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PyrionFlax
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
England12 Posts
June 12 2014 12:39 GMT
#1
I am astounded by this buffet, but sadly not for the right reasons. Last year the buffet was good, but obviously it needed improvement. There are plenty of other buffets and the only way to get to the zenith of buffets and stay there is by continuing to expand the horizons of just what a buffet can and should be. It takes more than a tablecloth, some doilies and paper plates. It takes vision.

Last year that surprise falafel was a gamble that paid off, that much was clear. I am really glad they brought the falafel back this year because I was all over it last time. At first I was super sceptical because normally I don’t think falafel has a place but it was so well made and such a professionally made falafel I was proven wrong, and happily so. I heard a whispered rumour the falafel was going to be accompanied by five different kinds of hummus. Colour me excited!

Overall, however, this year I am concerned and a little angry. What the hell are they thinking with this buffet? Frankly I got ninety-nine problems with this buffet. And an Onion Bhajji IS one.

Firstly what the hell is this “bhajji” thing? It’s called an Onion Bhajji but it should be renamed Gross Ball of Onions and Shit. I’ve heard about this thing but I’ve never actually seen one and I had no idea it would be cropping up here at this buffet. Some people are even saying they are delighted to see the bhajji here. Seriously? What’s wrong with just having sausage rolls? What about dips and potato crisps? Why do they have to let this vile foreign muck near the buffet? I realise I said the same thing about falafel last year but lightning never strikes a buffet twice. Not an indoor one anyway.

I also heard they aren’t bringing ANY kind of spicy bean salsa. This has been the year of spicy bean salsa. If there’s a condiment that’s worked harder this year to be relevant, delicious and daring it’s spicy bean salsa and to see it excluded….well…I wouldn’t be surprised if whichever smart company makes the salsa decided to take their business elsewhere.

Just who is catering this thing? Bhajjis, and no salsa. Someone explain that one to me, please!

Which brings me to this giant chocolate cake. I tell you what – if you want a free ride to a buffet, being a giant chocolate cake has to be the easiest way. Never mind all the other far more delicious cakes, the giant chocolate cake just has to shake it’s icing covered arse at the buffet organisers and BOOM – all the other kinds of cake which are FAR less showy and have way more depth to them get left out to make room for this motherfucker of a confection.

Sure there are the usual staples at this buffet – miniature sandwiches, canapés, crudités, and quiche (as boring as it can be, we do need quiche or it’s not a buffet in my book) round out the table nicely. There’s a nice selection of vegetarian stuff as well which is fine, I understand the need to cater to those people although I’ll never understand how they can avoid tucking into a cocktail sausage with pineapple and cheese.

Still, it takes all sorts of people to make a buffet I guess.

However, that still leaves us with these maddening decisions. I’ve heard from a lot of people that the cake and the bhajjis are going to go down really well but those people are clearly wrong. I know buffets. I’ve been eating buffet food all over the World for about a decade and if there’s one thing life has taught me it’s this – big chocolate cakes, onion bhajjis and a lack of spicy bean salsa is a recipe for a terrible buffet.

If you cooked that recipe you’d open the oven to find a steaming turd. Imagine laying that turd out on the buffet table beneath a giant cloche. Lift that cloche up to reveal a giant steaming turd with dips. My imaginary reaction to that turd is the same real life reaction I had when I heard about the b***jis (I can’t bring myself to type it anymore) and the hate cake.

I’m thinking of cancelling my ticket but I probably won’t because I heard they were thinking of doing those miniature versions of food like a tiny burger and chips and a tiny fish and chips and a tiny pizza. I mean that sounds good to me. I can almost pretend that the b***jis and so on aren’t really there. I just hope they put all that shit I don’t like down one end of the table and I can hang out at the other. That would just about rescue this appalling sounding buffet.
What the fuck does he have to do with Dota 2?
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36402 Posts
June 12 2014 12:41 GMT
#2
Is this about TI4 I can't parse through this sarcasm / satire.
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Laurens
Profile Joined September 2010
Belgium4558 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-12 12:49:02
June 12 2014 12:48 GMT
#3
Draskyl = spicy bean salsa confirmed
BobMcJohnson
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
France2916 Posts
June 12 2014 12:50 GMT
#4
but who are the Bhajjis
Romanes eunt domus
Eyx
Profile Joined December 2010
England165 Posts
June 12 2014 12:54 GMT
#5
Needs a key or a version in plain speak. Probably very interesting if you can understand it
Laurens
Profile Joined September 2010
Belgium4558 Posts
June 12 2014 12:56 GMT
#6
Interesting that PFlax has been registered here since Augustus 2013 and makes his first post only today. And what a post Oo
rudebear
Profile Joined July 2013
United Kingdom8 Posts
June 12 2014 12:57 GMT
#7
On June 12 2014 21:56 Laurens wrote:
Interesting that PFlax has been registered here since Augustus 2013 and makes his first post only today. And what a post Oo

he's been posting on teamliquid.net instead.
Laurens
Profile Joined September 2010
Belgium4558 Posts
June 12 2014 13:00 GMT
#8
Oh right
siminho
Profile Joined June 2011
Sweden1 Post
June 12 2014 13:09 GMT
#9
Kaci confirmed falafel!
ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
June 12 2014 13:11 GMT
#10
Have you never had an Indian in Britain? How do you not know what an onion bhaji is? Fockin trench
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
Javus
Profile Joined June 2014
Croatia4 Posts
June 12 2014 13:28 GMT
#11
Buffet is TI4, falafel is Kaci , the onion thing is Kpoptosis I guess...Capitalist is spicy bean salsa,and everything else is not really that relevant.
You're welcome.
Jesus Penis - SingSing 2011.
maru321
Profile Joined June 2014
Philippines1 Post
June 12 2014 13:35 GMT
#12
On June 12 2014 22:28 Javus wrote:
Buffet is TI4, falafel is Kaci , the onion thing is Kpoptosis I guess...Capitalist is spicy bean salsa,and everything else is not really that relevant.
You're welcome.



