#highland whack-a-mole

[fellthemarvelous]

So since they are making a Dawn of the Jedi movie that's set 25,000 years in the past, does this mean we are going to be seeing baby Huyang in the early days of the Jedi Order??

David Tennant's contract with Star Wars can essentially last forever since his droid has 25,000 years of Jedi history to cover.

He's going to have a lot of stories to tell while he's stranded in another galaxy far, far away with Ahsoka, Sabine, and a tribe of pacifist turtles who spent the past ten years with Ezra Bridger.

[clairedelune-13]

Michael Sheen with David Tennant

Michael Sheen without David Tennant

Michael Sheen in search of David Tennant

David Tennant looking for Michael Sheen

Michael Sheen despite David Tennant

David Tennant notwithstanding Michael Sheen

David Tennant and Martin Sheen

Highland whack-a-mole put down by Michael Sheen

David Tennant and cut-price Mike Yarwood Michael Sheen

[dark-chocolate-frog]

things we have now that i can no longer imagine the world without:

michael sheen calling david tennant a "highland whack-a-mole"

[ingravinoveritas]

‘Not that David is topping anything these days’ Hahaha I cackled a lot at this tag and it’s so very true. I’m excited to see the highland chaos demon attempt to sell a car again and look ridiculously gorgeous and slutty doing it.

Thanks, Anon! And I absolutely cackled (loudly) at “Highland Chaos Demon,” because that is an incredibly accurate description of David and sounds like something that should’ve been in the credits of Staged (right up there with “Highland Whack-a-Mole”)...

But yes...I, too, am looking forward to seeing yet another attempt on David’s part to act straight and butch and like he knows a single damn thing about cars while simultaneously prancing around and erotically draping himself over the hood like the pretty model who gestures to the car instead of the host selling it:

Ah, good times. Can’t wait to see what Comic Relief 2023 has in store...

[nice-and-accurate-reblogs]

"David keeps popping up in the collective subconscious, uninvited, like a sort of Highland whack-a-mole" lmao

currently watching episode one of staged and i'm having a lot of fun

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Popping up like a Highland Whack-A-Mole

Staged e5

[constantcompanion]

1. David Tennant's hoodie.

2. David Tennant's hoodie cleavage.

3. Highland whack-a-mole.

4. Master Mooterbator.

5. Georgia and Anna are the best.

6. Michael Sheen's mane.

[hungriest-snake-in-hades]

“There are lots of plants Jack’s managed to grow in that green house of his, but there are still some things he has to go and hunt himself. And at certain times of the year. This is one of those moments when he’s off to the Highlands to Scotland and I’m left to watch over the bar and the kid. No problem...until there was.

“There’s some territorial disputes that, pun unintended, have been getting a little hairy. I was asked to attend negotiations...or possible battle. Between running the bar, making sure the kid is okay, and brushing up on the disputes...I only told Merlin he couldn’t come with. Forgot to add he couldn’t follow. Which he did...cos he knew everything because I guess I’m rather honest with him...” He shrugged somewhat helplessly, “He asks questions. I answer!”

“The issue is...he got sniffed out and bitten! Normally...I’d just be freaking out on what to tell Jack. But this kid ain’t normal. See, Jack’s da was the magic user, but his mum was a werewolf. So I can’t even be sure he won’t turn just cos he’s magic! I could maybe be looking at some sort of hybrid transformation...the full moon is tomorrow! I don’t know how much that is playing a role in this! 

“The bar’s closed until I figure this out...because right now the bite’s got a nasty infection. Merlin’s magic is on the fritz turning all the spoons into birds, books into frogs, and furniture is spontaneously combusting! Normally, because of their elemental core, Jack and Merlin run a bit hotter than a normal human, but right now Merlin’s up to 115 degrees Fahrenheit and rising!”

“To say I need help is an understatement! Can you play whack-a-mole with the fire extinguisher and put out any fires that spring up while try to cool Merlin down?”  

[ellismorris0]

New Booze Information: September 2018 Roundup

As we’ve stated in recent years, this time of 12 months turns into like taking part in a recreation of whack-a-mole at Distiller. Each and every time we predict we’ve accounted for each and every new bottle coming to marketplace, we flip round and notice that there are 10 extra we’ve neglected. That makes our jobs tougher, but it surely additionally makes your lives slightly a little bit extra thrilling. There are extra new spirits hitting cabinets over the following couple of months than we will be able to seize right here, however those had been essentially the most notable bulletins from the month of September 2018.

