Reply to: Pub Rules At Christmas

[Sysman]

There's a pub on the Mendips where I walked in after about 4 years and the landlord said, "Half of Butcombe, is it?"

I was away in Holland for about a year before walking into my local pub back home.

Their comment on not seeing me for so long was "We assumed you were working nights".

That was a truly dangerous pub. The bus stop was just outside the front door and going through the pub and out of the back door was a convenient short cut.

Naturally you had to stop for one drink out of courtesy...

Unfortunately one night I kept on winning at pool so that short cut took about 3 hours.

[socialworker]

I don't go every day but I do have a regular where they know our faces.

There's a pub on the Mendips where I walked in after about 4 years and the landlord said, "Half of Butcombe, is it?"

[Platypus]

Most weeks at other times of the year, I try to go one or two nights alcohol-free per week. That also helps with the calories!

I aim for 1800 cals per day so I've usually got a bit of leeway for a beer or three, and I don't mind overshooting to 2000.

[EternalOptimist]

It told me to start my own country, and invite Belarus around for the housewarming

[d000hg]

I put in 10 pints and 10 shots a week:

which is 21% more than the average for men in the United Kingdom, and 189% more than the average for women.

I think I'm a bit higher than normal because I have a beer advent calender so I "have" to drink a pint every day even on top of having a beer with dinner. And I love taking a whisky to bed.

My major thing is that I do drink (virtually) every day, though typically I'd say 1-2 drinks is the norm since I started watching my weight as I don't have enough calories for more! It's my routine to have a glass of wine with dinner or a beer while I do some music practice, and my nightly whisky. I don't feel any different if I don't drink for a few days, but apparently drinking every single day is bad even at a low level

[Platypus]

BBC News - Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?

If you drank like this every week, in a year you would consume:

beer 364 pints
wine 1,040 glasses of wine
spirits 260 shots

Your drinking habits are unlike the average from any country.

But your closest match on overall consumption alone is Belarus, the heaviest-drinking country in the world.



And I'm not even considered a heavy drinker - I know lots of people who are doing 20-30 pints a week

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?

[Sysman]

The landlord stole it from a comedian, see post #19

But at least he didn't spell amateur as amature.

[Sysman]

Newcastle Brown is supposed to be served in a Wellington glass but it still takes like tulipe and makes you ill in any glass.

My nineteenth birthday party involved some misguided soul who thought he was doing me a favour by keeping my glass topped up with Newcastle Brown all night, birthday treat and all that.

I haven't touched a drop of it since.

So perhaps not misguided at all. He did me a favour

[Platypus]

The landlord stole it from a comedian, see post #19

Indeed. The Times ran this this morning, and credited some landlord or other in a Devon pub instead of the original author

[d000hg]

You're doing it wrong. Newkie Broon is designed to be drunk from the bottle

No. you're supposed to sit at a table on your own with a half-pint glass which you slowly sip at.

[Batcher]

what are you on about? beer is not meant to be tasted, its meant to be gulped.
All beer tastes pretty horrible, but the aftertaste is quite nice.

a proper beer glass would have a little device on to pinch yer nose closed while you gulp, so you definitely don't taste it.

In fact, that's such a good idea I might invent it myself, do a business plan then win the apprentice next year.

You need to get one of those anal hydration units popular with the CIA

[SimonMac]

Or, you could sign it as the landlord who actually wrote this list

The landlord stole it from a comedian, see post #19

[EternalOptimist]

The beer companies actually claim that their beer tastes better in their own glasses. I wouldn't go that far, but it is important to get it in the right type of glass. Some are designed for fizzy lagers, some for ales and stouts etc, and they don't work well with the wrong drink in them.

what are you on about? beer is not meant to be tasted, its meant to be gulped.
All beer tastes pretty horrible, but the aftertaste is quite nice.

a proper beer glass would have a little device on to pinch yer nose closed while you gulp, so you definitely don't taste it.

In fact, that's such a good idea I might invent it myself, do a business plan then win the apprentice next year.

[GlenW]

You're doing it wrong. Newkie Broon is designed to be drunk from the bottle

No, I'm doing it right, I won't touch the stuff.