Drinking

[student-scaley]

Do any of the west country boys (and men) on this site fancy a get-to-gether this summer? I.e. lets find a pub get smashed and slag off tinwalt.

[Ale]

Sounds like a good laugh, I'm sure Bluffcove will be up for it too (he's away for a couple of weeks at the moment).

I'm originally from Devonshire, so despite my current Welsh abode I'm no kind of Grockle. :evil: :lol:

[Crab_to_be]

The Coronation Tap in Bristol does a lethally-strong, flat, westcountry cider. Mmmm.... Exhibition...

[student-scaley]

Like Bluff, i'm away as of friday for a month (annual camp + MACC task) but should be back end of july. Any suggestions for drinking dens greatly appreciated.

[Ale]

Sounds like a plan then, we'll all get in touch at the end of July!

Bluffy has also just bought himself a V6 hybrid 1957 Series I landrover with no MOT and seized brakes, so we can take the opportunity to mock him and said car in person. (Assuming he manages to get it working by then!)

[student-scaley]

Bluffy has also just bought himself a V6 hybrid 1957 Series I landrover with no MOT and seized brakes, so we can take the opportunity to mock him and said car in person. (Assuming he manages to get it working by then!)

How much did it cost him a fiver?
Even though some of us are away 'till the end of july keep posting suggestions for the location.
cheers,
Student-scaley

[Bladensburg]

V6 Landie? Now there's a car with a thirst! We had a V8 for farm use for a while and petrol stations used to love me :cry: .

[Ale]

A fiver? he he!

No, it was about £550 off ebay, bought unseen. :lol: He was slightly under the influence at the time, I believe. He has always had a bit of a thing for landrovers, and like poking around under mine with a spanner. (which suits me fine-free mechanicing!) Hopefully the beast will be running in time for a booze up.

I would suggest that we either meet up at someones house, or get together at a campsite somewhere and go out on t'lash. I'm afraid my neck of Devon is just full of scally brummies at this time of year, so unless you want a scrap.....! :shock:

[student-scaley]

scrapping? Brings back memories of Brecon - summer camp 2004 - got into a fight with the locals and some of the blokes on junior Brecon, but that's a story for another time.

or get together at a campsite somewhere and go out on t'lash.

How'd you mean, try and relive the old days? dig a trench in your garden fill it with water and get your gardener to shoot at us all day.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[IRONMAN]

Have one for me lads.

http://www.kegworld.com/pics/guiness.gif

[pdf27]

Have one for me lads.
Errr.... wrong country (and I can't stand the stuff in any case - not bitter enough).
Personally, I prefer this stuff (wrong side of the country unfortunately, but that's where I've spent the last 4 years before moving down here for work).
http://www.woodfordes.co.uk/images/wherry.gif (http://www.woodfordes.co.uk)

[IRONMAN]

Have one for me lads.
Errr.... wrong country (and I can't stand the stuff in any case - not bitter enough).
Personally, I prefer this stuff (wrong side of the country unfortunately, but that's where I've spent the last 4 years before moving down here for work).
http://www.woodfordes.co.uk/images/wherry.gif (http://www.woodfordes.co.uk)

I thought Guinnes was an English beer. Guess not. What counrty are you in? Scotland? Ireland?

Woodforde's Broadland Brewery
http://www.woodfordes.co.uk/images/ukmap.gif

[Crab_to_be]

I thought Guinnes was an English beer. Guess not. What counrty are you in? Scotland? Ireland


Guinness is Irish! Irish people get really arsey about things like that. And when some Irish people get angry, sometimes they shoot 14 year old girls. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4618125.stm

For your remedial homework, find out the difference between Whiskey and Whisky (note spelling!) and why Irish / Scots are all uptight about that too. Alternatively, treat yourself to a german wheat beer. I recommend Erdinger, which I believe is available in the US. If not, there's a great range of quality European lagers and beers to try. I would suggest London Pride, but I am fairly sure it would travel very badly.

I tried Wherry last year - a tasty discovery in the Coltishall Mess. I filed this useful bit of information away for future use, then the announcement was made the next day that the station would close. :cry:

[Tubbyboy]

I would suggest London Pride, but I am fairly sure it would travel very badly.

The best pint of Pride I have ever tasted (including direct from the brewery in London) was actually in Cardiff (that is Wales for our Colonial brethren). Just goes to show that, although it had travelled, it had been looked after a lot better than in the great smoke!

