Whilst we all understand each other, it’s much tougher for straight guys to cotton on to what the hell we are saying.
Talented Youtube Vlogger Davey Wavey quizzed three strapping straight men about their knowledge of our ‘dictionary’ and here are his hilarious findings.
Professor Martin Fisher a leading HIV specialist has died. He was instrumental in field of HIV medicine and research over two decades. (more…)
Louis Tomlinson’s penis has basically broken the internet and us, in one swoop. This is what happens when you don’t wear suitable panties and wear flimsy soccer shorts. (Thank Jeebus for soccer shorts). The One Direction star and his Johnson have racked up an incredible 2 million loops of this vine, posted by Perez Hilton.
We’re now considering his member the fifth member of One Direction, replacing the lovely Zayn.
I’ve chosen to touch on just some of the benefits of the following 3 foods due to their simplicity, 2015 food trends, and a smidge of personal preference!
Beetroot
An ingredient and flavour I’ve only recently come to love. I adore the vibrancy and earthiness of this versatile vegetable. If you’ve never had beetroot warm, then check out my Beet-Swede-Bake this edition.
Beetroot is Boron bountiful. Boron is great for sexual stamina (also said to have aphrodisiac qualities), and energy levels in general. A useful ingredient if you suffer from fatigue. Betaine and tryptophans can help promote sense of well-being which could also be useful for people that suffer with depression.
Bold and bright beetroot has also been linked to lowering blood pressure, detox support (via purification of the blood and liver), and anti-inflammatory / anti-cancer properties.
Recent studies and TV exposure suggest that beetroot juice can help us exercise more efficiently if consumed before a workout.
We may well see more of beetroot over 2015 with all kinds of root vegetables set to be a food trend this year, and I’m all for it!
Cabbage
My most favourite food in the world, EVER. An odd choice some may think, but I literally cannot get enough of cabbage. Too many have fallen victim to over cooked mush that can put one off for life. Much like how a lot of people feel about Malibu. My favourite cabbage is the sweetheart- obvi. (flash fried with garlic and soy).
Cabbage is great for your digestive tract, and long established as treatment for stomach ulcers. Also, a good source of dietary fibre and includes anti-oxidant vitamins A & C.
The rich purple colour of a red cabbage screams anti-oxidant qualities. Powered along with anti-inflammatory & glucosinolates, has also linked this vegetable to prevention and even treatment of certain cancers.
With the red cabbage being more than 90% water, it could be useful in weight management for those counting calories.
Most of the cabbage family are a useful ingredient for promoting healthy bones due to it’s high content in vitamin K and manganese.
Chilli
I remember a time when chillies were simply red or green in the supermarkets. Now, we are crazy for the hot stuff, and the range of chillis’ now is extensive (over 200 varieties of chilli in the world!). I do have a trashy tendency at home to use Sriracha in EVERYTHING.
Chipotle has appeared to take centre stage more recently, favoured for it’s fiery, smoky rich kick. Great in mayo! The Ancho chilli and home-made Harissa have also been hits of late. The chilli plans on hanging around being another 2015 food trend, set for sweet & spicy marinades and sauces being everywhere!
Chillis have been found to contain anti-inflammatory properties and are great to incorporate in your diet if you suffer from migraines / headaches as they can help to prevent such occurrences whilst clearing congestion and supporting sinuses.
Interestingly, chilli has had great research results in the effects of controlling insulin levels, which could be utilised by people living with diabetes.
Chilli has also had interesting results in cancer studies, showing that the hot stuff can help prevent the spreading of prostate cancer and lower the risk of stomach cancer.
Serves 1 | Prep 5 mins | Cook 45 mins
These crunchy little balls are roasted in cayenne and brown sugar for a sweet and spicy little pick me up. An interesting and wholesome alternative to the so many salty snacks that are readily available. After you’ve made this the first time you may want to add more cayenne as the recipe accommodates all palettes.
CHICKPEAS – 165g of chickpeas will provide you with the following of your recommended daily intake; 84% manganese (bone production, collagen & skin integrity, blood sugar control and protection against free radical damage), 70% folate (protection from heart disease, can reduce depression, and helps maintain brain function), 64% copper (essential for immune system), 49% fibre ( fantastic digestive support in this dish), 39% phosphorous, and 22% zinc. (SOURCE: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=58 )
Ingredients.
