General Chit Chat

[Harry Genshaw]

I've just taken the BBC Booze test.
"Your drinking habits are unlike the average from any country. But your closest match on overall consumption alone is Belorus the heaviest drinking country in the world"

Kin'ell world, get your act together, I only drink three pints of weak (abv ~4.0%) beer a day.
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[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've just taken the BBC Booze test.
"Your drinking habits are unlike the average from any country. But your closest match on overall consumption alone is Belorus the heaviest drinking country in the world"

Kin'ell world, get your act together, I only drink three pints of weak (abv ~4.0%) beer a day.
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It's the Ratassed Ale Diet. It'll be big next year, I'll make a fortune; I just need a Kate Moss or somebody as the face of it.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've just taken the BBC Booze test.
"Your drinking habits are unlike the average from any country. But your closest match on overall consumption alone is Belorus the heaviest drinking country in the world"

Kin'ell world, get your act together, I only drink three pints of weak (abv ~4.0%) beer a day.
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It's the Ratassed Ale Diet. It'll be big next year, I'll make a fortune; I just need a Kate Moss or somebody as the face of it.

Seriously though, three pints a day. It's nowt. I don't even get pissed.

[Bruce Rioja]

Seriously though, three pints a day. It's nowt. I don't even get pissed.

See, I like to save all my recommended units of alcohol up and then use them all up in one or two sittings.

[Harry Genshaw]

Each to their own but it does seem excessive to me bud. A minimum of 21 pints a week plus any time you push the boat out at weekends and Wanderers matches . Seems a lot!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Each to their own but it does seem excessive to me bud. A minimum of 21 pints a week plus any time you push the boat out at weekends and Wanderers matches . Seems a lot!

The times I push the boat out are very very limited. Maybe five times a year maximum. I eat one meal a day, and count the calories in the pints as another.
When asked at the doctors the question and I answer truthfully the nurses always look shocked, but quite a few have confessed that is only because they have a built in under reportage calculation, so when people say a couple at the weekend they really mean they got bladdered, and so if I really do just drink three a day it's not vastly excessive.
Excessive, just not vastly so I'll leave that for when we win the league

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I apparently drink like I'm from Timor-Leste, the eighth lightest drinking nation in the world - that is after drinking more than usual in the last week

Where the fook is Timor-Leste ( anywhere near East Timor????).

Never heard of it meself

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I apparently drink like I'm from Timor-Leste, the eighth lightest drinking nation in the world - that is after drinking more than usual in the last week

Where the fook is Timor-Leste ( anywhere near East Timor????).

Never heard of it meself

Wow... I've just googled it, and it is indeed East Timor, which on reflection ain't a great leap of the imagination, just that I'd never heard it called that.
But. Anyway, given where you live, which is probably the second lightest drinking nation on the planet, to be drinking like you're in TIMOR-LESTE officially confirms you as a pisshead

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I apparently drink like I'm from Timor-Leste, the eighth lightest drinking nation in the world - that is after drinking more than usual in the last week

Where the fook is Timor-Leste ( anywhere near East Timor????).

Never heard of it meself

Wow... I've just googled it, and it is indeed East Timor, which on reflection ain't a great leap of the imagination, just that I'd never heard it called that.
But. Anyway, given where you live, which is probably the second lightest drinking nation on the planet, to be drinking like you're in TIMOR-LESTE officially confirms you as a pisshead

You've obviously not visited here then. Massive pissheads abound, particularly of the Brit and Irish variety.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I apparently drink like I'm from Timor-Leste, the eighth lightest drinking nation in the world - that is after drinking more than usual in the last week

Where the fook is Timor-Leste ( anywhere near East Timor????).

Never heard of it meself

Wow... I've just googled it, and it is indeed East Timor, which on reflection ain't a great leap of the imagination, just that I'd never heard it called that.
But. Anyway, given where you live, which is probably the second lightest drinking nation on the planet, to be drinking like you're in TIMOR-LESTE officially confirms you as a pisshead

You've obviously not visited here then. Massive pissheads abound, particularly of the Brit and Irish variety.

Correct. And I won't be anytime soon. I'd prefer to slice me own knackers off than pretend I don't want three pints a night as my human right thank you very much

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Correct. And I won't be anytime soon. I'd prefer to slice me own knackers off than pretend I don't want three pints a night as my human right thank you very much

You're allowed to drink, as long you have a licence, not drunk in public and basically not upsetting the law or anyone important.