[IRONMAN]

For your remedial homework, find out the difference between Whiskey and Whisky (note spelling!) and why Irish / Scots are all uptight about that too. Alternatively, treat yourself to a german wheat beer. I recommend Erdinger, which I believe is available in the US. If not, there's a great range of quality European lagers and beers to try. I would suggest London Pride, but I am fairly sure it would travel very badly.

Interesting stuff. I've learned something, or two. I used to prefer gin and tonic with lime, but as I've gotten older the stuff has made me feel out of control of myself a bit. But beer just makes me into a pleasant, jolly fellow. But I'll have a Sam Adams if ye please. A very fine beer indeed. :wink: There are a few excellent beers made here in the US. Have on on me.

http://www.samueladams.com/_img/verification/left_bottles.jpg
http://www.samueladams.com/verification/

[Sturmtruppen]

nothing,nothing is better than a good and cold quilmes to drink!!
http://img235.echo.cx/img235/4070/quilmes0zl.png
http://www.euro-beer.co.uk/stock/p1521d.jpg
http://www.sbiweb.com.ar/Tfoto/quilmes.jpg

if you don´t believe me,ask to bluff about the quilmes :wink:

[IRONMAN]

Never heard of that brand, but then, I've never heard of a lot of brands. :D I'll take your word for it that it's a great beer! Do you know where it's made?

[Sturmtruppen]

Never heard of that brand, but then, I've never heard of a lot of brands. :D I'll take your word for ot that it's a great beer!
:D
,see ya drinking samuel adams and quilmes in a bar in ny :D

[pdf27]

Guinness is Irish! Irish people get really arsey about things like that.
Funny that! Come to think of it, Guinness has apparently just about killed off all the other beers in Ireland - it's a bit sad really. In the UK however the range of beers is expanding fast (we have much to be thankful to CAMRA for), and a lot of it is good stuff :)

I tried Wherry last year - a tasty discovery in the Coltishall Mess. I filed this useful bit of information away for future use, then the announcement was made the next day that the station would close. :cry:
Well, Marham should be staying open and they're fairly close to Woodfordes too (there's plenty of it to be found in Cambridge, which is a lot further away from the brewery).

[Walther]

When I was living in Ireland, I prefered Smithwick´s or Kilkenny above Guinness.

Jan

[Man of Stoat]

Schneider Weisse Dunkel is fantastic. Can't get it here though :(

[festamus]

Newcastle Brown Ale!

[reiver]

I'm rather partial to the original Budweiser, from Budwar, or Staroprammen.

[Gen. Sandworm]

Newcastle Brown Ale!

Is a great beer. But usually gives ya the runs something awful. :D :?

[Bladensburg]

Do they still make Gillespies Scottish Stout? It was quite good IIRC. A good beer to try is Hobgoblin if you can find it and Marston's Old Empire IPA is an excellent counter to those who consider lager more "refreshing" than proper beer in the summer.

A Geordie once told me that the correct way to drink Newcastle Brown was from a haf-pint glass half-filled and regularly topped up - something about oxidation, it needs to get air to it and should be drunk slowly.

[pdf27]

A good beer to try is Hobgoblin if you can find it

They've got some good art (see below) but Hobgoblin doesn't do it for me - not really sure why, but there's something about it that just doesn't taste right.

http://www.wychwood.co.uk/new_images/art_lagerboy_whatsthematter_800x.jpg

Just don't try Oyster Stout (yes, containing real oysters) - that was the foullest thing I've ever drunk in my life!

Edit: Just to make things clear, Oyster Stout is not brewed by Wychwood - can't remember who though as it was about 11pm at the Cambridge Beer Festival a couple of years ago and my memory was getting a bit hazy by that time!

[Walther]

The original Pilsner from Pilsen in the Czech republic is very good as well!

Jan

[Sturmtruppen]

budweiser and schneider are very good!

[Bladensburg]

Oyster Stout is Marstons I believe. I always thought it was to be drunk with oysters rather than made from them, I seem to recall it not being all that bad although it may have been a different Marston stout.

Th foulest beer (not icluding American Lager) I've ever is that stuff brewed by Badger that includes peach blossom. It smells and tastes gaggingly sweet.

Woods brews good stuff if you can find it.

[IRONMAN]

I think that "American Lagers" are quite good, but the must be drunk good 'n cold, unlike some of the heavy tasting stuff. I prefer Michelob. Now that's a fine beer! I very much dislike dark beer myself. It's so heavy tasting, like drinking a bar of burnt barley dissolved in water.
http://www.michelobultraopen.com/images/michelob_logo2.gif

[King_Nothing]

Newcastle Brown.

