http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 20:13:37 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118838 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:31:38 +0000 Scroat 118838@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Let us know how you go next time Shits. Food helps to soak it up. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118712 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:22:11 +0000 beau-jolly 118712@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Glass of wine and in bed by 8:30. Now that is a cheap date! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118702 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:06:06 +0000 Scroat 118702@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>Thanks for the advice everyone.</blockquote></p> <p>Which I note you chose to ignore! Tut tut. Kids today etc...</p> <p>Next time:</p> <p>No spirits, no red wine. Just one sort of drink at a time. White wine or beer.</p> <p>Don't mix them. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118700 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:47:04 +0000 shitsu_tonka 118700@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the advice everyone.</p> <p>Saturday - Gin and tonic, horrible beyond words swapped for vodka tonic and later half a Stella plus a sip from everyone else's glass.</p> <p>Sunday - Glass and a bit of red wine with dinner. Was completely buggered by that. In bed by half eight, didn't wake up until lunch time today. </p> <p>Conclusion - wine needs more investigating, the only thing that tastes worse than gin is Archers and lemonade, even a tiny amount of booze is a thousand times better than being tee-total. Cheers! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118679 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:20:01 +0000 riesler 118679@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Maybe you could try this....<br /> <a href="http://www.drinkstuff.com/products/product.asp?ID=6150&amp;bnr=181" rel="nofollow">http://www.drinkstuff.com/products/product.asp?ID=6150&amp;bnr=181</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118592 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:25:51 +0000 Scroat 118592@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My God. That sounds like the joke about the man who went to the doctors with constipation. Doctor asked him what he ate in a typical day. "A snack when I get up, then a full English breakfast, then another snack before I go to work, some cake and coffee mid-morning, a three course dinner at lunchtime, a snack about 4 p.m., a burger on the way home, a full three course meal at tea-time, a snack because I get peckish in the middle of the evening, then a couple of sandwiches before I go to bed, and then maybe something like a bacon butty in the middle of the night when I get hungry. And then start it all over again when I get up in the morning."</p> <p>The doctor asked him to take his trousers down, shone his torch up his bum and said:"Yes... I think I know the trouble."</p> <p>"What is it doc - anything serious?"</p> <p>And the doctor replied:"Yes. You've only got one fucking arsehole." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118578 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:39:05 +0000 Ironduke 118578@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Suggestions:</p> <p>a. Pimms at a bubbly wedding reception, (but calculate the alcoholic volume because its the grown-ups equivalent of MadDog 20/20 kiwi flavour)</p> <p>b. A cold french beer poured with a head in the sunshine. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, but I can still see ( and taste) the half of Kronenbourg 1664 at a cafe table in Normandy from last summer holiday.</p> <p>c. Sancerre with a nice meal at home- pan fried duck with a pineapple, chilli and lime sauce on my wife's birthday</p> <p>d. A rather well performed pint of Guinness from a pub, not the extra-cold variety, amidst jovial banter</p> <p>e. A drop of Glenmorangie, an ice cube, a conversational friend / father and a fire</p> <p>And though I sit here with man flu, having drank my way through three consecutive benders at a conference and feeling like shite, the thought of any of those puts a smile on my face- probably because each one was a lovely occasion and the booze was but the cherry on the top.</p> <p>However, lest I give the impression of virtue, during the conference I drank Guinness, Becks, Stella, Boddingtons, Champagne, White wine, Red wine, Jagerbombs, Glenfiddich, Sagres lager...and ate from brazillian buffets and fine dining banquet to nando's and a stop at McD's for twenty nuggets, two cheeseburgers and fries on the way home from the banquet (Bresaola with raddish pannacotta followed by fillet beef with a venison tortellini is all very well, but it were mingey portions)...so sadly I probably describe the full pathway of selective enjoyment of moderate volumes of alcohol all the way to pouring whatever is handy down your neck and hoping your aim is good with the vomitting. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118577 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:39:04 +0000 Ironduke 118577@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Suggestions:</p> <p>Pimms at a bubbly wedding reception, (but calculate the alcoholic volume because its the grown-ups equivalent of MadDog 20/20 kiwi flavour)</p> <p>A cold french beer poured with a head in the sunshine. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, but I can still see ( and taste) the half of Kronenbourg 1664 at a cafe table in Normandy from last summer holiday.