Hot Fuzz, Lent

[pozorvlak]

Hot Fuzz is the best thing the Spaced team have done yet. Far better, IMHBCO, than the frankly disappointing Shaun of the Dead. Go see. Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once!

In case you've missed the publicity, Simon Pegg plays Sgt Nicholas Angel, a tough, hard-hitting supercop from London. An expert in firearms, special tactics, high-speed driving, and community relations, he's reassigned to the sleepy village of Sandford for making everyone else's arrest records look bad. There, the by-the-book, politically-correct, married-to-the-force Angel is partnered with PC Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), a drunken slob with a love of high-octane cop movies. Angel settles uneasily into a life of policing church fetes, but is Sandford really as sleepy as it seems? Trailer here (also highly recommended)

In other news, I am going to try to give up alcohol, caffeine and chips for Lent. Previous experience suggests that caffeine's going to be the big one: much of yesterday was spent in a haze of tiredness and headaches, and I think I'm due for about a week of this (though I didn't get much sleep on Tuesday night, so maybe the rest of the week will be better), followed by five weeks of dying for a cup of tea. I have yet to find a hot drink with the right qualities - all the alternatives lack, well, body.

Comments

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

And also - if you don't get an aromatic flavoured variety, but just straight roobois, then you can still have it with milk in! Making it a far more tea-like experience than any other substitutes!

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm aware of (and quite like) rooibos tea. Again, it's a nice drink considered as an adjunct to tea, but does a poor job of substituting for it - not enough body*, and it's seriously diuretic.

You can put milk in Marmite, btw. It works pretty well.

* "body" isn't quite the right word - I'm looking for a word that describes tea's ability to grab you by the alimentary canal and demand to be taken seriously.

[susannahf.livejournal.com]

I hear that "decaffeinated tea" exists. I have never knowingly drunk it, so can't possibly comment on its "body", or, indeed, drinkability (I'm guessing that a significant amount of chemical jiggery pokery is required to separate out the caffeine). I'm not sure it's the solution to your problem, but maybe it would help stave off the pangs?

[elvum.livejournal.com]

It's fine. The caffeine is extracted with water. It would pass for normal teabag tea in all but the most rigorous of side-by-side tests.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I had bad, but extremely vague, memories of decaf tea, but if it's acceptable to your refined palate, it's almost certainly good enough for mine. I'll look out for some.

[Meanwhile, I went and bought some rooibos tea and some lemon-and-ginger tea yesterday]

[(Anonymous)]

Clipper do the decaf tea that I found acceptable, IIRC.