[pdf27]

Oyster Stout is Marstons I believe. I always thought it was to be drunk with oysters rather than made from them, I seem to recall it not being all that bad although it may have been a different Marston stout.
Found the one I tried with a bit of googling:

Ventnor (Isle of Wight) 1996
Oyster Stout (4.5%)
Containing real oysters, this beer is a rich combination of the sweetness of an English stout and the silky smoothness of an Irish stout.

[Crab_to_be]

...
Ventnor (Isle of Wight) 1996
Oyster Stout (4.5%)
Containing real oysters, this beer is a rich combination of the sweetness of an English stout and the silky smoothness of an Irish stout.

Big big big warning on stuff from Ventnor. Ventnor Gold is apparently a very pleasant ale/beer, which you enjoy thoroughly until it progresses beyond your stomach. At that point, it freefalls through the rest of your digestive tract accomanied by high pressure gasses and anything else in there too. This continues until you are pretty much empty. You have been warned!

[Tubbyboy]

Big big big warning on stuff from Ventnor. Ventnor Gold is apparently a very pleasant ale/beer, which you enjoy thoroughly until it progresses beyond your stomach. At that point, it freefalls through the rest of your digestive tract accomanied by high pressure gasses and anything else in there too. This continues until you are pretty much empty. You have been warned!

Ventnor Gold - one of the nicest beers I have ever drunk, and possibly one of the nastiest ones when it hits the GI tract. I find that good old Wifebeater also has a similar effect on me.

Lovely stuff though.

[IRONMAN]

Ventnor Gold - one of the nicest beers I have ever drunk, and possibly one of the nastiest ones when it hits the GI tract. I find that good old Wifebeater also has a similar effect on me.

Lovely stuff though.

Wifebeater? Seriously? Someone named a beer that? Good Lord.

[Tubbyboy]

Ventnor Gold - one of the nicest beers I have ever drunk, and possibly one of the nastiest ones when it hits the GI tract. I find that good old Wifebeater also has a similar effect on me.

Lovely stuff though.

Wifebeater? Seriously? Someone named a beer that? Good Lord.

Sorry, I should make it clear that this is British slang for Stella Artois - so called because it can have the ability to make the most mild mannered man turn into a violent ogre! It doesn't have that effect on me (it just makes me very drunk!).

[Crab_to_be]

Ventnor Gold - one of the nicest beers I have ever drunk, and possibly one of the nastiest ones when it hits the GI tract. I find that good old Wifebeater also has a similar effect on me.

Lovely stuff though.

Wifebeater? Seriously? Someone named a beer that? Good Lord.

Sorry, I should make it clear that this is British slang for Stella Artois - so called because it can have the ability to make the most mild mannered man turn into a violent ogre! It doesn't have that effect on me (it just makes me very drunk!).

I though it came from rhyming slang for a certain prominent African politician, and I don't mean Thabo Mbeki. A quick google hasn't turned up much in the way of supporting arguments, and having seen pictures of Winnie I suspect any marital violence went the other way!

More googling, this time spelling 'Mandela' correctly, has nothing about dometic violence. Looks like I'm wrong.

[Tubbyboy]

Another explanation - I still think it's just because it's loopy juice.

In Great Britain and Ireland, the term is used as slang for the Belgian beer Stella Artois. A possible, but rather tenuous, origin links from a famous scene in the movie A Streetcar Named Desire, where Marlon Brando's character yells "Stella!", the name of his wife, as he begs her to return after violently beating her. In British culture, "Wifebeater" and Stella Artois are synonymous with pub drinking culture, whereby an individual orders a "pint of wifebeater", followed by several more, and returns home intoxicated, followed by domestic abuse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_beater_(slang%2529

[Bluffcove]

Hi, how did I miss this, an opportunity for drinking in the west country with a cynical bent,

I will be sure to order a pint of "I thought guiness was an english beer" SHUTTUP its not even a beer it is a stout! you heathen.

Be gone with you. - More importantly cider and perry are the way forward, they should be flat, cloudy and jsut above chilled, but from a frosted glass, personal favourite at the moment would have to be the magners cider, (even if it is fizzy and clear)

large problem with stella and lager etc is the effect it has on ones libido- Minibus!

[Tubbyboy]

So....

When and where is this pissup going to be?

I had to miss the last ARRSE function, but I could easily travel over to the west country if it will be a good night!

