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WhatEvil posted:One of my mates invented a "cocktail" of Port and Red Bull. Actually surprisingly nice but you don't want more than one. Try asking for Sprite next time. I assume Canada does the US thing where lemonade isn't carbonated and instead has actual lemons in. Edit: 1928, King Zog of Albania is crowned. Kneel before Zog. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Sep 6, 2020 |
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This is true and I'm kind of interested why this is, the rest of [UK] society hasn't significantly changed but I saw some article quoting the average student spending something like £40 a month on booze and that wouldn't have got me through a week back then even before you look at inflation.
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In Aberystwyth when I was at uni a Woodgate was a WKD Blue and a Smirnoff Ice together in a pint glass.
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feedmegin posted:Try asking for Sprite next time. I assume Canada does the US thing where lemonade isn't carbonated and instead has actual lemons in. Yeah we straightened it out. You have to ask for sprite... but then sprite isn't really the same as a Schweppes or an R-Whites lemonade. I've just done a search and ended up on the Wikipedia page for Shandy. Apparently a "Diesel" is a thing in Belgium, Italy, German and Portugal and is a draft beer mixed with cola.
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There was a version with an orange bottle but I don't remember what we called it. It was a time of great sophistication. Jagerbombs didn't become a staple until people left uni and started having stag dos. Those things should be illegal tbh.
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I'm suddenly getting nostalgia for those incredibly cheap sugar water kids drinks where you pierced the lid with a very thin straw, and the flavours consisted of colours.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:This is true and I'm kind of interested why this is, the rest of [UK] society hasn't significantly changed but I saw some article quoting the average student spending something like £40 a month on booze and that wouldn't have got me through a week back then even before you look at inflation. With teenage social interation moving more and more online (both due to easy of use and parents letting kids out less) there's less meeting up in person, hence less opportunities to start drinking/smoking/ having sex. It's notable in most stats that both teenagers and 18-25s are more prudish and restrainted than previous generations, as/because they are more stressed and anxious than ever. Also fruity ciders are the new alcopops - sweet drinks that don't taste like alcohol.
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ukmt food adjacent opinion - schweppes is the worst lemonade
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In uni we had a whole crate of holsten pils. It was disgusting. We tried many ways to make it palatable. Including mixing it with cadburys drinking chocolate and milk. Which we decided was OK. It was not OK and young people are stupid. Shoulda just bought line cordial or lemonade...
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The_Doctor posted:I'm suddenly getting nostalgia for those incredibly cheap sugar water kids drinks where you pierced the lid with a very thin straw, and the flavours consisted of colours. EU does seem to be a lot more conservative facebook mam about unnatural colours and flavours than the US though, and I'm not even that negative about sweets that are 40% printers' ink and tartrazine given the far worse things that might end up in food.
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Drinks made of E-numbers are our right!
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crispix posted:A bloke I knew years ago worked in a Thai restaurant in Edinburgh and he once mentioned a man and woman who paid corkage for two big bottles of WKD with their dinner I went to a convention in a hotel in Jersey over 20 years ago. Some other people brought in loads of illicit booze and got charged over £400 corkage and they gave my room number  I thought science fiction fans were better than that. I knew nothing about it. Fortunately the convention admin found out and sorted it out before I was informed! big scary monsters posted:I recall being extremely disappointed on my 18th birthday that nobody checked my actual real ID at the pubs or club I'd been going to the past couple years. When I was 17, I always had to go to the bar because my best mate who was 19 always got hassle even with ID. She was only 4ft11in. I never got challenged. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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God tartrazine, sunset yellow and quinoloine yellow had my mum yelling at me in the 90s to check for e numbers in everything we ate and blaming everything on them as they gave me 'hyperactivity' I think I was just a child reacting to sugar which I had never really had. My friends at school used to mock me for having carrot sticks and celery in my lunchbox when they had a Mars bar, crisps and a jam sandwich. I remember one kid calling my lunch of ham slices, salad, an apple, some cucumber and a piece of cheese a 'poo poo mix' and throwing it on my lap. Wow. School sucked. That's an ace lunch
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Mebh posted:In uni we had a whole crate of holsten pils. It was disgusting. We tried many ways to make it palatable. Including mixing it with cadburys drinking chocolate and milk. Which we decided was OK. our local pub quiz used to give out a crate of 24 Carlsberg for the top prize, which we won with semi-regularity it got to the point where we each had multiple crates of Carlsberg sitting unopened in our houses, because who the gently caress would drink Carlsberg if there was any kind of alternative available
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I just read about corkage fees and loving hell that made me angry. $100 to open my own wine? gently caress off. I'll drink at home. But then I think all restaurants and fine dining are a massive rip off scam and entirely exploit the chefs down to the servers so I'm probably not the target market. Now to go spend another £400 on a piece of cooking equipment...
