little awkward.
Mitchell also can't drive, so having to walk everywhere probably helped his cardiovascular health on the approach to middle age, which is important time for staying active.
>panel show hell
>getting paid exorbitantly to go on TV for a couple hours a week with all the other rich semi-elite tier of british society
>your job is to make people laugh and remind everyone you still exist in an era when no one really gives a shit about celebrity anymore in the way they used to
Yeah, poor Mitchell I don't know how he does it
Mock the Week wasnt very well paid at all, so I hear
>Whatever happened to Webb?
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/12/986560733/david-mitchell-and-robert-webb
Hit the Download button, skip to
>42:25
Host added an explanation in post. This is also why Mitchell and Webb's audio is so poor (they refused to hand over their source audio).
>Content warning: While most of this conversation with Mitchell & Webb is fun and lighthearted, it concludes on a serious note. During the interview, Jesse asks Robert Webb about some past statements he made that were critical of the British charity Mermaids, which provides care and support for transgender and gender nonconforming children.
Webb's career really hasn't recovered.
Holy shit that's one of the most uncomfortable interviews I've ever listened to
British comedians all hate transgenders because they made wearing dresses gay. Men in dresses was their bread and butter for centuries and transes ruined it.
Funny for the author of 'How Not to Be a Boy' to take issue with it.
The mermaids thing is mad, he will be vindicated, and you all you troony Jannies will be in suicide watch then.. erhem. More than you already are right now that is.
It's quite possible he's mostly busy just being a father.
Most men his age are fathers and manage, anon. David Mitchell and Victoria Coren Mitchell have kids, they both still work. Olivia Colman still acted while pregnant and worked it into her roles.
Don't give the James Rolfe excuse.
It's been interesting watching Cinemaphile age into the 2020s and seeing the clash between suddenly overwhelmed, family-oriented fathers, and the old rebellious youth culture who doesn't understand anything.
This website has gone downhill since they heyday of literal teenage /b/ vulgarity. Starting to be taken seriously is the death knell of fun websites.
Webb became a huge cuck.
>became
always was
Always struck me as kind of funny that the fat little dweeb has got it more together than the tall, more conventionally attractive dude
I've stoped doing shit like this. I also don't bother alternating between stores anymore. I even jokingly say "see you tomorrow!" when I leave.
>Tuesday morning
>just been to the off licence
We have an understanding. Only song-and-dance was a year ago
>i'm not supposed to sell wine this early
>but it's OK because it's you
Based quiet Asian shopkeeper <3
Being Nordic, I fricking envy people in countries where you can buy wine and strong beer at the regular corner shop. Not even alcoholic, it's just a hassle to have to go to the government owned liquor stores if you want a nice Pinot.
You won't find nice pinots in the selection at corner stores. Sorry to shatter your illusion.
Try living here in Australia, where a single tiny can of beer is $12.50 if you're out and about, or $60 for a case.
Mate, have you looked at the prices in Norway
I've briefly lived in Norway, everyone there is rich and the cost of living is basically nothing. I pay $4000/month in mortgage in a country town in Australia and $5 for a fricking loaf of barely edible bread. If it wasn't for the constant threat of Europe being scrubbed off the map I'd move back there, even discussed it with the wife when we had kids.
Really? Huh. Where'd you stay, and how long were you here? Did you pick up the language at all?
>If it wasn't for the constant threat of Europe being scrubbed off the map
????????????
Russia have captured 1/4 of Ukraine in two years ergo they will wipe Europe out at any moment.
>200 million Europeans killed by war in the 20th century
>has been going on since the Thirty Years War in the 17th century
>anon thinks it's going to stop this century for some reason
You also need to go to a separate alcohol only store like a complete cuck, what an embarrassing existence.
We have separate stores for everything. I envy the UK where they seem to have alcohol and pharmacists in the supermarkets. The government tried to do the latter here but the pharmacist's union kicked up a stink.