[Bluffcove]

The first inaugural WW2incolor - pissup is to happen on the 2nd weekend in August, unless anyone objects in Bristol. Due to it being easy to get to, central-ish to some of the users and able to provide us with attractive young females and cheap booze :D

Failing that we will try Reading as it is slightly more central but has less posh birds :( and cider :(

and last but not least Imber Village as I hear it is lovely at that time of year.

Start point in either case will be Wetherspoon as every town has one and some of us are cheap, equally they are always easy to find even if you are an out of towner.

Wear whatever you want, but try not to turn up in a Brownshirt and jackboots... Alternatively we can walt it up and go out in 1940s dress! but this might be overdoing it.
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I dont want to organise it but it has all gone a bit flat on the organising side of things.
PM me if you are interested (subject Drinks) and ill get a list of names together to see if it will work out.

Bluffcove.
I need a drink!

[Bluffcove]

CRAB TO BE WROTE:Guinness is Irish! Irish people get really arsey about things like that. And when some Irish people get angry, sometimes they shoot 14 year old girls. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4618125.stm :?

That is THE most surreal thing I have read on this forum ever, have just choked on my tea.

[Tubbyboy]

Unfortunately I'm away that weekend, I'll just wait...

[Bluffcove]

can everyone include in that email when they are available.
(This will happen)

[PzKpfw VI Tiger]

CRAB TO BE WROTE:Guinness is Irish! Irish people get really arsey about things like that. And when some Irish people get angry, sometimes they shoot 14 year old girls. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4618125.stm :?

That is THE most surreal thing I have read on this forum ever, have just choked on my tea.

Wow, thats wierd. Ok so im in my team, ok here comes the bullets, Hey guys, lets drink some guinness and shot that 14 year old girl over there? :? And theyre sorta 30 years late whith an appology.

[student-scaley]

Hey chaps,
I have now returned from a month is HM's service and seeing as i was the one who started this i'd better finish organising it.
Right listen in for my QBOs,
Firstly i want location and time suggestions here please;
Secondly, i want to know who can definitely come.
Thirdly, get on with it.......

[Tubbyboy]

Hey chaps,
I have now returned from a month is HM's service and seeing as i was the one who started this i'd better finish organising it.
Right listen in for my QBOs,
Firstly i want location and time suggestions here please;
Secondly, i want to know who can definitely come.
Thirdly, get on with it.......

How authoritative you've become (sir).....

Firstly, the suggested venue and time of Bristol/Reading on the 2nd weekend in August is absolutely out of the question for me. If it were to be in the third weekend or a different venue (Midlands) I might be able to make it.

Secondly, see firstly.

Thirdly, see firstly and secondly.

:D :D :D

[Cuts]

......

And theyre sorta 30 years late whith an appology.

Apologies and responsibility for their actions have never been high on PIRAs list of things to do.
More content with murdering and gangsterism.

[student-scaley]

yeah i heard pIRA used to kneecap drugdealers because they didn't approve , now they kneecap them for not paying PIRA off

[BDL]

yeah i heard pIRA used to kneecap drugdealers because they didn't approve , now they kneecap them for not paying PIRA off

They've stepped up to crucifying kids on railings for joyriding these days, then they beat them with sticks with nails through them.

[student-scaley]

what a nice bunch of people, real care in the community

[Ale]

Hey chaps,
I have now returned from a month is HM's service and seeing as i was the one who started this i'd better finish organising it.
Right listen in for my QBOs,
Firstly i want location and time suggestions here please;
Secondly, i want to know who can definitely come.
Thirdly, get on with it.......

Location suggestion-Bristol

Timing-End of August/Early september, it will let us get all our summer commitments etc. out of the way.

Numbers-I should be able to attend in the timeframe given, but until then I am skint as I have started a new job, and they pay with a month in hand,:evil: so I have no cash until the end of NEXT month! :shock: :x

[BDL]

I may be able to attend, all depending on coin, work commitments etc. I'll let you know for certain closer to the time.

[Ale]

I may be able to attend, all depending on coin, work commitments etc. I'll let you know for certain closer to the time.

For a minute there I read "coin, work commitments" as "COunter INsurgency work commitments". :shock: I think I need to get out more!

Alex

[student-scaley]

yeah i think u do, may i suggest a heavy civilianising program, i.e. do f all for a month!

[BDL]

I may be able to attend, all depending on coin, work commitments etc. I'll let you know for certain closer to the time.