</p> <p>Sancerre with a rather nice meal at home- pan fried duck with a pineapple, chilli and lime sauce on my wife's birthday</p> <p>A rather well performed pint of Guinness from a pub, not the extra-cold variety, amidst jovial banter</p> <p>A drop of Glenmorangie, and ice cube, a conversational friend / father and a fire</p> <p>And though I sit here with man flu, having drank my way through three consecutive benders at a conference and feeling like shite, the thought of any of those puts a smile on my face- probably because each one was a lovely occasion and the booze was but the cherry on the top.</p> <p>However, lest I give the impression of virtue, during the conference I drank Guinness, Becks, Stella, Boddingtons, Champagne, White wine, Red wine, Jagerbombs, Glenfiddich, Sagres lager...and ate from brazillian buffets and fine dining banquet to nando's and a stop at McD's for twenty nuggets, two cheeseburgers and fries on the way home from the banquet (Bresaola with raddish pannacotta followed by fillet beef with a venison tortellini is all very well, but it were mingey portions)...so sadly I probably describe the full pathway of selective enjoyment of moderate volumes of alcohol all the way to pouring whatever is handy down your neck and hoping your aim is good with the vomitting. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118463 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:39:06 +0000 Midfield Diamond 118463@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Gerontius - No, I have no Brum connections, Sussex roots but Somerrrrrset since 1988. So almost accepted in the village now. Nom-de-plume is the one I've used for a while for a football fanzine. </p> <p>Love a few drinks with good company, and have killed far too many brain cells over the years as a result, but I never drink on my own. </p> <p>Looking forward to hearing Shitsu's story of the first Saturday back on the pop, getting wankered, having a fight and getting a shag. Or if Shitsu's a bloke, a more sophisticated evening presumably. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405&page=2#post-118462 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:25:04 +0000 Scroat 118462@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Shits. The bottom line is don't go there. Ask Mary. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118440 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:54:29 +0000 JohnA 118440@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I enjoy alcohol but I drink rarely and in moderation. But I enjoy tea, Diet Coke and orange juice (not at the same time).</p> <p>Answer is: drink a little, enjoy a lot. Drink a lot, enjoy little and die. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118418 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:15:50 +0000 Gerontius 118418@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, beware. Keep away from the really strong stuff - there's no need for it and it's dangerous.<br /> BTW Midfield....are you one of the Birmingham Diamond's by any chance?<br /> I once had a tempestuous affair with a Double Diamond from the B'ham area.<br /> Interesting abstainer...???<br /> Like who???<br /> Frank Skinner, Marcus Brigstock...I rest my case (Merlot) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118415 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:11:16 +0000 dvo4fun 118415@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I appreciate the standpoint of many Biscuits (including m' goodself who has just downed his 3rd Large One of the evening - oh come on, it's past 5pm) but drinking alcohol is not actually compulsory. </p> <p>Alcohol was my specialist subject, professionally, for some years and the main thing to remember is - however you dress it up - it's just a [behaviour-disinhibiting &amp; depressant] drug, diluted in various guises to appeal to a variety of 'tastes'. </p> <p>Me, I go for the spirits, purely on the basis that, at 40% a.b.v., I spend less time getting it into the system and less time expelling the medium in which it has been delivered. </p> <p>Why not as has been hinted at go for the interesting abstainer motif? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118413 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:04:14 +0000 Midfield Diamond 118413@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Don't know Bridge Farm Cider, will have to investigate. But my local pub sells bottles of Orchard Pig (from West Bradley) which is very drinkable indeed. The 8% stuff tastes very similar to the 5% stuff though so care is needed if you don't want to temporarily lose the use of your legs. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118410 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:54:06 +0000 beau-jolly 118410@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Not known him take his teath out. Nigel looks like a young Einstein (his wife is dour and Irish) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118407 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:32:57 +0000 Gerontius 118407@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I know it, just outside Crewkerne, excellent cider - and I'm pretty sure I've met Nigel (is Nigel the one who keeps his teeth in his pocket or is that his wife)<br /> Crewkerne used to be one of my port's of call in my shop-keeping days. So I often called in for supplies.<br /> I've not tried the cider brandy though.<br /> It's good to see such dedication to one's profession. Unless you are familiar with the product, how can you pass on your expertise to the customer. If the rest of the UK workforce were that diligent we wouldn't be in the mess we are in.<br /> It's about time I called on Nigel again. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118350 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:10:22 +0000 beau-jolly 118350@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Gero: I do <a href="http://www.bridgefarmcider.co.uk/home.html">Bridge Farm Cider</a><br /> Nigel is a lovely chap. Looks like a mad proffesor and makes pure cider with no nasties. I have to admit that for every bottle of his 5YO cider brandy I sell, I drink one myself. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118341 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:44:21 +0000 writinginbsl 118341@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>start on small bottles, then work your way up to big bottles </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118319 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:15:00 +0000 Gerontius 118319@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cider<br /> Honestly, cider.<br /> The real stuff...not the fizzy shite you get in bottles.<br /> And not the rough stuff either....make sure it is filtered.<br /> It has genuine health giving properites.<br /> OK...so the downside is you lose all sense of time and motion...but it doesn't matter.<br /> <a href="http://www.lymebaywinery.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lymebaywinery.co.uk/</a><br /> Beau-jolly probably sells it in his shop, it's not too far from his place (as the crow flies). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118246 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:15:32 +0000 Quaz 118246@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh, expensive brandy in a propper big, warm glass at a marble bar in Pragues best hotel. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118245 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:58:21 +0000 Quaz 118245@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How to start drinking? Come visit me. To be serious, just dabble, but in quality. Don't mix wine on beer or whiskey. No more than 2 or 3 single malt with a splash. Instead there are now several low strength real ales with a good flavour, 2 or 3 pints will do a session, esp in halfs. A sure way to regret waking up alive is strong ale, merlot &amp; cheap scotch . in combo. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118207 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:11:55 +0000 thisisall1word 118207@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>After having skim read through The Wisdom of Crowds I think the best thing is not to pick one of the above but all of them at once. That way you get the best of all worlds.</p> <p>@cinquecento - not sure what you did to annoy them but I just got charged an extra 10% on my implant. Still, it's seats on the tube from here on in. Huzzah! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118198 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:42:20 +0000 cinquecento 118198@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>let them know I referred you, they'll knock 10% off </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118186 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:55:49 +0000 kimllfixit 118186@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cinquecento - that site is fantastic! Seems to be a place to buy giant silicone breast implants to wear on your belly. An extra 5% off when you buy two would make it cheaper for scrawny men to finally have moobs. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118185 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0000 fernandomando 118185@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Go to Lidl and buy a cheap bottle of Sambuca. Down it.</p> <p>Alternatively, Jagerbombs are number one in the US, and are widely available in most Wetherspoons.</p> <p>Finally, I have noticed a disturbing lack of drunks in the new Kings Cross station. Perhaps go there, drink a bottle of whisky and growl at everyone?</p> <p>Hope this helps. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118173 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:54:31 +0000 Scroat 118173@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Let us know how you get on. </p> <p>Why not post something here when you get back on Saturday.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118167 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:41:18 +0000 cinquecento 118167@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>as you will doubtless be lookinfg suspiciously svelte, also consider using one of these <a href="http://www.bellymake.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bellymake.com/</a> in order to relieve the peer pressure... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118160 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:43:21 +0000 Midfield Diamond 118160@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm glad andhrimnir clarified the fact that he/she only has the dissected brains of dead alcoholics - dissecting the brain of a living alcoholic would surely be a little risky.</p> <p>In answer to the question where would I start if I were in shitsu's position, I'd have several relaxed pints of a good session real ale (ie no stronger than about 3.8%) in a pub with mates, and insist on drinking at my own pace. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118148 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:07:11 +0000 Golgo13 118148@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You should start smoking as well while you're at it. </p> <p>There's nothing like a pint and a tab! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41405#post-118147 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:51:16 +0000 Tomfinger 118147@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Re Sinnick's no. 4. I'd advise practising getting pissed on a bus before getting behind the wheel and make sure your bottle's in a brown paper bag if you feel the need for a quick swig while stopped at lights.<br /> Hope this helps. </p>