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Just order booze and gently caress off without paying, op
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crispix posted:Just order booze and gently caress off without paying, op also without drinking any
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I think we should all do more robbing, they can't jail us all
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Tarnop posted:This was a thing when I last worked a bar 24 years ago, so it's definitely a rumour with legs. The snakebite and black crew at that bar tipped me 5 quid every couple of rounds because I was the only person who'd serve it. When my friend first told me about snakebite + black he said most pubs refused to serve people it because it caused people to get very drunk very fast. This made it sound insanely good to 19 year old me. We decided to make our own snakebite+black but with a twist. We bought 4 cans of special brew and 4 cans of white lightning. so about 4 pints of snakebite n black each i think? That night was the first time i had a memory blackout from drink.
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My older sister used to tell me stories about making snakebite in a giant plastic bathtub for parties. Later when I went to uni myself I tried a pint after several normal pints. It immediately made me violently ill and I spent about an hour leaning on a cubicle wall in the bar fly in Camden moaning and throwing up. Never tried it since!
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I can't remember but wasn't snakebite and black just the poo poo uni bar Carling or whatever lager and cider half and half with some ribeba to make it look funny.
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Mebh posted:God tartrazine, sunset yellow and quinoloine yellow had my mum yelling at me in the 90s to check for e numbers in everything we ate and blaming everything on them as they gave me 'hyperactivity' I think I was just a child reacting to sugar which I had never really had. A kid I went to school with had grown up in that sort of household - he'd basically never had processed sugar or caffeine until we dared him to down a can of Jolt (in the days when it had like 200mg of caffeine, more than double what Red Bull et. al. have nowadays*). The results were mixed - his performance in our lunchtime football game was definitely energetic then he puked a genuinely impressive distance just as we walked into the school gates and spent the rest of the afternoon laughing hysterically and vibrating slightly. After that he used to use cans of coke the same way Popeye used spinach, and with pretty similar results - a generally quiet and timid kid he'd turn into a Berserker halfway through the second can, at which point we'd point him in the direction of kids from one of the other schools and wait for the fireworks. * Red Bull's actual innovation was *reducing* the amount of caffeine in their product to be roughly equivalent to other caffeine-containing drinks (300mg/l compared to 400mg/l for black coffee or 200mg/l for strong tea) - not coincidentally right in the addiction sweet spot. Jolt and the other first-wave energy drinks were far too strong, to the point where even fairly experienced coffee drinkers could feel ill after drinking one, but Red Bull can be a "lifestyle" drink while keeping the serious side effects much less perceptable. Actually of course their real innovation was convincing people to pay £1.50 for a drink that tastes like carbonated cough medicine. Follow the lead of this man and treat their pricing with the contempt it deserves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRF4uQG5W-k (What they don't tell you is he's actually 27, that poo poo's not good for you)
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The_Doctor posted:Drinks made of E-numbers are our right! Panda Pops Green Cola was my childhood.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
I remember going to my first bar aged 16 in 1998 and finding out that a red bull and vodka with 1 shot of red bull and 1 shot of lovely cheap kirov vodka was £7.50 I had only brought a tenner and man that was such poo poo. I went home and went to bed instead lol.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I can't remember but wasn't snakebite and black just the poo poo uni bar Carling or whatever lager and cider half and half with some ribeba to make it look funny. I have never bought a snakebite n black in a pub so not sure, buy when my mate was telling me about it the impression I got was that is was a regular 4% or 5% lager and a regular strength cider like strongbow with a small amount of blackcurrant. When we were making our special ones we didn't bother putting the blackcurrant in because what is the point, it has no alochol in and special brew mixed 50/50 with white cider is always going to taste poo poo. So I guess the drinks we made would have just been called a snakebite.