Onion thing = could be Lysander / Blitz
Spicy bean salsa = could be Draskyl / Lumi (if one of them does not get invited , which im hoping is not the case )
cake = ayeese?
Shoot first, Talk Later
rudebear
Profile Joined July 2013
United Kingdom8 Posts
June 12 2014 13:47 GMT
#13
I don't think that any of them are a reference to specific personalities, I'm assuming the intention is to parody complaints, not to make one.
StrayWolf
Profile Joined August 2012
Malaysia161 Posts
June 12 2014 13:54 GMT
#14
I'm an experienced code translator and spent most of my years translating code for government, elite forces and secret services. My resume goes from the farthest of the east to the nearest of the west. My work have directly stop a lot of terrorist organization attacks and have prevented wars from starting.

After analysing the code thoroughly, I can confirm that the buffet has foods.
I leave no man behind.
Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18919 Posts
June 12 2014 14:04 GMT
#15
I'm going to pretend Onion thing is Shane.

Honestly.
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Yoshi-
Profile Joined October 2008
Germany10227 Posts
June 12 2014 14:32 GMT
#16
On June 12 2014 22:35 maru321 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 12 2014 22:28 Javus wrote:
Buffet is TI4, falafel is Kaci , the onion thing is Kpoptosis I guess...Capitalist is spicy bean salsa,and everything else is not really that relevant.
You're welcome.



Onion thing = could be Lysander / Blitz
Spicy bean salsa = could be Draskyl / Lumi (if one of them does not get invited , which im hoping is not the case )
cake = ayeese?


Didn't Draskyl got invited but he refused to go?

At least that what I read on reddit
Javus
Profile Joined June 2014
Croatia4 Posts
June 12 2014 14:53 GMT
#17
On June 12 2014 22:35 maru321 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 12 2014 22:28 Javus wrote:
Buffet is TI4, falafel is Kaci , the onion thing is Kpoptosis I guess...Capitalist is spicy bean salsa,and everything else is not really that relevant.
You're welcome.



Onion thing = could be Lysander / Blitz
Spicy bean salsa = could be Draskyl / Lumi (if one of them does not get invited , which im hoping is not the case )
cake = ayeese?


Spicy bean salse should be Capatalist since ''this was the year of SBS'' , but It's open to Draskyl/Lumi aswell since they casted a lot of Quals and that might qualify as ''the year of SBS''
And the company could be both GDstudio or JoinDota

Onion thing might be, considering it's a ball of turd, a mix of Blitz/Lysander.

Cake should be Ayeese, unless for some reason he finds Sheever/LD/Tobi/AC all to be a cake (since they are all a hype train with not much knowledge) , but since PFlax is on good relations with Sheever/Tobi (or at least it appeared so during quals) It's probably not them.

The sandwiches & stuff are probably KotL/Maut/maybe Kpoptosis (calling him the bihaji might've been a mistake,I thought he was b*** since I knew him the least out of all the invited people,but a bit of research showed he was a bit more involved than I thought he was) / might be Sheever aswell (without it would be boring part)

And in case SBS is Capa , Miniature things are probably Lumi/Draskyl/Weppas
Jesus Penis - SingSing 2011.
Scaramanga
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia8093 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-12 14:54:58
June 12 2014 14:54 GMT
#18
What are the five different types of hummus supposed to be?
Loda talked about the fun counter, it's AdmiralBulldog on his natures prophet
ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
June 12 2014 15:21 GMT
#19
On June 12 2014 23:53 Javus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 12 2014 22:35 maru321 wrote:
On June 12 2014 22:28 Javus wrote:
Buffet is TI4, falafel is Kaci , the onion thing is Kpoptosis I guess...Capitalist is spicy bean salsa,and everything else is not really that relevant.
You're welcome.



Onion thing = could be Lysander / Blitz
Spicy bean salsa = could be Draskyl / Lumi (if one of them does not get invited , which im hoping is not the case )
cake = ayeese?


Spicy bean salse should be Capatalist since ''this was the year of SBS'' , but It's open to Draskyl/Lumi aswell since they casted a lot of Quals and that might qualify as ''the year of SBS''
And the company could be both GDstudio or JoinDota

Onion thing might be, considering it's a ball of turd, a mix of Blitz/Lysander.

Cake should be Ayeese, unless for some reason he finds Sheever/LD/Tobi/AC all to be a cake (since they are all a hype train with not much knowledge) , but since PFlax is on good relations with Sheever/Tobi (or at least it appeared so during quals) It's probably not them.

The sandwiches & stuff are probably KotL/Maut/maybe Kpoptosis (calling him the bihaji might've been a mistake,I thought he was b*** since I knew him the least out of all the invited people,but a bit of research showed he was a bit more involved than I thought he was) / might be Sheever aswell (without it would be boring part)

And in case SBS is Capa , Miniature things are probably Lumi/Draskyl/Weppas

Yeah I think Kpop was doing the stats stuff backstage for ti3?
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
Milkis
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
5003 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-12 15:54:10
June 12 2014 15:54 GMT
#20
On June 12 2014 23:54 Scaramanga wrote:
What are the five different types of hummus supposed to be?


Maybe five other "on the floor" interviewers maybe that also helps her out?
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