The Glenrothes Soleo Assortment

This assortment from the Speyside distillery displays a whole departure from the emblem’s antique and reserve portfolio and a transfer to age commentary releases. The Soleo Assortment is known as for the method of sun-drying grapes within the manufacturing of a few sherry wines, like Pedro Ximenez. To be had starting September 2018, the preliminary Soleo Assortment is 4 age commentary releases and a NAS bottling. All 5 releases elderly solely in sherry seasoned oak casks with 100% herbal colour. A 40 12 months model is predicted in early 2019.

The Glenrothes 10 Year

ABV: 40% SRP: $45

The Glenrothes 12 Year

ABV: 40% Value: $55

The Glenrothes Whisky Maker’s Cut

Observe: The identify refers to grasp whisky maker Gordon Movement and his most popular energy for this bottling. Produced the use of most effective first-fill sherry seasoned oak casks. ABV: 48.Eight% Value: $75

The Glenrothes 18 Year

Prime share of first-fill sherry seasoned oak casks used. ABV: 43% Value: $130

The Glenrothes 25 Year

Prime share of first-fill sherry seasoned oak casks used. ABV: 43% Value: $500

The Glenrothes Soleo Assortment / Picture Credit score: The Glenrothes

Buffalo Hint Vintage Assortment 2018

Remaining Tuesday (September 18th, 2018), Buffalo Hint introduced its annually restricted version releases which might be jointly know because the Buffalo Hint Vintage Assortment. We wrote a fuller deep dive on every bottle that day, however listed below are the details. The entire bottles are technically set for a prompt retail value of $99, however there’s roughly a nil% probability that you simply’ll discover a bottle in a shop for that quantity.

Eagle Rare 17 Year Bourbon: Larger from 90 to 101 evidence.

George T. Stagg Bourbon: Uncut, unfiltered, bottled at 124.nine evidence.

Sazerac Rye 18 Year: Distilled in spring of 1998, bottled at 90 evidence.

Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye: Uncut, unfiltered, bottled at 128.Eight evidence.

William Larue Weller Bourbon: Uncut, unfiltered wheated bourbon, bottled at 125.7 evidence.

Buffalo Hint Vintage Assortment 2018 / Picture Credit score: Buffalo Hint

Compass Box Flaming Heart (Sixth Edition)

Impressed via a rock track, Flaming Middle was once first offered in 2006. Like several earlier editions, this one combines unmarried malt elderly in new heavily-toasted French oak with peat-fired malt from Islay. Alternatively, for this 2018 version, the emblem has reintroduced sherry casks to the combination, one thing that hadn’t been achieved because the 2012 liberate. The precise recipe is featured at the Compass Field web site. This restricted version is produced from 15,zero50 same old bottles along side 800 huge structure (1.5L/1.75L) bottles. To be had in Europe starting September 2018 with the USA to practice. SRP: $150.

Compass Field Flaming Middle (6th Version) / Picture Credit score: Compass Field

Compass Box The Story of the Spaniard

Impressed via a bespoke bottling Compass Field created for a New York bar named The Spaniard, this bottling explores the sherried taste additional on this new everlasting addition to the portfolio. At its core are unmarried malt whiskies from the Highlands elderly in Spanish sherry and Spanish pink wine casks. 48% of the whisky elderly in ex-sherry and 25% in ex-Spanish pink wine casks. As all the time, the overall recipe and actual proportions are indexed at the logo’s web site. Compass Field The Tale of the Spaniard was once launched in September 2018. SRP: $65.

Compass Field The Tale of the Spaniard / Picture Credit score: Compass Field

Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Heritage Barrel

Introduced in fall 2018, Jack Daniel’s Unmarried Barrel Heritage Barrel is a restricted version liberate for the emblem’s unmarried barrel collection. As is the case for all Jack Daniel’s whiskeys, the barrels had been built on the logo’s personal cooperage facility. Grasp distiller Jeff Arnett decided on 200 American white oak barrels to be toasted after which charred. Moreover, the whiskey entered the barrel at 100 evidence, a decrease evidence than is generally used for Jack Daniel’s. The whiskey matured on the best of the absolute best increased warehouses on Coy Hill. Bottled at 100 evidence, it is a US unique liberate. SRP: $65.

Jack Daniel’s Unmarried Barrel Heritage Barrel / Picture Credit score: Jack Daniel’s

Four Roses 130th Anniversary Limited Edition Small Batch Bourbon

4 Roses 130th Anniversary Restricted Version Small Batch Bourbon marks the 130th anniversary for the emblem which introduced in 1888. Crafted via grasp distiller Brent Elliott, the Kentucky immediately bourbon is made out of bourbons elderly 10-16 years with various mash expenses and yeast recipes.