1 can chickpeas, drained and thoroughly dried
1/3 tsp cayenne pepper
1/3 tsp dark muscovado sugar
Smoked paprika for serving
Method.
Preheat your oven to 200c / 180c (fan) / Gas Mark 6
The legendary porn star, Pierre Fitch, has shown off his moves in a aerial yoga class with ‘partner in crime’, Blu Nathan. Haven’t heard of Aerial Yoga? Nor had we until this moment – and we’re already looking frantically around for our local class.
https://instagram.com/p/1zcssJKGdM/
Hooked up to a sling and hanging upside down from the ceiling the pair, perform a series of twists mid air, using their core strength and looking kinda superhero-ish in the process.
Speaking to THEGAYUK, a spokesman for sports retail giant JD Sports have made it clear that the corporation “deplores discrimination of any kind”. A point they make clear to their 10,000 staff.
Gavin Matthews, 35, and his boyfriend Craig Hards were reportedly called “battymen”, a slur word used against gay men, as they shopped for new trainers at their local store in Eltham in southeast London.
Mr Matthews informed JD Sports of his complaint via the online customer service centre following the incident on Sunday 5 April.
According to JD Sports, a new member of agency staff, who was working on trial period at the time, unfortunately failed to properly escalate the complaint to the senior management team, who became aware of this incident on Friday 17th April.
This individual is no longer working on behalf of JD Sports.
The spokesman said,
“We deplore discrimination of any kind and take this matter very seriously and took action as soon as this mistake was realised. The two employees from the Eltham store were suspended on Saturday 18 April pending a disciplinary hearing which is scheduled to take place later this week. The head of our customer service team spoke with Mr Matthews yesterday and he is aware of the action we are taking and will be informed of the outcome of the disciplinary process.”
Pretty model Isabel is on a business trip and strikes up a conversation with a gentleman the other side of the aisle of the plane.
They quickly discover that they have a mutual acquaintance in Gabriel Pasternak who Isabel used to date and whom the man had once turned down for a College Grant. The woman seated in the row in front hears their conversation and proffers up that she once taught this same Gabriel Pasternak. Very quickly they establish that everyone on board had some sort of dealings with Gabriel, most of which had not ended happily, and they also discover that he had not only gifted them all their plane tickets but was one of the crew on board.
This is first of six extraordinary and wonderfully wicked hilarious short stories that all end badly and have one thing in common. I.e. vengeance. Created by Argentinian filmmaker Damián Szifrón each one is magically bizarre and all, nothing less than brilliant, show his delightfully warped imagination
In the second tale called ‘The Rats’ which is set in a remote roadside diner, the waitress discovers that her sole customer that night is a loan shark who had driven her father to kill himself. The cook, a tough female ex-con, declares that merely rebuking the man is not enough and she is determined that this will be his last meal ever. It’s followed ‘Road to Hell’ which is the bloodiest episode of the set, with its tale of road rage that so gets out of control when an arrogant hot-shot yuppie in an expensive Audi tries to belittle a country redneck in his beat up wreck. The fourth of Szifrón’s yarns ‘Bombita’ is about an unfortunate demolition engineer who is having a really bad day. His car is impounded when he stops for one brief moment to pick up a birthday cake for his young daughter. He is forced to pay a hefty fine to the rude staff at the compound to retrieve it, and then gets screamed at by his wife for completely missing the child’s party. It’s the last straw for her and she demands a divorce and so his car is towed away again and he literally explodes.
The penultimate tale is the only really serious one that is totally devoid of any humour. It’s the story of a very wealthy family whose son has killed a pregnant woman in a hit-and-run accident and they try and bribe their gardener to take the rap instead. Their ploy almost falls apart when everybody, including the Police, seems to want to ensure that they get the heftiest share of the hush money.
The rather spectacular finale has the very apt title ‘Till Death Do Us Part. It’s set at a Jewish wedding reception where the bride loses her big smile when she suddenly discovers that her groom has been having carnal knowledge with a very pretty younger girl in his office. The bride loses it big time and is determined that not only will her new husband suffer, so too will his family and inevitably all the guests too in an outrageous seemingly endless slapstick performance.
The pace never lets up in the entire 2 hours that for once just flies by as you sit on the edge on your seat unable to even guess what could possibly happen next. What is really quite delicious though is Szifrón’s subversive humour which sets this unique piece really apart and must be a major contributing factor in the movie getting a Best Foreign Picture Oscar Nomination. It also benefitted from an excellent cast, a stunning soundtrack from Gustavo Santaolalla, and the fact that it had the Almodovar Brothers as its Producers.
