I just don't get it!

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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TBH, i much prefer short cocktails, so where I can I'm the weirdo who orders those.

    F*cking love a good cocktail bar but it's a challenge getting people to join you there.

    I love a cocktail. A martini, a negroni, an Old Fashioned or a manhattan. I'm sure there are new ones, but I like the classics.

    Trouble is that they are £££, and unless you're careful, you end up ratarsed in no time.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Most cocktails are under a tenner and most pints are over a fiver so there's not much in it tbh.
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    I don't like golden beers with citrus or floral flavours - purely subjective of course but not for me.

    I would usually associate agressively hoppy IPA beers with citrus and floral flavours, grapefruity and hard to drink after a few. Amarillo, Cascade, Simcoe hops
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Most cocktails are under a tenner and most pints are over a fiver so there's not much in it tbh.

    so anything up to double the price then!
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Most cocktails are under a tenner and most pints are over a fiver so there's not much in it tbh.

    In my head a pint is £2.50, despite actually being as you say, more like £6.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    More widely available, but not as good, is Pilsener Urquell.

    Too gassy.

    TBH, i much prefer short cocktails, so where I can I'm the weirdo who orders those.


    F*cking love a good cocktail bar but it's a challenge getting people to join you there.

    Cocktails (;)) I really can't get on with them and they're over before you've started.
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    My dad always moans about the price of a pint, apparently it's minimal in 'Spoons. My thoughts are that if I can't afford the extra few quid to drink somewhere that isn't dreadful then I'm drinking too much... If it impacts my finances that much then something is wrong
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    HaydenM wrote:
    My dad always moans about the price of a pint, apparently it's minimal in 'Spoons. My thoughts are that if I can't afford the extra few quid to drink somewhere that isn't dreadful then I'm drinking too much... If it impacts my finances that much then something is wrong

    I always have a pint in the 'spoons near me after getting my hair cut. It's very very cheap. Half theprice of the pub on the common that I'd loosely call my local.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    I drink out so little I don't really look at prices wherever I go.

    Have just looked at the wine expenditure, though and it's a little high!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    More widely available, but not as good, is Pilsener Urquell.

    Too gassy.

    TBH, i much prefer short cocktails, so where I can I'm the weirdo who orders those.


    F*cking love a good cocktail bar but it's a challenge getting people to join you there.

    You were 30 years too late starting to work in The City, I suspect you'd have loved it in the 80s!

    Move to Cheltenham though, it sounds like you'd fit right in - I seem to be the only person opting for a pint in most of the bars when I go out there.
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Pross wrote:
    ayjaycee wrote:
    2001: A Space Odyssey..........

    Never seen it but I suspect it may be something to do with seeing it when it was new and seeing it now after decades of advances in special effects and film making technology together with other films that have used it as a reference point..........

    Nope - I'm old enough that I saw it when it first came out and thought it was a load of ballocks then as well, albeit ballocks with good SFX and it can't even claim that nowadays.
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    I don't get Game of Thrones.

    It's dragons and people with stupid names. People banging on about a 'night king' I mean, christ.

    No that was Mel Gibson -- but yes I agree -- Game of Thrones has a lot to answer for round these parts -- tourists killing themselves -- trees falling down -- roads being closed forever etc etc
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    HaydenM wrote:
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    I don't like golden beers with citrus or floral flavours - purely subjective of course but not for me.

    I would usually associate agressively hoppy IPA beers with citrus and floral flavours, grapefruity and hard to drink after a few. Amarillo, Cascade, Simcoe hops

    albeit Id argue the real skill of the brewer is to make beers with those flavours, that are then sessionable and you can drink them all night in that way. I like the citra beers, just as happy with the pale ales, even like the coffee ones as I quite like coffee :) but not the aggressively hoppy IPA ones, where its like the cooking equivalent of a curry of just putting the largest amount of hottest chilis you can it and claiming thats a recipe and tastes nice, or the ones that look like orange juice pulp, and chocolate beers are a bit meh
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Pross wrote:

    You were 30 years too late starting to work in The City, I suspect you'd have loved it in the 80s!

    Well yes, making money was like shooting fish in a barrel, judging by the quality of people who were working there then...!

    I would love someone to explain to me the superhero attraction. I honestly can't see it.
    _
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Pross wrote:

    You were 30 years too late starting to work in The City, I suspect you'd have loved it in the 80s!

    Well yes, making money was like shooting fish in a barrel, judging by the quality of people who were working there then...!

    I would love someone to explain to me the superhero attraction. I honestly can't see it.

    You wouldn't like to have super human powers with which to save the world? WTF is your problem?
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Robert88 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Pross wrote:

    You were 30 years too late starting to work in The City, I suspect you'd have loved it in the 80s!

    Well yes, making money was like shooting fish in a barrel, judging by the quality of people who were working there then...!

    I would love someone to explain to me the superhero attraction. I honestly can't see it.

    You wouldn't like to have super human powers with which to save the world? WTF is your problem?

    I'd like someone else to have super powers that could save the world - not sure i could be bothered with actually saving the planet to be honest! seems like a lot of hard work!
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,808
    Robert88 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Pross wrote:

    You were 30 years too late starting to work in The City, I suspect you'd have loved it in the 80s!

    Well yes, making money was like shooting fish in a barrel, judging by the quality of people who were working there then...!

    I would love someone to explain to me the superhero attraction. I honestly can't see it.

    You wouldn't like to have super human powers with which to save the world? WTF is your problem?
    Well he used to be a moderator, and the world is still here...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Welcome.
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  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    Superheroes always seem to get hurt. Why would you want that? Why do you have to use your powers like that if you had them?

    I'd be using them for fun things. Last piece of chocolate in the bowl, three people going for it. Your super speed beats them to it and you put something horrible in the bowl instead. Cue your sitting back enjoying chocolate while the other two have their hands in a bowl of gunk. Plus practical jokery is high with super powers.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Welcomed.

    FTFY
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Where all the scissors go.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,497
    Cowsham wrote:
    Where all the scissors go.
    In the same place as the pens that work and odd socks!
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Why the police don't want to help this guy
    Or make bloody sure the fker who ran him down gets locked up forever. They have his reg???? Their sending him a letter -- that'll teach him.???
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Cowsham wrote:
    Why the police don't want to help this guy
    Or make bloody sure the fker who ran him down gets locked up forever. They have his reg???? Their sending him a letter -- that'll teach him.???
    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/late ... age-422239

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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Cowsham wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    I don't get Game of Thrones.

    It's dragons and people with stupid names. People banging on about a 'night king' I mean, christ.

    No that was Mel Gibson -- but yes I agree -- Game of Thrones has a lot to answer for round these parts -- tourists killing themselves -- trees falling down -- roads being closed forever etc etc

    Remind me how many jobs and millions of pounds of tourist money Game of Thrones has brought to Northern Ireland again ?
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Jeremy Kyle

    A repulsive lump of ordure in media's cesspit that has risen to the surface and is emitting a sickly stench, apparently.

    (Apologies if you are a fan, we all have our peccadilloes)

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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Golf -- people, mostly men standing in the rain bashing their little balls with clubs.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Hashtag
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Cowsham wrote:
    Hashtag

    do you genuinely not get it or just the over use of it? they do serve a purpose
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Chris Bass wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Hashtag

    do you genuinely not get it or just the over use of it? they do serve a purpose

    The hash sign had been well over used before this ejit gave it another new meaning and calling it something different just to add to the confusion.

    #f##kthehashtag@confused.com

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