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forkboy84 posted:loving what? My local off license used to have 3 litre bottle of JD that was maybe £70. A normal size bottle is over-priced at £25 considering you can get actually decent bourbon for a couple quid extra. on top of import and shipping sin and consumption taxes make up an absolute shitload of the cost of alcohol pretty much everywhere and they are frankly irresponsibly low in the UK imo
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Irn-Bru doesn't even have alcohol in it? What the gently caress
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no it's just vaguely bubblegum flavoured soda. people sell it with vodka in in the same premixed cans you get coke and vodkas in tho
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forkboy84 posted:loving what? My local off license used to have 3 litre bottle of JD that was maybe £70. A normal size bottle is over-priced at £25 considering you can get actually decent bourbon for a couple quid extra. nigeria, so ironically i could get UK whiskeys at a much better price because of more favorable trade conditions. i would actually buy harrier while I was there for like $7 or $8 a bottle
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bedpan posted:Irn-Bru doesn't even have alcohol in it? What the gently caress lol i found out it was just a soda a few years ago. i always imagined it as a kind of scottish steel reserve
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CoolCab posted:no it's just vaguely bubblegum flavoured soda. people sell it with vodka in in the same premixed cans you get coke and vodkas in tho In Bru tastes like joy and happiness, rare things for the Brit to experience. Bubblegum? Pfffffft, way to undersell Scotland's 2nd best drink. But yes, it's a soft drink. Good mixer though, Bru and dogshit bottom shelf vodka called Glen's, the cause of far too many regrets every weekend across Scotland. That and Buckfast, aka wreck the hoose juice, but that's actually English made despite mostly bring drunk here & Northern Ireland. Tonic wine absolutely loaded with sugar and caffeine so despite only being 15% abv it's kinda rocket fuel I think what makes Bru special is it contains some sort of colouring or flavouring which is banned in the US but somehow not here.
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forkboy84 posted:In Bru tastes like joy and happiness, rare things for the Brit to experience. Bubblegum? Pfffffft, way to undersell Scotland's 2nd best drink. an internet acquaintance of mine from the UK took some time off recently and my advice was to drink plenty of buckfast in celebration I thank the original GTA for knowing what buckfast is
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it tastes like bubblegum and a little like artificial orange. some of the varieties have a more chemical flavour, like medicine. also glens i feel is more fancy. tamova (aldi's brand vodka) through a brita filter is the true proletarian drink for the 21st century.
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Jose Mengelez posted:*RECORD SCRATCH* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I became a Nathan Barley character... lol
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CoolCab posted:it tastes like bubblegum and a little like artificial orange. some of the varieties have a more chemical flavour, like medicine. also glens i feel is more fancy. tamova (aldi's brand vodka) through a brita filter is the true proletarian drink for the 21st century. I'm going to be honest, I'm not sure how proletarian it is to use a filter on your voddy before consumption. I'll also say this is the first time in my life I've ever seen anyone call Glen's fancy. Yes, there is cheaper stuff than Glen's, barely, but it's bad. I remember the time someone stole a bunch of labels from the Glen's bottling plant and put them on their own bootleg hooch that was sold to several cornershops in Glasgow until people started going blind. Mind you, I also remember when heroin users kept dying because someone had spiked a batch with anthrax, that was even loving grimmer.
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forkboy84 posted:I'm going to be honest, I'm not sure how proletarian it is to use a filter on your voddy before consumption. lol have you never been to university? converting cheap alcohol into remotely drinkable cheap alcohol is the tradition!
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John Charity Spring posted:why would you admit any of this i thought it was a fun anecdote
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forkboy84 posted:I think what makes Bru special is it contains some sort of colouring or flavouring which is banned in the US but somehow not here. I think Trump banned it from his golf course in Scotland. Scared of it staining the floor or something. Yup: https://www.theweek.co.uk/scotland/93497/scots-outraged-over-donald-trump-s-irn-bru-ban I also recommend the documentary 'You've been Trumped'(2011) about the construction of his Ayrshire golf course.
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Vodka chat, alright. I used to work in an Off Licence. We have a large Polish population here in N. Ireland and the older ones are mostly vodka drinkers (duh). I noticed something, they absolutely refuse to drink Smirnoff even though it's considered an upmarket brand. I thought it might be political at first but no - apparently Smirnoff is the worst vodka available. It tastes like trash when drunk neat and leaves you with a hangover like no other vodka. They'll drink Glens first before Smirnoff. Most of them have settled for local brands distilled in Ireland like Boru or Vladivar. Or maybe drink Absolut if they are feeling fancy.
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CoolCab posted:lol have you never been to university? converting cheap alcohol into remotely drinkable cheap alcohol is the tradition! learning my proletarian aesthetic at a university
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Valko posted:Vodka chat, alright. I used to work in an Off Licence. yeah smirnoff is trash export poo poo. i usually buy monopolowa (austrian but i think polish roots from the old empire days). i traveled with some poles who swore by neat vodka chased with a small sip of fresh oj and that's how i prefer it now
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got a liter of evan williams tonight, the workingman's bourbon
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CoolCab posted:lol have you never been to university? converting cheap alcohol into remotely drinkable cheap alcohol is the tradition! No, I haven't been to university. I went to work after school, like an idiot.
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i say swears online posted:the workingman's bourbon times are tough though you’re really not saving that much anymore
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i say swears online posted:yeah smirnoff is trash export poo poo. i usually buy monopolowa (austrian but i think polish roots from the old empire days). i traveled with some poles who swore by neat vodka chased with a small sip of fresh oj and that's how i prefer it now  monopolowa is excellent
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lmfao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdOXJLQ79Iw
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that's the capital flight you see in third-world countries while being systematically dismantled
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also unless it's a temper tantrum because of a new tax or whatever when you see capital flying if at all possible you should be too.
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i say swears online posted:learning my proletarian aesthetic at a university public school = private school proletariat = intelligentsia
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that shouldn't have irritated me as much as it did
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look. the number 1 reason for brexit was immigration, and after next year it’ll never be a problem again
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2023: census reveals girls named "emi" plummet
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IrnBru also works well with rum, so you can make a scotia libre which besides being really tasty, is also named after an event that'll happen as a brexit dividend!
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irn bru is shite
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Jose posted:irn bru is shite gently caress you.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/24/liz-truss-plans-to-loosen-immigration-rules-to-boost-uk-economy
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gonadic io posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/24/liz-truss-plans-to-loosen-immigration-rules-to-boost-uk-economy Lmao
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gonadic io posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/24/liz-truss-plans-to-loosen-immigration-rules-to-boost-uk-economy Starmer gonna crank the racism dial hard over the next year.
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The best drink that Scots are known for isn't even Scottish it's brewed by some monks in southern england
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The best drink that Scots are known for is the water that comes out of our taps.
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keep punching joe posted:Starmer gonna crank the racism dial hard over the next year. A new mug for a new decade
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keep punching joe posted:gently caress you. Irn Bru 1901 is decent. Regular Irn Bru now just tastes of artificial sweetener. Second AJ documentary. Have an hour of antisemitism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTMF0MSXng
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keep punching joe posted:Starmer gonna crank the racism dial hard over the next year. No no we're not racist why we just love controlled immigration
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can someone summarize the labor files, is it a real thing or a nothingburger
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