Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[stlukesguild]

It's the perfect disc to slowly slip into an alcohol haze with. And then I have the Stones waiting in the wings... once I hit the Three Philosophers Belgian ale (10% alcohol... God, you can taste it... the wife calls it jet fuel) and get really f***ed up.

[stlukesguild]

My God!!!!

I almost spilled my Three Philosophers!!!


One of my stacks of books (of all things... can you believe it???) fell over and almost knocked the bottle to the floor.

Horror or horrors!!!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

While driving down the M1 last year, Mrs P's lipstick rolled across the top of the dash and dropped into my footwell. (Why do they feel the need to touch up their face every 5 mins) I'm sure you've guessed the rest, as she was struggling to retrieve it, a coach full of the recently pubescent drew along side, a friendly group, grinning, cheering and waving as they slowly slid by. It was at least 20 mins before she felt the need to apply any more blusher I can tell you. I sighed wistfully and said it reminded me of the old days. A stoney silence ensued for the rest of the journey.

That is Classic! Great story.
Let's see the mods behind the curtains drop the a** this time

My God!!!!

I almost spilled my Three Philosophers!!!


One of my stacks of books (of all things... can you believe it???) fell over and almost knocked the bottle to the floor.

Horror or horrors!!!

Stlukes - School must be out. You are having too much fun!

Gilliatt

[stlukesguild]

Oh yes! School is out.

I guess that's not indicative of an educator deeply in love with his job... but oh well...

This is week two.

Nine more to go!

Pass me another beer.

[stlukesguild]

OK

Where are all my drinking buddies???

And Sher... please don't mess with the size on these posts.

I'm a visual artist... scale is very important.

[prendrelemick]

Midwinter in Auckland, but we're still getting reasonable weather - today it's around 16 deg and fine with no wind.

Apparently, this is what we can expect with global warming, so it isn't easy to sell carbon reduction around here!

A question for gentlemen to ponder:

Should we stockpile alcohol before the new 20% VAT comes into effect?

Apparently, we're down to only 126 cases of scotch and 483 of champagne.

My mate Terry can get you anything at a very special rate - cash only.

[prendrelemick]

Well things were getting desperate chez nous, untill my daughter arrived with a fathers day gift of 6 Newkie browns and a black pudding. (I've trained her well) The perfect antidote to all those mediterranean salads and grape juice that have been appearing in front of me at mealtimes since the hot weather kicked in.

[Scheherazade]

And Sher... please don't mess with the size on these posts.

*rolls her eyes and sighs dramatically*

Why must it always come down to "size"?

I'm a visual artist... scale is very important.

Yes, sure... It is all for art.

[prendrelemick]

Superb

I was once on a rugby trip to Lancashire when the coach passed a car on the inside lane with the bloke who played George Roper in The Liver birds and George and Mildred. We had a really good coach driver - Barry - who kept us neck and neck with the poor fellow for the next 5 minutes. I bet he'd never seen so many hairy grins pressed up against the bus bus window before.

Another Rugby trip story: (as told to me) My mate and his team went to see the grand final at Old Trafford.( Wigan vs Bradford) They used their usual coach and driver, an old bus with no "facilities", instead a bucket with a lid was provided. By the time they reached Old Trafford it was brim-full, due to all the beer passing through.

After the game, as they were leaving the car park a Wigan fan came up and started banging on the door and shouting abuse. The scrum half, showing his quick thinking and leadership qualities, shouted "O'pen t' door Barry!" to the driver and threw the entire contents of the bucket straight in his face, just as he opened his mouth open to hurl more abuse.

Another humiliating defeat for Wigan there I think.

[The Atheist]

Where are all my drinking buddies???

Hung over!

Your kids get ELEVEN weeks off?

My god, if they tried that here, there'd be blood in the streets. 7 weeks is as much as the kids get here.

My mate Terry can get you anything at a very special rate - cash only.

I used to have a mate like that - he'd rock up to the bank where I worked with a crate of Johnny Walker black label and take $120 for it.

I used to on-sell it at $15 a bottle for a nice profit and a free bottle.

Another Rugby trip story: (as told to me) My mate and his team went to see the grand final at Old Trafford.( Wigan vs Bradford) They used their usual coach and driver, an old bus with no "facilities", instead a bucket with a lid was provided. By the time they reached Old Trafford it was brim-full, due to all the beer passing through.

After the game, as they were leaving the car park a Wigan fan came up and started banging on the door and shouting abuse. The scrum half, showing his quick thinking and leadership qualities, shouted "O'pen t' door Barry!" to the driver and threw the entire contents of the bucket straight in his face, just as he opened his mouth open to hurl more abuse.

Another humiliating defeat for Wigan there I think.

Brilliant!

Mind you, being from Wigan, drinking wee-wee would make a nice change from eating ****.

[Paulclem]

Ummm, stockpiling doesn't mean drinking it all at once!





Yeah, I get that in summer if I drive around a lot. Looks bloody funny!



George & Mildred, that's going back some!

The other program wasn't The Liver Birds, but the one with Gilbert O'Sullivan and the two chicky flatmates - one an amazing blonde that I recall very well!

Yes you're right - it was Man About the House which, at the back end of the saucy seventies, didn't deliver on any front. We only had 3 channnels back then.

[The Atheist]

Yes you're right - it was Man About the House which, at the back end of the saucy seventies, didn't deliver on any front. We only had 3 channnels back then.

That was it!

I agree that the program was crap - it wasn't even funny, as I recall it, but that little blonde in it was sensational.

Crikey, three channels? You were spoilt, we had just the one and during the week, programming ran from 3 pm to 10 pm and that was it!

[dafydd manton]

Just think, then we had three channels of absolute rubbish, but now we have limitless channels of exactly the same thing. Just as you get to the good bit of a motor race/rugby match/whatever, some prat throws in an advert and you miss the whole lot, but you know how to augment your diet/breast/muscles/insureance policy. Deep Joy!

[Paulclem]

Yep 3 and BBC 1 and BBC 2 played the National Anthem, before some smug git advised you to turn off and unplug the telly. People must have done a lot more sleeping back then.

I used to read a lot - and the pubs shut at 11.30 thanks be to Gladstone! In the middle 80s before all day drinking came in in 88? - 89? I remember wandering the streets and going on midnight country rambles with the mates for lack of something to do.

Just think, then we had three channels of absolute rubbish, but now we have limitless channels of exactly the same thing. Just as you get to the good bit of a motor race/rugby match/whatever, some prat throws in an advert and you miss the whole lot, but you know how to augment your diet/breast/muscles/insureance policy. Deep Joy!

Yes the times I've surfed the whole 5 or 600 channels for something to watch. I think, with that many channels I expect to find something I really want to watch, rather than putting up with some old rubbish. My expectations are higher, and I am sorely disappointed most times.

[dafydd manton]

Bring back the test-card!!! Frankly, it was a heck of a sight more interesting than the vast majority of programmes today, where some 16-year old producer thinks we'd like to watch Pride and Prejudice in the nude, where Stock Car Racing and Heroin abuse were the only diversions, until the Mormon Tabernacle Choir came to town, and there was somebody new to stone, using kumquats and plastic effigies of the latest Damian Hurst.