Reply to: A waste of good whisky

[minestrone]

Those little jumps on the end of the decks look really naff.

But more importantly will they have a decent pasta chef so the pilots don't have to fly out to get a decent spag boll?

[greenlake]

The Queen is launching a new aircraft carrier in Scotland today, by smashing a bottle of whisky on the side of the ship rather than the customary champagne.

This rankles with me. While I am happy to see the loss of a bottle of bubbly in the name of celebration, somehow the waste of a good bottle of scotch seems wrong. How could she!

Here's the Queen's response to your concern....

[RSoles]

This is where we discover that their fancy new non-magnetic, anti-mine, anti-radar, anti-sonar stealth hull
coating dissolves in proper alcohol.

[Cenobite]

Maybe it was Buckie.

Ha ha!

[VectraMan]

its a very big ping pong table without any planes.

As somebody on the radio earlier said: the bottle of whisky is the only useful part of the whole endeavour. And they've broken that already.

[vetran]

its a very big ping pong table without any planes.

[speling bee]

Just what I thought when I read about that. Bit of coloured water would do.

PS Whatever happened to good old human sacrifices to celebrate events? Hang Tony Blair up by his heels and smash his head on the hull. Much more fun.

Category error.

[Uncle Albert]

Just what I thought when I read about that. Bit of coloured water would do.

I'm pretty sure that it was just coloured water. Some Rab C Nesbit type will have made sure of that.

[xoggoth]

Just what I thought when I read about that. Bit of coloured water would do.

PS Whatever happened to good old human sacrifices to celebrate events? Hang Tony Blair up by his heels and smash his head on the hull. Much more fun.

[vetran]

Free advertising for Bowmore, so they can sell more.

It was a worthy sacrifice.

[CloudWalker]

+1 You don't waste a good Scotch!

[DodgyAgent]

(I'm English with Scottish ancestry).

We all are

[Unix]

Also did you see they way the smash the bottle, WTF happen to a rope, what a anticlimax. Elf and Saftey?

[alluvial]

Haha! I thought exactly the same thing. (I'm English with Scottish ancestry). I watched a video to see if I could tell exactly the make and year of whisky. Did anyone catch what it was a bottle of? If it's an Ardbeg I'll go berserk!

Actually, I think it looked like Jack Daniels.

[speling bee]

Haha! I thought exactly the same thing. (I'm English with Scottish ancestry). I watched a video to see if I could tell exactly the make and year of whisky. Did anyone catch what it was a bottle of? If it's an Ardbeg I'll go berserk!

Maybe it was Buckie.