Two bourbons use a high-rye recipe (35% rye) of their mash invoice: a 10 year-old with a floral essence yeast pressure and a 13 year-old with a natural yeast pressure. The opposite two bourbons use a 75% corn mash invoice recipe: a 14 year-old with a gentle fruit yeast pressure and a 16 year-old with a slight spice yeast pressure. Bottled at a barrel energy of 108.three evidence, it’s going to first be made to be had on the distillery starting September 15, 2018 with further shops within the weeks following. SRP $140.

4 Roses 130th Anniversary Restricted Version Small Batch Bourbon / Picture Credit score: 4 Roses

FEW American Whiskey

FEW, the grain-to-glass Illinois distillery, makes its American Whiskey via mixing FEW Bourbon and FEW Rye whiskeys along side its new experimental cherrywood-smoked malt whiskey. There is not any-age commentary for this whiskey which is bottled at 46.five% ABV. The preliminary liberate for this product starts in September 2018 and is restricted to Chicago and New York Town with deliberate enlargement for spring 2019. SRP: $50.

FEW American Whiskey / Picture Credit score: FEW Spirits

Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey

Right kind No. Twelve Irish Whiskey is a logo based via Combined Martial Arts Champion, Conor McGregor below his Ireland Born Spirits corporate. The identify refers back to the southwest house the place McGregor hails, Dublin 12. McGregor labored in live performance with grasp distiller David Elder, previously of Guinness, to come to a decision at the ultimate mix decided on from virtually 100 blends. This can be a triple-distilled mixed whiskey matured in former bourbon barrels. Particularly, the corporate will donate $five for each and every case offered to native first responder organizations & charities as much as $1 million once a year. SRP: $25.

Right kind No. Twelve Irish Whiskey / Picture Credit score: Right kind No. Twelve

Blackened Whiskey

Blackened Whiskey is a collaboration between the rock band Metallica and grasp distiller Dave Pickerell. This is a mix of heterosexual whiskeys sourced from undisclosed North American distilleries. The whiskey is completed in “black brandy barrels” for a couple of weeks. Moreover, the barrels are sonically enhanced in a procedure known as “Black Noise”. Low hertz sound waves—taking part in Metallica’s tune in fact—reason the whiskey to additional engage with the wooden. The inaugural batch is categorised 081, to suggest the 12 months the band shaped. Every batch of 5000 bottles will include an accompanying playlist on Spotify and Apple Tune. SRP: $43.

Blackened Whiskey / Picture Credit score: Blackened Whiskey

Goslings Papa Seal Single Barrel Bermuda Rum

Goslings Papa Seal Unmarried Barrel Bermuda Rum is a restricted version liberate to be had in the USA starting fall 2018. The rum is a mix of column and pot nonetheless rums distilled from molasses. This unmarried barrel rum is elderly for 15 years in as soon as used bourbon barrels with a medium char. This Papa Seal liberate comes from 12 decided on barrels which yielded 2592 bottles. Every bottle will show each the barrel and bottle quantity in addition to the bottling date. Because of the character of unmarried barrel releases, slight variances in taste are to be anticipated. SRP: $199.

Goslings Papa Seal Unmarried Barrel Bermuda Rum / Picture Credit score: Goslings

Mount Gay XO: The Peat Smoke Expression

This rum is made out of a mix of column and pot nonetheless distilled rums that had been decided on via grasp blender Allen Smith. The rums elderly from Eight-15 years in American oak prior to completing its maturation in peated whisky casks from Islay for a last six months. It’s bottled at a cask energy of 57% ABV. Mount Homosexual XO: The Peat Smoke Expression is a restricted liberate with simply 6,120 bottles produced—just one,200 for the USA. To be had starting October 2018. SRP: $250.

Mount Homosexual XO: The Peat Smoke Expression / Picture Credit score: Mount Homosexual Rum

That does it for the New Booze Information from September 2018.

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[travelworldnetwork]

To understand how a bit of British legacy can be found in Hidalgo, Mexico, we must look back two centuries to the heyday of Cornwall’s mining industry.

By Lauren Cocking

21 May 2018

As I squeezed my way through the crowd, Marion Symonds was busy crimping one side of a 4.5m-long pasty in the central plaza. All eyes were on this Cornish baker as she held the still-malleable pastry shell in her hands, delicately crimping the edges of the dough with her fingertips to seal in the beef, potato and onion.