Wild Tales is really one wild ride that you will not want to miss. In UK cinemas now.
Life it seems, goes on – at a snails pace sometimes at the BBC.
BBC 2’s hit comedy, W1A triumphantly returned to our screens last night in a laugh a minute episode, which saw the ‘way ahead taskforce’ and a clueless PR, plan a visit, in the ‘Frankie Howard room’ from royalty.
An episode in which not a lot happens, which seems to be the running joke. The BBC also needs to sex up its Wimbledon offering as the corporation is in danger of losing its contract. Siobhan Sharpe the PR genius, comes up with brand hash… Mixing brand BBC with brand Wimbledon.
“Yes,”
“Brilliant,”
“Cool,”
“Great…”
“The fact is this, it needs to be better.”
Brilliantly observed we assume and expertly delivered. I laughed at least 5 times in this 1-hour mud flinging, stinging satire on what exactly is wrong with our broadcast services in the UK
The chart-topper will probably have to share a piece of the action with a lesser party, embarking on yet another coalition. Either way, Ed or David will hold the majority of clout.
The UK would obviously be a more harmonious, Telly-Tubby-like place to live if the Green Party were elected. Everyone would do away with cars and annual travel cards and walk, cycle or skip to work come blustery showers and cheek-freezing winters. Plus we’d purr like kittens in our boudoirs at night, safe in the knowledge if we were threatened by a nuclear attack the country could do sod all in defence. Not practical, unless the Greens send the other countries with nukes seductive sonnets, on recycled paper of course, convincing them to disarm their missiles as well.
Nigel Farage – what a guy. Spitting Image would have gone to town, three major cities and punched not only the air but a couple of Boeing 747s to make a latex puppet of him. Although, he’s doing the muppet thing quite well on his own. This is the chap, back in December last year, that defended comments made by former UKIP activist Kerry Smith. Kerry called gay party members “disgusting poofters”.
Nick Clegg should be aware that liberal, open-minded and generous-hearted Carol Vorderman was out the Countdown door when her time was up.
Attitude Magazine’s May issue asked Farage, “Where do you think we should be turning our attention next in terms of LGBT rights?”. Nigel poetically answered: “Is there anything? You tell me”. Clearly Farage, and matters relating to the LGBT community spend as much time together as Sam-Cam and Justine Thornton (Miliband’s trouble-and-strife).
So, is it the Reds or the Blues who will win the pink votes?
The Same-Sex-Marriage Act was passed during the Conservatives reign. But the Blues didn’t give same-sex couples the same inheritance and pension rights as heterosexual couples.
The gay marriage act didn’t stand a hope in Heaven without the Liberal Democrats help, or Labour MPs like Ray Collins and Waheed Ali. They propelled the Same-Sex-Marriage Act through the House of Lords. 128 Tory MPs voted against gay wedlock, only 117 voted for rainbow confetti affairs.
David Cameron gives the perception he’d be happy to hang out with lesbians and have a cheeky wiggle down at XXL. The Cams would no doubt be scintillating company on your table at a homo wedding – they’ve probably been to loads. Is it a case of wolf in wool tailor-made suit worth £3500? How genuine are the Conservatives as a whole for gay rights?
The Reds passed the Civil Partnership Bill and scrapped Section 28, and in doing so equalised the age of consent, fertility treatments, adoption rights and allowed gays in the armed services to come out.
Let’s not brush under the silk Isfahan rug that Cameron voted against the annulment of Section 28 in 2003. Furthermore, the Tories were the only major party in the last game of ‘I Want To Be Prime Minister’ with the same amount of gay policies as UKIP in this year’s election. Zero.
Ed Miliband told Attitude, “I’m determined to be a warrior against injustice and for great equality”. Ed just might be able to pull-off chest armour, a leather skirt and a plumed helmet. Labour hasn’t had the reluctance over the year for flying the rainbow flag like the blues.
Michael Cashman has been appointed the rainbow superhero on LGBT issues worldwide for Labour. Where’s the Tories’ pink MP?
Who’s most likely to support gay Soho, fight for equality around the globe and perhaps lower the cost of Hermès? One of these parliamentary-plonkers will be chief. I’m voting for the reds in my constituency.
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