Can't promise the beer would be any good...in fact I can pretty much guarantee it'll be shit and expensive

[Montreal Wanderer]

Wow... I've just googled it, and it is indeed East Timor, which on reflection ain't a great leap of the imagination, just that I'd never heard it called that.

Very little imagination really since Timor is Portuguese (the original colonists) for Timur, which is Indonesian for East. Leste is Portuguese for East. Calling a place East East is not too imaginative. As one of the few Christian countries in a sea of Islam, I suppose it may change before too long.

[Worthy4England]

Seriously though, three pints a day. It's nowt. I don't even get pissed.

See, I like to save all my recommended units of alcohol up and then use them all up in one or two sittings.

I might have had a couple of unit advances. I'm going to be a proper miserable bastard when I'm 225...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Correct. And I won't be anytime soon. I'd prefer to slice me own knackers off than pretend I don't want three pints a night as my human right thank you very much

You're allowed to drink, as long you have a licence, not drunk in public and basically not upsetting the law or anyone important.

Can't promise the beer would be any good...in fact I can pretty much guarantee it'll be shit and expensive

Hmmm. You were selling it to me until that last bit.

[TANGODANCER]

Trying to jog someone's memory here. I was reading somewhere that Pedro Cuadrado (of Halliwell Road Taverna Pedro fame) used to sing in a place called the Casablanca Tavern in Bolton. Try as I may I can't remember it. Might have been when I was away in Yorks, but does anybody recall it? I spent many nights in Pedro's but the other is a blank (no pun intended).

[Montreal Wanderer]

Trying to jog someone's memory here. I was reading somewhere that Pedro Cuadrado (of Halliwell Road Taverna Pedro fame) used to sing in a place called the Casablanca Tavern in Bolton. Try as I may I can't remember it. Might have been when I was away in Yorks, but does anybody recall it? I spent many nights in Pedro's but the other is a blank (no pun intended).

The Evening News called it the Casablanca Tavern, but apparently it was just called The Casablanca. Apparently it was on Deansgate beside Whitakers. See for example http://www.edwardianteddyboy.com/page21.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Correct. And I won't be anytime soon. I'd prefer to slice me own knackers off than pretend I don't want three pints a night as my human right thank you very much

You're allowed to drink, as long you have a licence, not drunk in public and basically not upsetting the law or anyone important.

Can't promise the beer would be any good...in fact I can pretty much guarantee it'll be shit and expensive

Hmmm. You were selling it to me until that last bit.

Hence my pitiful consumption. Shall be making up for it in March though. First trip back to blighty for a few years

[TANGODANCER]

Trying to jog someone's memory here. I was reading somewhere that Pedro Cuadrado (of Halliwell Road Taverna Pedro fame) used to sing in a place called the Casablanca Tavern in Bolton. Try as I may I can't remember it. Might have been when I was away in Yorks, but does anybody recall it? I spent many nights in Pedro's but the other is a blank (no pun intended).

The Evening News called it the Casablanca Tavern, but apparently it was just called The Casablanca. Apparently it was on Deansgate beside Whitakers. See for example http://www.edwardianteddyboy.com/page21.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cheers Monty. I'm familiar with that site from rock and roll and 50's dance interest. The Casablanca itself I have no recollection of at all. You can look up Pedro Cuadrado, Bolton (Cuadrado Hernandez but just "Pedro" to us all who knew him). I knew a bloke who played Spanish guitar in The Lamplighter near the Market Hall, but Pedro apparently did a bit of singing at this Casablanca place. Just interesting.

[Bruce Rioja]

Seriously though, three pints a day. It's nowt. I don't even get pissed.

See, I like to save all my recommended units of alcohol up and then use them all up in one or two sittings.

I might have had a couple of unit advances. I'm going to be a proper miserable bastard when I'm 225...

The bar at our Christmas do last night had a selection of 68 different gins - we got through most of them.

One was a gin from Burnley, which as you'd expect was both strong and rough!

[Enoch]

One was a gin from Burnley, which as you'd expect was both strong and rough!

I love it that there are quotas on drinking, cos I know a lot of folk that don't use theirs