Looking at the sloping red roofs and manicured gardens around us, you’d have thought Symonds and I were somewhere in our native England. In fact, we were in the tiny town of Real del Monte in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo. At the other end of the oversized snack, a local chef was crimping the Mexican way, slapping the pastry shut with the side of a hand atop a table.

To understand why a giant Mexi-Cornish pasty was being made in an English-looking town in central Mexico, we must go back two centuries to what Bridget Galsworthy Estavillo of Mexico’s British Society calls ‘the backbone’ of the story: the arrival of Cornish miners in Mexico.

View image of Real del Monte, Mexico’s sloping red roofs and manicured gardens are reminiscent of England (Credit: Credit: Getty Images)

In the early 19th Century, Cornish tin miners were known around the world for their state-of-the-art mining equipment and, consequently, their expertise in operating it. As such, they and their advanced machinery were called to Mexico by the Company of Gentleman Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte to help mine silver, Galsworthy Estavillo told me. After landing in Veracruz on Mexico’s east coast in 1825, the first wave of Cornish miners made the 400km journey west to the Central Highlands of Mexico where they set to work extracting silver, simultaneously establishing tight-knit British communities and welcoming new waves of Cornish migrants practically each year up until 1840.

While Galsworthy Estavillo was quick to note that “the first wave [of Cornish miners didn’t come] out of desperation,” many later arrivals were driven by necessity, as a direct result of the discovery of tin in Bolivia and Malaysia in the 19th Century. This led to the closure of many of Cornwall’s tin mines and kicked off a severe economic slump that left miners with little option but to make their way to pre-established Cornish diaspora communities overseas, Mexico included.

As the miners established Cornish enclaves, they also began to cement their legacy in Hidalgo, introducing those oh-so-English sloping roofs and their beloved pasties.

View image of In the early 19th Century, Cornish miners travelled to Real del Monte, Mexico, to mine silver (Credit: Credit: Three Lions/Getty Images)

But these aren’t the only reminders of Real del Monte’s centuries-old connection to the UK. According to Galsworthy Estavillo, ‘the pride of Real del Monte’ lies in the Panteón Inglés, known in English as the Cornish Cemetery, located on a hilltop overlooking the town. The cemetery, in which all but one of the graves face north-east towards England, is “quite unique. It’s beautiful, it’s poignant,” she told me. The single askew grave belongs to a Yorkshire-born mining engineer (not English clown Richard Bell, as local rumour might have you believe), and you can thank awkward tree roots for throwing it out of whack, Galsworthy Estavillo explained.

By the early 20th Century, Hidalgo had the most British transplants of any Mexican state, and Real del Monte isn’t the only town that bears the stamp of their influence. Roughly 14km west, in Hidalgo’s capital city of Pachuca, the Bancomer bank – one of several edifices funded by influential former Cornish miner Francis Rule – depicts six separate Union Jacks on the parapet, a design choice provoked by city officials who allegedly banned Rule from flying the actual flag outside the building. Yet Rule’s most recognised project is Pachuca’s striking Neoclassical clock tower, whose machinery was produced in the same Austrian factory as that of London’s Big Ben.

There’s one more enduring obsession for which Mexicans can thank the Cornish miners: football. The local custom of a quick kick-about at 16:00 likely originated with the miners in the late 19th Century. This informal appreciation of the game led to the turn-of-the-20th-Century birth of the Pachuca football club, whose original squad was replete with common Cornish surnames like Pengelly and Bennetts. Pachuca is now known as both the country’s cuna del fútbol (cradle of football) and home to the Salón de la Fama football museum, which charts the sport’s Mexican legacy.

View image of All but one of the graves in Real del Monte’s Cornish Cemetery faces England (Credit: Credit: Carlos Enrique López C/Flickr)

But getting back to Real del Monte and that giant Cornish pasty, or paste, as it’s known in Mexico. The Cornish migrants couldn’t possibly go without their mineshaft meal of choice, a hearty blend of meat and vegetables wrapped up to-go in a savoury pastry shell strong enough to survive the journey into the tunnels. So their wives began recreating them in Hidalgo, eventually showing locals how to make the dish. In fact, Cornish pasties took such hold in Mexico that the tradition of passing them down the mineshafts for lunch endured in Real del Monte even as mines were being shuttered in their native Cornwall.

