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Istenem wrote:re lagers: carling in a carling glass from a good pub can be a pleasure. and you are investing in the economy. i'd sooner drink water than carlsberg, stella etc. imo we should all buy british wherever it is sensible.
I quite agree. However, given that I can't think of one decent homegrown lager that isn't piss weak and piss poor, I'll have to keep drinking the foreign stuff until someone here comes up with something drinkable.
I mean Tennants, Fosters, Carling, Miller (?) etc ... all 4% and as Peter Kay says "I wouldn't mop me drains out with it".
If i fancy lager i'll go for either Fosters/Budweiser/Corona....at the moment i'm drinking gallons of Bulmers cider & Kopparberg. Spirit wise i'll usually head for vodka/redbull and southern comfort/lemonade. Shots pretty much anything goes. During the day? J2O, coke, oj, britvic 55 etc..
"Sixty percent of the time, it works, every time!"
Can't argue with Southern Comfort, preferably with lime and lemonade. Pernod is a nice tipple too. Beer wise it has to be Stella or Becks, bottled only though as Stella on draught goes straight through me (rusty bullet hole end). I once went through a phase of drinking a fair bit of Low 'C', don't ask why coz I don't know, it was just........nice, for a while.
By the way, I've never been an alky, not even close but I haven't had a beer in nearly 8 months and it doesn't bother me one bit. Strange.
Lager: becks vier/bud
Cider: kopperburg/bulmers (with you on this one matt lol)
Spirits: jd/coke, gin/tonic, southern/lemonade, or if I'm in a sweet tasting mood archers/malibu/lemonade(yes I know its a gay concoction, but its nice lol)
Wine: Red mostly, shiraz/grenache/tempranillo, I only really drink wine at home as pubs usually serve poor offerings at ridiculous prices. Have wine with dinner every day; you get used to it, as it complements what you are eating.
That about covers it, big drinker as you can see :P Have had stints of not drinking (due to some antibiotics medication not allowing it) and was boring as sin - can't understand you teetotals at all!
Used to be teetotal for quite a while (like 5ish years) thru choice, now drink socially quite a bit and I do like it now.
When out, I'll usually have vodka redbull (hate beer except corona and peroni) or if I'm out with my girlfriend we'll do a jug or 2 of cocktail, if you have a pitcher and piano near you try the berrylicious, it's immense!
With meals if I'm on my own I won't drink, if I'm out with my parents I'll do white or red wine, prefer rose tho which me and my gf drink all the time.
On a route I wont drink unless I'm in a super ontop pub, usually I'll have 1/2 a strongbow and either drink it or if I'm close to the limit/don't fancy alcohol I'll just throw it down the toilet. I hate draught beer and wouldn't trust it in most of the scumholes I go into. Most of the time it's diet coke/still water/coffee/tea for me in pubs. Love a J20 or appletise from time to time but try not to drink too much sugary drinks.
Do you ever get comments from the other customers when you order soft drinks?
"This isn't a cafe you know!"
I mean where do you start with that comment? Anything remotely rational or sensible in reply and it'll sound like it's meant to put their backs up, but if they hadn't said such a stupid thing in the first place......
Also I've told this story before, actually yeah, summarise, in at 2 in town centre, had to be at hospital (outskirts) for 3. Hot chocolate. Took ten, maybe eleven minutes from being served straight away for hot chocolate to be ready. I think machine had to heat up. Lots of slurping. Swooshing. Swirling. Then more slurping, swooshing, sucking, foaming. Then scrattling for a flake. Eventually. My juice had taken all of 2 seconds to open up the bottle and tip in with a beautiful 1000000% mark up applied.
Anyway triply wipppley dials, super skills and BOOOOF! that light was out and we were at the hospital in the nick of time.
I never continued the story, so here it is. I drove into the car park. The week before it had been 20mins free, so drop her off, pop up to the SUPA-DUPA-WOOPA-BOWL and back for the hour.
Suddenly BANG! NO sign on entry, a massive £4.80 charge. WHAT?!???!??!!? This is the thing, practically a 2'er up on the stopper. The morning had been shite, mostly spotting and several were chipped (the dastardly p2!) or gone. Principles is principles. I wasn't having that. So I waited for a dopey looking car to drive up and WOOOOF! BAFFFF!F I was under the barrier without paying! What a SWIZZLER!
Last thing I wanted was some sad bitter twat banging on their brakes when they realised my game. Not that they would have time really, you wouldn't be thinking, ooooh I better drive slowly, 'cos the bloke behind me might be planning to drive under the barrier without paying and I want to f*** him up.
Still got away with it, half expecting blue flashy lights at one point, but no arrest made to this date.
To re-iterate in line with topic.
Hot chocolate is an option that takes ages, so just stick with the J2O unless you don't have much on.
AND don't you just hate sanctamonious twats who make snide comments about your drink's choice?
Not such a lager fan, one now and again for alcoholic refreshment value, if it's just a few, then Guiness for sure. Bitter is fine. Although the marketing...woof, it's really an older farts drink isn't it? All these lagers advertising everywhere, hitting the Neds between the brain cells but it all filters through as trends and what have you doesn't it? Isn't it?
Feck WKD and all that, type 2 diabetes mellitus not for me, leave it out, too sugary. It's all sugar isn't it? Whilst 'proper' beer is complex starchy things that dioxytaboflabolise into simple carbohydrates that squelch every organ and your teeth.
I suppose bitter has Peter Kay in an Indian Restaurant, but Jack Dee and the mystery customers have vamooshed paving way for groups of lads clubbing in space and umbrella clad bouncers.
Never say no to something that warms the cockles.
Mix it up, what is it my Mum always says? Never mix the grape with the grain. Humpf. I'm not sure about fine oak smoked smokey Jo old Sam daniel's whiskeys and Guinness. I think it just makes your stomach more interesting myself.
Some of those old fruity ales mixed with lager give you farts to die for, boootiful.
Remember to keep your heart healthy by ordering at least six packets of scampi fries a week. Even the most on top places, become slightly less on top when you order some scampis.
That's all. I wish that person would give me a CLUE as to if I'm HOT or COLD.
If someone made a comment to me about ordering a soft drink, I'd probably make a veiled comment in return about how I'm not an alcoholic so can't drink before a certain time/in the week depending on the scenario (which just happens to fit in with what they're doing!!)
Usually real ales, if they have them. Prefer drinking 5% stuff as 4% doesn't really hit me. If there's only lager I'll go for Stella or Kron, don't really see the point in drinking the likes of Fosters or Carling, just gasses you up and waterlogs you. Not had a drink for 3 weeks though due to work and sport commitments so will have to watch my tolerance next time I'm out
I agree, i find the taste of the stuff tends to be overpowered by a hell of a bitter alcoholic tang with most 5%+ power lagers. Kronenbourg i just can't handle really, stella just about drinkable. Some are decent, can't go wrong with a refreshing Corona, though that's slightly under 5%. Horses for courses though.
"Sixty percent of the time, it works, every time!"
I once went through a phase of drinking a fair bit of Low 'C', don't ask why coz I don't know, it was just........nice, for a while. 