For a minute there I read "coin, work commitments" as "COunter INsurgency work commitments". :shock: I think I need to get out more!

Alex

Well, I am hoping for a posting back to NI after my Class 1, so hopefully in 6 months COIN will be my work commitments :wink:

And yes, you need to get out more :lol:

[student-scaley]

yes u know that you've turned completely green when you see everything in a miltary slant, e.g. my friends and i giving target indications for fit girls in clubs, how very sad, we need help!

[BDL]

yes u know that you've turned completely green when you see everything in a miltary slant, e.g. my friends and i giving target indications for fit girls in clubs, how very sad, we need help!

I've been doing that for years - "30 metres, half right, will be known as Filthy looking blonde slapper"

:oops:

I also say "say again" too much

[Tubbyboy]

yes u know that you've turned completely green when you see everything in a miltary slant, e.g. my friends and i giving target indications for fit girls in clubs, how very sad, we need help!

I've been doing that for years - "30 metres, half right, will be known as Filthy looking blonde slapper"

:oops:

I also say "say again" too much

I know how you feel, I cannot say the word "repeat", I have a compulsion to say "say again over".....

I am very sad! Squaddy habits die very hard.

[Man of Stoat]

Hearing "repeat" and not "say again" in films makes me cringe :shock:

[student-scaley]

the one that really gets on my nerves in films is the cardinal sin of 'over and out' :evil:

[Bluffcove]

Ok so back to the Drinking!

I intend to get to that pint at some point htis summer.

Equally, I have been caught on more than one occasion giving out an aweful lot of green chat in civi' places. normally when Ale is about, because hes the most militant, civilian ever! GRIT generally gets involved around mlllars and mongs, everyone - left side of the street - thirty meters, mong - point and laugh point and laugh.

[Walther]

Hearing "repeat" and not "say again" in films makes me cringe :shock:

"Say again" is official ICAO phraseology.

Jan

[Man of Stoat]

Hearing "repeat" and not "say again" in films makes me cringe :shock:

"Say again" is official ICAO phraseology.

Jan

And "repeat" is what you say to artillery if you want the same fire mission again!

[Ale]

Ok so back to the Drinking!

I intend to get to that pint at some point htis summer.

Equally, I have been caught on more than one occasion giving out an aweful lot of green chat in civi' places. normally when Ale is about, because hes the most militant, civilian ever! GRIT generally gets involved around mlllars and mongs, everyone - left side of the street - thirty meters, mong - point and laugh point and laugh.

Thats because I hang around with people like you too much, I'm just trying to communicate at your level.:P

I have also been spending a fair bit of my leisure time recently driving around in stripped down landrovers with lots of guns...(I got the windscreen to fold in the end) which requires a certain amount militarism in order to be done safely. :shock: Amusingly, I have also discovered I can squeak foxes in with my clutch pedal! :lol:

I presume you are back from sailing, so give me a bell or get on msn, I want to know if you resisted the jailbait! :D

[Tubbyboy]

So......

When and when are we going to have the inaugural WWII pissup? I can travel to pretty much anywhere in the South and I'm not far off going on leave.

Tubs

[pdf27]

So......

When and when are we going to have the inaugural WWII pissup? I can travel to pretty much anywhere in the South and I'm not far off going on leave.

Tubs
I'm in the south east (Sussex) and can probably travel fairly widely too. Make sure someone PMs me if you ever do pick a time and a place...

[student-scaley]

How about next weekend? please suggest place, maybe salisbury?

[pdf27]

How about next weekend? please suggest place, maybe salisbury?
6/7th or 13th/14th?

[student-scaley]

6/7th would be good for me.
Right then listen in for my QBOs,
6th August those of you who can make it shall meet in Salisbury (providing there is no mass wave of disapproval) timings to be decided.
Those of you who want to come/object/etc
please comment below,
yours,

Student-scaley
p.s. i shall be wearing a nice black number and a pink carnation, so you can recognise me.

[Tubbyboy]

OK, when and where? Definitive answers only please...

[Man of Stoat]

OK, when and where? Definitive answers only please...

Join in the Arrse pissup - Sat 17th September, Amsterdam 7pm, café du lac, after the commemorative Market Garden parachute drop on Ginkelse Heide at 10am.

[South African Military]

Pink Carnation?...

[student-scaley]

Ok guys, those of you who want to i'm going out in Salisbury tonight. Those of you who wan to come PM me before 1900 for details of when and where.
Cheers, Scaley.