The New Arena

[chicoazul]

You've done too many now, no one will bite.

Trying too hard

You reach a saturation point where no one blinks at anything you say, and I’d like to think that’s hard earned.

Only took GOT 15 years to grow up but I’m proud of them **backflips off passing freight train**

 

[Martin Alvito]

Tenants or Bucky ?

If Tennent's is on offer, odds are McEwan's also is. Easy call.

In general, I think deadline day is a lovely day to throw some back and enjoy the carnage like it's a comedy club, but I've had this uneasy feeling about this one for months. It's starting off well, so there's that.

 

[chicoazul]

If Tennent's is on offer, odds are McEwans also is. Easy call.

In general, I think deadline day is a lovely day to throw some back and enjoy the carnage like it's a comedy club, but I've had this uneasy feeling about this one for months. It's starting off well, so there's that.

Just type antagonistic drivel until the angry and damaged egos attack you then show them your dance until they get banned and you claim their head. Doing anything else on this forum is an utter futility.

 

[DavidH]

If Tennent's is on offer, odds are McEwan's also is. Easy call.

In general, I think deadline day is a lovely day to throw some back and enjoy the carnage like it's a comedy club, but I've had this uneasy feeling about this one for months. It's starting off well, so there's that.

Worst beer ever. It smells like plaque and tastes like someones mixed filthy bog water with lucozade

 

[Martin Alvito]

Just type antagonistic drivel until the angry and damaged egos attack you then show them your dance until they get banned and you claim their head. Doing anything else on this forum is an utter futility.

I look at deadline day more like a production of a classic play. We already know the story. The only question is how entertaining this year's actors are at performing their roles. What's fascinating is that we've already read the script, but they haven't. They think they're writing great literature. We know better.

Worst beer ever. It smells like plaque and tastes like someones mixed filthy bog water with lucozade

Not my experience drinking it on tap over there, but to each their own. To be fair, it's been a bit.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Tenants or Bucky ?

unfortunately can’t get either over here. I do see some nutters on the street drinking these mad looking small bottles of wine. Will check them out and report back

 

[Martin Alvito]

unfortunately can’t get either over here. I do see some nutters on the street drinking these mad looking small bottles of wine. Will check them out and report back

Those six-ounce jobs? Can't get decent wine in those. If you want to make a mixed drink with prosecco without cracking an entire bottle to do it, they're not a bad solution to a problem, if a pricy answer.

I use those small bottles when I need 3/4 of a cup of wine for cooking.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

unfortunately can’t get either over here. I do see some nutters on the street drinking these mad looking small bottles of wine. Will check them out and report back

Port. Find some cheap port and enjoy the dirty shame feeling the following day when you are rough as badger, experiencing existential angst, and are acutely aware what you drank took 7 years off your life.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Port. Find some cheap port and enjoy the dirty shame feeling the following day when you are rough as badger, experiencing existential angst, and are acutely aware what you drank took 7 years off your life.

Decent port is another good thing to cook with. It's like vermouth. You can let an open bottle sit for a while, grab the next quarter cup and not wonder whether or not you've just given yourself sepsis.

If you have to drink it in a pinch, well, sometimes needs must.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Decent port is another good thing to cook with. It's like vermouth. You can let an open bottle sit for a while, grab the next quarter cup and not wonder whether or not you've just given yourself sepsis.

If you have to drink it in a pinch, well, sometimes needs must.

Port, alongside Gin, was for many years something I couldn't make eye contact with. All stems from teenage idiocy of buying whatever was on offer / cheap and strong in the off license and subsequently being in a right state at whatever party I was headed too. And being violently ill.

I have made my peace with both, especially gin with a decent tonic.

Southern Comfort I can't deal with. The smell makes me heave, never mind the taste. Bad memories of being very sick after taking a swig. On a bus. All over myself. Madly I still managed to get into the rock club. Drunk and stinking of puke, god sake the rock!

 

[COYBL25]

Port. Find some cheap port and enjoy the dirty shame feeling the following day when you are rough as badger, experiencing existential angst, and are acutely aware what you drank took 7 years off your life.

With some Absinthe style hallucinations along the way lol

 

[Martin Alvito]

Port, alongside Gin, was for many years something I couldn't make eye contact with. All stems from teenage idiocy of buying whatever was on offer / cheap and strong in the off license and subsequently being in a right state at whatever party I was headed too. And being violently ill.

I have made my peace with both, especially gin with a decent tonic.

Southern Comfort I can't deal with. The smell makes me heave, never mind the taste. Bad memories of being very sick after taking a swig. On a bus. All over myself. Madly I still managed to get into the rock club. Drunk and stinking of puke, god sake the rock!

Bad night, that last. Those memories stick, and are hard to overcome.

There's a distillery here that makes a very decent gin. Not something that you would want to mix with anything, in the sense that it tastes like what I suspect biting into juniper bark would taste like, but interesting nonetheless.

I've never much liked port, but I do appreciate what it can do to deglaze a pan when cooking a good steak. Substitutes cleanly for wine in most recipes, and a decent bottle can be used for a year or better for the purpose without breaking the bank.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

With some Absinthe style hallucinations along the way lol

Absinthe. Another facilitator of youthful idiocy.

NEVER mix with magic mushrooms, you hear?

 

[MikeH72]

A new/old challenger has entered the arena.

@Arsenault get in here and wreak havoc.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Absinthe. Another facilitator of youthful idiocy.

NEVER mix with magic mushrooms, you hear?

I still will maintain that tequila is the only alcohol with hallucinogenic properties. I'd be far more concerned about mixing that with mushrooms.