Inaccurate précis on the BBC site
A text box attached to a rather humdrum story about mid-strength lager includes the following from the Department of Health:
- Men should have 3-4 units daily
- Women should have 2-3 units daily
So, in your collective faces, temperance fanatics. It isn't just the done thing to drink a bit, the government wants you to do so too.
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This isnt particularly interesting but there used to be a temperance pub on Oxford Manchester , I regret never having been in .
I recall signs offering saperilla and the like , fuck i sound like an old age pensioner
Sounds utterly grim. The #1 drinking establishment in Manchester was, maybe still is, the Lass O' Gowrie in Didsbury, noted for its astonishing cheese lunches.
omfg
i used to go there saturday mornings
its in the city not didsbury , theybrew there own beer
I used to go with two pals and start the day with pickled eggs and log 58 bitter before moving on for a curry , strange to say despite that we all had girlfriends, another cracker is on rochdale rd original victorian and the name escapes me.
there is a closed pub on great ancoats street that features a room paneled with the wod paneling from zepelin airship, hence its preservation by englsih heritage, coicidentaly it sits next to the old express builing "the black lubyanka" of the north , art deco and the same as the one down here, now inm getting home sick
marble arch rochdale road, inside it has a vaulted mosaic ceiling , the floor slopes downwards, now in the 1950;s my grandfather was apolice officer around there and he story was that in victorian times the "posh" clientelle would piss against the bar in the saloon and it would then run down to the not so posh vault , gives you some idea just how rough the Ancoats area of manchester was (+:
I have noted a strong upswing in media articles devoted theme of temperance 'youth drinking themselves to early grave' and the like.
Also it does seem as if taxes on alcohol have fallen in relative terms over the last 15 years.
The cheerless Gordo has a new target I fear.
I look forward ot the increase in alcohol taxes being spun as a new form of green tax!
What if you prefer bitter to lager?
17:00
No, City Unslicker, we don't want to encourage them to utter or write the phrase "green taxes" or "fight climate change" because constant repetition is how they get ideas nailed down into stupid people's heads.
No need to put the taxes on alcohol up at all as it is already taxed almost as highly as petrol. When I left England, a bottle of White Horse was around £13 (it may be more now). In Mexico, I can buy a bottle of White Horse in the supermarket for £6.
There is no reason to raise taxes. Just cut services. Starting with handouts not just to large immigrant families but to Tony Blair (all his pointless, self-glorifying free trips, for example).
If I listened to every piece of govt advice I wouldn't have time to enjoy myself, which I will tonight after our Danny campaign draws to a successful close. Beers on me - that's about £80 I have saved myself.
PH - you sure? It wasn't in the centre, if I recall. 'Like' the Marble Arch tale.
CU - I fear you are right. The price of spirits relative to long drinks is way down from when I were a lad and and trying to get served at 16...
JB - I guess we're stuffed, until such time as the market reckons there is enough demand for a weaker ale.
V - I'm jealous. A litre of cooking scotch is about £15. And I think there is more than a little fat that a tax cutting government could take a chainsaw to.
PT - Outstanding news. Bravo.
C
the lass o' gowrie is near the university, it is sort of on the way to didsbury
trust me I know my pubs (+:
another of my favourites was nearer home in cheshire
"the bells at peover"
lovely wisteria covered pub that once played host to Patton and Eisenhower.
Patton was billeted at toft hall just down the road, you may recall the film patton with george c scott, part of it was filmed in knutsford (near toft hall) that's where I lived before moving to this hell hole we know as London.
peover isn't really a village more of an area, it is adjacent to a place known as
"peover inferior" a name that appeals to my puerile sense of humour.
All those names have saxon/danish origins as do many Cheshire parishes.
Knutsford is derived from cnutsford (sposedly)
I went there a few times when Sis C lived in those parts - she went to the Uni and stayed oop North for a while. Anyway, looks like we are singing off the same hymnsheet, and my knowledge of MCR is pretty limited these days.
Ma C hails from Alderley Edge / Wilmslow, so there's a bit of a family connection to Granadaland.
Patton - now there's a film.
Alderley edge
now theres a place
no doubt you have read the weirdstone of Brisingamen ?
very special place is the edge , as a kid I used to visit a tea room in the woods with my mother.
make yourself ill and see what you could buy up there for the price of your london house.
www.rightmove.com
and if you ever take ma C back take her to gawsworth hall for one of the summer concerts , its heaven there and no doubt she would love it
Can't say I've been in those parts in living memory, but I'll have words with Ma C - she went to a school reunion there last year and has school friends who still live in the 'hood.
If I was to desert sweet home Croydonia for somewhere outside the south east - but still in England - the NW would be my first choice. Although I do have trouble understanding the accent sometimes.
Talking of the BBC's penchant for inaccuracy, I don't wish to brag (I lie) but my favourite scotch is having a promotion here at GBP3.85 a bottle. Just bought twelve. Heh, heh. Thought to spread a little sunshine with this news. Using White Horse as a marker, I think it's seven quid here (Thailand). V wins.
What does 'nob' mean in the other thread?
Oh yeah, gottit. O nob ~ bono. I honestly thought Bono was a dogs breakfast. Truly.
somchai nob means penis as in
nob head
ie bono isnt very clever
MensHealth.com rates beer alongside Macular Degeneration and Glaucoma as one of the main reasons for deteriorating eyesight in men. How right they are ».
Ho ho. Some important findings there.
I don't really win, Somchai, because my supermarket had a two-fer on White Horse (I bought 10 bottles), so it was effectively £4 a bottle. So, at £3.85, Thailand pips Mexico at the post for civilised prices for liquor.
£3.85 - that's the price of a pint of Guinness, near as damn it, in central London.
mr pundit i drink huge amounts and still have perfect eyesight age 43
C I paid £6.25 for a pint of guinness and a glass of house white on wednesday in a crap pub off nottinghill gate , no wonder I prefer to drink special brew on park benches and shout at strangers in a scottish accent
PH - a sort of less fizzy Black Velvet?
The other major problem with London pubs at the mo' is conveying your order to perfectly pleasant but linguistically limited Lithuanians.
nope
guinness for me a glass of wine for the mother.
everything is better up north, i suggest you take ma C up there for a visit,
Cheshire is like the south only with more fighting and cheaper beer.
Seriously I can recommend some nice places to visit, Im not quite as I appear online.
I'd guessed, but couldn't resist a stupid joke.
Despite Ma C having left there in her teens with her family for Caledonia, Northerners can still detect a hint of Cheshire in her accent, which is curious. Knows the Boddingtons, by the way - who are teetotallers. Yes, really.
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