My wife lived there for over a year. I was only there for a month, with a bit longer in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. That was over a decade ago now, she's still fluent but I only remember a few phrases, but with all this gender bullshit going on in US, Canada, and Aus, we seriously discussed raising our children in Europe (Norway or UK) where these things are discussed a bit more "fairly" and the culture is a bit more resilient in general.
There's no way dude. Isn't tobacco hella expensive there too?
Hell yeah, I live in the southern US. Most people here know how to make their own liquor
Tobacco in Aus and NZ is insane, the governments have a policy to try to price everyone out of buying it while simultaneously banning vaping. It's almost $2 a cigarette these days. There are huge black markets for cigarettes and vapes are still just sold at every tobacconists and weird trinket store despite government attempts to crack down on it.
I talked to an Aussie anon years ago, and he was telling me about the crazy pictures on all the cigarettes packs and how must people buy black market tobacco and roll their own.
fricked up pictures are on tobacco in EU too, sometimes without any branding besides Name in plain text
A pack of Newports in NYC is like twenty fricking dollars
Just don't smoke.
>how must people buy black market tobacco and roll their own.
The black market tobacco is sold at literally every tobacconist. Apparently if you go in and ask for a pack of Marlboros they will ask if you want full price or cheap and all the same cigarettes you can see behind them selling for $60+ a pack are kept under the counter and sold for half the price. Organised crime gangs force the store owners to stock and sell their illegally imported cigarettes and if they refuse they burn the store down. 29 tobacconists were burned down last year alone. They've even started killing each other in turf wars over the racket. I have no idea what the government hopes to achieve with their taxes. They do not stop people smoking and they're heading for a situation where they won't build any significant revenue from it because the only cigarettes being purchased will be sold through the black market.
Good reply bro.
That is so fricking crazy. Let's just hope y'all's warrior spirit comes out and some point and you go the way of the dutch farmers.
In Britain they're moving to ban everyone born after 2009 from buying any tobacco
based
zoomers shouldn't have rights
It's hard to see how they'll give a toss, really. They just puff on vapes and drink Prime.
I remember about 10 years ago buying really fancy Kretek cigarettes from a cigar shop for £9 and thinking howI could never pay that much again and it was a one off. Now the shittiest cigarettes cost £14
I heard there's a black market for liquor in nord countries. Is that true?
Oh yeah, huge. It's mostly homebrewed shit though, which is usually of... questionable quality.
When I was on a train in Denmark, a bunch of young guys was chilling between carriages drinking copious amounts of Czech beer, they offered me some but I was chickenshit back then. I always figured anyone who actually cared about their wallet did the same rather than buying from the bullshit government stores.
>Norwegians go across the border and buy their booze in Sweden
>Swedes go across the border and buy their booze in Finland
>Finns go across the border(and gulf of Finland) and buy their booze in Estonia
>Danes go across the border and buy their booze in Germany
In Sweden its normal to know a guy that goes to Germany or Denmark to basically fill up a van with booze for resale .
Such a great show.
I have unironically rewatched this show at least 20 times. I'm rewatching it right now, I saw the OP skit yesterday. It is by far my most rewatched show, there is just nothing like it.
I kinda feel like this about going into the same shop everyday to buy a chicken wrap. It feels awkward doing it everyday.
idk how you handle drinking every day, i could not if i tried. i get hungover for 2 days from drinking 3 beers and the first day is miserable where i can barely move or think. If the hungovers weren't so bad i would easily drink more often
Have you tried not being a sissy?
Are you sure it’s beer you’re drinking and not anti freeze?
He was with The Inebriati
>Webb on Richard Herring podcast
>admits they didn't write the sketches (including this one)
>he's an alcoholic and it's more than slightly less than 2 drinks for him
the guy who wrote a lot of the sketches is in like 90% of the episodes
Yeah I think it's the James Bachman guy.