Wot, no TPD?

[NickFitz]

Oi NickFitz - shouldn't you be in the pub?

It won't be open yet - opens at 17:00 on weekdays I think (it was 18:00 when I was there).

Heading back from ClientOrg in a couple of hours - I should be there for around eight. Hope they've saved some beer for me

[NickFitz]

Christ on a crutch with a Crunchie bar between his teeth, I am bollocksed

The last night of the pub was something else. Then it was something else in addition to that. And then something else again

I'm not sure that I truly deserve it, but the very last pint of real ale to come out of that cellar was dispensed into my glass. (They gave me the just-under-half-pint that was left in the line as a freeby.)

I mean, drinking there for twenty-one years, including two years working there (rising to the dizzy heights of assistant manager) and then getting the last drop of real ale to come out of the cellar when the bar is five deep - that's just weird

It's either mere luck or the cellar has a fondness for me. Probably mere luck

Then Cody (whom God preserve) went to the bar for himself and his good lady, and also bought me a drink at a point when it was not "What would you like" so much as "Here's what we have." He got me the end of the last bottle of Maker's Mark

It was while I worked there that Maker's Mark was first marketed in the UK, and I sampled the first bottle to arrive in the pub. Now I've finished the last bottle

There've been some wonderful coincidences tonight - I only wish I could record them in TPD where they belong, but at least they'll brighten up General. This place could do with a whiff of happiness to counter the acrid stench of cynicism

[Flubster]

Christ on a crutch with a Crunchie bar between his teeth, I am bollocksed
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For someone who was clearly half-cut (by their own admission), that was an extremely well constructed post. Well done and hope the hangover is inversely proportional to the good time you had last night.

[NickFitz]

For someone who was clearly half-cut (by their own admission), that was an extremely well constructed post. Well done and hope the hangover is inversely proportional to the good time you had last night.

Cheers

Unfortunately the hangover appears to be O(n^2)

[Zippy]

Cheers

Unfortunately the hangover appears to be O(n^2)

Well done that man

[NickFitz]

Just had a call from the agency - ClientOrg had contacted them wondering where I was today

This is despite the fact that I arranged to take today off a couple of weeks ago

[NickFitz]

Cheers

Unfortunately the hangover appears to be O(n^2)

I'm impressed - the hangover was so severe that it was only after it wore off that I realised how bad this cold is

[RichardCranium]

I'm impressed - the hangover was so severe that it was only after it wore off that I realised how bad this cold is

I get hangover colds too.

Ready for some feminine intuitive witchcraft?

The Missus says alcohol trashes your body's stock of Vitamin C. This makes your body's immune system weak. So, while drunk, the germs you pick up get a chance to attack you. Then, while you are sleeping off your drunkenness / hangover, your body is so busy clearing up chemicals and busy being poisoned, that it is in no fit state to react to the build-up of breeding germs. By the time your headache is starting to clear, a cold has already set in.

There is no evidence to back this up other than her observations of the piss-heads she is related to by blood or marriage.

[NickFitz]

I get hangover colds too.

Ready for some feminine intuitive witchcraft?

The Missus says alcohol trashes your body's stock of Vitamin C. This makes your body's immune system weak. So, while drunk, the germs you pick up get a chance to attack you. Then, while you are sleeping off your drunkenness / hangover, your body is so busy clearing up chemicals and busy being poisoned, that it is in no fit state to react to the build-up of breeding germs. By the time your headache is starting to clear, a cold has already set in.

There is no evidence to back this up other than her observations of the piss-heads she is related to by blood or marriage.

All well and good; but I had the cold before I started

I think it was brought over by the Dutch attendees at the conference last week: several of them had been whingeing on Twitter about [colds|flu] beforehand; now I see on Twitter that a friend from London who was at the conference is also diseased

[RichardCranium]

All well and good; but I had the cold before I started

See. I told you it was witchcraft.