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Mebh posted:God tartrazine, sunset yellow and quinoloine yellow had my mum yelling at me in the 90s to check for e numbers in everything we ate and blaming everything on them as they gave me 'hyperactivity' I think I was just a child reacting to sugar which I had never really had I remember kids in my school deliberately eating lots of blue smarties as they apparently had the most E numbers in them which by their understanding made them basically narcotics do not remember exactly how successful this getting-high scheme was. i suspect some placebo effects may have been involved
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:This is true and I'm kind of interested why this is, the rest of [UK] society hasn't significantly changed but I saw some article quoting the average student spending something like £40 a month on booze and that wouldn't have got me through a week back then even before you look at inflation. I've wondered about this myself and was talking to a pal about it over the weekend. Pubs aren't really socialising spaces - they're predominantly "get drunk enough to think a nightclub is a good idea" spaces. Old fashioned student union pubs or old man pubs are rare - you make more money with loud music and limited seating so people aren't chatting. This makes the whole pipeline just about pre-drinks, then out drinks, then nightclub drinks +/- having a sex. Young people are now far more online. Social media is a huge part of their lives and many more are into going to the gym than going out drinking. I've noticed the new junior doctors that start with us are not very boozy compared to how we were. The culture is very different. Plus now you can go on tinder to find sexes far more easily and cheaply than going to some sticky nightclub. Death to the booziness of the UK. May it never return.
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https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1302701541674160134 Oh. Who ever could have seen this coming.  Libdems did suprise a bit though: https://twitter.com/globalbreaking_/status/1302594911124901888 Only in the sense of I thought that was all anybody still in the libdems would ever vote for them for.
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winegums posted:
Here's to drinking at home on a comfy sofa with my wife and several cats instead.
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winegums posted:Death to the booziness of the UK. May it never return. I'll drink to that lol I'm already beaten.
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Learning to make your own cocktails at home is immensely satisfying.
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Angepain posted:I remember kids in my school deliberately eating lots of blue smarties as they apparently had the most E numbers in them which by their understanding made them basically narcotics In my teens (1970s) for a while a military brat, we used to go round in combat jackets with the pockets stuffed with banana skins because someone told us that smoking dried banana skins got you high. All I remember is rotting banana skin. I don't think anyone was ever successful in drying one and smoking it! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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In conclusion. Being young was good at the time, but in retrospect dumb. Being an adult is ace. Now I sleep. Night goons!
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:Back in my local in rural Wales, we had an old lad who used to drink the drip trays at the end of the night. It was also the kind of pub that would have a lock-in on most days, because the landlord didn't want to drink alone. It was a fun place though. Any time a drag queen would be passing through the landlord would always ask them to perform, which was a hell of an experience in a pub with a max occupancy of 20, and was full of flat caps clapping and cheering along to "I am what I am". I think it's a Marstons gastropub now Where on earth were you in rural Wales that had drag queens "passing through"? I haven't had a drink for over 1200 days. The last few pages of this thread have reminded me why.
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Yeah, wow. I am pretty glad I didn't drink much in uni, I was too strait laced for it. Biggest thing that happened to me in my first year was on my birthday, my hallmates took me out and got me extremely drunk. I ordered water at the bar and when I sat back down they dumped a shot of vodka in it and I didn't notice until it was half gone. I was extremely angry and walked off, somehow ended up in the club with them and then ditched them the rest if the night to hide in the loos. Never went out with them again, kinda ignored them all after that poo poo. Fun times I DO remember that people mixed together orange juice and sambuca, called it blackjack as it tasted exactly like those blackjack sweets. Natalie Fartman fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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11am Monday here and I am not enjoying this hangover one little bit. Younger generations not drinking have the right idea.
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Surprised no-one has brought up Buckfast. Everything you've heard about it is true.
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Pesky Splinter posted:
What with Covid, we've kinda lost sight of the fact that we're careering towards a likely no-deal Brexit in a few short months. I should be worried but we've been hit with so much ridiculous nonsense this year that I'm pretty 'meh' at this point. I should review and start building up my emergency no-deal food and essentials stash again, I guess. Gyro Zeppeli posted:Surprised no-one has brought up Buckfast. Everything you've heard about it is true. Mmm: alcohol, caffeine and sugar, all conveniently combined in a single bottle. I believe European traders devastated the Native Americans with a very similar brew.
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Gambrinus posted:Where on earth were you in rural Wales that had drag queens "passing through"? Near the North coast. They were probably headed toward Llandudno I'd expect, or back toward Liverpool. You'd be surprised how many small acts toured sleepy villages in the '90s. Most of them were poo poo of course, especially the comedians who were still recycling material from the '70s, but at least the drag queens were fun and memorable.
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