So it makes sense that each year, in the state that is home to the world’s first pasty museum, local paste makers line the streets as part of the Festival Internacional del Paste to celebrate the Cornish diaspora’s delicious legacy. Eager visitors from across Mexico snap up boxes full of pastes, while Union Jacks and flags bearing the black-and-white Cornish cross flutter in the breeze. Even 8,000km from the UK, I felt somewhat at home – minus the fact I was slurping down a michelada, a spicy, tomato juice-based Mexican beer cocktail.

View image of The bell tower in Pachuca, Mexico, is equipped with the same machinery as London’s Big Ben (Credit: Credit: Sergio/Mendoza Hochmann/Getty Images)

Symonds, who is based in Cornwall but travels regularly to Mexico, is known in Real del Monte as the ‘Mother of the Pasty’, a nickname bestowed upon her by the ‘Father of the Pasty’ and Festival Internacional del Paste founder, Victor Aladro, thanks to her involvement in organising a similar pasty celebration in Cornwall.

“The law of a Cornish pasty is that it has to have potato, swede, onion and beef. The pastry needs to be firm enough to hold in your hand, and you need to have lots and lots of pepper,” she told me.

The Mexican paste remains remarkably akin to its Cornish forebear, despite the passage of 200 years. The crusts are similar, though Symonds notes that Mexicans use their pastry straight away rather than letting it sit for a day, as the Cornish do. The fillings are where the regional variation is most notable. Due to Mexico’s preference for spicier flavours, and the fact that cultivating swede (a common ingredient in Cornish pasties) there is impossible, Mexican pastes use traditional Mexican fillings like mole (a spicy chocolate and chilli sauce) or tinga (shredded meat marinated in tomato and chipotle pepper sauce). Even classic meat-and-potato pastes have a spicy kick to them, thanks to the addition of poblano chilli peppers or jalapeños.

View image of The Cornish miners introduced the pasty to residents of Real del Monte, where it remains a popular snack (Credit: Credit: Jim Richardson/Getty Images)

Today, Real del Monte is part of the Mexican government’s tourism-boosting programme of pueblos mágicos (‘magic towns’) in Mexico. But no matter how many spicy chilli-stuffed pastes I wolfed down against the town’s dramatic mountainous backdrop, the illusion that I was wandering the streets of a quaint English town was tough to break; after all, those sloping roofs, well-kept gardens and pasty shops don’t lie. The Cornish influence endures.

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[ingravinoveritas]

We need this list of top Staged moments. Pretty please 🙏

Haha. Well, it’s not really a list of top moments, Anon. I actually took notes on each individual episode, on the things I enjoyed or found the most interesting in each episode and wanted to remember to include in my review. Most of my notes are about Michael and David (naturally), but also what I felt worked and what didn’t with the structure and pacing of the show. I can share with you a couple highlights of the notes that I wrote, though...

Episode 3 - Who The Fuck is Michael Sheen: - David standing in the corner because he lied. Slight D/s undertones. Did he do it because Michael told him to, or because he was contrite and wanted to? “Boyfriends/couple having a fight” vibes.

Episode 4 - Bara Brith: - David is incredibly beautiful when he's angry. Michael looks like a lost debauched Dwarf from Lord Of the Rings.

- "A Welsh fruitcake" / "Takes one to know one!" Michael looks like he wants to tell David he loves him more than he wants to yell at him.

- Michael's duck noise sounds like a squelching vagina. WHY.

Episode 5 - Received Pronunciation - Michael describing his dream. David being in the audience and saying that poem. Michael opening up to David more. Sweet and sorrowful all at once.

- Scene with Adrian is so clever, how they're filling him in on what's happened. "Highland whack-a-mole" is one of the best lines ever. Genuine laugh from David.

- "Mike" and "Dave" - the snark. So brilliant. Excessively Welsh and Scottish. David doing a Sean Connery impression, FFS.

Episode 6 - The Cookie Jar - Michael flirting with the Dame. So shameless. David's jealousy over Judi Dench = callback to Michael's jealousy over Simon, re: ”moot.”

- Judi again, telling them to recite The Merchant of Venice backwards and strip. WHAT. How is everyone overlooking this?

- "Cookie Jar" at the end is ADORABLE and brings it full circle. Michael's crazed Welsh jazz hands and inexplicable Jimmy Durante impression and David's bouncing cuteness is absolute perfection!

So, there you go. I have more notes than this (I didn’t include the ones for episodes 1 and 2 because they weren’t as funny as these), but I hope you enjoyed what I shared here, Anon. Thanks for writing in! x